Have you ever thought about what would happen if you lost your blog?

I have previously, and then again just now - I would be crushed... it would break my heart to loose all of my thoughts and feelings of the past (almost) two years. There have been good times, bad times, funny times and fun times. There have been changes of jobs, houses and suburbs, and I have to say that I have definately cherished each of my entries.

Once again it is a time for change, with house hunting becoming a more important aspect of my life, and having settled into my role at the Institute, I'm looking for expansion in my work world too. I've started studing a Certificate III in Meetings and Events, I'm sure I've told everyone who'd listen about it - and I have to say that so far, it's fairly straight forward. It's a bit tough not having student peers around to bounce information off, but with my events experience, limited though it may be, I'm finding it fairly easy, but it is taking me ages to complete my first submissions because there is so much research involved due to the non-classroom atmosphere.

Although my thoughts these days are few and far between (an indication of how busy at work I am usually), I do value these brief and thoughtful moments when I try to dig up any interesting and preferably entertaining moments in my life with which to share with you.

As a final note in today's blog, I have to say that I was fairly surprised that Memoirs of a Geisha (the book in this case) was fiction... it seemed so factual and heartfelt. I was a little bit pissed off in the end, because there was a note from a "translator" and everything at the start. You may think - geez she's gullible, but if you read it, you'd probably get the same feeling - exept that I've ruined it now!!

Love you all, thanks to my loyal fans and readers (LOL).

Amebr

Wow! Today is a good news day. After a pretty bad wake up - I thought that either Chris or Catherine were using the shower (water pressure so bad at Romulus that only one shower can go at a time) so after waiting at the door for a couple of minutes contemplating whether or not it was the shower I just got dressed and went to work unshowered (gross, yuck, smelly) and starving. When I got to work, some prick of a tradie was parked right in my turning circle to get into the carpark... so after a ten point turn, the stupid wanker reversed back half a metre, enabling me to get into the driveway (would it have hurt him to have done that exact thing 8 turns ago when it appeared that no amount of turning was going to get me and my car into my spot unscathed?). Then to calm myself, I went and picked up a muffin and milk, only just scraping out $5 out of my wallet, from which money seems to be leaking (!?!?). I get back to the office, and this is when my day gets better... firstly, fuz had commented on my blog (I love it when that happens, makes me feel loved) and secondly, it appeared that Josh and Jem were the bearers of some fantastic news, that Leslie and Rashelle are engaged to be married!! After phoning Sam to make sure this wasn't another case of "I just forgot to tell you" I happily went about the next ten minutes typing this blog!! Now all I need to do is find a dream home, available on the 29th September (when my lease is up) that has 3 bedrooms, a rumpus, preferably 2 bathrooms, a modern kitchen, double garage, workspace for Sam and his woodwork and in a nice neighbourhood!! Sounds impossible? Try finding one in our price range so that we don't have to share with aforementioned strangers!!

Thank you for reading, that will be all!

Writing in advance for August 8th, two very special events on this day in 2006.... Happy Anniversary to Kev and Chelsea!! - 2 years today! and Happy Census night one and all! Do your census, enwraptulate yourselves in the coming statistics and prepare to colour in some boxes and write letters in squares!! I was so excited 5 years ago that I filled everything out - and the person never came back - what the?!?!

In other news, Sam and I will be taking the scary plunge to move in/out together - we are both giving up our comfortable semi-detached lives and homes to upgrade to a joint living arrangement of some kind...perhaps with flatmate (posibly Bec). So, until we put out the call for a housewarming, wish us luck in the house-hunting arena - and if you do have any friends of friends, etc that are looking for a room in a place, we are looking for a not-so-absolute-stranger to share with (mainly my phobia of being ripped off my strangers that is keeping us away from the realestate.com share accomodation pages)....

Anyways, that is all from me, I hope there are still a select few out there reading my lonesome blog!