Black Knee High Boots

I often describe myself as a summer lover, and I am.  I do love summer.  I love havaianas and swimming and sunny days, but I have to say that lately I have been really hating it.  And it occurred to me today that it is not just because I am pregnant, but also because I love jeans and boots more than any other items of apparel in the world!  And when it is a thousand degrees, jeans and boots do not work very well.

Today I bought a fantastic pair of knee high boots.  It certainly wasn't boot buying weather (it's been 33C today) but I was compelled to do it.  They were boots.  Black.  And knee high.  Irresistible really.  Yet I am wondering now just how long it will be before I can actually wear them!  Nevermind.  I am moving to Victoria .. will probably be able to wear them endlessly!!

Too Hot, Too Pregnant

It is far too hot to be pregnant.  Most people around Perth at the moment are complaining about the heat (it is currently 41C ... farking HOT) and they're not about to give birth to a baby the size of an elephant.  I had to go to the bank to do a simple transfer of money today and I waited til I had a babysitter at home, then went out on my own in the heat to the bank.  When I got there, the bastards told me that the transfer I wanted to do had to be done before 2PM (it was 3.30)!  I said, so there is no way I can do this transfer before Monday?  Oh yes, she said ... if you come back tomorrow before 2PM.  I mean seriously!!  How can they not do the transfer NOW and send it or whatever tomorrow??  Are we not in the age of electronics??  So angry!  So damn hot and too farking pregnant!

OKAY .. that's my rant, and I do feel better now :)

Onto more exciting things.  On Monday we take possession of our new house.  How absolutely exciting!  The only downer is that it is in Victoria and I am in WA.  Which means that I have to have someone else collect my keys for me and walk around my new house without me there.  Bummer.  Oh well, hopefully the renovations we do won't take too long to be completed and we can move in .. and start a totally different life!!  Scary.

We plan to move mid year, which means winter.  We will be moving from the warm climes of Perth to the freezing cold of central Victoria ... so I am sure I will be complaining about that when the time comes!  But right now I can promise you, I would give a LOT to be experiencing a big chill!  

Also is fantastically apparent that Germany does NOT experience the Summers that Perth does!  This is evident in the R32's air conditioning.  Seriously .. not efficient enough for here!  Although, again, I am sure come winter I will be very appreciative of the HEATED seats!!  Meanwhile the Toyota Prado we have (yes, my 'family' car) is obviously manufactured in a hot climate, as it's air conditioning will freeze you in a matter of seconds!  Deluxe!

Ah the weather.  It is so true that you could spend hours discussing it!!

Also today, the girls in my mums group starting placing bets on date, weight and sex of the new bub, Smirnoff.  Such a laugh!  So far there is someone who has correctly identified both the sex AND the date ... the weight of course will remain to be seen.  I have informed the punters that the prize is a period of no less than 4 hours straight babysitting all THREE of my children!!  Strangely, no one is keen to win the competition .........

Okay, I have used far too many big words for my hot baby-placenta brain to cope with!  Til next time .... :D 

It's time!

Oh man, I cannot stop looking at the Cleo Bachelors of the Year!  I mean, I know I am a perve .. self confessed!  I LOVE to look, but for some reason some of these guys are just too hot!  And I keep looking at the BAD boys ... the ones with smirks on their faces (I have been told I smirk a lot, maybe that's why).  I have to blame the hormones in my body this time.  I mean, I have also been cleaning.  I know, CLEANING.  Freaky.  Time to have a baby I think.

Massive life change ahead!!

So a lot of changes are happening for me in the next five or six weeks.  Let's see .. in just over a week we settle on our new house!!  Unfortunately we won't be there when this exciting event happens as the house is interstate and we will be too busy here because in just over TWO weeks Smirnoff will magically appear (I know this because I am having a caesarian)!  Then about 3 weeks after Smirnoff enters the world, Hubby will be unemployed as we will have (fingers crossed of course) sold our businesses!!  Talk about a lot of change in a very short period!  And THEN .. we start renovating the new house ready for us to move into hopefully by mid year!  My brain actually hurts when I think of all the things I have to do by then, let alone that I have to do them with THREE kids under FOUR hanging around.  I am going to be very preoccupied methinks :D

Anyway, exciting times ahead .. can't wait to get back to the country and have space to run around.  Can't wait to look at the stars every night and see them shining brightly.  Can't wait to be in the clean air.  Can't wait to get the kids a puppy .. I don't think I have ever looked forward to something this much. 

Better!

Okay, so last night I didn't go to sleep until after midnight.  Which surprised me because even though I am practically always uncomfortable at the moment, I still generally manage to fall asleep straight away!  Anyway, my point is, that I only had 6 hours sleep (I usually have about 7.5) and this morning I have woken up feeling like a new person and entirely un-pregnant!!  Mind you, I did break one of my 'green' rules and had a longer than normal shower.  And by longer, I mean like 11 minutes LONGER than usual.  But it was pure heaven to finally be having a hot shower after months of ice cold ones.  Also, Smirnoff will be a Pisces so I thought I would indulge the bub in a little water on belly action!  So, so far I am off to a good start to my day!  It is 8.20am, and I have a fair bit to do today which will end with not only the excitement of picking up the NEW CAR .. *GRIN* .. but also with our usual Friday night on Cott beach for dinner .. complete with good looking waiters!! 

36 weeks and counting ...

Well, I wanted to add these pictures for my own reference for the future.  I just took these.  I am 36 and a bit weeks pregnant.  In around 3 weeks time I will have a new baby.  I cannot imagine where another 3 weeks growth is gonna go, but there's not much I can do about it!!

I don't look like I'm even pregnant at all until I stand up!!  I will say this though, a guy (granted he was very young) asked me yesterday if I was 'expecting' .. I told him that I had just eaten a rather large lunch!!

She who must be obeyed wins (as usual)

Two things happened yesterday that I wanted to share with you here.  One is making me really angry and I am not entirely sure I can talk about it right now.  Being 36 weeks pregnant is not a good time to voluntarily contribute to raising my blood pressure!  The other is that we FINALLY bought a new car!  Yes, after roughly 6 weeks of test driving nearly every make and model known to man (OK so I exaggerate a little) we finally settled and agreed on a car and bought one.  We pick it up tomorrow night!  Pretty excited about that.  We bought a car totally different to any we had driven, which came as quite a shock to us both.  Hubby wanted performance, I wanted European.  The car that came the closest to that was the new Mercedes C Class (Wheels Car of the Year) but at around $125K (!!!) we were finding it VERY difficult to justify, hence why we stalled for so long.  The other car we liked was the HSV GTS at around $85K, but the thought of dropping $100 of fuel into it every week was paining hubby quite significantly.  So in the previous week, Hubby had been researching the new VW Passat R36 (not yet released) so we decided to visit Volkswagen and check out a Passat to get a 'feel' for it.  Whilst there, Hubby pointed out the Golf R32.  "Honey, it's a hatch" I said.  "And you know that I will forever have to hang shit on you if you buy a hatch.."  But I liked it, I liked it a lot .. it was quite a gorgeous little car.  Anyway, we drove the Passat and I know it wasn't the R36 but it was definately lacking something.  It reminded me of the Audi A4 .. kinda like an old person's car (no disrespect of course .. hehe).  Then we took out the R32. 

The first thing of note was the sound it made.  A real grunt, a rally sound.  It was fantastic!  The model we drove also had DSG transmission complete with paddles for gear changing on the steering wheel!  We took the car into an estate and hubby opened her up.  It was, in a word, sweet!  The acceleration was awesome!  The feel of the car was fantastic!  The sound was pure magic!  All from the tiniest car we had driven!!  We took the car back to the showroom and got out to speak to the dealer.  Before we could say anything he said "you understand that because this is a sports car there is a 6 month wait for one."  SIX MONTHS?!?!  Excuse me but you've got to be fucking joking!!  Mercedes could HAND BUILD a car in less than four months!  Six months my ass!  We'll be off then ...

I was disappointed.  Most fun car we had driven and I could see us tearing up the dirt road to our new house in it (make good friends with our new neighbours ...).  But six months .. no way were we waiting six months.

Then I remembered another VW dealer about 15 minutes drive away.  "Let's check them out", I said.  "See if they have a car in stock and if it REALLY does take six months to get one."

We arrived.  We talked to the salespeople.  It was obvious immediately that they knew a helluva lot more than the last place we were at.  "Do you have R32's in stock?" we asked.  "We do." 

So after more talk on the car, a more thorough run down of the features, and more insane grinning from my hubby (who was imagining the fun he was gonna have in the car) he said to our guy .. "Can I have this one?"  .... and that is what happened ... we will be in possesion of our gorgeous deep blue, dark tinted, specced out R32 tomorrow night.  And I am driving it home. 

PS On another note, the R32 was also the cheapest car we drove!  Never before have I chosen the cheapest option.  I mean that .. never.  And it has everything we wanted on a car ... under $70K.  Ah, happy days ahead :D