A.W.O.L

AWOL ? What's that I hear you asking....

Absent With Out Leave

It's a army thing, but it sums up my weekend in a way, Friday Wife and I were busying with Christmas shopping and getting ready to go to a Christmas party, the party was Saturday night. It was also in another town about 1 hour drive north of our town, we had to take food and a present, so as I said Friday was racing around getting the present and cooking the food, Saturday we hit the road about 12 noon, we arrived at the other town around 1:15pm checked into the motel we had booked and then went to the party site to see if we could help set up, but it was all done by the time we got there.

So back to the hotel, we made use of the extra time we had, we tried out the spa bath! ;) very relaxing it was! Then dressed up in my case and glamoured up in the wife's case, boy did she look GREAT! I was secretly smiling away to myself thinking how lucky I am to have a great looking wife, wife is also fun and very smart, I couldn't wish for or want more in my wife then I have! out to the party site and we had fun and caught up with friends, I got up and danced a little, but I'm not much of a dancer and also my shoes were giving me blisters on my heals, wife had a ball dancing with her friends.

Next day we did a road trip, took the LONG way home, did a extra 250km's we didn't need to, but we had fun and saw same more of this great county along the way, we went to a place that both of us had never been to before. The only down side was the power steering in the car failed making it very very hard to steer, the good news was it was only 500 meters from home, could have happened anytime in the day and could have been over 300km from home, so I guess we were really lucky that it failed so close to home!

Anyhow I have taken it in to a repair shop today and I already have a quote for the repair... $1300! FAR OUT! I mean the car only cost me $4000 3 years ago, so it's over 1/4 the cost of the car! but I need the car to get to work because there is no public transport at all..... never mind it's life I guess, you win some, you lose some....

Specking of which.... the weight isn't good, 3 days of the diet and not much in the way of walking has put the weight up to 127.15kg :( it's bad, but not as bad as I was thinking it would be!

Jeff