Holls!

After a good long Easter weekend, I decided to take the rest of the week off from work, however Sy had to work as he had a big tender to do boo hoo so here I am sat at home on mi own (and it is raining)..... bloomin marvelous!

So I thought I would update a few things and do a bit of house keeping..... in fact I may even take a trip out to the Zoo :)

Anyway, back to my blog...... over the weekend Sy and I had a BBQ to celebrate our Residency and invited quit a few people over and had a blast! This means we now pay less tax and can now buy a house instead of living in fester pits or next to bust main roads! (to get get a decent rental out here you are looking at mega bucks...... $500 per week.... thats about 300 quid a week)..... its a right rip off!

Yesterday I decided to get some false eyelashes put on lol..... they should last 2-4 weeks..... I thought they would feel funny, but to be honest I can not tell I have them on (apart from when I look in the mirror). Sy has been going on about me getting these done since I had them done on my Birthday (he really liked them).... no pictures yet tho, but I will try get some posted before they drop out lol xx

Now I am going to stop writing and get on with some stuff...... we have just bought our car from a lease company... they sent us a letter saying that our insurance was paid up until next year.... but like everything out here.... you cant trust anyone or anything.... so Sy did a bit of digging and found that we are only covered until 30th April 2011...... yes that leaves us 2 days to look for insurance! What a joke hey! Anyway, they are going to get a lovely e-mail from us :)........ looking on the bright side.... at least we found out now, rather than finding out after a bump lol ...

Chow for now xx

First Tomato

Woooo hoo our tomato plant has sprouted!

Now all we need is for them to get bigger and go a lovely red!

Chilli Jam

Yum yum today while I am off work I have made some Chilli Jam! The chilli's have come from my own chilli plant whoop whoop so lets see if it is as hot hot hot as it should be......

Yep just tested it and it has blown my head off! Perfect! :)

Brisbane Floods

Floods Floods Floods!

Well we awoke this morning to find that Toowoomba hade been flooded, but not just by a bit of water but by a Tsunami of water flowing down the street! Some people have been killed and still people are missing... this is such a tragic day :(. People are getting together tho and helping out those in need, which is great!

The flood is heading down towards Brisbane City and lots of people have been exacuated. Sy works in the City center and I work in Fortitude Valley and both places are expected to flood in the next couple of days!

Sy's work told people to go home so they could be safe and attend to people in need (also if they or their families could not go home to get on a plane or stay in a hotel at the work expense). What a nice thing to do! However my work said to stay untill 5pm if we can but be careful..... and then went ahead to remind us that if we did go home we had to take either as Holiday or as sick leave...... nice hey......

This flood s to be as bad as the 1974 floods! which is not good at all...... google it!

Ant Bite

Today I mowed the lawn in my flip flops...... yeh yeh I should have been wearing trainers just in case my toes got chopped off..... and yeh we all learn from our mistakes.........

Because of all the rain we have had, when I mowed the grass it brought all the Ants to the surface and they did not like being disturbed....... I had lots of angry bull ants crawling all over my feet and in defense they bit me!

Now this is what happens when I am bit by a couple of Ants.....

This picture was taken the next day and as you can see my feet are still swollen! I looked like someone had placed a pump between my toes and blown them up ha ha ha.





You will be happy to know that the swelling has since gone down and now they just itch like crazy! So lesson of the day DO NOT MOW THE LAWN IN YER FLIP FLOPS!

Moving Blogs

Today I have moved from Live Journal to Blogger....... this way I can link to my Picassa account!

So much rain! Where has all the sun gone? Last weekend it rained, the weekend before it rained and now this weekend too! Back to work today and guess what..... Still raining..... Floods everywhere, roads closed, it's quite cool really as the rain is not just drizzle, it is full on pouring!

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The Move

Well the land lord has decided he wants to sell the house, so we are now moving.... Nearly all packed up and ready for Friday. Just got to do the kitchen and our bedroom and last but not least the TV......
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Straddy

A lovely sunday morning walk around straddy!

And to end the day with a beautiful sunset.........

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Update

I know I said that I would write more..... and I haven't...... and I am not gonna fill you with excuses..... so fingers crossed you should start to see more updates..... some will be backdated as I have been a busy lady and I have lots to tell...... almost 2.5 years of living in Australia with mi wonderful man and we have probably done a life time worth of activities.... so not it is time to prove what we have been up to and all the exciting things we have been getting up to xxx

Enjoy xxx