I set this up so that everyone can keep track of me on my travels. Hope you enjoy reading.

Friday, June 23, 2006

Tattoo

Just because...

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

40 days to go! GO AUSTRALIA!

YAY! I only have one more wednesday to go at work! 1 more day of chaos! HUZZAH! As much as i'm going to miss the kids, the chaos that is wednesday I can do without! Although, I have been roped into coordinating the first week of vacation care the week after I leave. I don't know what to do, how to do it etc, but I will learn next Tuesday. JOY!
So I don't get to move back home until a week later now. I have started to slowly pack boxes and take them back to the parentals place this this week, so that the move isn't so painful when it comes time. I have been given free run of the 2nd story, cos noone is up there now, so I am filling my old room with stuff, and will be sleeping in my brother's old room. Then I get to sort through it all and sell stuff on ebay.
I went to see swan lake on ice last weekend. It was cool (no pun intended). They skated so close to the edge of the stage though. I was just hanging out for one of them to lose their balance and topple off the stage! That woulda made my day. It was at star city, so mum and I went to the casino first. We gambled hardcore style. 1c machines only. I wanted to play pontoon/blackjack but nooooo, it was 1c machines or nothing. We are going back this saturday to see Stomp! and mum said we will go and do something "stupid" this week, so I'm guessing we might use the 2c machines!!
I have a docs appointment friday to discuss my brain hiccups with the neurologist. Then I'm going to get my eyebrows ripped off. Then I might go to the gym and I desperately need to do washing. Saturday is Stomp!, Sunday is shopping in the city with friends to find me a backpackers pack, then Monday I have the day off, so I will be packing some more stuff, then I will do some more laundry, cos i have been busy the last couple of weekends, and the weather isn't hot enough for it to dry during the week, not to mention the dogs and their current trashing everything they can find in the backyard spree.
Hmmm, I can't think of anything else to say, so, ummm, bye!

Sunday, June 11, 2006

50 days to go

Ok, only 50 days to go! I have had the week off work because I have been run down. It is a long weekend right now so I don't go back to work until Tuesday. That means that I only have 3 weeks left at work, and all 3 of those weeks are 4 day weeks. Next week has the public holiday Monday, the next week I have a doc's appointment on the Friday, and then I have an RDO booked in for the next Monday. Then I'm done... that's it... I'll be unemployed for the first time ever, since I started working! I've always had another job lined up instantly.
It's going to be sad missing my children and families from work. I am thinking I might write them all a letter saying what a pleasure it has been and how much I have enjoyed working there.
I have had a very busy week, I have been out 4 nights in a row! WOW! What's with that? I never go out, and now I have been out 4 nights! Wednesday I went out to dinner with my friends, Thursday I went to dinner at my old director's house, Friday was just band, but I was still out of the house, and last night I went to dinner with the housemate's work friends. It was ok, but OMG did I feel old? They were all like 17-21 and there was me and Kel, the old farts!
I have decided to take the bull by the horns and get out more, take advantage of invites to go out from ppl I would normally not, to try and get used to living outside my very small social bubble, so I am not as socially awkward and uncomfortable when I get to England! Altho I did have to decline the social invitation I got from the creepy man who was walking back from the shops the other morning, as I was walking to them, who offered me money, cigarettes, beer and chocolate in return for me going back to his place so he could "kiss me all over my body". I would like to live outside my bubble, but I don't want to burst it completely!
Oh, and... I thought this was funny! ...
Cyanide and Happiness, a daily webcomic
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

54 days to go



these are my invites for my b'day slash farewell party. I should be a graphic designer... hahahah!

Thursday, June 01, 2006

60 Days to Go!

Ok, 60 days to go, and 4 weeks of work.
I as at work today and I was talking to the kids about how many days until different things, and I said "only 30 more days before I go away" and a couple of kids said "where are you going?" and one boy says "she's gonna be dead". I then had to correct them that I would not be dead in 30 days, or at least I hoped not!
So, what's new? Ummm, I have been sick and run down and had 2 days off last week and will be having the next week off as well. Yay! Cos there's nothing I like more than being sick! Ummm, I went to a party on the weekend and discovered everyone one I know from school is married, getting married, living wit sumone, buying houses, or the other end is studying for their 2nd, 3rd or 4th degree, or in the midst of changing jobs, still not quite knowing what they wanna be when they grow up.
I have discovered that the clothes I bought for England to work in, my nice things I have been collecting, weigh 17Kgs, 3 Kilos less than my maximum limit, so I am going to be shipping some over.
I have also decided I am going to do the following tour once I get there, and after I have caught up with relos, found a place to stay and had my interviews, before the work starts....


Except I am planning on starting in Lauterbrunnen and finishing in Florence, because Pisa is only 1.5 hrs from there, so I can do that in a day, and then the timing is perfect. Plus these countries are on my list of important countries to see. I figure I can do france myself later, and then I can get a feel of the backpacking lifestyle.

Ok, that's about it for now. I can't think of anything else to say, so until 50 days to go.... bye!