Anyway...let's get on with the real world...
The whole working week was pretty mundane, just your average week for both Ian and I and nothing too exciting with the children either. I have been studying as much as possible as I had an exam today and I have a major one on Tuesday, so will be sticking my nose in the books for another two more days yet. Today at college however, we didn't have our usual lecturer and the guy that we had, we also had yesterday and he told us that he breeds snakes. So me being the excitable animal lover ,pestered him to bring in one of his pythons...so he did! 'Breddie' was her name and I don't know exactly what type of python she was but she was adorable. I just couldn't leave her alone and another colleague, Shannan and I kind of hogged her to ourselves. Some of the other students on campus weren't really that keen by the looks on their faces, where as others were quite content just having a feel and a pat, but we had her wrapped around us, hissing in our ears...apparently that was her talking to us as the owner said?! We let her go on the grassed area and she just kept coming back to us for a cuddle so we just loved the whole experience. It certainly took the stress out of just sitting an exam that's for sure!
Last night I had the absolute joy of meeting up with a dear friend of mine, whom I haven't seen for around 16 years! Kristin and I were fab friends in high school and when we left we just drifted apart as some of us do and I never really knew what happened to her. I knew that she would be either writing books or teaching English as this was her forte BIG TIME in school, and that is exactly what she got into, except she is a poet, one of Australias leading ladies apparently too! She also lives in Queensland, a few hours further North from us, but was in Brisbane for a couple of days on a poetry convention as the opening speaker and guest of honour! Pretty impressive!!! I was so nervous about meeting up with her as we have only just found each other again through being on facebook and have sent a few emails here and there. We had a great time together. I picked her up from her apartment and we found a small pub where we sat out the back so that we could have a quiet chat and we didn't stop! How do you sum up 16 years in a couple of hours, which is all I could unfortunately spare as I had the exam today which meant that I had to come home and do last minute study. We ventured to a gorgeous Thai restaurant and just laughed our way through dinner, remembering this and that of our lives in the eighties. It was only then that she realised and put two and two together and worked out where Yaz's name has come from...my obsession with Simon Le Bon, and his wife is called Yasmin! Kristin thought this was hysterical and she nearly wet her pants when I explained what Yaz's middle name was...Siobhan...for those that don't know, it's really not that hard to figure out, just another obsession with another band in the eighties! Her two children had no meanings behind their names what-so-ever, which made me feel like a sad eighties hang-on. Oh well, I wouldn't change Yaz's name for the world and I am proud of the origin and proud to still be a huge Duran Duran fan! At the end of the night, she gave me one of her poetry books as a gift with a little something that she wrote for me and I was just so thrilled and I will cherish this forever. Kristin has invited us to stay with them for a long weekend at her home, over looking Great Keppel Island, at the beginning of the Great Barrier Reef...think I might just take her up on that!
Well the winter sporting season is all over for Yaz and Bailey with Yaz finishing up last week and Bailey having his final game yesterday of Union. He apparently scored a tremendous try with people commenting on it, with one person saying that it was the best try all season. He was a big beamer when I came home last night as he was telling me about it. Ian had unfortunately forgotten to take the video camera but one of the other parents captured it, so hopefully we'll get a copy of it. His next big event is the Bledisloe Cup where his team are the Guards of Honour and will be running out with the Australian team...so keep your eye out for that match, he'll be on t.v. and Ian and I get tickets to the match too which is sooo exciting! A once in a life-time opportunity for him. Cricket is just looming around the corner and Yaz and Ian are actually talking about getting some surfing lessons in for Summer. I will be quite happy to watch from the sand capturing it all on video, although from the way that both Yaz and Ian are, I'm sure they'll both take to it instantly!
Today Yaz woke up not well at all. She couldn't move as she was all achy and had the worst headache, felt extremely nauseated and just generally unwell. She actually had a friend that had stayed the night, so she had to leave first thing. I just hope that her friend doesn't come down with it or that any of us do! There are so many bugs going around at the moment, there always is this time of the year though and they seem to be the hardest ones to get rid of too. So Yaz is hoping that she gets rid of it over the next day or so as she has an excursion on Wednesday and is in the Regional athletic carnival Thursday and Friday. Fingers crossed!!!
So I think that's it, hopefully if you are reading this then the computer has been favourable to me and has had enough connection to publish it.
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