It's my birthday tomorrow!

Big news... (for me anyway) it's my 27th birthday tomorrow. I hate odd birthdays, I feel so much older when it's an odd one. Nothing at all planned, maybe dinner with the boy. That's right I back in Wodonga. Thought I should help to pack the house up, hehehe.

This is one of my favourite pictures of Shar from the INBA. She rocked!

I bought the Harry Potter book last weekend. I think I'm 150 pages in. It's so tempting to read it 24/7.

I had to leave my Leo behind in Traralgon today, I had a quite a few tears, I love him dearly. Hopefully he will be happy with Mum, Dave and my brothers.

This is my new hair from Fridays session with the Australian colour champion for 2007 Felicity at Cobarzz Eco Salon in Glengarry.

holidays continued...

Well what to say about my holidays? Not too much at all! So this is a pretty boring recount.

I went to visit my Great-Grandmother in her nursing home on Monday last week, it was her 94th birthday. Her eye sight has deteriorated dramatically in the past few years and she had trouble recognising me when I first came in. I had to get real close and say 'hello Grandma it's Kelly'. She still was a bit apprehensive as it was a surprise and she wasn't expecting me. We had a big chat and then I continued on driving back to Traralgon.
I can't account for Tuesday!!!!!! (it has disappeared never tob e seen again)
Wednesday it was snowing on the hill surrounding the Latrobe Valley. It was extremely cold 7.3 degrees I think. I went to visit my step-dad's father who is sick. We chatted for about 2 hours, I told them about my travel blog and my Aunt and Grandad saved it as a favourite.
Thursday Mum and I drove to Melbourne for an appointment.
Friday I had my hair nicely coloured and got my nails french gel'd. I didn't get the tips as my nails grow quite nicely. I just wanted the gel to protect the nail from breaking. I went out for tea with 3 of my friends and got a lovely surprise a voucher for my birthday. Thanks so much girls!!!
Saturday I went down the street with Mum for some groceries and then went and watched TTU netball. I used to play for TTU before I moved to Wodonga. Nearly all the girls playing were different from when I played. The quality was verrrry different too. I always explained that our Mitta 'A' Grade in the Tallangatta and District was close North Gippslands 'B' Grade, but after yesterday we are on a par with their 'A' Grade too. This makes me feel pretty good because years ago I was only playing 'C' Grade down here, now I'm 'A' Grade a Mitta (or used to be)Sooooo... I must have improved ehh?????

See ya
Kell

Melbourne INBA

I went to the Melbourne INBA today. It was an amazing experience. I was in awe of the dedication these girls put themselves through to get to competition standard.
I got to meet Sue, Jodie, Hilde, Selina, Kerry and her friend Kerry, Ali and Natalie. We had coffee at Choclatte on Bourke Rd Camberwell before heading down to the pre-judging show. Photos were taken while at coffee, but my camera sometimes is not well behaved so the other girls will email through some groups shots I'm sure.
At the pre-judging there were many classes and it will be interesting to see if the girls I thought were well defined etc won or not. The Fitness class was amazing, what those girls can do is whoa!!! There were so many sports model competitor's and this division is spread out over the whole pre-juding show. One of the girls obviously had lost a lot of weight to be in the comp , it may have been a reward at the end of the weight loss journey. She had quite a lot of loose skin around her stomach etc, but how motivating to see her up there!!! She must be so proud of herself :)
Shar was sensational, I have photos but wont be able to put them on for about a week. She was sooo dark, Natalie and I nearly didn't recognise her. When I came home I showed my Nan a comparison of her in her blog picture when she was bigger compared to the photos today, Nan nearly fell over!!!!
After sitting down for the 3 hour show I was starting to feel a little ill. Maybe from the air con or dehydration, or maybe the lights but I had a headache and decided to come home and miss the awards. It was going to be a 3 hour wait and so made the executive decision to hop the train and head home. Like everyone now I'll need to wait to hear results.
See you,
Kelly

Week 2 of not working.

G'day everyone.

Life has been smooth sailing at the moment. We successfully had our birthday party last weekend. Everyone had great night at the Stanley Pub. The meal were terrific, service fantastic and the money over the bar was a big hit! Kane proceeded to get 'smashed' drunk, and he tried to tongue kiss several of his mates. I drove home which in a way wasn't a bad thing as I was feeling quite well the next day, the same can not be said for the other half!

I'm at Mums at the moment just relaxing. When driving from Wodonga to Traralgon I tend to come down with some kind of bug. Not sure why.... maybe the smog in the valley, some people put down to air con, or the stress of tiredness of it all. What exactly causes the sickness, I don't know! I had a massage on Monday and the lady played around with my neck, that could of contributed, my neck was quite stiff and sore afterwards particularly on the right side, which is funny... this year I have had right side soreness all over. Sciatic pain in my right hip, knee calf and ankle, soreness in my right ribs, tightness in my right glutes and lower back and in my knee. All connected somehow, it must be!

So anyway my sore throat is still sore after resting for two days, it hurt to brush my hair today and phlegm is in back of throat, so I'm guessing I have sinus. Sudafed and nurofen seem to be helping. I went to the old faithfull chiro today in Traralgon (I hadn't seen him for 5 years), and he said I adjusted quite well and that the pain my neck should settle in 1 day or so. He also said the pain I have had in my ribs for the past 7 weeks (a la netball training!!!) could be a cracked rib or muscle injury, well der! Apparently may take 6 months properly heal.

I bought Leo, my cat down to Mum's this week as he will be spending the next two years with Mum while I am OS. He is very sloooooowly adjusting! The hissing and spitting are only occurring now within a 4 metre radius which is a vast improvement on the first few days. I had one highly stressed puddy cat. I have been giving him 1/4 Valium (vet prescribed) to help calm him down occasionally, however I think this may only be affecting his mobility, he seems quite able to think mentally during this drugged state as the growling certainly does not cease.

I may be going to Healesville tomorrow to start my trek to Melbourne, not that T'gon is that far from Melb, it's just easier to travel on the train from Lilydale to Camberwell than drive from T'gon to Camberwell (I hate driving in Melb traffic) I have written down the address of the comp and where everyone is meeting for coffee so I only need to get there. I was waiting to see how this bug developed!

I am thinking of selling my car before I go OS. Doing some research today and I think I can still get around 11 grand for it. Not bad for a 7 year old car. We will see what develops there.

Cheers for now and good luck to Shar who is competing in her first figure comp this weekend!

Kelly

Hello there...

Well hello there everyone.
I am a free woman! No work or anything to do. Can you hear how bored I sound? We had our worldly possessions packed on Tuesday and sent off on a ship to China. I am living out of several large suitcases and toiletry bags at the moment. I may have to 'cull' further before I leave.

My house is clean, bags packed, I can't change any addresses yet... oh the boredom of a life of luxury! Soooooooo, I bought a book! It's called 'A Very Short History of the World' by Geoffrey Blainey. It's a bit heavy, but I do love history.

We bought a new laptop last Friday and so I am typing on it right now. It's a Toshiba Satellite A200/C00, it has Core2 Duo processor and runs with Windows Vista instead of XP. We have also downloaded a trial of Office 2007 which is a novelty, I usually get the latest office 2 years after it's out. Trust me it very different, especially Word07!!!!!

We also got a lot of movies from a friend the other day, but you know what? I am so not in the mood for hard core movies- Give me the midday movie at the moment. BF been watching shooting movies and horror, I think it was Wolf Creek yesterday, not my type at all. I really enjoyed Miss Potter... that's my type of happy feel good movie.

This weekend has multiple happenings. It is Kane's 30th birthday tomorrow and so we are having a b'day party for him, my step Dad and myself, as we all have our birthday's in July. This is happening on Saturday night out at the Stanley Pub which is close to Beechworth. Why all the way out there I hear you ask????? We play against Beechworth in the footy/netball this Saturday and so I thought lets do something different. I have ordered a marble mud cake from the cheesecake shop to take out, so that will be very yummy. All my family are coming up from all over the state to watch me play my LAST GAME of netball and celebrate our birthday's, it's also a bit of a going away party too.

Onto next weekend.... da da da... I am going to Melbourne to watch the INBA. I have never been to one of these events before and it should be a real eye-opener. I am really looking forward to meeting a lot of people I know, but have never met. So I will be meeting people for coffee at a coffee shop near the venue.

What a lovely long post (by my standards)
Cheers everyone,
Kelly