What a week!

So Aaron and Kirstee came to see us this week! We've been working on trying to train Sade, but its a bit hard with Daisy whinging all the time, we've been working on "shake hands" with Sade, and trying to get her to go to the bottom of the steps when we go outside so no one trips. Here's a little video of her actually shaking hands for a piece of dog food lolz.

We really have to get on this I don't want her to end up doing whatever she wants and hurting someone by jumping on them or knocking them over, and she is slowly getting better at listening.... I guess it will just take a lot of time and patience.


So this week has been pretty good for me, on Monday I thought of a good idea for Lewy's birthday present, which I wont mention here just in case he actually reads my blog for once and wants to know what I'm making, but don't worry I've been working my fingers to the bone trying to get it done and it's coming along quite well, and once I finish it (which will hopefully be before his birthday in October) I will take lots of pictures. I also had to drive about 100ks to try on my bridesmaid dress for my friends wedding which is right after Lewy's birthday and I'm really excited!!!!

On Tuesday I was home cleaning up a little bit and then Aaron and Kirstee came down, and on Wednesday they had some errands to run and I had to work, but my three beginner girls did excellent this week! The were actually begging me to let them do doggy paddles by themselves and they spent 90% of their lesson paddling and kicking on their noodles by themselves... and this is really good because three weeks ago I had to try and hold on to all three of them at once or they would all burst into tears and start screaming at the tops of their lungs.... they only major drama we had was at the very end of their lesson when one of them noticed a lizard next to the pool and they all lost their minds.... so I had to gather them all up and we watched the lizard for a minute while i told them it was just a baby lizard and it wouldn't hurt them, I guess they were convinced it was going to attack them while they were doing their diving or something, but they calmed down and did their "big jumps" and everyone was ok in the end.

Apparently she was done with Tug-o-war

not impressed...

Today, I woke up a little bit early and accomplished more before noon than I normally do all day long XD (which is saying something). I managed to almost get breakfast cooked before Aaron and Kirstee were up, and then we went out and did our training session with the puppies, and they decided it was a nice enough day that we should take them for a nice long walk, so we did, and it was a REALLY good one, they were puffing and panting by the end of it so tuckered out it was so cute! Now I'm off to do some laundry, clean up the breakfast dishes, work out what I'm cooking for dinner tonight and then get to work on some more of the big birthday surprise!!! I'm not sure whats in store for the rest of this week, but I'm hoping it will be good, and here's hoping that all of you have a awesome weekend ahead of you as well!

XxX ~Rah Rah

Canberra was Awesome!!!!!!

So I haven't been the best little blogger out there, but this time I have an excuse....

Me and Lewy went down to Canberra for the weekend to see our friends Kirstee and Aaron for their housewarming!!! This was the first time I had been down there as well so I was pretty excited!

  Lewy had to work on the Friday so I got to stay home and run around like an idiot trying to pack two peoples things... I still feel like I forgot something but I don't know if I left it here or there. By the way, that's me to the left there, sporting a brand new bulky beanie I made for myself using my easy beanie pattern but altering it slightly. It was so warm and cozy I'm happy I brought it with me because it was absolutely freezing down there!

It took us about 2.5 hours to make it from our house to their house, but that was also at night and we did stop for food, all in all we made some pretty good time! We got really lucky too because Kirstee finally got a day off work, and we got to spend some time with her =)

Now, they have a dog named Zoe, and I swear to all that's good and holy this dog is the most cutest well trained animal in existence! I can only imagine Sade or Daisy being this well trained in my dreams.... the only bad thing was her tail was freaking deadly and she beat us with it every chance she could get (she was just wagging her tail), she was also very ball oriented. She would stand there and stare at the ball, get all excited when you would play with her but she never wanted you to stop throwing it, she would grumble at you if you even looked like you wanted to go inside.... which believe me we all wanted to stay inside because it was freezing down there!

 Kirstee also gave me a great big giant present, three pairs of shoes that didn't fit her any more =) Which made me feel really really special!

Sunday morning was a bit of a hassle, we had to wake up early, Kirstee had to be at work, we had to head off home so I could buy a pair of steel cap boots that in the end I didnt even need....

We said good bye to every one, hopped in the car, and 2 hours later I fell asleep in the passenger seat, and woke up about 30 minutes from home... It was strange to fall asleep in a place I didn't know and wake up knowing exactly where I was, I kind of thought I had dreamed the whole trip!

On Sunday morning before we had to leave I was able to find enough signal on my phone to check my email, (they hadn't connected the internet yet) and was pleasantly surprised to see one from my paypal account saying that I had received a payment.... IT FINALLY HAPPENED!!!! Some one out there in the world found one of my patterns on Ravelry, and they pushed that button and bought it!!!!! I finally sold one of my patterns!!!!!!! 

Also lately I have been doing some training to get started in a new field of work. I've been trying to get out of the swimming pool for ages, I reek of chlorine all the time no matter how many showers I take.... and while I love the work, its really taking its toll on me, my hair, and my skin, not to mention that since its now winter down here I have been cut back to one shift a week... that's just not enough to survive on when I have bills and things to pay of my own.
I did my white card online, which means now I can go onto construction sites, and then I did my blue card on Monday, I had to take the train to get to the place and O-M-G I really hate the train. I wore my steel cap boots (which gave me blisters) and brought my black pen like the website told me to do, and as soon as I got there they asked if I had a blue pen, and no one else was in boots. I really wanted to crawl in a hole at that point, but I went ahead and now I am fully qualified to legally control traffic using a stop/slow sign!

Well that's been my week so far, how has yours been?

 XxX ~RahRah