Month: February 2012

Poor Mr Henry is barking like a seal today so he’ll be staying home from kinder and spending the day in bed.

I was talking to Moo and said “It will be a bit strange today, with no Henry at kinder with you.”

She looked up at me with those big eyes and said “Don’t worry Dadda, I can look after myself.”

No there’s nothing wrong with my new phone – it’s beautiful and I couldn’t be happier with it. The Facebook app even runs okay on it. I’ll be happier still in a month when I can move my account away from Optus and start saving even more.

The trouble came when I was playing around with my Contacts. I went to edit Rae’s information and accidently deleted her mobile number. ‘No problem’ you say, ‘just put it back in’. Yes, well, thing is, um, I don’t know her number.

The exchange went a little like this.

“Hon, what’s your mobile number?”
”What?”

“Your mobile number, I need to put it in my phone ‘cause I accidently deleted it.”

“You don’t know my number?”

“Um, no, when I want to call you I just tap your face.”

“You hit me every time you want to call me?!”

Needless to say I’m making an effort to learn it now.

Seems I may have got a little ahead of myself yesterday. I just logged in to check the status of my back up glasses and it seems that, unlike Rae’s, mine are coming all the way from the States. Carlstadt, NJ, USA to be precise. The helpful database at i-parcel tells me they are ‘in transit to country of destination’ and should be here on March 2nd. So that’s down to two deliveries this week with a little luck.

The good thing is that if someone was to ask me where I got my new glasses from I can say ‘New Jersey’.

Big week for deliveries this week.

First off I’m waiting on a new pair of glasses. I’m for all intents and purposes blind without my glasses, I have a focal point of about 5cm in front of my nose so I’ve been tempting fate for far too long by only having one set when I am so dependent on them. Rae had great success with Clearly Contacts recently so I’ve ordered myself a back up pair. I’m a bit restricted in the frames I can get given the thickness of my lenses but they should look cool.

Second is a coffee machine, which I wish I hadn’t bought. My old machine gave up the ghost recently – it floods the bench whenever you use it. I found a great deal on Ebay for a replacement and feeling good that all of our major bills had been paid I thought ‘why not?’. Foolish, foolish me.

Over the weekend my phone, my lovely lovely phone, began to play up. It would restart itself instead of turning off, it would not respond to touch, it became almost impossible to turn on, it crashed for an hour when I tried to start Navigator and this afternoon it began to ring but the screen stayed blank. There was no way I could answer the call and now it won’t turn on again. The phone is crucial for my business, it’s the one number everyone has to call me on so I can’t be without one. I also use it a lot for email, calendar and notes for the business too so it’s not something I can be without for too long. I’ve ordered a replacement today which should be here in a few days and while I haven’t spent a fortune I wish I had the coffee machine money to put towards it. Sigh.

Hopefully by the end of the week I will have forgotten the expense and will be enjoying my new toys. Until then I reserve the right to mope about the money flowing out the door while I wait for the delivery vans to arrive.

Due to popular demand (hi Helly) here’s a look at what Rae has done to our room. I can’t find a ‘before’ pic but it was a lot less red and a lot more beige.  New curtains, new lamps and couple of pillows have made it look like a completely new room. It’s all very rich and luxuriant and now feels like a proper grown up bedroom, well done hon.

I remember reading years ago, even before having children, that kids do better at school if they see their parents are actively interested in the school and their schooling. This must have really stuck with me and it’s the reason today that the young ones and I went to the school early for Bert’s class assembly.

It was held in his room, sorry, ‘learning space’. A few parents were there and we watched the kids report on what they’d done during the week, some awards were given out and happy birthday sung for those with a birthday this week. It was fun to watch, especially as Henry couldn’t get far enough away from a little girl who took a shine to him, and the half hour or so went very quickly.

On the way home I asked Bert, as I always do, what the best part of the day was. “Assembly.” I was bit surprised as he wasn’t involved in any way so I asked him why. “Because you came dad.”

Now that’s how you end a week.

My first copy of The Guardian Weekly arrived in the mail today. One subscription down, one to go. It’s still in its wrapper and will be my reward tomorrow if I get all my work done.

We don’t really ‘do’ Valentines Day. A card, a kiss, a coffee is about it. Tonight though we were lucky and Zita gave us the night off.

It was wonderful, a picture perfect summers evening. We went off to Williamstown, had fish and chips at Nelson Place, went for a stroll in to Williamstown and then back for an ice-cream. You couldn’t ask for a better night, or a better valentine.