Friday!

The weekend, finally :) AND it's a long weekend. Monday is AUSTRALIA DAY!!! Those of you who know me are aware that Canada Day is my favourite day of the year. So, I suppose that while I'm here, I will adopt January 26th as my new favourite day. I've already purchased some beautiful Australia Day hair clips, which have pom poms and are quite gaudy. I will display them proudly. So here are some various observations from the Canadian perspective of Australia so far...

-> what I would call a beer cozy (those thingys you put your beer bottle in to keep it cold) is called a "cooler" here. Makes sense! If you say "beer cozy" they will laugh at you...
-> following from that, a cooler (as in, for camping) is called an "eskie" I love it! I think that's super cute, and I think that Canadians should start following suit
-> Malls are never malls, but shopping centres - I asked a guy where the mall was and received a very blank stare
-> There are two buttons on most Australian toilets. These denote a half-flush and a full-flush. I'm sure you don't need me to go more into detail than that! Water conservation all the way!
-> Lots of short forms (e.g. University is never university, but uni. McDonalds is "Macca's" and so forth)
-> Dad will agree with this next one. As a continuation of the water conservation theme: The Queensland government sent out a sand timer to each house in the state. It has a little suction cup so that you can stick it in your shower. When the timer runs out, you should be done your shower (it lasts exactly 4 minutes). So if I take a shower every second day....does that mean I can have an 8 minute shower?? Isn't that logical???

So who reads this thing, anyway? Sometimes I feel like I'm talking to myself.....