14 hours at work

I am buggered. I was at work for 14 hours today. The shift wasn't 14 hours but I had the lunch/dinner double. I had to go to work early (got there at 9 but started at 11:30) because the car had to go in for a rego check and it was either 9 or catch a train. Then I didn't go home inbetween shifts (2:30-5:30) as I didn't have the car. So I finally got home at 11pm because we were really busy tonight. 14 hours is too long to be in a club surrounded by drunks.
I did however get lots of study done! I have finished my physical chem stuff and moved on to organic chem. The last time I did organic chem was 2000 so I am a bit rusty.

So much for bed by 10:30.

I'm moving!.............almost

I was almost moving.
On Monday afternoon the kids had swimming lessons, which happen to be at James' school. Well on the way there we saw a house that was for lease. It was one door down from the school and we thought it would be very convenient, so I looked it up online and it was the same price as we are paying now and the size and features are comparable so I sent them an email. Tuesday morning, the real estate rings and I am looking at the house that afternoon. I look, I like, I get an application. All filled out and handed in Wednesday morning. So within 40 hours we had gone from not even thinking about moving to waiting for a call from the RE to say we can move in 2 weeks. How the f**k did that happen?
Then my brain caught up with myself. I was like what are you thinking woman!!!!! You can't move in two weeks, you have GAMSAT to study for, not to mention the fact that you are going away for one of those 2 weeks, which doesn't leave much packing time. We have so much stuff it would take forever. A hint for all those who don't have kids yet: buy the house that you want to live in for 20 years before you start popping them out. Kids come with too much stuff to ever want to move with them (I should know, I have done it twice) So this afternoon we rang and cancelled our application. Next time I look at a house I need a 24 hour hour cooling off period before applying. (I'm not impulsive i promise LOL).

I am still avoidind study more than I would like but I have made a deal with myself that if I want to legitametly avoid study then I have to clean. My house is suddenly VERY VERY clean. I have found things to clean that I didn't even know existed. My deadline for finishing Chemistry is Today and I am just shy of halfway through so I have to pull my finger out tonight. Biology is next and I am going to need a full 2 weeks for that as it is all so unfamiliar.

I started a new 'thing' (my 'thing's are common so you will get used to them) this one is 'bed by 10:30, up by 6:30' My sleeping patterns are all over the place with going to bed at 3 or 4 in the morning common, so this is the bit of ME I am working on at the moment. It hasn't had the best start. I have been going for 3 days, the first I succeeded, the 2nd was 11/7 which wasn't too bad but last night David didn't even get home from work till 11:15 so it was 12:30 before I made it to bed and 8am before I dragged myself out of it again. You get so much more done early in the morning compared to late at night so I will keep trying. Tonight I will be in bed by 10:30 sharp.

OK gotta cook dinner now :P

Uninspired Title

Mum and I got over the fight as expected. Just a few days of being short with each other and now it is history. She didn't apologise or anything though which would have been appreciated (I also would have fainted as it would have been very out of character).

Mum brought an onsite caravan! it is down at Gerroa (45 mins so not too far) and now we get to have holidays We went down at the beginning of the week for a few days, it was lots of fun. The kids had so much fun riding their bikes and scooters. James is starting to try and do tricks so I can see a hospital visit in my near future Emily learnt how to brake on her bike. It is always a bonus when you can stop. Hopefully we will get back down for a little while before schools starts.

I spent today at uni doing GAMSAT study, it was quite productive, I just wish I could do it more often. I finished the physics stuff a while ago and now am making my way through Chemistry. Hopefully I will have it done in the next few days. It is all pretty easy and basic and I haven't come across anything that I am not already familiar with so I guess I have learnt something in my Chemistry degree after all. Biology is what I am more worried about as I have never done any. I feel very sorry for everyone that has a non science background. The chemistry (and probably physics too) would all seem like a foreign language. But then my essays are not particularly inspiring. There is one here so feel free to read (and give me some feedback so that I can get better).

Well I am feeling rather uninspired at the moment so i will leave it there.

Please tell me I am not related to my Mother

So it is 2007..........WOW

26 days till big school, James reminds me every morning how many days he has left. It is very cute but a bit scary at the same time. I just want to freeze time for a while.

I had a fight with mum today. She is such a bi**h. It was about Aimee (my almost 16yo sister). Mum babies her. Aimee had to work today and neither mum nor her father could take her, so last night at about 11pm she rings me up and asks me to do it. I told her that Aimee was old enough to catch a bus and even looked up the timetable and let her know what time it left (9:50am so not too early and it got her there with 15 minutes to spare). I did this out of principle rather than not wanting to go, I wanted to teach her self sufficiency as she is unable to do anything for herself as she has never had to. So I assumed that this was happening and this morning I rang Aimee's mobile at 10am to make sure she got on the bus ok (I was going to go and get her if she missed it so that she wouldn't be late). No answer. So I ring mum, and she goes on a massive rant at me about how much of a bitch I am and how I never do anything for her (which is a load of shit, she walks all over me and treats my husband and I as her lapdogs). She went into work early to get things started and organised someone else to come in early and was in the car on her way to pick up Aimee and drive her to work. I told her that she was stupid and that Aimee will never learn to do anything on her own if she doesn't let her try. Mum said that Aimee would have had to get up too early if she was to catch the bus IT WAS A F***ING 9:50 BUS HOW EARLY DO YOU THINK SHE NEEDS TO GET UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The phone call resulted in us hanging up on each other. Now normally (yes us fighting is normal) we get over things really quickly, but tonight David was working but the kids are sleeping at Emma's (my other sister) house as they have just got back from a month long holiday and they were desperate to see their cousin Ben. A few says ago I organised with mum for David to leave work a little early so that we could catch a late movie. When it was time for him to leave I go and say "is it ok for David to go now" and she says that she won't let him go because I didn't drive my sister this morning, and then she storms off. So I told David that she said yes and we left (David went back inside because he realised that she said no and asked her is she wanted him to stay but she said to just go, in that get out of my sight kind of way) And that is where it stands now. She is spiteful. She has always called me spiteful but she is where I get it from. I am meant to be going down the coast with her tomorrow as she brought an on site caravan last week and wants me to drive the hour down the coast to look at it for her and reassure her of her purchase. I don’t know if it will still happen. I don't care either way as I was only going to help her out (as usual). She is so menopausal lately that it is just painful to be around her and her mood swings.

Ok so that was much more of a vent than I was planning, but feel better now.

I have finished the physics section of my GAMSAT study so I am getting there. I am aiming to finish both Chem (which should be simple) and Biology by the end of January so I have 6/7 weeks to focus on practice questions (including 3 full length tests).

I am feeling all deflated from my vent so I will see you next time.