Julia Gillard, Prime Minister

I really hope the timing of this doesn't prove to be a mistake. But aside from that...

Wow, how awesome is this? We have our first female Prime Minister. Congratulations Julia, now, don't stuff it up.

It's been a while

Today I stood here at my very own, doesn't have to be cleared up for anything or anyone else, new workbench in the garage.



I got out some of these:



Turned on this:



And made some glass beads for the first time in almost a year. It took me 90 minutes to make just 4 beads and my technique is rusty at best.



But now that I have a permanent work space I'm hoping to start turning out more pretties on a regular basis and also to get on with making some reproductions of period beads for our reenacting.

I do have a life. Really.

I don't normally spend Saturday evening writing schedules, doing meal plans and thinking about grocery shopping, but that's what I've been doing tonight. See, I had this sudden realisation that the week ahead of me is going to take some very careful scheduling if we are going to survive it, especially as I managed to completely fail to notice that Tom's drama school's local 3:30pm and 6:30pm shows will clash with Caitlin's school dance group's 45 minute drive away 5:00pm performance next Saturday. It's a good thing I'd also failed to buy tickets for the dance performance thus making decisions about which show to watch very easy. It would help if I hadn't volunteered to serve supper and kid-wrangle backstage at both the drama shows...

I've also blithely planned to take Caitlin to check out another choir a half hour drive away on Monday afternoon at the exact same time as Tom has his local drama class, Caitlin has a dance performance on Wednesday night and I'm expecting this to be a busy week on the paid work front for me. I need to clone myself.

Sunday
Breakfast: Porridge
Lunch: Pumpkin soup
Dinner: Beef casserole (I'll take a photo this time!)

Monday
Breakfast: Cereal, toast and fruit
Lunch: Pumpkin soup
Dinner: Pork and beans

Tuesday
Breakfast: Poached eggs on english muffins
Lunch: Packed lunch at office
Dinner: Spaghetti bolognese

Wednesday
Breakfast: Cereal, toast and fruit
Lunch: Packed lunch at office
Dinner: Mango chicken curry

Thursday
Breakfast: Baked beans on toast
Lunch: Bento box takeaway
Dinner: Bangers and mash

Friday
Breakfast: Cereal, toast and fruit
Lunch: Packed lunch at office
Dinner: Homemade pizza

Saturday
Breakfast: Egg and bacon muffins
Lunch: Toasted sandwiches
Dinner: Leftovers

In lieu of content I bring you Friday Fragments and a belated DUFC

Hosted by Mrs4444.

It's been a long week, the short version goes like this:

• I shared my liquorice with the internet.
• I found somewhere for our holiday with friends next month.
• The weather got really rather cold.
  
• We bought mobile phones for David and Caitlin.
• We celebrated my Mum's and her twin sister's 65th birthday at my Aunty's place with all the cousins and their offspring (except the cousin who is in the US).
  
• I booked myself in for singing lessons with Caitlin's teacher.
• I watched Up with the kids and season 2 of True Blood without them.
• We discussed the issue of ethics classes in SRE time at the P&C meeting (and I refrained from snark at a comment left on the blog).
• I collected signatures for the petition in support of the St James Ethics Centre ethics classes trial and posted 50 of them off to be tabled in parliament next week.
• I had Dad over for his birthday dinner on Wednesday night - also 65!
  
• Caitlin had two singing auditions, she got the one we didn't really want (a place in the Australian Youth Choir) and missed the one she desperately wanted by a whisker (a solo part in the ArtsNorth Primary Choral Concert at the Opera House).
• I got very stressed about some P&C stuff (not Ethics trial related) and decided I had to un-involve myself.
• One of Tom's fish died.
• And I kind of went to pieces.
• But a combination of The Angels, an awesomely indulgent lunch, and some blatant frittering away of the afternoon have restored my equilibrium.
• I am now drinking Baileys and about to watch Sherlock Holmes.
  

It's a good thing I have Twitter and Facebook to record my life for me, I'd have been hard pressed to dredge all that up just from memory.

The 25th Down Under Feminists Carnival was hosted this month by Rachel at Musings of an Inappropriate Woman.

Menu plan Monday

I can't get my printer to work so I'm putting this here instead of pinning it to my notice board in the kitchen. It's probably no more likely to get looked at here than as a file on my laptop, but it makes me feel better.

Day	Date	Breakfast	Lunch	Activities	Dinner
Mon	7/6/10	Cereal, toast and fruit	Vegetable & barley soup	5:30pm Drama Grandy for dinner	Bangers and mash Fruit & yogurt
Tues	8/6/10	Porridge	Packed lunch at office	8:15am Tutoring Sports uniforms for Tom & Cait 7pm P&C Band meeting	Spaghetti Bolognese + salad Rhubarb & apple crumble
Wed	9/6/10	Cereal, toast and fruit	Packed lunch at office	7:30am Band 4:30pm Flute 4:45pm Song & Dance	Mango chicken curry & rice Fruit & yogurt
Thurs	10/6/10	Boiled eggs & toast	At canteen	8:15am Tutoring 9:30am Canteen PHHS 3pm Choir 5pm Ballet/Hip Hop 7pm French	Beef bourguignon Fruit & yogurt
Fri	11/6/10	Cereal, toast and fruit	Vegetable & barley soup	8am Dance	Prosciutto baked pork fillet + salad & mashed potato Ice cream
Sat	12/6/10	Scrambled eggs, bacon and grilled veg			Homemade pizza Fruit & yogurt
Sun	13/6/10	Cereal, toast and fruit	Birthday lunch somewhere!	Grandma's birthday	French onion soup & bread Fruit & yogurt


Hey, look at that - nothing planned for Saturday yet! Hmmm, what to do, what to do?