Busy busy weekend. But a great one. Went to a farewell party on Saturday night. Had a great time, had a few beers and went to bed very very late which was regretted the next morning when I had to be up and on my bike heading to Kidman Park for a coaching course. It was actually quite useful though so I am glad I went. Even though the coaching I'm doing totals 4 hours and the course was 7! But I might be able to get another gig at a school closer to home in Term 1 next year. So I have some ideas for making the whole thing run smoother this week. The kids have already stolen the valve caps off my bike, so what will they steal this week I wonder? I'll come back and it'll just be up on blocks. Hmm. Another reason to get a school closer to home next year.

Saturday morning I spent my time doing the online component of this coaching course. The said it takes 6 hours to complete but I did it in 1 hour and 42 minutes because I skipped all the readings and just did the assessment :) It's all just common sense stuff anyway - the tricky bit is creating fun sessions which is all just activity ideas. In that respect Sunday was actually useful. I had a little snooze on the couch on Saturday arvo while reading and waiting for MM (gonna have to start using the pseudonyms cos it's too hard to avoid sometimes) to rock up. He woke me up after laughing at me through the loungeroom window for a while. Nice. We hired a couple DVDs which we didn't really watch very attentively, too many things to talk about.

Off to Henley for dinner and sunset watching in the wind. Also observed a variety of idiots trying to navigate their way through the carpark below. Lots of unnecessary horn tooting going on which was very pleasant over dinner. Pity it was so windy or we could have done the beach walk, but it was just a bit too nippy and we headed off to our party instead after chowing through some banana caramel pie. Yummmmm.

Sunday arvo training session and I was sleepy as. I intended to get to bed early, but ended up going round to visit a mate who is moving up to BrisVegas. I was pretty jealous I realised, looking at the half empty flat and boxes - moving is fun! He has a cat that he's gonna put in a cattery to be looked after while he settles up there and finds a place. How much does that cat know something's about to happen then! So I ended up getting tobed quite late after all and as a result I'm pretty sleepy today. Got book club at my house tonight though so better perk it up.

The other day I found a spider in my house for the first time. I squashed him with the spatula. (Don't tell my housemate, she'll never make eggs again). Bit sad to squash things, but the spiders know the rules - stay out of my house and I'll leave you alone. If they're gonna break the rules and push the boundaries they're gonna get messed up. Spiders are perfectly happy outside in the elements so there's no need for them to be coming into my territory.