1- I finished! I’m finally finished university! 9 years, 2 universities, 100 assignments, 4 practicums, 2 published essays, 1 seriously supportive husband and 1000000 migraines later…Im done! What a great feeling!
2- I’m just explaining this because Heather made a comment about graduating with honours….the Australian University system doesn’t do graduating with honours. If you want an honours degree it’s an extra years worth of study plus about a 20,000 word thesis. Eep. On the positive side…I’ve been invited to do both an honours degree or a masters degree…neither one of which Im remotely interested in accepting right now. Im interested in a life that doesnt involve books or school. Wait...Im a high school teacher now. Noooooo!
3- This morning I went to a beach that I never go to. I don’t know why I never go there. It was beautiful. There were so many insects. ;)
4- Toilet training…why do we call it that? Its not like we’re training the toilet to do something new. It would be nice if it COULD do something new. Like alter its bowl shape to catch all the wee that my son insists on squirting on the freshly cleaned floor. Or maybe it could make a warning sound when he attempts to leave the toilet without wiping his bottom… for example ‘skidmark alert’ or ‘Stop! Risk of spreading faecal matter through living quarters imminent, I repeat, stop!’. Seriously, Im just waiting for some horrid poo-related disease to strike down our family.
5- Jayde started piano lessons back in August at a music school. Her teacher is a really cool Christian guy. I guess the music school has put together a little rock band of kids cos tonight Jayde came home with the news that she is going to ‘be playing keyboard in a rock band…with other instruments that are even cooler than mine that I wanted to learn before you said I had to do piano’. I hope they can rock-out to the c-major scale, cos that’s about all she’s got!
6- Tonight I am having my first real ‘girls night’ with Jayde. We’re gonna eat Sushi and then go to a 2 hour sale at a craft/fabric store. What an exciting life I do lead :S
7- This morning I made a spontaneous purchase I may live to regret. Jacks expression was not wholly pleased, nor displeased, just confused. Why do I always have that effect on people??
8- On Saturday night we’re attending my high school reunion. Hmmm. I was excited….6 months ago when I purchased the tickets. But now Im at my heaviest weight of all time. Which is depressing. Im not being vain… again I am confronted with a spiritual lesson related to my physical one. And spiritual lessons have abounded this week in ways that I'm not going to blog on just yet.
9- At 430am Monday morning I actually hallucinated. I basically lived on 2-4 hrs sleep per night for the 10 days preceding and finally got my last assignment in about 4am. When I got to bed, I laid there consciously dreaming. It was very strange. And when I got up at 7am Jack said I was ghostly white and shaking terribly. I’m now slightly paranoid that I was drugged…or that I have the beginning of some horrid poo-related disease that will strike down our family.
10- This summer is shaping up to be HOT. Last week we had a 37’C day…which is like 99Farenheit; it was also 94% humidity. It was followed by 3 days of solid rain. Hot AND sticky. Deodorant is my friend. Spandex is not.
Matthew’s Conversion
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8 comments:
Congrats on finishing!
I graduated highschool a year late. Jay purposed and told me, "But we can't have the wedding until you finish school." Talk about motivator! I finished SIX MONTHS before our wedding. I got jipped. =)
You are looney for wanting to teach highschool. But somebody's gotta do it and as long as it's not me...
I have been pestering my hubby to teach the boys an instrument. He could teach them almost anything he wanted to...except piano!=) Jayde is so lucky. I always wanted to play piano growing up but we never had money and now I realize it would have been futile to try and teach me anything musically.
Booooo for potty training. It probably is just as likely that I could teach my toilet something as it is that I could teach my kids to go in it! Actually Rowan is pretty much trained. We have an accident now and then but other than that it's just night time. Yay! How is Levi doing?
I hear ya about the heaviest weight ever thing. Me too. I have a lot of work to do before the end of February. My SIL has lost 40 lbs in the last couple of years and now she is about as small as when she got married. We are going to see them again in Feb.\March and I told her I was losing 20 pounds by then no matter what. Well, I told her that about a month and a half ago and I am FINALLY serious about it. I am getting up early and walking every morning. And you know what? It feels grrrreat! I'd love to hear your spiritual\physical lesson concerning this. I've had a hard time figuring out just how losing weight all fits into my spiritual walk.
That humidity sounds awful!
I thought that I should specify that I did NOT get jipped on marrying Jay, quite the opposite(I am so blessed), but on the fact that I finished and still had to wait six more months.
Just sayin.
1 and 2 Congratulations!
4. See if your toilet wants to play "catch" ;o)
5. Hope Jayde enjoys. We're trying to find a violin instructor for Tobey.
6. Have fun with your girlie!
7. Because your human?
8. Will be waiting patiently for whatever you want to share :O)
9. Sounds frightening. Hope you're okay?
Love you
Heather
I am so happy for you, that you finished school! That is a HUGE accomplishment! I wish we were all there to celebrate with you.
I can only imagine the relief, the weight off your shoulders... crazy cool!
Have fun with your girlie- we are having a girlie birthday party for Mckenna on Friday... wish you and Jayde could join us.
What did you buy?!
Sooo excited for you!
I gotta know what you bought!
I can't even begin to tell you how relieving it was to have the twins potty trained. I spent 2 entire years dreading it, and in the end it was easier to train the 2 of them then Camden was by himself.
Yay for girls' night! Exciting? Maybe not. But I can't think of anything that I love as much as spending special time with my girls....except maybe spending special time with my boys. (:
Hope you're feeling okay now that you're stress free...
I just LOVE you and think you are the grrreatest! Big squueze to you for finishing and then for going a little loco afterwards. It happens to the best of us!! :) XOXOXO
Thanks all for the well-wishes...
Heidi- I graduated kinda early. I never wanted to get married. I was the first person in our year to get married. :S. Jayde really wanted to play the guitar or drums. Two problems- her arms arent quite long enough for guitar, and our ears arent quite deaf enough for drums. Potty training? I just hate it. Some days, Levi is really good and will use the toilet all day with no problems. Other days he shows no interest/desire to go, but mostly if we go out somewhere and he's wearing a nappy. Gaining weight for me has definite spiritual lessons. Waah. I will have to blog on it.
Heather- *shudder* @ toilet playing 'catch'. I dont know what it is about toilets, but they completely gross me out. Actually, I do know what it is about toilets that grosses me out, and the worst part is that they will ALWAYS gross me out. We nearly started violin lessons for Jayde because a friend gave us a nice violin (needs re-stringed) but the only available instructor sounded very snobby and charged like a wounded bull. I hope you can find someone to teach Tobey, its such a pretty sounding instrument. Jayde and I had fun. Urgh, feel very humbled & crushed at the moment. And foolish. And..well..human.
Crystal- thanks much! It is a weight off, at the same time I feel strangely unaffected! lol. Hope you guys have a wonderful girly party with McKenna. I cant believe she's 10... Do you really want to know what I bought???
Terah- the words 'potty training twins' in the same sentence actually strikes terror into my heart. Actually, I've always fancied having twins and living in my own private non-divorcing version of the Parent Trap (the original version). But then these little reminders pop up and I realise its not all about matching outfits and names like Pippy and Poppy...Oh, and I will share what I bought, but I make a disclaimer that I would not be able to utilise them as well as you could!
Shea- Well, I just love you too! :) Cant wait till you have your new little baby...rather than listen to Gods chastisement I've been tempted to blame my weight gain on a 'sympathy pregnancy' due to all my pregnant friends...you included. ;) Hope you guys are doing well!
I don't know how I missed this post??
CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hate potty training also! I'm just so glad I'm done with those times, he will get it before you know it. (; Oh, and about those toilets, yucky! The worst thing about your kid not being in diapers is them having to use the public restrooms! YUCK!
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