I don't remember ever feeling this sick. If I sit still (like I did waiting for an hour and a half for the doctor) it's not too bad, but as soon as I start moving at all I loose my breath and if I don't stop immediately I start coughing. man this sucks.

Finally finished reports. man, it was a hard slog. 124 reports in the past month or so. on top of the 204 essays I marked. now I have a whole lot of topic tests to mark that have been put to the side for a week or two :( Can't wait for holidays, not long now!

so sick of marking. and I'm really over some of my students. I'm desperately in need of a holiday.

sad birthday...

can you guess what we bought today?

how biblical

I felt like a biblical wife tonight. I came home from teaching the children, donned an apron and cooked the fatten calf (ok, steak) for the men in the household who were studying the bible.

the day of tidying/cleaning/washing/grocery shopping/cooking has begun.

school holidays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok I was so much more excited about school holidays until the mechanics called. See we've been totally irresponsible with Benji, not having him serviced in the last 25000km. ok, yes we know that's bad, we kept meaning to, but never really had the money, but could have if we really tried, but we forgot to make it a priority, blah blah blah. So we've been trying to find a time to get him serviced for ages, but the problem comes that I drive to work Monday to Friday, there's no public transport from home to work, and the chances of us being free on a saturday morning when the mechanics are open are zero to none. So it has taken till my first day of holidays to get him serviced.

we'd planned for the service, even budgeted for more than what the fixed price service would cost us, but they just called with some unhappy news. Apparently we need to replace two of the tyres. Man, tyres are expensive! I had to choose between the $99 tyres, the $109 tyres and the $124 tyres, knowing absolutely nothing about them other than the mechanic guy said that the most expensive ones are the best. no duh! Plus, I've been trying to get hold of Matty to discuss it, but he must be in a meeting or something cause he's not answering my sms let alone my phone calls. oh, and apparently you have to pay for some other things as well, not just the tyres.

but yay I'm on holidays. Sitting around at home, knowing that there's plenty of cleaning to be done, as well as marking and planning for after the holidays. already having watched way too much tv. holidays suck without someone to spend them with.

on the other hand, ready steady cook just started...