Monday, January 26, 2009

Happy Australia Day

Well I don't know where to start really, I like to do everything in order, but it has been awhile and I have had a bit going on.

I have had an awesome weekend.  Last week was such a busy week, the last week before school goes back.  I seemed to be busy every day. 

Friday night I went to Daisys.  I am having a good run at the moment and I think I have only missed one Friday night for 2009.  I look forward all week to Friday night.  It is my time to kick the shoes off and relax with my friends.  It always seems a huge effort to get there, and I sometimes think of plenty of little reasons I should skip it to get a few things done around the house.  Geoff leaves the house early on Saturday morning to go to golf, so it is always tough to get myself out of bad after a late night out.  But it is well worth it, when I walk through the doors at Daisys, I can feel the weight lift from my shoulders.  I have dinner with Barbi, Jenny and most nights Lisa.  I don't usually get my scrapping stuff out until after 8pm.  Sometimes my scrapping comes really slowly, well in fact it always comes slowly and I sometimes wonder why I persist with this craft.  There are a lot of reasons I persist, the main reason being I love the end result, looking at the layouts with precious photos of my children.  Another reason is because of the social side.  I have met the most amazing ladies through Daisys, who enrich my life with their friendship and kindness ... and make me laugh on a regular basis. 

I am prattling on I know, better get on with it.

Friday night wasn't a particularly late night, home around midnight.  

Saturday Geoff went off to golf and was pretty happy with his morning because he got a NTP, which of course I had no idea what that meant.  It was "nearest the pin" shot.  His name was even in the paper on Sunday.  Pat on the back for that Geoff.

Geoff then spent most of the afternoon trying to figure out our computer problems.  We had a storm on Friday afternoon .... the kids and I got stuck over at school in the middle of it.  When we came home I noticed that the power had gone off, but was back on.  I turned the computers back on but couldn't get an internet connection, but didn't think too much of it.

Apparently there was a lightning strike up the road, and it must have blown something.  We have managed to get back the internet connection on the Mac, but not the PC.  He thinks it may have blown a chip.  All the more reason for me to get a Macbook I say ... lol!

Saturday night I went to dinner at my dear friend Jenny's house.  We had an amazing night.  Her husband had organised for a lovely french chef Laurent to come to Jenny's house and cook a 3 course meal for herself, and five friends.  I feel very privileged to have been included.  The food was wonderful, the main being Lamb Rack which is my very very favourite.

I could have stayed and talked all night long.  We have never socialised together as a group outside of Daisy Chain so it was so nice to be able to sit around a dinner table and talk away.  I probably talked too much as always.  It would be so nice to be able to do it more often.

Thanks so much Jenny, Barbi, Sue, Lisa and Corrine for such a lovely evening.  

Today I was busy getting everything organised for Tuesday.  It will be a busy day, first day back at school, first day back at Kindy, I am on Kindy roster.  We will all need to be heading out of the house shortly after 8am.

Heather and Merv wandered down the road to join our Australia Day bbq.  The kids and Geoff and myself had one last year and decided that we should mark the occasion every year.  Geoff and I wanted the kids to march with their school on the parade at Buderim, but Emma kept us both awake throughout the night, and we were just too tired to get up and organised that early.  The rushing around will start all too soon.

We tried to make our bbq an 'aussie' flavour.  We had lamb chops, rissoles and sausages.  I made baked potato that we had with garlic aoili, which were just fantastic.  I knew Geoff would love them because he loves his roast potato, they were just perfect.  Heather made a noodle salad because that is T's favourite and he virtually eats the entire bowl.  We also had pavlova, of course.  J had made a choc tim tam mousse that he saw in the paper.  It was pretty good too.

Tonight has been spent making lunches, making sure I have all the kids school stuff, and folding washing ... and now updating my blog.  

I have raved on way too much .... a good reason not to leave too long in between blogging.


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