Pass the pain killers!

At last the working week is over for me I thought it would never end, it just went on and on and on and on this week. I think it was just me really and I got bored so that just made it all the worse. Anyway the weekend is here and I have fun things to do like put in a cat flap for Toby, but I bet N0.2 child will try to see if he fits through it at some point to liven things up!

Made a bad decision the other night I went to a friends to watch the footie, as I no longer have the sports on mine and as the offer of a few beers were on the table as well, how could one refuse! It was a great night and the beer and then the whisky flowed all to easily. I knew I should not of done it on a work night as the next morning I suffered for it, getting up early. Every noise was a lot louder than it should of been, I couldn't even put my ipod on to listen to the music my head was throbbing that bad and the usual  30 minute walk to work took nearly 60 minutes. The famous last words were spoken "never again", but that was two days ago and the weekend is here....so cheers hope everybody has a nice weekend.

The cat is pure evil and a pic for Doanli!

The pic above is of a lovable, cute little cat or else this is the pose Toby, likes to give to his admiring public. This is not how I see him. At the moment we are fixed in a power battle to decide who is top dog....I mean cat...no I don't I mean dog.....no I don't, even I'm confused now..anyway there is a power struggle going on!

He is still locked inside the house until he has his last injection this week and then he will be let loose to wreck havoc in the neighbourhood with all the other cats, but how he will do it without any balls is anyones guess. Toby's latest thing to piss me off is to sneak in our bedroom when we are asleep, jump on top of the chest of draws at the side of the bed and to then wait! He waits until ther is movement under the duvet (doona!) usually my feet and then launches himself claws first onto my feet and after he has got the reaction, namely a pillow being thrown in his direction then he is off. I'll have the last laugh as I won't feed him. Saying that he is curled up in a ball at the side of me as I write this as cute as can be.

To prove Toby,  has another side to him I will leave you this picture to show you the dark side of him!

Just click on the picture to see the hate filled eyes!

kitchen garden

Well what was meant to be a day outside attacking the garden ended up being a day indoors mostly due to the weather. It started off nice with the blue skies lighting up the morning but that soon changed to showers and gale force winds all day. Not to be out done though we went to the garden centre and got various trays of flowers and decided to make up some hanging baskets on the kitchen table. In the end you would of thought a farmer had ploughed a fiend through there instead of two children putting together two baskets. Anyway fun was had by all and the cat got in on the job as well by taking a liking to the sweet peas and eating them as fast as the kids planted them. He eventually took a flying lesson of the table though to get rid of his help!

Jumping and digging!

The weekend finally arrived this week to try and blow the boredon couds away that have been hovering around me all week. Little G, does gymnastics on a saturday morning so first thing it was up and out with the parent taxi to take her there. it has been great going to see her again as I have not been in quite a while as it is usually Mrs Stu he does that job on a Saturday, while I have the delight of Little H, who as a typical two year old does not know how to sit still and do nothing for 60 minutes!

After watching Little G, for a while I took Little H, to the idoor kids play area, this is one of those places inside a building that has all the slides and tunnels made out of scaffold poles and then covered in three inches of padding to prevent the little ones from smashing their skull open! Their was a young part for kids under 4 and the olderbit rather obvous for kids over four. Little H was way to big for the under 4 section so with my encouragement we explored the older section as they had bigger slides and things which are a lot more fun. When your playing chase though and trying to catch a little one who can squeeze through everything and beng 6'4" myself it is sometimes very difficult to catch him. We had a lot of fun though and that was the whole point of going.

With the weather getting better it means that it is getting time to do the garden once more, oh joy of joys how i love doing the gardening! Today is going to be spent getting plants for putting in the garden, which always look so nice in their pots in the garden centre, but it's like I have the garden hand of death the leaves just shrivel as soon as I touch them, plants come to our house to die, maybe this year a little TLC is in order!

Spring and cricket!

Well at least it's Friday and the week is out of the way, I can feel spring in the air today, walking home from work the first shoots are starting to poke through the earth, and the trees are starting to releaf again, we even had a great blue shy today it was a mighty 8C and t-shirt weather.

Last year my car broke and since it was a heap of junk at the time it was not worth repairing it, so since then I have had to walk to work everyday. It's not that far, just over 2 miles I think and it takes just a little over 30 minutes. it is the only 30 minutes I get to myself these days, but it is the most boring route you could ever walk! On the longest stretch of the walk just over a mile and a half there is just nothing, no nature, no wildlife just boring bushes and the passing cars aiming at the puddles to soak you after there has been a down pour. On one side there is a giant mound of earth that hides the airport car park and on the other is another mound of earth hiding the motorway and all I'm faced with is the dull faces of the drivers and their passengers each morning, they could wear clown faces to liven my journey into work up or something each day!

At least it's Saturday tomorrow...in fact Saturday comes in five minutes. Another glorious day for English cricket as the captain makes another test century, noticing the minnows of cricket currently playing in South Africa as well today the Aussies seemed to start rather well for a change, lets hope it's not something that continues!

Go away it's boring here!

Do you find yourself getting stuck in a routine that you are unable to get out of at times? My life at the moment is on boredom mode during the week with nothing much to do. It goes a bit like this, get up, get kids dressed and  fed, get lunches ready, get kids to school/nursery,work, home again, make dinner, clean up, get kids to bed, clean up again, flop in chair and fall asleep.....repeat this step Monday to Friday.

I suppose everybody else feels the same at this time of year as well in the northern hemisphere, with winter almost over and spring not quite here there is not much to do without spending money. (Is there nothing free anymore?) At least Saturdays and Sundays are more relaxed but due to the current economic climate finances are strained and having to save for holidays as well, so evenings out have to be put on hold for a bit. My highlight this weekend will be a nice Indian, takeaway to enjoy. My mouth is watering at the thought...yum

The Great Escape

Phew!

That is the sound of total relief after finding out I wasn't one of the ninety who got made redundant at my place of work yesterday. We have been expecting the worse and thought that this time our section was out of the door, but to be told there were only two going from our section in total was a bit of a relief. One of those had already taken a job elsewhere and the other for whatever reason has decided to go and live in New Zealand, I think there was a good pay off in the offering so that helped a bit in the decision to go. Once again another cull survived not sure how many more I can survive as there has been numerous once since I started many, many years ago and i seem to keep dodging the axe!

Now we can get our holiday booked in August, to sunny old Melbourne so my wife can go home and visit the family. It is going to be a total differnt visit this time as the places we usually go and visit have been destroyed by fire and the landscape is going to be so different. Usually it is every two years we visit  , but Mrs Stu, feels she has to go home this year and see her family. They have been like a yo-yo these past few weeks moving to safety andthen home again depending on the winds and the fires. We now just have to find some cheap airfares to get us there, at the stupid highly inflated prices just because it is the school holidays. It is looking towards Emirates as they are the cheapest again after going up a lot. Last year we flew QANTAS and they were great which was unexpected as Mrs Stu said they use to be very snobby.

It has been great here today weather wise...grey skies and rain all day with cold winds, what more could somebody ask for!