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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