Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!

Hi!

First off, yes, I missed yesterday's check-in, but that's because I was being patriotic by attending a pre-Australia Day BBQ! Today is Australia Day but friends had their BBQ yesterday so that we could have today to recover. And that's kinda Australian right there. And yes, I did actually kinda need today to recover. Best part is, I have tomorrow off too! HOORAY for a 3-day work week!

So work. Yep, is really good. Busy. Always. Kinda getting to the point where I really need to keep a closer eye on some of the stuff am doing as it's starting to look like I-5 at rush hour......... But otherwise all's well.

Then the weekend. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Friday was very quiet (gotta save that money for Sept!). Saturday I was a good little house-elf and did the chores, and proceeded to lose about 50 pounds through sweating it out with the 95 degree 85% humidity! But couldn't stand the sight of the place with bits of cat fluff everywhere and the odd skink tail here and there. Nice that my place is so little (and crammed with furniture nowadays) cos it makes it a trillion times easier and quicker to clean. Imagine having one of those great big rolling mansions...........sigh......... Nice. If I could afford one of them I could afford staff!!!! Someday...............!

And then yesterday, Julian's pre-Australia Day BBQ - was fantastic. Forgot mah camera but it was the same crowd as always sitting around laughing, solving the problems of the world and watching their kids play for hours in about an inch of water in their little wading pool. Ahhhh, those were the days - who needs a real pool when you have a little inflatable wading pool and a hose! It was a really nice day/evening, excellent food (as always), great to catch up with everyone, basically it was such a lovely way to celebrate, well, Australia!

And here we are at Monday, the real Australia Day. Incredibly enough there's nothing special on tv! You'd think they'd have movies on at least one channel of nothing but Mad Max, Crocodile Dundee, Muriel's Wedding, something! But no. It's the same day-time crap as the States actually - Oprah, Ellen, Judge Judy. Sigh. Am happy I have a decent sized stash of movies as back-up because that's what I plan to do for the rest of today - veg with movies, maybe a nap and more movies! Hooray! And I have tomorrow off too - BONUS!

So I hope you're all well up there! Like I said, and will probably say every time until Sept, I can't wait to get up there and see everyone (if I can)! And please, if there's anything you want me to bring you from here (ok, well, within reason, let's be sensible now), let me know!?

BYE!
J!