yay, Port Macquarie for 8 days … I really really really need this week off …. just doing nothing except what we want to do. And Mr Tasmania is exhausted – only NOW is it the end of first term – yep, three school terms in Tasmaia – and he’s had it.

so we’ll enjoy our break, drink far too much coffee, eat too much, sleep a lot, relax, and come back to work off the kilos – bliss!

Well, phew, the BroBoss and Chiligirl have been and gone and we're back to normal .. or relatively so, as I'm counting down until my week off! We're heading off to Port Macquarie for a week (Mr Tasmania is on school holidays for two weeks, I've got one week + one day – yay for Public Holidays!) and we're going to visit some friends and get some warmth

We had a great time with them, it was really nice to have one of my siblings come and visit – and now they know where I am and what I'm talking about, it's great! I took Friday and Monday off and we took them touring Friday and Saturday – I think we actually wore them out, but it was good ‘cause they saw the ‘normal' boundaries of my life (‘cause I'm not off tripping around Tasmania every day of the week, oddly enough) and they also got a lot of time to sleep, read, veg out etc … and in my brother's case, play with his phone (yes, he's a phone dweeb, much like my husband … no wonder they get on!).

We caught up with friends, Chiligirl managed to eat 18 fresh oysters, a dozen fresh scallops, as well as prawns, trevalla, and various other seafoody bits (the fresh fish situation at home, for a girl who grew up in Bondi, is a little dire). We visited one local, awesome, seafoody restaurant twice in fact – and they were only here from Thursday night (late) to Monday evening! The BroBoss had a great time napping, reading the paper, napping, reading a book, napping, faffing about with his phone, napping .. you get the picture.

They gave us a gorgeous numbered print by an artist I love … in fact I put the print on layby (layaway) whilst we were at a local paper outlet and they snuck back in and paid off the layby so they could give it to us as a thank you at the airport – they drive me nuts at times [as I do them! Don't worry, we're proper siblings, we annoy the heck out of each other ] but they do know me very very well!

Tonights joy has involved three or four loads of washing, two loads (so far) through the drier, and starting a general tidy up … as it’s only four sleeps to go until we go away! And I’d kinda like to have some clean clothes to take!

who get write ups in the local paper! … it’s getting out of control!

I am a fan, to a point … and I swore I'd never join the one that I've just joined …. ‘cause I don't have enough time to do all I want to do in my day as it is, let alone spend MORE time on the computer ….

But I've joined …

And it's all the BroBoss' fault!

He put pics up and then asked me if I wanted to join … so I had to … didn't I?

I really can't quite see myself getting into all the little itty bits of it … in fact I'll probably actively avoid all those bits … but I like the wall and the ability to catch up with people – and the groups etc …

So there's some good … and nice to see faces to attach to names (hello wibbers!) … but I can't see this becoming my ‘home' on the internet .. as one commentator called it … I've already got a home in NSW, a home in Tasmania, and a ‘home in utero' (ie the block) … without adding a virtual home … I think three's enough for one girl, don't you?

We washed the dog today … it had been quite sunny and warm but, of course, just as we started it ‘commenced to pour’ (to use the words of a character from a novel that I can’t remember the name of … is it Poirot?). Anyhoo, he wasn’t impressed, we got soaked, but he’s washed now and will be washed every three or four weeks from now on.

On a side note, it’s quite hard to type when you have a paper cut at the top of your right ring finger – ouchy!

I bought a set of 10 solar powered lights on sale yesterday, put them together this morning, and Mr Tasmania has set them out around the garden this evening. It’s lovely and cheer to come home to little lights glowing blue/white in the garden … very nice indeed.

That’s about it really … oh, we went to the big bonfire and firecracker night at Mr Tasmania’s school last night – I must saythe baked potato with sour cream, cheese, and coleslaw was scrumptious – the bonny was HUGE, and the fireworks really great – love fireworks – went on for about 20 minutes, excellent stuff!

Otherwise, it was housework and not much in the garden … though hopefully I can remedy that tomorrow!

Just before they all disappeared:

Just after they all disappeared:

Saturday, when they all came back (and had some extra friends!). The sign says ‘We’re back!’:

Yes, you’re right, we were married in December … but today is the two year anniversary of The Proposal!

And tomorrow is Mr Tasmania’s birthday – can’t wait to tell you about the pressies we’ve bought him – they’re great!!!!

No, it's not big news J … not actually planning on that sort of big news so don't hold your breath!

I did get a mothers day present from JD the blue heeler however …. Apparently he had the urge to get in the LandRover and hoon off to Burnie and get me a pressy – nice of him, don't you think?

As well as a lovely card with a big muddy footprint, I received a 320GB external hard drive – yay! – for the purpose of saving all our photos and otherwise useful items which we would be devastated to lose.

Very very nice!

Now comes the not so fabulous task of going through all the items that we've copied (I mean the originals on the laptop) and deleting all those that I'm not too paranoid about – ‘cause the paranoid ones are staying on the computer, trust me J …. Yes, I know, I have at least three DVD backups of the wedding photos, now a copy on the Hard drive … I can probably get rid of them … but I can't help being paranoid

Mr Tasmania has just phoned me to tell me that is a large sign at the Door Tree saying ‘We’re back’ and there are about 15 gnomes all around it!

too funny!

Hopefully will have pics on flickr site tomorrow – Mrs Tasmania

the sun is out, hooray, and I’ve done the vacuuming. The second load of washing is on, the house is dusted and the bathrooms cleaned, I’ve had lunch, and now it’s time to GARDEN.

HOOOOOORRRRRAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

*can you tell I like gardening? Just a bit?

PS My parents went and saw Ir*n Man on Wednesday night, they loved it, and said the shorts for the new Indiana Jones movie coming up were AWESOME …. anything else out lately that anyone recommends?

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