Playing with Fire

I’m up in Newcastle for the next few days, seeing friends and family… Tonight I’m out at Honeysuckle … Because the council has funded a ‘livesite’ with a band and lots of fires, presumably to serve the dual purposes of looking awesome and keeping people warm.

Photos will of course follow on my return to Canberra. But for now I’m sitting at a table at ‘Twist’, awaiting my friends and sipping my drink. Smells wonderfully like wood fires :)

*bounce*

Have a friend coming to stay for a long weekend… I think she’s off the plane now, but won’t make it to Canberra now until sometime tomorrow. Gotta love the internet – strange how you can be good friends with someone from the other side of the country!

Whirlwind Canberra-ness planned – touristy things, cocktail bars, coast, Jindy… exhaustion here we come! :D

Hardy like a cactus (or my bamboo)

Andrew’s wedding on the weekend was lovely… it was great to catch up with people again, just like when the stray person heads down our way you remember how much you love the people you’ve left behind. Caught up with our families for breakfast on Saturday – it’s funny how Canberra is just that little bit too far and too cold for people.

Had a fun night – too it upon myself to dance with the flower girl for ages. Plus, they gave us little cactii as bonboniere! The type with soft “leaves”, potted and wrapped in pink. :) Mine’s sitting on my desk ast work – hopefully it will have as long a good a life as the bamboo I got when I left the early childhood team – it was about 20cm then, and now it’s probably a metre tall. I’m planning on (when i get around to it) chopping it and trying to see if I can sprout the cuttings. It won’t harm the originial, I just don’t know if I’ll succeed with the growing.

Organising my flights to Greece this week – the daughter of someone at work is a travel agent, so I have her giving me quotes today, hopefully they’ll be in my email by the time I get to work (staying home for a bit for the plumber to come) and then I can feel much more organised.

So looking forward to a holiday – 2 months to go! :p

Steak or Shower?

Shame I can’t really be bothered moving to do either :p I think I’ll try the steak… get the pan heating. I have a really nice pack of three T-bones. One for me, one for Rish… another one for Rish for when I make him eat alone on Monday because I’m getting my dinner and wine paid for by national office :p

So not going to the torch relay tomorrow… I think it may be best to avoid the city altogether…. but I did get to see some of the fireworks tonight… saw the ones over Telstra Tower while making my way to the gym in the dark because I was running late… but I made it to the gym, and did about an hour of not so intense cardio, which is more than I felt like doing when leaving work today.

My team leader when I walked into the meeting today “Fiona, you look exhausted” then “Are you?”… hmm a yes was probably the most accurate response to give. Yes a little :p So, no, I won’t be taking up the offer to work an extra two days (Saturdays!!! wtf?) in May in order to to “catch up” admin work, tyvm :p I need my time away from work. if I’m struggling to get there 5 days in the week lately, I so don’t think I need to be there for a sixth :p

I think it’s my contacts. Lack of glasses – you can see my tired lines and circles a lot more. :p

Anyways. A long weekend is 24 hours away (7:21 of work!) then it’s three days of… well not sure what! :)

We had a friend down from Newcastle which was great the past coupel of nights. Thanks for visiting Jess! :) Great to catch up with people… also saw lotsa people on the weekend… and there’s a wedding in Newcastle on the 3rd May to get up there for… I love my Newcastle people… they’re welcome any time :) xxx