I LOVE basketball

…watching it anyway. This is our sixth year (I think) of season tickets (we also had them a few years in the mid-90s) and I just love going to the games. It’s great now too as a lot of games are shown live on One HD. Kevin laughs that he’s got a sport-watching wife. He really only goes cause I love it. The poor Hawks aren’t going too good at the moment but I still love watching them play.  And there is always a great atmosphere at the Sand Pit as you can see in this video.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBaPmmUY-eg

First makeup video

Not sure how many of you are interested but just in case I thought I’d post this here. I’ve only just starting getting into makeup – I think it must be part of a mid-life crises :-).

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCyDRj999Es

If you do watch it I’d love some feedback on the video and more importantly, if you’d like more to see more beauty videos.

Bring back school holidays

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Yes, I know the girls have only been back at school for a week and half but I’m already exhausted. I’m sure our ridiculous temperatures last week didn’t help. We had almost 7 days of near or over 40deg celsius (104F). Thank goodness for air conditioning!!!

The first day saw Amy head off on a year 7 camp for 3 days and Christy starting in year 4. She has a teacher that is new to the school and is very happy with her.

Then Amy got her have her first proper day in High School. She looks so grown up in the shirt and skirt.

We have to leave home at 7.20am to get Amy, and her friend Emerson, to the bus stop on time. The plan is for them to walk home from the bus it’s so far I’ve picked them up. They missed the bus home from school yesterday, which meant a dash into town to pick them up (15min car trip each way).

I’ve had to open the uniform shop twice (for an hour or two) and spent another 45mins filling orders today. Plus I’ve been getting my household routines re-established and have gone back to the gym. On top of all this my heel spur is acting up. Unfortunately my plan to rest it isn’t really working out!!!! So life has been crazy busy, and not at all like I like it to be. Tomorrow in Christy’s swimming carnival, then I’m hoping to have two days at home to just potter around doing jobs and having some free time for crafting :-).

Meeting Paola

Yesterday I drove down to Berry to meet another blog-friend, Paola, of Spades and Spoons. We met at the Berry Tea Shop, which you might recall I visited in December.

The thing I love best about meeting fellow bloggers is that you don’t have to worry about getting to know each other or learning what each other is interested in. All that has already been done. From the moment the lovely and elegant Paola entered the tea rooms we talked, over a delicious cup of tea, non-stop about all sorts of things. Eventually we wandered to Sew and Tell and spent at least 30min poking around the shop ohhing and ahhing over all the gorgeous things.  So jealous that Paola has this shop in her local town, but at least that gives me an excuse to come visit with her again :-).

NOTE: I believe you “should” be able to see the photos from Kevin’s Birthday dinner now.