Wacky Weather

It seems to be all over the world - crazy weather - either totally unseasonable or the other extreme soooo ultra seasonable.  Here in Queensland we're just having amazing amounts of rainfall with the odd super humid day inbetween.  We can sit on the deck and practically watch the lawn grow!  It could be an interesting new year for us - our house is at the lowest point in our street, and of course we're right beside the river.  We have a large drain at the foot of our driveway into which all the water run off from the street drains away across the road to the river.  But.... upriver from us is the Awoonga Dam - which was doubled in size a few years back and never expected to fill - but it did and is currently running over.  So line up all the holes in the cheese - we have the aftermath of a cyclone (and they're predicting a big season), the dam is flowing over with a vengeance, it's one of the January king tides in the river and the rain is falling out of the sky - where might it go - hmmmm might come in our front door!!!

Meanwhile there's my trip to Scotland - I leave here on Christmas night and fly to Brisbane, then on to Hong Kong and into Frankfurt late Sunday night. I think that bit might be OK.  But then there's this horrendous weather they're having in Europe and if I'd been making my trip today my flight from Frankfurt to Edinburgh was cancelled because of the snow in Frankfurt and to a lesser extent in Edinburgh.  It would be so frustrating to be within an hour's flight of my destination and not be able to make it - but hey it's the weather and there's nothing you can do about it so just get on with it and hope for the best.

Only four more days of work - frantically busy - trying to get all the performance review stuff sorted out and leave everything kind of organised for the person who'll be looking after my departments as well as her own.

Packing wise I think I'm all sorted - so just the beauticians tomorrow night for a defuzz, hairdressers on Wednesday for a cut and a root perm to give my a bit of body and I'll nearly be all ready.

Now to share a funny story - well I think it is.  I download some movies sometimes from one of the file sharing sites.  So I had a copy of Toy Story 3 and was babysitting the boys on Friday night and Josh asked to watch it.  I almost plugged my laptop into the TV and left them to it but then decided I might want to do stuff on it so I copied the file to my external drive and loaded it on to the other laptop.  Then I'm sitting there with Josh firing it up when suddenly all these strange looking pictures start scrolling across the screen - like frames in a movie.  It took a few seconds for me to realise that it was bloody porn!  The flaming movie I'd downloaded had been named Toy Story 3 but trust me there were no normal toys in the bit I saw.  So there's me getting all flustered clicking away frantically trying to shut the bloody thing down and saying to Josh - who was looking on interestedly - that there was a problem with the movie and it certainly wasn't what I thought it was.  I had to fess up to Grant and Tiff the next day - who fortunately thought it was quite hilarious.  But a lesson for me to check first!!!

And now a brilliant photo



Curtis' graduation from Day Care



It was Curtis' graduation from Day Care last week. He's a funny little bugger and can very easily decide he doesn't want to play and just packs a major spak attack. Tiff thought he might freak at the thought of the cap and gown but as you can see he played to the crowd!!!!

Ok not sure when the next post will be - possibly not till I'm whiling away 5 hours in Hong Kong airport.  So wishing each and everyone of you a very very happy and safe Christmas and hoping that you can realise at least one of your dreams in 2011.

Love Zxxx