-several kilos of apricots in the freezer

-I have lovely friends

-I am likely to buy a car today if no one else gets there first. sensible or not,  eek. though even papa seems to think it is a reasonable thing.

-I REALLY liked Sherlock Holmes! May enthuse more later!

-must collect sewing stuff for the new craft hall

-so tired. 
-can't sleep, still jet lagged.
-tiring brain further by furiously trying to decide what to do about a new car. There might just be an element of avoidance in this. I should be spending the time working on what jobs to apply for etc
-but I went and had fun test driving things at maz da today. The 2 is off the menu. The 3 might be on but I'm not convinced. It drives nicely but it's  big and aggressive looking. The salesman was lovely though- in a platonic, useful and straight forward sort of way.
-Sat I think I want to visit F ord. I may choose to have more focus in my life.

So I'll try again for some sleep and wish you all a fabulous NYE and an even better 2010 when it arrives in a little over 24hrs.  I have to work but hopefully only until early arvo.

I look forward to all the new year resolution posts. Must give some more thought to mine.

-after 2hrs of solid effort, my beloved car is clean and polished. Well on the outside. The sad part is that if I had done this a few times over the last few years, the layer of shine would be over nice smooth duco and not over lumps and bumps of peeling paint. Well, can't say I wasn't warned. Papa used to always pester me to polish it. However, the recent hot weather seems to have been the last straw. The paint has only lifted since then.  Ah well. I either keep a spotty, peeling car or I don't.  Tomorrow he goes for a service, I shall ask the mechanic's view on his longevity. Next weekend I will clean the inside whether I am keeping him or not.



-the jasmine has had another go at invading the house. Sneakily wound around the table leg. This time I put zero on the cut ends. See if that stops it!


-I still don't have screen doors. The installer called again this morning- he is going to the big service today. I am selfishly disappointed but there is no way I would give him additional grief over it.

figured out this morning why the car has been running a bit poorly. I have been meaning to check the oil for ages. So, this morning I finally pulled my dipstick out and lo - 4mm oil visible. Most of a bottle of oil later and broom is running much smoother. Will I ever learn to check more often? Even when I know broom uses oil, nearly 10 yrs, yeh, no excuses, I know she uses oil. Will I blow up the engine instead? only time will tell.