Sitting here wondering if I'm Pollyanna or Eeyore - Day 342: Aidan, storms and Centrelink

Aidan headed off overseas today but not before shouting me to a yummy breakfast at the Garden Cafe. Then home to write and apply for jobs before heading into Centrelink with the train arriving just in the nick of time as rain started to fall ... and Steve came over for dinner that night and stayed the night. Yay!

Malteser reindeer! Steve and I had one each for dessert

Sitting here wondering if I'm Pollyanna or Eeyore - Day 339: Lots of things done

After a lovely sunrise out walking, and getting a fab pic of Zara with her dad showing off her Christmas art, I walked to Marrickville Metro to get mince, fruit and dips and things for the Christmas picnic - despite the fact that all the rolling storms made cancellation quite likely - came back and stuck a number of ornaments on the tree then went for a walk in the afternoon to see how wet the grass was in Sydney Park.

It wasn't wet at all but I had to scurry back home in a hurry when another storm threatened, only just making it home in time where I had a mango, cooked the meatballs I'd made earlier, and watched a sunset before Steve came on over and did silly things with cushions ...

Sitting here wondering if I'm Pollyanna or Eeyore - Day 337: More storms and Bridget

Fell in love with pears and raspberries ( leftover from Steve's divinely yummy raspberry coulis that he used on my birthday cake on Saturday night) today ... before another storm rolled in (the latest in a long line) just as I was heading out to a combined birthday dinner and movie with Bridget in Newtown. By the time we reached Newtown, the water was ridiculously high but we managed to find a park and not get sploshed by buses racing past on King Street - I leapt delicately out of the way at one point much to Bridget's amusement) - before heading in to see Nightcrawler with dinner at Happy Chef afterwards. Bridget also very sweetly took me in to HUM and told me to pick out anything I wanted as a present. A wonderful, fabulous night ...

Thank you for my present Bridget!!

And Rachel sent me a pic of her and my mum and Jordan celebrating Nanna's retirement home Christmas at mum and dad's place because Nanna doesn't like the formal events ...

And here's a fabulous shot of Amie and Noah ... just gorgeous ...