Birthdaypalooza was spectacular. I am so lucky to have such a wonderful husband and little sister. We picked Lily up from Hayley's on Saturday evening and heading out to Budgewoi, to have fish and chips at their awesome fish and chips shop. That fell through as the place was closed for rennovations, but we decided we'd drive on to Toronto and go to ( Read more... )

I have a wonderful husband and a wonderful littlest sister. I had originally planned to go to the zoo for the weekend before my birthday. My birthday's midweek, and Steve and I have plans in Sydney so I decided family time would happen earlier. Anyway, Mum's due to have a hip replacement and Dad's just had an operation on his hernia, so the zoo's a ( Read more... )

So for the first time in our lives Steve and I are budgeting. When he got this new job we felt we could breathe again financially, and we did. A lot. I imagined we'd have a bigger house deposit and go away to Kangaroo Island with the rest of Steve's redundancy payout, However now it's all gone. And things need to change ( Read more... )

Last night was all about epiphany. Far too much thinking for a time when I'm battling a cold. I realized that when confronted with anything that upsets the balance in my life, I go to a place of anger ( Read more... )

I'm really enjoying my work at the moment. I didn't write about my work last time, which is a major oversight as it's been such fun. I've taken on a new role which sees me assigning writing tasks to students and grading their work. I'm some kind of teacher. I am so impressed by the creativity of some of these students. Some papers are terrible, ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've done a proper entry, so while I have copious amounts of time on my hands I figured that was worth doing. I'm also itching to write, as I took my first sick day since becoming a freelancer today. Difficult to keep these hands from forming words, and this is better than trying any real work ... it doesn't matter quite so ( Read more... )

So I'm back on this health kick thing, probably in a healthier way than I did in the past. No calorie counting because I know it makes me obsessive and focused on "saving calories" for good stuff like wine, not wanting to "waste calories" on veggies. Although I have an awareness of calories guiding me, and I still make sure the evening meal is less ( Read more... )

So it's a new year and it's starting off not too shabbily. Honestly it's more consumed with health stuff than I'd like. I had to see my doctor to refill my scripts; no biggie but it was on the list. I've got a dentist appointment looming. The big one is that I had an eye test and some congenital pits as they called it showed up on my retinal scan. ( Read more... )

Because everyone else is doing it and it's been far too long since I've done a proper update!

1.What did you do in 2012 that you’d never done before?
Tried snails and black pudding. Saw Prince live - and a few other artists too but he was the notable "first time" concert.

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for ( Read more... )

I realised how long it's been since I touched based in here, so I figured it's well over due. And a lazy Sunday seems like the perfect time. I've been having more of those lately. Steve's always taken lazy Sundays, Sundays just for gaming, but unless I had external commitments I typically spent the time working. I'm changing that, but I'll get to ( Read more... )