Saturday, Sunday, some knitting, some relaxing, some stress

Blue Mountains trip – no pictures except this chocolate mould at the Paragon Cafe. Unfortunately there were no hare chocolates on sale.

The yarn shop was lovely, the owner was gorgeous, and the Tofu, Lettuce and Tomato sandwich from Niche Nosh down the road was superb. Worth the trip on its own. Yum!

Since I’ll be in NZ for the election, I took the opportunity to vote in Katoomba. We ran into Lee Rhiannnon, and I introduced the knitters to her. I was impressed by the voting system, the officials had a palm with the electoral roll on it and they were able to check my enrolment and give me the right voting card. Unfortunately, I made a mistake with my vote. In the upper house, I marked 1 above the line, knowing that my preferences would be distributed. I assumed that the system worked the same way in the in the lower house, but not so. Apparenlty, you have to mark every box in the lower house for your preferences to be distibuted (in the NSW state election that is). If you don’t number each box, and your first choice doesn’t get in (like mine won’t), then your vote expires. Bah.

We arrived late at the meeting, and missed all the “business” part of the meeting, but as soon as I walked in, Kate handed me a small envelope with the words “Limited Edition” printed on the front. Inside was something so intensely amazingly thoughtful and cute, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Pictures to come – and words can’t describe….

We had dinner with my friends Jane and Jim. Jane is from Brazil, and despite being here for over ten years, she is still waiting for an opportunity to become a citizen. She would have been eligible in April (it took her AGES to get permanent residency – I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that English isn’t her first language?), but last month the rules changed and now she won’t be eligible for another two years. Poop.

I’ve spent far too much time this weekend doing a brochure for next weeks NZ trip (which has to be at the printers in NZ by 9am tomorrow), and I’ve been turning myself inside out with stress. Not much fun to be around on sunday. I even snapped at someone just for suggesting that shooting rabbits was a good idea. Imagine!

Had dinner with the parents at Adam & Sarah’s today. Saw TBA, who is doing brilliantly.

And today I found out that I can get extra bits for the Knit Picks Options from here. Hooray!