Playing in the pool with Corey 
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KIRBY KIDS
Saturday, January 07, 2006
Re-entering Blogland.....
Ooops. Apparently it has been a while since I've posted!! (November in fact!!) And it has been at least 2 weeks since I have been on a computer (bliss!)..... I remember when I was a kid how much of a privledge it was to have a computer, and if you did, how super-exciting it was to be allowed to use it - with supervision of course - and now I can't wait to get away from the things!
Christmas was lovely. Lots of food and pressies and fun. Thankfully we escaped a scorcher of a day, which looked likely after the lead-up temps.
Have just returned from a week in Brisbane which was just an extension of Christmas really, with a bit of beach-going thrown in. We stayed with friends of Russ' for the week. played golf, caught the River cat a few times, ate loads of fabulous seafood, drank way too much, went to the beach and shopped. A nice relaxing week away.
Now for 2006!! With plans to travel mid year overseas for 12 months, I can't wait until June! Hmmm resolutions.....
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Sunday, October 30, 2005
The vegie patch..... when it was started a month and a bit ago. It now has lettuce, beetroot and tomatoes growing!
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Thursday, October 20, 2005
My Needs
I just got this off P.Giraffe's site. Go to Google and type in your first name followed by "needs" and write down the sentences that are listed. Here follows a few that made some sense, though if you ask me, all I think I need right now is a nice cup of coffee!!
Shannon Needs Your help
Shannon needs to deal with her own issues in her own time
Shannon needs me again
Shannon needs to make a decision on T-shirt logos within a week
Shannon needs to keep steadily up at the top (followed by some sentence about what the man deserves - haha!!)
Shannon needs to think how to develop its business if the stop over no longer existed
Shannon needs to take it more seriously
Shannon who really needs a car
Shannon needs to be extended to deal with quantum detectors
I'll tag Alice and ShellyC and my mother, if she ever gets around to it!!!
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Still Alive and Kickin'
I will have to start calling these posts 'monthly updates' or something, as that is about as regularly I can seem to 'get around' to posting. So, quick run down, and I will have to post some photos at some point
* The garden got a make-over; not quite a Jamie-Durie-Overhaul, but near enough!!
* We have a vegie patch!! And compost!! Hopefully at least the tomatoes grow - that was the whole reason to have a vegie garden. I'm sick of eating wet rubber (my precise description of what supermarket tomatoes taste like)
* I start a new job on Monday ( I wasn't even looking, and in the end I only ended up with two weeks' holiday instead of the hoped-for 4 week unemployment opportunity!) It will be in a totally unrelated field to my previous job, but I look forward to starting somewhere new
* I have one assignment and an exam until I finish uni (for the second time) this year - hurrah!!
* I'm visiting Mum and Dad - it has done nothing but rain, and the place looks fantastic. Not such great weather for horse riding etc, but shopping, coffee, lunch etc etc with Mum has been good.
* Grandma has been shifted to the nursing home, and appears pretty happy. She loves a good gossip about the other residents! I had a nice visit with her a few days ago. She is hopeful of returning to her farm soon.
* My Dad is the most un-cat person in the world. He doesn't like them. But a little kitten turned up on the door step a few days ago and adopted my Dad. He named it "Mrs Smith" and he is resigned to the fact that it now lives on the back doorstep - He even feeds her!!
*Looking forward to returning to Canberra and seeing Russ (awwww, such a softy) and to making sure he fed my cat!!
* Photos of some of the above sooner or later.........
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005
A Weekend at the snow
It was a bit slushy, but it was good fun! And what do novice skiiers like us know about good snow anyway? Although, I have to say, it is the second time I have been skiing in my entire life, and all I have to compare it to is a week in Andorra in the Pyrenees Mountains!
We stayed at a gorgeous little B&B outside Jindabyne - tin roof, log fire and all. Very spoilt.
Back at work for a few days before I am not working (I won't use 'unemployed' just yet - I'm just on a break for a while), and am looking forward to going home to see Mum and Dad and check the progress of the house.
I am still having problems walking down the stairs after skiing - very sore calves. Russ tells me now I know how he feels after everytime he plays hockey. ha!
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Friday, September 23, 2005
The best I have felt in a long time......
Using a title like that makes it sound as though I have been sick or something. But I haven't. On Tuesday I resigned from my job. I could literally feel the weight lift off my shoulders as I was talking to my boss about WHY I was resigning. For some, the fact I resigned came out of the blue, while others, who knew what I had to really put up with, it was only a matter of time.
So, now I have a few days off. We are going to the 'snow' - if there is any left, otherwise we will just be in the 'mountains.
Now of course, the other very exciting thing that has happened this week is Russ won the Brophy Medal, which is for the best and fairest hockey player in men's first grade. I have known for a couple of months that this was the case (right about the time I was trying to keep his 30th a surprise was when he cemented a place in the top two) So I found myself having to keep two big secrets at the same time. And I couldn't even share the Brophy secret with anyone!!
It is a sensational day today. Much too nice to sit inside..... how I WISH Russ was decide to build a deck, so I could sit out in the sun with the laptop catching up on emails and uni work. Ah well.
I might just have to get through that quickly and go out into the garden and try and 'do' something!
The first warm day we have had - and already there is a blowfly in the house - where DO they come from so quickly?? - Meikah the cat is now quietly prowling around after it. I hope she catches it!
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Hmmm... can't guess why such large 'shades' were needed the next day!! (two of my four baby brothers - also 'Kirbykids')
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And the Party! how could I forget!!
Last year, My dad turned 50. As did two of my uncles. My mum and her sisters organised their respective husbands a joint surprise 50th. Everyone had a fabulous time. I was so far removed from the organisation of the party, and I still found it difficult to keep it a secret....well, I nearly burst when I decided to try and organise a surprise 30th for The Boy.
I can't remember how many times I nearly let it slip, just by innocently saying "I spoke to so and so today" when there was absolutely no reason why I should have spoken to said person.
Then there was the issue of everyone who was invited to the party not letting it slip - and the fact that his sister had flown all the way from North QLD to be at the party.... Well we all managed to keep it pretty much under wraps!!
So many hockey friends, family, 'old school' pals and others! From as far afield as Melbourne, Tamworth, and QLD. So, I think the pictures speak for themselves.
It was definitely fun to organise - but the best part was seeing Russ having such a fantastic time, and catch up with so many people - and especially the look on his face when he realsied what we had walked into was all for him!!
Now at least I have a few years before I plan the next party!!
Thanks to Alice for all her help, and the gorgeous cake, and to ShellyC and the kids for such fabulous decorations!!
posted by Kirby kid @ 21:07
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SNOW!
A little late, as this was taken over a week ago, but it snowed!! yay! Not enough to make a snowman, unfortunately, but enough to cover the car, and settle in the garden overnight.
These were taken in the front gaden at some crazy early hour. The last time I can remember it snowing in Canberra was about 5 years ago - in May.
I was in a little English pub on Wednesday next to an open fire drinking a glass of red wine with a close friend when it started snowing outside. Magical!
posted by Kirby kid @ 20:52
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Monday, August 01, 2005
oh dear, I think I've forgotten how to blog!
It has been that long! But I thought I'd better check in!
Work has been pretty busy lately, so I guess that is a bit of an excuse!
Well, it is only 5 days or so until I officially finish housesitting, and I am sad about that because it's been great having a place all to my self for a change! Especially as this place has been so WARM!! (Huge deal on a cold Canberra morning!)
Plus, Russ also bought himself a digital Camera today ( I am shocked! He only just figured out his mobile phone, so he's coming along in leaps and bounds in the world of technology, because gasp! he also got himself an email address!!)
So I thought I would post a picture of one of the most recent acquisions - The "aquarium" - Home to 14 fresh water tropical fish which I bought Russ for his recent birthday. Lots of new "toys" to play with.
So here is the aquarium! Plus I find out there is a new way of uploading images - just after I got the hang of the 'old way'!
posted by Kirby kid @ 21:42
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- Playing in the pool with Corey
- Eating seafood with this view! ahhhhhh.
- Fun at Christmas time :-)
- Re-entering Blogland.....
- vases I painted for Grandma...with lovely flowers ...
- THE HOUSE!! So different to just a few months ago....
- The vegie patch..... when it was started a month a...
- My Needs
- Still Alive and Kickin'
- Managed the greens OK
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