It seems like a whole year since I blogged… 🙂 Best Wishes for the new year to all! 2007 has started fairly quietly for me. The most interesting thing has been a weekend trip to Brisbane (yes, same one) to celebrate Susan’s birthday, her new role at work, and, belatedly, our 10th Anniversary.
I traded some credit-card-award-scheme points for a discount on accommodation at the Conrad Treasury Hotel. A lovely old building, transformed into a high-class hotel. The development retains the incredibly (almost vertigo-inducing) high ceilings and ornate fittings of the original building. They even kept the knee-high door-latches! Susan and I met friends for a dinner at the Hilton and spent a little time at the casino before calling it a night, then had a buffet breakfast in the hotel restaurant the next morning. Very relaxing, and doubly so since we arranged a sleep-over at Nanna and Pop’s for Nicholas 🙂
For me, work has been an utter drag. I’ll talk about that in a separate post (perhaps). Susan is on a working adventure, though, having been accepted on a 12-month posting into their Systems Testing section. I’m really proud of her, not only that she got the posting but that she got into gear and applied for it in the first place! As her background is processing rather than systems, she is likely to be covering more of the payment-specific parts of their work — they have other folks who have a background in system testing that do the more system-technical stuff. It looks like a really challenging role for her, and just the thing she needs to restore some sanity to her career.
Susan’s change means that she leaves very early to go to work, and on public transport. So, I now have the important duty of taking Nicholas to and from day-care! Talk about eye-opening — I’ve had one more object lesson in the incredible variety of tasks that makes up parenting. Some mornings are better than others, and there is definitely an art to leaving him there without tears — his and mine! He’s adapting to the new schedule well, but it’s only been one week so we’ll have to see — but I’ve no doubt he’ll be fine.
PS: I always try to come up with some witty way of closing these posts, but this time I came up dry. Oh well, next time! 🙂
Crossed Wires 