Silly season

Well the silly season is upon us and as noted earlier this month is just totally mad for me. Don't know if its the time of year but have been feeling really flat lately. I have almost finished all my chrissy shopping and in a mad panic trying to organise things for our time away.

Tony has been working extra long hours and is useless at the moment. Feel like hibernating until it is all over.

One good thing tomorrow is my last day of work for three weeks. YYYAAAYYYY

Weekend away

Had a great weekend. It actually started Friday when we had our work christmas party and played croquet on the lawn at Ian and Harriet's. I had no idea croquet was such a mean, bloodthirsty and challenging game. I thought it was just hitting balls through hoops but I soon learnt about the tactics and things involved. We had a ball lots of laughs and a good day. To top things off we got our christmas present from work which was a three day pass to Cedarvale Health Retreat, which is something I have always wanted to do so I can't wait.

Then Tony and I went to Canberra for the weekend. The kids stayed with Gail friday night and Mum saturday night. We had such a good time. We went to the National Gallery and saw the egyptian exhibit over from the louvre ( I figured my chances of getting to the louvre were non existent so better see it when I can!) which I really enjoyed. We went to cafe Injoy for lunch (yum yum) and had a nice afternoon doing some christmas shopping and ended up at hogs breath for dinner.

Had a great weekend. Trying to sort out now what we can and can't take to Queensland - we fly out in less than a week. Yikes. With weight limits etc don't know how we will get chrissy presents up there but we'll sort it out.

14th December - My Birthday

I had a great birthday this year. I was spoilt rotten by tony and the kids. I got some CD's I wanted (snow patrol, U2, robbie williams and Young Diva's) and a jewellery set with a necklace, bracelet and earrings that I had mentioned ages ago I liked - (and Tony remembered and got the right ones!)

At work today we had our annual lunch to thank the staff at the hospital for the great work they do looking after our patients and when the room was full to capacity Ian (my boss) made his annual speech which ended with "and today is Cath's 34th birthday so could we all sing Happy Birthday". Out comes this cake and everyone (about 100 people) sing. I think I went a slight shade of red. Learnt a good lesson - never trust your boss in a public place!

what came first?

The old expression what came first the chicken or the egg springs to mind today because I have been writing a book about my life and more particularly everything I went through in my teenage years. It's not a book that I ever think anyone would ever read but it was more for me - someone said it was a good coping exercise so I thought I'd give it a go. I don't know if the writing is helping or if I can write about it because I have come to terms with it more but I seem to be able to cope a lot better lately. So the chicken or the egg? Is it because I'm writing about it or can I write because I am dealing better?

Anyway apart from that life has been pretty busy. Had a scrap day on saturday and I got a big project done that I wanted to finish but I had a shocker of a headache all day and could easily have just come home instead but I was determined to finish it off and I am so happy with it. will post some pics later. Camera has flat batteries atm.

what a month

I sat down the other and worked out what I have on this month and WOW this is my schedule.

9th Dec Going to scrap sale in morning
then 10 hour scrapping day
11th Dec Going chrissy shopping with friends
12th Dec Scrapping night
13th Dec have to work an extra night work
14th Dec My b'day (Might be having dinner trying to organise )
Special lunch party for staff at hospital
15th Dec XMAS Breakfast 8 - 10 for Hospital
then My work christmas party for lunch
then driving to Canberra (DH taking me away for weekend - kid free!)
16th-17th Dec in Canberra
19th Dec scrapping night
21st Dec last day work main job before hols -
22nd Dec XMas party for my second job
23rd Dec Fly to Queensland
24th Dec To my brothers place for xmas eve dinner and drinks
25th Dec Xmas breakfast with brother and his family then christmas day luch with my sister in laws family
26th Dec to Australia Zoo
27th Dec to dreamworld with brother and family
28th Dec Pick mum and John up from airport
29th Dec do the whole family christmas thing
31st Dec Fly back home hope to stay in Syd for fireworks
1st Jan 0 Collapse in heap!


WOw I feel sooooo tired now

YYYAAAYYYY

I won, I won, I won.

I won my first ever scrapping competition. My mirror image page for the cybercrop was selected as the winner for my category. I was sooo excited. It is the first time I have ever submitted anything like this and I was so nervous when I saw the work of the other girls I almost didnt submit mine.

I was so excited when I found out. Even Tony congratulated me and said he was proud.

(insert happy dance here!)

my "Quiet" weekend

Well this weekend was supposed to be my quiet weekend but it ended being a busy one but also a great time.

I entered my first cybercrop! It was through scrapyourselfsilly and it was great fun. There were 4 challenges but I only submitted two - wasn't happy with my other ones. the girls there are sooo friendly and encouraging

My first one was for cards, they had to be blue/silver, with rounded corners and stars


The second one was a mirror image you either had to journal about what you saw when you looked in the mirror or do a mirror image layout so I incorporated the two.



Then in the middle of all this I have been trying to get organised for the 10 hour scrapping day next weekend and Tony finally relented and let us get a christmas tree. we didn't get a real one this year (broken a 10 year tradition!) but we got a fibre optic one. It looks cool!



And also during the cyber crop I won one of the games so I can't wait to see what my prize will be!