Note to self: don't wear cleavage tops to class until you want certain students to spend the whole 2 hours not meeting your eyes. That is all.
There are rumblings about how I haven't updated. I figured noone wants to hear about how I miss everything yadda yadda so I haven't. But I did have the twins' 21st bday party finally on the weekend so yeah, blogging about that and other non-personal things.
I ended up having the cruise for them - 3 hours of the boat cruising around on the harbour, with very loud music and food and bday cake and alcohol (not that most people took advantage of the last bit). I set up a CD with a ton of music but someone kept forwarding to shit songs, which sucked. If I never hear Lady Gaga again, it will be too soon. Dressing up as pirates was fun, would have been better if I had actually been an attractive pirate wench instead of just me dressing up. But I did lots of yarrs and avast me hearties, and MissA's friends thought I was drunk when I hadn't had one thing to drink. It was a bit of a bitch because originally there were around 70 people coming, and because of the change in date it ended up being about 35-40 people, with the minimum payment being for 50. I think most people had a good time though.
Afterwards a lot of people came back here for a bonfire and more food/drinks and sitting around while playing music etc. At least the music was better. By that time noone was left that I was friends with so I hibernated in my office, and went and checked on them every 1/2 hour or so to make sure they weren't burning down the place. They went home at around 12.30 and I fell into bed around 1 ... and up at 5.30 to drive the girls to work the next morning - ouch.
Apart from that, there's been car troubles. My car went in for checking for rego and had major issues (they still have it) ... and then MissA's car broke down on Saturday while driving around getting stuff for the party, and was towed to the mechanic. Karl was nice enough to loan me his car for Sat/Sun/Mon, until the mechanic could get me a loaner. MissA got her car back yesterday, I still have the loaner. It sucks.
We started week 1 of semester 2 at work this week, and I have a first year unit this semester, so its pretty tiring. I go to Brisbane for TSXPO in 2 1/2 weeks .. for four days. I've got very mixed feelings about that. Guess I will have to think about it a bit more.
Ok, that's all, update done :P
Why do women fill out facebook quizes like "how big are your boobs"? That's what mirrors are for.
The twins, not me ... obviously.
Its been a busy week .. at least during the daytimes. Worky work mcwork. At night I've been mostly watching "Now and Again" which I really enjoy but which stirs up memories etc. Last week I also had lunch with everyone at work at the Osprey, buffet lunch which was great. I hope they do more of them.
MrJ and I also had breakfast at the foreshores cafe on Thursday (I think) because I've had to have MissL to work at 8 am each morning .. and we had an hour to fill in before school started. He ate a big plate of pancakes and then went back for some (huge) raisin toast slices ... he's got the whole teenage boy bottomless pit thing going on. Oh and in the last two weeks he's grown more and he's now taller than me.
Friday night Greg came over to go over his website stuff. I thought of asking him to stay for a late dinner, but then chickened out because I thought he would have thought of it as more significant than inviting a friend to dinner. Its one of the things I really dislike about being single. I feel like I have to watch everything I say and think through how it could be taken, instead of just relaxing around people which is what I've had until the beginning of this year :(
Sat lunchtime we found out that the pirate 21st cruise party we arranged for Sunday night wouldnt be happening thanks to the boat blowing an engine ... at least a week to get it repaired. After lots of discussion we decided that we would postpone to 3 weeks time, which allows us to have it on a Sat night, and means it wouldnt be messed up too much. It was so disappointing, though. I know the girls were disappointed, and then we had to start the process of ringing everyone to tell them it was off.
Saturday afternoon I went over Dee's for a couple of wines and a work meeting (the work part lasted about 10 min, the drinks/cheese/etc lasted about 2 hours heh) and then came home and had a couple more. Karl picked me up and we went to get a pizza (which was yum) and played air hockey before the movies. I was rather ... tiddly ... and I couldn't stop laughing at something stupid at air hockey. Hope I wasn't too embarrassing for him :P
We saw Terminator Salvation (Karl called it Batman and the Terminators which cracked me up) and it had some huge plot holes and didn't really make the grade as far as suspension of disbelief went, but was better than I expected. I had sobered up a fair bit by the end, which was good. Karl dropped me home and disappeared to go out with his mates, and I had a couple more glasses of wine and fell into bed just after 1.
Yesterday morning MrJ and I went to brekky baa which was the first time in a fair while for me. He truly is a bottomless pit atm so all-you-can-eat places are a good choice. Last night I had a quiet night home with MrJ ... the girls were out and I was feeling a bit down. I had invited Karl over for strog but he was busy. I watched a few eps of Now and Again and had a couple of phonecalls with people.
Today's the big day for the girls. They are heading out to have lunch with their father (who is in town, with their grandmother, until Thursday) with MrJ and MissB as well, so I guess I will be feeling like crap at home by myself. I really have a hard time when they see their father and its so much worse this year with noone to spend time with and distract me while its happening. Tonight I'm taking them out to dinner - looks like it will be just the kids and I as usual, because my parents told me last night they probably aren't available - they are travelling up from Maitland today but decided to leave late rather than early. Doesn't matter! I intend to make it as good as possible ... oh and we have a cake for 60-70 people sitting on my kitchen bench, that was ordered for the cruise last night, and couldn't be cancelled at the last minute. So CAKE for the next week, I think!
PS: Marilyn rocks my world. That's all.
PPS: Monroe, that is.
This is a really useful site that I didn't know about before.
And no I haven't dropped off the face of the earth. I know its been a whole week since I posted, and I was pretty down the last time I did. But I really didn't drop off the face of the earth ... :)
Tuesday was Karl's bday and I took him to lunch at Hogs Breath (which I had never been to) for steak ... and it was YUM. It was a really good lunch actually, we joked around a lot and had a good time. Tuesday night I had my parents here for a one-night visit (they stayed elsewhere but came for dinner). It was really good actually. One of the side effects of everything is that I really don't care too much what people think of me anymore, including my parents. So instead of running around trying to clean the house to their impossible standards, I said they could live with how I am or lump it hehe. Unfortunately the girls and MrJ got all freaked and ran around cleaning up in the afternoon, while I went and worked in my office. But when my parents got here, I wasn't sitting there going "oh shit they are judging" - I just treated them like anyone else ... which was a big change. They stuck around to watch "Remember the Titans" with us, and actually enjoyed it, so that was great.
Next morning I was up and travelling up to Lismore by 8 am. MrJ was sick (cold/flu) so he got to come with me instead of being at school. Sleeping in a warm car was probably better for him than being at home and playing xbox all day with noone there to make sure he was staying warm. The Pacific Hwy was still cut from the storms so we had to go through Casino and that brought back memories of that disastrous trip to drop MissL off at Kyogle ... and getting stuck there for 4 days. Although there were positives to that trip (not many, but some!) which I couldn't admit up to originally heh. We were up in Lismore until about 3.30 and then travelled back that night. I drove the school car which is a Corolla - I really do like them. I am so tempted to get one.
Thursday was a workday and that night Karl came over for chinese food and to watch Eureka, which was good. I've been working on the Connect Kids project and its been taking up all my 'spare time' which is a bugger, but at least its going to pay for my gold coast holiday in October with Kate. Friday was another worky work mcwork day with a meeting with the CK people ... and they were so impressed at the progress I had made on the kit that it made all the work worthwhile. Friday night I went out to the movies with Jen and Greg and Steve and about 4 other people ... to see State of Play. It was actually a good movie and I would see it again (might in the next week or so). Jen was weird (again). Most of us went back to the greenhouse for coffee/cake afterwards and Jen and Greg were sitting at the other end of the table and Greg got up and announced to everyone "Ok, I'm going over there to sit next to Raina" (argh). It probably meant nothing but of course it gave a certain impression to everyone (the heads whipped around to look at me) and then he came over and yacked to me about phones and teaching and stuff until the greenhouse threw us out. I was talking to Dave before that, and Dave definitely got the impression he was being warned off I think (whether he was or not!). So then of course Greg walks me back to my car ... quite innocent because he didn't lay a finger on me, but I really didn't want people to be matching me up with him.
Saturday was spent marking exams (fun!), watching dvds and keeping warm (I thought I was getting MrJ's bug). Sunday was also marking, work and shopping ... and on Sunday night Karl came around for my bacon carbonara, strudel and icecream, and dvds. That was a funny night. I drank quite a lot of wine (my head knew about it the next morning), and we sat on the lounge on our phones facebook 'poking' each other and got sillier and sillier as the night went on. It was such a good night, I wish we had more of them.
Yesterday was work work and work ... and ouch ... not a good head to be doing work, even with berocca. I finished marking the exams, and moderated the assignments from Hong Kong, so that is all my marking done for this semester (yay!). So to celebrate I took MrJ and MissL to the movies to see Night at the Museum 2. It was actually funny ... there is one part with Darth Vader and Oscar the Grouch etc that totally cracked me up. A couple of bits dragged, but that's usual with Ben Stillerish comedies. I used those moments to facebook it up on my phone hehe.
After the movie we headed down to KFC to get a twister for Karl and drop it off so I could pick up some tv shows, and then went to get petrol. I know - tmi ... but the interesting thing about this was that MissL was driving (still on L's) and she filled up the tank ..... and then went and paid for it. Shock! So that was really good of her. Home and pottered around and then went to bed ... which brings this up to date. Phew.