Standing at a free internet kiosk in Dubai airport… I haven’t slept. I’ve watched Shutter, lots of Futurama and Simpsons and have eaten a lot (pics to follow). I still have a 5 hours flight to Greece today - it’s 9am currently in Dubai, am in Athens, but my body thinks it’s about 3pm Sydney time, with only brief biref naps since 6am yesterday morning.

Maybe i’m slowly killing myself but it’s all good :)

I’m getting better at flying - yes including take off and landing. Watched the under plane camera during the landing in Bangkok, and looked out the window for the Dubai landing - fly so low over the houses here!

Best go. Need to go people watch some more!

xxx

Fiona

So in 21 hours I should be boarding the plane.

Yes, a little more than excited *heh*

(Wishing I was in Boon, though…)

I was just sitting down with Mum, going through the photos from her European trips. I think it was making her a little sad, thinking that sha has travelled so little since she’s been married. i remember as a kid, we had three family holidays. One was in year one, to Victoria to visit my Grandfather down there, then year three to the Gold Coast, then again up to Brissie and the Gold Coast in year 11. Mum hasn’t really gotten away an more than that in that time, and since then has had a couple of Syndey and Melbourne long weekends, but not much at all. So, being me, I’m trying to psych her into planning a 2010 trip to Europe, a 30th anniversary of the trip we were just looking at. With new, unfading photos. (and a few more kilos - she was so skinny back then!)

I’m packed, except my toiletries. I have a new bigger memory card for my camera - which i need to charge tonight so I can take dorky photos of my air plane meals and other ccrap. Postcards look so much better than what I can take, so i’ll send you them instead :p

What else to do? Not really sure… sort out what i’d like to watch on the flight - there’s a huge selection :) My plan is to watch movies til Bangkok, then sleep in the BKK to Dubai leg a bit more (at least a few hours!) We’ll see how I go. I got a text message from Rish, arrived safely and very grateful for his sleeping pills - I want!

Will leave here at aout midday to head to the airport - aim is to get a good night’s sleep :) And to remember everything I need! *bounce*

So, Rish is on a plane right now, heading to Malaysia. He left Sydney 2ish, so should get to KL about 10 my time… a couple of hours there, then he’s off to Frankfurt :) So didn’t want to leavce him at Sydney airport this morning - but I reasoned that it’s only a week until we’ll meet up in Athens - it’s the goodbye after that week I’m not looking foward to, because then we’ll have 4 weeks apart!

We had a wonderful dinner last night - at The Chairman and Yip :) Took advantage of their eearlybird deal, drank a ottle of New Zealand Pinot and then went for cake at Cream (hottest waitstaff in Canberra) :D Wonderful to have an evening to ourselves before we had to part.

I’m leaning towards an early night tonight - zonked after a week of late nights and a long day today. Need to save my energy for monday! I’ll just have to come down from my caffine buzz from having coffee with Rish’s parents and the priest… he smelled nice like insense :)

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So, I went through with it, with only a few winces. :)

Now I can focus on more important things, like remembering to take my passport!

Last day of work today before … Greece! *squeals and bounces and stuff* (or at least I would if I wasn’t out late yet again last night! These are bad habbits I’m getting into… Probably shouldn’t become a regular at Muddle Bar… even if I do love the people I meet there and the cocktails :p)

Anyway.

I have a few hours this morning at work to do things like sort my desk out, make sure all my files are up to date, all my letters sent ahead of next term. Boring, mundane jobs that are going to need coffee and an ipod to get me through them.

Haven’t started packing… will probably start tonight after Japanese - though still won’t get home from that until 8:30 ish and have to eat dinner, and get Rish to chop my hair off. Figured I’d go for it, make like easier for the month when I’m away. Hopefully I won’t cry or hate it :p But, it’s only hair, and it tends to grow back :)

*gets excitable*

Ughhhhhhhh.

Had the most struggling day I’ve had at work for ages yesterday… I was meant to have early nights on Saturday, but didn’t, and then again on Sunday I was in bed early… and had every intention of crashing out by 9:30pm, but someone didn’t let me :p

So then I hit work yesterday. Get myself in a little early because I was supposed to have an 8:30am artic client (sometimes put a 30 minute appointment first thing for those speech kids who just need that little bit more monitoring on their homeprogram. That way they miss less school, and they take less time out of my day. And no, I don’t like after school appointments. Especially when I’m ratty, the child’s ratty and then the parent’s ratty too. We can always achieve lots that way) but they didn’t show up. Oh well, won’t see thejm until August now.

For a coupleof weeks now, I’ve not had any free appointments until August when I get back. I think my next free appointment is August 11 now. And not until the end of August for those who insist that they can only do after school. Some parents just don’t seem to understand that all the children my team sees are in school, and so no, not everyoe can fit into an after school appointment, even if I did offer them every day of the week. Which I don’t. And I’ve booked out my Monday afterschools next term with a stuttering client, and I think I’ll have another one on the way once I start in with my new assessments for the term.

(argh I hate when my toes randomly start tingling)

So yesterday was spent entering the diagnoses off all my kidlets onto the computer, and all the other info that needed to be on there by the end of the financial year (yes, the system crashed out at various points in the day). Today will be spent printing nots off the computer and filing them. And tidying my desk of all the other things I’ve neglected filing this year. Gah.

It’s amazing how much easier it is to get through when tired when you’re, say, bouncing around in group therapy sessions all day or out on the road visiting schools, but the second you sit in front of the computer, the reliance on coke and coffee just increases …

0.0 I can do it! (3 work days left).

Had a lovely weekend *grins*

I finally watched Fight Club on Friday night. Excellent movie (not partial to the beating in of heads, but you know, have to deal with it to get the rest of it). Can say that I’ve seen it :) And could return the DVD to a friend we’d borrowed it off way too long ago :p (Crush on Helena Bonham Carter has just grown)

Coming home to snuggle up and watch a DVD after gym, instead of hitting the Canberra Centre in search of the end of the sale bargains and to look for a new mobile phone for Rish.

Instead, we did that on Saturday… 4 hours worth of wandering later - I have a new pair of running shoes, Rish has the new Nokia 6220 to play with, and I had REALLY sore feet, and threw a little tanty *heh* Still managed to gym it up, though.

Was going to craash out for an early night but talked into heading out for coktails… I’m so easily persuaded! :) Nice to get out, though I was struggling to stay awake - not so good as I was the designated driver as Rish’s arm probably isn’t right yet for driving… 2:30 bed time.. :)

Had friends over for a BBQ lunch today, to catch up again before we head away. I lost both games of 500, with different partners :p WEll, we technically didn’t lose the last one, it never ended, so maybe we’ll rematch them when we get back from Europe :p (Do they still give out playing cards on airlines? I’d love another deck to add to my collection! I think I’ve heard of them being handed out on Emirates flights - I’ll have to ask :p)

And just now I’ve come back from the oval - sprints across the field with Rish *dies*

So, things hurt, haven’t had much sleep, but I’ve had a wonderful weekend (yes, I even got the washing done) and am ready to hit the four days I have remaining at wor before my holiday! *dances*

Scarily relevant, following last night’s conversation with Rish:

Apparently I’m nearly 26, and while the thought of having kid/s at 30 doesn’t seem that daunting, THAT’S ONLY 4 YEARS OFF (Rish just had a heart attack. sorry dear)…

Love xkcd. It is my life in comic form. (Romance, sarcasm, math, and language? Yes, that’s my life)

So, I think I’m going to achieve some sort of sticker-based goal before I head away. Which is nice. Yes, the target number of gym/running sessions has been reduced, but have thrown myself into it head-first for June - hoping to come out of it with better fitness and a reward of a nice out with Rish. Which I’ll earn if I do today, Friday and Saturday. Doesn’t have to be running, or a particular exercise, but I do have to get myself going pretty much every day. Thursdays don’t count - Japanese in the evenings makes it a long enough day without tacking a morning gym session on. Maybe if it was summer I could cope.

Maybe if I wasn’t staying up way past my bedtime chatting online, I could cope, too :p

I’ve been crossing off the days at work (only 10 more actual working days in that! Including today!) but even though I should be getting excitd, it still seems a long way away (2 weeks) until I get to go on my holiday. I have a huge list of things to do at work… and this week has just been a long week in general. Lots of running around that we don’t normally do…

But it’ll be worth it! I’ve already cancelled the newspapers for July, need to put the mail hold form in soon to - probably early next week - So don’t mail me any perishables in July ;)

*dances*