There's no bear in there...

We have always called Kirby, our Kirby Bear. This is her room, all cleaned out...and unlike PlaySchool... there is no bear in there!

We'll move a bed in here shortly so she has a bed when she comes home for holidays.

Heh, heh. One less room to keep clean...Yay!

- Joolz

City girl settles in.....

Kirby now has a city address. We headed to Adelaide yesterday and set up her room in the townhouse she will share with 3 others. I am really pleased with the furniture we bought - it all fitted in really well.
The bed takes up nearly the entire room but it is her bed from home so she will be comfy. She had picked out a new 'cuppacino' coloured doona cover but when we opened it - it was a sheet set! Aaagh! So at the moment she doesn't have a cover.

She has everything she needs - TV, DVD, wireless internet!

She had her first day of O week sessions today. I dropped her off outside the Uni, a quick kiss on the cheek and 'love you babe, have a good day' and she was off. Then I headed off to pick a car up across town before heading back home (400kms) by myself. But I did not shed a tear. I have confidence in her that she will do just fine. She tackled the buses this afternoon - said she looked like a country bumpkin standing at the bus stop with timetable in hand, secretly hoping she was hopping on the right bus to Melbourne St and not Glenelg (total opposite direction). She got it right! She also cooked dinner for herself tonight! You go girl! I hope she did the dishes...?

We'll see her in month when we go to Adelaide for the Clipsal 500 so until then we will text, MSN and Facebook. Ah, don't you love technology?

Cheers - Joolz

Moving out...

On the back of this ute is a student desk, bookshelves, bedside table, dressing table with mirror, tv trolley, queensize bed frame and mattress and numerous sundries packed in tight. 'A' is known for his good packing abilities.

Yesterday was spent painting some of the furniture - I was really happy with how the TV trolley turned out - we used a silver hammered metal finish (like a filing cabinet) spray paint and it transformed the wooden mdf cupboard into a metal one. Dismanted K18's bedroom, tossing out junk accumulated in drawers and cupboards (how many sparkly lipglosses can one girl have!)
I washed new blankets, towels, doona cover, sheets and pillowcases.

'A' and K18 head to Adelaide tomorrow to move all this lot then I will take her back on Monday next week to set up the room properly and then **sobs** say goodbye. I want to check out the main shopping area near her and see where she can shop for food/meals and perhaps catch the bus she will use and see how long that takes to get to the Uni. Public transport is bit new to us as we don't have a bus service in our small town. We still get nervous catching trams and buses in Melbourne (what if you end up in WhoopWhoop?).

Another busy week ahead, working and still sorting stuff. I hope the weather stays coolish - the mornings are starting to take on Autumn - dew on the cars is a good sign.

Cheers for now, Joolz

Furniture hunting...

K18 will move to Adelaide on 22nd February to start life as a Uni student. She is doing a Bachelor of Management (Marketing) over 3 years. We have secured a great room in a shared townhouse, very close to the city centre. She will share with a guy from our home town and his girlfriend and another guy. They are a bit older than her but I think she will get on okay with them. They will be coming and going all the time so they shouldn't be under each others feet too much.

Yesterday, we went hunting for bedroom furniture. We picked up a white melamine dressing table with a big square mirror (a neccessity!), a white desk with book shelves attached, a white bedside table and a little cupboard on wheels for her TV stand. We got all this for $240 and it's in really good nick. She will take her queen sized bed from home so she will have that comfort.

It will be quite exciting decorating her room - she has picked out some fabric to cover some art canvases and her large pin-up board - she can pin photos to them and display jewellery/trinkets etc. These fabrics compliment her new quilt cover which is a dark coffee colour and she has a watermelon pink chenille throw rug to brighten it up. I'll post photos when we cover the canvases.

It's much cooler here today, still warm and muggy but not 40C thank goodness. I'm hoping for a quiet weekend of pottering.

Have a nice weekend - Cheers from Joolz