Hi Guys. I hope this finds you happy, healthy and hopeful. And maybe hilarious. If hilarity is a goal. 
I apologise for my contribution being somewhat diminished this week, I’ve simply been too busy to devote the time or energy to write (much) and I haven’t been near a computer too often. I am heading back home to Victoria tomorrow (writing this late Wednesday night) and I have decided to take the rest of the week off blogging as I have a bazillion things to catch up on. I’ll be back on Monday to stimulate, motivate, challenge and educate you. As always.
Don’t miss me too much. 
Enjoy your week. xx
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Have a good break Craig.
;(
Everyone needs a day off – even the motivator! Enjoy the time off and enjoy Melbourne (my home town) which I miss since moving to the US 4 years ago!
Hi Craig. About time you took a rest, I don’t know how you do it. Don’t ever forget that we appreciate what you do and how you do it. Enjoy some down time and see you Monday.
Nice work Harper. Go you!
Hi Craig,
Ok. That’ll teach me to read your site before I’ve had my first morning cup of tea. I read ‘I have a Brazilian thing to catch up on’. It’s going to take years of therapy to erase that particularly disturbing image from my brain. Great.
Enjoy your catch up time. If you get bored, you could catch the ‘Persuasion: Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen’ exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria. Or perhaps not. Actually, why is it called the ‘national’ gallery? Are we having tickets on ourselves, Victoria? In Sydney, we have the Art Gallery of New South Wales and there’s the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra so what’s with the ‘National’ Gallery of Victoria? Hmmmm.
Yeah, I know. I’ve just proven (again) that I can crap on about absolutely nothing.
We’ll miss you. See you on Monday.
Christina xxx
Monday’s not too far away!! Don’t work too hard catching up (hope it’s not ‘work’ catching up and take a bit of ‘time out’ for you!!!
Have a great weekend.
“Fran” xx
Christina, crap away i enjoy reading your posts.
Yes, Craig, enjoy your day off. Play up. Do something naughty. Let your hair down. Or shave it off. Or Brazilian it. Ouch.
Christina. Wow. Impressive. You have really honed that skill of talking crap!
Are you getting in some practice for our Saturday night, port-drinking, crap-talking evening at RYL2??
Oh, and just to buy into the Sydney v. Melbourne thing .. we in the pretty city will be enjoying beautiful temperatures of around 30 degrees today, and in the mid to high 20s through the weekend and into next week. Hope you Mexicans pick your game up a bit before RYL2 – we’d like some lovely weather, thank you very much!
Maybe since Craig is chucking a sickie tomorrow (albeit with warning .. and fair dinkum reason), AND hasn’t left us with much fodder today, we can declare from today until Sunday as “International Crap Talking Day”. Nevermind that it’s more than one day. Poetic licence. I mean, they have “International Talk Like a Pirate Day”, for crying out loud! Maybe we could have “International Talking Crap Like a Pirate Day” .. although talking like a pirate through your keyboard may be a bit of a challenge. But hey .. go for it! Whatever floats your boat. Share, people. Or share people, if that’s your thing!
Suz
Girls, I think you need to read Craigs blogs more carefully. He has a BAZILLION things to do, NOT Brazillian. Bazillion as in plenty, lots. heaps to do. Not as in the removal of hair.
My what fertile minds you have.
Ah Har me maities!
Craig,
Have a good flight back home. I hope that you get done all that you need to get done, send our love to Mary (hope that some of the catching up has to do this very special lady).
Take care hugs ((()))
Sue
P.S
Christina & Suz, you 2 crack me up, wish I was going to RYL just to meet you guys, but it is not to be this time
“International talking crap like a pirate day” LOL
YAY.. a day without buff boy’s words or truth..We can now officially live in our delerium for a couple of days.. active recovery !
Anyway I am going to share as I am god damn excited…. Finally I am an RPM instrcutor and am at the level I wanted good enough to teach at the leading gyms.. MIRACLES MIRACLES MIRACLES, they wont happen over night but they will happen….
From an overweight smoker to this in a short couple of years… LOOK AT WHAT RPM CAN DO!
So here I am sitting at the Sunshine Coast Airport stealing electricity like a common criminal. Such fun. Such a rebel. I’m sure this power point has never been used for anything but an industrial vacuum. If I don’t make it home tonight and you hear about a blogger (on the news) who got busted for electricity theft, send me a card. And a file.
BTW, I’ve read your comments and clearly, you’re all bored.
Good grief.
xx
Ahoy Suz, Ahoy Everyone!
Arrr! Do you know thar be a website for international talk like a pirate day? They even have a translator. Some people need t’ get out more!
Ok, I’m bored with that already. I have the attention span of a puppy.
Thanks for the encouragement Gail and Sue. You could live to regret it. I’m prolific in the crapping-on department when I’m procrastinating marking 120 Year Ten essays. I marked one last night and fell asleep with the red pen making a nasty birth-mark on my cheek. Pathetic.
Perhaps while what’s-his-name is having a short respite, we could mutiny and take over his site? Would that make it a, dare I say it, pirate site? Could he sue us for piracy? Ok, I’ll stop now me hearties.
Because we are clearly very bored, can anyone answer a stupid question for me? When it’s a full moon in Sydney, is it a full moon everywhere in Australia? I was just wondering the other night for some inexplicable reason and I’m very scientifically challenged – I still haven’t worked out how gravity works but I can see its impact on my butt so it must exist.
Have a great Thursday Landlubbers.
Christina xxx
Not bored. BorING, perhaps .. but not bored. However, left to our own devices, clearly we revert to be amused by our own crap. Sound like puppies, don’t we? And just as cute, I might add!
Vin. Meh. What’s an ‘r’ and that little tail that turns an ‘o’ into an ‘a’ between friends?? Besides, we can have much more fun with Brazilian over bazillion. And speaking of hair removal (which I know we weren’t .. really), try the medical grade laser. That’s a WHOLE other world of pain!
Sue – you sure you can’t make RYL2?? Just find out who you have to sleep with to make it happen and go for it!
Kate, Kate, Kate,…. TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!! Congrats and high-fives and butt-slaps and hugs for you! Not a miracle – the outcome of dedication, determination and hard work. You are an inspiration!
Snoopy, I’m not sure any “common” criminal has stolen electricity. Just make sure you use it all up. I mean, don’t try to put it in your pockets to take with you .. apparently that’s how they can make the charges stick. And I’d hate to see you become the wife of a 400lb yobbo who goes by the name of Bubba. But if you do and you receive a cupcake, don’t eat it. The file will be inside.
Now, back to ye topic at hand, me hearties! International Talking Crap Like a Pirate Day it is!
OK, so maybe I’m a little bored after all…….
Ahhh contraband night, looking forward to it
Hmmmm Victoria won some award or other yesterday as being more popular than Queensland to visit….hmmm National museum -you mean we aren’t the capital of Aus lol.
Craig, hope you escape QLD and get home in one piece.
Sue from Melb have met them both…and very much looking forward to meeting them again this RYL. You should have heard our discussion on the uses of worms…over dinner no less lol!!!!! Oh yeah we chicks can talk crap with the best of them
Hugs
Chelle xxxx
Suza Sydney Melbourne thing – there is no question. Brisbane is the best city in Australia
I want to bring up something which I hope does not offend.
Is the blog open to making suggestions for topics? Maybe a small section on the blog with ideas, hearing if Craig thinks they are ok and discussing.
One other thing, I wanted to give a thank you to all on the blog for getting me through very tough times. In the past we could go to our neighbour or friend, but these days it is virtual, but it does not make it any less powerful, mostly.
One particular thing strikes me about the postings; they are insightful but mostly everyone, regardless of age, gender etc, seems to have gone though some or all of the things I have. And it seems like we through this blog are trying to make sense as best as possible about life, change even if it is not at a hare’s rate and live life better.
I’m off on holidays until Monday too have a good one all. Hugs Craig safe flight home and hugs to all.
Michael
Brisbane
Oh, Christina! You poor, sad, sad, sad, … dork! A website for Talk Like A Pirate Day? And you know this??? Oh, you deserve that nasty red birth-mark on your cheek. You also deserve buck teeth, an over-bite and coke-bottle glasses.
Now I’m not sure about the scientific answer to your question .. but I do know that you should never make a reference to the full moon and your butt in the same paragraph! I really don’t think they can see it in Perth, no matter what you may think!
Michelle – I forgot about the worms! Still a magic idea, I think. Never forgot The Question though. He he.
Michael – yeah, gotta admit, I loved living in Brissie. Am loving Sydney too though. Haven’t tried Melbourne yet. Have enjoyed the shopping down there though. (Don’t tell them that though, OK? Our secret.) Have an awesome holiday. We’ll be here when you get back. Full of the same crap!
Which reminds me .. pirate ‘voice’ or not, it’s still National Talking Crap Day. Now I know from RYL that there are more than just Christina & I capable of it!
Boys and Girls and babies (that’s for little Craig)!
You are simply KILLING today! (How am I supposed to keep a serious face at work all day after that??).
The resume (correct me where I’m wrong):
Craig has taken some days off to dress up as a Brazilian dancer and remove his body hair.
Christina wants him to visit the 18th century fashion exhibition.
Suza suggests we all hold a crap-talking contest.
Craig is stealing electricity at an international airport.
Chelle promptly reminds us that there are many interesting aspects to the various uses of worms.
Christina insists we should take advantage of Craig’s absence and take over the site.
Suza is providing pro-active advice to help Craig escape from inevitable prison.
Michael, unable to bear the prospect of reading our comments for a whole two days, has gone on holiday himself.
(hugs all)
Anon N, ye would be forgettin we be pirates whilst this mayhem be happening, Ahoy ye should be keel hauled. Arr
Me forgettin’ indeed, Vin.
Me be most thankful for this reminder and Vin be most kind,
but me not awillin’ to be keel-hauled.
(Me not against the enterprise, however, as boys dressed as pirates be so yummy).
Ahoy Maties!
I have one thing to say:
Oh. My. God.
It must be a full moon or something … everyone has gone a wee bit psycho!! Wish I’d tuned in earlier … really could have used the laughs today!!! Seriously!
You guys are all mad!!! I did a little bit of wee I was laughing so much!!
Suz, Christina and Chelle: I haven’t forgotten The Question either and I can’t wait for the next Contraband night – we shall have to name it “the official RYL crap-talking convention”!!
I think you guys have a good shot at taking over the site while “what’s-his-name” is on a Brazillian break (who said he could have time off anyway?).
I was going to say something about back, sack and crack but that would just be totally tasteless.
Arrrhhh mateys!
Em
xx
Arrrr! Glad ta have ye aboard, Em!
Wish me luck, mateys. I’ll be walking the plank (catwalk actually) this morning in me best pirate puffy shirt (by Simona). Definitely dressing up the ‘new digs’ today.
I’d forgotten about the worms, Michelle. Too funny.
Have a great day on the site-formerly-known-as-what’s-his-name-dot-com.
Christina xxx
In Craig’s absence we could go a Christina and and Suza show… very amusing ladies…
Arrrr, Kate, me lady! We be thinkin’ it has the makin’s of a ‘fore RYL CTC. That’d be a Crap Talkin’ Convention, me hearrrrties (thank Em!).
Anon N, ye summation would be correct. As would be Em’s obs’vation that we all be psycho! Harrrr, me maties! Madness’ll come from sailin’ the (cyber) seas in search of treasure! That be the pirate’s life.
This begs the question then, me pirates .. what be the treasure that we seek?? Coz we be bloody-thirsty mutineers in search of ye big treasure ‘n’ shiny stuff ‘n’ easy life as cap’t of our own ship, me question to ya is this: If ye could look back in one week havin’ achieved something, what would it be? Ye short-term goal. Sumthin’ sparkly ye came across in the ocean of yer life that gave yer a thrill and set yer heart a-fire in search of more! And, me hearrrties, ‘coz we be pirates, what would ye be wishin’ to be called as Cap’n of yer ship??
Cap’n Suzannabean Genevieve Pistol here. Me shiny treasure for the next week be no more crap food, hard exercise (3 cardio, 2 weight circuits, 2 karate classes + State Titles) an’ me positive mindset back. Yar, me maties .. un’erneath me suave pirate exterior, me be a-strugglin’ a li’l with me head stuff and for’ard progress. But shiny things an’ treasure are to be had an’ me be a-sailin’ a-forth to grab me share of ‘em!
Aye, young Xtina .. how was ye walkin’ the plank??? Did it take yer out of yer comfort zone?
Ahoy there!
Arrr. Thanks Cap’n Suz. Walkin’ the plank was great, me hearty. Have some interesting tales to tell about the professional models – those wenches haven’t eaten their victuals since Cap’n Hook had two hands! They’d blow off the deck before the breeze hit the main sail!
As for the treasure, me hearties. Mine will be to practise me meditation, to still the flapping of the sails in me mind and bring the stormy ocean to dead calm. Arrr. That be nice.
Good luck with your treasure huntin’, Cap’n Suz. Although luck plays no part in the makin’ of a fearless pirate, me beauty.
And well done to Cap’n Kate! RPM stands for Real Pirate Magic, right? Yay. Well done for giving up the hornpipe too!
Have a great Saturday, me special hearties!
Capn’ Christina xxx
Aaaarrrggghhh Mateys!
Aye Aye Cap’n Suz, I be joinin’ in on this here treasure hunt too Me Hearties … I be First Mate Emmy From Tha Jemmy.
I be taking off (aboard the Flying Dutchman) to distant lands, Me Hearties. A far-off, and some say mythical and magical, place called Melbourne. Oh, it be a long and dangerous travel – I may not return, for I am told there be cannibals there Mateys – with big pots of boiling water, and they wear grass skirts and coconut shells.
But the treasure I be seeking is healthy eating and tough workouts, despite my tiring travelling … Me Hearties! No excuses Mateys, for I am told, they are for gooses!
Aaarrrggghhh! Wish me luck on my voyage over that wild Bass Strait ocean Me Hearties!! With a fair wind I shall return … worst case, I end up in Davey Jones’s locker!!!
Oh, by the way Cap’n Xtina … I saw your pictures on Facebook and Aarrrghhh!! you look hot Matey, super-hot! Almost hot enough to make me turn … aarrghh … did I say that out loud??
Aarrgghh.
Emmy From Tha Jemmy (First Mate)!
( ) x
(Am loving this … BTW: http://www.whatshisname.com has not been taken yet … I feel an idea brewing!).
Arrrrr. First Mate Emmy from Tha Jemmy,
You are a rare pearl indeed, me Hearty.
Tha journey to the far off land of Melbourne is not for the faint of heart but the treasure is bright enough to make the saltiest sea-dog do a little bit of wee. Excuses are indeed for the landlubbers so tarry not.
(Aye, http://www.whatshisname.com does have a certain shine about it, arrrrrr.)
Capn’ Christina xxx