Well, back at work, hating it. Been working everyday this week and will be working everyday next week. Then nothing. So which should I be looking forward to the most. Would love to have a day off but really hate the jobs I have been doing. It is what it is.
We went to Maeghan's art show last night. I was actually working but they were both in the city so I left work for a while and went and saw the art. I decided to walk there from where I was but it meant I had to cross the river and the bridge I crossed on was very steep up one side and back down the other. It was a mistake as I exhausted myself before I could even get to there they were.
Maeghan has some really good pieces at the show. She did a painting that was on one wall. She had a clay model of her hands that she hand turned into a forest scene and they were two trees with a bridge between them. And her best work, or her best might have been the painting, but the other one was her tile which was kind of a three dimensional tile with a flower and stars on it. It was not all of her work but it is the pieces they decided to put into the show. The show was her whole class and their works and they had some really good pieces. The bigger part of the show was the for the senior classes, the ones who had been doing it a while. They had several rooms full of stuff. I was too tired to walk around and look at it so I only saw a few things.
One thing they do at these shows, I was told, is they have artists actually do paintings during the show. I told about this phenomenon for the last art show we went too, but they were doing the same thing at this one. The only difference was the paintings were smaller and they had three people working on each one. And they only had an hour and a half to finish. I am not sure what the purpose of this exercise is, but they do seem to enjoy it and with my limited experience in going to art shows, I am not sure how often it actually happens.
I had not eaten all day so we decided to leave the show so I could eat and then go back to work. The show was on until much later so they were going to stay and wait for me to finish. Turns out, I did not have time to eat, so I ordered something real quick and raced back to work to eat it there. I didn't get to spend much time with Maeghan at her show and what time I was there, I was exhausted and just sat on a bench and looked at what I could see. Not the big showing I'm sure Maeghan had planned but I did what I could and stayed as long as I could. We just need to plan these things for a time when I do not have to race straight from work to see them.
They just turned what I can only assume is a giant generator behind me. It is very loud and I don't understand how they can do that at a place where there are people trying to sleep. It is really annoying but I will fight through it and continue to type. I can't actually see it but it is in the court yard behind the office I am working in.
Tomorrow, we are planning on going to Dreamworld. I would much rather not go but we have the tickets and we have only used the once so we need to start going more often. I am exhausted and not really up to the trip, plus it will cost a fortune but they tell me they will not spend money. It's a whole bunch of money just to drive there and back but Juanita is set on going so we are going.
Winterfest starts next week at Dreamworld. They have several winter things to do, ice skating, tobogganing, and ice sculptures. It is fun I think. I think we went to it many many years ago but that might have been somewhere else. I wanted to postpone our trip until next week but I am told we will have to go twice. William is on holidays from school, although I am not sure how you take a holiday from something you are not doing. Maeghan has finished her classes, so we are all free to go anytime. I do have to work during the week but if I can get a day off, we will go then, otherwise, we will have to wait for the weekends.
The weather has been nice for a few days. No rain and the temperature is nice. It should be a good trip even if I have to sit and wait for everyone all the time. I'll enjoy taking a nap, I am sure. I'm sure Maeghan will try some rides again. I look forward to riding the sky ride thing where they show you pictures in front of you and it feels like you are flying. I don't think we can talk Juanita into going on it but does not move a lot and is not that scary so we might. I am hoping for a good mood from everyone. That doesn't happen a lot lately. I am not sure what we are planning for the dogs but leaving them home alone has not been good lately. Even if we leave them outside, which is what normally happens, they have starting tearing everything up they can get their paws on. Doesn't matter what it is, if they can reach it, they will chew it up and destroy it, to the point that most of the time, we cannot recognize what it was before they tore it up. The big dog is the problem. The little dog would rarely chew things to oblivion and would not climb up onto things to get them. Since the big dog is there, he can reach more things and he destroys things that he chews. Every couple of days, we found a new toy they had shredded all over the back yard. I keep telling them to stop buying them but they insist on replacing every one that he chews up.
The generator has stopped but now I have a headache from listening to it. I think I might wander over and get a coffee before they close. The coffee shop here closes at 12:30, when it actually opens, so if I don't get there early, it is usually closed by the time I think about it. Since it is 11:30 now, I should rush over there. I had a some nice toast last time but they do not normally have raisin toast so I get a cake of something. I hope they have the toast again, I don't really feel like something sweet. I will be back shortly to finish this, assuming I have anything more to say. Maybe I will talk about having to pee all the time lately and having to type real fast right now because I need to go and I can't wait long anymore before I have to go. Then again, maybe not.
Ok, I came back. Had coffee and raison toast. It was good. Now I am exhausted from walking the 100 yards there and back. But I soldier on. I am listening to a podcast about pooping. Not sure why. I think it is talking about some disease that might be going to come to everyone but I am not sure yet. Soon I am going to have to go into the forbidden zone and fix a computer, although from the sounds of it, it can't be fixed but lets send me in there and expose me to the plague so we can make sure one of the computers is working.
William tells us he went to the class where they got their white cards. I haven't seen it and when I got mine, I got it the same day I took the class but maybe the school is different. I don't think he went to school that day but he says he did and took the class and got the card. We will have to wait and see if it shows up in the mail. The white card is important for later jobs he might want to get. I think I have gone into it many times before so I will not do it this time. It just allows him to work in building sites.
Juanita and I got our blue cards that allows us to watch over children. The the next day, we got a letter saying we were not allowed to watch kids. Not sure what to make of that but I am not really concerned about it. There was a lot of information in the letter that was untrue but a lot that was so I am not going to say anything. It means we cannot do foster care, or I think that is what it means. It could just mean they found some things that they say Juanita did in the past with her kids and they say that does not allow her to watch kids today, but she has done it before so I am not sure what it means. I am too old to start doing that anyway and I am certainly too old to fight it. I don't care about it that much. I have a job so I don't need the headache of watching more kids at home. But, we do have our blue cards, so maybe that will mean something in the future.
Maeghan went and applied for her new classes in Caboolture. She has found a way to get to class faster. Turns out the school has its own bus and it will pick her up from the train station so that cuts the last 20 minutes of her trip where she was going to have to take her wheelchair from the station to the school. So, basically, she has to get to the train station, either by bus or wheelchair it takes about the same amount of time. Take the train one stop up the road and then the bus to the school. Most of it will be a timing issue about meeting the bus and train on time. It shouldn't be too much of a problem but we will see once she starts.
I am going to have to go now. I need to go look at this computer and then try to leave. I am sure I will have much more to say about the trip to Dreamworld, so look forward to it. It's a tease. Besides, Juanita is trying to get us kicked out of our house. She is complaining to the real estate about things. The issue is, if she complains too much, they will enforce the no other adults living in our house and will terminate the lease. So I have to try to head that crisis off and I don't really feel like it. Typing in here is not making it better or solving the problem. But I think that will be all for now.
Until next time,
Later
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