Everybody’s free to feel good…

Thanks for all ya comments guys… *sniffles* I love you all! *mwah*  

Ok, now the sap is out the way, lemme start with the real entry!

Friday night was nice. My parents invited us all to the Zoo for the twilight evening. It occurs every Friday night during summer (weather permitting) and the zoo stays open until 10pm with a band playing in the rotunda. Friday’s bad was "Blue’s Brothers" covers and (I found out) the reason my dad was there was because a few of his mates from the musical theatre company he belongs to were playing. lol… no my father isn’t an actor (that’s my mother – hence the genetic love of all things dramatic) but he does play in the bands/stagecrew/sound engineering… so he’s more of a behind-the-scenes dude. Anyhoo… so I put together quite a nice feast of dips, breads, olives, sundried tomatos (ed: thanks Tea & Sympathy) etc etc to take along and my parents brought the wine and the picnic blankets/seats. It worked out well (except that Mike didn’t get home until slightly later than I had figured meaning that we all got stuck in peak hour traffic!) and it was a nice night. In our typical style Mum and I got up and danced (as good as two chicks with ankle problems – her with her healing left ankle – and me with my bad right ankle… lol), it was more like boogie-ing but hey… it was fun. The girls’ danced and ran around with all the other kids and it was fascinating to watch the swing dancers in action. Mannnnn would I love to have their energy and pizzazz!!! The only group NOT happy with the night was the lions who were situated right near the rotunda (where the band was playing). At about 9.00pm you could hear the roars of disgruntlement coming from their cage… it was evident that they weren’t as taken with the "Blue’s Brothers" as we were. I walked over the ramp to see them and they were all very ready to be put in their beds for the evening. I tried getting a photo of them but the flash pissed them off even more so I aborted mission pretty quickly. Anyway we all enjoyed ourselves immensley and the girls ran themselves ragged and fell asleep in the car on the way home! Bonus!

Saturday didn’t herald anything spectacular. We did the family shopping minus Tylah (who chose to go with my parents to do theirs instead) which was pretty cool. The only not-so-cool thing was that we wiped out all the money, lol. I do have a full pantry so it’s not so bad.

The rest of Saturday came and went in super fast fashion.. I spoke to *K* who was equally as bored and we were tossing up the idea of seeing a movie. Unfortunately there’s not a great deal that I actually want to see at the minute… so I felt resigned to blah-dom. Instead I ended up picking her up, we had a yummy hot chocolate in Camberwell and then we drove around aimlessly until I took her home. I felt very… aimless. lol. But hey, it did get us both out of the house, reduced our cabin fever somewhat.

Today was also a day for very little. I had a brainwave to call Phillip and go for a coffee which was very nice. Once again I managed to remove myself from the tangle of children that usually follow me around and had adult conversation which felt super good! This was because I let Mike have a nice, long sleep-in… lucky boy. So I wandered around Chadstone, wanting desperately to quench my retail therapy urge, but alas unable to as I had zero cash. Argh… isn’t that just the pits? I ALWAYS find good things to buy when I have no money.

Now it’s 6.30pm. I can’t really be bothered making anything glamerous for dinner, so it’s just the good old jaffle iron, a couple pieces of bread and some spaghetti and cheese for toasted sammiches. I might even chuck a can of soup on the stove… lol. Easy as pie without any stress and the kids love it!

And that’s my week-end. I’m off to enjoy the evening breeze that is drifting through the house.

Night all..

Vee