Merry Christmas...

I have been very very very busy and I haven't had much of a chance to blog... so just wishing everyone a safe and merry christmas and will be back in the new year with more exciting adventures...

Love

Kirsty xx

quickie...catch up post!!

My lord.. it has been a busy week... so, and Dottie post for you to get you up to speed!

• Jack's birthday today... Happy birthday hunny!!! I was very excited about his present!! I got him an ipod with a FM transmitter for the car!! I have spent HOURS trying to friggin' work out itunes and get all of his music on it. He was totally blown away with it! He has never seen one before (yes.. believe it!!) and was totally in ore of how things have changed since his days of a walkman! I put on his entire music collection (quite large) and I still have room for more... and as CKK suggested, perheps he might need a jogging arm band! I have a shuffle.. but this is WAY cooler.. Jack loves his 80's music, so this will be the end of the huge collection of cd's that he has floating around the ute!
• Have been to Echuca for Jack's work christmas party last week.. that was great fun. If you are on facebook, there are a few photos. My mother came and stayed with the kids for a night. I really like Echuca.. it has sportsgirl.. I like sportsgirl..
• I am worried that I am almost too old for sportsgirl. I read an article in one of the weekend papers months ago that talked about "Kidults".. women in their 30's used ipods, and techy phones, listerned to top 10 music and shopped at sportsgirl when they shouldn't! - dressing as teenagers... I hope that I don't! The article basically told you to act your age.
• This week jack took holidays from his day job as a agronomist to work in a header for a week. He had fun!
• Had an information night at Emilie's school on Wednesday night. I was fighting back tears. When they started talking about pencil tins and lunch orders, it all became a little too real for me!
• I put in for a grant with the ABB for our kindergarten earlier this year (with many others.. I have been kicking arse this year with my grant applications...) anyway... when I picked up the kids from kinder on Friday there was a PALLET of resources for the kids to use! It was like Christmas... over $2000 worth of stuff for the kids! Just as well I have another kid going to kinder next year who will use them!
• One of the instructors at gym isn't talking to me... not a nice environment to work out in... what did I do?? I showed a lady how to do an exercise that she was struggling with. The instructor jumped off the treadmill that she constantly seems to be on to spit at me something along the lines of that "perhaps you should take over as instructor and she should just leave.." with a screwed up face... like you could say something like that as a joke.. but she is a nasty piece of work this chick. The lady I was helping had been struggle for a few minutes with it, and the instructor was watching, but god forbid anything interrupting her workout! Anyway... she isn't talking to me and I have chosen to keep on going. MANY people have stopped going to the gym because of her attitude, but I need to go for me.. not her... scrag...
• I have resown my back lawn this week. We got a dam fill and WE HAVE WATER!!! yeehah! So Jack and I have been watering and hopefully by the end of summer we will have a nice lawn again!
• Had APEX Christmas party last night... a bus trip to the Little Desert lodge. (where the picture of the fire was in a previous post) Funny story... A little gross if you are eating..) there was three different Christmas parties on at the same time and in the group of tables beside us, there was a bloke who was pissed to the eyeballs when we got there. They served entree, this bloke (who was sitting beside the boss) spewed into his meal!!!!! noice... very noice...
• My sister is home for the next 6 weeks before she moves to Tasmania. She works for KPMG and her boyfriend just finished uni, is a mechanical engineer, got a job for Rio Tinto in Launceston. So, they move on my birthday (7th Jan). they have brought a house that has a granny flat out the back, so our next holiday will be to tas.
• Just had a call from jack, they are cutting up sheep and they need my help... yuck! Twice a year they do a huge kill and butcher. 24 lambs this time. I better go and take my freezer bags!