Free Stuff

So last time I wrote it was a little haphazard, many topics, few developments etc. Today is a little better but not much.

We could not go sailing this weekend, it is so frustrating when you arrange your life and have it rearranged by your kids. I guess I had them…such is life. So we stayed home, watched movies, which was not really that bad, I have become way too spoilt with the going away so often.

I took some time and started my French lessons. Feeling a little inspired by the fact that I started to recall some of the French I should have remembered, and am now able to say hello, goodbye and the likes to start or end a conversation. Not to mention count to ten, say the days of the week etc. Soon I’ll be an expert! (ex being a “has been”, spurt a drip of water under pressure)

Last night was my graduation ceremony. I felt all academic walking across the stage to get “capped” and “draped” as it were. It brings an end to formal study for me, at least for now. Barry, Rauen and Kyle were there to watch. Kyle drove Barry insane as the whole ceremony took 2 hours, a long time for a little boy wanting to watch TV. Not too mention the speech which no one in the audience had any chance of understanding, the speaker may as well have spoken Greek, we would have probably understood more then. You know a speech is bad when the Vice Chancellor stands up after the speech and apologises for the speech without actually saying sorry, but simply saying the professor who gave the speech is a serious intellect and if we “laymen” could take anything from it, it would be amazing.

Went shopping again today – it is always great to shop when you don’t actually spend any money. We bought a jersey for Barry using gift vouchers from Edgars (say thanks to an Edgars cash card) and PJ’s for both the boys as well as 3 new DVD’s (say thanks to cellphone contract gift vouchers). Seems I am getting plenty “free” stuff this month, I got all those books and the cd last week for “free” from Ebucks.

Wish I could get a catamaran free next!

I also started taking photo’s for the website of Kyle, Rauen and myself doing the things we like so I can make up the collage for each of our blogs. Still working on the website seems to be coming along slowly but I haven’t put it on the back burner, just have to do research and information gathering to continue.

A bientoe! (See you soon!)