Surprised!!

I haven't been around much lately - been settling in and *stuff*.. nothing in particular... you know how time gets away from you. As i'm sitting here typing this, Zak is outside playing with the neighbourhood kids.. How cool is that. We live in a culdesac now so its great for the kids!

I was pleasantly surprised today - went to pick up the bond form from the old real estate and the owner has given me $60 worth of vouchers to use at www.gifted.com.au. A really nice thought - not necessary at all - they were great landlords! Soren and I spent all day Sunday at the old house cleaning it up and getting it ready for the owners. We planted some snapdragons and gave the yard a good going over. So i'm officially only responsible for one house again now - a relief!

Nothing much to report - same old same old really.

s. :)

I'm so proud.....

Man... I felt like my heart would burst tonight. We had little athletics and after the hurdle debacle last week I was really dreading tonight. Then imagine my joy (not) when I discover we (i.e. the boys) are doing 500m for the first time. I was sure i'd have to coax Zak half way around the track. But you know what - he actually came somewhere up in the middle of the pack! I'm so proud. But there was another little guy that needed a bit of coaxing.. poor lil guy. But they all finished the 500m. I've got a stupid grin on my face. :D

Other than that nothing much to report. Had a really quiet weekend. No cleaning at the old house. Soren and I are going to do that this weekend and fix up the yard - just a bit of weeding etc. The lease over there officially ends on Monday 25 September. Was thinking about it today.. not so sad anymore. I'm feeling much better about IHS more and more now. Part of me still wants to abuse the living crap out of him. But I think in the long run I will get more satisfaction out of never contacting him again. The asshole... All these different scenarios go through my head.. my favourite for today was *thanks sunshine - you were just a distraction to help me get over Soren*... :p Don't get me wrong though - he is lucky to get 10 minutes of my thoughts each day now.

Zak is settling in really well here. He has made friends with the other kids in the street. For the last three days when I've picked him up from after school care the first words out of his mouth are *can I ride my bike with the kids*. Sigh.. I love how he makes friends so easily. Booga (moggy) has also settled in ok. Much to his disgust he is back to spending the days outside.

And thanks Sharryn for your wise comments on my previous post. I've made up my mind - he won't be going this time - thanks for taking the time to comment.

I've got a great lot in life :D

Shelley :)

My Dilemma

Soccer Sandy (Levi's mum) has invited Zak to go to the Coast with them for a couple of days during the school holidays. The thought absolutely terrifies me. Zak would love it so much but everytime I start to think about it I get all anxious. I keep finding all these reasons why I should say no. Her car for a start.. its a shit box! I've got nothing against shit boxes.. unless they are transporting the most important thing of my life down a major highway. Then we get to the whole beach scenario. I'm the mother at the waters edge yelling and motioning for the kidlet to come back to shore when he is knee deep in water. What if Sandy looks away? Urgh.. yuck.. I think I've already made up my mind.. Zak will love vacation care. Most of my friends are telling me to let him go. I'm just not ready for it yet though.

Shelley :)

Does this kind of thing shit anyone else?

Our new house has noice wooden blinds throughout - but 90% of the cords are like this!! I can't just sit and look at them like this. So Zak and I have slowly been untangling. Am I just being anal?

s. :)

A Proper Post

It's been a while since I posted properly. Although, peoples definitions of properly probably vary!

Am not yet settled in to the new place. Heaps of boxes yet to unpack etc etc. But we are getting there. I'm starting to really like it here. Ended up having two days off work earlier in the week to get over the moving debacle on Sunday. Still have this stupid head cold hanging around. I am so over snot!

Nothing too exciting to report. I've been in a feral mood this week so far. I've put it down to delayed PMS (I can do that eh.... it's my blog)!! Just one of those *hate the world* kinda moods. And everywhere I turn Romeo and Juliet are snogging in my face.

Work has settled down now since the election. Would have been noice to have a new Minister, but, alas, not this time sunshine. My boss is going to relieve in another position for 8 weeks from next Monday. I'm shit scared that I'm going to have to do his job. I've expressed my opinion - so hopefully he can find someone suitable for the eight weeks (suitable to me that is :p).

We had little athletics again last night. It wasn't too bad. A couple of new feral kids though. I don't understand how other parents can just let them run feral like that. Maybe I'm just extra strict I don't know. But trying to control 13 seven year old boys is not pleasant - and the added feralness doesn't help. They did hurdles for the first time last night. I'm a bit miffed that they didn't give the boys a practice run first. Zak has never done them and there were a couple of other first timers there as well. I'm so proud of my little man - he cleared the first one - then knocked the second one over. He tripped over the next two but got up and kept going and finished. He was crying by the time I got to the finish line and my heart just broke for him. I tried to reassure him that he did really well but it was so hard to not cry myself!! We joked about it this morning - I told him that his commando rolls were great. Hopefully he wasn't too traumatised by the event to do it again some day!

Have done no scrapping whatsoever! The scraproom is still mostly in boxes. Although I started to organise stuff in there yesterday arvy. Might try and get stuck in there tonight. Although today I seem to have injured my groin. And no, unfortunately it wasn't doing anything glamorous (or not so glamourous :p). I felt it hurt as I got into the car. So I might take it easy tonight and not do too much strenuous lifting/moving. Maybe I can catch up on my blog surfing! I still owe Sharryn a tag - thanks for that by the way - it's noice to be included!

If you've got this far - you've done better than me - I was lost at the second paragraph :p.

Shelley :)

A quick post as I'm sitting here surrounded in boxes and dust on the arm of the couch with the keyboard balanced on my lap!

In the last 36 hours I have:

- had a head cold
- moved house in the rain
- been let down by my father (again)
- realised how good a friend soz is to me
- had the cat piss on the front seat of my car (really impressed about that)
- been busted by the telstra cable man with no bra on (hey.. not my fault - he came early)
- brought washers for the washing machine and put them in by myself!
- eaten way too much take away
- watched the election coverage on telly (*waits for it*)
- watched crappy day time tv

s. :)

My First Tag (from Sharryn)

1. Which famous person would you most like to learn that you are descended from?
Mother Theresa - would explain my caring and giving nature! *waits for the barrage from Nina*..
2. Which famous person would you hate to learn that you are descended from?
Germaine Greer (thank goodness my sister doesn't read this blog - she gave her daughter Germaine as a middle name in honour of GG)
3. If you could be ancestor to any living famous person, who would it be and why?
Does being Jon Bon Jovi's wife count?
4. If you could go back in time and meet any known ancestor(s) of yours, who would it be?
My paternal grandmother. She was in a nursing home in Toowoomba for 9 years and I didn't know she existed until after she passed away. She spent most of those 9 years alone.


Thats all I can manage for tonight - I've eaten way too many pascall chocolate eclairs!

s. :)

A Random Act of Kindness for Monday!!

If only all Mondays ended in a generous RAK. Thanks so much Ange - not sure what I did to deserve it - but it's great and very much appreciated! Thanks for stopping by and saying hi too! Hopefully we can get the other S&C girls to sign back up for the RAK list.

Beth, same goes for you - thanks for saying hi! Hopefully I'll have those quotes out soon! They are worth the wait - trust me!

Oh yeah... Nina - thanks - I know you just can't keep away though. Imagine if you moved back to sunny Qld, you wouldn't need to read my blog to see whats going on in Shelleyland - second thoughts - yeah you probably would :p .

The weekend just flew by eh. I went and saw my Dad on Sunday. He seems to be coping ok. Zak spent a couple of hours with his Dad who, by the way, loved the little paper back with the *goodies* inside it.

Got a little bit more moving done over the weekend - some unpacking over there too. I'm liking the place the more time I spend there. Still, its not this place - but anyhoo! Maybe it will inspire me to get my act together and start saving my dollars to get back into my own place.. but meh.. probably not!

Was planning on a gym visit today - surprise surprise I didn't go.. :p Left my gym gear at work for tomorrow though. Want to go twice this week so I need to go tomorrow to give me a couple of days to recover to go again Friday.

I suppose everyone has heard the sad news about Steve Irwin. I still can't believe it - I wasn't his hugest fan but he has done so much for Queensland and wildlife education etc etc. I can't stop thinking about that little girl of his - she seems like a mini-steve - it must be devastating for his family :(

Only five sleeps till the election (sorry.. just had to do that..)!!

s. :)

Feed the man meat!

Just to prove they actually played some soccer...


Love how serious Zak looks in this photo...

Soccer Mum Extraordinaire

We had our soccer carnival/break up today. Was a great day for the kids. But man, it went from 8 this morning till just after 1.30... long day.. Kids had a fantastic time though!

A fairly quiet week otherwise this week. Went to gym again on Thursday - felt much better on Friday than I did the day after last week! Increased the running by a whole two minutes! As long as I go I reckon I'm doing ok eh!

Soz came over while we were at soccer and did some more work in the yard - its looking good - I might try and finish it off after I get back from seeing my father tomorrow arvy.

Haven't done any scrapping this week - have a challenge to do for scraphappy - might try and do that tonight.

Have been feeling really positive and happy this week! Woohoo!

Hope you are all (the three of you who read this :p) are having a great weekend!

Shelley :)