Phew I made it

Finally I have finished the uni year with hopefully a good result. For having missed many weeks of lessons and having unintelligable lecterers I think I have done well.

Ok, quick background...I've been slaving away at my uni degree for 13 years now and hopefully I will be able to complete it in my 14th. Having started straight out of school I got disenfranchised with the whole process, seeing people pass by cramming before exams, coming out with degree without any understanding of the material.

But now I'm back with a vengance, trying to finish my degree before the kids come along. Trying to justify this huge task by nothing more than a sense of acomplishment. Big call if you ask me.

It would be different if I'd been promised more money at work from having completed a degree but I know that' s not going to happen. I got this far without it, why would having one make a difference? And it's not like the knowledge I'm learning is that useful to what I do, yet at some level I feel better for having known it.

No, to be honest my real reason is for my kids. I want to be able to say to them that it was worth it. Going through the process is almost as important as the stuff you supposedly learn. I want to be able to face my kids down the track and show them my degree (if such things are still relavent) and encourage them to do the same. I don't want them to be academically lazy like I was. Taking the easy way out might be well easy but it takes much longer to get where you're going. I'm only finally getting somewhere where I wanted to be and I've only been at it 8 years.

Sigh. That's my rant for this week!

See you all next week.

Finally

For those of you on the edge of your seats...
My Kitchen is finally being completed tomorrow. Mind you this ins't the end as they still haven't sorted out the range hood, but for the most part there will be a complete kitchen that we can use. Having a kitchen that was missing a kitchen sink is like having no kitchen at all!

It will be so good to finally pack everything back into the kitchen again and start using it!

I'm so happy I've been humming. Now ain't that wierd!

My cutie pie

Isn't she beautiful? What more could a man want than a beautiful bride who can make cute faces!!

For those that don't know, I was recently married ( I think I might have blogged about it) and this was one of the photos from the day. It's amazing how quickly we get used to the concept of being married yet long for it for so long. You would think we wouldn't be able to get over ourselves once over the threshold but yet here I am calmly talking about the most fantastic day in my life as though it was a thing I do every other weekend!

Yet on remembering, it is a really fantastic thing and I'm so glad I did it. It's such a comfortable thing to have a friend always on hand, someone to hang with, talk with and just you know be with all the time.

Well, I should stop here before I get too mushy. Isn't good for the audience I hear.

Later. 

Almost there....broom

I think I must be in the running for the longest running car repair. Just rang the shop where my other car is housed awaiting repairs. I can't recall exactly but I believe it's been over a year that it has been there. So, having spoken to him I asked what the status was and was told that it would be early next year that he would be able to get to it. I guess it's a low priority job for him!!

On the upside, I was told that it's still fully functional and working fine. And he always keeps it inside when the shop is closed so I guess that's something. It's still works and it's not weathering away.

Still, I would like to get it back onto my turf...clean her up and look after it again...it's been a bit of a curse this car having only really been on the road a couple of years in the last 7!

Oh well, cars are the bain of our modern lives. We couldn't function without them yet they cause us untold grief. All this before considering cars we might have a soft spot for.

Never fear, I will keep you all posted for the eventual return of my car!