And the week rolls on...

Thursday and already inhabitants of BJ Drive have rolled out their garbage bins. I mustn't forget either. To Do lists keep growing at my desk here and at work, fruit for a birthday cake for a favoured and much loved brother is soaking in the kitchen along with the dishes from yesterday's breakfast (separately of course, in different vessels and in different liquid mediums) and the loungeroom floor is adrift in its weekly scatterings from trips away, late evenings back from work and other convenient drop offs to suit a fast track to the sofa with a longed for cuppa.



Spain leads the soccer at half time - the only time I backed Germany since the Australia Germany game. So after up there cazaly at the top of the tipping, this last week I have taken a dangerous and sadly unrecoverable dive!! Dammit! It would have been such a win at work on a number of fronts! 'Anniedee' a new persona to be reckoned with!! Ah well it has been fun riding the wave if not exciting. I had to keep saving the printout of the ladder for posterity it was so exciting. ....Spain has just won. Should have listened to Carlo after all!

Going forward I have daughter No 3 visiting tomorrow and I can hardly wait. Hopefully we will get to skype daughters 1 and 2 and have a good catch up all round. Both daughter 3 and I have a list each I think of how we we will fill in our time together and one of those for me is for daughter 3 to get my skype and sound system up and running properly. We have lots of movies to watch, knitting to start and continue, curtains to sew for a favoured and much loved brother's combi, a garage sort, friends to have round, baking to do and for me it is all to happen in one weekend! Daughter No 3 has a little bit longer so happiness will echo longer through the house in her presence.

Man No 1 continues to build his shed with the help of his son No 1 and is working to get his car back in form for the next race weekend coming up. It's been great to see the shed take form and seeing how it all gets put together - just like a craft activity only on a larger scale. No wonder I like Bunnings as much as I like craft shops. I just don't have the patience that man No 1 has, so it's well that I live here in my place and he in his.

Radio tells me it's time to move on getting ready for work, turn the engine on of the car so the windows defrost and of course..put the bins out...

Roll on tomorrow and happiness with daughter No 3 coming home...

Rainy Tuesday

Morning started fresh as I was greeted outside my front door by a windswept path of autumn leaves and a mist of soft dewy raindrops. Little jazz looked bright behind the veneer of an overnight gentle wash of rain that I never heard rugged up in my warm doona overnight.

Off we went to work and I still can't make out why all the parks are taken at T Street but not at C Street. Normally it's always the reverse. To-ing and fro-ing for meetings has its benefits - always an opportunity for a little spacer of music as long as you don't become so absorbed as to become remiss over the 40k zone as you pass the school in between, or so absorbed that you screech breaks to miss ambling pedestrians likewise absorbed into the worlds of their earphones. Finding a car park is always a challenge if you are running late, but today and yesterday too easy altogether. I think most of the population of the workplace must be on school holidays up north escaping the winter that has just hit.

It was a busy day with winter ills absences in the team. All good and things got done and I still had a laugh in the interchanges in the kitchen, over the printer and passing in the corridor. Crossword didn't get completed today, that means someone was missing today or had another lunch engagement. There is always one guy in particular who everyday manages to complete the crossword. I keep trying to photocopy the blank one before he gets to it but I guess I am not really committed enough.

All in all a satisfying day but being half a team down, their absence was felt in a major way. All the little interchanges between team members that help you roll along and the quirky humour that pops up in all kinds of surprising ways were all missing, apart from of course the added workload that had to be relocated or shifted to the remaining or put on hold. Hopefully some return to a normal operating team will occur tomorrow.

Home again at day's end is about relaxing as I am much too tired for anything serious. Think I am even too tired for reviewing the days politics on the wider national or international scale. Probably afraid of being too disappointed with policy decisions made to woo the right. Yes off to sleep I think.