Cwisteenor's space of random goodness

I have decided to sell out and ditch my trusty msn blog for a myspace. I haven't figured out how to make it pretty yet but I am sure I will in time.

 

My myspace url is: www.myspace.com/cwisteenor

Although I am not convinced that anyone reads my blog any more I am unashamedly going to continue to post onto it. And this year, it will not be only whinges. I WILL post some funny stuff like I used to in the old HP days and it will be a more interactive, interesting site for no one to read ;)

 

I have started back at the clinic and am waiting for my first individual client of the year to arrive. I feel OK about it actually. This year is looking bright to me.

 

As it is the beginning of the year, I figure I may as well make up some resolutions. Not that I usually keep resolutions, but I may as well have a few. These are in the order that they pop into my head. They are not ranked in any way

 

1.   Get back into the gym as I should have time this semester. Become buff bride for my wedding and feel smoking hot.

2.   Lose the Christmas pudge that I put on over the holidays so that I can fit my dress.

3.   Get my assignments done early in the year so that I have more time for wedding stuff and less stress leading up to the wedding

4.   Watch less TV. It must not rule my life

5.   Pray and read the bible more.

6.   Have a life and conversation outside of wedding planning.

7.   Read the text books I purchased but didn't have time to read last year

8.   Read at least one fictional book and don't feel guilty about it

9.   Go to a connect group regularly

10. SAVE MORE MONEY

 

um.....that's all I can think of at the moment. 10 sounds like a goo dround number.

 

Well the client is here so better be off

Poster presentation marking is going well. Some students went all out to make their posters impressive.

 

One tute down, only one more to go.

 

So back to my holidays. I had a nice Christmas. We went down the coast Christmas Eve and had dinner at Anthony's parents' house, then up to my aunt's for Christmas day lunch, then to my parents house for afternoon tea and presents and off to house sit a family friend's place for tow nights. SO it was pretty busy but MUCH food and MUCH weight putting on (3kg in total that I have to lose now d'oh). I got good presents too. I got jewelery, a new bag for uni, money towards our wedding, a wedding planner and natural skin products. I'm pretty happy :-D

 

Guess which ahs received the most mileage so far. No prizes for getting that one correct.

 

New Years was nice and low key. We went to Matt & Katie's place and had a bit of a quiet one and watched the fireworks from near their house by the river. Most enjoyable but we left by one because we are very very old now.

 

One of my bridesmaids has tried her dress on so far and looks STUNNING in it, two more to go. We've also been to see one photographer and officially booked in our wedding reception. Next on the agenda is seeing a couple more photographers, shopping for cakes and starting to look at flowers.

 

Fun fun fun :)

I have just had two long weeks of not being at uni, doing any uni work or thinking about uni (much). I have just experienced what I have been dreaming about for many many months. And it was GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD.

 

Today I am at Uni again to start tutoring for the semester. I just ran into my thesis supervisor who told me that he would like for us to have a meeting soon to discuss progress. Of which there has been none. So I will have to get cracking ASAP and actually do something on that one. Its been a while, really.

 

This morning and afternoon my students will be presenting the group oral presentations that the poor things had to spend THEIR two week Christmas break writing and practicing. Poor things. And I will be sitting up the back of the room with a pen EVALUATING and GRADING them. BOO HAHA. I'm a really easy marker though in reality so they shouldn't be too scared.

 

My two weeks off have been heaven. Ant and I decided to see each other every single day to make up for lost time during last semester and that has been sop good. We haven't been able to do that and it confirms that we won't drive each other at all up the wall by having daily contact when we are married. Quite the contrary. My day is always so much better when he is in it. I am very confident and looking forward so much to living with him and spending every morning and evening together. Its been really special. And he has put up with my incessant wedding talk. I have turned into a wedding talking and planning MACHINE. I am crazy over this wedding. And I've loved hacving the time to do some planning over the break.

 

I will return to blog some more after the tutorial is over. Must dash now.

As per usual I am at the clinic waiting for a client so I decided to blog.

 

Today is the last day of clinic before I get to rest which is so very exciting :)

 

There are not a lot of things more exciting to me than this coming Friday. I have been waiting for weeks. I am hoping to get rid of some of this ick lethargy that I have been carrying with me. I have started to have bad dreams every night which is a bad sign for me. I usually never have bad dreams except when I am really needing a break badly. I had them leading up to leaving child safety and now they are back. So its officially time. Last night was about these weird black shadowy things which were dementor-esque in function that were outside, we locked them out but they got into the house and I was just hanging around waiting to have the life sucked out of me by one of them. Not a very fun dream. I will have to blog all about the joys of sitting doing nothing and not feeling guilty about it on Friday once my body has gotten what it needs.

 

On the wedding front, Ant and I have booked our reception venue. We are going through the paperwork tonight and I will be transferring the deposit. Its all very exciting and having booked in the reception venue says to me that it is really happening so I am soooo excited :)

 

There is still a HECK of a lot of saving to do and a heap of organising to do but that stuff is fun so I'll enjoy it. Ant said I have to have at least one wedding planning free day this holidays and I agree though because I could be tempted to just go nuts and not really get the rest I need. I need to remind myself that I have six months left which is a long time so it will get done.

Turns out I will get a day off on 22nd - sooner than I thought - so only 3 days to go which is just soooo exciting I can't WAIT to do nothing!

Ant and I had an appointment with a wedding co-ordinator at a potential reception venue today but she had double boked so we couldn't go in. It doesn't inspire confidence but I am prepared to put it down to human error. I'll proceed with some caution, however. ITs a shame we couldn't go and see the place this week but it did mean that I got to havce lunch with Ant at Park Road though which was nice :)

 

I took Sebastian to the vet's today and the poor thing was so distressed. He had to have a mini muzzle on so he didn't nip the vet and he had his butt shaved. He looks rediculous. Poor puppy has been scratching like mad because he is alergic to something at this time of year :( The worst was when she had to check his glands by inserting a finger in a certain place and wiggling it around. Poor puppy's eyes swelled as big as dishes and he cried and cried and cried. My heart just melted for him. But it was over soon enough and he was very happy once he got down  on the ground. The good news is that the vet said that she thinks he has quite a few years left (he is 14 years old so he's not a puppy at all really) and that he will be OK. He had an injection to stop the itchiness and he has some special cream and shampoo to stop the itchies as well.

 

I'm supposedly doing work at the moment but my brain is simply not in the mood right now.