Leap Year

So today is Feb 29th, leap day! I couldn't resist the urge to write a short note. After all you only get to experience it once every 4 years. So it's Debz's daughter Emma's 4th birthday today. Well technically I guess she's only 1 since this is the first time since she was born that Feb 29th has come around.

Well best be getting ready for bed. Paul's sitting on the couch half asleep. What a grandpa aye ;-) Te he he

BBQ

So Paul and I are finally having our house warming BBQ this weekend. Considering it will be just over 3 months since we moved into the house I think it's a little overdue. However with moving in, then having Christmas, New Year and going on our NZ holiday, we just haven't had time. So this Saturday we have a few people coming around :-) Shouldn't be too big but Debz, Lance and the kids are coming so it'll be nice to see them again. An old school friend who lives out in Logan (way out on the south side) is also coming along with her daughter. Paul has also invited a few people from his St Johns team and the hodges might be coming as well.

Hmm - I guess that means we have to clean the house gutted! Oh well, I did give up laziness for lent didn't I!

Well better get back to work. I have the worlds most evil laptop at the moment and it's driving me bonkers. However if it enables me to "work from home" while I'm in NZ next month then I will only complain a little bit.

Yay - our rain water tank should have arrived at the company who are installing it for us yesterday, so fingers crossed it actually gets installed in the near future. All we need then is for it to keep raining and then we can start building our vege garden. Wahoo!!!

Hot hot hot!

Well this weekend has been a real scorcher! Yesterday the forecast was to get up to 36 degrees - our first heat wave of the summer - not bad considering it's the last weekend of summer! In reality it was way worse - at about 1:30pm it hit 40 degrees - hot hot hot!!!! However Paul and I had a bit of shopping to do so we headed over to Chermside in the morning and hung out there for about 3 hours. Yay for free air con! Then we did the grocery shopping at Aldi (really cheap supermarket in Chermside) which was also air conditioned. So we didn't really get to experience the heat too much until we got home. I went straight into the house, didn't bother opening any windows - I just turned on our air con!
About that time a lovely southerly breeze picked up which cooled things down a bit. But I stayed inside watching "The Nanny Diaries" for a while while Paul mowed the lawn. It's scary how much the lawn had grown in 3 weeks.

Today it's no quite so bad - it's currently 28.9 degrees - however it's still pretty hot. The scary part is that in just over an hour I'm going to go and play a game of soccer. Yes, that's right folks, I'm going to run around in knee high socks in almost 30 degrees! I think I must be mad!

Well best be getting back to doing our budget before Paul nags me again (after all it's not like me to get distracted is it ;-) ). I still need to get some pics up from our latest NZ trip :-)

A quick update

Well I haven't updated my blog in ages so I thought I'd better get in with a quick update before I get harrassed ;-) Te he he!

Well Paul and I had a wonderful trip to NZ. It was nice and relaxing catching up with Paul's family in Tairua when we first arrived in NZ. Although flying from Auckland to Wellington on Tuesday wasn't the nicest thing I've ever experienced! Wellington put on a good old rollar coaster as we were coming in and that is not the best when you are extremely hungover. Let's just say that as we landed my stomach gave up the fight and surrended!

Wellington as always was great! Although VERY COLD! Seriously guys - 16 and 19 degree days! I thought I asked you to put on the weather - make sur eyou do a bit better next time aye ;-) Fortunately when we got back to Brisbane it was a fairly cool day so that change of temperature wasn't too extreme - it was only about 25 here! Although it's looking like it's going to be a scorcher on the weekend - they're predicting Saturday to be 36 degrees! HOT! The hotest I've experienced so far is 32 so that is definitely going to be a shock to the system. Yay for air con! Actually Friday is meant to be 33 as well!

Well better do some work. I aim to get some pics from the trip up in the next few days so we'll see.

It was great getting to catch up with everyone - it sux that we can't catch up more. But I guess that's what you get for living in a different country aye. Oh well - there's always a spare bed at our place!!!

and we're off

Yay the day is finally here. Paul and I are just doing last minute organising before heading off to the airport. What a bad weekend for there to be work going on on our train line though! They're placing trains with buses from Ferny Grove to Bowen Hills which is where we get off to catch the airport train. And with the buses they have a tendency to run late funnily enough. So we're heading off to the airport 30 mins earlier then normal. But still - st least it's not a red eye flight :-)


Right - better shut this computer down and pack it!

joke for Friday

Steven Spielberg decides he needs the big stars for his upcoming movie about the lives of famous classical composers. So he gets Tom Cruise, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger into a room and says, "Listen guys, I really need you for my movie. So I'm willing to let you play whatever famous composer you want. We can rework the story around your choices, ok?"

The three actors look agreeable so Spielberg presses on. "Tom, who do you want to play?"

Cruise replies, "I've always enjoyed Chopin's Piano Etudes, so I'd like to play Frederic Chopin."

"Fine," says Spielberg. "Who do you want to play, Bruce?"

Willis says, "Ever since I was a kid I've loved the New World Symphony. I'd like to play Antonin Dvorak."

"Great," replies Spielberg, furiously scribbling notes. After a minute he looks up at Schwarzenegger and says, "What about you, Arnold?"

Schwarzenegger clears his throat and answers ...

"I'll be Bach."

The love and hate affair of Friday

Friday is an interesting day! I love it and hate it all at the same time.
I love it because it's almost the weekend and then I get to sleep in and blob out and doing interesting things. However I hate it because it's almost the weekend and the work day takes so long to end.

It's even worse than normal today since Paul and I are off to NZ tomorrow :-) YAY! Although just to be funny it's actually been sunny the past couple of days after weeks of rain and we're set for a nice hot weekend! I looked on stuff yesterday and Wellington had a high of 15. I seriously hope that was a joke because I get cold at 24 degrees! Yes - that's right - 24 degrees people :-) So I think I shall be packing some jeans just in case :-)

Well best be doing some work before this day does end aye :-)

Looking forward to seeing everyone in Wellington really soon! This time tomorrow I'll be getting ready to board my plane to Auckland!!

Lent

Right – so yesterday was Ash Wednesday (or NZ it’s “Ash Wednesday” today since yesterday was Waitangi Day and you can’t really have a day of fast on the national holiday). Anyway so Ash Wednesday is the start of Lent in the lead up to Easter. Now in the true Lenten spirit I normally give us something I like. Two years ago it was alcohol and last year it was alcohol and chocolate (aka my Lent diet).

However this year I have decided to do something different. Instead of giving up a physical thing I have decided to give up laziness! Yep – that’s right, no more excuses such as “I’m tired” or “I’ve had a long day at work” or “I can’t be bothered” as a reason not to do things. Instead I will exercise, I will fold the washing, I will do the house cleaning on a regular basis, I will eat healthy, I will iron my work clothes at night (whoops – have to work harder on that one as I forgot last night), I will make my lunch instead of relying on Paul to do it (isn’t he a sweetie!). This is actually going to be hard for me as I am a master of procrastination and laziness J

So I guess we shall see how the next 6 weeks pans out! Wish me luck!!

Soccer

Well I've finally done it. I rang the womens football contact at the Westside Sports Club and am going down for a run around tonight. I explained that I had been out injured for the past 2 season and just wanted to have a run around to see if I could handle playing for a season. The good thing about the club is that it's just over the other side of Dawsons Parade from our house. Like literally a few blocks away. Probably only a 10 min walk I guess - 10 mins max really! I just had a look on google maps and it's exactly 900 metres from our house to the park! Sweet!

So now we just need my body to hold up!! The website says that they have a division 1 and a division 3 team that train on tuesday nights. Plus they also have a social division 5 team that doesn't train. If my body holds up then I might try for the division 3 team (don't think I can be bothered going division 1 - getting too old, I haven't played for 2 seasons and I'd just break ;-) te he). Otherwise I might see if I can join the division 5 team and play when I'm able to.

Of course if I break in the first 5 minutes then I might be stuck to watching from the side lines. But since I love living here in Brisbane and don't plan on going home anytime soon, I figured I'd better start meeting people. And soccer really does seem like the most logical place :-)

Wish me luck people!!

http://www.westsidesports.com.au/Womens.html