An update ... finally

ok - so I've been pretty slack about updating my blog recently. But here is an update ... finally aye :-)

So what's going on with me at the moment? Well things are certainly starting to ramp up with world youth day next month. Can you believe that we leave for Sydney is just 24 days!! WOW! And that means that days in the diocese starts in just 20 days!

[for those that don't know, world youth day is when 16-35 year old catholics descend upon a city and do "catholic" stuff, go to concerts & festivals etc for a week and it ends with a mass with the pope. In sydney they're expecting about 225,000 registered pilgrims with about 500,000 turning up to the mass with the pope - that makes it much bigger than the olympic games - it's the biggest event Australia has ever held - cool aye! The interesting part is where some twit decided to hold it in Sydney in the middle of winter! We're sleeping out at Randwick Racecourse on the Saturday night before the papal mass and it's going to be very very cold! We all better pray it doesn't rain else we will all be very very cold & wet :-( ]

I'm definitely looking forward to WYD - although it is going to be very tiring. For the most part our group seems to be really good and we're finally starting to get to know each other. There are 16 of us and fortunately we're all over 20 so no kiddies to look after. A couple of people have been slack about coming to our preparation meetings but in the end I think they're going to be the ones to lose out as they will feel left out a bit. It's a shame really but what can you do *shrug*

Tomorrow is the shortest day of the year so I'm looking forward to getting some more daylight at night soon. However the big downside is that we will be working towards our 4am sunrises too :-( Although with the traffic on our road I'm normally awake about that time anyway. There is this big truck that parks around the corner from us and likes to go to work around 4-5:30 in the mornings. SO annoying as it is a BIG truck so makes BIG noises - especially as it's just starting to change gears and speed up as it goes past our house. I'm very tempted to report him as you're not meant to park trucks that size in residential areas. And there is a main road he can park on only 5 minutes walk from his house. Grrr (yes, as you can tell - I'm tired & grumpy this morning - te he he)

Righto - better do some work now.

Have a great day :-D