Sunday, July 18, 2004
Weekend Bliss
I finally took a break.
3 whole days and only 3 hours of work!
Friday I argued with the tax office and made various other phone calls etc.
(Warning: Rant follows - how come you can talk to 5 separate people at the tax office and the first 3 don't tell you that although they can't give you the advice you need someone else can, and then when they finally give in and put you through to the next person that they make you go through the same whole story before saying the previous person was the person you really needed. In the end I gave up - I will deal with it on Monday - maybe they will have had the weekend to collect their brains by then!)
After that I decided no more! Work is good for making money and paying bills and all but theres fun to be had out there!
We went off to the aquarium to pick up some fish food then a friends place to drop some vegies off, then to the park to play. This was followed up by indoor soccer. We got there early so the kids could play for a bit. Jadeen is a natural. Our game was a blast- we massacred a new team - we played well constructed football, great passes and goals!
Then as we left to head off for dinner Jadeen wanted to go over the story bridge, a cantilever suspension bridge over the Brisbane River. So we went the opposite direction, followed our noses and found a great gourmet seafood place that made fantastic fish and chips. We dined in the car! Spontaneous eating can be good fun.
Saturday I played with the kids in the morning before heading off to outdoor soccer. I ended up keeping the whole game, and let one little tiny mistake of a goal in and that was it - 1-0 to them... it was a great game though and I made heaps of good saves and the goal wasn't really my fault; it was off a save I made that deflected off the post, then off a foot and scrabbled around in the goal mouth before I dived on it and basically rolled it through in front of my despairing oustretched hands.
Following this I went to play car racing at a LAN. Awesome. Jamie and I were the third best team and I pulled off some blistering lap times so was very happy overall.
Today (Sunday) I took the eldest two kids to sunday school, had a ball singing in church with Josh, then came home for roast beef and vegies (Yum thanks Jude), chatted to Shayne who came for lunch, and cleaned out the fish tanks and put fresh water in and then kicked back on the floor in the lounge with the kids most of the day doing nothing much at all. Just veging, playing and relaxing and ignoring the mounting workload for the next three weeks.
Even spent an hour on the phone to mum in NZ who has just got home from a 4 month round the world expedition!
More great food for dinner including a Ribena spider!
Now Im clearing up blog entries and reading I'm behind on and getting ready for the workload to start again.
3 whole days and only 3 hours of work!
Friday I argued with the tax office and made various other phone calls etc.
(Warning: Rant follows - how come you can talk to 5 separate people at the tax office and the first 3 don't tell you that although they can't give you the advice you need someone else can, and then when they finally give in and put you through to the next person that they make you go through the same whole story before saying the previous person was the person you really needed. In the end I gave up - I will deal with it on Monday - maybe they will have had the weekend to collect their brains by then!)
After that I decided no more! Work is good for making money and paying bills and all but theres fun to be had out there!
We went off to the aquarium to pick up some fish food then a friends place to drop some vegies off, then to the park to play. This was followed up by indoor soccer. We got there early so the kids could play for a bit. Jadeen is a natural. Our game was a blast- we massacred a new team - we played well constructed football, great passes and goals!
Then as we left to head off for dinner Jadeen wanted to go over the story bridge, a cantilever suspension bridge over the Brisbane River. So we went the opposite direction, followed our noses and found a great gourmet seafood place that made fantastic fish and chips. We dined in the car! Spontaneous eating can be good fun.
Saturday I played with the kids in the morning before heading off to outdoor soccer. I ended up keeping the whole game, and let one little tiny mistake of a goal in and that was it - 1-0 to them... it was a great game though and I made heaps of good saves and the goal wasn't really my fault; it was off a save I made that deflected off the post, then off a foot and scrabbled around in the goal mouth before I dived on it and basically rolled it through in front of my despairing oustretched hands.
Following this I went to play car racing at a LAN. Awesome. Jamie and I were the third best team and I pulled off some blistering lap times so was very happy overall.
Today (Sunday) I took the eldest two kids to sunday school, had a ball singing in church with Josh, then came home for roast beef and vegies (Yum thanks Jude), chatted to Shayne who came for lunch, and cleaned out the fish tanks and put fresh water in and then kicked back on the floor in the lounge with the kids most of the day doing nothing much at all. Just veging, playing and relaxing and ignoring the mounting workload for the next three weeks.
Even spent an hour on the phone to mum in NZ who has just got home from a 4 month round the world expedition!
More great food for dinner including a Ribena spider!
Now Im clearing up blog entries and reading I'm behind on and getting ready for the workload to start again.
