Start of Spring season

WOW! Where is this year going? It's now halfway into spring here in Australia. But our temps have been more like summer in SE QLD as we had a couple of hot days with storms and rain finally here. On last Thursday evening we had a good crack of a thunderstorm here. Over 80 000 homes had lost power from anywhere between 1-3 hours.

 

Monique's baby was welcomed into the world at 9:45pm on Sunday 29th September. She weighed in at 9lb 7oz and quite long (similar sized to a 3 month old baby).  They named her Jade! She is quite an observant child and loves her tummy time! I wouldn't be surprise if Jade becomes an early walker by 9 months old as I was told last week she had her first roll over. In her first week of life she was trying to strengthen her neck muscles.

Sadly my contract work at the school ended in August. Since then I have been looking for work and doing volunteer work at a big op shop warehouse. I was doing 15 hrs per week sorting out incoming of donations of clothing and manchester for a month but now I am sewing goody bags from recycled fabric. My job is to add company labels to these small bags. Last week I done almost 200 bags by myself. I love it!  Just a shame I can't be paid to sew. Not sure if there is any machinist jobs out there. I should have a look online after this blogging is done. Then again maybe I should sew some items to sell. I used to sew my own clothes when I was in my teen years. I kept on doing it until I got married and had a family of my own.

Last month I had time off (for two weeks) because I had a skin cancer removal off my upper back. It seem to be all out now and no further treatment was required. The surgery cut is long as a finger but the tumour was thick as a thumb. Rachel had a blood vessel mole removed off her face too. And a cousin of my Dad's had major back surgery last month. He was transferred to a rehab unit to get physio and training to walk again for about three weeks. My Dad and I went up to the hospital over two weeks ago to visit him. He progressed so well that they sent him home last week.

On Friday night I went out for dinner and concert with my friend at a club.  The concert we saw was a group called ABBA Live who performs 70's songs from the original ABBA band. The function room was full of people of mostly over 40 who sang and/or danced for over two hours. Who remembers ABBA songs? What was your favourite song? There is afew songs used from Mamma Mia musical movie I like. If you can remember Muriel's Wedding they used a couple of ABBA songs too.  

Better go and prepare myself for another job interview now. I had a job interview yesterday afternoon which I don't think I was a successful applicant. The interviewer didn't really asked me a lot of questions like most people do. I was pretty much out the door within ten minutes. After the interview I called into another childcare centre up the road from the interview venue to see if they were hiring any new staff. The Assistant Director said not at present time but she was happy to accept my resume copy.

 

Until next blog:  Have a good term! There is only seven weeks until summer vacation hits.