Sunday, June 17, 2007

Well, it's 11am on Sunday morning and I thought it was about time that I made a bit of an effort to write a proper update!
I've been pretty sick for the last week, cos winter is here, there are lots of bugs going around, loads of people have been off sick. I had a day off on Tuesday, but I had to go back on Wednesday as we've got so much work on (that's the trouble with my job, I just can't have the time off). It's the end of financial year June 30th, so as we're in Financial Services it's the busiest time of year. We are just rolling out a new PDS for our Superannuation product as there have been lots of government changes. This has been a nightmare, cos the graphics guys are making mistakes, then the printers are behind because they've had to sort out the artwork, so we're a couple of days behind production which isn't good. Anyway, that's boring!
I'm feeling a bit lost this week, my brother has been in Munich, so I've had no updates on Hugo and no pictures either, I bet he'll have changed loads when I see some updated ones. Chris has been really good, he realises that Mum and I really want to see pics, so he's been putting them on his blog regularly. Hopefully when he gets back home we'll see some more!
Not sure if you'd have seen it on the news, but we've had the most awful weather here. It's better now, but last week it was horrendous, John Howard declared it a natural disaster. The worst hit was Hunter Valley where all the wineries are and Newcastle which is an hour or so up the coast. There were really bad floodings causing the river banks to burst, the places were evacuated and I know there were some deaths too. It was awful in Sydney, I tell you, the drainage here is really bad, I've probably mentioned this before, but the roads just get totally flooded, and this time cos the weather was so bad it was even worse. Up in Newcastle, a huge petrol tanker got grounded on the beach there, I'm not sure if they've managed to move it yet, but there were worries that it was starting to break up, and obviously that would be another disaster. We've pretty much had rain since that, but we've also had a few sunny days. It's getting colder now, Jason and I bought a nice electric blanket last weekend, it's absolute bliss...we love it!!
We have had a pretty quiet weekend so far, we had a friend around for dinner on Friday. We had leek and potato soup, Jason has been making lots of soup lately since I've been sick...bless! Neale had just got back from 3 months in Brazil to visit his girlfriend, so we checked out all his pics.
Yesterday, we went to see Shrek 3 in the morning. I got some free tickets from work. It was really good, the film flew by though. After that we went home and got on with making our wedding invitations, I must say they look really great, I'm really pleased with them, and we haven't made any major mistakes yet! We have still to carry on today, but we're over half way there, hopefully we'll get them sent out early this week.
Well, I'd better go so we can get started again!

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