Re-entering the Blogland Abyss

I have been back online for a while since our move to the Mighty Waikato...but I am enjoying being relatively freed of my internet addiction. Sure...it makes it easy to stay off the net when the computer is in our bedroom and I have to kneel on the floor...but all the same I am enjoying getting more actual real life happening.

So here's a quick update on my world.

• Settled the house and OMG is it freaky to get bank statements with oddles of cash in the account...note to self...STOP SPENDING THE HOUSE MONEY!!!
• Spent a wonderful two weeks with the in-laws...yes, that's right, wonderful. MIL was a Hero...she even looked the other way, albeit with a noticeable tick when C2 weed all over her flash new black leather couch. What a woman! FIL was very gracious at having his rugby watching continually interrupted by the hordes of marauding vultures intent on clambering all over him and scrounging whatever he happened to be eating at the time.
• I enjoyed the most fantastic weekend with some friends from all round the North Island. Some I'd only met online until that point. We had a MARVELLOUS time, knitting, dyeing wool, shopping, talking, eating and more. Check out Sarah's and Rachael's blogs for their accounts of the weekend. I have had my social fix for a few months now....bliss.
• We trundled down to our new house and have spent the best part of a week unpacking, settling, exploring, and spening loads of petty cash getting stuff we didn't need at our old house but have to have here...what is with that? All houses should be made the same so your furniture and other bits and pieces work wherever you go. Actually mostly it is cos we are renting and can't just bung up shelving and put holes in the walls so we have to buy cupboards etc.
• I have almost finished A2's jersey...she will even get some wear out of it this winter.
• I have sent my first completed soaker and longies order with offical invoice even...back in business baby. I will be focussing on making some truly unique sewn garments for Patootie next...watch this space.
• J is off work for another 10 days...boy oh boy will we miss him when he goes back to work...C2 adores Daddy and will be a very sad boy for a few days and I will have to get up do the whole breakfast/morning routine rather than laze in bed reading or updating my blog!

Moving seems to be the best time to make as many life changes as I can. thic way I can get all of my edginess out in one big hit...so here is what is on my agenda...

• Start swimming again...off to check out the local pools today. Twitching cos it involves getting up at 5:30am.
• Get back onto the healthy eating wagon again. Moving/Living at Inlaws/Schleping up and down country often has resulted in TOO MUCH CRAP FOOD!! However, I did feel slightly better when my uberhealthy and very disciplined friend Rach confessed that she had slipped also.
• Declutter heaps of our extra stuff...mainly clothes and toys and even dare I say it BOOKS...well the book declutter is actually to make room for the $300 worth of new books coming my way as we speak from Amazon...I just had to buy up before the dollar dived and it was too expensive again.
• *Consider* organising kindy for A2 and C2...in two minds about this one. I know I would LOVE having a wee break from the terrific twosome...but then again...I LOVE having everyone around most of the time...hmmm...still pondering this one.
• Organise my worm farm/Bokashi Buckets/Temporary vege garden. I am feeling like it is not worth it while we are renting...but that is just lazy talk. Gotta get my butt in gear to get the soil prepared for Spring planting.
• Keep dreaming about our acreage in the wops and how we can possibly manage to afford it next year. I am trying to work out if we could manage to squeeze into a two beddy cottage ...hence the motivation for the decluttering above! I feel the neeed to go visit Sarah in her little place to see what compact living is really like!
• Make some new friends so that I can link to more than two people in my blog! Tee-hee! Luff you girls!

Okay...enough from me...must go and rescue J from the kids, get dressed and start acting like a mummy again to ease myself back into real life mode after the holiday I have been having.