Woke up this morning to the unusual, but most definantly welcome sound of rain. It was so lovely to be able to lie in bed listening to the rain on the roof. It is just a shame that it didn't last longer.

It is the middle of the week already! Our NATA inspection at work is tomorrow, that will be fun, haha, not. My boss has been stressing out for about a month about it, which encourages everyone else to be calm of course.

Went to Kate's house for dinner last night, it was a lot of fun talking about our New York holiday from last year. Then I went over to Hayley's to watch some Firefly.

Can I just say that so far I love this show. It is very sad knowing that there is only the one season, and the movie. Joss Whedon (of Buffy fame), is awesome, I can't understand why the show was axed after only one season.


The other thing I am sad about is the final F1 race was on over the weekend, Brazil. It was Michael Schumacher's final race, and his last chance to win another championship. Because it was Brazil it was on at 3am my time, so no chance of me watching it live. I taped it, and watched it on Monday, even after I had heard the results on the radio. Michael didn't manage to win either the championship or the race, but he still had an awesome drive. One thing I can say is he has not lost it, he would still be able to come back and win another championship, if he wanted to. He is one of the best drivers there will ever be. Good luck in the future Michael, enjoy spending time with your family.

Indy was on last weekend at the Gold Coast too, I didn't watch most of it, but I saw the final V8 race. Rick Kelly is looking good for the championship, I hope he can beat Craig Lowndes for the title, go Holden!

Otherwise I am about to cook Myretta's Too Chocolate for Words Brownies for this weekends scrapbooking retreat, which should be a lot of fun.

Not long now until NaNoWriMo starts! I am starting to put together a plot and have a couple of characters. I am going to write a romance novel.

Red goes Faster?

Well a big weekend for motorsport, and therefore me, has just past. I am a fan of both F1 and the V8 Supercars. In both series I go for red cars, Ferrari and Holden respectively.

The Ferrari race was in Japan this week, and the second last race of the series. For the V8's it was the biggest race of the year, the Bathurst 1000.

Saturday qualifying for both looked good. Both Ferrari's on the front row of the grid, and Mark Skaife in his HRT commodore in pole.

Sunday I spent the entire day sitting in front of the tv. The Bathurst race started at 10am, but coverage started at 7. It finished at 5pm, and the only time I left the lounge room was during ad breaks. The F1 started at 3pm, but I could only access that using the live timing on the official F1 website.

Problem is Mark Skaife drove about 100m, before another car rear-ended him and shunted him into the wall. Race over, at maybe 10:05. Michael Schumacher went somewhat further into his race before an engine failure saw him out. Not a good day really, especially since Michaels main rival in the championship won, and has made it almost impossible for Michael to win what would be his final year. In the V8s I could at least change my loyalties to the Kelly Bros. they did well, finishing 2nd, but sadly behind a Ford. Very sad all round.

I went to the National Zoo and Aquarium with Hayley on Saturday. Was a lot of fun, saw all the big cats, I love the tigers, and the snow leopards, oh and the cheetahs... We saw the king cheetah, I want to do the "meet the king" where you can go in and pat the king cheetah, so cool. The otters and the penguins were georgeous as well. I love the zoo, and all the animals. In the aquarium we saw Nemo, and Dory.

Other news, I bought an ipod video! The new 80gb one. It is so pretty and shiny, and will be good for not only listening to music, but watching videos and listening to audio books. I have already downloaded three of Jane Austen's novel's, woohoo.

Also I have signed up to attempt NaNoWriMo. Basically you try and write a 50,000 word novel in one month, the month of November to be exact. More info at: http://www.nanowrimo.org/ I am not sure how I will go, but I am going to give it a shot.

Day off work tomorrow, hooray.

I love long weekends

Labour day long weekend, sadly it is over now, but I had a good weekend.

Went to cousin Jodie's Tupperware party on Saturday afternoon, and stayed on for her house warming party on Saturday evening. Ordered some more tupperware at the former (yay). It was a fun day, sitting around chatting with people. Was very good and walked over to Jodie's house, and then had to find someone willing to take me home afterwards as it was too dark, and too late to be walking home.

Sunday was a pretty relaxed day. Went to church in the morning and then at home in the afternoon I didn't really do much. Sat in the sun on the back step reading Sense and Sensibility for the Group Read I am doing at the moment. Spent the rest of the day doing nothing really.

Monday was good, went to Emma and Harold's for lunch with Jodie, roast pork, yum. Then Jodie, Emma and I sat around and did some stitching and chatted. I worked on my dragon cross-stitch. It is a Teresa Wentzler pattern called The Storyteller the colours in it are beautiful, I have been working on it for a couple of years now and am at the backstitch stage, so I am hoping that it won't be too long before I have finished it. I just need to keep working on it. Here is a picture that I got off her official website:



















Went out with the family for dinner, then home and after watching a bit of tv, I went to bed.

This week I am working afternoon/evening shifts at work, so I have the morning free. Am trying to watch all of my DVD collection, so hopefully I will be able to get some of that done this week.

That is about all I did over the weekend.