Well, my Panther Chariot arrived this morning... and it's great! My buddy at work also got one, so we've been racing these things around our desks.. *grin* Boys and their toys hey? Grief!! A desk is actually too small, so we're going to find a place where we can set up some kind of track and have races during lunch! HaHaHa...

I went to the dentist this morning. So now I've been sitting at work until now not being able to feel the right side of my face! I have to go back again sometime, but it's not serious, so it can wait until after Michelle and I can get back from honeymoon.

One funny thing though, after the dentist has finished, he says "Okay, rinse if you want." ... Yeah sure! With a numb mouth, I'm supposed to swirl water around?!! You have to be kidding... Anyways, the most dignified manner to do this is to manually hold your lips together with your fingers so as not to shower everyone in the vicinity! Not stylish, but it worked and everyone stayed dry. ;o)

Well, I've finally sold my car. The people who bought it managed to bargain me down about 10%, but I'm not phased. At least I'm now able to pay off all my debts for the wedding, townhouse, and honeymoon. I've got a loan car from Avis to get around in for the time being, until my proper company car gets delivered sometime in February. I can't wait! I'm getting an Opel Astra 1.8 CSE. It's metallic gunmetal grey (Colour is called "Berlin") with black leather seats.

This past weekend was quite a busy one... Saturday I spent the day drilling holes in the spare room wall to put up some shelves. And after much frustration and effort, I realised that I was using the wrong type of drill bit. Once I replaced it with a proper masonry drill bit, the work went SO much easier! And the shelves are up and looking good! Michelle has in fact already taken up most of the shelf space with stuff she's unpacked! Then Sunday morning we got up early and met some friends at an offroad motorcross track for a day of fun and bike riding. It was the first time I've really ridden a full offroad scrambler, but had a ball! Even though I had some hairy moments going over the tabletop jumps and things. First I rode Colin's Bike. Which was a beast of note!!! Makes so much power that I scared myself every which way! *grin* Later I rode Richard's Bike which was a lot easier to ride and I enjoyed it more than the CR500. What a rush!! I think I need to get myself a scrambler! And Michelle also took Richard's KDX200 for a spin around the track too!! It was a great weekend! And I have the sunburn on my arms to prove it! ;o)

Long time no hear.... from me anyways. Well, nothing much has been happening, but I'll tell you guys anyways!

I've been seeing a few more movies... The new Jackie Chan one... The Tuxedo. Quite funny if you like to watch a brainless movie and just take it at face value and enjoy it. I still want to go see The Two Towers, Lord of the Rings movie... That's still on the list.

This past weekend we went on a breakfast run to the dam and it was great to fellowship with friends and enjoy the ride out there and back... Admittedly, the ride back was a lot faster than the ride there... Heh heh... 240km/h is quite nice on a empty road... ;o) Then this weekend, I want to go to Kyalami for a track school and do a few sessions around the race track. Maybe take the new video camera that Gill brought for me from England, and see if I can get some interesting footage from the bike... I'll let you know if I go and what the video came out like.

Other than that... nothing new. Just counting down the days until the wedding. Thankfully, the honeymoon plans and reservations are done so I can relax now. ;o)

Traffic today was almost back to normal. I think everyone has come back to work after their Christmas holidays.

Anyways, this weekend we went to go see "The Lion King" at the IMAX Theater in Menlyn. It was FANTASTIC! I enjoyed every minute! And it was great seeing the handdrawn cartoons and the pencil lines etc. Compared with modern computer generated movies like Shrek and Monsters Inc.

Today is 33 days until I'm hitched! I can't believe it! Time is flying past so quickly. At least most of the wedding arrangements are already done. Just a few things for the honeymoon left to organise, and one or two for the reception. WOW! I can't wait! And it's going to be awesome seeing my brother again who is flying back from Australia to be my best man.

2003!! WOW! Talk about time flying. It seems just like 6 months ago that I left for the UK in 1999... And that (counting on fingers) is like 4 years ago now! Good grief!

And I'm 29 now. Had a great birthday yesterday relaxing at home with my parents and Michelle. We went to the local Keg for lunch and then watched "Ocean's Eleven" on DVD. Our new DVD player works well except that any DVD that is not a Region 2 DVD is shown in black and white. I'm going to have to see if I can't do something to fix that. DOH!

Well... I'm back at work again... Still in holiday mode, so I'd better start trying to get back into the working mode again. I think I need more coffee....