School Reunion

Today I had a reunion at my old secondary school - Hillcrest. The school is closing down in December and being demolished. The school itself is being merged with three other secondary schools in the Broadmeadows region to create a multi campus college.

I bumped into some old school friends, and many of my old teachers - most of whom are still working at the school and have not changed a bit.

Today made me feel how lucky I have been and reflect on how comfortable I live. Despite complaining about a lot of things, some of my old class mates have it much worse. One girl for example now has three children, lives in a little apartment block in Broadmeadows with drug dealers living next door to her, who fling their used syringes into her backyard, meaning her backyard is pretty much off limits to her 3 kids. On top of that she works from early hours in the morning til late in the evening just to make ends meet. Her parents look after the kids for her during the day.

On Saturday I continued doing brickwork in my backyard which i started the previous week. I am over a 1/3 of the way done now, but the labor is certainly taking its toll on my poor body. My skin is so dried out, and my back and knees kill of an evening.

Last night Sean and myself were invited to our next door neighbours for drinks... it was a very nice civilised evening, and was the first real proper interaction we have managed to have with our neighbours since moving into the area.

This coming weekend we are going down to my grandparents caravan at Ocean Grove for the weekend. I have Friday as my RDO, and have taken Monday as annual leave, so it means I have 5 whole days off work! Over the past couple of weeks I have just really being looking forward to going away and just leaving all the stresses of home and work behind me. Life has just been moving so fast lately and I feel I have just been struggling to keep up with it. I'm really looking forward to actually just spending the weekend with Sean, and not worrying that I have to get this done, or have to get that done. The last couple of weeks have felt like Sean is just a stranger who lives in my house, and that all I do is say hello in passing, so it will be nice to spend time focusing on each other.

My Back!!!

Well I have had a very tiring weekend. On Saturday we had my grandparents come over with their car (which has a tow bar) and hired a trailer and removed the mounds of excess dirt and stuff from our backyard and took it down to the tip. This mean most of my day was spent digging, and be live me, my back certainly knew it the next day.

On Saturday night we went to my parents place for dinner (after a day of digging, plus starting to assemble our new barbecue later in the afternoon).

On Sunday I finished putting the barbie together in the morning, and then we went out for lunch with my grandparents to the Glenroy R.S.L. - Good old seniors meals, but actually rather nice. I had roast beef and vegies, then chocolate pavlova for desert.

Then Sunday night we went to Seans parents for dinner. So the weekend finished, and I don't feel like I have had any rest time at all this weekend.

Over the Melbourne Cup weekend we are going down to my grandparents caravan at Ocean Grove, so that should be nice and relaxing. It only 3 days, but I am sure I will feel recharged after that (though I do fear that if I suddenly go into relaxing mode I will come down sick)!