Wanted: New Family

Okay... let me preface this by saying ... I LOVE MY FAMILY. (warts and all)

But seriously they make me wonder sometimes...

As some may know Brisbane has been 'Rained' out this week. Last night my 'home town' got a flogging (or is that flooding?).

In my (old) email box tonight, I found an email from my Dad, that had been forwarded to him by my brother (who was sent it from someone named Sue)... a notice that the local shopping centre would be closing at three today because of fears of the undergroud carpark.

Hm I thought - interesting, but doesn't affect me at all. So it went in the trash can.

Then I read the other email my Dad had sent - some random chain mail feel good dribble. (Thinking my mum was behind that one!)

So ... next when I moved onto my emails from the lovely Miz Megan .. and found photos of the floods in Ipswich. I was impressed and thinking I should maybe forward them onto my family.. but as Megan is a family friend, I checked the forwarding info to see if she had already sent them the images...

Guess what I found out - Megan hadn't sent them to my family.. instead my family had sent them to her!!

The emails in question had come for the mystery person Sue again. Sue sent the three email's of photos to my darling brother, who then in turn sent them to my darling sister and my darling parents.... it was my sister who then sent them onto Megan... who sent them to me!!

Glad to see where I sit in the family email chain!!! I'm always telling them I only find out things second hand or months later..... now I have it in email!!

So in the spirt of my familys quirks.

I'll tell you all first (might mention it in a few months to the smelly ones 0r wait until Stacy tells them second hand *giggles*)

... I'M GOING TO MELBOURNE!!!!!! :) I have booked in my first lot of holidays at work!! (yeap holidays already!) First week in Febuary. Stacy and I are jetting off to Melbourne for a few days. Jetstar was having a sale that was to good to refuse ($200 for both of us return!). It will be Stacy's first trip in a plane! As well as both first trip to Melbourne! Can't wait.

No more fish spending money now - have to save up for our trip.

Ohh and also while I'm here, some news that hasn't made it to blog... all happened last friday...

1. Stacy got a job starting mid Febuary, he was VERY lucky and managed to score a much sort after graduate position with the Australian Tax Office!!! My boy's going to be a Tax Man hehe. I'm so very excited and happy for him. I hope he enjoys it. Money will be nice, and a government job will be nice as well. Lucky boy.

2. I finished up probation at work and get this... THEY ACTUALLY WANT TO KEEP ME! (yeah they must be crazy huh!). I even have a new role. I get to take care of the photography side of things - no not takeing the photos but organising the 'what has to be shoot for the next cateloug" / "how should the room setting be set up" "what goes with what" etc etc... more a 'director' role then anything else. So yeap, I'm now the director of photography at work :D

Can't say I'm overly disapointed about that at all..... They figured it was more my 'strong' point given my interest in photography etc. My 'interior designer' bug also likes to raise it's head as well when let lose in the photography studio ... There is already one painting that was often used, that has been hidden up the back of the pile never to be used again!!

I have my first full on shoot next week. I'm a little nervous about it, but hope it will all go well!

Which reminds me - I should get to bed as I have so much work to do tomorrow - photography list to finalise as well as work on catelouge that needs to be done before I can run off to the work christmas party!!