Flighty Spring Please Arrive On Schedule
Spring is a bit of a temperamental season. We have lots of wind here and some rainy days mixed in with those lovely promising days. Tomorrow the calendar tells me it begins. I am ready. I was itchy and my eyes were watery this morning. I haven’t had allergies in spring before, but if that’s what it takes to get closer to summer: I still say bring it on. I love getting home in the daylight, even when I have had to endure a meeting.
My mum and dad head back to their ‘winter’ holiday tomorrow. There is a lot coming up and I expect to fly towards the holidays. Tom will be home for a week before that. Life is good.
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New Moon in Gemini – Saturday 12th June 2010
Feeling tired? I am, and having spent the day with other teachers correcting and pushing out reports I’ve been surrounded by others who feel the same. It’s also really cold so I guess that adds to the desire to lie around and be warm. I read on Mystic Medusa: Moon Wonk
“The more sparkling the prospects of the New Moon coming, the darker the Moon beforehand”
That being the case, this one should sparkle, cause I’ve been tired, cold, sick and cranky this week.
Lynda Hills Sabian Symbols: Celebrating The Providence Of The Earth: June’s Gemini New Moon points to all the things that are to look forward to.
Spending this afternoon setting goals and now that my reports are finished, I’m feeling quite positive about the coming days and weeks, particularly since school holidays are only two weeks away.
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Empty House
Darin’s gone back to work, his parents and children have returned to their respective homes. I am home alone. It’s very quiet here. I’ve enjoyed a great Easter with a house full of people. I have eaten too well and laughed and shared stories, stayed up too late and now it’s all over. It’s so heart warming to me to watch the kids with their grandparents. I had a great relationship with mine, and watching them brought back those wonderful, indulgent times that grandparents are renown for:-).
I feel lucky to still have a few days holidays to enjoy.
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Pause
I wish I could press pause on the holidays. I want the time to last longer. There is so much I am just beginning to get into after unwinding, celebrating, tripping off to Sydney and now the holidays have shrivelled up and there’s only a week left. How did that happen?
I am listening to an audio book each morning by Caroline Myss, called ‘The Language of Archetypes’. She speaks with authority and I am enjoying it a lot. She also injects humour into her conversation. I appreciate that. I have also started reading ‘Blink’ by Malcolm Gladwell. I picked it up in a second hand book shop in Sydney. It’s facinating. I hate to admit this but I had over 900 saved blog posts in my feed. I’ve been steadily reducing that number each day.
Last year we had lots of after school meetings and I believe it seriously inhibited my learning. My routine was to come home from school and pursue things of interest online and generally stay in touch with the wider world. By the time I got home from work I’d had enough of the wider world and just wanted to do home and family things.
I’ve also started exercising again. It always feels so good but when I am tired I just don’t make the time. I intend to be firmer with myself about that and perhaps get up earlier in the mornings to get it done.
Tom will be home on Friday. This time he’s staying for a week! I’m excited to see him, but I don’t want to wish any day of this lovely unstructured time away.
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Austinmer and the Grand Pacific Drive
We went to Austinmer whilst I was away. We intended to get a kebab from the shop across the road from that lovely beach. The header of this blog was taken at that beach when I had a holiday in Wollongong. I enjoyed that spot. It was very busy this visit, so we went further down the road and enjoyed a quieter beach off the main road. Lying on the beach reading and dipping into the waves each time I got to hot was how the majority of the day was spent.
We took the Grand Pacific Drive, which I had been keen to do last time I was there, yet never made it that far up. It is a great road that runs along the coastline. We also called into a few galleries, which were impressive.
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I Love Sydney
We arrived in Sydney late Thursday night and I met Darin’s parents for the first time. They were warm and welcoming. I felt immediately at home. During my stay I met friends and family and enjoyed their humour and generous hospitality. I was nervous contemplating meeting so many new people, yet I needn’t have been.
I spent one day racing around Sydney with Darin. Sydney is beautiful. We caught the ferry from just near the Rocks to Manly. I loved cruising through the harbour seeing the properties lined along the shore, as well as the iconic bridge and Opera House. I couldn’t imagine ever getting to work or school if I caught a ferry everyday. I think I would head straight to the beach.
It’s a whole new experience being here with someone who knows their way around. I’ve been to Sydney twice before. Once for a Feng Shui course in Glebe on a rainy long weekend and another time for a Karate competition with my kids. I saw very little on both trips and had no idea how great Sydney was to be honest.
We went all over Sydney and I got to eat lots of delicious things. I think the dim sims are the thing I’d like to see most here in Victoria. They are delicious, full of veges and opposed to our dim sims, taste fresh.
Darin has a similar pace as I do, he is on the move and we packed heaps into our days. Traveling there by car was also a pleasant surprise. We both made CD’s for the trip and in amongst lively discussions enjoyed listening to each other’s music. It was the most comfortable long drive I’ve had with someone to be honest. I’ve left out plenty, but I’m unpacking and relaxing into being home right now, so maybe later:-)
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School finished for 2009
Today we had our breakup for school. We had breakfast together, a liturgy and then a lunch. At last! This school year is over. My office is empty at the junior campus. I think I’ve got everything completed there.
So this first day of the six weeks ahead is mine at last. When I got home Darin had picked up the girls from childcare to have a swim in the pool. I’m not sure if I mentioned it before but we bought the kids a blow up pool. It’s awesome. I hitched up my white dress and had a wade in there myself. Then I had lots of cold cuddles before he took them back and went to work. The house is quiet and empty and I’ve enjoyed a nap and am now beginning to clean.
It’s a new moon tomorrow night and I want to give my home a major cleanout before then. I am excited about the next few days. My brother returns from Darwin tomorrow. Tom returns from Hamilton Island on Friday. We have Asha’s 21st on Saturday night. This day has finally come 
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Last Quarter
The thing about the 4th term is that it goes fast. Then I have my second lot of 6 week vacation to look forward to. I don’t want to wish my life away, but this year each term has felt like a marathon. I have to keep telling myself it won’t be so bad once I get there. I know seeing my friends I work with and the students who I go to work for, is always fun and rewarding, but there seems like a lot of other stuff going on that is even crazier than all the happenings in my personal life. Maybe when great and exciting things happen for you, they are paired with insanities that have you pulling your hair out. Perhaps it is just that kind of year.
These holidays have been good. I’ve enjoyed lots of wandering around the Victorian countryside with Darin, eating great food both at home and out, films, reading, sleeping as long as I want and a couple of games of golf. Daylight saving will hopefully allow some of those things to continue if I can keep enough energy after work to play.
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Full Moon in Aries – Sunday 4th October 2009
There is a full moon in Aries on Sunday. The following articles I’ve read about it:
Mystic Medusa: The full moon … in Aries
Aquarius Papers: Out of the Depths and into the Light of seeing a Higher Order
Lynda Hills Sabian Symbols : Emerging from the Mine to Flying in Formation
I like all the emerging from the depths talk. I have had a bit of a deep dark week to be honest, with a few upsets and less than ideal moments, so whilst Sunday will spell the end of the holidays, there could be a bright side if the full moon can lift a bit of the gloom.
I have played golf this week again. I think I made some improvement on the first effort. I also watched a few good films which I will put on Falling Brick. I have got really behind in putting the films on. I just don’t have the same kind of time. All is well though.
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Halfway
I haven’t blogged since last week! The weather turned a bit rough so I turned to inside activities mostly, though we did get some gardening in on Thursday. It was long overdue with some garden beds needing to be mowed rather than weeded. I want to do so much outside it is overwhelming to start sometimes. It looks much better now, yet I still see a lot to do.
We had the kids for a night last week, which is always fun. One of the kids decided to stay with her mum, I noticed her absense. I missed her actually. We didn’t get out with them curtailing our tendency to always go out when the kids are here. Darin thought it was time we did a bit of normal hang out stuff. I remember when my kids would go to their dad’s for the weekend, they tend to have high entertainment expectations when that’s what usually happens. It’s so interesting being on the other side of the ‘every second weekend’ family.
I watched a few films, the most interesting was ‘Flashbacks of a Fool’ with Daniel Craig. I have also been introduced to Carl Baron and laughed till my stomach hurt watching his DVDs. I had no idea he was so cleverly funny. I watched the Grand Final, half heartedly baracking for the Saints. I fell asleep though so I didn’t get to experience the loss. I’ve watched the Grand Prix as well on a few occasions during this season. I can barely contain my advertising analysis though whilst watching these ‘blokey’ things on TV. It’s a whole new reality to me.
I went for a drive to Golden Beach and had a long walk along the beach Saturday morning.
Yesterday we went to Ikea in Richmond to get some cutlery I wanted and as you could expect walked out with a few more items. We went to the National Gallery to see the Salvador Dali exhibition but the queue was for an hour so we took in the rest of the Gallery and resolved to go back during the week. I don’t know why I thought doing this on a Sunday was a good idea…. Ikea was packed also. We had dinner at Bukhara’s in Warragul on the way home. It was my first visit, Darin thought it wasn’t as good as it once was, I thought it was yummy.
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