Catch Up Time

Before the shave











After the shave...











Ever tried using a keyboard with a cat on your lap who insists on giving your hands either a playful swat or a head rub? I tell you now, it's not easy! Well we've had our first week at home and things are not the same as they were before. For one thing, Oscar seems to think that his new hair cut gives him privileges he's never had before. Like sitting on me whenever I sit down, or staying outside for all hours of the night, not to mention yowling at me at every opportunity. However, I do have my theories on this behaviour. 1. He sits on my lap because he's cold. 2. He stays out because he can and 3. He yowls at me because deep down he blames me for going off and leaving him in hospital. Make sense? I reckon so.

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Tomorrow my brother and sister-in-law arrive. It was Adrea's 60th birthday on Tuesday so this is her birthday present from Colin, 10 days in Australia. They have been up to Fraser Island (the largest sand island in the world) staying at the Kingfisher Resort. On the Wednesday they did the all day four wheel drive around the island and then yesterday (Wednesday) they went out whale watching all day. I hope they saw plenty of whales - they should have since it is the season for them. I'm really looking forward to seeing them and tomorrow I'm having a bit of a "do" with family and close friends. That means today, I have been shopping, cooking and cleaning my butt off!

However, it has been raining cats and dogs (thank God) which we are very grateful for (Tammy's been raindancing again - damn, she's good!), but tomorrow I would really, really like it to be fine (are you listening, Himself in Heaven and Tammy?). I wish to do some laundry and because I only have a small place, we would like to eat out on the patio - it would be a bit of a squash inside. Thank you.

Isn't it funny how things happen all at once. Next week I will be working in the city for the whole week to cover for holiday leave (that's going to be a shock to the system!). So I sent a message to that effect to the operations manager of the company for which I do work at home, also mentioning that I wouldn't be around much over the next couple of days because of my visitors. I was very politely told that my timing really sucks. Apparently two of the QA people are going away for the weekend, they have five new typists and a heap of new clients! Oops.

We are having a State election on 09 September and as usual, all the parties were sledging one another. However just on the news, we have heard that the opposition leader's father-in-law has died so the "negative" commercials from both parties have been withdrawn from TV. Why does it have to take something like this to stop the negativity? Ok, that's enough, I won't get on my high horse...

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and I shall probably blog again on Sunday - no promises though...

Love and blessings to you all.