mmmm.... cake

working on your birthday has pluses and minuses I guess. You have to work all day (and funnily enough this is the very first time I have had every period of the day teaching) but your colleagues might bring you a really yummy chocolate cake. mmmmm.... cake.

we're in!

We've moved! Yesterday the moving truck arrived at 7am on the dot (they were coming between 7 and 8 and we weren't quite ready at 7... but oh well) and they had packed everything into the truck by 9! So we drove over, luckily avoided traffic so were there by 9:30, and everything was unpacked by 11. The packers were wonderful, would totally recommend mini movers to anyone.

So our bedroom and the lounge/dining room are mostly unpacked, but the study and rumpus rooms are filled with boxes. Half of our kitchen stuff is still at duke st, so hopefully Matt can get the rest of it today.

So we had the first night in the new house last night, there was no crazy noises or anything. I actually slept like a log after getting only 4.5 hours the night before since we'd been up packing till the early hours of the morning (Matt only got 3 hours, though he had a nap yesterday afternoon while I unpacked). And this morning coming to work, it only took 15 minutes and no tolls!

so all in all, it went pretty well...

crazy times

I am so tired! This week has been so crazy, with reports and moving. I've taken 5 carloads to the house already, but still don't feel like we've made a huge dent. I guess it won't really until the furniture all goes. tonight we've got another 21st to go to, then tomorrow is a wedding band practice, then an engagement party. sunday we have a bbq lunch then I'm singing and Matt's leading church... monday the moving truck arrives between 7 and 8am! so i'm not exactly sure when I'm going to sleep... oh well... at least we have a nice house!

our new home

after weeks and weeks of looking for and applying for houses, we finally got one! it all happened rather quickly. I only saw the place online on friday, we went and inspected on saturday morning, put in our application saturday afternoon, this morning we got the call offering us the place and this afternoon we signed the lease and got the keys! It's in North Ryde, very close to matt's work.

Here are a few photos..

the back deck

the rumpus room

the lounge room (and front door)

and the wonderful kitchen!! isn't it amazing! a dishwasher!!!!!!!!

I can't believe term is more than half over. Not complaining about it though.

It's very hard to write reports for students you barely know...

On a different note, on the weekend Allans music were having a sale, so we went to have a gander, and came away with a bit more than we expected to. I had my birthday come a little early...


This is my beautiful new Epiphone les paul special II, yet to be named. My fingers are very sore from playing it... and I got a small effects unit which makes it doubly fun :)

long weekend

so back from Tamworth after a good time there. Laura's 21st was good... though I wasn't feeling the best in Tamworth with my hayfever really flaring up. twas a good time though.

sad part of it is that it takes so long to travel there and back. I mean, its not that bad when we go for a week, but when we only go for 2 nights, we only get one day there, but spend about 12 hours driving.... a bit lame.

it's meant that i'm not really refreshed after the weekend... I'm realising that as a worker weekends are important, if you're too busy you don't get the rest you need, that's why you have weekends. but the other thing is that as a worker you don't get enough holidays to do all your extra things then (ok, so i do get pretty good holidays as a teacher)... so if you can't do them on weekends, and you only get 4 weeks off.... when do you do the things you want to do?

hmmm... I am looking forward to gold class tonight... yay for free upgrades from magnums!

TGI Friday

Been a different week... heading off to Tamworth tonight for my sister-in-law's 21st tomorrow. Shall be fun. Spent several hours wandering around Bondi Junction Westfield last night trying to decide what to get her.

We haven't had any luck with house hunting... we've applied and not got 4 places now. to make things worse, there's the perfect place open for inspection tomorrow, the one saturday that we can't go looking. grrrrr....

anyway... back to work

p.s. I think that in hell they make you do exam supervision... it's worse than fire and brimstone...