Transferred over...

If you want to keep reading this blog...it's now :

http://canadiangirl-in-oz.blogspot.com/

So head over there and change your bookmarks. Phew. What a big job.

Transferring this over...to a blog that f'ing WORKS

Ok, so the big task is upon me..I am going to cut and paste every single entry. To a new blog. Pictures will be missing, but at least I will be able to add things.

Get ready....set...GO!

Art

Congrats to Nick Leahy, (my best buddy Farouks' partner) on his first exhibition.

http://www.robynbauergallery.com.au/artists/nick_leahy

(scroll down the page as it doesn't load right!)

We went to Brisbane over the weekend, it was a bit of a long day (A BIT? Who am I kidding!?), we spent the afternoon at SouthBank and then the evening at the exhibition. No babysitters anywhere to be seen so Alira joined us. She did amazingly well, only a few hiccups. Literally. During the speech opening the exhibition, I could hear Alira hiccuping across the room and did some frantic sign language to David for him to please get her a drink. But all went well.

It was strange to be back in the adult world, I must say. I've been out of it for a few years now and feel quite out of practice. Out of practice with conversation, out of practice with arty people and talk that doesn't revolve around kids. It was really strange and surreal.

I've been battling a low grade headache for 3 days and am quite sick of it. I'm hoping it makes its exit tomorrow or else I'm going to scream!

Happy Aussie Fathers day to my Dad and David. :)

And so, another week starts.....

Spring has Sprung

And thank goodness for that! I can smell it in the air, that warmth in the wind and it's glorious! I love this time of year, right before the big heat hits me like a ton of bricks.
It means no more layers, no more jeans and heavy socks. Less clothes to pile onto Alira and it's fantastic!

Today David and Alira went to the local pool, to celebrate spring with a swim. I managed to find a bathing suit she still fit into so that was a bonus as well. David wants to start bringing her for swimming lessons, but I think until her ears improve (ie. don't get infected everytime she gets sick), we will be avoiding "head under water" and lessons for some time to come.

That's ok though, she's getting older and she's closer to 4 now than 3 and time is ticking along, she has the rest of her life for all these new activities.

We have received news of the xmas present my parents are buying us. Cirque du Soleil tickets for all of us. Which will be totally fabulous as I've never even see them in my home country, where they were created.
Very exciting. I think Alira will like it as well and I'm hoping it will be entertaining enough for her to make it through the entire show.

I'm now starting to plan my trip north. Which means that every dinner I make that has leftovers, I put that in the fridge for David. I know I know, I'm way too nice for her, but he does have to fend on his own for about 2.5 weeks so need to help out where I can!

My inlaws touch back down into the country tomorrow. There is so much drama from that trip to the UK that I am looking forward to hearing their convoluted truth about it, considering I got the real deal from SIL who hosted them for 6 weeks. Brave (crazy) woman.

To the beach for fish and chips tonight. How much more Australian can you get?

I've searched and searched....

There is no answer as to why I can't convert this blog to a layout formation and I'm pretty much given up doing that.
I may have readers, I may not. And I will never be able to track them, count them, see where they are from, nothing!
And I will just have to be ok with that. Apart from me literally copying and pasting every single blog entry into another blog, well, I don't know how bored I will be to actually do that one day? hmm...it's a thought.

Stay tuned..

I hate you blogger

I've noticed around the joint that people have really cool trackers (they can even see the area that people are from that are reading!?) and number trackers and all this stuff. But for some reason, this blog won't switch over and it's give me that Layout button. Yes I have followed the directions, but it just doesn't work for me.
I'm over it! if I could just transfer this to another blog site, I would. But I don't want to start from scratch again and lose all that I have so far! Any ideas?
Sigh.

Decision made, lips sealed

Forgot to mention that I have made a decision with this second child thing!
So that part of my stress with the to'ing and fro'ing is happily over.

Yay for me, and us. :)

Oh Canada....

I love my country, I really REALLY do, but man we are hopeless.
Look at this medal tally:
http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/GL/95A/GL0000000.shtml

Where is Canada? Nada, zero, no medals, I don't even know if we have a hope in hell of getting one! Look at that though,Uzbekistan has one! My god!

We aren't swimmers, divers, cyclists, tennis players. We seem to be skiiers, skaters, ice hocky players (but still very hard to topple the almighty US in anything!)...and I'm hoping that we have more of a presence in the next winter olympics. Should be pretty good considering it will be in Vancouver. That should help us a bit!

I'm not really watching much olympics this time around. Each time I see footage, I can barely watch through the pea-green soup of air surrounding everything. I watched more with Athens because I was halfway through my pregnancy and could do what I wanted and didn't have to share the tv with a very bossy 3.5 year old. Sure made it easier back then!

I ended up not getting major sick, just feeling a bit blergh. I can handle that any day!

My poor Canadians.... lets hope we kick ass in the snow!

Follow the Leader

I think I have a little follower on my hands. During soccer on friday, Alira's friend didn't feel like 'doing soccer' and wasn't quite herself. Tantrum over shoes apparently before arriving at the soccer field turned her right off the whole thing. Well, Alira, who previously was quite excited about it all, immediately picked up her friends mood and decided that she 'didn't want to do it' either.
Isn't it sad when that happens? I didn't really think that I would have created an extrovert or a take charge kinda kid, but I sort of wanted one that would at least just do what she wanted, regardless of the others.
So soccer was a bit of a disappointment and once she had a fall on the field, well, that was it for her. Anyway, we will try again next week and hopefully her friend will be a good mood as it seems like that makes all the difference.

I have awoken this morning with the dreaded sore head, sore throat et al, and I'm wondering, where is this going to go? Hopefully will go quickly and quietly without affecting my week too badly. David has taken Alira out to the beach so I can clean the kitchen in peace and then crawl back to bed.

When is this germ shit going to be OVER!?!?
Sigh.

*I refuse to admit to myself that Alira sounded a bit more stuffed up today, as my mind simply does NOT WANT TO GO THERE with the possibility of another cold/virus/whatever this friggen soon after the last one*