Honeymoon: Day 4

First day at Wilsons Prom today. First is Squeaky Beach, where the view from the rocks is nice but I have issues getting up and down ;) 

Next is Mt Oberon. I don't know why it was so hard (4km I think), there were old people and schoolchildren up there too. I was such a wussy ;). Apparently you can get this amazing view, but we only had clouds when we got to the top :). It was pretty cool though. And Theo talks to these generator thingamy workers while I sit and recover at the bottom of the stairs lol.

Honeymoon: Day 1

Mostly travelled today. And admired our lovely honeymoon suite again (big brekkie and late checkout included LOL :))



And here's the spa in our cabin, including the view. We love it here :)

Testing venues & working hard

We went to take some photos of a wedding venue, to see what it all looked like from behind a camera :)

Here's Theo being unintentionally very artistic (see me floating around in his sunglasses' reflection?)

And this is the view of Theo's work, from his front porch (square thing in middle of picture). He rang me from work and told me to wave in his direction, as he was jumping round on top of the building. My mother in law to be and my little sister were also waving and we got his yellow Spongebob towel and waved it around as a sort of big yellow beacon. He was this little moving shape on the blop thing on top of the building. So we do get to see each other while he's working, after all.

  

A surprise proposal

Here's Powers Lookout, which we went to see after the Violet Town market, just us going on a lovely scenic drive....

And by the way, I've got a surprise picnic in the boot of the car....

And I won't just surprise you with a bunch of flowers, but I'll ask you to marry me. So he did. And I said I will :)

He couldn't wait any more until the 'real' ring is ready, so he bought me an in-between engagement ring, with two lovehearts and I think two diamonds in them. It's very sweet and big enough so I can wear it on my right hand when my 'real' ring comes :).

So the wedding planning is now on full steam ahead :)

Christmas Food & Festivities

This Christmas we have a tale of one gingerbread house, shortbreads starring bunnies with bling, a journey starring santa in an upside down dunny, two and a half christmas trees, much cooking and even more food, and two birthday cakes.

I have to add the cheesecake, fruit cake and mini mudcake christmas puddings to the cake tally, because we are still eating those. Can I count rumballs as cake too? Pudding? Pavlova? Trifle? Three fruit pies made with fruit stewed up from the christmas fruit and vegie market?

Family Christmases

Visited Dad before Christmas this year. 

Here's Theo & my dad, doing blokey thitogether, jump starting my dad's Harley.

 Here's the marvellous shell museum at Lakes Entrance.

 

Some jellyfish & a swan family in the water.

Entertaining school concert for my little bro & sis & two nephews. The ones on the floor are sheep and my nephew is on the left :).

 We also went to visit Theo's brother and sister in law in Ballarat & I was extremely nervous as I'd never met them. It was funny later that I'd even worried because the brother was just like Theo and his dad, and his wife was really nice and we had a fair bit in common. Silliness.

Hanging Rock

 

 This was one of our impulse Sunday activities. After church we went hey, why not go to Hanging Rock? So we did. I don't think I'd ever been there, Theo had. On the way there we stopped at another POW camp site at Graytown and on the way back we stopped at what I originally took for the world's largest ant hill, but was just a pile of diggings from some mine. Theo posed, I photographed. Memorable moments.

Doing & seeing

Visiting Col, Jess the dog looks

on while he prepares the orange

gun for shooting. Good fun :)

One thing I love to see when I'm driving (to the                   

extent that I'll change lanes to follow it more closely)         

is the little newborn calves travelling down the road            

in the back of some farmer's ute.

And this is neighbour Theo and I dismantling an old brick BBQ in his backyard. I severely bruised my thumb with the hammer. I earned the description of 'tough as nails' from this endeavour. 

         

                                                                                                                                                                                          

 Here is Junie acting in a typically bizarre fashion.



Here is a rather picturesque shot of Southern Cross station, on a recent Melbourne trip. Made me feel all happy and spring-like.

    

Rain and other events

The wind was so crazy yesterday when the storm came that when I ran outside to rescue my laundry on the clothesline, I had to put my foot in the laundry basket to prevent it from blowing away :) I love storms though. Apparently a number of shops locally were flooded out and some had roofs collapse as well. Excitement.

The rain unfortunately washed away most traces of the childish behaviour from the other night of neighbour Theo and I, when we went and wrote in the gravel of the car park next door. Giant initials and love hearts and things. That was after we went and lay on the soccer oval and watched cloud pictures in the sky.

This carpark is the same one that had me hiding from people going past my kitchen window in tractors and had me appearing in the local paper with another neighbour to apparently vent my frustration at the lack of community consultation. Oh, hey, I'll let you see the article:

I seem to be a public figure lately (not really). I also won some money through a local shopping centre competition the other week and was notified by a telephone call broadcast on local radio. I could barely understand some of my hysterical ramblings when I listened to it later :).

Last night I babysat for my little bro and sis, which in a roundabout way involved a La Porchetta birthday dinner and Theo was roped in to watch a Star Wars video (that was obviously serious boy business).

I'm off to do some cooking now, will report back later with my achievements.

My life in 10 points

Several things that currently define my existence.

1. I lost my diary and am surviving by ringing to double check any possible appointments, making notes in my phone and living by the calendar that has fallen underneath my fridge.

2. I am officially divorced as of last Saturday November the 14th. I received the official notice on Monday and wanted to stick it on my wall in celebration.

3. Theo neighbour is more than just a neighbour now. In case you didn't know.

4. Facebook is a remarkably effective, if not a harsh and impersonal way to notify people of such changes.

5. Theo neighbour is on nightshift and I am listening to Guns N Roses as I become more hyperactive and reminisce about when I was a teenager and thought Gunners were so cool. I have an urge to bake.

6. I am glad that the cool change came in this afternoon and so now I am able to do the dishes without suffering heat exhaustion and possibly now not all my plants will die.

7. There is a mountain of grass on a rug in my lounge. It belongs to my rabbit.

8. There are few things like a bad disaster movie to make you cheer up.

9. I am trying to reduce my book collection by an entire bookcase in order to declutter my life.

10. I currently weigh more than I ever have in my life and almost every person I meet tells me how well I am looking. No exaggeration. It's a funny situation to be in.