Canberra

So here I am in sunny Canberra (with Steve from work), doing this training course in ArcGIS Hydrologic and Hydraulic Analysis. I was expecting to be completely lost and have no idea what was going on, but so far, it's been quite good. I have followed everything, not asked really stupid questions and even had opinions.
Last night Steve and I went for a walk to Lake Burley Griffen and around the town. It was a lovely evening, here are some photos

View towards Parliament House

View across Lake Burley Griffin

Todays the day

So today is the day we all got and meet the 'new' family. I think I'm a fair bit nervous about this. I don't want to say the 'wrong' thing. Oh well, we'll see in a few hours....

boy dog

So I went this morning to visit the boy dog for Clara. (She is in season now) He is lovely. He's only young, so we might have to go with AI (artificial Insemination) which is a bit scary. I am taking Clara to the vet this afternoon to get her all checked out and to talk through options and things with my vet. Should be interesting.

grrrrr paypal

I'm sure I have made paypal account more than once. It never seems to let me log in again later on! and the bloody thing won't seem to send me an email so I can reset my sodding password!!!

The worst night

I had the worst night!
I was having a really odd dream, most of which I now can't remember, but the bit I can was about a weird crocodile, that was fairly small and covered in short yellow hair, like a Labrador, and heaps of sticky green slim. I was moving really slowly in a pond I was lying beside, then it came out of the water and opened it jaws, which were way bigger then it was, and came at me. It was at about this point I opened my eyes and the whole thing got worse.
There was someone standing beside the bed. They were shortish, and sort of leaning over a bit, like they were looking at me. I (quite understandable from my point of view) was slightly freaked out. I sat up and said 'Who are you?' and was disturbed to hear how odd my own voice sounded. I also turn the light on. There was know one there. I was quite shaken, I'm so positive there was someone there. Clara was happy I was awake and decided playing was a good idea, I looked at the time and it was 4am. As it had been a rather hot night, I'd had a number of doors and windows open, all of which I shut at this point. It took my quite some time to decide I could turn the light off.
Even after I did turn the light off, my brain was whizzing round. I then decided I had had a premonition. Something awful had happened and I should ring people, even though it was a quite awful hour. I didn't and eventually went back to sleep.
I did ring mum and dad in the morning, just to check they were ok. (they are by the way)
Ooooooooo, I hope that sort of thing doesn't happen again!

Chrismas

These are now a bit old, but I only just got them. The dogs at christmas at the Meyers' There are some great shots here :) Here is one

(poor molly never looks happy in photos....)

Generally pissed

I'm not feeling ace at the moment. I'm kind of generally pissed and a bit down. The is a fair bit going on, and I've had a few bad things happen, so it's kind of reasonable, but I hate feeling like this.
Shit things of the moment;

• work is not making me happy (nothing new here)
  
• got a knock back for job I had applied for
  
• thought someone I knew had been offered a job I had been told I wasn't allowed to apply for (turned out to be false alarm, which was a big relief)
  
• I am currently learning something new, and it's hard. I haven't done anything new for a while and it's a bit of a shock
  
• Neil is away at the moment (well kind of away, but he's busy and doing lots of travel, then he's going to Tas)
  
• I'm getting (more) depressed about being fat, I really hate that I'm obsessing over it
  
• I got sunburnt on the weekend, and it's irritating
  
• Mum picked on my spelling
  
• I got upset by a flippant comment recently
  
• The stupid dog judge reconed the scrappy westie was better than Clara
  
• I'm sick of being tired

On the plus side, I like my new glasses, I have an Intimo party to go to, I met a dog from DogBook on the weekend and it's payday this week.

I must keep my 'chin up'