1. I'm going to tell you right up front, that I don't have 10 things in my list for this week. Why? I don't know, but I will make up for it in coming posts. It's not that this week was devoid of things happening, it was just a couple of HUGE things.
2. Joshua Samuel Kelly was born! After waiting very patiently, the news was rather unexpected. Born on St Patrick's day, and not causing his mum too many issues, Joshua was welcomed into the world and is a real little cutey (and I'm not just saying that). See for yourself, from the photos I stole off Mel's facebook page.
3. A relatively minor event (when you consider the next item), is the majority of the boot camp crew got together for a breakfast at Cafe La de Da. It was weird seeing everyone dolled up, out of workout gear, and not sweating.
4. So the major thing to happen to us this week was the cyclone! Cyclone Ului decided to give us a bit of a scare. To be perfectly honest I was a bit blase about the whole thing, until the wind started to pick up late Saturday afternoon. Then I turned into a bit of a panicker. I even said to Jason later that night "This morning I really didn't think it was going to come anywhere near us." To that he replied "I could tell". Interpret that as "you weren't really helping me out this morning, and I don't appreciate the last minute panic/aggro".
5. With the cyclone, of course, came the power outage, which saw us without power from 1am on Sunday morning, until 11am on Tuesday morning. If anything came out of this whole experience, it was my greater appreciation for electricity. We did enjoy the candlelight reading, and listening to iPods/Phones, but life in general is way too hard without power. We found ourselves trying to get mostly everything done while the sun was up, and then fading and going to bed really early. No wonder people had lots of kids back in the dark ages, there really wasn't much else to do. [I really don't mean that to read as smutty as it does]
6. Dogs can't handle thunderstorms, but don't mind cyclones. Go figure. Sam was actually excited to be spending the night with us on the floor of the walk in robe.
7. Jason was meant to fly out to Brisbane on the Sunday for a work meeting on Monday, but being the adorable husband that he is, decided to cancel the flight when power had not returned, and attend the meeting via telephone.
8. Grandma waited it out at her own place, even after plenty of offers. Apparently if the house went, she was willing to go with it. Fortunately both went through unscathed.
9. Aunty Karen and her family timed their visit to Mackay with the cylcone. I did get to see them on the Sunday and talked over Karlia and Adrian's wedding invites with them. I am not doing them, but they wanted some ideas.
10. And finally, neighbours with generators suck! - There you go, I made it to ten.
2. Joshua Samuel Kelly was born! After waiting very patiently, the news was rather unexpected. Born on St Patrick's day, and not causing his mum too many issues, Joshua was welcomed into the world and is a real little cutey (and I'm not just saying that). See for yourself, from the photos I stole off Mel's facebook page.
3. A relatively minor event (when you consider the next item), is the majority of the boot camp crew got together for a breakfast at Cafe La de Da. It was weird seeing everyone dolled up, out of workout gear, and not sweating.
4. So the major thing to happen to us this week was the cyclone! Cyclone Ului decided to give us a bit of a scare. To be perfectly honest I was a bit blase about the whole thing, until the wind started to pick up late Saturday afternoon. Then I turned into a bit of a panicker. I even said to Jason later that night "This morning I really didn't think it was going to come anywhere near us." To that he replied "I could tell". Interpret that as "you weren't really helping me out this morning, and I don't appreciate the last minute panic/aggro".
5. With the cyclone, of course, came the power outage, which saw us without power from 1am on Sunday morning, until 11am on Tuesday morning. If anything came out of this whole experience, it was my greater appreciation for electricity. We did enjoy the candlelight reading, and listening to iPods/Phones, but life in general is way too hard without power. We found ourselves trying to get mostly everything done while the sun was up, and then fading and going to bed really early. No wonder people had lots of kids back in the dark ages, there really wasn't much else to do. [I really don't mean that to read as smutty as it does]
6. Dogs can't handle thunderstorms, but don't mind cyclones. Go figure. Sam was actually excited to be spending the night with us on the floor of the walk in robe.
7. Jason was meant to fly out to Brisbane on the Sunday for a work meeting on Monday, but being the adorable husband that he is, decided to cancel the flight when power had not returned, and attend the meeting via telephone.
8. Grandma waited it out at her own place, even after plenty of offers. Apparently if the house went, she was willing to go with it. Fortunately both went through unscathed.
9. Aunty Karen and her family timed their visit to Mackay with the cylcone. I did get to see them on the Sunday and talked over Karlia and Adrian's wedding invites with them. I am not doing them, but they wanted some ideas.
10. And finally, neighbours with generators suck! - There you go, I made it to ten.
