Cheap Therapy

It seems I haven’t posted a redux-ion in some time. Since last:

• Went postal (voting, that is).
• Greeted the new arrival
• Fathers’ Day
• Discovered a rust spot under the weather seal on the door of the new car. Missed by the RAC. Not mentioned by the dealer (if they noticed it). Bugger.
• Visited a few car shops to get anti-rust stuff.
• Therapeutic shopping at NetPlus (need more storage), OfficeWorks (noticed they now have magnetic print-yourself car signage) and Zytech.
• Want one of the new iPod Touches with a speaker!
• Was not destroyed by Large Hadron Collider. Nor was world. At least not that I could tell.
• Made a lot of some assortment of toast, boiled eggs, baked beans and Weet-Bix every morning.
• Many stories were read.
• Drove the battlewagon some more.
• Attended surprise birthday for MikeyOb.
• Showed Puggle how to solder. Badly. But at least good enough to fix the cordless phones. Discovered you can answer the landline while the voip line is still ringing. Then pick up the voip line and get a dialtone even though the landline is in use
• …darling, names, names names…
• Walked to the shops with the kids. Had coffee. Waitron brought water with plastic cups for the kids unbidden, and my cappuccino plus two ‘cups of froth’ for the kids totalled $3.65 (cheaper than I pay for just a coffee many places). Hats off to Bada Bing.
• Discovered the evil credit card company (ANZ) will ring you to tell you you’re overlimit, but not before they’ve charged you $35 for the privilege. It also seems easier to cancel and apply for a new card than to get a limit increase (even if it’s to a lower limit than you were on before!). Getting a decrease is much easier. They did at least have a callback number when I didn’t believe they were the bank and resisted my social engineering attempt when I hadn’t identified myself.
• Helped the kids make vege kebabs with pesto. Yummy!
• Took the opportunity to indulge in pate, soft, hard and (soon) blue cheeses.
• Roasted a chook.

It’d been suggested that a good fathers’ day present would be not helping with Cygnet’s birth. Which as it turned out was not what I wound up doing on Fathers’ day. Instead, I found myself in the kitchen, babe in arms, with Bilby and Puggle pleading for breakfast. All very domestic.

Both sets of grandparents paid a visit, (reminder, clean the lens before the baby’s born!), as did the midwife. Then Bilby and Puggle were whisked away to play with their cousins for a few peaceful hours.

I did manage to score some homemade Rocky Road, a copy of Stardust, and of course Cygnet and spend the majority of the day in my pyjamas.

• Dinner with the folks. They get to see the battlewagon. Puggle is very keen on it, and Bilby didn’t like going for a drive in the old car
• Pretty much proof the car dealer put a car they were too lazy to let us drive ‘on offer’ (it’s no longer on offer since our sale was finalised, but it’s still there unsold).
• Trying to sell the old car. Vacuuming and detailing. The harder I vacuum the more sand is revealed. When did we stuff it full of Christmas trees?
• Farewell morning tea, luncheon, and post-work drinks for the old boss. Last time he was farewelling me
• Pizza dinner with Redbraids and MikeyOb, which was very pleasant, and reminded us of our laxness in inviting people over for dinner for adult conversation…
• The annual paying of the big bills, and doing of the tax. Followed by the watching of the bank balance. Then the bill for the stamp duty on the car arrives
• My GP retired. Then started running for the Labor party!
• Puggle is obsessed with take-away chicken from Chooks after we bought some the other night. Tonight he offered that he and Bilby would order that, and we could eat the regular dinner. He asked for the phone number so he could ring up and order some. He even suggested that he and Bilby might eat some regular dinner as well as Chooks. I suspect we may not go there in a while until the obsession has died down!
• Edging closer to the arrival of Cygnet. I should really start looking at names.

• Using Google Sketchup to model some housing development and investigate overshadowing. Pretty awesome once you get the hang of it. Write submission
• Probably no WWDC this year
• A birthday dinner for Becc with fine food and company
• A week without students. Meaning lots of things getting done while they’re not around
• Get to see Cygnet for the first time
• A long weekend. ANZAC day. Bless ‘em.
• A picnic in a smaller park than anticipated. But my first time walking both Puggle and Bilby there. Reminder, Bilby is heavy enough I need the stroller
• AppleScripty pythony Dilberty goodness
• Car test driving. Kia Grand Carnival and Toyota Tarago (Last week the Volkswagen Passat Wagon, Subaru Liberty and the Tarago). See a separate post somewhat later
• Games at Kylie’s. Happy Birthday! This time I prove I can lose at Super Scrabble as well as Scrabble