The Wish

Wow, I'm really stoked with how my entry has gone for this week's SYTYCS competition at Scraptacular. This round's scrap-eography was hosted by Clair Bremner, who has long been a favourite scrapper of mine. This week the final week of 'heats', so I wonder what's in store after judging & results on Tuesday night (?)/Wednesday? I wonder if it will be relevant to me? I'm hopeful, but not confident - there's still another 15 LO (or thereabouts) still to be posted & I'll probably be even more blown away by the quality of the entries this round (again!!!).

In other news, well school holidays started as of 3pm yesterday afternoon & I've got a few things lined up to do with the kidlets. Hopefully tomorrow though we can have a 'home day' to get a few housework things done. Beds need some attention, as do bedrooms. Just for a start!

Today we went to Larissa & Christiian's in the morning to celebrate them being together for 20years. Wowee - I feel so OLD!!! It was lovely to see some of the pics from years ago. They had loads of friends staying on for the AFL Grand Final. The kids & I headed down to Karlene & Leo's for Grand Final though as it was Geelong v's Hawthorn. Like many of their guests, we went to see Leo as much as to watch the game - he's such great entertainment value watching the footy, and today was certainly no exception. I took some video footage, so hopefully I'll be able to put it onto DVD so they'll have a keepsake from how they celebrated their victory. Just another thing to add to my ever growing list of things 'to do'. I really need to invest in a HUGE external hard drive & some good video editting software & then download all my footage & start processing it into DVD format! I've got years worth of stuff to do. But for now, bedtime!!! I'm soooo tired!!!

School Holidays - Term 3/4 2007

Well it's been ages since I've updated. Slacko!!

Probably no readers left!! Where there ever very many??

Anyway, Geelong won the GF. David was very happy, along with a great many other dedicated supporters who have waited a loooong time (a lifetime!!) to see a premiership.

Carlton scored Chris Judd in trading week, so things are looking a little more hopeful for us. Hopefully if Nick Stevens is fit for start of the season, we might win a few more games! Theres a few exciting young players on the squad. I hope I find time to get into it a bit more again. It's been a long time since I've actively followed the footy.

School holidays were fun. Busy though!! Our feet barely touched the ground. David got home on the 2nd day (tuesday), and then we were busy getting organised to go camping. Then we went camping to Cowaramup & stayed 4 (?) nights. We cut our stay short as we simply got rained out. The Tuesday afternoon was phenomenal. A few tents actually got flooded with approx 300mm just sitting in their tents & had to get bailed out. Our tent & Karlene & Leo's tents had a river running under them. Karlene was sitting in her chair having a glass of wine with her feet up & her jeans were still getting wet.

Our new camp bed is soooo comfy. It's off the ground, easy to set up/pack away. And as a precaution, I'd put the kids' bedding on top of our bed, and then teddys & clothes. Just to keep that stuff safe. Our tent only leaked a little, which considering how cheap it is, is quite impressive. We did have a good time, despite the weather - I say that now that I'm home, clean & dry.

Anyway, we came home & had Stef stay with us Wed, Thur, Fri night. It was so lovely to have her over. She's so kind, helpful & mature. I have to remind myself that she's only 14. It was so sad to see her go home again. :(

Then back onto cleaning & unpacking, etc. David went back offshore this morning - the two weeks over just like that.

I've come to the conclusion that camping is good fun, and is a vacation. But it's definitely not a put your feet up & relax do nothing type holiday - it's an active holiday that is proceeded & followed by a lot of work. However the kids just love it, and benefit from it hugely, & it is loads of fun and good reality check too.

It's Grand Final Day 2007

The house is quiet. No Grand Final party happening here. No Grand Final party to go to either. Seems strange really. I'm going to head out with the girls this morning and grab some supplies for a BBQ lunch, and we'll have the TV on all day watching all the tributes and has-beens.

There's a few certainties on Grand Final day for me;-

1. I cry at the tributes and life stories to football legends (from all teams)
2. I always stand and sing the National Anthem - and the girls stand too. One day they'll learn the words and I think they'll always associate it with football as one of our national icons.
3. I love watching the pre-game entertainment.

This year there's a few special things to note. The first of which is GO GEELONG!!!! I hope they bring home the flag, especially for their dedicated supporters. I'm so disappointed that David is offshore & going to miss celebrating it at home with his family & friends, but I think he's going to have a larger crowd to share & enjoy it with on the rig anyway.

So anyway off to get organised for the day - fabulous weather for a Grand Final!!

We are Geelong...

Yeeha! David's footy team's into the Grand Final for 2007. So exciting. I'm so sad that David's actually offshore as otherwise we'd be putting on a huge GF party for our friends to enjoy. Instead, I'm more ho-hum, and feeling bad that he's away and going to miss it. This is the year, for sure!! All I can hope is that he's not actually working & gets to watch the game & has a good gang of people to enjoy watching it with.

The fat lady has sung

I'm officially out of the running for the Embellished Idol 2007 competition. I'm disappointed as I thought this week's entry was the most talented of the lot that I'd entered, but I'm so not surprised. I knew sooner or later it would boil down to the overall most talented and popular members of the forum. Just commonsense really. I'll call it now, and I've known since about Round 2 or 3 that Binxcat will be the eventual winner. She's hugely popular, but that's not enough, she's hugely talented too. Her work throughout has been amazing, as has many other ladies' work. And I'm glad that I entered because I have now got 6 great LO's to add to my albums.

Forget Idol though, David's getting excited about football. Geelong's doing really well this year and are favourites to take out the Premiership. What a bugger DB is going to be offshore on Grand Final Day - still that's a real Murphyism to ensure victory. He's pulled all his shirts, stubby holders, etc out of storage and is wearing them with pride. :)

I'm still using my Carlton stubby holders with pride. No matter where we finish on the ladder I'll ALWAYS be a blue girl!!