Cleanning and Spending

Well this weekend it feels as like ive just cleanned and spent $$$ lol.
Friday night I got all the general cleanning out of the way. Saturday some washing. Then Scott and I went out to Paraparam to go out and get him an early bday pressie. I expected to come out with a fish for him but in the end i got one too. Plus we got rock, coral, and some food and stuff for them haha... ooops. Check out our new fishy friends below.
Got home and spent time getting them used to the tank which takes a bit. Then we did the flat take away dinner night which we occasionally do. James shouted. We got burger fuel. I only got a lil burger but thats ample for me.

Today I done some more cleanning. This time all of the crap that is in our dinning room and then the garage which James helped me with. We have never cared bout a lil clutter but there is an open home next weekend so we thought we better make it look really good. Scott spent all day with his tank cleanning it and fixing it and making sure his fish that is in it is ok.
Ohh and i done some more washing right. after the last load the washing machine broke grrr.
the agitator came right out. now we had probs with it since we got it and they always came to fix it. this is like its 6th time its happened and it not under warrenty. So i went out spending again!! lol. Getting a new washing machine delivered tommrow. got a good deal. and its one without the agitator bit in the middle yayies. so yeh spent a bit now im a bit broke but yay pay is on tues!!
Anyway i have finally sat down for the day, im exhausted.
enjoy the photos below.


This is my new fish, yes he was off 'nemo'. have named him Zebra for now though he prob get called bra for short haha.


and this is Scotts new one which is in his tank. yess and off 'nemo' lol
his name is Hippo. I think of that hungry hungry hippo game you can get lol

Stolen from Heather :)

Four Things about me you may not have known....

Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Nannying
2. Babysitting
3. Kitchenhand/supervisor
4. Child care teacher

Four movies I could watch over and over:
1. Grandmas boy
2. Femme Fatal
3. The girl next door
4. Labyrinth

Four places I have lived:
1. Perth
2. Levin
3. New Plymouth
4. Palmerston North

Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. Heroes(sooo good)
2. CSI
3. Prison Break(mmm hotties in this show)
4. Home and Away

Four places I have been on vacation:
1. Noumea
2. Australia
3. South Island :P
4. *dreams of another holiday*

Four of my favourite foods:
1. Nanas corn beef mmm
2. Salads
3. Rice/stirfries
4. Fruit

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. In bed, snuggled and warm
2. Australia
3. Japan
4. Paris

Four people I think will respond:
1. Heather
2. Chrissy
3. Stacey
4. Anon

Favourite things in life (excluding family, friends, partner)
1. Sleep ins :)
2. laxing out watching movies
3. my rewarding job
4. asian food

Poor Kamo :(

Well the week was ok at work. Got to learn a few things in the office which was a nice change instead off been with the kiddies all week. Plus I havent felt the best. Still funny tummy sometimes after ive eaten, or even before. I rung up to get my results. It turns out I had Giardia and when i explained to the nurse i was still feeling blah yet normal bowels she said it sounds like its getting out of my system. Thats what it does apparently great. Which sucks. As I felt eww most of yesterday and had to turn down my mates birthday dinner and drinks as there is no way id felt like eating :( and i havent been to the gym either i couldnt make myself as was scared id throw up or something.
This morning im ok (fingers crossed).

On another note I found one of our fish upside down yesterday morning :( the one called Kamo(black and white and camoflages) Yeh and the shrimp we had was on top of him so i had to shoo him away so i could scoop him out. It was sad as he was cool. But we had a funny feeling he may not survive. Just from what we found out and researched once we got him. So im gonna look for another fishy to get. Im thinking a brighter one that comes out lots instead of hiding :)

Also we just got informed this week from the property company that looks after the house for the owners, that the owners are going to put the place on the market!!!:( so we all were kinda pissed. especially since we got that tank up the bloody stairs and full too and nearly ready for fish lol. Apparently our lease will still continue till next jan if it sells. But now running through our head is what do we do? find another place to rent which means maybe risking that happening again? which means moving grr. buy the house if its a good price? or buy another?which means move again grr (not that houses are affordable really at this time). but then the people who buy it could want to rent it so we could wait and see that too.
We all really just dont want to move. I soo dont want to at all. We have only been here 7months!!! and packing and moving sucks big time!

So maybe the week hasnt been all that great this end haha.
Today i really gotta clean the place. and then i think ill blob out and maybe do some cross stitch as its a shitty day here. dont want to have to go out if can help it.

Anyhow
Ciao

Family visit and first day in charge!

Good evening. Yay for mid-week!!!
Well I had my dad stay last night (tues) as he had to come down for work for few days. He decided to drive from taranaki and drop mum off at nanas in levin and then have dinner and crash with us for the night. I cooked up a big pasta sausage dish as i knew it would feed three of us and full us all up, which it did. For dessert I got some WW ice cream. A choc berry one and cookies and cream. So we got to choose what one we wanted as there was two single serve tubs of each. Dad and I had the choc one with fruit yummy. Scott had a cookies and cream.
Watched the rich list the first time. It was ok but a bit slow and long lol. plus I cant really stand Jase gunn that much.
Anyway today I was in charge at work!!! Thank god we got a temp in as we were down staffed due to bugs going around. The kids and staff are dropping like flies. She was really good so yay, fitted right in. I spent most of the day in the office working my way through some stuff the boss left me to do and also learning and reading along the way. I was ment to have a training session last week but of course I fell ill and this week never really got the chance. But it was all good. Basically got things done as well as floated around making sure my staff were all good.!!
After work my mum and nana drove from levin and I took them for a coffee in porirua in the shopping mall. They only stayed just over an hour as they wanted to go back to watch the netball tonight and leave before the traffic got too bad. So yeh
Nana gave me a candle holder too handmade(not by her though)
its cool as i added a pic. its glass with painted flowrs on the front the back as you may not see very well has a mirror so you can see the reflection on the candle and patterns of flowers.

Anyway I think i should cook dinner not that im too hungry :S

Ciao

Much better

Im feeling so much better. I think this bug has finally gone!!!!
I cant wait for a good meal tonight. Have been craving some meat and vegies since I havent eaten anything like that in just under a week!!

Anyway nothing much to say. Hope everyones weekend went well.

Ciao

Never ending bugs....

WEll i have felt sick since i got sent home tues from work and also had the rest of the week off. went to the doc and it seems i have some bad gastro bug. so i had to do an eww speciman sample to get tested. felt heaps better last night and was able to eat some soup and toast for dinner the most i had been able to eat in ages.
well woke up this morn feeling good and hungry. so i thought id have some breakfast, just toast. but noo after bout half an hour i feel all sick in the tummy again. damn stupid bug. so i sit here feeling eww again (not as bad as have been but enough to make me not be able to function good at all). have taken a nausea tablet hoping i will feel better soon. wanted to do washing today damnit. and it seems when im sick the house turns to shit as in the bois leave it a mess. Scott has done well though doing the dishes and stuff but i know more could have been done by both of them.
ahh well i wont worry bout it till i feel ok and scott will help me tidy anyway, well more like he prob will do most of it!

hope your weekend is going well and if you are sick you are feeling better

Ciao

Sent home

Got sent home from work today. Not feeling the best. woke up with sore tummy pains.,where all i feel like doing is holding my tummy or rubbing it or something. i dragged myself to work as once i had got ready i felt a bit better but then after couple of hours of been at work nope. I think i have that stupid bug again that goes around. i seem to catch that but not the flu or cold these days.
so yeh i looked pale as so yeh they sent me home. Silly thing is once i got home i realised i had one of the kiddies dummies in my pocket so i had to go all the way back!!!
my back is still sore as too which is a pain. scott said it could be the gym's doing as when he first started after a few days he felt sore as and it lasted like a week or two... great :(
Gonna get scott to pick up some pain killers on the way home.
meantime i am laying on the couch staying warm flicking channels and ill no doubt sleep.

Hope you are all feeling ok...

Ciao

Recent happenings

Hrmm not really sure if ive done anything interesting enough to blab in here.

Last week was good at work, same ol, a waiting game for things to arrive and happen to make it feel more realistic. I went to the gym bout 3 times. Im loving the treadmill lol.who would have thought it does so many different things like makes you feel like you are walking up a hill and works ya ass lol. Also got my free monthly massage on thursday at the gym too. I was slack and didnt go in the weekend. my back was sooo sore,is playing up. Today it was soo painful i had to watch myself at work. I feel comfy sitting down with a pillow behind me or laying down at the mo. cant stand up for long. I dont think its the gyms doing.

The weekend was fish tank stuff as usual :) Finally got the big bitch upstairs yay taking James, Scott and myself to do it. though the bois did most of the work. We had to take off the hand rails on the stairs and the doors to get it up and into the room lol.
ooooh yay and its full too woohhooo. with a bit of coral in it too. its looking good. Just gotta wait a few weeks now before fish go in it. the temp needs to go up more and make sure the amonia(sp) levels are up. plus scott has been fixing last min leaks in the plumbing too so yay. and i may get more fishes soon for my tank yay. and scott will steal that cool psychodalic fishy for his tank.

Mondays still suck lol. Well getting up really early in the morn when its bloody cold does.
Though today at work things seemed more realistic. we got to log on and off on the computer system today to show our hours so to get paid :) plus new forms to fill out for my department as well as the sign in sheets and medication sheets for the parents. Policies are also splashed on the walls which look dumb but have to be up somewhere on the wall by ABC's standards. we gonna move them later once the lady has gone who is helping us :P

Other then that im good, no winter bugs *touch wood* just a sore body where i feel like a nana lol.

Ciao

New news New :)

Suppose its time i wrote on here. Just been so busy, tired and lots of things and changes happening around here i just havent really had the energy to be bothered. I have kept myself updated on all your happenings though even if i do not comment.

Ok to begin...Lets start with last weekend first. "Im so over fish tanks lol" yet it will be awesome when finished:) On saturday spent the day running around finding last minute things for it. I then dragged Scott out shopping and got him a couple of nice tops myself some and some underware. We then got home and rearranged and cleanned the office/games room. Then it was time to mission the fish tank stand/cabniet upstairs. Now i may add this was heavy as shit and would not fit up our stairs inside. So instead Scott and I put it on a trolley(made for stairs to take up the stairs outside the back of our house. Ok so this idea didnt work as the stairs proved to be too slippery and hard to drag it up with the trolley. So instead we tied it to the stair rails and ended up hoisting it up very slowly and in this time it started raining. I was proud i did it without even complaining as usual. This was put in the rearranged room. We attempted the fish tank(got it on the trolley) but that didnt last realised we needed way more people to help and i also got my thumb jammed between the door way and tank which brought tears to my eyes.
That night we went out for dinner with some mates where scott and i wore one of the tops we had got. We went out to a nice Japanese restaurant. The food was great. Service a bit hrmm but ahh well.
Sunday...hrmm i cant even think what i did??? Think it was really just cleanning and mucking bout.

Right....now for the bit i think i said id get into on one of my last entries. There has been a bit of change in my life. We had a staff meeting on a monday two weeks ago now. My boss informed us she had sold the buisness. A bit of a shock considering ive only been there now for bout 6months. She sold it to a big company called ABC which is Aussie based. It was set up like in the '80s by a couple who wanted quality care for their lil ones which provided education not just a babysitting service. it now as expanded all over Aussie and with bout 50 centres in NZ. hundred or so in england and some in america and now looking at asia :) Heather you may have heard of them. ABC is known to us over here and some like them so do not. the bitt people prob dont like is the paper work there is fuk loads by the looks and its only all to save our asses at the end of the day. Anyway, i was sad to see my boss sell but after been there a short time could see she was a bit stressed and needed to get out. But i am also bloody excited too as there are many opportunites for me to go far too. Oooh yeh before i forget, i got made 2IC of the centre:) So yeh as i said many opportunities for me to go far and even transfer to other centres in aussie or where they are around the world. They replace all of our toys with new and better ones and anything else like cots, shelves we need etc. we ment to have a budget of like $20,000 but we like got up to $40,000 lol.which we dont know if will be allowed but the lady who is over from aussie helping us set up is gonna push it lol. we get new and uniforms too yay. So things are slowly changing. things have started to arrive to full the place like 2 computers and a printer for the children to use and some for us staff. So yeh im excited and its going to be good, change is all good but scarey too at the same time. it doesnt feel a reality yet and wont until we get our uniforms and toys start arriving which can take up to 6weeks. So yeh thats that really.
Work still runs the same just a few changes and more paper work that has to be done and no old boss:( but the new boss is awesome she used to take over when boss was away anyway and me and her get along so all good. I will get trained up sometime soon too on how to use the new systems and stuff as it will be part of my requirement been 2IC.

Other then that things normal lol. oooh yeh i joined a gym finally lol. an all womens one. its cool so far. have been like only twice and that is only for my appointments they make to get to know us etc and show us the equipment. i went on equipement last night though once i had been shown spent like an hour there. will go tommrow too and also to some of the classes at a later date as they look cool. I now just need to keep it up lol. So yeh YAY me!!!

time for bed. have just got home from a meeting where i am soo shattered.

Ciao