Missing...

Missing Melbourne, missing my friends, Cal is out and I'm even missing him. Not a good night.

I was chatting with a friend on MSN, and we were saying how we don't talk often enough. I just started crying out of nowhere. I'm so glad that he was at the other end of a computer in Melbourne, and not here, as I was a bit of a mess. I just typed....."Gotta go" and logged off straight away. I needed to calm down. Then I got an email from Nat, and started all over again...

I have days like this. I'm going along fine day to day, and then all of a sudden, I get a day when I just miss Melbourne. I refuse to call it 'home', as this is my home now. But shit I miss it!

I was just telling Nat, it surprises me what I actaully miss. Before we left, I thought of all the stuff I would miss, and I don't miss what (or who) I expected to miss as much as I thought I would. YKWIM? I wonder how I'm going to be when we go to Melbourne in a couple of weeks for Easter and see everyone.....should be okay by then.

That's all out, I feel a bit better now.

Speaking of Sydney being home now, I've been looking into enrolling Ardyn in Secondary School!! How scary is that. She starts in 2017, and I'm applying now! In Melbourne we at least had the advantage of having a fair idea as to where the 'good' schools were. Here, we have NO idea. So I've been doing my research, and have narrowed it down to 2. Unfortunatley they're both girls schools. I really wanted her to go co-ed, but there are not many co-ed independent schools here.

There is a North Shore Independent schools expo a the Willoughby Town Hall next week which I will pop along to to ask these schools the questions that I have. I main one is Worship. One of them has in their prospectus that they go to Worship 3 times a week, and if you know Cal and I at all....preferably not. The school is a Uniting Church school. Someone told us that it's not compulsory, but I thought that I'd better ask. I'd hate to pay the $300 application fee to find out that it is compulsory. The other school is non-denominational, so no Worship. But the other one is our first choice. Decisions, decisions.....

And I had to apply for her to attend preschool last week (starts in 2008), as the spots get filled up really quickly. In Victoria you can't even apply for preschool before they're 2, here, get in as fast as you can! Let's hope she gets in, as apparently, I'm late.

On a bright note, I have some photos from the Scrap Needs retreat to share. Kell, the organiser, got Rachel Greig to come and do some portraits for us. She is sending them to us, but has put some on her site. Here's mine.

Does it look like I got to bed at 4:30am that morning (this was taken at about 11am)? I think it does. As Cal would say, you could blindfold me with dental floss. Everyone keeps saying how 'sultry' it looks. I hope that the other ones look a bit more normal. One thing I do notice is my wrinkles and bags. Ah well, comes with age I guess.

If you want to see most of the girls that went to the retreat, go to Rachel Greig's Blog by clicking here. Not everyone got it done, but most are on here.

Well, I guess that's it for now. Cal is out with our friend Dave who is in town for a few days, and I don't anticipate seeing him tonight. The Tigers are on Fox Footy at the moment playing the Doggies, so I might go and watch that (coz I can). Gotta watch the first game of the season, don't I? I am so glad we have Foxtel, otherwise I wouldn't see any AFL!!

Go Tiges!!!