great day :-) and getting closer to the trip :-)

day off work today - lovely!

dinner is smelling awesome, but still at least an hour to go.... tummy is grumbling for attention but he's just gonna have to wait!!!

so it's 2 weeks until the last day of work before going to portugal... that's a nice countdown milestone...

so i started making my lists... one for chores to be done before leaving, and another for things to pack... i'll start working on the chores this weekend if the weather is good, i'd like to wash the windows....

so i got a great phone call from someone i used to work with in relation to my claim i sent through from working at alutech (the one i sent a couple weeks ago) - he said he went to the creditors meeting today and by the sounds of what was spoken about, my name came up a few times and he thinks i might get my money! that would be awesome if i got paid!!! it's money i can put straight on the credit card and almost pay it off again :-) fingers crossed!!!

the council came today and chopped down all the overgrown grass on the side of the road where the creek runs down - nice of them to do it in time for the fire season (not!)

so this week i'm looking forward to the dentist appointment on wednesday to sort out whether a splint will be in order for my sleep apnea... and then thursday catching up with a friend for dinner at the steakhouse YUMMM.....

then friday evening i think i'm going to catch up with a mate who's house sitting in melbourne for a couple of months...

then the weekend off yay!

i got all the washing pretty much sorted today, ironing done... just a few towels needing to dry for a bit longer...

i'm hoping jake comes to visit this week to help me check on the chookies and make sure tails doesn't have any mites on her with all the feathers she's shedding... and also help construct some form of flue brush to clean the flue pipe using the old gutter hedgehog things i have sitting in a pile doing nothing..... and then he can spot me on the ladder while i go up and shove the thing down the flue to get rid of any last traces of nests so i can use the wood heater efficiently :-)

i'd really love to use it more this season and spend some nights snuggled up to sleep in front of it to keep warm, that would be lovely! :-)

i better go have my daily pills to give my guts something to munch on before i send down slow cooked beef and onion gravy with potatoes thingo....

thought i had a lot more excitement to type about but i got a call from powercor wanting feedback about my streetlight fix request from a few weeks ago during the blackout when andrew was here.... so i think i forgot what it was about lol