A Sad April

Last week of April wasn't the best week of the month. Sadly my Auntie died on Monday morning of 27 April after a short battle with cancer.  I only seen her 8 days before the worse of the cancer set in.  Within 3 weeks (between two scans) the cancer rapidly spread throughout her organs, bones and her brain but in the last three days of her life was the worse situation of all. The poor thing!! 

I am grateful I had the opportunity to see her on the school holidays and said my goodbyes to her then as we all knew she was terminally ill.  Just no one wasn't expecting to hit so fast!! Sadly I didn't attend to her funeral as I met to had a Friday night commitment on but it was postponed due to a super wet day in Brisbane.

Other than that, I had a busy month with school holiday activities.  The first week I spend time with my girls.  On that weekend I spend time with a family friend who was in town for afew days.  We went dining out for dinner and seen a movie on Saturday night. On Sunday we had a day at a theme park.

In the second week Monique and I had afew days away up north.  The purpose of this trip was to see my belated Auntie for the last time but we managed to spend time with afew of my other relatives and friends of mine. And went shopping and social bowling.

Back to school for term 2 started on 20 April.  On last Thursday Rachel's school had their annual cross country event.  Good timing really as we had a super wet Friday with heavy rain and thunder for hours.  A lot of roads were flooded so it was a long journey for motorists to get home from their destination that evening. Normally it takes me 30 minutes drive to my bf's but it taken me 3 hours to drive there that night.  He was such a sweet heart to wait for my arrival so late! We had a hamburger with the lot that night.  He even made the meat patty himself!!

I hope everyone is well and will enjoy the month of May.  To all readers who still have a mum, enjoy your Mother's day with her this Sunday. 

March report

WOW!  Where did March go? I had a busy month studying my course, attending to only a couple of craft meets and continue bowling on Sunday night. 

My team Is currently in first place. The second team (who has the top bowlers with 200 averages) is only one point behind us. Myself and my team mate had star of the week rewards and I won the one of the raffle draws once.
 
Besides the normal commitments I managed to see 1927 in concert with my boyfriend.  Wendy Matthews was their special guest.

Every Wednesday Rachel and I were at the club for dinner and see a free move upstairs.  Watched the movies we haven't seen before. 

Speaking of new release movies my boyfriend and I had seen STILL ALICE at the cinema.  It's a fiction story about a professional doctor in her 50s with Alzheimer's Disease. This story plot was too close to home as I had a grand parent with this horrible disease. The actress who played ALICE won an award for the best actress!

I can't believe the start of Easter is only two days away.  I plan to do some Easter shopping in the morning after I drop my daughter of to school. At this stage I don't know what we are going to do as my boyfriend works night shift on Thursday night and day shift on Easter Monday. Also I won't see my girls over Easter either as they will be away with their father. Rachel's birthday is on Easter Monday.

The girls will have the start of their school holidays on Good Friday.  We haven't made any concrete plans as this weather is so unpredictable.  Also I have some study to catch up on. 

All the best for a safe enjoyable Easter break! Safe travels on the road if you have any travel plans.  I don't think I will be driving much over the weekend as we have been forecast a wet and/or story weekend.  It's heavy rain right now while I am typing up this blog report.

February report

Goodness me! Where is this year going? It's now the forth day into march already. If my belated Nanna was still on earth she would of turned 105 today.
Australia supposedly have the start of autumn season now. It might be for some states of the country but not for SE QLD. We are forecast to have high 30s temperature for tomorrow. I don't know how global our weather report goes but Central QLD did experienced a tropical cyclone two weeks ago. A category 5 hit Shoalwater bay and Yeppoon at breakfast time. As it downgraded to a tropical low the storm cell moved south to the border. All we had was rain for a couple of days.
February was a busy month with normal commitments. Also Managed to see two new released movies at the cinema with my male friend. We had seen jupiters ascending and 50 shades of grey. I started to read the first book of 50 shades too.
Bowling has been going well lately. My team is currently in top place. My daughter and I bowl together now as the previous team mate ditched me on the first night back in January. Both my daughter and I had star of the week rewards last month too.
Last week I enrolled to study a certificate course thru a private tertiary institute in the city. I met to start at home this week but my first module hasn't arrived via post as yet. OMG! I hope my mail hasn't gone to Sydney instead if Brisbane. All the years my family lived at this address our mail intends to travel the country side.
All the best for a happy and healthy start of autumn or spring for northern hemisphere readers.

My Summer report

Goodness me!  Almost three months passed since I last posted on my blog.  The main reason I haven't posted until now because we had six weeks of summer vacation and I had serious issues with my old laptop which only now the problem is now sorted out a week ago.

December was the last month of 2014.  It was the beginning of officially summer season in Australia and getting prepared for Christmas.  I was busy with break up parties for craft, lunch with friends and finalized Christmas shopping. We had quiet festive celebrations with the family. Before Christmas we viewed the festive display in the city. I was abit disappointed as it wasn't a big display like the previous year.

We had six weeks of summer holidays until late January.  It was a busy time with my kids and spending time with the family and friends.  We had a lot of dining out moments, four birthday celebrations, 3 day visit to Dreamworld, Movieworld and SeaWorld, 2 day visit to the QLD museum and watched 6 movies at the cinema.

My girls are now back at school and settling into their new grade well.  Last week my 14 yo had her school's swimming carnival which her sports house won!!!

Since the girls are back at school, my bowling resumed and craft meets started.  But I might not be attending to many craft meets now as I plan on studying my qualification.

All the best for a healthy and happy 2015!

November report

Oh boy!  Only 20 days until Christmas and 27 days until we all say farewell 2014!! Where is this year going??? Who has completed their Christmas shopping?   

We already said goodbye to Spring as summer arrived early.  We had hot days and a couple of doses of good thunderstorms with damaging winds and hail for some areas of the SE coast. Not sure what Mother Nature will continue to have installed, if she is still on her angry path course. I plan on taking a week's summer trip with Monique in the New Year.  Where we plan on staying has a high risk of having tropical cyclones hit if the cells hit inland early.

November was a busy month for me. Besides normal commitments I had attended to an overnighter craft retreat at the Sunshine Coast. It was my first time to stay at this resort and I was quite impressed with the venue.  The staff were friendly, the food was fantastic and the beds were very comfy.   Consider it was only an overnight stay I managed to be productive and worked on two projects.

On the 16th November was the last night of bowling league. On the following week we had our fun night of bowling.  We played two games of bingo, had a BBQ dinner and Rachel managed to win the raffle. She came home with a big bag of goodies for the family to use. At the end of the month we had our official break up party at a sports club.  I did well on the night which you will have to read my sports blog to know the full results.

Monique just finished her year level for the year and she got another academic award.  It was her second year in the row to get another top student award in Art.

The best highlight of my month was seeing two US choppers flying over past my house.  One of them suppose to had the US president on board going home after the G20 convention held in Brisbane.  We had a public holiday on Friday (14th Nov) which was on high security alert for the airport and CBD areas for the welcoming of the world leaders to Brisbane. 

All the best for a happy festive season.  I hope your festive celebrations will be full of joy and peaceful with your family. If you have any travel plans over the break, I hope your destination will be a safe journey.  

October report

I done it again!  It's already past half way into November and I haven't done my October report.  I had a busy November so far but I will give that report in 2-3 weeks time.

It's supposedly be the last month of spring but summer already started in the south east states of the country. One thing I have noticed our daytime hours begins early.  Most days I have woken up well before 6am.  Either I get up to get the laundry done early or sleep abit longer. This weekend I have slept in until past 9am as I had very late nights up at my friend's house.

October was a quieter month as I had said in previous posts I had the flu.  I have been still coughing for six weeks now but not as bad I was weeks ago. Also I had two moles removed and the results were good!  I don't have skin cancer!!  It was my biggest health scare of my life!  It was my wake up call to think about my health. 

I don't have the body like a sexy model and I thought about time I should do something to look more attractive. Since the daylight hours are now early I should get myself up at sunrise and go for my morning walk around the community before the UV rays set in at 8am.  Where I live there are alot of hilly streets to walk on. Also thinking of taking up aqua aerobics again, just I got to find an indoor pool centre who does them in this side of town.  I know of a pool place at The Gap where I done aqua aerobics over 25 years ago. It would be a 10-15 minute drive from my home address.  On that note maybe I should consider this as my 2015 new year resolution. But like other years I never seem to stick to my plans or goals.

Until next report, have a good remainder of November.

September report

September has been and gone already and it's almost half way into October now.  It hasn't been a good start for me which I previously mentioned in the last post "MY HEALTH SCARE".

But September was a good month not as busy as August was. Besides the common craft meets I attended two birthday parties and watch a movie at the cinema with my best friend.

My kids just returned back to school last week after two weeks of spring vacation. I managed to spend alot of time with them both. We had days of shopping, going to the cinema, social bowling, dining out and a day at Dreamworld. 

Rachel had one week at home with me then her second week at her father's. It was nice to have a break from parenting for over a week.  Last two weekends she was at Grandma's who helped her make her Halloween costume.  It's all completed and ready for Halloween on 31st October.

Enjoy the rest of October!