here I am!

Long time no blog. Naughty me! I wish I could say it is because I've been off having exciting adventures and no time to blog. But that wouldn't quite be the truth.

Things have been a bit mad around here; D is job-hunting, our kitchen is in the middle of being replaced, we have sneezy ratties, work has been uber busy, its WINTER, and errrm lots of other equally as uninspiring stuff.

We've spent this weekend putting all the stuff back in our kitchen and trying to make everything fit in a space with less cupboards but more drawers. The exasperating thing is that we'll have to take it all out again when the landlord gets round to having the new lino laid. At the moment we have bare floorboards. Lovely.

I have spent a large portion of the weekend relaxing and reading a pile of fiction I borrowed from the library. . I spent a lot of time sitting outside absorbed in books. Though looking at these pictures you wouldn't believe I was all wrapped up in a blanket!!

One of the books I read this weekend was a young adult's series by Philip Pullman called "His Dark Materials". A friend lent me the first two and I discovered the Newtown library had the third! I figure that if it is cool to read Harry Potter, why not another young adult fantasy? ;)

With D job-hunting, I've been getting the bus to work. It has made me realise two things. Firstly, its REALLY COLD and really dark at 7am.

WALKING TO WORK AT 7AM...

I almost expected a frost!!

We've also been watching bits of the 2007 USA National Spelling Bee. One of the children was from New Zealand! Sadly she didn't win, but way to go Kate. D and I had some very wrong guesses to some of the words, the kids were a lot smarter than us!

On the topic of spelling; I've kept up with my Oxford Word of the Day emails, however I have been quite disappointed with the daily words. I guess I was hoping for words I could throw into every day use to make me look smart! lol

generalissimo

• noun (pl. generalissimos) the commander of a combined military force consisting of army, navy, and air force units.

I mean "generalissimo" sounds so made up! It sounds like a word S, K and I would have made up and used at high school..."fabulastic" was one of our favourties.

Before I sign off for the evening, here is a picture especially for S. I told you that my lithops had a hole in the middle, before a new lithops formed!

For some cool lithops pictures see this website :)


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