A bleep

Apologies for half-baked posts of late. The truth is, I am running into the ground here and I am going on leave for two weeks on Saturday. I haven’t had a break since Christmas, so it is time, though it’s not quite the holiday I had in mind. I was thinking to myself not so long ago that I haven’t done anything other than visit family in recent years and perhaps I needed a holiday where I go to sit by the beach or in a cabin in the hills, where I could just read books, play guitar, do crochet …

Then my younger sister rang me.

Her husband has gone away for a spell in the military and she wondered if I would like to come and stay and help for a while with their three little kids. So, that is what I am doing. What’s more, we are going on a road trip! She has this idea (which, just quietly, I think is a bit crazy, but I am going along for the ride, literally, anyway) of driving, with the kids, from Queensland down to here, then she will continue on out to Bathurst to visit a friend. Why do I feel like my idea of what a road trip with three little kids could be like is more realistic than their mother’s? We shall see how it goes.

It will be great to spend some time with them. (Though I am little disappointed that I doubt there will be book reading happening and I can’t take my guitar to practice, but I do have some time off back in Sydney (all going according to plan on the road) at the end of this adventure to recover.)

I have lots of work to finish between now and tomorrow though, and tomorrow is my manager’s last day at work before she goes on maternity leave, so all is in upheaval. She has been my manager ever since I’ve been here, and she’s a Christian who is great to work with and is a large part of the reason why I have stayed here so long myself, so it’s a shame to see her go. But it is very exciting for her. She met someone and got married later in her thirties, and now she is off to have twins (I’m a wee bit jealous really – just in a “wouldn’t that be nice” sort of way). As a result there’s been lunches and morning teas and meetings …

So, that is life right now and I might not post for the next couple of weeks.

I’ll leave you with my latest guitar song, that I am enjoying playing. The new guitar teacher has good taste (and obviously by that I mean that it lines up some with mine) and he chooses some things and I choose some (or I make suggestions and he sees if it’s doable and/or has teaching merit) and it’s interesting. He left out the coda in this one though, because it’s not nice, and I don’t think so either.