Would you look at that... (surprise, surprise) ... its been forever again since I posted. I'm really bad at this!

Anyway... I've been and gone to Adelaide with kailorien to watch New Moon, which by the way, was AWESOME!!! I don't have the energy to be giving a low down on what I thought... but theres been enough other people doing just that, so I figure I can get away with not doing it :P I also got to catch up with all my friends who live over there, which was great.

One huge thing thats happened since I last posted is that I am no longer single!!! I can't believe it. And it happened when I was so not expecting it, which made it even more surprising... though there is a downside to it... The guy I'm now going out with, happens to be the same guy I'm housesitting for! Which is a pain in the butt and a half. Wait... here's a very short version of how we ... 'got together' I suppose is the best term I can come up with atm...
The Friday before he went away, I came over to his house to pick up the keys for the doors and we ended up sitting and chatting for the next 2 and a half hours, until he looked at the clock and invited me out to tea! Soo excited at this point. So we went out for tea... didn't stop talking the whole three hours we were out, and he invited me back to his place after. ... ... aaand I didn't go home til after 2pm the next day. Mum thinks its hilarious, and has been getting far too much enjoyment out of teasing me about it, though I think she's altogether happy about it. The age difference (12 years people... he's 34) doesn't bother either me or him, coz that was one question I made sure to ask when he started talking about seeing were it was going to go. And Mum has ALWAYS told me that she could see me being happier with someone quite a few years older than me. *shrugs* Mum's opinion is about the only one I value when it comes to my love life, but I think I'd even think about ignoring her if she did happen to say anything about me and Jason.

So currently I'm sitting in his house... with him not here... which was downright weird the first night after he left... counting down the days til he comes home, which honestly, there are too many. Though I did get to see him when I went to Adelaide. I had a total "Aww" moment with him when he greeted me in the mall where we'd organised to meet. I got myself a great big hug, a kiss, and a long stemmed red rose! (I'm really starting to think I've struck boyfriend gold with this guy!) I didn't want to come back home again, purely coz he was there, but I had to come home to work... bloody work >:(

But I still hear from him every day, he's so sweet. Just today he said he was homesick and all he wanted to do was come home, pat his cats and curl up on the couch with me and watch a movie. *sigh* Is it sad that we're already missing each other this much and we were really only together for less than 48 hours before he left??? So consequently, I've already told all my friends here to expect me to fall off the face of the earth when he gets home. I don't think I'll be going too far without him for a while. We've got a little over a month together before he goes out on a tuna tow in January for anywhere between three and eight weeks... Which if he's gone the whole eight weeks, its going to kill me!

So I'm frantically trying to finish all my study before next weekend, coz after that, nothing is going to get done. I figured I'd better plan ahead for being occupied ;P

*growls* Dammit... why the hell is it that every time I start to think I'm getting the hang of my accounting subject, I find that I'm not getting it at all??? I was just celebrating that I'd completed a section of work without having to sit and scratch my head for hours at a time, then I find in the very next section that I've completely f^#&ed it up!

I'm giving up on it for the day... before I throw my books across the room, then I'll have to explain to my parents why there is a huge hole in the wall. *sigh*

Well, at least I can feel better about crocheting for the rest of the evening... I've put in a solid effort with homework today... so I deserve it. (well I think I do anyway)

Hopefully I'll have better luck with hitting the books tomorrow... *crosses fingers*

Gah.. Sorry girls! I forgot in my post yesterday to wish you a happy birthday! (But I'm thinking because of a time difference or two, I might just still get in with this :D)

Soooo
Best Wishes for your special day to..
 soldiers_pixie
aaand
addisonj
Hope you have/had a great day!

*hugs*

Oh boy... I really should be kept away from any sort of knitting website...

Not only is it not good for my bank account, or the lack of space I have to keep my yarn stash at home, but it creates problems for my time management. I keep finding patterns for the most gorgeous things online, and I want to start them, like right NOW! But I'm about to start all my final assessments for this semester of study, and thats not very condusive to a lot of time on my hands to do recreational stuff :(

Bugger


I am trying to restrain myself, really I am... but craft is sooo much more interesting than studying, adding, subtracting and writing down lists of numbers and values any day. Why the hell did I decide to study Accounting again?? The reason seems to be escaping me at the moment. I find it utterly amazing that I can sit and knit, crochet or read for hours at a time and not notice, yet I find it abominably difficult to sit and study for longer than an hour!! *growls*

Get with it woman!!!! *sigh*

Right... Now I've got to go and cook dinner for the family, as it is Thursday night, and Wed and Thurs nights are my nights to delve into my recipe banks and find something interesting for everyone to eat. Tonight its sausage and vegetable casserole... should be good... I hope :)

Oh dear.... I've been neglecting my journal again. What can I say... I'm easily distrac -- Oh! I haven't finished that yet?? I'll get right on that... later.

Anyway, I'm now not moving out of home... some personal issues have decided its now time to make themselves known, and if I don't deal with them they're gonna make my life hell. I've lost a few family members in my life who should by all rights still be here, and add that together with the fact that my Dad has openly admitted (not to me, but within my hearing range) that he missed out on a lot with me growing up, so he's going to make up for it by spending as much time as he can with my two younger half-siblings. Not the nicest thing to hear when you're 13 or 14, that your Dad doesn't think its worth trying to patch up his relationship with you.

So, I'm going to finally write a letter to Dad... and hope to God that my step mother (who brings new meaning to the 'evil step mother' genre) doesn't get her hands on it! I'm thinking that I'm going to have to use one of my other family members as a go between. Maybe give the letter to my Aunt and get her to have Dad over to read it, then make sure it stays with her, or it gets destroyed. That way I'm sure only he reads it. And I'm sure my Aunt would be happy to help, shes only been figuratively beating him over the head for the last few years to get him to talk to me like I'm an adult, not the 5 year old he seems to think I am.

Right... what have I been up to for the last little while? I've spent a week at my Aunty Mandy's farm, where I actually managed to convince my 15 year old cousin Jake to take me for a ride on his new motorbike! I just about fell over when he said yes!! Its been quite a few years since he's let anyone hug or give him a peck on the cheek goodbye, let alone getting all squished together on a bike!

And I have spent far too much money in the last couple of days... I bought front row tickets to the Taylor Swift concert in Adelaide in Feb... and invited my 12 year old cousin Tara along with me. I think I'm going to be victim to a bit of hero worship for a while for it... she called me tonight asking if I'd bought the tickets yet... then spent the next five minutes squealing when I told her I had. I'm just amazed that Aunty Mandy was happy to let me drive her over to Adelaide, not counting taking her to her first concert! I feel very trusted :)

Well... I'm a little excited now... I've just found out this weekend that I'm going to be moving out with some friends in a couple of months :) YAY! Independence again! Whoot!

For the record, one of the girls I'm moving in with is kailorien and I can't wait. I can only imagine the kind of mischief the three of us could get into living under the same roof! Plus, kailorien also invited me on a road trip with her and two other girls to Adelaide, so we can go and see Nickelback in concert plus go and watch New Moon!! *gets excited* .... why can't it be November already??? :(

I've had a thoroughly lazy weekend this weekend. I spent most of the day yesterday out in the sunshine reading Dan Brown's new book 'The Lost Symbol' ... I don't personally think its the best one he's written, but its still a good read. I finished it at just before midnight last night... though I think I'm going to have to read it again sometime in the near future, just to take in all the historical facts and stuff that Brown seems to cram his books with. I find it all really interesting, but sometimes it takes a few reads for it all to sink in!

All this excitement has had a dampener put on it today though.. poor Mum is so sick today. She's got the stomach bug thats been going around town. She's been bed ridden all day. Good job my step dad and little sister had somewhere to be today, so the house is quiet for her to get lots of rest. I'd love to go and give her a hug, but I don't want to get it too!

I've also had an artistic streak these last couple of days... sketching something out to be painted onto a canvas... though I think I'd better get cracking on some of my other craft/art projects before I go and start a new one! I've got too many laying around now. (last count I had 5 or 6 different projects on the go!)

Omg... what the hell happened to the time between the end of August and now??? I seem to have misplaced quite a few days...

Hmm... went on that 'blind' date... which was less a date and more a catch up coffee with a long lost friend. Was a good chat actually. Though I think he honestly wanted something romantic to stem from it, but I didn't feel anything other than friendship there, and I'm not the type of girl to lead someone on when I know they're interested and I'm not. So no hug after, which I think sent the message loud and clear that there was no romantic interest reciprocated.

The boys have been sick the last couple of weeks too... which means I'm utterly exhausted at the end of the day. Surely they should be less work when they have no energy to do anything... apparently not. But at least Portia was able to help me distract Seb after school... I never knew a 6 year old could be so much help!

I've also found out I won't be looking after the kids during the holidays... The family is going to Brisbane for the holidays. YAY!! And the other family I babysit for is going away for one week, so I'll only have to work for one day over the whole holidays! I won't know what to do with myself! ... I think I might go visit Aunty Mandy for a week... I never see her enough. Speaking of which, she's coming down here to visit on Monday, which will be great!

Today had been great... got to catch up with a couple of friends for breakfast down at a local cafe.. then Mum gatecrashed for coffee after. And this afternoon I dragged my friend Patrick out to the local pool to go swimming with me. He was in one hell of a mood, so I figured distraction was the key. Unfortunaltely, when we left, him all happy again, we discovered that someone had broken into his car and stolen $50 from the centre console. Now Pat is on a strict budget, trying to save money for his pilot's license, so that $50 was supposed to be for him to take his partner out for his birthday tomorrow... So there went over an hour spent trying to cheer him up. I think today just wasn't his day. Hopefully tomorrow will be better for him.

Well... I've found out when my 'blind' date is going to be... though the 'blind' part is kinda void now. Mum and I were right, it is the friend's son who he's setting me up with. I'm still finding it one of the funniest things to happen to me in a while.

So the son, Steven, will be picking me up on Saturday morning for coffee and cake at a local cafe. Should be fun, even if nothing romantic comes out of it. I'm still expecting to be laughing over his dad setting us up. Ah, well, these sort of experiences are what makes life interesting, isn't it?

What's worrying me is that I've spent all week trying to remember what the heck he looks like, and all I can dredge up from the memory banks is a flickering image of a boy about 10 years old... and I'm not sure if its the right one!! Knowing my luck, its not the one I'm after, but I'll be put out of my misery on Sat morning.

I shall let you all know about it after the fact... unless absolutely nothing interesting happens, in which case... the post will be something like a line long. "date ok... nothing much to say" *sniggers* I can see me being more likely to not post at all if there's nothing to say :)

... What the hell???... I've just hung up the phone after one of the weirdest, most random phone calls I've ever received!

An old friend (who happens to be one of Mum's friends from way back) whom I hadn't seen in probably 3 or 4 years was at the birthday party of one of the boys I look after on Sunday. We did the whole 'OMG, I haven't seen you in sooo long' 'How old are you now??' thing and had a great time catching up. Thats not the weird bit... He just called my house and asked my Mum if I went out on blind dates or not!

Mum (being Mum... and knowing the consequences of dobbing me in for something without asking...) handed the phone over "I think I'll let you talk to Feriel about this... Bye!" (thanks ever so much Mum) So what I was greeted with was a very brief "hey its ... here, would you go on a blind date if I set it up??" I didn't know what to say!! Ive never been on a blind date before... not sure if I would have even contemplated it before now to be perfectly honest. I had a funny feeling that he was trying to set me up with his son, who happens to be around my age, and studyinging the same thing as me.

So... I've said "what the hell, you only live once!' and dobbed myself in for whatever he's got planned... And I'm a little apprehensive. I've asked Mum if he said who he was sending me out with, and I was right, its his son. Whom I used to get along with quite well, but its been even longer since I've seen him than it has been since I've seen his father! (before last Sunday of course) Should be interesting... if nothing else, it will be a chance to catch up and have a giggle about his dad playing matchmaker :)

Well... I went into the Show today to pick up my photos and drawings, to see if I'd won anything. And lo and behold, I won first and second prize in the pencil portrait section... and the most points trophy for the art section as a whole!! I nearly died! I didn't think I had a chance when I saw all the other pictures there... they all looked so much better than mine! I'm still reeling from that discovery...

I didn't win anything for my photos, but the organiser was there when everyone was picking all their entries up, and he said the judges told me that apart from a few little technical errors, I would have won first in all the categories I'd entered. Small things like shaving the top off heads and too much open space in pics. Things I have taken to heart, and I'm gonna try again next year! I'm just happy that I made my entry money back and then some with the prizes I won with my drawings. $18 in all... doesn't sound like much, but I think I'm gonna value the first and second placing certificates I got rather than the cash!

And I went to visit my Aunty Mandy at her farm last weekend, and took my drawings up to show her. She loved them, but the only problem was, that because we had tea at the local community club, she promptly went and showed them to whomever she could get to stop long enough to look. Cue me hiding in a corner in embarrassment... but whatever. What was really humbling was that one of the women there liked them so much she wants to pay me to draw a portrait of her kids! Dunno if I'm ready for that!

Mandy also offered to enter all my photos and my drawings into the competitions at her local show, as long as I send them up to her beforehand (obviously!) ... I'm thinking about it, but knowing me, I'll forget to send them up to her!

I finally finished my sketch of Nikki Reed! Its only taken me a couple of months to do it! I'm not entirely happy with her hair, but I know that if I try and make it look how I want it to, then I'm gonna end up destroying it.. and I've put too much effort into it to even risk that happening! I'm entering this along with my other sketch of Ashley Greene ...


Into the art and photography competion at my local show next weekend! I'm not expecting much, but it would be awesome even if I got a third place for something!

Wish me luck!!

Well... have to say first up... Adelaide was AWESOME! I'm so glad I went. Best thing I've done for a long time... even if it did cost me nearly $500 for the weekend trip. Trivial details people!

Anyway, the look on my friend's face when I walked into where he was holding his going away bash was utterly priceless!! What made it even funnier was his girly shriek and him racing over to give me a hug. Such fun! I love surprising people like that :) Keeps 'em on their toes!

Had a great time with the girls I was staying with... they were in the middle of looking for somewhere else to live while I was there. Their landlord was selling the property to go overseas, but the morning I left, they got a phone call saying his circumstances had changed and if they wanted to, they could re-lease the property indefinitely! I left them all in the middle of an overexcited celebration of this little achievement :)


The drive home was relatively uneventful... other than the two hours spent on the ferry curled up in a corner, trying to keep my lunch in my belly... but other than that :)

Work on Tuesday was hideous. The baby was sick, so he cried the whole time except when he exhausted himself enough to just about pass out and finally fell asleep. Sooo glad I only had a half day, and the grandma took the baby off my hands for the second half of the morning, so I could take Sebastian to playgroup. Ugh. Bad Day.

The rest of the week has been pretty uneventful, but I'm looking forward to the weekend again... this time I'm going to visit my Aunty Mandy up in Wudinna for two days. Unfortunately I've gotta take the devil that is the little sister with me, but at least she'll be thoroughly occupied while she's there. The joys of younger cousins :)

I've almost finished my drawing of Nikki Reed... its looking quite good actually... better than I was expecting it to turn out. I'm just hoping I manage to get it done in time to enter it into the local show's art competition. We'll see. I'm finding myself more exhausted than usual since I've started going to the pool to do laps for exercise recently. I've got to build up my stamina! I'm dragging myself through the days now in the hope that when I get accustomed to the exercise, I'll have heaps more energy to burn... I hope ;)

Guess what, guess what, guess what!!!??? I'm in ADELAIDE!! I bit the bullet (and managed to convince Mum) and I got to come over. I drove from home to the ferry (about 200 km), spent 2 hours on the ferry to the other side of the gulf, and then drove the last 160 km to Adelaide. Sooo glad I made it over here...

I'm currently in my friend's living room with six other people, tearing apart the latest Harry Potter movie... and now have just moved on to Ace Ventura: Pet Detective!! This is going to be a great night!!

Going to surprise a friend of mine tomorrow at his farewell party.. he has no idea I'm even in the city. I've already told him I can't make it! I can't wait to see his face :)

Well... I guess I should stop being antisocial, and get back to the conversation. *hugs to all*

I'm in tears right now... I was planning on flying over to Adelaide tomorrow to surprise a friend at his going away party on Sunday, but I didn't book my cheaper flights before I went to the movies... now all the cheap flights are gone and I can't afford to pay for the more expensive ones. I'm missing my friends over there so much, and the one I was conspiring with to help me surprise our mutual friend was as excited as me about me coming over.

Off to wallow in my misery and see if I can convince my Mum to let me drive over there tomorrow... I don't like my chances.

Well... after the high of my birthday and all the celebrating that went with it... I've been feeling a bit lonely and depressed for the last week or two. Don't really know why, but when I think about it, I could come up with a few things that could have contributed to it...

First and foremost... I think its coz I'm so utterly bored with my life here that I'm finding all sorts of stuff to beat myself up about... like how I've been keeping the fact that my study isn't going anywhere near as well as people would like to believe to myself. I really need to downgrade to part time instead of full time, but I have no idea how to broach the subject with Mum, since as far as she knows, I'm keeping up with my work really well. *depressed sigh* What the hell am I gonna do??

I think I'm also missing all my friends in Adelaide... don't get me wrong, I love my friends here too, but I haven't seen my buddies over there since April... and its about this long and I start getting homesick for Adelaide! (roughly every four months without seeing them and I start to pine for them all!) I've been chatting on msn with a friend, and listening to him retell all the stuff they've been up to over there is making it worse... but I wouldn't give up the contact for the world! I was this *holds up fingers close together* close to jumping in my car and making the 8 hour drive over there this weekend... until I realised that my bank account would HATE me for that... so I've gotta wait a while longer til I've got the funds.

I think what doesn't help is that I'm a master at hiding how I'm really feeling to anyone but myself and a select few friends. I'm even able to hide it from Mum these days, which I suppose isn't a good thing. Problem with that is, it all hits me when I'm alone, and I tend to fall apart.

That, and I think I'm just sooo over winter its not funny. I've just bought a swim pass to the local pool, so I can get some exercise three times a week, before work on Mon and Tues, and after on Thurs. I think I've been idle for too long... and I want to get a little fitter than I am... I'm starting to find it really hard to keep up with the boys I look after. I don't have the energy to run around and be silly with them like I did in Summer.

Oh hell its been too long ... AGAIN!

Though I have been rather busy... moving back home again ( I was missing the place I housesat by the time I had driven my very full car home ) work, study, and my birthday weekend last weekend!

I'm never living the the girl I lived with in that housesitting house... EVER!! She was bareable for most of the three-ish weeks we spent in the house together... I really didn't see her much. But the last night she was there, and the morning I left made me certain that we will never co-habitate for real. Sure, she tidied up after herself... but only in the room she used! And after she had gone and put all her stuff in her car to leave on the last night there, I noticed that she hadn't bought out her sheets from the bed... so I asked her where they were, so I could wash them with the sheets from my bed in the morning. Her comment was something along the lines of "But I've just made the bed! Do I have to undo it all now??" in a irritatingly whiny voice.  She was going to LEAVE the sheets she had slept in for the last three weeks ON THE BED!!! I'm sure I don't need to say it, but EEEWWWW!! And she's housesat for my family a few times... I made Mum shudder when I told her what happened... she was thinking along the same lines as me 'has she just left the sheets on in our place??' *eww*

As well as that icky habit, she told me she had cleaned up the bathroom before she left... Nope, she hadn't. I spent three hours the morning I left, cleaning up the house from top to bottom. She hadn't even offered to help! And she left her dirty dishes on the sink. *growls* ... I could go on about this for ages, but I'll move on to happier things.

The weekend just gone was my 22nd Birthday, so it was a big one :) The celebrations were spread over three days...which is just awesome... makes the birthday feeling last longer :) I went out with friends to a local nightclub on Saturday night, which was great. Though I did drink a little too much, but I still avoided the hangover in the morning. I was just exhausted all day :) Sunday was family day... so I was up earlier than I would have liked, but I did get to see family from out of town, which isn't all bad. Went out and had Chinese for tea on Sun night... and we actually managed to eat everything!! The first time I've ever been out to Chinese and we haven't left stuff on the plates! I think we all rolled out the door though ;)

But the highlight of the weekend (which wasn't really the weekend, but oh well) was the show I went to with a couple of girlfriends on Monday night. We went and saw 'Time Warp - A Rocky Horror Musical'. It was Fantastic!!! And we got all dressed up for it too, which always makes it more exciting in my opinion. When I've got access to Mum's computer and fast internet I'll post a couple of pics of my friends and I with the cast. Such a laugh... and the same company is going to do Grease when they've finished with Rocky Horror... DEFINITELY getting tickets to see that one!

On an interesting note... I'm currently in the process of filling out an entry form for the photography and art competitions for my town's local show in a month. I've got some great pics of the boys I look after that I'm entering, and I'm going to put in the drawing of Ashley Greene I did a while ago. We'll see how well I do. If I win anything, I'll let you all know, and I'll post the pics too :)

Right... little sister is in bed now, so I have to leave this here. She complains about the typing noise of my laptop on my wooden desk. It keeps her awake.

Dum de dum de dum... Kinda killing time at the moment... I've got the fire going in the living room just before the temperature starts dropping in a half hour or so, which my frozen nose is grateful for :D
I'm also watching a cake bake in the oven... Do you think the same saying as a pot of water boil is true for cakes too? The whole "A Watched Pot Never Boils" ... it's certainly feeling like it.

Went and had tea/dinner and some study time with Patrick last night. I ended up cooking tea for us, and the study session turned into a deep and meaningful heart to heart chat/therapy session for him! I love nights like that. I discovered that he's still not entirely comfortable with himself yet... which is a shame, but I told him a long time ago that I will always be a phone call away if he needs to talk. I also found out that I'm his number one best friend... which was a surprise. Apparently there isn't anything about his life he hasn't told me, and there' stuff I know about him that even his partner Tony doesn't know. I don't know whether thats a good thing or not, but if he wants me to play that part in his life, who am I to tell him otherwise? According to him, he tells me so much because he knows that even if I don't approve of whatever it is he's telling me, I'm not going to be judgemental about it. I never really looked at it that way. I just thought I was a good listener!

Holy crap the kitchen smells divine atm... all melted chocolate and yumminess :) My dark chocolate mud cake is due to be coming out of the oven in the next 20 mins or so. For some reason, I seem to be the only person out of all the people I've given the recipe to, who can follow it and have it turn out right! My Aunty Mandy tried twice to make it... the first time she forgot it was in the oven and burnt it, and the second time it overflowed out of the pan and all over the bottom of her oven! She's now sworn that she's never trying it ever again, and that its now my 'speciality' that is expected at all family functions! lol. I like having something that it seems only I can make... and something that is such a hit with everyone who tries it! Good for the self esteem, thats for sure!

The reason I'm making my chocolate cake of awesomness (lol) is that my 'housemate' and I are having friends around for dinner tomorrow night. My housemate is making soup and the main meal, and it was going to be WAY too hard to have both of us in the kitchen at the same time, trying to make three different things. Also the cake is actually better when it's been made the day before, so it all worked out ok anyway. ... speak of the devil... the timer on the oven is going off now... I had better go get my cake outta the oven :D

Well... I've abandoned my journal again! What's up with me lately? I think I'm just existing day to day at the moment... probably not the best way to live, but its working for just now.

Went and saw Angels and Demons last night with a girlfriend. I absolutely LOVED the book, so I while I was hoping the movie was good, I didn't hold any hope of it being as good as the book. Good job too! They left out or changed so much of the storyline that it destroyed it! I mean, as movies go, it was a quite a good one. But for someone who has read the book, whether they loved it or not, it was shocking. Far too much was changed. ... Though I will say one thing... they picked the perfect person to play the villan of the movie.... Ewan MacGregor was just .... sooo goood in it! Though for a character who was born and raised in Italy, he had a shockingly mixed up scottish/irish accent :) I didn't really care... He's still awesome in my books :D

Got into the family thing yesterday too. Went for a walk with Mum and my little sister rode her bike, and I also took the evil little dog with us. I think we exhausted him. We went out for almost two hours. He got home and fell in a heap after drinking his own bodyweight in water! We trundled around town, window shopping, and Mum and I had a great chat while we watched Jennifer cruise around on her bike.

I'm really glad I'm housesitting at the moment... we're renovating our kitchen at home, which includes knocking down a wall and sanding floorboards. So I'm nice and clean in this house while the rest of my family is living in a dust infested house for the next week or so. It will look great when its finished though.

I've discovered a new craft to try out for christmas presents ... japanese temari balls. Sounds like it could be a japanese food, but its balls of styrofoam wrapped in yarn and cotton, then designs are stitched on top of that. They look gorgeous, and I'll be posting pics of those that I finish and like. I'm hoping they turn out ok!

I still can't get the sailor I met in June outta my head. I don't know what got me thinking about him again, but I woke up on Saturday morning and burst into tears! I seriously need to stop thinking about him... its gonna drive me nuts quick smart if I don't. My only worry is that I'm finally going to get over him, and he's going to send me a letter! I think thats why I'm still thinking about him. There are other reasons, but I'm keeping those to myself.

Well... I haven't gotten up to date yet, but I need to get to work. But I think thats the important parts of the last couple of weeks.... I think :)

Who'd have thought that just one extra 6 year old girl could make my day that much more tiring? She pretty much looks after herself, but I seem to be more exhausted today for some reason. Think it might have something to do with the fact that instead of being able to sit down for a couple of hours in the afternoon while the boys are asleep, I've gotta find some way to entertain her.

We made chocolate fudge today, and talked late this afternoon about what she would like to do for the other five days I've got her all day. And she decided that she wants me to teach her how to knit. She found some uber bright yarn at the cheap shop, so I'll start her on a 10 stitches wide scarf as a beginning. We'll see how she goes. Might even post pics of her progress... if she has the patience to make any :)

The dumb dog here is officially driving me NUTTERS!!!!!! I came home at lunch time to find that he'd gone and tipped over all the plants under the barbeque shelter! Thank goodness none of the pots broke! They're all pretty big, and would be expensive to replace. I found out the other day that it is the owners' fault that he's like this too. He's not a year old yet, so that explains some of it, but the kids treat him really roughly. So he's learnt that play means destroying things. First the chickens, then the pots. So I can't blame his destructivness completely on him, although its seeming like a good consolation at the moment.

And I've somehow gained a chicken in the pen!?! I went out this morning to feed the buzzards and found that either my half eaten black chook has resurrected itself, or I've gained a new one from somewhere. Whatever happened, its kinda freaked me out!