My Summer Report

Wow! It's now into the 22nd day of 2016 and only 9 days to go to farewell January. And haven't I had a busy summer month by barely not staying at home for three weeks as it's school holidays still until 26 January. Either it was family time with my bf or Monique, swim at the public pool once, seen two movies (The Snoopy Movie and Goosebumps) and dined out a lot at clubs or taverns.

Since Christmas I was mostly staying at my bf's house as Rachel was absent too.  She stayed at Grandma's for two weeks.  She returned home last weekend which I had some time with her since but last week we had three nights at my bf's house.  This week was busy dealing with back to school supplies as she will be returning back to school next Wednesday.

This month we visited the Australia Zoo on the Sunshine Coast. We had a two day pass to attend the zoo twice.  At the second visit we seen the Irwin Family (consists of Terri, Bindi and Robert) doing their duty of work.  If you heard of the late Steve Irwin he was the owner of the zoo. He had a passion for crocodiles by rescuing them and relocate if needed.  The zoo originally started by his father (BOB IRWIN) as a reptile park only which Steve grew up in this environment.  I think it become a zoo by the time he married Terri. Bindi is now 17 and has been a busy child with helping her mum operate the zoo, having her own TV show (on Pay TV I think) and has a range of clothing/other stuff at the zoo. Last year she was a winner in the US version "Dancing of the Stars".

My new bowling league at the new centre resumed on 17th January.  This league will be my challenge to win points for scratch games. There are afew top bowlers with high averages. I was told most of my points will be based on HCP totals.  I was lucky in the first week to win one scratch point.  The player I bowled against has an average around 150-160. Just her third game was her let down of bowling under average. My bf re-joined the same league I was in which started on the 10th. He told he has bowled well for the past two Sundays.  I know in the first week his team won all the points as I looked online for their standing sheet.  Also I noted the league has new teams welcomed.

My craft days resumed back this month too.  I had two meets in Ipswich.  At the first meet I worked on some scrapbook pages and at the second meet I created a stationery box to add cards or letter paper into.  Also it has an area for a pen and stamps to add into pockets.  I haven't posted any photos on Facebook as the kit isn't quite finished.  It was an 8 hour project to try to complete!!

Time is moving on and I will have to prepare what to take to my bf's to do this weekend.  I was hoping to get started on my studies again as school resumes next week.  It will be hard to get the study mojo back as I haven't studied since summer holidays started six weeks ago. Up until Christmas I had afew prac work hours at the centre. I haven't return in January as I need to have some family time. Have a good weekend!

Welcome 2016!

Happy New Year everyone!  Only an hour to go and the first day of 2016 will be almost over.

What did you do on NYE!  I was home for part of the day then went to my bf's to stay for 4 nights, possibly longer as I don't want to return in a hurry. 

When I return home on Wednesday afternoon I had discovered one of my birds had died and a family friend in hospital. I was pretty emotional on NYE as it was the last things I wanted on my mind.

It was around 3pm when I got back to my bf's house.  His daughter is currently in town for a month so they spent sometime together at the shops.  I didn't mind their absence as I wanted to be some me time for a couple of hours.  We had dinner at his place and just hanged about until 10pm. We went to Newstead House/Park to watch the local fireworks near the Gateway Bridge at midnight. By this stage I had three Malibu and cokes. 

Returned back to his house.  They went to bed and I stayed up another two hours or so drinking half a bottle of Tia Maria straight while watching TV by myself. Yes...I did get drunk!  It's been a very long time since I got drunk but I felt I needed it after the kind of year I had. 

I was pretty tired today after I got up at lunchtime. But I kept myself busy by helping my bf with some household chores and went out for dinner at the club.  I didn't drink this time as I think I already had enough during the festive season. My bf never seen me drunk on NYE and I don't think he will never will at this stage. Not very often I drink so much!  Generally 2 or 3 glasses of alcohol is often my limit.  I can go by for months without any alcohol!  Just this time of the year wasn't really in a peachy season mood for me!!

Now its the start of 2016 and my resolution is to complete my course. What's your New Year Resolution??