Bowling weekend

How was your weekend?  Did you get up to anything exciting?? Well.......I pretty much had a full on weekend and had alot of fun at bowling venues.

 

During the day on Saturday I was busy making up and signing 20 Christmas cards ready to give out to my bowling league mates that night.  It was quite a late night as we had our break up party and prize presentation for our yearly season played for 46 weeks. 

 

After our two course meal we had our cash or trophy presentation and multiple raffles drawn for cash envelopes. There was only one lucky door raffle, full of goodies inside a laundry basket which was won by one of our committee members. 

 

Yesterday, Monique had her final junior tournament for the year in Brisbane and last night our league had a fun night of bowling and pizza for dinner.  For other details, you will have to read my updates in my sporting report blog.

 

Now another working week has started.  What's on your agenda for this week? Probably be home more during this week as I have things to catch up with at home.  I don't really have alot on outside the home except for tomorrow and Friday night as I have scrap meets on.  Whatever plans you have on your agenda for this week I hope you all will have a good week.

Best weekend of all

Hi everyone!  How was your weekend?  I had a great creative weekend away at Brookfield.  For further details you will have to read the report from my craft diary blog. 

Last night was our last night of bowling league for this year.  Surprisely I bowled better then I predicted and it was the best way to finish the season.  I bowled a 203 game and we won all the points against the team who came 2nd.  The final results will be revealed this weekend as our prize presentation party will be held on Saturday night at a sports club.

What's on your agenda for this week?  Besides my normal commitments during the week, I will have busy weekend coming up.  Just hope mother nature will be pleasant to us this time.  Whatever you might have planned, I hope you all will have a good week and be sensible on the roads during worse conditions.

Love this weekend!

Hi everyone!  How's your week been going so far?  I have been busy by practically not home much during school hours. For the past four days I caught up with two friends and had two scrap meets to attend to as well.  

 

Also I had to try to finalized all the scrap pages ready for this weekend. Three albums are prepared and ready to scrap from tonight after dinner.  

 

I was hoping to leave home by 4pm as I know it will take close to an hour to drive there due to peak hour traffic in the afternoons on Wembley and Moggill Roads.  I use Logan Motorway (which has toll points) to get to Centenary Highway. Being Friday, the peak hour traffic starts when school finishes. 

 

Have a great weekend everyone!

Music technology

Hi everyone!  How was your week?  As usual I was busy with school and other commitments.  But I had two scrapbooking workshops this week.  Both were held on the same day on Wednesday.

 

Rachel had her final morning of her year 7 into 8 transition program at the high school yesterday.  For five weeks they had different subjects to have mild experience of learning for about an hour each per subject.  Can't remember what other subjects she studied but yesterday it was food studies and music.  She was telling me her small group made pikelets for morning tea.

The parents and/or carers were invited to come into the school on their first break to share morning tea with their kids and teachers.  I had an interesting conversation with a teacher's aide from another primary school. Looks like when the transition of all year 7s starting high school in 2015 will be a huge impact to all primary schools in Queensland.  Depending on the enrollment numbers of each primary place, the schools will lose enrollments of at least two or more classes of year 7s.  Also they might lose a couple of teachers as well.  Or less the education department transfers the year 7 teachers to the high school as well but I can't see that one happening.  But my thought is:  will most of the 12-13 year old students be ready to step up to learn at a high school environment by then??

 

After morning tea we went to the music room for the kid's final lesson of the program.  I was totally blown away as I had first hand experience what it was like to be a professional music artist. First time in my life I got up close and personal with this kind of modern technology equipment. If only this was existed over 20 years ago, I would of been learning more about music all through high school. The kids and I had abit of play and created some musical notes via a computer program and keyboard.  I was having a ball!! Even the music teacher loved what I created.  I told her straight that I couldn't read musical notes but I can pick up a musical note quite easily, just by the sound only.  There is abit of a music gene in my family as a couple of past generations had a couple of cousins in a music band.  I was told they used to performed at local pubs. 

 

What's on your agenda for this weekend?  I am hoping to finalized my scrap preparations, ready for next weekend while my 14 yo is away for the weekend at her friend's house.  Tomorrow I have to be at bowling about half an hour early because we have an AGM on to discuss what's happening at the break up and next year. 

 

Consider someone's alarm was set to go off at 6am, I have been awake since then.  Haven't been outside because it has been raining since last night. It's nice to have slow rainfall because it helps the environment feel fresh again after such a dry winter and spring seasons. This morning we watched four DVD movies.  The first three were the Crocodile Dundee series and the forth DVD was PUSS IN BOOTS.

 

Better get into sorting out my scrap papers for my albums now. 

Have a good weekend! 

October report

Goodbye October! Halloween is over and it's already halfway into the first day of November.  

 

Who believes in Halloween? Did you decorate the house with Halloween?  How many craved pumpkins did you displayed this year?  DId your local kids dress up and went door knocking for any tricks or treats?  I am not really a Halloween believer myself but my kids love to be involved by dressing up and etc.  Last night they went door knocking for treats around a couple of blocks until bedtime.  Only four local kids came door knocking in my street but while I was out to visit the corner shop before sunset, I spotted four adults all dressed up in Halloween gear.  It looks like they were heading towards the local club for celebrations. Last Saturday night (27/10) my 14 yo went to a Halloween Party with afew friends from her school at a house with full supervision of responsible adults, of course.  She would of liked to slept over at her friend's house but she had a bowling tournament to do on Sunday.

 

Hasn't it been a busy month? For me it might of been that busy.  Besides the normal commitments of being a mum, the taxi service and whatever other multiply tasks of being a parent, I had a busy month with outside commitments.  

 

The best highlights of my month would of been: Bowled my 200 game, a relative came into town for only two nights and I was introduced to French scrapbooking via AZZA. I attended two workshops to learn new techniques (ie interlocking photos and photo framing creation) from using the basic stencils.  SInce the workshops I have managed to complete afew pages in these techniques.  I had afew rubber necks looking on what I have done at other scrap meets. I have booked in to do another class this month with AZZA. The challenge is to create this A5 size album of 12 pages in three hours. It's going to be a surprise present to a friend who have I known for afew years now.

 

Only have another month of spring then summer will be here.  Actually summer temps already started since spring started in September.  There is times we had four seasons in one week.....from hot to cold, wind or rain.  Are we becoming like Melbourne now?  I heard over the years that capital city has four seasons all the time.

 

Consider storm season has started, we had severe warnings but most storms had hit in the west. By the time the cell moves to the SE coast, the tense of the cell dies down to more a local thunderstorm or just rain. We had a storm and rain by passing us here yesterday at around lunchtime.  I was on the way to bowling when the first dose of heavy rain appear! I thought my washing would of been wet while I was out.  So it was a surprise when I got back home to see the ground was dry as a bone.  On the way home the second storm didn't come here either but looked good to see the dark clouds in the distance for more heavy rain to hit elsewhere. But the kids told me it rained at school. On facebook last night (after I chucked my 14yo off my laptop) I did see that a severe warning was issued after the storm passed Logan area. But I didn't watch the night TV to find out if the storm hit severely or not.  I think the news report would of been more about the US hurricane hit this week.  Poor old US I feel for as I heard their perfect storm has hit in some states of the country. Is it common for a hurricane to hit just before winter?? Couldn't been a good halloween for them (the ones who celebrate the tradition).

 

If you love horses you wil love to hear this then. Next Tuesday it will be Melbourne Cup Day. As most Aussies know, it's a public holiday for Melbourne residents to celebrate a big horse race meet.  Thousands of people will dress up for the occassion and visit the race track to wine and dine. Other cities of Australia will have other people do the same at their local track or clubs for a fancy lunch.  They will watch the main race of the cup on TV which generally happens around 3pm (DST). I don't worry about this sort of thing as I am not really big on dressing up more formally or have the money to spend. To come and think of it, I never visited a race track for any race meets in Brisbane. I have a couple of friends who live near Eagle Farm and Doomben tracks but I am not sure if they have been to any of them or not.  Guess it's one of those questions I don't ask. Odd times I have driven past these tracks but never stopped and walked in.

 

For international readers, I have further information about the Melbourne Cup. Here's the website link for your enjoyment to read and learn more this annual horse race event annually in Melbourne.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Cup

 

While I was growing up my Mum used to follow horse racing throughout the country and placed small bets at a local TAB.  Odd times (when I was over 18) I might place a friendly bet but I haven't done it for the past couple of years.  Maybe because I never picked the winner!

 

Better go as I have afew other things to do at home today.  Have a good month!