Just a small one :)

Well hello everyone :)  

It's been a little while since my last post hasn't it?!  I suppose not too much crazy or exciting things have been happening over the last few weeks.  

Dan went off to Adelaide a week and a bit back to watch the Tour Down Under, he reckons he rode something like 650km in the week he was there on his pushbike. Most people suggest he's a bit on the crazy side?!  But I say good on him!!  (I'm glad he's addicted to fitness stuff rather than gaming or something!)  Him and a couple other mates (same guys as last year) went down, watched the tour, camped out and rode their pushies all week.  Sounded like he had a pretty good time.  Meanwhile, I stayed home and worked, worked and worked some more ;)  Someone's gotta do it I suppose :P  Oh and in-between that somehow hurt my hip which turned out to be a back alignment issue which the muscles in my hip were over compensating for, hence the pain, that was fun, not :P  So it was a bit of a quiet week for me, nice to have a bit of space and do my own thing but even sweeter when Dan came home :)  I did manage to slip in a spa day for myself on the weekend before he came home :)  Went and spoilt myself with a massage, facial and then a bit of retail therapy ;)  Gotta have some fun of my own don't I?!!

So I'm officially enrolled into my course for school! :D  Originally I was going to do Diploma of Graphic Design which is a year (finish in Oct), but I soon realized (after speaking with a teacher) that it would be best to do Certificate IV of Graphic Design first (still a year long course) and then if I wish to continue into Diploma (only half a year course and would be credited time/money from Cert. IV).  She explained to me that if I was to jump straight into Diploma that I might struggle/be more stressed out b/c I wouldn't know the programs as well as everyone else (who have already done Cert. IV), Cert IV course is based more on learning the programs and Diploma is based more on getting your portfolio together, so thought I'd be smart and do the right thing (and not stress the crap outta myself).  I'm super excited!!  Two weeks until I start, it's going to be like the first day of high school all over again! :P  I have to say that I'm very nervous as well a) b/c it's been so long since I've studied and b) b/c I'm not too sure what to expect (hope I like it?!).  So I guess I'll just have to wait and see what I've gotten myself into.

As you can guess, I've only got one week left of work!! :)  YIPPEE!  Actually it's 5 working days and then I get to have 5 days off! :)  So looking forward to that break!  And then work part time, no responsibility, go to work, do my job and go home, nothing more.  It's going to be weird and might be a bit hard to let go but I'm sure once I've started focusing on my course I won't have an issue just doing the basics at work.

Of course I have to throw a few Junior photos in ;) .....

This was taken when Dan was in Adelaide.  Two days while I was at work I went and dropped Junior off with Max (the dog with dog sat over Christmas) so he would have company while I was gone all day at work (otherwise he'd be on his own for 9/10hrs possibly more).  Love having the doggy daycare and so does Junior ;)  lol, he was SO exhausted from running around and playing with Max all day, I brought him home and both nights he went straight to the couch and passed out, as you can see in the photo above :P  Too cute, but I definitely didn't feel as guilty going to work all day (normally he's only on his own for around half a day but b/c Dan was gone it was way longer than that)

This was a 'pleeeaaassseee can I have some of your yummy food' look ;)  Trying to mooch from me after he'd just had a nap hehe.

A Christmas gift from Mum to Dan: make your own Bonsai, before.

Made some yummy mixed berry muffins the other day.  Didn't last long :)  Gotta love Pinterest for finding yummy and simple recipes!

And after.  It's pretty cool, it looks like broccoli but it's little crystals.

Well, that's it for this post.  Dan will be home shortly and Junior's ready for a walk so best get going.  Hope this post finds you all well xx  And hope winter's not too blah for those of you in the cold, thinking of you all xxoo