Day 13

I was going to post the 12 pictures I took on the 12th for the 12 of 12 challenge on SS but my PSP7 doesn't want to load .. I think I need to put this computer to sleep and restart it tomorrow. Anyway, at least, after a year, I finally remember to take the 12 photos! Hopefully I will also be able to scrap them, as part of my Year in photos (365 project) album for 2009.
Today's photo is from my Vision Training and Webinar. We had around 10 laptops plugged into power boards in the conference room and spent the day zooming around in Vision, creating excel reports from Sun Finance..it was very interesting but extremely tiring. I was exhausted! I had a sleep on the lounge somewhere before 7pm and wasn't much more mobile after that..I only got up off the lounge to pick the kids up from "Marly and Me" at the movies. T and I will go on Saturday as I may feel more awake then! I fell asleep last time I went to a night movie so didn't want to risk it today :)

DAY 12

Andrew met me at work and we snuck out for a drink at the Sports Bar before heading home. We had to spend $15 to use the cc so we got a take-away Vanilla Slice to share later....we had double dessert tonight LOL
This dessert (pictured) was lovingly and very secretively prepared by B9 and T7 :) Cooking chocolate, strawberries, nectarines, peanuts, banana, strawberry doughnut using the tealight fondue set T won in a pre-school raffle a few years ago.
B and T love to surprise us with little things like this - Breakfast is another meal they love to prepare...

Day 11

M came home from Auntie's just as we were settling in to do some budget planning for our NZ trip.
She "undressed" our Christmas tree, ready for me to take it apart and put it away for another year. It's time to start thinking about school supplies, not Christmas, even though CMPhoto is sharing her countdown with us on a regular basis on SS!

I went for another walk this morning but this time we went bush. It was a good chance to stretch out some of the muscles that were a bit sore from yesterday's race and an opportunity to do some bushwalking prior to our big mountain walk in New Zealand. After an hour and a half at the hiking shop yesterday I got my new hiking boots as well as some good socks, sock liners, zip off 3/4 pants and a neck roll to keep out the cold. I've also ordered a pair of 3/4 thermal underpants. I'm looking forward to wearing all my new gear, especially trying my hiking boots around here before we go. I thought about wearing the boots today, but I think I'll wear them around home a bit for a few days first...

Day 10

In preparation for New Zealand and also to increase M's overall fitness I decided we should go walking with Grandma and the Running and Walking club. This was my first such walk in quite a while and as it turned out it was a tough first walk. It was the final in a three series 5km competition. I walked hard the first 2.5kms, ahead of mum who walks regularly but is after all sixty years old!! After the turn/water stop I slowed right down and was passed by my three pacing partners. I began to stroll as I really couldn't keep up the same pace for another 2kms...then I got bored, so I jogged a bit, giving up my walking status (race numbers 300 and above are for walkers and I was number 345) and walked and ran until I crossed the finish line in the official time of 40.12minutes. Mum aka Grandma crossed not too far behind me and ended up taking out the silver medal after taking part in all three races in this series. Mel is all organised to come out with us on Wednesday...I wonder if she will...
PS to an earlier posting - my Australian Open cup was still on my desk and nobody has light-fingered it :)

Day 9

Just before bed on January 8th I heard an exclamation of sh*&t from the hallway and was surprised to see dh standing under a dripping ceiling in the hallway. After some examination in the ceiling we discovered where the water was coming from and agreed we needed to call the aircon man in the morning. And that sometimes we actually need to spend money on handymen instead of trying to always fix stuff ourselves...
Mid morning on Friday I left work to meet up with our technician at home. He took a quick look around, on the roof and in the roof space and determined that we just needed a service. This photo shows our aircon after all the pads etc. were removed for cleaning. By the time I got home from work it was all back together and we haven't had any issues with water since then...touch wood..