thank god its Twiday...

Well.... close enough. ~L~...

Matt and I had plans to go see the new Twilight Saga - New Moon Last night, and I have been counting down to "Twiday" aka Friday all week, though yesterday returned home from work with the worst hayfever that I think I have ever had in my life. My nose was litterally dripping.. YUCK...
so Matt loaded me full of drugs and sent me off to bed... Spoilsport.

This morning he had a shoot on in the city so it gave me the opportunity to sleep the morning away and try and feel a little more human and sound a hell of a lot more convincing when he returned and asked how i was feeling. I knew i had to my little white lie reserve for the month and tell him that i was feeling GREAT! ... I may have over done it, but hey... he could not argue... atleast i was upright and no where as stoned as i was when he sent me to bed. ~L~

So... with my little white lie down, i got out to see New Moon.... ~howls~ OMFG... I will understand if a lot of the team Edward gals jump ship and become Team Jacob supporters. Having a body that good should be down right illegal! Me, well I am standing fast as a Team Edward girl... There is something in that crooked little smile that takes my breath away... haha.

It is no where as good as the book but man, I am looking forward to watching it again and again when it is released on DVD....
Now... I guess I best start counting down til Eclipse is released.... i have no clue when that is... best i go google, huh!? ~L~

~looking up at the moon and howling again~ aarrrrrrrooooooooooooohhhhh...

hahahaha.
have a great night guys... my hayfever meds are starting to kick in again and i think its best that i go now before my fingers type something that my stoned little head may not find as amusing when its clear in the morning! ~L~

speechless.... angry.....~shaking head~ what can i say!?

I dont know about you, though I was raised in a house where it was wrong for a boy to hit a girl and have raised my son with exactly the same kind of respect for women as his father was raised and what i had heard all my life.

Sadly, it appears that not all kids are raised in the same way.

On the way home from school today, Miranda was assulted by a boy almost 8 years her senior. Yes, you read right.... my 8 year old was hurt by a 15 year old. Both Jamie and her walk home together and in a moment where Jamie had told her to drop a stone she was carrying, his ball that he was bouncing bounced away from him and he went after it, letting go of her hand for no more than a second, all shit fell loose.

She tossed the stone on the ground and it bounced, hitting this 16 year old boy on the back of the ankle. We are talking about a stone the size of a bit of gravel... something small enough that it is amazing that he even felt it... anyway before jamie could get back onto the footpath to Miranda, this kid had grabbed my little girl by the throat, ripped her up into the air and was projecting her towards the pavement. His hand firmly around her throat still, he was leaning over her with his fist brought back ready to lay into her.

Jamie tossed the ball at the kid, hitting him to distract him and called him something rather "obscene" to be repeated here, and in that second that it took for him to be distracted from Miranda, Jamies friend grabbed miranda and pulled her away.

She has brusing down her neck to her shoulder, skin grazed from areas on her back which is going to scab badly, skinned elbows and bruises all over. Quiet understandably, she is a complete mess, as is poor Jamie who has not stopped crying for more than a few minutes all afternoon.

The police were called and have arrested the boy, taken him to the police station to be finger printed and charged. The police are disgusted that this boy found no remorse in what he had done, and that his actions, if had not been distracted would have been most definately, horendous.

Matt and I, as you can very well imagine want to do very bad things to this boy and make him hurt in a way that he has not ever hurt before in his life. Matt.... my goodness, I have never seen him so wild... his eyes are dark .... and its scary... my gentle giant.... well..... it hurts to see him so lost as to what to do
Work is putting him on stress leave... His friend is going to teach Jamie how to box and Miranda how to defend her self (not that we would expect her to ever be able to fight off someone so much larger than herself)... me, well I am upset.. angry and like matt, lost as to what to do... though I am doing what I do best... distracting myself and planning my day for tomorrow out in my head. He will stay home with them... I will work... simply, so I dont become the mess that I am on the inside, on the outside.

Godess give us strength.

Scraptastic Saturday...

(Please, Cathy, Sit before you fall down with shock at the following announcement!!)

I can't remember the last time that I sat for long enough to finish one layout in a day, though today, I am proud to say that I have created 3 Layouts... One of them is complete with photo, while the others still have photos to take and add. (~whispering so that Matt does not hear... just yet... ~ that is my cunning plan for tomorrow... to get Matt to come out with us all somewhere, set up the tripod and timer and just take some fun family shots.)

You know, he has seen these layouts today though has not asked what photos I am planning on using... clueless man.....~ snickering~

I am hoping that not only will we get these photos taken tomorrow, though I can get Matt to run them through adobe, fix them up, crop them and take them to get printed as well.... IF I get my way, you should see them some time tomorrow afternoon....

If the weather is nice, forget everything, other than the knowledge that we are updating our family photos.... the layouts will be uploaded on the next rainy weekend... because if tomorrow is anything like today has been... tomorrow i will be doing the beach bum thang!

yet another proud mama moment

Earlier today, while still working I happened to miss a call from Kieras school.. When i saw the missed called after work I thought I best call Matt and make sure that everything was okay. I was so relieved when he said that all was fine, that he too had been called by the school.
Apparently, Kiera had won an award for a Media project she had done, though we were asked to keep it hushed and get her up to the school between 7 & 8pm to receive this award at the year 11 art show. (she is only in yr 10 btw but her stuff was being shown anyway).

We got up to the school just before 8 only to be quickly ushered through the doors and told to go and see the principal. (the awards had all been presented about 10 mins earlier)... Kiera was still wondering what was happening at this point... She regardlessly, headed to the principal who eagerly shook her hand and presented her with a PRINCIPAL AWARD and a credit note for $50 to go towards her school books for next year.

Needless to say, this was a wonderful end to a week and yet another proud mama moment!

Happy friday!!

With a pride swelled heart

It was with a pride swelled heart that I sat last night beside an equally proud husband and watched Miranda, (our 8 year old) perform on stage in a interschool spectacular called wakakirri.
A few months ago I went along to watch her first performance, competing against 10(?) other schools in our region of Melbourne/victoria. We (all the parents) left that night, with the belief that our wonderful little people had not taken out any placing in the competition, let alone taken one of the nights awards. A week later we were all pleasantly welcomed to the fact that not only had they done marvelously on the night, they had taken out FIRST PLACE! They were off the the grand finals, in the City, to compete for the place of Victorias winners.

As you can imagine, the children, all ranging between 7-8.5 worked tremendously hard on their performance, which was based around the events of last January and the King Lake, Black Saturday Bush fires. These fires affaected our children in a way that I dont think any of us really realised until we saw their performance. It was from the heart and showed the australian spirit, to help when others were suffering. My heart almost burst with the pride that i felt watching such little people perform something that was such a grown up kind of situation. One that we would love to think our children would never have to be exposed to. (loss & destruction). Athough, through this exposure, it has awoken our children to strength, courage and the australian spirit of just getting on with things, rebuilding and survival. Something very important for our children to know.

Anyway... where was this proud mum!?

Oh yes... last night, Matt and I rushed up to the 2nd floor of the Melbourne Town hall to take out seats with many other parents from our school and many others, to watch our children perform in what would for the most of them, be the biggest moment in their little lives so far. Our school was 2nd to perform and through tears of pride that fell I watched my little girl dancing around on stage, enticing the flames with her gusts (of arms). She was the wind that drove the fires on that fateful day. Such a dark and omnimous part, looked so beautiful... and PROUD.
Those same tear filled eyes then looked to her father, who with no doubt had a heart as large with pride as mine, and surely aching as it stretched to its limit, threatening to burst.
Ofcourse, we are bias... while the other schools all did wonderful jobs, our little people, (who were the youngest of the performers on both the first night, and this, the grand finals) were definately, the best story of the night. And... ofcourse, the best dancers, story writes, full stop!

hours later, our weary little people came and sat in the dress circle with us, and watched the rest of the performance. Many of them, tightly held tiny fingers crossed. They were all anxiously awaiting the last performance to be complete so that judging could be undertaken. WOW... I did not realise that they were going to find out their fate, then and there.
Awards weere given.... we were down to the last award... the most prestigeous award of the night and again, our beautiful babies faces were long, they had seemed to miss out on awards again when all of a sudden the presenter of the night started to talk of "heard ship and the australian way. The strength to pull together when hearts weere so low and hope was bleak"... It was the Beyond Blue award. (beyond blue were the main sponsers).... and what performance do you think they were talking about when they were leading up to the presentation of this award? None other than Jamieson way .... OUR LITTLE GUYS HAD TAKEN OUT THE BEYOND BLUE AWARD!!!!!

Pop.... there went my heart... im sure of it....

or.... was that the veins in my hands from clapping so hard... or my voice box from the screams that came from my toes as i cheered on our three little represeentatives as they headed over to the presenter to accept the award!?

there were 10 groups, 6 of whom were all called out to the front of the stage, again... our kids stood back on the stage. They had not been called. A little sigh rumbled in my chest at the knowledge that if these were the winning kids, then we would have to again have that talk about "its not weather you win or losee"... you know the one, right?
EQUAL THIRD.... that is what i heard announced... what the!? 3rd? All of those 6 groups? That means...... yep.... our kids were still in with a chance... i think it was then that i realised what this meant... my heart swelled a little more... and i found myseelf crossing my fingers tightly. OMG.... 2nd or .... I could barely think it... 1st. Our children were the only division 1 group there, meaning it was their very first time ever performing at wakakirri... did our children really have what the judges were looking for? well... duh, we thought so, but these were professional performers that were in the judging panel..

All the remaining children were asked to move forward on the stage... our three representatives all reached out to hold each others hands... they were thrilled to think that their hard work had paid off and they were going to get 2nd or 1st...

POP.... that was definately my heart as their name was called out as Victorias 2009 Wakakirri 2nd place winners. Honestly, the squeels that came from our group of children and parents I dont think could have been any louder if we had actually taken out 1st place.

I am sitting here, writing this from work while I wait for my dental partner (Dr) to come back from some training... and between my oral hygiene lessons with preps-y2 kids at the school I am working at. My mind has been upon my little girl today and all her little friends as I am sure they got a hero reception this morning at the school assembly.

My heart still aches with pride... & my smile not so wide as it was, though definately still there for my gorgeous little girl.

I wonder what they will start to prepare for next year. I hope the teachers have thought that far ahead... for I am sure, there is no holding them back now! They will want to do this again... and again... and again!

(I will upload a pic of my gust of wind tonight, or over the weekend. She did so well to stay up as long as she did, and get her photo taken. (12 midnight)...

Lots of love and I hope you are all smiling and well.
xxxx

Introducing.....

The other night, after I almost had a kitten at the price that Rigadoon Dolls were fetching, I decided to start googling other alternatives. I stumbled upon a site filled with Muppet style puppets and even a tutorial on how to make my very own... it was then that I decided that I would give making one a go. So the very next morning I went of to spotlight fabric store to gather supplies, came home and started drawing up some patterns... then pulled out the machine to sew... this is the final result.
While he is nameless, not perfect, I think that he will fit in well with the special people that he has been created for. What do you think!?

I would love to hear your thoughts as to a name for this little fellow... I have come up totally blank.
Miranda wants to call him either, Phin, Cody or Zac. Kiera came up with Milo or Miles. Jamie was not a great help at all.. All he had to input into the entire discussion was that he was not a real little boy. He is genderly... well... incorrect! ~L~

In closing, I would like to make known how greatful I am of a wonderful bunch of ladies that I know online at scrapboxx, who have been asking around in hope that they could locate a rigadoon to come and work with me.... and to the wonderful daughter of one of these ladies, who was willing to hand over her very own childhood friend so that she could live her life outside of a box doing good. Such a selfless act... such a beautiful thought.I am convinced though, this little guy will be good enough ... and she will not have to part with her cherished friend.

OMG- Rigadoon update!!

I can't believe it... The doll that i refered to below as a raggadoon was a "my bad - spelling error"... it is called a rigadoon doll and apparently a highly sought after collectors item now!

Oh to have fore thought!

The doll that I paid a measly $10 for on sale 16 years ago is now worth $155 upwards!

I am hoping for a miracle that I will be able to find one that someone would like to part with for a needy cause for a sensible ammount. Maybe there is an angel out there somewhere that will see a hospital special needs/care department as such a cause.
I could never pay that kind of price... who would!?

Happy Fridays to you all

.... week two at the Hospital is now over and while my feet ache, my legs throb, I sit here with a contented smile on my face. I am loving it.. the staff, the patients, the Dentists... It is truely a wonderful environment.

I got offered to take on the other position I applied for as well. I have accepted. I will be working on a Mobile facility that will travel to and stay in different Special Needs Schools around Melbourne for 4 months cycles. I will be able to do what I really have been wanting to do... work with the children that need us most. I hope their smiles will be as bright as those that will be greeting them. I should start that in about 2 weeks or so, if all our plans go smoothly.

I want to enter into this in a special way. Since this is a new program I want the children who visit us to enjoy their visit and not be scared of the visit or the thought of returning. I have been thinking hard about how I could do this and I have thought of making a van mascot.
When I was younger I had a puppet, it was a "raggadoon" doll. They were about the size of a one year old, stuffed and very cute,... she had been handed down to Kiera when she was little, though sadly, she has disappeared after the many years of moving with the defence.

I think I am going to have to do a hunt for one through the op shops etc and perhaps on ebay. Who knows, I could be lucky and find one for little $$. Otherwise, I may just have to draw up a pattern and construct one of my own. If only I was lucky enough to find a puppet like some that Jeff Durham has. ~L~... Speaking of, did you know that he is making his way to Australia!?
If you dont know who he is... all i have to ask you is "what rock have you been living under. Do yourself a favour and look him up on YouTube!"
That content smile that I have had, up until now has faded into a pout... because.... well as wonderful as it is to know that my favourite ventriliquist is coming to Australia, his Melbourne show is BOOKED OUT!!!
boo hoo.

Well... Hopefully they will convince him that he will have to open another show while he is here... here is hoping.

enough rambling from me... Im off to find myself a suitable mascot!

Happy fridays and stacks o' love!

PS: I promise that I am going to do something about my music play list! I am so over it, aren't you!?
xxxx

Afternoon.... Kiera and I have been playing in my scrap room all afternoon, while we have not actually put blade to paper, we have been doing some great shopping! Hey... I didnt say that we were scrapping, did i!? Hahahaha. Anyway... Kiera decided that she wanted to do an album like my "remember when" Teresa Collins Album that I created for Allcraftz last year, although with a love theme. So onto the computer we jumped to try and find somewhere that we could find the entire range at the same time as having reasonable postage.

We discovered a Fairfield, NSW based shop which I have to PLUG! They not only have free postage for orders over $45 (a small amount in the big scheme, i know) but they also have awesome prices on October Afternoon Stamps. Stamps that we have seen online today, for up to $29.95 at some Australian stores, for a tiny $12.95. Obviously, since I LOVE journalling blocks, I will be making the most of the tiny price tags and popping some of this goodness in the mail for me. Happy mail for meeeeeee.... yippppeeeee.

Just thought I would share the site with you all especially since we are pulling in the belts during this "econom. crisis". They have definately earned a place in my "plug" list. Especially when you look at it the way I am... 2 stamp sets for the price of one. Sounds good, doesn't it!? (hahaha)

Love and hugs and happy sundays to you all.

xxxx

The count down is on...

It is sunday night and while I wait for home made sausage rolls to cook in the oven I figured what better way to wait then by dropping a quick note at what has become a dusty sad excuse for a blog. Who would have ever thunk that this used to be the blog of a dedicated scrapper!?

These days, it has become the withered remains of a scrappers hide away... oh my gosh, that sounds so sad...

What else is sad is the fact that I have this uncanny ability to ramble on about crap when I actually came here with the intention of saying hi and sharing my excitement that I have started my count down ... that only two shifts remain at my old workplace and then I am on to better things and the best part... that I will be regaining my life! I can't wait.

Oh yeah... and one other thing... to share a pic or two from Friday night. It was a great night and I got to do the time warp twice. Once was the regular version, and then, in their finale, they did a little bit of an x rated one.... ofcourse, I just joined right in with everyone else, and put my hands on my hips, my tits and my bits, (changed for each verse... I only have two hands so ofcourse I was not doing all that, at once!) bent my knees in time and did the time warp again!!!!

Its great sometimes when you go out somewhere and you don't know a soul! hahaha.

So I will leave you with this photo, which was taken back stage after the show ( i know, pretty damn cool huh!?)

Love and hugsxxxx

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Note: I am sure that you have thought I have forgotten about posting a few pics of Alice Cooper... know that I haven't... Matt has not got any screen res ones for me to steal and post here, though I am sure that if you stalk his blog or galleries, you are sure to stumble upon a few.

xxxx

It's just a jump to the left....

And then a step to the right.... You know the words.... Sing it with me!!!

With your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane,
Let's do the Time Warp again!

In just a little over 4 hours time I will be sitting front row of the Rocky Horror Picture Show stage show. Would you believe that I have never seen it live? I have only seen the movie a few times though know all the songs.... I was so green with envy when Cath went to see it last year (or was it this year!?) I wanted to see it so badly... Well.. tonight is my chance!!
I can't wait!

Re: my last post.... Thanks to Cath and Estavalia for their congratulations.... I have given my notice... lets say that I was met with icy stares and the whole news went down like the Titanic!
It has been a chilly few days at work, though nothing I can't handle. I had one of the dentists say that its the best thing for me, that he knows that my mind would turn to mush if i stayed, and that he was infact sure that there were 30000 better places than our work place in which i could work. He says that it will do me the world of good... and.. that he will miss me. Awww.
I have decided to stay until tuesday. (i know, how rude of me not to give them two weeks notice- Tough!)... and the only reason behind that is because by doing so, it is more hours sick + holiday pay that I will be paid out and I get a few extra days work pay as well instead of just finishing today and taking what leave entitlements I was owed.

I can justify it simply by "we are buying a house now you know!" hahahah.

Speaking of, we should be signing the contracts any day... the first home buyers scheme cut off is quickly coming to an end!

Damn it... I forgot what else I was going to say, so I guess I will just shut up now and say...

It's astounding, time is fleeting....
I have a show to go get ready for..,.
Mwah.
xxxx

The Tides are a changin'

Well here I am, a little later than promised, but here none the less. The best bit is, I come bearing news like I had hoped to share!

This morning I got a call from The Royal Melbourne Dental Hospital offering me a position on their dental health team. I am so excited and relieved that I can leave the current working conditions behind me! So excited that, as soon as I got home (i was on my way to another interview at the hospital when i got the news) I promptly crawled into bed and slept! I think the stress of the last few months and the sudden realization that it is all behind me hit me and my body just said "okay.. ENOUGH already!! Sleep now!"

So what could I do? I don't like to argue with myself, so I did... I slept and slept and a few times I woke and wondered if i had been dreaming. Guess what? I wasn't!!

So there you go... the tides are a changing... I am no longer going to have to try and keep my head above water (stress wise) in an place where management would rather see me drown, and finally, I will be able to touch the bottom and go through life, swimmingly.

Because I was having such a good day today and had a full fare, full day train ticket, when I got off the train I wrote a nice little message on the ticket and placed it into the machine ticket slot, so the next person that was needing to buy a ticket, would see it and take it.
"Please take this ticket as a gesture of good will. It is valid until midnight. I hope that you have as wonderful a day as I am having! xx".
I challenge you to do something nice for a stranger tomorrow. It will make you feel so good and be the icing on your cake!
I would love to hear what you do!
Anyway, thats all from me for now... hopefully now that I will be working decent hours, and coming home at a decent hour and be no longer doing weekends, you will hear from me more often.
Love and misses.
xxxxx

Anaphylaxis to Alice Cooper

As the title indicates, my week has been from one extreme to the other.

Monday, severe mondaitis...

Tuesday came an anaphylatic reaction that saw me happy and laughing with the kids one minute to screaming and trying to scratch my own eyes out the next!

I had come home after work with a headache and a sore neck, so i pulled out a wheat heat pack from where it had been tucked away in a drawer. I heated it up, use it on my neck and all was fine. As my neck felt better I rolled onto my side and rested the side of my face on the heat... big mistake... HUGE!! Within seconds my eyes were burning and itching so badly that I would have greatfully scratched them from my head. Within a minute they were so swollen they were closed shut!

Wednesday saw me having to take a day off work because my eyes were still extremely swollen and sore. Lets just say phenergan is heaven... I had thursday off as a rostered day and today, Friday is my usual day off. Tonight, guess where I am going!? (doh, the title gives it away a little, huh!?)... Yep... I am going to see Alice Cooper... Not only am I going to the concert...I have been told that I should be able to meet him and hang out in the green room with him before and after the show!

I am so greatful that I am actually going to be able to see him!!!
My eyes are still sore from being so swollen, though they are not druggie red anymore and i can see.... yippppeee!

I no doubt will be back over the weekend with photos.... Will be thinking of you Cath. If only you didnt live so far away!

out of hidden places.....

~crawling out of the little place that I seem to have been hiding, I pick up a pen and scrawl in my girly hand~

Dear Diary... (aka Lyn)
I know it has been forever and a day since the last time I wrote here, approximately 14 days to be exact... though who is counting? Oh right, you are.. hahaha.
I thought I best stop by and let you know that this girl still has a pulse and breath. Life is slowing down and I am more or less finding that I can keep up now with little more than a canter. I do hope though with the weeks to come, that not only will we have signed and sealed on the deal with our new home but that I will also be keeping in better touch, keeping better hours and doing all this, through a less stressed mind due to a surgery change.
I have been working incredibly rediculous hours, sometimes 12 hour shifts, finding me dragging myself through the door here well after dark and after my babies are in bed..(or meant to be). Its not the life I want, for either the children or Matt and I. What is life worth if we only seem to live to work? Especially when the renumeration that is seen is not worth the sacrifices made?

So... Hopefully next time I put pen to paper (figuratively speaking), I shall have news of a new job, new hours, better wages and the starts of a better life for us all.

I hope that all my friends are well, smiling and travelling each day through laughter and love... I hope they know how much I miss them all.
Well... That is all from me now Diary dearest... I have my shoes on and am ready to go visit my newest neighbour, Miriam. (Finally they are in.)

Much Love
xxx

wrong wrong wrong..SOOOOOO NOT COOL!

I thought saving the planet, taking recyclable bags to the supermarket with you or purchasing environmentally friendly shopping bags at the store were all the go these days.. you know.. the right thing to do...

But thing i did not realise was, that some stores seem to see this as their way of making a quick buck.... thus where this vent begins.

I had a zillion things to do today, on my day off. (like usual) Sully has yet to be equipped with my enviro-bags and being in a hurry to get the kids to school and Kiera & I to the senior campus to organise her classes for next year, i totally forgot to chuck the enviro bags in... While i dont like to leave home without them, i know that coles will supply the yucky bad for the environment plastic bags (which i put in with the enviro-bags and use over and over til they fall appart) so half way up the road i thought that today, i would just go with the plastic option. I knew that i had to go to Aldi first so i thought, yep, i will just buy a plastic bag. Afterall, i have seen them advertised at the check out for 15c each. Not too bad i guess in a pinch.
Armed with all the things i wanted in the supermarket que i reached down and pulled out a plastic bag from the shelf... a fully biodegradable, corn starch made bag that will break down over a week in the compost. Awesome! I am not being so bad to the enviroment after all... right!? Right!
So... why is it that when i check out the receipt, I discover that my "saving the planet, you beaut, break down in a week" bag cost me 79c ...

SO NOT COOL!

It is a bag...big deal!!!! Deal with it hear you say.... normally i would, though today i just decided that i would question the dude who served me. There was an option when i picked up the bag, of either plastic bag for 15c or cooler bag for $1 (something). Do the math... that is 64c difference than what the tag said.

The dude is quick to inform me that i chose an environment safe bag... not a plastic bag.. what the!? The plastic bags were tucked at the back of the enviro bags.. since when did saving the earth become the more expensive option!?
I thought the whole idea of envrio friendly ones was to help people make the right choice! People are not going to help the enviroment if they have to pay so much more for the option!

and then there was.... SULLY

She is big and blue... and a Holden captiva LX to be exact.... and she is mine.... or... i should say ours..... though, ofcourse, that means... mine...mine mine.... all mine.... hahaha (looking to make sure Matt is not around when i call her MINE)...

Matt turned up at work this evening while i was seeing a patient out and thankfully, the patient remained calm and laughed at my excitement when i started to scream excitedly and jump up and down and continue to hug the stuffing out of Matt. I have wanted to get a car for a LONG time now that would suit a family with Teens with boyfriends/girlfriends... and now i have her... she seats 7... has all the add on options, beautiful 20 inch rims and low profile tyres and is so purdy!!

Cath has heard all about her... we even drove by Ballan Holden at Werribee to try and sneak a peek while she was down visiting, though sadly, we could not see her... and since it was 7.40pm by the time i met her away of the dealership, it was too dark to take a photo... though i promise... i will share piccies soon...

Now I've gone and done it!!!

Got QUALIFIED that is!!!!

I have had text messages as well as email messages from lots of people asking how I went in myWPA (and one message here too if i recall)..

Well... This is just a quick note to say, while I love your text messages, sms messages and emails... you can now ask me something else!!! 'Cause, my assessment went really well (after I stopped at all but two rubbish bins in the street that I work in to be sick, made a mad dash to the Loo just after walking in the door of work and my nerves settled down)..... I am now a fully qualified, Senior Dental Nurse.
My gosh, I can tell you, I really had doubts at times weather there really was a light at that bloody long tunnel!

Note: did you know that dental instruments had an acoustic sound when clanged together uncontrollably by nervous hands!? Our first patient laughed and said she felt like she had a private show from some eclectic muse-o! ooops. hahaha. (She said this in good jest)

So.. THAT IS ALL FOLKS... THAT IS MY NEWS!!!!

Done and Dusted

You know what? It is amazing what one can achieve in a few hours if they just put their mind to it, stop procrastinating and just suck it in and get on with it!
I'm done... As long as I get a PX (pass) for this assignment, I am D.O.N.E... NO MORE assignments or case studies for me to do... yippppppeeeee!!

Man... I cant tell you how relieved i feel, how happy and full of renewed energy I am... It is such a good feeling!

My work place assessment is on Friday... I have to say, I am really terrified. I know I know my stuff... though, I am still scared. I so desperately want this all to be done so that I can just get on and nurse, though the thought of an assessor standing in the room while I work, scares the ba-jeebers out of me. Seriously... How do they really think someone is going to cope with nerves, being scrutinized so closely? I know that it is necessary for my safety, that of my co-workers and the patients, but seriously... Hello.... Its nerve wracking having someone watch you work.. dont you think!?

I will just have to remember to breeeeeaaaath.

For now though, im going to give my hot pink betty boop jimjams the flick, have a nice hot bath while the house is so quiet and then, just settle down to watch a movie. I think I have deserved it..

oh yeah... and keep counting.
24 hours to go! ;-)

Counting down and coming to an End

Finally, it is time for me to write my last paper before graduating and qualifying... the long year of study and assessments is quickly drawing to an end... though, here i sit, procrastinating, listening to Kerry Anne on TV in the background (im too lazy to change the channel) and writing here on my poor neglected blog. Why? I'm over the papers... I'm over having other things to do on my day off besides what I want to do... and simply... im stalling... buying time and trying to put off the inevitable. I know ... dumb huh!? It would be better to just get it over and done with.. i know... though that is eaiser said than done when I'm sitting here wishing that it was already Saturday and my bestie was here with me... scrapping the day away and counting down the hours until she arrives!!!!

soooo... in precisely 28 hours (give or take, so its not really precisely, i know).... Cathy will be here.... Im so so so EXCITED!!!!!!

Okay... i have counted and stalled enough... i must get in and tackle this icky paper so that i can scrap guilt free over the weekend.

Hope that this Friday finds you all smiling, healthy and safe!

MWAH!

Breath..... I must remember to BREATH....

Well... after my rant this time last week... it feels like atleast a century has past... the frustration and anger that I was feeling that day drowned out by the intense sickness I am feeling in my stomach from a mixture of nerves, excitement, exhaustion and relief...

As of 9.09am this morning, Saturday 18th of July 2009 Matt and I are the very happy and insanely excited owners of a block of land in stage one of Esperance, Sanctuary Lakes - Point Cook.

After Finding out last week that the vendor of the land we wished to purchase, had been advised by his (little chinese) friend that he could get $40000 more than what he was asking for the block we were wanting to purchase from him, he stalled with the contracts. Sure, that is not that bad... i know... but it was only by chance that we actually found out about it. It had happened a week and a half before hand and the company that we were going through decided that keeping us in the loop with the information was not at the top of their list of important things to do. So, not only were we stranded with out land, we were working with people that we had quickly lost the trust of... so defeatedly, we started home when we saw a sign for Esperance, advertising land, below what we were wanting to pay... so off we went to have a sticky beak at it.
The block we were after had to be at 15 meters wide.. and when we looked at their stage 1 plans, discovered that there was only one of them!
We asked if we could leave a deposit though were quickly told that the land went on sale on the 18th (today) and it was first in best dressed.
So set out with a plan not to be screwed a second time around Matt decided that the best thing to do was take a few days off work and camp out! Yes.... CAMP
Up until this morning, he had been camping in the bitter winter nights to grab hold of the thing that would bring our dreams to reality... that 15 block.
When he drove into the carpark he discovered that the first camper has arrived (even though this guy planned to sleep in his car), though was relieved when he discovered that this camper didnt want our block. So, up went the tent... in went 3 doonas (quilts), 3 pillows, a sleeping bag, a camping swap and some basic supplies and in crawled Matt..... set to stake his mark!
We were campers #2 and the land was ours... the only catch was that one of us had to remain on site the entire time. I was unable to get time off work, though before and after work, worked shifts with Matt... and got to know our new neighbours, who were quickly arriving to stake their own little piece of land... well under the price of other land in the area.


Now... that is all pretty full on, right!? Yes.. i agree... though we have not only become the owners of land, we have put a chunky deposit down on a house to pop on to this patch of dirt!

If you are in Melbourne, check out channel 7 news at 6pm tonight, or 9 news, or the ABC, because we were the first to actually pitch a tent and "camp". Because we saw the temperature drop below zero twice, the news reporters wanted to interview matt... when they discovered that it had been a journey of a whole family, 9the kids would sit at the site at times while we were at bank appointments) they wanted to interview us all and channel 7 have actually done a full spot on us, the first home buying family who camped out to make their dreams come true!!!

Anyway... that is our sweet news.. i'm rambling, sleep deprived, star struck and running on pure adrenaline... so im going to go now, find a pillow, a rug and a soft spot for a lil nap. It feels so much later than 2pm.

xxxx