0 days to go!

Today is the day! I have some final sorting and tidying of my stuff to do today, and I need to go to the post office, and mail a box of things over to England, as it is pushing my weight limit over the max. Then it's off to the airport for a few hours to try and get me a seat with leg room. *crosses fingers*.
My b'day party was great. Good to see everyone before I head off. I got a signature bear that got some "suspect" comments added on to it, and some additional body art!
And I did my own table decorations, which I was quite proud of, except several people thought the little coloured rocks were lollies (luckily noone tried to eat them).

I went out to Lake Parramatta (who knew there even was one??) yesterday with my friends for a picnic. It was great because it took my mind off the fact that I was leaving today. We took lots of fotos, and here is one of them (I hope they don;t mind that they are now on my blog!)

Now thats the end of it from this side of the world, next time you hear from me I will be a pom!

10 days to go

I have worked out what to pack, I have almost finished sorting out what not to pack. I am almost done organising my KevShazza photo book. I am almost organised for my party tomorrow. I have pretty much tied up all my lose ends with people I wanted to touch base with who aren't going to the party. I have nearly organised everything I need to leave the old housemates to look after Ernie when I'm away. I have transferred money to Dad's account and he has transferred it to his UK account and I will hafta transfer it to my account when it gets set up.
I finally got my money cleared and in my account for my car, but that also means I'm trapped at home, and have been since Monday. Mum and Dad are up the coast today, they went up yesterday, so I am held hostage at home, cos I can't go anywhere without a car, or a driver. So i am using this time to do mundane things like finish my KevShazza book. Here is my fave KevShazza photo...
I am just worried that because he got spat on by an Echidna, he will get me stopped in customs because they will thing I'm trying to smuggle in an Echidna! Oh well. At Featherdale he was kind of attacked by several animals, a wallaby tried to eat one of his corks, another kangaroo tried to eat him, and this echidna spat on him! Such a trecherous life he leads!
So, tomorrow is my b'day. I'm gonna be another day older than I am today! Joy! And, as I have discovered in my research, I will no longer be classed as "youth" so cannot get discount tickets when travelling in Europe. That sucks! Oh... speaking of which, I have changed my plans for the tour I was going to do. It's just too hard to get to Switzerland for cheap, and travel within there. I have been working out that the best way to do it, so I have time to do things, is to fly straight into Salzburg, Austria, because then I can do the Sound of Music tour (which I can't NOT do, when I'm in that part of the world). Then from there I will travel down to Italy and tour my own bits of Italy on train networks, because I can come and go as I please, where as with the bus I had to go every second day, but if I ended up in a place that I got bored with, I could move on to the next place on my own, without worrying about fitting in with other people's time frames. High on a hill sat a lonely goatherd, Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo.
Ok, so I hafta continue with my to do list, so when the parentals get back tonight they have nothing to complain about, because I'll have done everything I said I would.

20 days to go!

Gee Williker have I had en exciting 10 days? I got to do Vacation care last week, with children aged 5-12. It was very different to preschool. Not only did I have to learn new games (because apparntly duck duck goose doesn't cut it with this age group), but I had to realise that "poobum" wasn't a swearword anymore, whereas as "F..." and "S..." and "C..." were (yes, thats right, C). I also got to discover a whole new world or pre-teen angst. There was one boy, who was 12, who is in training to be the best teenager ever, and is going to drive his family mental. These were some of his catchphrases: "This sucks" "I want a refund" "There's no 'fun'" to which i replied "i never said there was going to be any fun" "NO" "Shut up" and my personal favourite "that's gay". people were gay, activities were gay, we wnt on an excursion and "buses are gay", "walking is gay", "trains are gay", "putt putt s for babies... its gay" was all I heard all day. We even played I-Spy and when it was his turn it was always "something beginning with G"... "Gay?" "Yep!". Then on Friday afternoon I went straight from vacation care to moving everything back to mum and dads' place. Not only was there everything I had moved back from my last house, but there was everything I left here when I first moved out, everything I dumped here after my 2nd move, everything I dumped when I left my old work, everything from the preschool, and several other dumped things. So, for the last 3 days straight I have been sorting, labelling, recycling, chucking, ebay-ing, trying on, organising everything in my room. Joy. I am going to go and work on it a bit more, and hopefully I can get an After photo by tonight to add on to this post, because that would be cool.
Ok, the stoopid blogger image upload isn't working, so scrap that idea!
If I discover it working again, then I will post them later.
Cos i had photos of Ernie's hilarious new hairstyle to give everyone a good laugh!! Oh well, again, if it starts working I'll post them.
I did manage to get the After Photo of the room by the way. It looks like a room again! Now I just hafta organise the lounge room and my brother's old room, and the landing which I kinda overflowed on to! Woops! The lounge room has to be next, cos mum is using it as her ironing room. Oh well. I'm off to the gym soon, get out some pent out aggression!
Woohoo! I got the photos to work... here ya go...

Ernie Before the HaircutErnie after the haircut... ROFL

My Room Before
My Room After

30 days to go!!!

wow, 30 days, thats like this month! 3 weekends is my b'day and my birthday/going away party. then its on the final stretch. wow! I hadn;t realised it was so close! I'm getting excited now!!
I had a face to face meeting today in the city with the lady from one of the agencies i am using to get work over there. She was very nice. I had already had all my paperwork done, so we just chatted for an hour. She made me feel at ease and I am now pretty confident about the whole thing. She said that one of the ladies who rang me to book in an interview for over in UK left a note about the fone chat "arriving 1st august, getting car first up, prefers yonger age group, supply at first and later long term positions, sounds lovely". awwww, i sound lovely! How sweet!
I had my last day at work yesterday (excluding the week of vacation care which is casual and noone knows me, so they wont miss me when I go). The kids made me cry. Bastards! I am SO not a cryer about things like this, but especially because it was the kids who i have known the longest, and because they are older (generally) so can chat to me more one to one. We had a party lunch (OMG... i have never seen little kids eat so much and not explode) and then they gave me a card with their pictures of me, or their names inside, and then they sang this song which goes "skidamarinkidinkidink, skidamarinkidoo, i love you. skidamarinkidinkidink, skidamarinkidoo, i love you. i love you in the morning, and in the afternoon, i love you in the evening and underneath the moon. OH skidamarinkidinkidink, skidamarinkidoo, i love you." and when they saied 'i love you' they pointed to me. and I was fighting to hold it all together, because the kids gets freaked out when an adult cries. But then one of the mums was crying, cos it was so lovely, and she is sooper emotional, and she pushed me over the edge. So i had a little cry.
I had my farewell dinner for work last night. It was good. Went from being 10 to being 7, but it was still good. (and the 3 thats didnt come, 2 i wasnt fussed about! 1 i would have liked to have been there). It was like goodbye but not, because I am going back the week after next to be in the school fotos, as requested by the parents, and then the other 3 i will see at vacation care on the excursion on thursday. So yeah, wasn't that sad.
Anyways, I have a lady coming to look at the car tomorrow at 10am (finger's crossed), then going into the city with friends to ook at backpackers packs, so I should go to bed now, its WAY past my bedtime! I got carried away at a friend's birthday party making mystery concoctions out of eft over food scraps and disolving 21 packs of sugar into some lemon squash (and it tasted thick and syrupy if you ust kn0w). So, anyways, goodnight, until 10 days time...