Bad Habit!

I think I apologise every week about not doing this blog...it's certainly becoming a bad habit of mine!...maybe I should just make it a fortnightly event and then I won't have to apologise anymore! Life just seems to be very busy lately but then not much is happening at all...if that makes any sense?! I can't even think of why I didn't do it last week. I know we weren't out and I haven't written in my diary for a while either so I'm relying on memory here and let me tell you there is nothing coming out!!!!
So what have we been up to? If I tell you about the weekend just gone, then maybe I'll get other snippets of the past fortnight I can add on at the end. Well this weekend was ANZAC Day on the Saturday. Normally we get an extra day off during the week if it falls on a weekend but they have canned that this year...such a shame! We love our public holidays!!! Anyway everything closes until about 1pm on Anzac day, so in the mroning we just did a few household chores before heading down to Movie World on the Gold Coast. It was a great afternoon...apart from Yaz making me go on the Superman ride with her which I vowed never to go on again after the last time. It just goes down on the steepest, vertical, face down slope and I just can't stand it, plus it goes at over 100km an hour. The good thing is that the whole ride lasts for less than a minute so I just shut my eyes and hang on for dear life and then it's all over. After Movie World we headed into Surfers Paradise for a cuppa and have dinner. It was such a beautiful night and it was absolutely packed down there. We had a walk around and looked into some shops etc...and sat on a bench over looking the beautiful beach. What a lifestyle! We all just love Queensland soooo much. Our next adventure is to move closer to a beach...
Today we have just spent the whole day at home. Yaz and Bailey both had a fair bit of homework/assignments to do, Ian had some TV viewing to do and I had some book reading to do...very important Sunday stuff! I love these days!
Friday I had a parcel in the mail arrive and it was a personalised, autographed cd from Ronan Keating! My lucky, lucky brother Dale met him at a promo at his work where Ronan performed and met everyone. Dale was so lovely as to buy me is latest cd and get Ronan to sign it for me. I'm just in awe and very envious of Dale. It is such a great cd too. He also got one for Mum as she is a huge fan as well. Mum and I had a whole conversation on the phone for about an hour just talking about how beautiful the cd was etc...Thanks Dale...YOU ROCK!
OK, this is the part where my brain was supposed to have come up with something...umm...oh yes, I had an interview with Baileys teacher the other week and she said,'The only way I can describe Bailey is that he is the perfect student in every way!'...well it can't get much better than that can it? She said some really lovely things about him and how well he is doing and what a lovely friend he is to his mates and everyone in the class and how much he participates etc...Yaz bought home her report and we were very proud of her too as she got some fantastic results in all areas. She seems to be handling this Immersion class soooo well! We are so very proud of both of our children for their achievements and efforts in school. Yaz also bought home her recent art work, it is a canvas landscape painting and it's just beautiful! I tried to take a photo of it just then with my phone but it didn't turn out very well. I'll get one with Yaz's camera over the next couple of days. She certainly has some talent in the art department!
Bailey scored his first try of his rugby league season today. I unfortunately didn't see it as I was at home not feeling 100% but Bailey told me all about it with a huge beam on his face and Ian told me about it too. Their team lost but he didn't care...he scored!
Work has slackened off just a little. I have been waiting for this as everyone is feeling the economy crisis biting a bit. It's still going well, I just had a couple of spare appointments last week and I haven't had that for a while!
I am very proud of my cousin Matt in Felixstowe as he has made it into the top 3 of the Royal Post staff Awards in England. That's an absolutely huge achievement! He is getting interviewed during this coming week and will go to a posh do on London for the awards night. We have everything crossed for him to win, although in my eyes he's a winner and we're so proud of him! Well done Matt!
We have had a pretty decent downpour of rain lately which has been great for our drought situation! I think our dams have now gone over the 50% mark which has been a long time coming. Mind you in some areas of Queensland the rain bought flooding and disaster, always the way isn't it?!
During the week Bailey got bitten or stung by something, not sure what, and his forearm swelled up like Popeyes! It was bright red and ever so hot too. I took him to the Dr.s the following morning and he was put on some anti-histamines and an ointment also. It soon cleared up in 2 days. He wasn't sick or anything with it, we just couldn't believe the heat and swelling!
At the moment, Ramses has about 3 cats after him. Every night they come around our house and meow that low, drawn out meow they do and Ramses does it from inside back at them. The new kid on the block is getting bullied! I hope it settles down soon. Ramses goes outside and sometimes they just sit and stare at each other. No fight has broken out yet, he came close once or twice though.
I think I remembered enough for an entry today! There's always something that comes to me just as I'm about to go to bed and it bugs me that I forgot to put it on here so I suppose that same thing will happen again tonight.Another bad habit of mine is that I lay awake most of the night annoyed about those types of things and then I'm knackered the next day! My mind is alwasy so lively and ridiculous in the early hours of the morning. I wish I knew how to meditate to put myself in a dream-like trance and just drift off peacefully!
Hope you all had a great couple of weeks anyway. Make sure you check out the photo link often as I do update them when I can...it hasn't been done for a couple of weeks mind you but I WILL update them when I can!
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The Move!

Hello to anyone reading this after I have abandoned this site for a couple of weeks now. Well I am still here but have just been way too busy to spend a second on the computer. We have finally moved to the house down the road! For the last couple of weeks, we have been cleaning, boxing, packing and hardly sleeping! We questioned ourselves for a while as to why exactly we were making a move to a house so close by but now that we are in it, we are VERY happy! The storage space is incredible!!!! The whole move went well, no breakages, no arguments, no problems. Ian and I did the majority of it with some help on the Friday from Sean who came over for the afternoon and helped us with really bulky, heavy stuff. He was a great help who had an abundance of energy! Mike also came over to help Ian and Sean with the pool table in the afternoon also. Bailey watched these men in action shifting one big thing after another and commented on how very strong they were. He was very impressed! We basically just bought over car/ute loads at a time and just dumped it in the garage and then back and forth etc...then once it was all over, we headed back to the other house for the final clean-up. It took longer than what we thought, mind you we were very fussy about doing everything immaculately and the house ended up looking cleaner and newer than before we first started living there! It took us a whole week just to get the basics all unpacked. The kitchen was the first thing that we set up. We slept on mattresses for a week too. In the middle of all of this we were both still working our long hours and taking the kids here and there...Now that we are here, we love it! Our wardrobes are double the size of what we had and the rooms are a fantastic size too. Ramses has settled in well also. He was a little wide-eyed and frantic for the first hour but settled in immediately!

It has definitely been worth it. In all of the unpacking, I have been sorting out things as I go and cannot believe the amount of hoarding that we have done over the past two years! I am going to take alot of this unwanted stuff up to a market to try and sell. We thought about doing the whole e-bay thing but we don't have time to sit on the computer and do it all. I am a bit worried that because we have extra storage, it means we can hoard more stuff! I want to stop that habit right from the start and have been quite podantic about where things are going and putting things away properly and getting rid of anything not used at all.

Apart from the move, Yaz had her 14th B'day. It was pretty non-eventful as unfortunately it was in the middle of the move, but we took her and her friend out for dinner and I made her a 'Jack', (from Nightmare before Xmas), b'day cake. She insisted that she didn't want a cake but as if I could let that happen!

Well today is Easter so Happy Easter to you all! Back to work tomorrow, for me anyway. The kids are now on holidays for a week and a bit. I will try and take them out as they have been put on the back burner recently due to Ian and I being busy. We haven't done much this weekend, just still unpacking and relaxing as much as possible and eating really naughty things! The perfect weekend really!

The computer is very unreliable at the moment so I might have to end it here. We apparently don't have much coverage from our provider which we have only just been told about. When we first signed up we were told we were completely covered. When I phoned them the other day to arrange the change of address etc...I was told that the area we are in doesn't have coverage! When I told him that we were only around the corner from the other house, he basically said we should never have signed up in the first place but a bit late for that information!!! We are just seeing how the coverage goes over the next few weeks and may have to change companies...again! So if I am not on here or aren't answering emails like I used to then this is why. On the whole scheme of things though, it's not that bad. We still can use the internet on occasions...briefly... but it's only the computer at the end of the day. There are other ways of communicating that probabaly don't take up as much time and more reliable too!