Holey Cashmoley !!!

(oops sorry started writing this on Thursday ... didn't get it finished or posted !!! AND I'm finished this post on SUNDAY 25th !!!)

Look at the date ... where the heck has the last 2 weeks gone again ... AND where has the last 3 months gone ... ???

I mean it's the end of March ...well almost ... so that means my 3 months probation at work is almost up and there's no sign of me getting fired !!! well not yet ... and seeing as how we are officially on leave now until the 10th April ... I guess I'm not gonna get fired and my 3 months probation will officially be over by the time we go back to work !!!!

That and the fact that Paul arrives tonight marks the end of the 1st term of 2012, the 1st holidays for the year ... and the 1st school report for 2012 for SON-shine !!!! WOW ... where the hell has this first 1/4 gone ???

So how did SON-shine do ??? All his marks he has equaled or bettered EXCEPT for MATHS .... he has dropped from 80% right down to 48% and I am one very, very p'd off mum because of that .... BUT in fairness I am not laying 100% of the blame on him ... I blame a huge portion of that on the school ... the fact that for the first 3 weeks of the term they did not have a Maths teacher (shame the woman was diagnosed with Cancer and I know I should be a sympathetic person and feel sorry for this .... which I truly do feel sorry for the woman ... BUT the school should still have made an alternative plan and not left our kids for 3 weeks without a teacher) Kelsey says " but mum my Afrikaans has improved" because in the lessons they should have had maths they had an Afrikaans subs teacher !!! Well now I'm sure that will stand him in good stead for a future career in ????????????????

But as for the rest ... this term I left K to do all his own studying, his own projects and his own study programme... so (don't tell him but I am very, very proud of him) ... however he is disappointed because he did not come 1st in class this term .... 1st time since he started High School ... and this is because his maths marks dropped his aggregate !!!

As for me ... work has been exceptionally manic .. wait a minute I say that every time I write on my blog ... we were not supposed to break-up till Friday but the school had asked for special permission to have Thursday/Friday off .... you see we had a public holiday on Wednesday 21st ... Human Rights Day !!! and we just knew that most of the kids would not come back into school ... we only found out at 11am on Tuesday that the Dept. of Education had given us permission ... that means we have left A LOT of unfinished work at the office ... Oh well Sally will probably go in and do it ... but hell NOT me !!!!!

So now here I am on Sunday, this post is still not finished and published !!! ... and have yet more to add to it .... yes Paul arrived safely ... great to have him home ... just love the 'big suitcase' he always brings ... we now stocked up on the essentials .. oxo, Bisto gravy granules, Thornton's toffee ...although I'm not going to mention the fact that yet again he didn't bring me my Brazil Nut toffee ... oops did I mention it ??? and of course all the lovely crafty goodies that I've ordered over the last 3 months ... every time he gets here it's just like Christmas !!!!

Well my Thursday ladies will be happy ... they have some new thangs to buy LOL !!!

Of course K is always excited to have dad home... he's no longer the only man in the house ... and all the goodies dad brings for him LOL ...

Oh I have to tell you this ... about 2 weeks ago ... after SON-shine gets back from his little rugby tour ... he lost his cell-phone ...no actually what I should say is some bastard at school nicked it !!! His 'white'berry ... all the kids here have blackberry's ... they chat to each other on BBM ... no I don't profess to understand it all, so child of mine has been phone-less for the past 2 weeks ... no it was not insured and no I can't afford a new one for him ... so I chat to Paul ... he goes onto e-bay and manages to get K another 'White'berry at a decent price ... but I don't tell SON-shine, then Anne (a mate of mine who runs the quiz night at our local Keg) informs me that CellC (a phone service provider company) is sponsoring last week Tuesday's Quiz Night and they have 4 Blackberry's up for grabs !!! I tell SON-shine and he asks if we can go see if we can win him a phone (me laughingly says yes sure of course I can win him a phone !!!! ME the unluckiest person on planet earth, me who can't even win a bloody argument) WELL GUESS WHAT .... I won him a BLACKBERRY !!! I was sooo excited ... nearly burst Cyndi's eardrums screaming so loud when I won ... 1st thing I've ever won ... and something we actually wanted !!!

SO ... Paul arrives and K now has 3 Blackberry's !!! the one I won, the one dad bought him and a one Nigel gave to Paul that was lying around in the office !!!! From 0-3 in just a few short days !!!

Friday saw Paul & Kelsey out on the golf course at 8am ... bloody fools and it was a scorcher of a day ... of course Paul is over the moon that the weather is playing nicely for his trip ... I got to spend Friday till lunch time 'crafting', well doing prep for my classes this next week (then I joined them for lunch) ... and yesterday we were all at the High School catering at the Easter Sports Festival ... why oh why do I always say yes to these damned things ??? Making damned pancakes all day ... I must be mad !!! Oh and then we gonna do it all over again on Monday !!! Most definately MAD !!!!

oooH what a week ... AGAIN !!!

This week has been sooooo crazy I don't even know where to start ... oh actually now that I've had time to check out the last week ... I realise it's actually been 2 weeks since I last blogged ... so that goes to show just how crazy it has been ...

Mostly it's all work related craziness ... but between that and the SON=shines crazy rugby schedule ... I feel like I should be sitting in a white padded room ... in fact when I put it to paper it sounds even worse !!!!

Last week at work we had 'mid-term' assessments so it was tons & tons & tons or should I say trees & trees & trees of printing to be done, and all the deadlines to meet ... meetings to attend, catering to do, posters to hang, FFD stuff to sort etc.etc. etc.

Then guess what ... we did it all over again this week ...ok so not so much copying to do but still ...all the collections for our annual fun day are coming in so they have to be sorted and priced ... Easter Eggs have to be packed and wrapped for the Outreach Programme and finally our tickets for our Win-A-Car competition arrived so now we have that to administrate too ... oh swimming galas to cater for, Open Days to do teas for etc.etc.etc !!!!And someone want us to try and draw up a job description .... bwahahahaha !!!!

SON=shine ... I've had him to an eye specialist ... seems he has an infection in his eyelashes !!! well that's the lay-mans term for it ... Dr Whatshisface... went on and on with the real medical terms etc ... Long story short ... can be fixed if he does this whole swab, clean & cream thing !!! 4 times a DAY !!! yeah ...boy + teenager + sweat + dirt = constant moaning mum !!!

Still trying with the diet thing ... not sure how it's working .... feel good ... but the lumps & bumps are still there !!! LOL

Weather ... last week = awesome ... hot, hot, hot & hot ... the weekend ...well SUNDAY actually Cyclone Irina hit and it started raining like it's never rained before ...and it rained & rained & rained ... first time we really saw sun this week was today !!! and then it was HOT again :-)

AND now today SON=shine was off on his first ever rugby tour ... only a long weekend ... but it's classed as a tour ... and only in Greytown (1hr48mins away LOL) but it's still a tour ... and guess what ... I'm driving up there tomorrow to watch them play ... he contacted me tonight to tell me they won their first match/trials ... 8-3 and he got 'whacked' !!! IN THE EYE !!! Boy oh BOY !!! and BOYS !!!!

So tonight I am husband-less. child-less, dog-less and even mother-less (LOL) so this is what SWF feels like ...

And now that I have finished this ... I can go to bed ... can't remember the last time I could say I'm going to be bed before 9pm !!!

Oh and talking of time ... for the record ... Autumn is literally around the corner ... sun-rise these days for me is now about 5.58am and sun-set is 6.23pm ... and it seems to be setting at least 5mins earlier daily ... Oh well February was a good summer month :-)

Oh Boy, Oh Boy ...

I sooo wanted to write a post earlier in the week ...

WOW!!! FAB & FANTASTIC .... Off the HOOK !!! Brilliant ...

That's all and more that I have to say about the 80's Rewind Concert ... It was fandabby dozey !!! We had such a fantastic time ... even Kelsey had to admit that it was a fantastic day out ... and the music wasn't "that old" (cheeky shit!!! LOL)

We waited till Saturday morning to decide what we were going to wear ... and when the sun shone brightly and the day looked liked it was going to be a hot one ... I phoned Irena and said there was no way I was wearing boring jeans ... and in the space of an hour we had 2 fantastic very 80's outfits thrown together ... not sure what is the most frightening ... the fact we could throw together 2 outfits so quickly or the fact that I have soooo much lace and frills in my cupboard to make 2 x 80's costumes ... ROFLMAO

Kelsey had to add his bit by pointing out "mum you actually do still wear some of that stuff now" ... Of course we had to take the photos etc ... and I'm busy photo shopping all the FAT out of my picture before I put it up on here (LOL that's gonna take a while)... after all I was not this fat during the 80's !!!

OH MY GOD !!!Have you ever seen anything so freekishly hilarious ??? I mean even Indi is roling around on the floor pissing hersel laughing ... check bottom right hand side of this pic ...

YES PEOPLE ... I actually went out in public dressed like this !!!

As I said the sun shone ... and shone... and shone ... I think it was the hottest day of the year ... but that didn't stop us from bopping and partying ... IT WAS FANTASTIC ...

And Midge Ure !!! WOW ... although he's no longer the gorgeous spring chicken he used to be, he was still brilliant ... he still has that gorgeous voice and he can still string that guitar !!! He was most definitely my favourite of the day ... but then again in my youth I followed Ultravox around Europe so I knew all their songs !!!

Other artists on the day included: Lee John (Imagination) Marc Almond (Soft Cell), Go West, The Village People, Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet), Martin Fry (ABC), Nik Kershaw, Howard Jones and finally Rick Asterley, who really sent the crowds wild when he came out dressed in a SHARKS rugby jersey ... which if anyone reading this doesn't know ... the concert was at Kings Park, home to the bestest rugby team eva The Sharks !!!

All in all and absolutely outstanding day ....

And thanks to how long it takes to upload pics onto blogger !!!... It has only taken me a week to get this posted ... I started it on Wednesday at work ... came home to load some photos for you all to see the hilariously dressed ME ... and since then I've not had the time to add the pics ... so hopefully tonight I will get this posted !!!