excitment and emotion

well its only 15 days til my dad AND Alison arrives! am getting so emotional its not funny! am already stressing about how upset i am going to be when he leaves!!!!!!!!!!!!!! am sure this last two weeks will drag and drag and drag!! work is pretty full on just now, kids school holidays and no staff! AND a new ward to open. who said that promotion was good?/?? as the boss on most shifts i get to deal with all the crap! people who threaten to leave cos they cant get a private room, all sorts of crap......... i just get it all!!! well i called one patients bluff cos we dont have any private rooms (there are actually sick people in them!) and guess what............ she left!!!!!!!! roll on my annual leave! on a brighter note my baby Hamish went to puppy pre school and behaved impeccably. he sat and stayed when told and even defended a smaller puppy!!! i am soooooo proud of him!!! he is still a little bugger tho! the kitten is also as bad and swipes Hamish when he thinks no one is looking!!! and he hides down the pockets of the pool table sending everyone in to complete panic!!!!!!!!!!!!!! last Sunday we went to a winery for lunch, it was a beautiful day and with good food and lots of wine a good day was had by all!!! here are some pics of my work mates drinking wine on the lawn. 1st picture is of nikki, kylie, sharmain and anita, the second is of michelle, the boss kathy and jasmin.

newest addition

well we have added to our ever growing family! we are the proud owners of a new ginger kitten named charlie. michael named him after bonnie prince charlie! we wanted something scottish and he was flicking thru the scottish history book. hamish loves him to DEATH! well sometimes!! seriously tho he is very good with him seeing he is only 4 and half months old himself! he just gets a little rough at times but charlie is fit for him and he has more than one bloody nose! was in the pet shop today and spotted a little jack russell/foxie cross, hes beautiful but michael said no!!!

he would have made a perfect playmate for hamish and charlie!!!!!!!!!

ME

ME ME ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its ALL about ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHUMMY WHERE ARE YOU????

AND ANOTHER SAT NIGHT

well this is my brilliant life in australia!!! if anyone thought that michael and the kids would change then you are sooooo wrong!!!! this pic shows mikey on the sofa, pissed and asleep! michael sober and asleep!!! and the bloody dog!!! all asleep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! murrae is in bed and stevi is staying with a friend!! this is the scene that greets me!!! i have spent the evening watching uk tv, most haunted texting my brother!!! me not out on the piss on a sat!!??? i cant remember the last time i was pissed? think it was

about march>? its now bloody september?????? whats happening to me......................................................

out of practice

well finally after much nagging michael actually took me out!!! what a disaster that was!! he went from this to this and this in less than 5 hours!! then asleep behind the ensuite door!!! such a light weight!!!! he drank as much as me and i am on antibiotics for chest, ear and throat infection and sinusitis!! AND i hadnt eaten all day!!!!!!!!!! oops pics are back to front!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! on a lighter note!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY DAD HAS BOOKED HIS FLIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOP WOOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

parties and accidents

hi folks, well its been two weeks since my last post. not much has happened but we had a house warming party on the 11th august and a good time was had by all. there were approximately 23 people here most of them nurses!! (kenny you missed a golden opportunity!!) i will post pictures when my friend sends me copies!! my camera battery died an hour before people started arriving so i will have to rely on jasmin. however, this weekend my darling little puppy dog hamish decided to get over excited when i was playing with him and he headbutted me in the face. i now have a nice little purple area on my cheek bone! i have to go to school today for stevis subject selection interview and to see the principal about her being bullied and skiving off school last week!! how nice am i going to look!!! oh well shit happens!!!! 52 DAYS til my dad gets here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BIRTHDAYS

i am an awful daughter!!! it was my dads birthday on fri and i didnt manage to get his cards sent on time!!!!!!!!!!!! PLUS it was my step moms birthday a few weeks before that and i still havent posted them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I DONT KNOW WHERE THE POST OFFICE IS!!!!!!! no excuse i know but its the truth!!! typing this is very difficult as i trapped my index finger in the cupboard door and i think i've broke it!!!! it hurts like hell!! oh well pay back for being a bad daughter!!!! by the way, house warming on sat 11th aug. everyones invited!!!!

this week............

well this week i havent been up to much, been back at work after having a week off to sort the house out. its been hectic at work as usual but there we go thats what we're there for!!! stevi took some new pics of me and her last night so i thought that since there arent that many of me around i would post some!!!!

the new house part 2

took so many pics that i've had to put on a couple of posts!!

new house

well folks we have moved into our new house!! its fantastic! we have never had so much space!! i love it!!! i cant believe how lucky we are, we are just glad that we made the move cos there is no way we could ever afforded this in our wildest dreams in aberdeen. mind you what good would a pool be in aberdeen!!?? thanks to everyone who has sent their best wishes and to everyone we miss you loads!!! life is ALMOST perfect!! wish time travel was real and you could just nip back and forth with the blink of an eye. love yas xx

5 more sleeps til we move and hamish comes home for good!!! one more shift at work and one more study day til i am on holiday for a week!!! havent had any holidays since feb and god i really need it now!!! all the stress of the visa application, buying the house and getting my job is really taking its toll!!! i am sooooooooooooo tired!!!!!!! on a lighter note this is a pic of hamish on his weekend home!! the little bugger was swinging from my washing on saturday!!!!

HAMISH

HE

IS OURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my friends housemate said she will look after him til we move into our new place!!! he is gorgeous. his birthday is the 3rd of may the same as snaps!!!!! i think it was fate that made us get him!!! oh well into the realms of puppy training we go!!! wish us luck. xxx

new additions

well today we went to the pet shop and met hamish! we want him sooooo badly!!!!! the only thing in our way is that the pet shop normally only hold puppies for a week. i even offered to pay them outright for him if only they can keep him til we get the keys to the new house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! alas no!!!!!!!!!!!! i have to phone the shop on monday and speak to the manager. i will plead my case!!! if only the we could have a pet in this rental place then we could just get him tomorrow!!!! people keep your fingers crossed that we can eventually take hamish home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh... my....god!!!!

well today i learned that we have finance etc for the house we want!!!!!! i cant believe it!!! we finally have a house with 4 bedrooms 2 bathrooms, 2 family rooms and a pool!!!!!!! this is what my dreams were made of!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND i was promoted today!!!!!!!!!!!! life cant get much better than this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am so happy that i could pee myself!!!!!!!!!!! lol!!!!!!!!!! i cant descirbe how i am feeling! i can cry at the drop of a hat but for once for the right reasons!!!!!!!!!! people like me dont get things this easy!!! suddenly my life is almost perfect!!! i have the house of my dreams, i actually love my job!! love my kids (for a change) and my sleepy headed unsociable loveable lump of a husband!!! the only things missing are my family!!! cant help thinking that things are going to crash around my ears.......................................................................................things like this dont happen to people like me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

addit: 20/6/07 thought i would post more pics!!!! am soooooooooooooooooooo excited

houses

well tomorrow we meet with the mortgage broker to find out if we can actually afford the house we have put an offer in on!!! from what we have worked out on the mortgage calculators online we can!!! for those of you who want a sneak preview of our potential new home here is the link that will take you to it. http://reiwa.com/lst/lst-ressale-details.cfm?prop_no=3&searchRef=Heathridge let me know what you guys think and i will keep you all up to date with the proceedings!!!

addit: the link isnt working so got to www.reiwa.com.au and search heathridge 4 bedrooms 2 bathrooms. the address is 9b martinup place on the website. there has been a printing error the acutal address is 9b martinup court!!! AND the bank has pre approved our mortgage!!! they have to do a valuation thing to make sure that we arent paying $432000 for a shack!!! thats £177000 in real money! xxx

my dads thumb

this week i have been all over the place!!!! we finally have been

granted our permanent residency so that means we are NOT coming home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! then i had an arguement with the estate agent about her doing a rent inspection without prior notice!!!!! and that the shower is obviously leaking and making the hall wall damp and plaster fall off!!!!!!!!!! my fault obviously!!!!!!!!!!!! THEN i find that my brother cut my dads thumb off with a circular saw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a bloody week!!!!!!!! thankfully the docs at ARI managed to sew the thumb back on and pin it. we just have to wait and see that it all comes back together properly!!!!!!!!!!! well this weekend i am taking stevi to see pink on sunday and we will be looking at houses to buy!!! i have seen a nice one that needs a little tender loving care with 4 bedrooms and a pool!!!!!!!!!!! so people keep positive thinking cos I WANT THAT HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

just an addition!!! the house we were looking at had sold before we got a chance to view it, but we viewed one today and put an offer in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! positive thinking ++++++++ folks pleasssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee oh and anyone got a spare couple of grand to help with our legal fees!!!!?????????????????

just to satisfy my gramma

well given that i have posted pics of the kids and sent hard copies to my gramma, she has complained that she has no photos of me and michael!! well what can i say i am the one normally holding the camera!!!! i have decided to post the pic of me on the night of my works night out for christmas and one the kids took last sunday!! i have to say that i hate getting my photo taken and am open to mega criticism!!! i have to add that i have lost weight since the christmas pic but i can agree that the pic from last sunday doesnt look like it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mum

well tomorrow is my mums birthday, she would have been 58. as its also mothers day on sunday in australia i decided to do something special for her. i fed my addiction to tattoos and went and got a life long reminder of her tattooed on my wrist. its the chinese symbol for mum. in august i am going to get the other wrist tattooed with the chinese symbol for dad for his birthday too! aint i a wonderful daughter!! pressies for parents but really for me!!!!

miss you mum where ever you are and dad miss you too but see you soon xxx

murrae and stevi

well this week nothing has happened apart from more mind numbing paperwork in our quest to become permanent residents of australia!!! its very stressful and the number of forms to fill in is brain scrambling!! we had our chest x rays done on friday and we have our medicals on wednesday. somehow we were misled into believing what we had done is scotland would still be valid here!!! NOT the case! so we have now spent ANOTHER $1500 getting new ones done!! i am getting very tired of all this red tape and just wish it was all sorted!! to top it all i have a stinker of a cold! have spent most of the weekend wrapped up in a fleecy blanket feeling sorry for myself!!! on a brighter note murrae got his school photo on friday and i have to say its very cute! he could have smiled a bit more tho!!! i have scanned his last primary school photo too so we can all see if he has changed any since august!!! and an addit:::: this is stevi one too, she hates it!! i think its very cute!!!

HOLY S**** HOW DID THIS HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH MY GOD!!!!! stevi went out tonight for a friends birthday. she went all out and bought a dress!!!! i was at work and didnt see her before she went out. i was thinking oh my god what kind of state will she be in!!! however, michael took photos of her before she went out!!! shit!!! we have now decided that she never leaves the house alone EVER again!!!!! how did we miss that our little shit who was accident prone and clumsy becoming a young lady!!!! i know that we are bias but we think shes gorgeous!!! the hairdressers in perth are going to make a fortune. my already greying hair is gonna go white over night!!!! michael said when she was a baby that she wasnt allowed to wear little dresses with frilly knickers and i laughed and said he was an old fart!!! shit how did i know she was going to look like this!!!! you look fab honey and we love you loads!!!! just dont grow up anymore!!! well not yet!!!!