A lazy start to the day watching Donnie Darko and just kicking back. Later on Anastasia and I went to Roxanne’s birthday party, which consisted of watching movies, listening to music, eating pizza and cake, drinking soda and in my case trying to remember everyone’s names! Much fun and hilarity was had by all. The movies we watched we S.W.A.T. and Boondock Saints. The latter of these two provided the inspiration for the heading, as it’s full of Irish people. Naturally of course this means that it’s full of swearing, and it’s been a while since I’ve heard someone convincingly use the f-word twelve times in a row and every second or third word in normal conversation. It’s a good movie, too. Has Billy Connolly and Willem Dafoe in it. I think Willem Dafoe as a gay man may have scarred a few people though. Anyway, after that it was back to the house and in theory, sleep. I stayed up for a while as I couldn’t sleep (surprise surprise) and filled out the Blockbuster application online. Not exactly what I had in mind for work, but I’ve got nothing at this point and the temping places have been useless. Hopefully they don’t dismiss my application out of hand because “NZ” isn’t a state of America. Another trip up to Orlando has been planned for next weekend, yay! Tomorrow is a birthday party for a couple of Anastasia’s cousins, Steven and Caylin. Their birthdays are so close they sometimes have a big party for the both of them rather than separate ones.

Some sketchy sleep later, it was a quick shower and a conscious decision not to shave even though I probably should to look neat. Then it was off to the cousins’ house! I proceeded to have a good discussion with Ric (Anastasia’s great uncle) about music (notably lots of Jazz) and computers and stuff, then more talking with relations and cousins, then lots of food, singing happy birthday, cake and being forced to watch ‘Eloise at the Plaza‘ which is a crazy kids film about a girl in a hotel who’s manic. There were presents given out in there somewhere as well. Eventually we were tossed outside to play so we didn’t take root in the house. We (being the cousins, Sonny, Ric, Anastasia and I) went to Nye Park to a baseball diamond (well, packed sand and clay at least) to play petanque and kickball. I had lots of fun playing both and acquitted myself well. My team thrashed Sonny’s at kickball, Ric managed to fall over, bloody his nose and lose a lense to his glasses only to get back up and keep playing. Brilliant job, Ric! After the energy and the light waned from the day it was back to the house for coffee and I played chess with Steven with a very odd chess set. After I had finished teaching him a thing or two and slaughtering him in the main game we left to come back to Anastasia’s. We got pizza for dinner and watched The Ring, which wasn’t as scary as I’ve heard.