Photos!

Greetings All!!

I finally have some photos up for you guys to see. It's the same link I sent a few months back, you just have to look for the album titled 'The US of A' and there are 48 photos from my trip to Kentucky. Indeed this isn't all of them, in fact I took nearly three times as many as there are here!! But I do have limits on what I can put up.

I will eventually get some more of Pax put up, some before and some since I came back. We've had a small sprinkling of snow on my first day back at work, which just happened to be a 7am start after getting home the day before!! It was an interesting day really, well the first week was! I was very sleep deprived, unwell and just wanted to be left alone. Come on not here!!

Nah, it's okay, I'm slowly getting over it. Had a visit to the doc's and the damn vampires took 4 quite large vials of blood! Ouch! Then had a visit to the nurse because I was a new patient at the Doc's surgery. Which is good. Seven months here and it was my first visit, very impressive when you consider the track record Pax has had lately!!

Mum will probably be aware of this, but had plans not changed, I would have arrived back home in Melbourne some seven hours ago!! It's a little scary really. Still have 10 months to go. I am actually looking forward to another summer. Well actually I just want some descent daylight.

The three new HAs have arrived! Xenia from Germany, Louise from Oz and Shanna from the USA. Yep, at their welcome ceremonies the other night, I realised I now have to share the Aussie flag with someone!! It was kinda nice though, she says lots of words I haven't heard in a long time. They seem to have settled in well enough. They kinda freaked out a bit when they found out tomorrow we've 51 beds filled!! That hasn't happened in such a long time! I mean the most we've had is about 10 people in. You should have seen their faces when I told them that 51 in a day was nothing out of the ordinary during summer. He he he, it's what I call a 'Real House Assistant Day!' all right!! No, that just excites me because despite how crazy they were, change over days were my fav.

Went to the cinema the other night and saw Brokeback Mountain. It's now been labelled the Gay Cowboy Movie and is kind of a running joke amongst the HAs. They weren't too impressed. Kristina and I cried our eyes out. We're a pair of sobs!! So the next movie is on the 17th which is Memoirs of a Geisha which I am looking forward to.

Excitement for the week is the news that Ruth is coming to Pax next weekend!! I actually wasn't supposed to know, she was just going to rock up as a surprise. She'd been conspiring with Sally and Breanne. However, considering how "Emotionally Disturbed" I am, she thought better and decided to give me a bit of notice. Kind nice really!! It will be good to have a familiar face around, might lift my spirits a little.

Hope you are all well, there's probably a dozen more things I could tell you all about, but I can't think too much right now, brain strain hurts too much!

Take care and I am sure we shall talk soon!
Must get back to it!
Rachael :-)