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mysteriousaliwaysWell, I'm back!
Quite an eventful weekend. I finally crawled out of my sickbed and drove off to the residential weekend to teach my workshop for my Diploma assessment. I was still feeling under the weather, but it was lovely to catch up with some of my friends again (and there was a spectacular fireworks display nearby, so I got fireworks for my birthday :))
Finished writing up copies in triplicate of the lesson plan at about 01:30 in the morning (planning the workshop would have been considerable easier if a) I hadn't been ill for most of the last three weeks, and b) one of my daughters hadn't mislaid 3/4 of my dance CDs somewhere in the house - I had to end up using whatever I could lay my hands on that happened to be lying around in odd corners.)
However, despite it all, I passed my assessment!
Now I'll just need to get my last few written pieces of work finished and submitted, and I'll have my Diploma :D
*does little dance of celebration*
ION, last night I took the girls to Sunday Mass and we came home with a hamster. As you do.
(The woman who sits next to us came up to me after mass and asked if my girls would like a hamster, as a friend of hers who'd been living in the UK had gone back to her own country and left her with a pair of hamsters. Which, as her friend had made the mistake of getting one of each gender, had become six hamsters.)
So we now have a little silvery-grey siberian dwarf hamster. The girls have never had a pet before (if you don't count the snails they adopted out of the garden and the tadpoles in the pond) - I'd always maintained I had enough on my plate without looking after animals as well - but now they're getting older I can give them most of the responsibility of looking after it.
It looks a lot like a mouse without a tail, but is kind of cute nonetheless (wee paws!) :)
After going through several suggestion including Donkey, Waffles and Parcheesy, they have called him Harry.
Right, off to read the birthday fics that are waiting for me (thanks guys!) and catch up with Saturday's episode of Primeval.
Quite an eventful weekend. I finally crawled out of my sickbed and drove off to the residential weekend to teach my workshop for my Diploma assessment. I was still feeling under the weather, but it was lovely to catch up with some of my friends again (and there was a spectacular fireworks display nearby, so I got fireworks for my birthday :))
Finished writing up copies in triplicate of the lesson plan at about 01:30 in the morning (planning the workshop would have been considerable easier if a) I hadn't been ill for most of the last three weeks, and b) one of my daughters hadn't mislaid 3/4 of my dance CDs somewhere in the house - I had to end up using whatever I could lay my hands on that happened to be lying around in odd corners.)
However, despite it all, I passed my assessment!
Now I'll just need to get my last few written pieces of work finished and submitted, and I'll have my Diploma :D
*does little dance of celebration*
ION, last night I took the girls to Sunday Mass and we came home with a hamster. As you do.
(The woman who sits next to us came up to me after mass and asked if my girls would like a hamster, as a friend of hers who'd been living in the UK had gone back to her own country and left her with a pair of hamsters. Which, as her friend had made the mistake of getting one of each gender, had become six hamsters.)
So we now have a little silvery-grey siberian dwarf hamster. The girls have never had a pet before (if you don't count the snails they adopted out of the garden and the tadpoles in the pond) - I'd always maintained I had enough on my plate without looking after animals as well - but now they're getting older I can give them most of the responsibility of looking after it.
It looks a lot like a mouse without a tail, but is kind of cute nonetheless (wee paws!) :)
After going through several suggestion including Donkey, Waffles and Parcheesy, they have called him Harry.
Right, off to read the birthday fics that are waiting for me (thanks guys!) and catch up with Saturday's episode of Primeval.
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Date: Monday, 4 May 2009 10:46 (UTC)I used to keep hamsters - the rather commonplace golden ones everyone had - when I was a kid. They were always called Harry, mainly because they were always escaping!
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Date: Monday, 4 May 2009 11:00 (UTC)And yay for Harry the Hamster *g*. We had hamsters when we were little and the little devils were always escaping and hiding down the back of radiators . . . *g*.
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Date: Monday, 4 May 2009 11:16 (UTC)And awwwwwwww, ickle fluffy hamster! *g* But now I really want a hamster called Parcheesy!
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Date: Monday, 4 May 2009 11:53 (UTC)And yay for Harry the Hamster. He sounds a cutie.
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Date: Monday, 4 May 2009 12:52 (UTC)Ooh, I adore Siberian dwarf hamsters, if the fish go then I think I'd like to get one of them or a gerbil for the kids. They are very cute. I hope it goes okay!!
Boy, have I been enjoying your b/day fics!!! *flail*
Hope you feel lots better soon.
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Date: Monday, 4 May 2009 14:02 (UTC)And the hamster sounds so cute! And all your birthday fic - I quite enjoyed it as well *grin*
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Date: Monday, 4 May 2009 14:56 (UTC)And I hope she's separated the rest of the hamsters now or she's soon going to have a lot more than six lol.
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