So this week started out well. Shannon was home for the week for holidays, Austin was happy and sleeping well and we were excited about our trip to Sydney...

Well that all changed on Tuesday!!! There is this scumbag d*ckwod that lives in our street. I had seen him around a bit, but never had said anything to him.. And then i few weeks ago, i had just put Austin down for the night and he knocks on my door. Automatically i am standing at the screen door locking it. He asks for a couple of smokes.. This is where i am completely stupid.. I am terrified of these sort of people, so i think if i am nice, he will leave me alone. So i give him a couple of smoke and he leaves. A few days later he pulls me up as im reversing out my driveway and asks for some more. I elbow the locks down and give him some and take off.

Well... On Tuesday, the bastard walked straight into our house!!!! Shannon and i were sitting out the back. Had probably only been there 3 minutes and Shannon had to come inside. He heard the front door open, so he bolted to the door. This a**hole was walking out the door!!

At first look we didnt think anything was gone, but later when we were packing we realised that he had taken our video camera. I am very upset about this, but am slowly getting over it. We have called the cops. They can do nothing about it really. But at least it is noted so that if anything happens again we have it on record. I have also called the real estate and the security company to come and fix our security system and get it monitored. Seriously i am so scared at the moment. God knows how i will sleep at night when Shannon is back at work!

So we went to Sydney on Wednesday... Shannon wnt to the Disturbed concert and i stayed at the motel and chilled out. Man the drive there sucks!!! On Thursday we got up and had breakfast at pancakes on the rocks OMG!! It was sooooo good! We then spent the morning walking off our breakfast LOL. Did a bit of shopping in Pitt st and George st and then headed back to the motel. We went to a mexican restaurant for dinner. Shannon had never been to one, so off we went. The food was ok. But i doubt i would go back again.

We did have a really lovely time while we were down there. But i think next time i would like to take Austin so we can go and do all the tourist attraction things.. Maybe when he is a bit older!

Here a couple of pics ..

Hope every one has a great weekend, and Happy Fathers Day to all the Aussie Daddys out there!!

I simply cant believe that it has been 11 years since my Mum passed away.

She was truly the most wonderful person in the world to me. I adored her. She was everything that you could ever want or need in a mother.

So this is just a short blog to say I miss you Mum. Every day. I will never forget you and you will live on forever in me and my children.

Love you Mum xxx

I had my trial at Hogs Breath last night. OMG i am surrounded by infants!!! The average age of the waitresses there... 17! I shit you not! I was talking to one of them, she was 15. I was so shocked! I was listening to their convos all about how they want someone to buy alcohol for them, drive them around, help them get into pubs!! All i could think... OMG I am SOOOOO OLD!!! I dont know where all the people are that have kids that she was telling me about?? Must be the ones on day shifts. Well i hope so anyway...

I realised while i was there that there may be more to this place than i thought originally. I asked why there were so many new people. I met 4 people that had only started within the past month. The guy i was working with said, they just cant keep staff. I was like ok... I will tell you why i think they cant keep them... Because i found out that they are only paying $14.50 an hour (and that is for my age, so image what the 15 year old is on)!!! OMG i have never been paid this low ever.. not even when i was 16... Anyway, it is because they are paying under the cafe award, not hotels. Even thou i am in the bar.. I think that is wrong, but anyway, i am only there for like 16 hours a week. So im not too worried. It will still be more than what i get from centrelink.

I was sort of expecting it to be busy there, but it wasnt. It was dead in fact. I was quite bored really. I really hope it is busier tonight, because i think i will go insane if it is that quiet all the time! They did say it was a rather slow night there last night.

Anyway, im going to go now. Austin is asleep and i want to have a shower and stuff before he wakes up!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!! xxx

YAY!! YAY!! YAY!!!

Im so excited!! I was just about to go to bed and the phone rang.... It was the owner from Hogs Breath!! I got the job!! YAY!! I have to do a trial tomorrow and Sat nights to see how i like it and then i will start the week after i come back from Sydney!!!!

She ended up finding 1 full time person and 2 casuals, so YAY I GOT THE JOB!!!!!!! Im so happy.

I was starting to think that i didnt get it coz she said she would call on Wednesday and i didnt hear anything, but YAY!!

Oh i am so excited!!!! Anyway, i am going to bed now. Need to sleep. Tired. Excited. Tired. Back is aching. Gym in the morning...

One more time.... I GOT THE JOB!! YAY!!!!!!!

Well.. it sort of went well. She said if i could work full time she would have hired me on the spot. Unfortunately i cant do that. So here i am hoping that she doesnt find anyone who can work full time. If she can find 1 other person to do casual, then i should get it. I certainly have enough experience and whatnot. I have never been in this situation before. haha in all my working life, i have never actually thought i might not get a job. It will be a new feeling if i dont get it. I have never been rejected before LOL. So everyone keep your fingers crossed for me!!

An update on Austin...

He is finally getting over this goddamn chest and throat infection, which is great because his breathing was really worrying me last week. The doctor did give him antobiotics, so it must have been pretty bad, as they dont tend to give them out much anymore. He should finish them by friday. So hopefully he will be right as rain by then.

My clever little man has also cut his last baby tooth!!! Well his last one til his 2yr old molars. He had a fussy afternoon on Saturday and woke up screaming at about 3am Sunday morning. I didnt know what it was, so i just gave him some panadol (coz it usually is teeth for him) and put him back to bed. Well when i was feeding him on Sunday morning i noticed a tiny little white bump in his gum where his very last tooth is going to be!! So YAYAYAYAYAY YAY no more teething for me for a little while!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope. I dont think there is much room left in his mouth to fit anymore teeth actually LOL.

Hmmmm what else. He is walking everywhere, it is so cute. He does look like tinman sometimes still when his knees are straight. Sometimes he bends em, but sometimes not. He also still has the hands up in the air thing going on too. ET phone home PMSL!!

Well i think that is it... Hope everyone is having a great week!!!

Much love, Cass xxxx

I have a job interview thismorning at Hogs Breath. I had been thinking about going back to work for a while now, just a few days a week. But so far there had been nothing that would suit me, either the hours were too long, or it was night shift.. neither of which i can do just yet.

Then on Saturday, Shannon and i went out for brekkie and i was reading the local paper, and there was a job advertised, the hours are 11am-3pm. Absolutely perfect for me! When i called she said it was a very understanding environment, many of the woman who work there have small children, so they know what it is like!!.... Ohh yay, i am so excited!

Now i just have to keep my fingers crossed that i get it!! Only thing i am worried about, is Shannon and i are going away for 3 days next week. Hope that doesnt affect my chances at getting it!!

Please everyone, keep your fingers crossed for me!!

Cass xxxx

I am bored and still sick. I have spent most of today trying to comfort Austin. Poor little bugger is so sick. He must be over it by now. He has had this cold for 2 weeks now. I guess on an up note thou, now he is coughing alot, so i guess it is on its way out. He is doing this really strange breathing thing, and i am a little worried it might be asthma, but i dont know. I have never had it, and Shannon hasnt had it since he was a kid, so i dont know what i am meant to look out for??? Well i hope it isnt anyway.

He is very clever thou, while he has been sick i have been trying to teach him to blow his nose, which he does do sometimes, the rest of the time i have to fight with him just to wipe it, but i have found making it a blowing game has helped a little.. sometimes.. We also taught him to cover his mouth when he coughs, which he picked up straight away.

I have to say, i am just blown away by how quickly he is learning everything at the moment. Some things we only show him once and he remembers. It is amazing what their little brains do!!!

I joined the gym last week and went for my first work out yesterday. It wasnt as hard as i expected it to be. I thought for sure my legs would ache today, but they are good, i am just a little tender around my shoulder blades, i am thinking from the rowing machine or the weights. Not sure yet, will see which one hurts more tomorrow when i go.

Well i am sure i have more to write, but i think i will go and do something constructive?? Or maybe i will stay here LOL dont know yet.

Have a great week everyone!!!

Last night my friend ran in the 3000m Steplechase at the olympics. He came in 6th place (so no medal unfortunately) but he did get a new personal best of 8:16:37

We are very proud of him and i just want to say congratulations to him for doing such a fantastic job!!

On a slightly less happy note, my darling boy is still sick and he is miserable. I feel aweful coz there is nothing i seem to be able to do to make him feel better :(

Anyway, will write a better blog later on, Austin is awake and cant breathe too well.

I just watched my friend run in the mens 3000m Steplechase!!! He came 6th, but he has made it into the final!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited!! He ran the race in 8:17:97 It is his personal best and it was a super fast race. Of course anything can happen in the final, but OMG...GO YOUCEF!!!!!!!!!!!!

For anyone that wants to watch it, it is monday night at about 11.10pm!!

YAY GO AUSTRALIA!!! GO YOUCEF!!!

I am bored.

my house is freezing, and i am getting really sick of being here alone all the time. I miss having someone to talk to. Even if it is just small talk. God i would even like some uncomfortable silence at the moment LOL na not really. But i do wish Shannon was home. I guess i shouldnt complain, he will be here tomorrow.

My nose has moved on now from dripping like a tap to blocked up so badly that i can't breathe at all. Just lovely. I am still coughing like a sick horse and my throat is now killing me!

Last night i sat on the computer til about 2am, that is probably the latest i have been up in over a year! Seriously, and i dont know why, i took some night cold and flu tablets, some medicine for my cough and nothing... i think i got to sleep about 3am.. Austin woke up at 6.30 LOL Strangely enough thou, i felt really good today (other than being sick i mean) i wasnt tired or cranky... just sick.

On a more positive note, i joined the gym today. I go  in at 10am tomorrow to meet with my trainer and to sort out some sort of program for me. Will have to be weighed (yuck) and measured (again, yuck) but i guess it has to be done. The reason i am going is to loose some weight, so i guess i sorta need to know where i am starting.

Well thats my whinge for the day.

xoxox