Well hello

Hope everyone is well, and not freezing to death in pommie land. long time no write so grab yourself a cup of tea, infact grab the whole kettle cos this is going to be a long one!!! and even longer if the comp squishes it all up like last time so appologies in advance if it does.

Today the 3rd of April im still catching up on mid January as well as inputting each day. This thing is neverending!!! Haha this blog may actually be longer than my university dissertation.

But anyway excuse the grammar, the spelling, the days I write only 3 words cos i cant be bothered and the fact its so long but anyway here it is the long awaited blog

7th Jan - Debbie and Rowell due back today so we worked our butts off getting the lawns done, weeded, the strimming done, the house immaculate, took all the xmas rubbish to the tip and gave bernie a bath. they got back about half 4 and then rob and gav came over for tea which was ... NIGHTMARE of all nightmares - KFC!!! yep a massive family feast KFC bucket urrrrrrgh. For 22 whole years i have been avoiding the stuff and now in politeness i had to eat 3 pieces of chicken?!?!? ... well they call it chicken but god knows what pieces of the chickens body there hiding in that batter, eeww and what are all those horrid stringy brown bits bleeeuurgh im still traumatised. at least i can honestly say i was never missing out!!

8th Jan - Gardened all morning and went into Chinchilla in the afternoon to get my ear seen to at the doctors. waited an hour and 15 to get seen and urrrgh i had some horrid smelly fat chinese man wth horrendously disgusting fingers look at my ear and who kept calling me Luuuuwar. anyway after paying 50 dollars for the appointment and 25 for the ear drops :o( set off for home. had shower tea ear drops then went to bed.

9th Jan - Happy Birthday Mum!
Gardened some more, washed Debbie's car again, mowed the lawn at Undulla and took the xmas decorations down booo hooo. Rang mum and then thats all i can remember doing this day.

10th Jan - Happy Birthday Auntie Joyce!
went to Mount Pleasant and strimmed all day. managed to strim a frog by accident well, kind of, i saw him and wondered what would happen, so i went for it! only to find the strimmer spat out the frog into many different pieces and in many different directions. the exact direction, mainly of my face. thank god i didnt have my mouth open!!!

11th jan - Gardened at Gav's house today found two snakes which scared me cos one of them was wrapped round a biggish weed and i grabbed the snake and the weed ewww and yanked it out the ground. i just screamed and ran away for 3 hours and watched pearl harbour. Rachel went home and i had a shower then gav and jake came back and we were just sat playing cards and playing Wii all night.

Saturday 12th jan - went out on the quad this morning chasing cows and checking fences. managed to pat Spot the massive brahman bull again. then just watched Good Will Hunting in the afternoon then Jake, Dylan and his girlfriend emma came over and we were just sat round drinking and chatting etc

Sunday 13th - got up and gavin made a massive fry up enough food for 6 but we were pigs and ate it all. went into Condamine to get some coke and some cigarettes (- for gav, and by coke i mean coca cola MUM) then he dropped me off at home. where rachel was doing her usual - watching tv and eating. went for a nap wrapped up a few pressies and taped up a few parcels then made tea and went to bed.

Mon 14th - today i strimmed like nobody has ever strimmed before!! 6 hours i strimmed that day at Mount Pleasant, Undulla and back here at Yulabilla.

Tue 15th - STrimmed at the Undulla cottage and weeded the beds then we headed to robs house to paint his wardrobe. then at lunchtime rob came in and shouted at us saying he'd asked us to strim the barn and shed areas a week ago and we still hadnt done it. rachel starts an argument with him grrr when the easiest thing to do would have been to say ok yeah sorry we will do it asap. Then when we get home gav tells us that debbie is sick of having us around and in her house and that we never help out etc which made me angry cos we do and why wouldnt she say something to us if things were that bad. got really upset about it cos i hate not being liked and not wanted around. cryed myself to sleep over it. Probably shouldnt have let it get to me so much and i definaltely overthinked it and probably made a bigger deal of it than it was. But nevermind.

Wed 16th - Re-painted robs wardrobe, strimmed the barn and shed areas he wanted us to do yesterday. debbie had rang us at lunchtime to get one of the silversides out of robs freezer have it defrossting in the afternnoon and bring it home for tea as Ali (debbies sister) and her kids were coming over. got halfway home maybe 50 kms away and we realised we had forgotten it oooops. so we raced back grabbed it and were trying to defrost it with the car heater on the way home sufficient enough to look like it had been going all afternnoon.

Thur 17th - swept out the pool shed and cleaned out the cold fridge room, then since it was raining and ali and her kids were all over, Debbie said we could have the day off and go to town or something. So we did!

Fri 18th - vacuumed out our Ute this morning and did some ironing. i actually love ironing how much of a housewife am i becoming hehe. Debbie strangly irons hankies and teatowels which i found a bit odd since they both end up as screwed us when used as they do when you get them out the drier hmmm.

went back to robs to clean the paint off the carpet. then went to Gav's to get away from rachel.


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Wed 23rd - mowed the lawns at Undulla and Mt Pleasant took all day. Then when gav came over for tea there was a big arguement.

he told rachel she was fat and lazy and that she never shuts up - all true! and he just told her she was bossy, loud and if he never saw her again it would be too soon. Rowell was just speechless and laughed. which was maybe inaapropriate but he hadnt seen it coming and was shocked. suppose he was in the worst situation trying to keep the peace. i just sat there kept my mouth shut but i was shaking - just out of fear that Gav would say something that would drop me in it and let her know i had been b****ing to him bout her too.

but she didnt cry she didnt shout back which probably angered gavin more but he left pretty soon after that.

doo doo doo oooohhhhhh what a night - you need to sing that bit!!

Thur 24th - strimmed round all the barns and Rowell's vintage tractors then incinerated the rubbish. which is a relaxing job providing theres nothing flammable in the bags.all we have to do is sit and watch till its all burnt away just so it doesnt start a bush fire. made the packed lunches for the men and took them out to the paddocks. went on a bit of a road trip on the way back visiting Meandarra and Glenmorgan both miles from home, but we just fancied it and couldnt be bothered to come back and work.

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Thursday 31st jan - weeded for most of the morning and then mowed the lawn that rachel couldnt be bothered to do the previous day. 21 days till she goes and im definately counting them down. took the men their lunches and went to mount pleasant in the afternoon, mowed the lawn and round the barns. Rowell came back today brought us a treat!!!! MORE BLOODY KFC.

managed to totally avoid it this time round as i had to go with gavin to pick up his quad and so i had a few pringles and a can of coke at his house for my tea. and by the time we got back it was late so i went straight to bed chickenless.

Friday 1st feb - got up at 5 today as the crop planes were coming and was gunna go watch them for a bit, only they forgot the chemical to spray the crops and had to go back grrrr so i got up obscenly early for nothing.

went with gav today into Dalby to the John Deere yard to collect Sorghum fingers for the front of the combine and then to Yamaha to get the quad bike fixed. got a mcdonalds breakfast while that was getting fixed and then headed home. dropped off the fingers dropped off the quad then i went over to gavs pruned his roses and cleaned his house.

Sat 2nd feb - got up at 8 and gav made me pancakes then we drove back to yulabilla and gav went to work. Rowell then took us out into the paddock to see the two crop spray planes which were killing the sorghum before they harested it, was so cool they were so low and zoomed right over out heads. got some good photos. our job was to just zoom about loads in the Ute kicking up dust on the tracks so the pilots could see which way the wind was going. we then lit a massive pile of wood up too as the smoke could be seen futher, the heat was unbearable on top of the temp outside of 36 degrees felt like i was melting.

came back made all the men lunches rowell took them out saving us the 2 hour round trip. then we went into chinchilla to the cinema to see Elizabeth cos rachel wanted to, and refused to go on her own. was alright nothing amazing and she wouldnt stop jabbering on the way home about how historically inaccurate it was. its a film who cares.

3rd feb Sunday - yet again got up at the crack of dawn hoping this time to get a ride on the crop duster planes only it was too windy and they never came so we just sat about till lunch time, made the lunches and then headed out into the paddock, went on the combine for about an hour then took a trip to the grain depot with eric in the road train. urrrgh thank god we are home now though cos we were covered in diesel and dust and rachel was doing my head in again with her constant chatter about nothing.

4th feb monday - did pretty much nothing today. we cleaned out the kitchen cupboards then as soon as we heard the crop dusters arrive we ran outside and jumped in rowells ute and went to the landing strip. rowell handed us both a plastic carrier bag and said 'just in case' then while the plane was doing his last two spray runs we got ready to fly!! i wsa dead frightened i was going to puke and the man on the ground who does the petrol and the chemical refills was winding us up and was doing nothing to help my fear. was dead excited though too! got in and belted up was crazy being in a plane that small.

matt the pilot was queenslands aerobatics champion for ages so he went crazy we went loopdy loops, swooping up and over the trees, flying metres off the ground, on the side, flying vertically downwards.... was amazing. the g force was awful though felt like my head was going to explode, and at one time the g force downwards was so big i thought the skin on my face was being draggged off. it felt like my bottom eye lids were down round my mouth so i grabbed my face and screamed, only it hadnt moved at all haha.

couldnt stop smiling for ages after, i was on such an adrenaline high. rachel was quite the opposite and went to sit by the toilet as she was feeling really ill. we didnt do anything for the rest of the day pretty much.

5th feb - blitzed the house this morning from top to bottom as it was pouring down and too wet to garden. then in the afternoon rowell said if we didnt fancy working we could watch a film but he was going to choose so we ended up watching a random farming film about a guy who sang and danced in his crops wore feather boas and kept his dying mother in the kitchen. was really interesting but just really really odd. made rowell tea and went to bed

6th feb wed - weeded the garden all morning was dull but its my thinking time and i think lots out here cos thats all there is to do sometimes but anyway before i knew it it was lunch and nap time. rob and gavin came over for lunch and then we all did nothing all afternoon cos it was raining. felt dead guilty though bout not working which doesnt happen often so i cleaned the windows inside and the ones under the veranda roof thingy- took all of about 15 mins but made me feel better. rowell then suddenly packed his case and left for the coast. he was a state when he left, he had his work shorts on, his dress boots and a straw hat was hilarious.

eeeeek and it was officially confirmed by rowell today that duh duh duhhhhh .....the dog has fleas!!!!!!
hes had them a while but silly me not knowing what a flea looks like didnt pay much attention so now its gone from one or two to quite a few, but anyway what is gross about the whole thing is hes been on my bed, on my lap in the car, on the sofa etc and eeeeew just around me loads and it freaks me out that i might have fleas.

7th thursday - yess day off today!! well sort of we have a job to do - to get car brakes fixed. was funny walking into the garage its as if the men hadnt seen females before and the guy who dealt with us started stuttering. took him nearly a minute to say take a seat would you like a tea or coffee hehehe. took 5 and a half long hours to fix but we got a courtesy car, theres not really a lot to do in chinchilla though, theres only 8 -10 shops. finally bought some dental floss though which i have been craving for quite a while and we got some grocery shopping done.

yuk and bought bernie some flea treatment so hope it works cos i dont love him quite so much when hes crawling with beasties just cant bring myself to touch him really

had horrendous dreams thursday night of fleas bighting me only i wake this morning and i have flea bites on my feet and legs so figured it wasnt really a dream and there might be some in my bed.

8th - today we made and iced a cake, then i fed the chickens, watered all the plants and defleaed/defled/uninfested the dog, the house, his bed and my bed. he loved it wasnt quite so fun for us. have been itching all day hope its just like when you talk about nits and you start scratching your head not cos youve got them but just cos your talking bout them.

but anyway thats all ive got to say for now but im going to dribble on quite a bit further so the last thing you remember about this blog is not that i may possibly have fleas but other nicer things.

..... struggling to find a nicer topic to end on....

hmmmmmm

since there is a lack of gossip or exciting info ill just tell you what the plan is for next few months. im staying here working till the 7th of april then gavin is going to take me to brisbane and im going to stay at carrie's appartment for the night then flying out of brisbane at about 10 in the morning ish to Cairns where i will meet up with becky again whoooop cant wait. and then we are staying in a hostel in cairns for roughly a week before travelling down the east coast probably calling off at Fraser Island, Gold Coast, Bondi Beech, Byron Bay and anywhere else we fancy on the way. hopefully ending up in sydney a few day before our flight to fiji on the 1st of may.

aaaaahhhh so i hear you breathing a sigh of relief as that was supposed to be the end but no ....another day dawns and another day to be added to the blog.

9th saturday - got up really early as i thought i heard a cow mooing in distress, so i got up to see what it was mooing at and to see if i could help though god knows what i thought i could possibly do. but anyway there wasnt anything wrong and there wasnt even a cow so dont really know or understand what went on or whether i was actually awake!!!

sat on comp most of the morning chatting on msn and uploading pics and trying to write blog. then we took out the lunches and rachel got bogged - yessss! 2nd time in 10 days thank the lord it wasnt me!!!! only this time we had no radio signal on the two way and were pretty much stranded in the middle of nowhere. so decided best thing to do was to get out and push - they dont call me arm strong for nothing!! but despite my immensly amazing ha upper arm srength it didnt budge. so picked loadsa grass and thought it would make better grip for the tyres .... and again no luck. tried the radio again, tried eric on the truckers channel - no luck so we just sat down to think of what to do, put on some suncream preparing ourselves for a long walk and rob turned up, apparently they could hear us on the radio but we couldnt hear their reply but god we've never been happier. he managed to get it out but in the process covering me head to toe in mud, yep i was standing in the wrong spot and was in deep shock at the amount of flying mud and just couldnt move out of the spray fast enough. the windows of the ute were open too so the whole inside and out is just covered.

took us 6 hours to get the 2 hour journey done so got back and just crashed watched tv and went to bed.

sunday 10th - had to be up at 8 today as rob was coming over to collect us to be part of the Combine harvester convoy. 8am came and went, 12 came and went, 8pm came and went. no pick up and he wasnt answering his phone so ended up waiting around almost the whole day. then he rang and said we'd do it monday! went over to gav's so he could take us over early in the morn 5am we had to be there....

monday 11th - but guess what monday comes and goes and we still havent done it. grrrrr. rained most of today so did inside jobs, ran out of jobs to do by lunchtime so sat and watched the tv. managed to get away with it till half 3, when rowell pulls into the garage. we both screamed switched off the tv crawled on the floor to the hallway so he couldnt see us through the window, rachel managed to crawl out the office door grab a broom and was sweeping when he walked onto the patio and i had grabbed the vacuum and was re-doing the carpet when he walked in the house. Then he got in dumped his bags and said girls come sit down and have a cup of tea. so we didnt do any work that afternoon.

tue 12th - gardened all today. pretty dull and got very wet. im sick of the rain!!
went to bed mega early cos i was shattered.

wed 13th - debbie is coming back today so we have had a mental morning cleaning polishing mopping sweeping and vacuuming everywhere. then we strimmed, and swept the patio and paths and now ive had enough. whoop and its raining so nothing to do now anyway.

thur 14th - Happy Valentines Day, just gardened all day was pretty dull.

fri 15th - spent the whole day at undulla cleaning the house and outbuildings from top to bottom as someone is moving in. urrrgh had to clean the worst toilet i have ever seen in my life worse than any army toilet so bad infact i chose to wee in a bush as i couldnt even bear to squat over it. but i did it and with my bare hands bleuuurgh. came home and crashed as it had been a hard days cleaning.

sat 16th - theres a new couple moving into the Undulla house today. David the bloke is going to be working for rowell hes 21 and his wife is Meagan 23 with Jack there 2 year old son and shes expecting twins so shes huge!!!

went into Dalby today to go shopping, didnt get anything exciting though as rachel was dragging me round the shops she wanted to go in.

sunday 17th - debbie started a bush fire today. she was burning the rubbish and popped over to the pool to check the chlorine and by the time she had got back the fire was huge. we were all out and so apparently she was pannicking loads cos last time it happened she burnt the workers cottage here down. she got a hosepipe and switched on all the sprinklers and stopped it getting any further and managed to get it out. but when me and rachel came back we were like aaaaaaagh what happened here the whole scratty half of the garden - the compost heaps, the hay stacks, the garden rubbish pile (ive been here 4+ months gardening so was pretty high) - all gone.

just glad it wasnt me or rachel that did it.

cant remember what else happened this day but we had obviously been out somewhere!

monday 18th - went to undulla and cleaned the remaining windows, had morning tea with Meagan who had made pikelets and scones for us how sweet, strimmed at robs in the afternoon and did his windows too.

tuesday 19th - strimeed and mowed the undulla cottage lawn cleaned all the windows inside and out took forever. then we just chilled for 3 hours at lunchtime for no particular reason just cos we reckoned we'd worked really hard and deserved it. came back and did a bit gardening till knock off.

wed 20th - god the weeks are flying by i cant believe its nearly end of feb already. strimmed the driveway today, the driveway is over a kilometre long so was a lot of strimming!!! then debbie gave us the afternoon off - so rachel went to the grain depot with eric and i got in the combine for a few loads. was sooooo tired though so came back and had a nap which i havent had for weeks!!

had a massive goodbye bbq with steak and salad etc for rachel - leaving tomorrow!! and then went to bed.

thur 21st - Rachel left to day, debbie took her to brisbane and was off to pick up her mum as well. i dont really know how i feel yet about her leaving kinda glad but bit sad too, just cos im on my own now and ive got to do everything. just spent today doing a bit of hoovering ironing mopping sweeping etc - the usual. nothing to strenuous obviosly as both debbie and rowell were out. went on the combine harvester at lunchtime when i took the lunches out and drove it again, im getting good i reckon. just been swimming and now im gunna go make tea tonight for the men.

fri 22nd - omg debbie just randomly gave me a pair of shoes from Beth and Lou her and Carries shoe shop in Brisbane i was like whhhhaaaaaat??? - a happy whhhaaaaat, and the price label says 160 dollars so god knows why but i was amazed, there really nice leather dressy sandal/flipflops with plaited toe thingy really posh looking but god - i am not worthy lol.

what else hmmmmmm bernie hasnt got fleas any more whooop

sat 23rd - left for the sunshine coast today went to a place called maroochydore. was 43 degrees when we got there at 4 oclock. the hotel was soooo nice 5 star again whooop as debbie had booked it!! we were on the 11th floor of a high rise block overlooking the sea about 20 metres from the beach was amazing went up to Jake and Flic's room and everyone else was already there. loads of pretty blonde mega skinny and tanned girls so i felt well out of place and the blokes were just as bad but nevermind. was Dylan's 18th birthday they were all his mates. went out clubbing on the night and ended up in a strip club. i seemed like the only girl who didnt really want to go, all the others were up for it and wanted to go so anyway i followed like a sheep as i wasnt going to stay outside on my own. urrrrgh was horrible, not just the nakedness just the way all the men were oggling and shoving money in the girls' knickers. went to another club after and jake and gavin managed to get thrown out for smoking inside and then kicking up a massive fuss with the bouncers outside.

so all in all it wasnt a particularly good night so was kinda glad when they were thrown out and we could go home.

sun 24th - got up and went for a walk along the beach and to get some breakfast, gav had his heart set on prawns for beakfast for some strange reason but that was the last thing i wanted. managed to persuade him that theyd be better for lunch or tea. went shopping for shoes and a handbag for the wedding next weekend went in like every single shop and there was nothing managed to get a pair of gold shoes (sounds trashy but there tastefull and i love them) for 8 dollars in the sale (4 pound) BARGAIN and a hanbag to match. was the strangest shopping centre ever you could get pedalos and there was a lake in the middle of the shops. got back and had a nap then we went to the beach which was so nice the water was sooooo warm. but jesus the waves were soooooooo big i was stood waist deep not daring to go in any further due to my fear of fishlike things and this massive wave maybe 3 or 4 feet above my head is metres away. and i didnt know what to do!! i was juggling between floating on the water and hoping the wave would just push me gently to the shore or just holdng my nose and hoping for the best. i chose the second and shut my eyes.

not quite sure what happened next but when i surfaced, bikini still intact, gavin was bent double and crying from laughing at me but hey im still alive and so all is good!

mon 25th - left at 5am so gavin didnt miss to much harvesting but got back was raining so didnt do much at all.

tue - did nothing raining

wed 27th- cleaned gavs house like crazy as rowell had relatives coming over. Charlie Hal and Mike his work mate, there mega rich John Deere share holders who talk nothing but of tractors. then didnt do much after they went swept garage out got bored of it and watched tv, made tea and went to bed.

thur 28th - swept patio then vacuumed debbies car out, mowed lawn and just as i was nearly finished a massive storm came and in 10 seconds had gone from sunny and hot to blowing a gale, rain and grey sky, was wierd and pretty scary. came in and ironed, nothin exciting.

fri 29th - did a few jobs in the morning till bout half 8 then i asked debbie what she wanted me to do and all she said was just chill this morning and get packed so i had the rest of the day off. left for Toowoomba bgout 3, theres a family friends wedding tomorrow and im invited even thought ive never met the couple. Debbie has booked us all in the 5 star motel again whooop with spa and breakfaast delivered to your room etc. they all went to dinner in some malaysian restaurant but me gav and rob got pizza as we couldnt be bothered to get dressed up. watched a film then went to bed.

sat 1st March - up bright and early and headed to the shopping centre gav needed a haircut and a shirt and tie for the wedding. haha when gav came out the hairdresser looked like he had a mullet cos his normal curls had been gunked up with hair conditioning poop so was pretty funny he wasnt amused tho. bought a shirt and tie too.

the wedding was actually in a sheep barn and there was sheep bleating the whole way through. it was the strangest thing. i thought when debbie said it was at the woolshed in Jondaryn she meant maybe a hotel or something called that, but no it was an actual barn. had proper chairs though had visions of sitting on hay bales when we arrived.

was alright i suppose, didnt know anyone apart from the walton family so felt like i was just following them around. Michelle, chris's wife felt the same she knew a few but not really enough to go up and have a full blown conversation so we just sat and chatted cos chris went off left her and was talking machines and cows and farming with the other men - YAWWWWWNNN.

walk back to the hotel was hell. Uphill with heels on that id been wearing all day uurgh was only 800m haha.

sun 2nd - got up and left for home calling in for a mcdonalds breckie on the way, slept most of the way home in the car. was so comfy and warm at one point that i thought i was in bed untill my feet fell of the dashboard and woke me up with a jump. just got back and im just lying around really, jake and flic came over for a bit then gav has gone off to see to the cows and im playing on the internet.

monday 3rd - came back to Yulabilla bout 10 and have just mowed the lawn and strimmed today. debbie and rowell have gone to chinchilla as rowell is deaf at the moment so whoop i can have a break.

tuesday 4th - remade 3 beds, hoovered and mopped the whole house, tested sprinkler system up driveway musta walked bout 6kms getting parts and then turning them on and off etc. was pretty dull day nothing exciting happened. went for a swim had tea went to bed.

wed 5th march- weeded and gardened all morning and it went surprisingly quick. 7 till 10 is normally the period of the day which drags! and it gets hotter and hotter and hotter. whereas after morning tea break theres an hour and a half off for lunch to look forward to and after that the sun gets cooler and everything doesnt seem such an effort. went to Robs house in the afternoon with debbie and we moved furniture tidied his house and then i mowed and strimmed outside. called in on Meagan on the way home to see how she was has a really bad back but her baby hump is huge so not surprising really.

thur 6th - clened the inside and out of my car looks beautiful. then suddenly had the real urge to cry ( not cos the car was beautiful haha ) so i did and did it big style for about 40 mins. dunno why really. had morning tea with debbie and cheered up. then went back to the garage and swept and hosed it out. there was a dried up puddle of oil and when wet became slippy but only found this out when i was on my bum in the wet and oh yes the tears came again and i just sat on the floor where id landed crying some more.

took lunches out for gav and rowell and drove the combine for a while, after lunch i cleaned out the cab of rowells lorry and then hosed down the outside. then i made a banana cake cos debbie told me to!!

Meagan was rushed into hospital tonight with a mega tummy pain and she couldnt hear one of the babies heart beats. so dave rushed away to be with her hope shes ok.

fri 7th march - strimmed the gravellia garden all morning then it got so unbearably hot at bout 11 that i couldnt stand up!! well i could but it was strangely loads cooler sitting down. decided to weed in the shade till lunch as that way i could sit down and not feel bad.

ironed after lunch and strimmed some more wonce the sun had cooled down only the strimmer kept jamming so i got frustrated and quit 40 mins early and gave bernie a long bath to use up the time only he started shivering so i quit that too.

Chris came over bout 5 and i was strongly encouraged to take gav some food and sit on the combine harvester for an hour or two. so who knows what was going on! secretive family business perhaps??? who knows.

Megans tummy pain has gone and babies are both fine- pretty scary though.

sat 8th - got up bout half 10 and havent done much today really read my book for a bit and am going to go swim in a bit try get rid of my horrendus squaddie tan.

aaaaaarghhh huge palm sized spider on my bed tonight, shouted of gavin to come and kill it, only he managed to chase it over my bed and into the corner. grrrr i could have done a better job myself with a shoe. at least then it would have been dead, thats the last time i call on him to get a spider for me

sun 9th - ordered by debbie to go food shopping with gav today haha. if it was up to him it would be pizza, pizza and more pizza. but pizza is good ....just not every night of the week and for two meals a day. So went into Dalby for a few hours then came back and made him pasta and chicken in sauce

monday 10th march - strimmed all morning again!! then this afternoon i helped gav pick up giant rocks to build a crossing in the river near his house then we were stood in the middle of the river throwing them in. gav said i had to be on croc watch so i was there watching the water and freaking out at every sudden movement for about 10 mins. and then he just laughs his head off and says - i was joking you know!! grrrrr.

tuesday 11th - gardened all morning and just started to wash gav's Ute when robert came flying in on this massive tractor with 8 wheels and shouts get in! so i did. dressed like a tramp - workshirt, pink shorts, socks, flipflops etc (yeah socks and flip flops arent usually what i consider a good combination but theres reason for the madness, stops the ants biting my toes.) anyway we went off and i had to escort the combine harvester and the tractors with Rowells Ute with the huge oversize sign and flashy lights. have to open every gate and drive at 20 kmph pretty tiring really but better than gardening or cleaning cars.

wednesday 12th - finished cleaning Gav's Ute its spotless and gleaming think he was impressed well i was, even if he wasnt haha. i threw up today no idea why but only the once and then i felt better.

thursday 13th - weeded and trimmed the bouganvillia tree and have been scratched to bits then i just weeded in the shade cos it was unbearably hot. had a nap at lunch and debbie knocked me off at 4.15 just as i was syking my weary body up for another hour and 15. i cried in the flower bed at about 4 oclock just cos i was so tired and hot and bothered and scratched form the tree and i had a bad back and i needed a drink and the thingy i sit on to weed caved in with the weight of my huge ass and as if by magic rowell appeared from nowhere and gave me a can of coke. dunno whether he saw me crying or what but when i came to put the can in the bin debbie said to knock off. hmm who knows.

yesssss and tomorrow i get the day off but its called work cos i have to take the mower in to Dalby, 3 hours drive away, for service, whoop and i get to go shopping while its happning whoooo yeah!

friday 14th - went to Dalby as planned with the mower, took forever as the car had a max speed of 90kmph with the weight of the mower on. took me probably 5mins to overtake a road train and i was just praying nothing would come the other way as it would take me just as long to get back behind him. i was also driving round the corner and a huge 3 trailered road train (called road trains cos there so long and dont stop) comes roaring round the corner and nearly runs me off the road the whole car shook and i went onto the verge which was quite steep and the mower started rocking eeeek!! anyway dropped it off and headed to the shops!!

bought some new shorts, a dress and some cropped trousers that i didnt need and have no room for but i liked and were in the sale.

went back at 3 having done debbies jobs and posted some parcels to find the mower wasnt ready - come back in an hour.

an hour later went back again and they said it would be ready tuesday grrr as if they wouldnt have been able to tell that at 3!!! had a mcdonalds and drove the 3 hour journey home.

Sat 15th - didnt do much at all today. went into Condamine to get Jake some beers and Gav some cigarettes then came back and just watched tv. oh and put some fish traps out into the lagoon see if anythings in there.

sunday 16th - did some more of not much today. had a nap, read my book, cheked the fish traps - 1 dead turtle and then watched Flyboys which was actually quite good.

Monday 17th - Strimmed all day. dave resigned, well just upped and left really. left rob a note saying he couldnt hack it and never turned up for work. only hed asked debbie a few days early for next weeks wages and so she'd given them money so rowell was fuming!

i can normally tell when rowell is angry cos he storms about, eats in silence, slams the doors so i just avoid him best i can. rob came for tea.

tuesday - strimmed some more got fed up again, washed and swept the patio and gutters.put all the furniture back after lunch then weeded cos i was tired and i got to sit down. burnt my face today so have some pretty good panda eyes going on at the min looks hilarious.

wed 19th - Went to Rob's house and mowed and strimmed at his then Debbie rang and said the mower was ready to be picked up so off i went into Dalby again.

thur 20th - oh crapamungo i broke the mower!!! going over a massive rock ooooops, sat for 20 mins thinking oh my god how am i gunna tell Debbie cos its just got fixed.

Good Friday - did nothing today was good. Just watched films and tv. Went to a rodeo in Roma on the nighttime was really good. Loadsa fun watching cowboys get their heads kicked in by bulls. Was pretty cold though.

Sat 22nd - did nothing again then Flic and Jake came over to Gav's and we were just sat around doing nothing a bit more.

sun 23rd - Jake dragged me out of bed this morning shouting the easter bunny has been. And on the kitchen table was a chocolate bunny and some little choc eggs in a basket. Which was really nice of them.

Went to another rodeo today this time with wild horseys as well as the bulls was really good and the atmosphere was amazing, definitely glad I got to see it.

mon 24th - 2 weeks to go and i cant wait. am at gavs today, cleaned his house for about an hour and a half then i couldnt be bothered, turns out we didnt have to work today anyway.

tuesday 25th - Rowell was in a raging mood today was horrible so i stayed well clear but he left on a last minute flight to Canberra in the afternoon which confused me. Back to John Deere's in Dalby today to take the mower back again since i broke it just after it being fixed oooops. the guy asked what was wrong with it this time and i just said not sure, didnt really want to tell him that id gone over a giant rock and broken the blade thingy in case he rang rowell and told him. panicked they would come to that conclusion anyway after looking at it, but apparently it was down to a belt driving the blades they replaced last time coming off, so they thought it was their fault - whoooop.

had a cofee, got Debbie's groceries and sorted my medicare payment too its getting sent home mum so you can cash it in my bank asap pretty please?!

wed 26th march - apparently Rowell went to Canberra, to Parliament house to do something for Queensland. something about wheat grain something really important for the whole state.

Gardened all day today and cleaned out the hen pens. was pretty disgusting really. very stinky. found a dead hen and a dead pigeon yuk

thur 27th march - weeded for most of the morning then Debbie had me washing rocks for an hour and a half!! then in the afternoon i had by far the most gruesomest job ive done here. strimming gravestones, not just one but 9 graves. At the Undulla house theres a little cemetry bout 800m from the house that the people who lived there before made for all the family. eeeeew and theres even a blank one for whoevers next which freaked me out. urrrrrgh so anyway i had to strim round them and actually pull the weeds out from the part in front of the stone where the bodies are underneath grosssss. and the worst part was i forgot my gardening gloves so i had plants growing in death juices, all over my hands. urrrgh and there was loads of flies around the area which didnt make me feel to good either cos flies live round and land on dead things eeeew and the whole experience was horrific but i tried to think of nice things, then duh duh duuuuuuh i found a pile of old brown bones in the long grass so i freaked out again dropped the strimmer and ran away. thought as i was running maybe shouldnt have dropped the strimmer!!! i would have to go back. And so i did and the pile of bones was only a dead cactus hahaha.

was mowing the lawn too and i started thinking, almost playing a game of where id hide a dead body. Robert had been joking a few days earlier that Dave and Meagan had killed there son and that's why they had ran away and quit his job before the body started to smell etc and i got thinking as you do in the middle of knowhere on your own, hmmmm what if they did. i found 12 places they could have hidden his body while i was on the mower and disturbingly went and looked in 7 of these places after finishing the lawn just to check, obviously nothing, but urrrrgh.

as if by magic too i found a document about david (well magic as in i found it in the bin, but i wasnt being a tramp scratting through the bin just happened to notice it. It was dead body hiding place number 6 if you must know) anyway it had loadsa personal details on and he wasnt even married, and rowell has found out since he left, that Meagan wasnt even pregnant!!! so jesus she musta been one fat heffer to be saying she was expecting twins!! so yeah lots of funny stuff going on with those two.

friday 28th - Debbie and Rowell have gone to a funeral today uuuuurgh more death! so im on the comp catching up on this bloody thing yet again. it just never ends. i promice it will soon though.

Went over robs to mow his lawn only he'd just cleaned out his water tanks so the garden was a bog, met the new bloke Matt, though he just grunted at me. Went over to Undulla to finish the strimming, did 15 mins of the bits you can see from the driveway so if Debbie and Rowell drives past it looks done and then came home.

flic jake and Guts came round to gavs and it was basically a night of lets criticise and take the piss out of the english - the cricket, the weather, the rugby, the football, the pubs, the drinks, the cigarettes. i was just like urrrgh whatever. GOd and it was 7 degrees tonight bloody freezing.

Sat - didnt do much today at all, went into Miles with Gav and Guts to get a chinese, ate the chinese watched some tv then went to bed.

Sunday- again havent done much, watched tv ate chinese for breakfast yuk and am again writing this blog.

Monday 31st - weeded, chopped, pruned, etc a massive garden bed all morning then went over to Rob's and mowed his lawn. Was an uneventful day and hmmm that's all.

Tuesday 1st April - Weeded last ever garden bed this morning Haileylooia ß-- yes yes I know this is spelt wrong but the longer im thinking about it the worse the spelling is becoming. Ironed for an hour then took gav lunch. Strimmed round the Mount Pleasant work sheds and silo tanks. Oh and overnight I had apparently managed to siphon? (empty out) his whole 35 000 litre water tank - the one his house runs off, into the garden as I had looped the hosepipe round the stairs handrail to mow the lawn while it was still in the tank oooops. Had my farewell meal tonight as everyone is here there and everywhere the next few days. Rob and Gav came over and we had steak on the BBQ.

Wed 2nd - Last day of work and woah what a day. Spent the whole day doing cattle work over at Alongamor. Rounding up the cows on quads that took all morning, then into the yards to check for tags and to count.

I had to round up a mob of 170 on my own which i thought id done but when they came back to be counted uh oh 14 short. Decided to wait until the other 2 mobs had been brought in to see if they'd appeared in those. But no luck. Then Gav asked if id checked the whole field and I said I hadn't seen any more cows so no, not really, and so he got on his quad in such a grump and said "God, your such a girl" - ha this guy wins top prize for stating the obvious!!

Anyway turns out the 14 cows were in the paddock he had moved them from the other day so wasn't my fault at all whoop!!

Tried to jump on Spot the bull today, not sure why looking back but never mind. Managed to get one leg over then he just legged it and i was left in a heap in the dirt. Probably for the best!

Another bull kicked out at me today too, it missed my tummy by millimeters i felt its hoof touch the fabric of my shirt and I thought I was about to cave in with the force of it. The funniest thing was, I cried as I was so relieved i hadn't been hit. haha.

Was a really good day but i was exhausted, covered in poo and scruffy by the end. Didn't get finished till 7pm but there was an amazing sunset, probably one of the best ive seen here and it just felt like a good day to end on!

thur 3rd - wooooohoooo no more work, no more work!!!!!!!!!