There's No Place Like Home

Typical that the one day that I needed to jump on City Link the freeway was closed... I ended up running late because I didn't know about the detour until after I'd left. Mum and Dad looked pretty excited to see me and I think my grandparents were just tired given that it was 3am. We managed to get home at about 4am and then spent the next hour talking tiredly about the trip. I got given my new phone and mp3 player but was so tired I couldn't remember the PIN on my phone...

Having gotten to bed at 5am... I decided to wake up at 8:45am to play with my new phone. It's a Sony Ericsson K508i which is the first non-Nokia phone I've used. Aside from the rather strange predictive text (the space key is in a different place) it's really good. I still can't recognise my ring tones though... I'll have to work on that!

Mum and Dad brought back a whole heap of fascinating things to play with... like the papyrus note paper that I can was and reuse... the distilled oils for helping with stomach problems and pure perfumes. Mum also got me some great earrings. Dad came back with some great t-shirts too from The Esplanade. They've also got some great photos from the trip which I'm looking forward to seeing.

It's good to be back in my own place. Gene and I have made an effort to settle back in here after moving all our stuff back from Mum & Dad's place.

Today I attacked the hedges in the courtyard with the new hedge clippers... they're shockingly blunt... I should have remembered to spend a little more on them... would have saved my arms a bit! We're going to need to jump up on the fence to cut the front and top of the hedge too... I did't do too badly... It's my first time cutting a hedge and I'm hoping that I didn't do too badly by the plants! There was this rather annoying creeper though that's grown... I should pull that out... it just tangles into the hedge making it hard to trim. I don't think it's meant to be there.

I should be at a going away party tonight. Gene cooked a deliciously large steak for dinner tonight and we ate until we were bursting (not a smart move) and then I ended up falling asleep. I'm still feeling rather groggy and tired from the hedge cutting. I think I'll spend some time going through more of the stuff in boxes/bags. We have patches of floor that aren't covered in boxes in our room... it's getting better. Gene's supreme effort has reclaimed some of our floor back. We hope to have conquered the carpet space again in a month's time at latest.

Paperwork, here I come.