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  • I’ve just finished assembling our new PC (bought on sale at JD Hi-Fi. I love JD Hi-Fi) and it’s all fast and shiny and best of all the freshly installed Photoshop Elements 7 actually functions like it’s supposed to! Instead of loading up at snail-speed and spitting the dummy when requested to save a file, it opens in milli-seconds and all requests are actioned at a blink of an eye!
  • The house guests are semi-moved out – they sleep and watch telly over at the Beige Barn (rugged up to the eyeballs – the insulation isn’t fully installed yet) and are temporarily eating and showering over here. Not having Nephew T sleeping in the next room kickboxing the wall in the middle of the night has done wonders for my beauty sleep, dahlinks.
  • Tomorrow I start my new job which is really partly an old job – I got asked to come back to my old company in a new role as a team leader two days after quitting That Job – a higher salary, working with people I like and in downtown Whangarei (close to shops and good coffee!) – it was all meant to be…
  • To reflect this new start I bought a wardrobe of new clothes with my last pay as well as a new coat, a new handbag and some rather lovely long, high heeled brown boots. Nora Batty is banished!
  • Miss 8.9 had an excellent Term 2 school report and is reading at a 12-13 year old level and spelling at an 11-12 year old level (this ability I can safely say gets from me). She’s also doing above average in Maths too (this ability she does not get from me – I am pointing the finger at the Other Harf on this one) so as a “Well done” I bought her the highly coveted Taylor Swift CD she’s supposed to have been saving up her pocket money for but keeps blowing it on tat at Whangarei’s extensive selection of $2 shops instead. All her Christmases came at once.
  • I have been prodigiously lazy in the past three months – it’s far easy to crack open a bottle of wine and mope about how much one’s job sucks than it is to spend thirty minutes on the treadmill out in the draughty, dim shed. This is got to change and that change is Stage Two of the Trans-fi-mation!
  • JD Hi-Fi also had Sex in the City – the Movie on sale (a bargain I couldn’t resist at $12!) and right after this I’m going to lummox on the couch and watch it, then I’m going to cook the whole fam damily a big feed of roast chicken, roast kumaru and spuds and some very cheesy cauliflower cheese. Have a wonderful Sunday!