Its been an interesting few days, I went to the country on the weekend, I lit a fire in a few paddocks, and watched them burn. Mark has been at his parents house, on holidays from work.
He has been in Echuca for a few months, working hard at a new job and new position. He has gradually becomming more and more unhappy with it, being so far from friends and family, and me, and the managers at work he is just not getting along with. Sunday he woke up and decided he had had enough. He went to the doctor, and the doctor said he was suffering from stress and depression, and needed to get out of the environment that is making him sick. I rang him monday night while I was on a break from work, and he said he needed me, so I left work sick and drove the two hours to the farm.
He is in the process of getting work transferred to Melbourne to see if a change of scene is all he needs. He went to Echuca with so much promise, and it only takes one or two people to screw that up. If Safeway doesn't work out, maybe he could get his flying licence, do a uni degree, apply for a business job somewhere in the city. There are so many possibilities.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Nice
You will perish of fits. Repeat this to yourself:
"Things can work out even if I don't get
my way. Things can work out even...."
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Echuca would have to be one of the most boring places to drive to ever. That straight road just keeps going and going and going. I keep thinking, 'gee, must be almost there', and then come across a sign that reads 80 kms to Echuca.
Getting here is good though, I am off to work in Echuca today, try something different. Mark is sick, hope that I don't pick it up. Know I will though.
I got better things out of my friday class this week than I did last week. We have to be thinking about interesting and creative ways to present our assignments. Have to have a think about it, the one due first is to look back over our schooling and talk about how we came to choose teaching as a profession. They also want us to think about teaching theory and decide where we stand on that. This course is making me think a lot. I haven't had to think much over the last few months...
We finally had our bunny cage delivered by Stephs parents, yay!, now the bunny can go outside where it can eat grass all day and get really fat. One less animal inside will be great. Last weekend Steph and Annettes parents came to visit, and bought their dog, so we had six people sleeping in five different rooms of the house and a dog, a bunny, and a kitty. Full house!
Getting here is good though, I am off to work in Echuca today, try something different. Mark is sick, hope that I don't pick it up. Know I will though.
I got better things out of my friday class this week than I did last week. We have to be thinking about interesting and creative ways to present our assignments. Have to have a think about it, the one due first is to look back over our schooling and talk about how we came to choose teaching as a profession. They also want us to think about teaching theory and decide where we stand on that. This course is making me think a lot. I haven't had to think much over the last few months...
We finally had our bunny cage delivered by Stephs parents, yay!, now the bunny can go outside where it can eat grass all day and get really fat. One less animal inside will be great. Last weekend Steph and Annettes parents came to visit, and bought their dog, so we had six people sleeping in five different rooms of the house and a dog, a bunny, and a kitty. Full house!
Thursday, March 09, 2006
So after heaps of issues, my enrollment is now finalised, and everything is working out just fine. I am catching up with all the due dates that are coming up soon, but the assignments are not too long yet, and are very interesting. Everything that I am learning at the moment is very useful in the real world. They are skills that I will be using in a few weeks. All the teachers are making very sure that we all understand our legal obligations in schools, I have heard many times these last few weeks that you can't touch students at all, and never be in a room by yourself with them. This is especially underlined in music teachers, as we often give one on one lessons. Have to make sure that there are glass doors, or leave the door open.
Monday, March 06, 2006
I am sitting in the computer room at the uni. Got the three one hour lectures out of the way for the morning. They have been interesting, giving me new things to think about, or new ways to think about things I already know. One of the lectures was talking about language and text, including graphics. I think the guy is being paid by Microsoft, he talked on and on about their latest ads. He was talking about looking at text and graphics, and the instinctive deciphering that happens when we look at things. All the lectures were saying today that a picture or a graph is not self explanatory, you need text to go with it, and prior knowledge about the things in it to understand it.
I have a meeting to finalise classes and hopefully sort out the placement, but I am running out of time before school holidays start for the highschools. If there are no city placements left, I am thinking of taking a country placement, I could do it in Shepparton, back at good old Wanganui, (not shepp high, I don't think) I could do it at Echuca too, or any of the neighbouring cities. We'll see where they suggest.
The house in Melbourne has been so busy over the weekend. I am looking forward to the visitors all going home so that I can have some quiet and things back to normal. I have had a great time with my sister Jill over the weekend, we cruised around the city, taking photos for her art projects and we went to the beach and swam and laid in the sun for a while. We shared a bed for the weekend, and as a sign about how we have grown up, we no longer have trouble sleeping in the same bed, We used to have to have pillows down the middle to seperate us, so we wouldn't kick eachother in the middle of the night.
Anyway, time for lunch. Yum, pumpkin soup.
I have a meeting to finalise classes and hopefully sort out the placement, but I am running out of time before school holidays start for the highschools. If there are no city placements left, I am thinking of taking a country placement, I could do it in Shepparton, back at good old Wanganui, (not shepp high, I don't think) I could do it at Echuca too, or any of the neighbouring cities. We'll see where they suggest.
The house in Melbourne has been so busy over the weekend. I am looking forward to the visitors all going home so that I can have some quiet and things back to normal. I have had a great time with my sister Jill over the weekend, we cruised around the city, taking photos for her art projects and we went to the beach and swam and laid in the sun for a while. We shared a bed for the weekend, and as a sign about how we have grown up, we no longer have trouble sleeping in the same bed, We used to have to have pillows down the middle to seperate us, so we wouldn't kick eachother in the middle of the night.
Anyway, time for lunch. Yum, pumpkin soup.
Monday, February 27, 2006
I went to some classes today, some interesting lectures, but the first few weeks usually don't have much information in them. I don't think that the computers class knows what its doing yet, all I got out of the one hour lecture was as a teacher you should do interesting things with computers to keep kids interested. The first lecture was good, talking about language in schools, how to question kids in different ways depending on the type of response you want, to find out how much they know, or to get them to learn something specific.
Hey Amy, thanks for your comments, I never know how many people read what I write. Sorry I haven't been updating a lot, I have had limited access to internet access. Better now that I am going to Uni a lot. I was talking about the end of term only a few weeks away, I meant the end of primary and secondary term. They have been back for a month already. This first term is really short, because we have the commonwealth games on in a few weeks. Would help transport if there arent heaps of kids trying to get to school as well as everyone else. Transport is predicted to struggle a bit, one of the biggest complaints is that its not a 24 hour system, trains and trams finish at 12.30am, but the workers are there until 1am or later. There is no parking anywhere nearby either. Good luck to them being out that late. I wouldn't want to be.
I got my kitty! Yay! Its soooo small and sooooo cute. Very exciting. Photos pending. Her name is Felix.
Hey Amy, thanks for your comments, I never know how many people read what I write. Sorry I haven't been updating a lot, I have had limited access to internet access. Better now that I am going to Uni a lot. I was talking about the end of term only a few weeks away, I meant the end of primary and secondary term. They have been back for a month already. This first term is really short, because we have the commonwealth games on in a few weeks. Would help transport if there arent heaps of kids trying to get to school as well as everyone else. Transport is predicted to struggle a bit, one of the biggest complaints is that its not a 24 hour system, trains and trams finish at 12.30am, but the workers are there until 1am or later. There is no parking anywhere nearby either. Good luck to them being out that late. I wouldn't want to be.
I got my kitty! Yay! Its soooo small and sooooo cute. Very exciting. Photos pending. Her name is Felix.
Monday, February 20, 2006
School starts
This is the first week of school, and I still don't have the transfer organised. I am going to call them in the morning and say 'OI! Fix It!' Sigh. It is all just too complicated.
I am going tomorrow for an interview over in East Brighton about a piano teacher position at a little studio. It would start next term, (the end of this term is only three weeks away already!), so five weeks and I could start. Don't get my hopes up too much, Netty went for a similar thing with Cello down the road here, and they just stuffed her around and she didn't end up getting any work anyway.
I am feeling very settled back into the house now, I have tidied up my room finally after moving things in, a big bed is awesome. I am soooo happy to have my room back, I have been floating for so long. I am sick of living in a bag. Now I just need a desk, and I can set up my computer again.
We had a cocktail party here over the weekend, it was great having so many people over. Netty and Aaron and their friends sat in the kitchen and played Blackjack, and Mark, Jill, Steph and I played X box in the lounge room. Later in the night Netty and Co went out, Mark and I nearly did but we didn't want a late night, and couldn't be bothered paying for a taxi. If the trains ran all night then we would have stayed out. But crappy old Melbourne transport. Nah, its not that bad really. During the day. Thats the biggest flaw, that trains don't run 24/7. Even if they ran every hour, or every half hour, it would still give you an option for a night out, and it would mean that myself, and many others would happily stay out a big longer and spend more money at the pub or nightclub. Of course there is the problem of security and safety. Maybe I wouldn't feel safe on a train at 3am. Better than being stuck in the city with no taxi at 3 am though. Its scary there at night when you are in a small group.
I am going to stand on the banks of the Yarra river and watch the parade go by I have decided. I could even score a seat in the MCG for it if I wanted to. There are lots of tickets still not sold. I wonder where I could get some from. It would depend on how much it cost.
Anyway, enough yap for now. Night.
I am going tomorrow for an interview over in East Brighton about a piano teacher position at a little studio. It would start next term, (the end of this term is only three weeks away already!), so five weeks and I could start. Don't get my hopes up too much, Netty went for a similar thing with Cello down the road here, and they just stuffed her around and she didn't end up getting any work anyway.
I am feeling very settled back into the house now, I have tidied up my room finally after moving things in, a big bed is awesome. I am soooo happy to have my room back, I have been floating for so long. I am sick of living in a bag. Now I just need a desk, and I can set up my computer again.
We had a cocktail party here over the weekend, it was great having so many people over. Netty and Aaron and their friends sat in the kitchen and played Blackjack, and Mark, Jill, Steph and I played X box in the lounge room. Later in the night Netty and Co went out, Mark and I nearly did but we didn't want a late night, and couldn't be bothered paying for a taxi. If the trains ran all night then we would have stayed out. But crappy old Melbourne transport. Nah, its not that bad really. During the day. Thats the biggest flaw, that trains don't run 24/7. Even if they ran every hour, or every half hour, it would still give you an option for a night out, and it would mean that myself, and many others would happily stay out a big longer and spend more money at the pub or nightclub. Of course there is the problem of security and safety. Maybe I wouldn't feel safe on a train at 3am. Better than being stuck in the city with no taxi at 3 am though. Its scary there at night when you are in a small group.
I am going to stand on the banks of the Yarra river and watch the parade go by I have decided. I could even score a seat in the MCG for it if I wanted to. There are lots of tickets still not sold. I wonder where I could get some from. It would depend on how much it cost.
Anyway, enough yap for now. Night.
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Back Into Routine
I keep bringing up the blogger page, then closing it without logging in. I think of great things that I should put up online, then when I get on the net, I can't think of any of it. Or I just can't be bothered typing stuff. I am going to make a bit more of an effort, something every few days. When I get myself organised, then I can think about putting more photos on. Right now everything feels like its in transit.
I have no furnature in my room, my parents are bringing it down for me next week. There are a few people coming around for a bbq tomorrow, pity the weather sucks in Melbourne or it would be nice to be outside in shorts and t-shirt. I am already into jeans and jumpers. (sweaters, whatever).
I had my first shift back at work. I am happy that I didn't forget anything about registers. I worked in Liquor, for all the American people reading, our liquor laws state that alcohol can't be sold in the same section/store as general groceries. They have to be sectioned off, and it is run like an add on to the supermarket. You don't just find it in the middle of the store like at Harris Teeter.
My cat is nearly grown enough that I can take it with me to Melbourne. He is about 5 weeks now, soooooo cute! Its name is Felix, its black with white paws and white marks on its face. I'm pretty excited about it.
So I have had all these fees on my UVA account, and I can't get the transcript that I need for a transfer of degrees. It sucks big time. I hate how everything is blocked off. Its hard for me to get the money over there, and I am worried that I have sent the cheque to the wrong place. Fingers Crossed that it all goes off in a few days.
Fingers Crossed.
I have no furnature in my room, my parents are bringing it down for me next week. There are a few people coming around for a bbq tomorrow, pity the weather sucks in Melbourne or it would be nice to be outside in shorts and t-shirt. I am already into jeans and jumpers. (sweaters, whatever).
I had my first shift back at work. I am happy that I didn't forget anything about registers. I worked in Liquor, for all the American people reading, our liquor laws state that alcohol can't be sold in the same section/store as general groceries. They have to be sectioned off, and it is run like an add on to the supermarket. You don't just find it in the middle of the store like at Harris Teeter.
My cat is nearly grown enough that I can take it with me to Melbourne. He is about 5 weeks now, soooooo cute! Its name is Felix, its black with white paws and white marks on its face. I'm pretty excited about it.
So I have had all these fees on my UVA account, and I can't get the transcript that I need for a transfer of degrees. It sucks big time. I hate how everything is blocked off. Its hard for me to get the money over there, and I am worried that I have sent the cheque to the wrong place. Fingers Crossed that it all goes off in a few days.
Fingers Crossed.
Sunday, February 05, 2006
Induction
So I had to be re-inducted for work. That meant going back over everything about the company. History, Policy and Responsibilities. I had to stop myself from answering all the questions.
At the start of the session, the lady said to everyone to put their scarves and ties on. All the boys in the room took their ties out of the plastic, and sat looking at them stupidly. I ended up tying all the ties for them. One boy didn't seem to know what his collar was for and had the tie against his neck, with the collar buttoned up across it. Strange.
So I am now ready to work again, just the paper work to go through now. They seemed really happy to see me back, they like me at that store. It will be interesting to meet the new faces that have started while I have been away.
I will be getting a new employee number. I must say that I am sad to say goodbye to the old 360642. I have had that number since 2000. Wow, almost six years when you look at it. Mid way through 2000. I'm kind of fond of it. But its the price I have had to pay for overseas tuition.
At the start of the session, the lady said to everyone to put their scarves and ties on. All the boys in the room took their ties out of the plastic, and sat looking at them stupidly. I ended up tying all the ties for them. One boy didn't seem to know what his collar was for and had the tie against his neck, with the collar buttoned up across it. Strange.
So I am now ready to work again, just the paper work to go through now. They seemed really happy to see me back, they like me at that store. It will be interesting to meet the new faces that have started while I have been away.
I will be getting a new employee number. I must say that I am sad to say goodbye to the old 360642. I have had that number since 2000. Wow, almost six years when you look at it. Mid way through 2000. I'm kind of fond of it. But its the price I have had to pay for overseas tuition.
Friday, January 27, 2006
Working
So not much has been going on in my universe for a while, just chilling out being on holiday. I rang safeway to try and get on, and I am going to have to go back through all the process of induction, the videos and training and stuff before I can get regular work again. I know that as soon as I have been through it, I can get back into working as much as I can to pay off the last bit of debt that I have from the holiday. I know that if for a while I put $100 a week into it, rather than the savings account that I have been for the last few years, then I will have it paid off in no time. Then I can start putting money back into the christmas club to put away in some kind of investment for when I need to buy my own house in Melbourne.
Saturday, January 21, 2006
One-Arm-Driving-Tan
I drove home from Melbourne today, the arm is worse now than it was. I tried keeping a t-shirt on it, but some of the sun still got on it. I should put some more stuff on it to make it not hurt so much.
Katrina, Suzie and myself decided that we should stop being boring and go out somewhere friday night. We shouldn't have left the house though, we all weren't in the mood and ended up only getting one drink at one place. The hardest thing is finding somewhere to actually go. And then the public transport ends just after midnight, which is no good for going out. Places are that much harder to go to, and if you go out one of the streets away from the city, you have to spend so much money on taxis to get back into town, or to get home. The most important thing is who you go out with though. Some people just love to be out in a pub or nightclub, and it makes you want to be there with them. Sometimes going out is so overrated.
Katrina, Suzie and myself decided that we should stop being boring and go out somewhere friday night. We shouldn't have left the house though, we all weren't in the mood and ended up only getting one drink at one place. The hardest thing is finding somewhere to actually go. And then the public transport ends just after midnight, which is no good for going out. Places are that much harder to go to, and if you go out one of the streets away from the city, you have to spend so much money on taxis to get back into town, or to get home. The most important thing is who you go out with though. Some people just love to be out in a pub or nightclub, and it makes you want to be there with them. Sometimes going out is so overrated.
Friday, January 20, 2006
Sunburn
I was driving in my car yesterday, and from the sun being so hot, I have one sunburned arm. Maybe I should tan the other one, it looks weird, and very noticable. Hopefully it will fade soon.
I have started moving back into my room in Melbourne. My belongings are scattered far and wide, at several places. I don't remember where I put things in the mad rush to be ready to travel overseas.
I am so glad to be home. There is something so comfortable to me about the place that I live in.
I have started moving back into my room in Melbourne. My belongings are scattered far and wide, at several places. I don't remember where I put things in the mad rush to be ready to travel overseas.
I am so glad to be home. There is something so comfortable to me about the place that I live in.
Sunday, January 15, 2006
New Place
Sorry everyone who has been checking, I have been very tardy getting a new post up. To be honest I have been to the new post page a few times, but each time I leave without posting anything, not liking anything I typed.
I have moved with Mark to a new place for his work. Its a two bedroom unit just around the corner from the city centre. I like this place, it has heaps of history, and I remember from when I was very little coming here with my grandparents. The shops we went to visit, the ice creamery and toy shop are still going strong. Both Mark and I remember it as a bigger toy shop somehow.
The other house is having the floorboards done, and new benches in today, I can't wait to see it, should look a million dollars. Or at least 250,000 dollars we hope. Mark is going to get renters in, our first investment property. He's going to look around here over the next few weeks and see if there is anything worth buying.
I am so glad to be home, havent done that much practice, but that will change over the next week. I have to find things worth practicing, with a mind to auditioning for the orchestra back at uni. If I can get into the orchestra, then I can have that as one of the electives in the course. Otherwise the only playing I will be doing will be for lessons that I have to pay for myself.
Next few weeks, mostly over Feb, I will be moving back into the house I was in before I left. Netty and Aaron, two of the three people that I live with, came to the unit to visit and have a drink with me. They are both so much fun, I look forward so much to being in the same house with them. I missed seeing Netty in the morning when I was having breakfast in my room, and setting off to classes with her. We should both have the transfer this year, we both have such good grades. My grades from UVA were really good, 3.75, I was very happy with the results. Especially being overseas and being Australian and all.
Hail to all those overseas, I got sunburnt yesterday. Enjoy the snow y'all.
I have moved with Mark to a new place for his work. Its a two bedroom unit just around the corner from the city centre. I like this place, it has heaps of history, and I remember from when I was very little coming here with my grandparents. The shops we went to visit, the ice creamery and toy shop are still going strong. Both Mark and I remember it as a bigger toy shop somehow.
The other house is having the floorboards done, and new benches in today, I can't wait to see it, should look a million dollars. Or at least 250,000 dollars we hope. Mark is going to get renters in, our first investment property. He's going to look around here over the next few weeks and see if there is anything worth buying.
I am so glad to be home, havent done that much practice, but that will change over the next week. I have to find things worth practicing, with a mind to auditioning for the orchestra back at uni. If I can get into the orchestra, then I can have that as one of the electives in the course. Otherwise the only playing I will be doing will be for lessons that I have to pay for myself.
Next few weeks, mostly over Feb, I will be moving back into the house I was in before I left. Netty and Aaron, two of the three people that I live with, came to the unit to visit and have a drink with me. They are both so much fun, I look forward so much to being in the same house with them. I missed seeing Netty in the morning when I was having breakfast in my room, and setting off to classes with her. We should both have the transfer this year, we both have such good grades. My grades from UVA were really good, 3.75, I was very happy with the results. Especially being overseas and being Australian and all.
Hail to all those overseas, I got sunburnt yesterday. Enjoy the snow y'all.
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Home
I made it home safe! I am chilling out at Marks place, happy to be back. Its like I never left. I was wondering how I would react with the driving, but it wasn't even an issue. I think that it was mostly due to being somewhere so familiar. In the airport I couldn't stop grinning at the voices I could hear around me, I could hear the difference that everyone reacted so strongly to every time I opened my mouth over there. It is so good to see Mark again, I was playing down how much I missed him. I look forward to seeing friends and family over the next few days.
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Hometime
well everyone, this is it. Its time. Time for me to leave the USA behind and head back where I came from. Back to being just another Aussie, instead of that weird foreign girl that speaks funny. To familiar territory, places and people I know. Still many people to meet, but they wont ask me where I am from anymore when they hear me speak.
I will miss mostly the people I have met. It took me a while to get to know them well enough, but this last trip on the bowl game, (THAT post next time) was just amazing. I'm pretty sure that it wasn't just the fact that I stayed up all night New Years Eve that made me cry when the buses pulled out from the hotel. I will most likely never see most of these people again. A special few I know that I will meet again in the future.
So running the airport gauntlet again. Tomorrow there will be so many people in the airport travelling home cause it is the end of the public holiday and the end of the Christmas, New Year holdiay season.
Keep reading this page. The title that I thought up in the week before I left home still applies. Leona Is Gone from America. But only temporarily.
I will miss mostly the people I have met. It took me a while to get to know them well enough, but this last trip on the bowl game, (THAT post next time) was just amazing. I'm pretty sure that it wasn't just the fact that I stayed up all night New Years Eve that made me cry when the buses pulled out from the hotel. I will most likely never see most of these people again. A special few I know that I will meet again in the future.
So running the airport gauntlet again. Tomorrow there will be so many people in the airport travelling home cause it is the end of the public holiday and the end of the Christmas, New Year holdiay season.
Keep reading this page. The title that I thought up in the week before I left home still applies. Leona Is Gone from America. But only temporarily.
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Boxing Day
Finally made it past Christmas. It has been the magic mark, once I get past Christmas, it is only a few days till I can go home. I am glad that there is only one more night in that hotel room, it feels so small with all of us in there all of the time. I think that we are all feeling a little clastrophobic. Nearly home time.
The weather this week has been great! It is only as cold as I would expect during a Melbourne winter, I went out with only a t shirt and jumper today. Last load of washing in the IRC, last time I use the computer lab in the IRC, last night in the hotel room.
We are off to Outback Steakhouse today! Kind of a goodbye celebration. Goodbye to America.
I hada great christmas, we all got one gift from eachother, and a gift from the Coles. There will be another christmas for me when I get home. That should be fun. I am a little nervous about coming home, how will the re adjusting work out? Will I find home to be confusing? Or will the fact that it is so familiar make fitting back in easier? There will be a lot of moving houses when I get home, Mark is moving into a unit about an hour away from where he is now, so I will help pack up the house and unpack it somewhere else. Then there is me moving back into my house for uni, finding where I put all my things and furnature. That should keep me busy for a few months.
I have to try to get back my safeway job too. As much as I am saying that I don't want to do it anymore, I have to persist for a while longer, until I can make music a full time job and earn enough money from that. I will be putting a lot of energy into making it work, getting started with a few students. I have a lot of work ahead of me on my horn, but I at least have a great starting point this time, after a lot of very useful lessons from my horn teacher at UVA. The fun thing will be finding a teacher at home who will be able to keep up with what I have learnt this semester. I feel that I have learnt more about my playing in the last four months than I have during two and a half years at Melb Uni.
The weather this week has been great! It is only as cold as I would expect during a Melbourne winter, I went out with only a t shirt and jumper today. Last load of washing in the IRC, last time I use the computer lab in the IRC, last night in the hotel room.
We are off to Outback Steakhouse today! Kind of a goodbye celebration. Goodbye to America.
I hada great christmas, we all got one gift from eachother, and a gift from the Coles. There will be another christmas for me when I get home. That should be fun. I am a little nervous about coming home, how will the re adjusting work out? Will I find home to be confusing? Or will the fact that it is so familiar make fitting back in easier? There will be a lot of moving houses when I get home, Mark is moving into a unit about an hour away from where he is now, so I will help pack up the house and unpack it somewhere else. Then there is me moving back into my house for uni, finding where I put all my things and furnature. That should keep me busy for a few months.
I have to try to get back my safeway job too. As much as I am saying that I don't want to do it anymore, I have to persist for a while longer, until I can make music a full time job and earn enough money from that. I will be putting a lot of energy into making it work, getting started with a few students. I have a lot of work ahead of me on my horn, but I at least have a great starting point this time, after a lot of very useful lessons from my horn teacher at UVA. The fun thing will be finding a teacher at home who will be able to keep up with what I have learnt this semester. I feel that I have learnt more about my playing in the last four months than I have during two and a half years at Melb Uni.
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Christmas Week
Less than 5 days to christmas, and 13 days till I leave to fly home. All the snow is melted, and I don't think that we will get a lot more before I leave, so it won't really be much of a white christmas. But at least I have seen it snow and been out in it. Pity the last time turned from snow into an ice storm that cut power to everyone. Its a week later and some people in the worst areas still don't have power.
Its a good thing that our family is good at getting along with eachother, we have been squashed into the same little hotel room for 10 days now and still getting along fine. No one has fought with anyone else, and things are relatively tidy. There are only 5 more days of sharing. Then I am off with the band to Nashville for one last fling with the band before setting off on the lonnnnnnnnng trip home. I leave from Dullas airport at 7.30 in the morning, and get there when it is 11.30 (with a few hours time zone adjustment...) and then my flight doesn't leave until 9.30 at night. Ahhhh! What am I going to do with allllllll that time? Maybe I can go out into the city for a bit. But where would I go? And with all that luggage. I will just have to wander around watching people for the day. See how many random people I can get into a conversation. Hope that no one steals my bag...I would hate to have to beat them up over it...
Its a good thing that our family is good at getting along with eachother, we have been squashed into the same little hotel room for 10 days now and still getting along fine. No one has fought with anyone else, and things are relatively tidy. There are only 5 more days of sharing. Then I am off with the band to Nashville for one last fling with the band before setting off on the lonnnnnnnnng trip home. I leave from Dullas airport at 7.30 in the morning, and get there when it is 11.30 (with a few hours time zone adjustment...) and then my flight doesn't leave until 9.30 at night. Ahhhh! What am I going to do with allllllll that time? Maybe I can go out into the city for a bit. But where would I go? And with all that luggage. I will just have to wander around watching people for the day. See how many random people I can get into a conversation. Hope that no one steals my bag...I would hate to have to beat them up over it...
Monday, December 19, 2005
Oh Christmas Tree!
I felt that the hotel room was empty without a tree, so Jill and I had a think about what we could do for a tree, (now having no money left after finishing present shopping...) So with scissors and tape and plenty of newspaper I eventually fashioned a tree. I am pretty happy about it.
I am so SMRT!
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Real Winter Storm
Hehehe, this sign can be read two ways. Dad laughed at it first. Bad Dad.
The storm last night was big! It snowed in the morning, which later in the day turned to freezing rain, then to normal rain. It was horrible to go out in. You would see a frozen surface, which covered a foot of water. Can't tell in the dark. Then the power went out at the hotel about 7pm. So we decided that there isn't much fun to be had with no lights on and all went to sleep. Today everything has mostly dried up so its not too bad out now. Jill and I are off to see Harry Potter again tonight. I love Harry!
No Parents
These photos are from today, my parents are off to Lexington to visit Mums friend from the lace chat Tamara. They rented a car and are driving on the right side, (read wrong side) of the road. Good luck to them. Jill and I are parent free for the weekend. Mum has done a good job, we can't think of anything to get into trouble with. Really...hehehe.
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