How is everyone? Guess you are all wondering where I have been for the past two months?? Actually I have been too busy to do other things since work experience had started. In August I started my work experience at an OSHC centre. I work two afternoons a week and had four days during vacation care in September. Its going well so far!!
All I have really done for the past two months is study and more study!!! At times it can get quite stressful thinking of getting my hours up. I don't know how a lot of single parents can cope with raising a child on their own, do the damn housework, employment work and study too. I tried to have two nights a week to make up my study hours too.
We recently had school holidays for two weeks. I didn't get a lot of time with my girls due to studying and work experience. But we did get to manage to see two movies: PIXELS and PAN at the cinema. My 15 yo had her second week of school holidays at Grandma's.
Gotta go as my battery is getting low. Have a good October (well. what's left of it)
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Monday, 27 July 2015
July report
Consider it is only four days to go until we say farewell July, we are half way into winter season we had a mixed bag of weather. Either had snow (in places where residents had seen snow since the mid 80's), rain, wind but only in the past couple of days we had lovely warm sunshine.
My neighbours moved out today so my narrow street was busy with vehicles everywhere. I had to park a four houses down after I dropped Rachel off to school this morning. The neighbours auction the house off in June but I won't say how much because you might fall off your chair!! Its sad to see them go as they are a nice family.
Earlier this month we had school holidays for two weeks. Didn't do a great deal in the first week as I had the flu but it is now doing the cycle to other family members. In the second week the girls and I caught a couple of PG movies at the cinema. My eldest girl and I seen Magic Mike 2 at the cinema. I was abit disappointed as there wasn't enough male action from the boys compared to the first movie.
Last weekend I had a cousin up from Sydney. I went out for lunch with her and her partner in the city on Sunday. They were up here for a major soccer match live for a preseason English match in Australia. On the weekend I attended to a 55th birthday dinner for a bowling friend.
That reminds me I have a couple of birthday cards to finish which I better get them done this week. I had been to a couple of craft class and days too this month. I have a couple of classes and meets this week. At least it gives me a break from studying, otherwise I would go crazy.
Speaking of studying I better get my brain back into studying tonight as I didn't get the chance to do any today. I had a busy day being online, sorting out some business affairs and my car had been booked for its 50 000km service to be done at lunchtime. All is good!
Enjoy your month of August! There are two family members who will celebrate their birthday this upcoming month.
My neighbours moved out today so my narrow street was busy with vehicles everywhere. I had to park a four houses down after I dropped Rachel off to school this morning. The neighbours auction the house off in June but I won't say how much because you might fall off your chair!! Its sad to see them go as they are a nice family.
Earlier this month we had school holidays for two weeks. Didn't do a great deal in the first week as I had the flu but it is now doing the cycle to other family members. In the second week the girls and I caught a couple of PG movies at the cinema. My eldest girl and I seen Magic Mike 2 at the cinema. I was abit disappointed as there wasn't enough male action from the boys compared to the first movie.
Last weekend I had a cousin up from Sydney. I went out for lunch with her and her partner in the city on Sunday. They were up here for a major soccer match live for a preseason English match in Australia. On the weekend I attended to a 55th birthday dinner for a bowling friend.
That reminds me I have a couple of birthday cards to finish which I better get them done this week. I had been to a couple of craft class and days too this month. I have a couple of classes and meets this week. At least it gives me a break from studying, otherwise I would go crazy.
Speaking of studying I better get my brain back into studying tonight as I didn't get the chance to do any today. I had a busy day being online, sorting out some business affairs and my car had been booked for its 50 000km service to be done at lunchtime. All is good!
Enjoy your month of August! There are two family members who will celebrate their birthday this upcoming month.
Monday, 6 July 2015
June report
WOW! Half of 2015 has now passed. How was your month? June was a busy month trying to finish off three modules for semester one. But only managed to have one module assessed so far! Also attended to a practical day for first aide. I can't believe how much energy is taken out on you when to manually perform CPR to save a person's life. Since I have completed this course I have noticed on some TV shows how wrong the act is on performing CPR to a person.
Since our annual passes for theme parks was coming to a close in June we managed to have two more visits at Dreamworld and SeaWorld. It seems its cheaper to purchase a yearly pass now as I last knew one day entry for an adult is about $90 now. It was good to have a pass to go but if I continued to go regularly it was getting too tedious. It was good for the kids as they intend to love to go on rides more!! But if you aren't a ride person it is no point on visiting theme parks all the time. Even when I was a kid I wasn't really a big fan to lots of rides. The favourite things I used to love was viewing the animals and watching the shows.
Enjoy your month of July! It's currently school holidays for us. I did have afew plans organised but it went out the window last week. My first week was mainly spent at home recovering this nasty flu virus I caught. I am now over the worse symptoms of the flu and hopefully be back to normal by the time school resumes next week.
Since our annual passes for theme parks was coming to a close in June we managed to have two more visits at Dreamworld and SeaWorld. It seems its cheaper to purchase a yearly pass now as I last knew one day entry for an adult is about $90 now. It was good to have a pass to go but if I continued to go regularly it was getting too tedious. It was good for the kids as they intend to love to go on rides more!! But if you aren't a ride person it is no point on visiting theme parks all the time. Even when I was a kid I wasn't really a big fan to lots of rides. The favourite things I used to love was viewing the animals and watching the shows.
Enjoy your month of July! It's currently school holidays for us. I did have afew plans organised but it went out the window last week. My first week was mainly spent at home recovering this nasty flu virus I caught. I am now over the worse symptoms of the flu and hopefully be back to normal by the time school resumes next week.
Monday, 1 June 2015
May report
OMG! Where did the month of May go? I can't believe its the first day of June. It's supposedly be the official start of winter but I think most areas of country already had winter hit early. I know some areas of US had bad experiences with wild weather recently. But on 1st May Brisbane had the most wettest storm afternoon in history. From 2pm (the time my Aunt's funeral started in Mackay) the first sound of thunder started and continued with heavy rain until about 7pm. Most motorists had the longest journey home that evening as a lot of roads were under water. I did have an outdoor event to attend to that night but it was proposed to Sunday afternoon.
I had a busy month as always with normal commitments to deal with. I had some run around issues to deal with my field placement. I may found a successful venue as long the college doesn't give me the run around with relevant paperwork this week.
The only highlights of the month was attending to a live football game and to attending to a Dr Who event in Brisbane. I don't watch the show religiously but I only attend to this event as my friend had spare tickets. I got to meet the main character of show very briefly and witness the question forum in the afternoon where fans of the show was allowed to ask many questions to the three actors for two hours. I found the forum was educational and learnt more about the actor's career myself.
Time to get some studying done this afternoon. I have two assessments to complete in the next 3 weeks. It's been a very long time since I last completed an assignment successfully. One assessment is a very long essay to complete. I started on this assessment last night at Maccies while waiting for my friend to show up after he played sport.
Enjoy your first season of winter or summer! I know which hemisphere I would love to be at right now.....wherever there is summer! My 14 yo child was home from school for 3 days last week as she had the winter flu cross chest infection. Can you see why I hate winter? It's not the cold temperature its all the winter viruses anyone can catch.
I had a busy month as always with normal commitments to deal with. I had some run around issues to deal with my field placement. I may found a successful venue as long the college doesn't give me the run around with relevant paperwork this week.
The only highlights of the month was attending to a live football game and to attending to a Dr Who event in Brisbane. I don't watch the show religiously but I only attend to this event as my friend had spare tickets. I got to meet the main character of show very briefly and witness the question forum in the afternoon where fans of the show was allowed to ask many questions to the three actors for two hours. I found the forum was educational and learnt more about the actor's career myself.
Time to get some studying done this afternoon. I have two assessments to complete in the next 3 weeks. It's been a very long time since I last completed an assignment successfully. One assessment is a very long essay to complete. I started on this assessment last night at Maccies while waiting for my friend to show up after he played sport.
Enjoy your first season of winter or summer! I know which hemisphere I would love to be at right now.....wherever there is summer! My 14 yo child was home from school for 3 days last week as she had the winter flu cross chest infection. Can you see why I hate winter? It's not the cold temperature its all the winter viruses anyone can catch.
Thursday, 7 May 2015
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.
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.
Wednesday, 1 April 2015
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.
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.
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
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.
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.
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