Frustration

I'm at work. Procrastinating. As usual.
Tonight are parent teacher interviews. I should be preparing notes on the students who I will be discussing with their parents. But instead I'm writing about it on here. Mainly because I don't like being at work from 8am to 8pm in order to tell parents things they usually already know, don't want to hear or don't much care about!!! And to add insult to injury we have to do it all again next week with some more!!! Very occasionally something worthwhile actually comes out of parent teacher interviews. Normally though it is nothing more than a process we go through so that we are not as easy to blame if a child does not succeed in a particular subject. Since when is education and learning all about processes and structures and crossing the t's and dotting the i's so that teachers don't get yelled at for a child not doing what they were meant to?
Rant over. Back to work.

Forms!!!

Today is ANZAC Day - Lest we forget

It is odd to have a public 2 days after going back to work from holidays... the very best kind of odd though! We've spent an hour or so today filling in all the forms that you need to fill in to accept a loan offer for a house. Sign here. Sign here. Initial all these pages. Give us your bank details. Sign here, here and here. Get a witness to sign here. Gah!
That is all.

Oops...

So I've been a very lazy blogger thus far in the journey - the best laid plans of mice and Miggins hey?
A lot has happened in 2012 so far. We went to Bali with friends over Dec/Jan. I was long overdue for my Indonesia fix, so had a great time! Pity it rained almost every day we were there, but still lovely.
Once we got back the house hunting started again in ernest, and we have finally found a place! Hurrah! Settlement is still 7 weeks off, but I'm so glad to have a house to move into and to not be renting in the very near and tangible future. Now I'm full of plans about what we're going to do with our 3 bedroom house on 1/4 acre block. So exciting.


The quilt  I'd started in the last post is now almost finished - the top is all sewn together, batting and backing are attached and it is 1/3 quilted thus far. I did make a mini-quilt for a friend who's expecting a baby later this year and that has been finished and passed on to the mummy to be, along with the usual assortment of booties, hats and a crocheted blanket that I've taken to making as baby presents. With so many friends having babies, the crocheting certainly gives me something to do whilst watching television of an evening!

I'm very pleased with the fact that my crochet skills now extend to booties as well as little hats and blankets. Maybe this winter I will finally finish the mohair blanket I've been working on for the last 2 winters! It is now about single bed sized... I accidentally started it with far too long a chain and by the time I realised, I was not going to go back and start again!!!  This is how it was looking by the end of last winter...

So, that's pretty much it with life at this stage!