Gimme a Break
Wowza! Can you believe it's been over a month since I last posted? Well, yes, I guess it's not that out of character.We've completed the redecoration of our kitchen!! No more reno's until Spring! Woo-hoo! It's now light grey-blue, rather than canary yellow. Looks hot. Only one unplanned expense occurred: in replacing our kitchen tap (which was broken and ugly) we encountered problems with our mains water supply; that whole nightmare ended up costing us an extra £180 in plumber's fees, in addition to the £90 faucet! Ugh. Pics to follow at some point. Hmmm... need a digital camera. Which reminds me...
We bought a fancy-pants all-in-one printer about 10 months ago (for when I went back to uni). Supposed to be great. Unfortunately we apparently didn't use it enough, because it died of unuse. It was on warranty still, but honestly, such crap. As it happens, HP doesn't make replacement parts (they'd rather fill up our landfills with printery-rubbish - how very green of them!), so we're supposed to receive vouchers to buy a brand new one. This would be great if we were planning on staying in the UK forevermore, if we used a printer enough not to have it break of unuse (love making up words!), if we didn't get a £100 discount on the first one which means we won't get anything equivalent for the vouchers they're giving us. Soooo, do we sell the vouchers at a loss on e-Bay, or do we buy something else... such as a digital camera?
Work's a bit manic right now. They make us produce first term reports in mid-Oct., which is ridiculous because we have to have a sufficient amount of material marked in order to produce these reports: for the measely 120 students that I teach. Last week I worked from 8:00 to 6:00 pretty much every day, plus I brought a stack of marking home to do this weekend. And they say teachers work 26.5 hours per week. Ha.
Riccardo's travel schedule is hotting up. He's off to Japan in about a week, then back for a week's holidays when Kim and Corey visit - can't wait! Shortly after that he's got to be in France for a week, as well as India for a week. His family, and then mine, are visiting at the end of December/beginning of January (YAY!) and then he's back to India again. Who knows what else will crop up in the meantime.
We've just helped to add dear sister Kelsey to the list of visitors after Christmas. As a starving student (well, in fact, slave labourer: 1 year, unpaid practicum where she has to pay tuition! OMG!) there was no way she would have been able to afford the trip herself, so we all pitched in and now she's officially jumping the pond with my other family-gallies. Poor Riccardo: he'll have to fight off all the Hambrook/Frost/Weber girls!
Can I please ask prayers and good thoughts for my sister, Rebecca's close friend, Shannon, who was in a car accident toward the end of September? She's in a coma in Kamloops Hospital, but is slowly recovering. She's a brilliant, vivacious young lady who will definitely overcome this ordeal, but it would be great if you all would keep her in your thoughts.
Also, one of my own closest friends is suffering a tragic loss in her family, so if you could additionally send love thataway, please!
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