Thoughts of a late night knitter

Do you realise I didn't go anywhere in 2009? By anywhere, I mean not overseas. The LG and I did visit the Atherton Tablelands with my mum, and we did go to Brisbane for the Exhibition and make further surf club related trips. But I didn't travel anywhere else! This is an unusual situation for me, who whether I have money or not, I go somewhere.

This year I won't be doing much either. We're getting a new library/gallery built this year, so I have to be around to go to endless meetings about that. I was thinking of a genuine white Christmas at the end of the year, taking my mum (she'll be 85 and it might be her last chance to go OS anyway) and the LG to Canada and stay at a ski resort or soemthing. But they don't want to go *pouts*. I suppose too I have to spend money on the house. I ripped up the carpet in December and haven't made a floor covering decision yet :D

Next year, 2011, we're actually moving into the new building. So I guess I should be there for the settling in and cementing of procedures and stuff.

So 2012 it is. I will have a lot of Long Service Leave by then. Currently I have 45 days and that doesn't count my regular Annual leave.

The LG and I have been talking the London Olympics with attached travel elsewhere perhaps. Of course sooner or later he's going to realise he'll either miss football or surf club if we go and might change his mind, but I'm not worrying about that right now. I've checked out the London Olympics page a couple of times, but it's still a WIP and isn't particularly helpful.

I'd like to know, and maybe my British flisters can help me here, which places in London are closest to where the games are being held? I figure if I start looking now, I might get some accommodation before the prices go up.

Snagged from glimmerite *waves to her*

Not bad for a non-US citizen!



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The last part of our travels. I'll do the con report with Adam squeeing seperately to save my family who just don't understand! :D

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Well here we are in Denver waiting for our reunion with moweasley and friends. Starfest (no link cause my computer hates the URL for some reason) starts tonight! Tomorrow Adam is here and we are excited :)

I've been slack (otherwise occupied/busy) and haven't posted about our travels at all! The horror! *giggles*

So read on for our recent adventures; in which the little guy and I have some great times, interesting times and scary times...Picture heavy so it's behind a cut( Read more... )

The bags are almost packed. The house is relatively (only relatively) tidy, and the garden is not. I've written a two page essay for the house/dog sitter and finished my surf club letters. Tomorrow we're off!!!

We leave here at 6am and, more or less travel for 2 days till we get to squish_67's on Friday evening. There's approximately 22 hours of that in the air *sigh*.

I have books to read and god knows I have plenty of WIPs to work on. But I'd like some prompts too *smiles hopefully*.

Also -

Since I'll be in a different timezone for the next few weeks, SSWT - European edition will be on hiatus. We'll get back to our regular schedule the first weekend in May...

At last I'm getting myself organised for our trip. Though sometimes it's frustrating, I love the planning stages almost as much as the trip itself. Very weird I know :D

The itinerary so far:-

As usual we fly from here to Japan and overnight in Tokyo.

Then it's Tokyo to Chicago and onto to Ohio to visit and stay with the wonderful squish_67. Next we're inflicting ourselves on ladytalon1 for a couple of days then onto Phoenix and the Grand Canyon.

I'm planning to drive from there to Denver, taking about 5 days and joining up with moweasley at Starfest. We'll be seeing elsibet34 there too! *twirls* I can't wait...

It's so great that I'm going to meet and see lots of my flisters :D

All I want to do is book online a flight from Chicago to Columbus. Cheap tickets com only includes European countries on it's drop down menu and American Airlines direct you to their worldwide sites, and there isn't one in Australia. It's aggravating.

I can book with Southwest airlines no trouble, but they leave from Chicago Midway airport and I'm flying in to O'Hare. Can anyone tell me how long it takes to get from one airport to the other? I'm losing my window to book a cheap flight *wails*.

I'll keep looking at the other sites I guess - but why is it so hard? Australia is an American ally and has even signed a dumb free trade agreement with them....

It being my RDO (Rostered day off) this Friday, my Mum decided a trip to the Atherton Tablelands, would be a nice birthday present. So we decided to do a food and waterfall tour over Friday and Saturday and here's some pictures for guinny_hamilton and anyone else who wants to see...( Read more... )

Pictures and rambling behind the cut! Hope you enjoy :D

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I'm home at last and I was so happy to see my Mother and the little guy, I missed them! They seem to have done very well together and my yard and house are so clean and tidy I hardly recognised the place.

I'm still getting over the jetlag, but once I stop falling asleep at all the wrong moments I have lots of things to do-

Describe the wonderful time I had at the Browncoat Cruise (hopefully pictures and writing tomorrow)

Write my prompts for nerd_herder and chuck_slash

Finish my Sweet Charity duties

Write my serenity_santa fics

Send out Christmas cards - they're all going to be late so I'm apologising in advance! :D

Try and finish at least one WIP

There's lots of other stuff too, but fortunately I've forgotten it for now :D