Ahh poor Pips – this is her “why won’t anybody take me for a walk?” expression. I *will* walk her, but not right now, as I have lots to do today – my mojo is officially back now that I’m in paid employment starting next Monday and I’m gonna go great guns this week and get as many things done on My List of Stuff To Do as possible!

Speaking of things to do, it’s my little sister’s 40th birthday bash this weekend – she didn’t want to have a party as a) she didn’t want to organise it and b) my brother-in-law wouldn’t organise it so I put my hand up and said I’d do it. It’s mostly the food and sorting out stuff like ice and decorations, and I’ll going to rope in Mum as well as Miss 11.1 and the nieces to help out, so I think I’ve got it covered.

In other news, my derby league had a great time up in Kerikeri on Saturday night – despite the bruises (yours truly got taken out from behind by a falling skater and ended up landing on her skate right on my butt – ouch!) but now it’s time to find us a new place to play. We have had trouble with being able to play at our local Whangarei stadium and, for reasons I won’t and can’t go into here, we are no longer allowed to – so we are on the look out for a big, empty warehouse that we can use both to train in and put on our games. A couple of hundred people usually come along to watch, so it has to have room for seating or at least for them to be able to watch in safety. Of course, such a place won’t come cheap…so we are all praying to the Lotto Fairy like crazy!

Ah well, better get on with dealing to that list. It’s been great to have time to do stuff like do up the bathroom and lounge, but I’m so looking forward to being paid again!