Belinda’s Blog

and many more to go! But things are kicking along for the 2006 school year!

Monday was a day full of meetings and much organisation – especially for me, seeing as though I missed the end of the previous yr and someone else dealt with my packing up etc. So I had unpacking then organising. I was at school a little after 7am and I left just before 4pm. My head was spinning and I was so tired! A very early night was had.

Today I met my class. I have mainly Yr 3 children & I didn’t know any of them. OMG, they are lovely! And they listen!  OK OK, I hear you saying, it’s just day 1. But from what I’ve been told and witnessed, the majority of my class are behaviourally just gorgeous and are hard workers. I have only really 1 or 2 potential naughty/lazy kids. So 27/29 are mighty fine stats to me We spent the day getting to know each other and getting stuck into some work. I had 1 new enrollment & 1 girl who has apparently left, so  I have 17 yr 3 children and 12 yr 4; girls dominate, which is in complete contrast to the situation I had in 2005. I can say that I had a good day and have a good feeling that they will be enjoyable to teach & the yr should be much better than last yr.

As an aside to that, I adore most of the kids I had last year. I feel ‘weird’ being at that school and not having them under my wing anymore. i guess it feels strong b/c I didnt’ get to finish the yr with them last yr and never got to do those last few fun days and say goobye. About 4 of my boys came to visit me this morning before school to talk and see me. A few said they were going to bring my Xmas presents in tomorrow and every time I saw them, they kept waving to me. OMG they were so adorable. I actually got all choked up. I also had a few of my girls come up before the morning line-up bell to ask me if I was ‘better’. I said I was but that I was very sick and they were asking me what happened. Of course I didn’t tell them, but I was THIS close to crying. It was so hard to fight back tears today. I seem to be going thru an emotional spurt again. I sobbed last night & then today was tough. Hopefully it will pass again shortly.

Another early night tonight, as being back at work with all the extra demands of a new yr is just wiping me out. On the plus side, I feel OK about being back there – with my kids seemingly good & I think the distraction will do me good.

My holidays are all but over. I have done all the school stuff that i can possibly do from home. I spent a few hrs last night getting sorted. I’ll just go in super-duper early tomorrow morning before our teacher-only day, to unpack (someone else packed my room up and it’s going to take me ages to sort thru it!) my storeroom and set up the room to my liking. So that is that!

I have been feeling really fragile, so I hit the shops for some retail therapy this afternoon    I bought 2 mid-calf skirts. Nice, cool and flowy. I got 2 white shirts to mix and match with various skirts that I have. I love what I bought and even if I don’t feel much like being at work tomorrow at least I will look good and that contrinbutes to my mood. Also v cool is that the lime handbag I got for Xmas goes with one skirt nicely and the shoes Steven bought me for Xmas go great with the other! Love accessorising! 

Well, off to do some laundry and then settle in to watch Cricket. No doubt I will blog soon with work updates!

I dropped my friend Ange back at the airport around midday. While I do enjoy time to myself I am so going to miss having her here! It was sad saying goodbye, but I know that i will see her again soon..we’ve already starting talking plans 

So now I’m home, the mad chaotic rush begins! I have less than 2 days to get myself ‘ready’ for school. Bought more supplies yesterday and so I am sitting here, table covered with school ’stuff’..the sorting, labeling, and preparing begins! I just know that I am going to get to school on Monday ( I need to go in v. early because someone else packed up my room and it will take some time to find everything and put it all back  and out where I want/need it to be) totally exhausted from such last-minute frenzy!  Ah well! I guess it is a focus and if I’ve learnt anything this past week, is that distractions are GOOD!

Gotta get back to it!!!

Wow this week has gone by fast!!! I’m glad in one way, because it means it is the weekend and Steven will be home and we can do some stuff together. Bit sad in some ways, because it means Ange’s visit is all but over (boo hoo!) and it means I have about sixty HOURS (not days, but HOURS! How depressing!!!)  until I will be driving off for the first work day of 2006.

I have honestly had such a fun, relaxing time this week and I’ve been so happy for the company and time with such a great friend. She has kept me laughing, we’ve been out and about & it’s really taken my mind off my own personal ’stuff’ I’m still dealing with. I think I really needed a week of company and it’s been really great.  I’m a bit annoyed with the fact that I have work on Monday, but on the plus side, that too will keep me busy and I’m not as anxious about actually being in the place, since my visit on Wednesday.

Today we had such fun taking the dogs to the beach. I must make mention here that we have not taken the girls to the beach for in excess of a yr – it may even be closer to two! They were so excitable as puppies and so unpredictable, that we kinda let it go for a while. They seem to be at a much better age now to deal with the distractions that can happen when there. OMG they loved it! They RAN to start with , expending so much energy! Then we got them onto the sand and they happily went into the water. Paris surprised me, as she was never a huge fan of water, but she led the way. And Tully was just so so cute when she went in down to her tummy and then lay down in the ocean. I so WISH I had photos of that!

After that, I headed to Officeworks to get a few more bits and pieces for school ( man I love going there, but I restricted myself LOL). Then rented “Red Eye” on DVD. Cleaned house. Did laundry. About to head out for gourmet pizza for dinner.

Ange flies out around 1 tomorrow so we’ll be out there door by 11ish. Not sure what else is planned on the weekend. I would LIKE to purchase an outfit or two for work (please let the shops have nice new stuff in that I LIKE..a lot of the fashions of late haven’t been my ‘thing’), but have no idea what else we’ll get up to!

Happy Weekend, everyone!! 

Happy Australia Day to all the fabulous Aussies that I consider friends

I’m off to start putting together a big Aussie BBQ pigout!

Party hard !!!

…is what I’ve been having this week!

Ange arrived mid-Monday afternoon & we spent the rest of that afternoon catching up.

Tuesday – slept in , then went to the Mall and had a nice lunch. Then went to the cinema and saw “Rumour Has It”. I hadn’t heard a heap about this film, but I really really enjoyed it! Was a v. cool chic flick!

Came home and started madly making dinner – a beef & ricotta lasagne from scratch. Sat around talking and watching tennis then hit the sack.

Today, left the house around 11 and headed to my school for a brief visit to drop off some things and get a class list from my supervisor. I checked out how my classroom was left & that was about it! Cried on my supervisor and we had a really good chat about support (both professional and otherwise) & plans for the year. Obviously the last time I was at work, I left under really bad circumstances and even going back to school with that still in my mind gave me a really sick feeling pulling up and being there. But all that aside, i am glad I went in today to get that initial nervousness out of the way and to talk 1 on 1 with my supervisor.

After that, headed to Miranda to have sushi, browse shops & then Ange and I had massages. I had the hugest knot in my right shoulder and it killed but it was worth enduring the pain to have it removed. I feel so much better!!

Then went to the Novotel at NorthBeach and had coffee and talked for an hr or so, before heading out for Mexican.

It’s been really awesome having Ange here cos it’s been a lot of fun and a really welcome distraction from my own sadness and ’stuff’. I have really needed the compnay and the laughs.

Tomorrow is Australia Day, so we’re hoping to spend the AM at the beach (weather permitting!), followed by a late lunch/early dinner…a BBQ with all the Aussie trimmings

New towels. Towels that match in perfectly with the bathroom colourscheme. Towels whose bathmat (oh sorry, it’s called a FOOT TOWEL these days! lol) are so plush! Towels that are 30% off

Well the rain has most definitely subsided. It was hot and sticky yesterday & today’s no different

Had an OK Saturday. Had a sleepin, late breakfast, did heaps of laundry and then just vegged. I had an extremely emotional day yesterday. I was crying buckets and so we sat & I talked out a lot of my feelings regarding the baby (this is still so raw), work (why I am really nervous and anxious about going back) and why a focus in my life is so necessary (right now I don’t have one and I know from experience that if I don’t, I find life more difficult).
Felt a lot better in the afternoon but I’ve felt like a raving psycho with my emotions & as a result I’m tired and moody and it had been causing lots 0f tension and arguments between us. So the big heart-to-heart helped resolve a lot of that.

We were going to head out to seafood for dinner, then decided it was an unnceccesary splurge given that we were both tired etc too. Planned a nice dinner at home, then ended up getting an invite to my parents’ place (and I forgot to cancel the seafood reservation…oops! LOL!).

Today finishing all the housework. My friend Angela from Melbourne comes to visit TOMORROW! Cannot wait to see her I would say that I have 3 or 4 very close friends who I am in constant contact with and Ange is one of them. She will be here 5 days and I know that just having that girl time 1 on 1 will do such good for me.

Now, since it’s so sticky and hot and the house stuff is done, I’m going to grab some lunch and then settle in for the afternoon…the cricket starts at 2!

Oh I almost forgot! Finally saw Lena on Friday for a 2 hr lunch. OMG did we even come up for air, babe? LOL! I gave her her Xmas present. I can now reveal that I had a beautiful photo made into a 3D crystal and I’m so so glad that she loved it. She even got teary awwww. I am so blessed to have some amazingly beautiful people as my close friends

1 more week left of school holidays

I don’t feel anywhere near ready (mentally) for what that involves. I guess most ppl would think that is being selfish as I’ve been off since mid December. But I’ve had so much to deal with in that time. It’s only been within this week that my tears have stopped being a daily thing. I haven’t really slept properly since going thru this whole thing and I feel tired and anxious at the thought of being back at work. Life goes on, but part of me feels I can’t go on like normal, b/c I don’t feel like normal yet. I am upset at the fact that I got robbed AGAIN of my Xmas break and I will be going back to start another challenging year exhausted in every possible sense of the word.

Today’s feeling: sad and depressed

OMG I am so over things at the moment!

It is pouring with rain – it has been since Saturday evening. It is cool and pouring & really dark. Raingods, we’ve had enough now…really we have. You can STOP! I just feel like the dogs & I are stuck indoors and I’m getting claustraphobic almost.

I have watched every decent movie on Showtime already for January! I think I’ve done similarly at the rental places. LOL!

I don’t know what to do to bide my time until I can get out and about.

Rain is fine, but too much of it really can ruin your mood!

ETA: After taking a nap and playing with puppies, it was finally time to go to my beautician appointment. That I always look forward to

I finally got the waxing done that was supposed to have been done Dec 20 (but due to us leaving for QLD early, my Xmas appt had to be scrapped). Man it was overdue and I hate being overdue for these types of things. But now I’m smooth and it feels so much better (though it hurt a bit- esp the bikini area. A month overdue for a wax like that is NEVER gonna be fun. Surprisingly, I thought it would have been worse!).

Steven came home earlier than usualy (yay!) & on the way home we just happened to pass my brother. VERY lucky, as his car had just broken down! So we gave him a ride home, scoffed down dinner, then he had to drive my brother back to the car, and wait for road service and a tow. I went and spent time with my SIL to pass the time since we were both sans husbands! My niece didn’t stop chattering away from the moment I stepped inside the door. We played Barbies and Bratz and god knows what else LOL! I love that kid she always makes me laugh

So – boring day, followed by an eventful evening!

I’m calling it quits now and am off for some sleep!