Happy Birthday Ruby

Well my little Rubylish has turned the big 1! and what a party!!

An a 8hr BBQ in glorious sunshine, how will we top that in years to come?

Rich put together a swing set, which amazingly stayed in one piece the whole day despite the kids all trying to go the wrong way up the slide!! Ruby had a short snooze part way through the day but otherwise wandered around happily from guest to guest. She wasn't that fussed with the cake or the presents but did enjoy eating lots of grapes and strawberries!! (glad we left before nappy changing time!!)

IN THE NAME OF WORK ETHICS....what the?!

Librarian arrested in co-workers slaying
AMSAN ANTONIO — A 62-year-old librarian was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of a fellow librarian at a community college here.
Alan Godin, an adjunct librarian, allegedly walked into the library at Northeast Lakeview College on Monday afternoon and shot Devin Zimmerman, 37, to death, said school president Eric Reno.
Godin allegedly shot Zimmerman and then sat down and waited for police.
The men were co-workers, Zimmerman staffing the library during the day and Godin at night. There had apparently been some previous dispute about "work ethic," said Dan Pew, the acting chief of the Live Oak Police Department, which was assisting in the investigation.
Godin had worked part-time at the library since 2003. Zimmerman started working at the school last fall.
The campus, one of five Alamo Community Colleges around the city, has about 4,100 students.
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Information from: San Antonio Express-News: http://www.mysanantonio.com/

Working hard for NO money!

So Tom better treat me right!!
The grass arrived and I managed to successfully turn a pile of turf and a patch of dirt into a lovely lawn. Took a few hours but Mum arrived half way through so I had an excuse to stop for a cold drink and a chat. I'm pretty pleased with it, hopefully it wont die off in the next few weeks!!

Breast Cancer Fundraiser Breakfast

A group of us headed off to Flemington Racecourse this morning at what felt like THE CRACK OF DAWN for a fundraiser breakfast. What a wonderful morning! Breakfast was delish, we got show bags of goodies, heard inspirational stories of survival as well as heartbreaking stories of loss. We laughed, we cried (fortunately mostly laughed) and Mandy Mac even won one of the raffle prizes. A great way to start the working day and a great cause!!

See a few quick snaps below: we got some ideas from the cast of Priscilla for possible "fishy" new uniforms and controlled ourselves not to start a bidding war when they raffled off the Firemen!!

4 more sleeps

Only 4 more sleeps until my little Rubylish turns one!!

Again Again Again?

Sunday 10.30am and I'm back again (in my PJs). The Webolution Worm has obviously been planted in the water at the library. I can't stay off this computer. For today's trick I have just added the 17 people who have started the webolution to my web updates so it lets me know when their blogs were last updated without me having to look at each one, pretty cool.

Bloody Webolution

It is frick'n 2.30am!! I am way to old to be sitting up on the pooter until this late! The webolution had got me in a Wavitational Pull...........HELP