Quick Update

Folks, folks, folks...

There are many excuses for my long absence from the world wide web so I thought I'd do a quick bulletin for those of you out of loop.

TEMPLETON (important news)
- has been posted to Bangladesh and he's leaving tomorrow. MAAADDDD!!

I guess its taken me a little while to really face it... It is really quite overwhelming.

TEMPLETON (normal news)
- his mum and dad had been back for a month and we had a pretty cool time hanging out.
- still keeps cutting his hair short
- still sings in the shower & speak french in his sleep

WAWA (me)
- has quit her job and going to do a bit of travelling before she go to Bangladesh to visit Templeton. Maybe. Leaving at Easter and not coming back.
-suffering from insomia
-still going mad slowly

SHINER
- is his old funny self but is getting a new Daddy in the form of T's cousin Ian who will be moving into the house and be in Canberra doing a PhD in geosommink.
- he did have a bit of hiccup with an ear infection, during which he constantly walked into walls. He has now recovered and hearing has gotten much better than before he had an infection, he's even straightening his ears at the sound of mice. (different story altogether)
- he has (had) a new little brother called Benny, a stuffed cat animal that looks just like him but 5 sizes smaller, whom I stole from an unborn child. (what you don't know won't hurt you). Unfortunately and mysteriously Benny disappeared the day that Templeton's mum left to go back overseas, so we are postering all over the neighbourhood and major airports to have him back.
-also rehearsing madly for the next Operatunity auditions.

BRAND NEW IPOD which revoluntionalised my life for a very brief moment
- lost
(onboard a flight from Brisbane in the care of the QANTAS check-in luggage security staff, scanned by a machine and dirty hands made dirty hands more unclean, no one at QANTAS or the Australian Federal Police, ACT Police or QLD police willing to help me after 15+ phone calls)

DRIVING IN L'S WORLD
- is shit! Ron has had a heart attack two final reviews short of passing me. The next instructor, whom I am seriously considering naming, was a total dickhead who admitted at the end of the lesson that his "bad mood" was due to "personal problems" and apologised for being unprofessional to me. Great, where's my money back?? The next next instructor is taking me out on Friday and I will be extremely PIIISSSSEEEEDDD off is he is the fourth accredited arsehole I've come across in the last six months.
- I am two weeks away from my 27th birthday and I am scraping the very bottom of my bank account to get these Ps. Urrrhhh--- life....

PETER & MISH
- got married on Saturday in Melbourne at Peter's parent's beautiful farm out in Narrawarren.
- I drove from Wodonga to Melbourne on my L plates as in NSW you could only do 80kph. Man smashing in that cruise control was fan bloody tastic. No kangaroos or wombats were hurt in the exercise.
- basically the weekend was debaucherously and rediculously fantastic thanks to those sexy and unsober melbournians. I LOVE MELBOURNE!
- Ha, I even bumped into my old supervisor from the hotel i worked in in wgtn 01-02. He's now working at a cafe on burnswick st which we happend to have breaky at on Sunday - small yet mad world. WHO'S SERV'N WHO'S COFFEE NOW HUH??!!!

MY OTHER MATES
- are all buying me copious amount of drinks to make sure I am coping with the fact that my bloke's gone to the jungle for the year. I love friends!!

MAGPIES
- yep, good. fat. musical.

GOLDFISH & SNAILS
- passed away one by one. I knew i should have had a prenup agreement with T when we bought that tank!!

OTHER SOCIAL STUFF
- Had a mad Lunar New Year Party in feb, followed by hosting 4 other dinner parties in the space of a month
- Also in the last little while went to a Sarah Blasko concert, a DJ Krush concert, a Feuler's concert, KEATING! the Musical, a three year old's birthday party, the Taiwanese Film Festival, the Pamela Denoon lecture, and about to go to a Baby Shower this weekend.
- I am considering joining rehab but before that I will have the biggest friken birthday-farewell party this town has ever seen. See you all next next Saturday in your very delicious best.

Reading: Keiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss ; Lonely Planet Bangladesh; Lonley Planet Europe on a Shoe String
Listening: Regina Spektor

~Brave new world about to dawn~