I WON!!!

I won $100 in paypal credits yesterday in a competition that ebay had running called "12 days of christmas". I was so excited!! Yeh I know its not all that exciting or a new car or anything but I was really excited when I got the phone call to say that I had won ;) I was also excited to see my name up on the ebay site to say that I was one of the winners, so thought Id include a screen shot :) and brag to all u blog readers too haha! Sooo thanks a bunch to ebay and to Ella for getting me up early so that I had time to find the answers to the questions and just paste them in when 9am opening time came :)


Cheers

Rach xx

Sooo much to tell...

So I have now been back at work for 3 weeks and I am doing ok. I havent really adjusted yet to not being around Ella so much and I still have a little sniffle every now and again when I think about how much I miss her and my mind starts thinking about what she thinks the reasons I am not home is. I really hope that she realises that I still want to be with her but have to work to get money because for some reason in my mind she thinks that I am leaving her because its her fault. I know, I know its just me feeling guilty for not being able to be home so much with her... but still... I am really missing her, missing our 'us' time that we had every day for such a long time and now I barely get home before its her bed time, in saying that though the pay is good and I am doing ok being back and getting back into the swing of things.
I cant believe how close christmas is, where o where did the last 6 months go??? We put up our christmas lights on our house last weekend but havent turned them on yet, will be this weekend plus also putting up our tree :) I am dreading to see what ella will decide to do with it... I am guessing PULL IT OVER??? :) Also wondering what we are going to do with all the presents she gets.. we are already overcrowded by her stuff as it is!! She gets so spoiled because she is not only the first child for us but also the first grandchild for both mine and Nick's family.
Havent been doing much scrapping lately, just havent had the time or the mojo.. but I have some ideas for this weekend if I get a chance between christmas shopping and tree erecting! ;) Speaking of scrapping, round six of SWTS is up at scrap therapy and SHIRLEY CHAI is the star!! :O Do u realise how excited I was to see that?? She is my FAVOURITE!!!
Ummmmm what else??? My internet connection is finally working PROPERLY!! I could log into pages and they would start to load and then would just stop for over a week and I was LOST without my internet!!! So I am very very happy about that! GRRR @ dodo for not fixing it quickly and just stuffing us around!
OHHHH another thing, ella got her first HAIRCUT!!! She was sooo great and just sat there looking at herself in the mirror, didnt try and get down, didnt cry, didnt wiggle around!! her hair looks so curly now ;)lil cutie that she is ;) Ill be scrapping those pics soon no doubt!! They will fit in well with Shirley's SWTS challenge ;)

Speak to u all soon ;)

Rach xx

The LO's, Round 2 & 3 for SWTS @ Scrap Therapy

More LO's :)

Well this is totally a LO post and a mention to Scrap Therapy... see the link in the side bar!! They are running a comp called "Scrapping with the Stars" and so far I have managed to do all of the challenges before the due date YAY! Go check it out if u enjoy a challenge and like to know more about those who are published over and over again. WELLLLL it seems blogger doesnt want me to upload the LO's yet.. soo Ill be back :)

A bad day...

You know those days where u just want to cry but there is nothing really that there is to cry about? I am having one of those.. I guess it is probably due to the stresses of end of uni semester as well as starting back at work in a few days. I just feel really depressed... I dont get like this very often and I am usually a really happy go lucky person but today has just been different... I feel like if someone even looked at me funny I would break down into a ball of tears...it feels good to be able to come and offload how I am feeling into cyber space.. I am not sure if ppl read this or if its just something that is sitting here taking up some little section on the www, but all the same, it is quite therapuetic to come and just talk.. to myself.. soo here's to hoping that tomorrow is different and I get out of this slump.

Rach xx

Back to work... sooo SOON!

Less than a week till I go back to work part time. After being off for almost 18 months it is making me a little nervous... for many reasons... the first of course being because I will be away from Ella for longer than I have ever been away from her since she was born, my sister will be looking after her and will spoil her rotten but even that worries me a little.. will that make her all bratty when I am with her because Nat will give in? or will Ella be able to recognise her Mummy is not a push over like her Aunty Nat is? I am also worried about the usual stuff, like will i remember what I have to do at work etc or will it be like I am starting all over again. So anyway, next Monday is fast approaching ... just wish the week would slow down a little :)

Melbourne cup day today, I get a little excited about it.. not overly..I place a bet every year, $10 on a horse ;) this year I at least managed to get one that placed, too bad that I bet on a win! HA!

A few things have been happening scrapping wise, I won some prizes from a pink cyber crop at www.scraptherapy.com.au and they were awesome! Received them about a week ago and there is an amazing Reminisce pack and a stamp :) Was really excited to get it hehe, yes small things amuse small minds! So thanks for the people who donated the prizes and thanks to Nat for running the raffle. I also won three prizes for LO's, making $35 in voucher, which was also astonishing. I really thought that I would never get anything out of scrapping other than what it provides me personally, it was a shock to think that other ppl actually like my LO's, this encouraged me to submit some LO's to magazines, but to no avail.

Hmmm what else??? Not much I dont think...christmas is fast approaching and it seems that even though I think I am a little organised IM NOT! Each week passes and it gets closer and closer and nothing is getting done that has to be! Uni is almost finished, there are three presentations and two reports left to do, which should be ok. Uni is fully over by the end of next week which means Ill be a busy beaver this weekend finishing up assignments etc. :)

I am sure by now Ive lost half of you because Ive bored u to death or uve fallen asleep so on that note ;) night night in the land of blogs.

Rach xx

New LO's :)