WOW 2009

Ok I've said it before & i"ll say it again(probably another 10 million times but hey!!) where the hell is the time going???????? Anyone, anyone??

I just checked & my last blog was 28th Nov, it SOOOO does not feel that long ago.

But anyhoooooooo as they say in the films.........I"M baaaacccccckkkkkk :oD

ok bit of a catch up. December sort of went by in a bit of a blur which I'm saying way to often for my liking. But as the other girl in work was let go at beginning of Nov, Dec was the first month of doing all 3 jobs myself!! Crazy had a bit of a meltdown at one stage but that was to be expected I suppose, a body can only take so much. I then did the two exams I'd been cramming for. I was supposed to have been off the Fri before on study leave but ended up having to go into work to finish all the reports etc which was a bit of a bummer. So the exams were on the mon & tue(8th&9th), i think they wenk ok but I wish I'd had about a week off before to study more & just be bit more focused. I wasn't in exam mode. I didn't get one finished completely as I just ran out of time so if anything that may trip me up but the results aren't until Feb so I'll just forget them until then.

The rest of Dec was bit better was so relieved to have exams over & just had to worry about work. We had a really nice Christmas party in work & that helped to relax everyone a bit. We finished up work on 24th with a half day which was nice. S finished on 17th I was so jealous :o)

Then we headed down to Canberra where we were spending Christmas with out friends down there. Traffic was pretty crap but got there about 9pm so it was grand to chill out & catch up. I actually had a really nice Christmas this year. We got up earlyish, opened one present each then we went for a walk up the mountain that's near their apt. It was a lovely day & already really hot. K brought her bagpipes with her to practice up the mountain as you can imagine they're pretty loud so she doesn't often get to practice at home. She's really good she'd just bought a new set & was getting the feel of them. They're really nice ones. She's played for years but hasn't in awhile so wanted to get back up to speed. She's joined the local pipe band. Anyway so we came back & got all our stuff together & headed out to the lake. We had a BBQ beside the lake there for our Christmas dinner, it was yummy. I had even brought down with me a few of the tomatoes i grew, they were SO tasty I can't believe the difference in flavour between mine & store bought ones.!!

We headed back to their place & opened all the prezzies so that was good fun. My main prezzie was a photo printer so played with that for awhile. Everyone was busy with different family calls home etc. then we settled down with the game cranium, it was absolutely hilarious i haven't laughed so much in AGES. Its sort of a mix between pictionary, scrabble & trivial pursuit.....so much fun & of course add drink & it gets even funnier :o) Really nice relaxing Christmas.

St Stephens day we chilled out & went for walk the other side of Canberre & went to the cinema to see the new Keanu Reeves film..was ok.

Saturday we headed to the DZ in picton for the weekend. It was so hot there, I decided not to jump. But i wanted to practice my sports photography so my friends there who were swooping, i took action shots of them, was really good fun & good practice. Lots of food & drink later & pretty much the same sunday.

Monday back home to a bit of quiet for one day that is, it was nice to just chill together.

Tue our friends from Canberra came up to Sydney, we did shopping, walks around Sydney, ate lots again, went to the zoo & then New Year eve we went to the park near us to watch the firework off Sydney Harbour Bridge they were pretty amazing. They left on New years day as K had to work. I ended up having to work on the Fri too :o( even though i wasn't supposed to be back until 5th. oh well. I got a call leter on on Fri from friends from home they were in Sydney & wanted to meet up, so met up with them at the rocks, near circular key & S came after & caught up & had food & drinks. We caught up with them on Sunday too they came to our apt for a bbq, was really nice catching up with them. I hadn't seen either of them for about 3 years. So that was really cool. S & I went exploring around botany bay, south of Sydney on the weekend too, was so nice.

Then back to work 5th, that was SO hard, believe me I was praying to win the lotto although I'd have to do the lotto first in order to win but you understand the sentiment :oD

It was such a busy weekend last week as even if I'm off the work still needs to be caught up with so pure madness again. It was my birthday last wed so S treated me to a weekend away, we both managed to get half days on Fri & we headed down to Jervis Bay about 3 hours south of Sydney. It was so nice there, real seaside, summer holiday feel to it. I really liked it. It supposed to have some of the whitest beaches in the world. They were fab. Again ate & drank too much, we went walking in the National park there, Booderee National Park & we went snorkeling off the rocks at Murrays beach. Got bit sunburnt too, d'oh even with suncream on. Although it was cooler than Sydney it was still about 24oC. But it was breezy so you don't feel yourself burning, normally I do. I collected a whole load of really cool shells too when we went exploring. All in all I had a really good weekend.

So back to work today, boo & I actually did go out & do the lotto this afternoon hahhaa. Who knows i may be able to have a weekend like that everyday :oD one can only hope.

Anyway hope haven't bored to all to tears but I had a lot to catch up on & I'm hoping, well its one of my new year resolutions to get better at keeping up my blogging. Its so nice to have a record of things I've done or places I've been etc.

Anyway very belated HAPPY NEW YEAR & hope you all had loads of fun.

Be seeing you soon.