SOLD!!!

We think....

Well a long weekend is great, its probably even greater if you work full time, but still was good for me.
Both Jon and I had to work on Monday, and seeing as we were both being paid at $50 and $34 dollars an hour who can complain.

The weekend started off by me doing a mamoth 12.5 hour day on Friday, something that has'nt happened in 3 years, and boy was I knackered.
So saturday was a lazy day including coffee, the paper, bacon and eggs, my neices 2nd birthday party, yummy kids party food and karen and james for chicken and salad tea.
Sunday was spent in the garden for a much needed clean up, watering, composting and fertilizing session.
We had pretty much given up all hope of this damn place selling, so thought that we should start paying attention again to the garden in case we had to go on to the market in a few weeks time.
But of course karma always comes back to get ya, and just as we were coming inside at about 5.15pm with sore backs, aching hammys, dirty fingernails and a freshly planted vegie garden, our buyer Michelle rang.....
They had had an open between 3.45 and 4.45, and had just received an offer and they had accepted. Haleyuhiah brother!!
Of course no paperwork could be signed cos of the public holiday (bugger it), but if all goes according to plan it should be signed, sealed and delivered today.
Im still not getting my hopes up till later on when I officially hear the contract's signed, and then not till Thursday when the cooling off period has expired, but am still excited.

So if all goes to plan a settlement date should be set for 3 - yes 3 weeks time...
We want to move one week before the settlement, so we can clean this hovel up, so that means moving on the may long weekend, ARRRGGHH!
Of course we have packed NOTHING so far, as we didnt really believe it would actually happen. Will it didnt hippen overnight...

So yes my friends, we shall soon be in our lovelly new home. So be prepared for many a dinner party, BBQ (we are buying a new one!)and of course the 12 course degastation dinner...keep october in mind.

Well must dash, as my little blond alarm clock it going off.

PS. Is everyones bedside alarm clock as unreliable as ours? Do they all just forget to go off sometimes? Or is it just our bad luck, as this is the third one to do it...
Two mornings in a row we have been late to work!

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Phew...thank goodness that fortnight is over! My brain is completely scrambled due to lack of sleep and well just doing what I do best, squeezing far too much in. Hence I had no idea what to call this blog, so I wrote what I was feeling.

My fortnight of hell started thursday 7th April...first day back at work in 11 months.
Then friday it was up at 5.50am, an hour of the day I hadnt seen ohh in 3 years, to do it all again.
Then off to scrap camp, scrapping scrapping all day till 1am.
Coming home only meant wifely stuff... washing, ironing, none of that!! and plenty of etc.
I then had to begin and finish (in 3 days) a wedding cake, that was in the planning for 6 months but the procrastinating princess like I am left it all to the last minute. I had SIX mudcakes to cook in our crappy oven (Shhh dont tell the new owners!!)and icing flowers to finish.
We went to Kaz and James for tea on Wed, came home and got ready for that exciting event called 'work'.
Thursday saw me decorating from 8am until midnight, and up at 6am to work again.
Had a quick 20 min granny nap on the couch, before going out for dinner, bed midnight.
Saturday was planned by the hour. Up at 8, finish cake!!! Leave at 11, to deliver cake to Outer Harbour, Meeting at 1 - enfield, hair app. at 3.30 - TTG, dinner out at 7.30 - elizabeth ( Lucy was cued to spew at 7 and she did! Hooray.) Bogan party to attend until 2- magill. Call me the Layland brothers.
Sun was meant to be a monarto day with Jac, Cam and Ella, but due to a lucy attending a sleepover at nanna's, and a hangover that grabbed jon by the balls, we slept in till 9.30am (a very quiet yah, cos it really was exciting to sleep in so late)and had to give it a miss, mainly due to a time and cost of petrol equasion, and one VERY grumpy miss.
We spent the arvo with Jons mum and don, then hurried to a very draining meeting with the 'perhaps' future owners of our house, and then hurried to house warming at my sisters new rental flat!!
Ye Gads! We just didnt stop. I really thought that our life would slow down after scouting, but it just doesnt!!
Ohh yeah I forgot to mention that in amongst all of that I had to feed, wash, change nappies, entertain, cuddle, pat to slee[, chase around, tell off and generally look after a 10 month old.
Its no wonder tah t (whoops) I feel brain dead. I have had 7 cups of coffee today and still dont feel any better.
Must go now and sleep, wake me when its all over!

PS Congratulations to Neil and Adrienne.... Pitter Patter, Pitter Patter :)

Scrapped!

Well its now boringly monday morning - The day always seems like such a let down after one really good weekend.
As most people know I went Scrapbooking ALL weekend, and it was GREAT!
It was held up at Mylor Conservation Park, in the YHA hut, which got a little hot and humid on sat. Especially with 14 women all sitting in an area the size of my lounge with NO airconditioning.
Lou came with me, and we both had a funny, yet productive time.
Sat night was themed, as all good camps are, and this one was 'enchanted forest'. So of course lou and I planned to go as naughty pixies.
But as the day got warmer and warmer, a beer run was organised (by us of course), and by the time it was time to dress up we were both pretty giggly, HEE HEE, So our theme then had to change to 'drunk pixies that had been kicked out of the pixie clan for selling mushies'.
It was a very funny evening, and when photos of us all were being taken, of course it was very clear we had to keep up the 'act' of being naughty and be naughty!
Eventually a vote was held for best costume, and unsurprisingly Lou and I came second and first.
It turned out to be a pretty productive weekend for both of us, and we had a great time too.

Jon had a 'daddy-daughter'weekend and looked after Lucy from Friday evening to sun arvo. Im sure they had a fun time too, but jon got a taste of what its like for me all the time at home, Hee Hee. Things never seem to go as planned, do they Jon?

Michelle had another open on her house this weekend, and we noticed that they have dropped the price by $5000. Hmm its no bottle of grange, but its a start.

BTW I got a job!!!! Im now back at Micheles Patisserie, working on Thurs and Fridays. And I had my first two days there last week.
It was very strange to be back, almost 3 years to the day that I left, and it felt like I had never left. Although my back muscles noticed that I havent worked for a year, and they soon told me!!

Well I must be off, as I have a wedding cake to do this week and time is ticking away...

Owning Up!

I would really like to take all the credit and applause for my geniusness at being able to work out how to do the links, but it all must go to my dad. Who I might say didnt know how to do them either, but is clever enough to figure it out.
I on the other hand was setting the dinner table and still have no idea how the hell it is done. Will work it out one day.

On to other news... I am beginning to set myself up for dissapointment. Michelle only had 4 couples thru her house on the weekend :(
For some unexplained reason people just dont want to buy her house, even though it is a really nice place, selling for a really reasonable price. (I know someone else feeling the same frustration!)
She had 3 different couples come thru DURING THE WEEK last week, and not one has put in an offer.
Our settlement date is drawing ever closer, May 5, but she has to have a contract by April 21st. ARRRGH.
Soon Im going to have to start relying on those stoopid chain emails for good luck!
Hmmmm.

RES-ERECTION

Un-fricken-believable!
How can a person forget their blog password TWICE!

Well kiddies (as the gringo is known to say) Im back...New password and all, Ahh you can all breathe easy now.

Lots has happened since I forgot my password, my little lucy is now 10 months old, we have sold our house and hopefully purchased another - much nicer one, and gotten lost in the bush. An all round busy time.

Another thing that happened was that I celebrated my 29th Birthday. Now it may not sound that great, but Im pleased its not my 30th, How OLD are those people!Hee Hee.
I received lots of wonderful gifts, in particular the saffire ring from jon, but the one I really want to mention is the...
brace yourselves cos Im gonna have to nerd it up... USB Flash Driver!
Jons dad lent us a 'zip drive' so that I could 'back up' all my recipes I had 'data entried' and all my cake photos I have 'scanned', as we dont have a 'CD burner' on our computer. I hadnt even got around to using it when we went to their house for lunch to celebrate my birthday, and my present was a 'USB Flash Drive'.
Its pretty cool, although I must admit that I had no idea what it was when I opened the present, I did the typical comment for presents your not really sure about - "ohh, its a Flash Driver?".
But once it was explained, I was pretty pleased with my nerdy self.
I was even more pleased to discover that even James (gadget king) didnt even have one!
(We have just realised that if I was a true 'nerd' I would have James' name highlighted and linked to his web page. But I honestly have no idea how that magical kind of thing is done.)
So anyway, today marks 27 days since receiving said 'USB Flash Driver' and I still have no idea how to work the bloody thing!
I have put the little 'CD' in the little ini-outi tray in the 'tower', have 'installed' it, but from there *shrug of shoulders*. HELP. I may have to get a true 'nerd' to come and help me.
Jons dad is another gadget king and would have insalled it and played with it on the very day he received it, not this little black duch though. It took me 24 days to even get it out of the packet, and he thinks I have been merrily using it all along. Whoops. Will have to lie at the lunch tomorrow.

Well gotta go and be a mum, but let me warn you - I have BIG plans for this Blog. Im about to go and learn how to put photo's up on it -I know, I can hear you all saying 'nerd' under a cough, but you just wait and see...