Gah. I'm still here.

We have no Internet at home yet, so I'm writing a quick update from my parents place. I feel as though all I've done in the past two weeks is MOVE. We're pretty much settled in now though, with foxtel safely installed (as Jo said - 'What's the point of having a TV without foxtel?' Elitist, but true, if only for the Lifestyle channel, which i love.) Hopefully the Internet will be back soon too, next week, fingers crossed.



Since we've been busy little moving bees, we really haven't done all that much else, which has actually been refreshing. I've powered through so many good books - I'm going to tell you about two crackers in particular though.




Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin, is the set post-war, in the 50s. It starts off in a small Irish town, where we are introduced to our heroine, Eilis. Like many, she can't find decent work in her small town, the only place she knows. When the offer of a job comes up in America, a million miles away, she knows she has to go. She sets sail for Brooklyn, New York City, and she slowly starts to build a new life. But tragedy strikes back home, and she is forced to return and make some tough decisions. This is a quiet, understated, but beautifully written book, which i really enjoyed. It had an old fashioned quality to it, and even though there's this undercurrent of sadness the whole way through, i was pretty well hooked to the end. I think i read it in like, 4 days.




The second book will appeal to more people i think. Its called One Day, by David Nicholls. I loved this book so much i don't even know where to begin. With the premise, i suppose, which is this: a boy and a girl share a moment, one day, at the end of their time at university. Each chapter of the book follows where they are on the same day, every year, for twenty years. Do they still know each other? Are they friends? Will they ever be anything more? You are seriously rooting for them from the beginning, and i couldn't wait to see, with each passing chapter, where they'd be the next year, and the next. It was such an emotional book, funny and sad, and the great thing is that so much of it leaves you guessing - you're never quite sure what happened from one year to the next, except for the hints you get through the chapters. There were some moments where i was actually holding my breath, thinking ah! Are they about to get together? Is it about to happen? And then no, and you're racing through to the next chapter, the next year, to see if they've figured it out yet. The ending - GAH. I won't say more. But GAH! Seriously. And don't bother skipping ahead - the last few pages won't give away a single thing. Anyway. READ THIS BOOK! It's such an easy read, and so worth it.




OK, that's my book club over for now. I've sort of run out of stuff to read at the moment, so I'm re-reading Eat, Pray, Love, cause i really did enjoy it the first time around.




Wedding news - not much, except that we've booked out honeymoon! We're going to Tahiti for 10 nights, 8 of which are in an over-water bungalow, thank you very much - so romantic, and perfect for relaxing after the wedding is all over. Plus 5 nights in New Zealand, the North Island, because we haven't seen all that much of it. We'll have a night in Auckland, then 2 nights in the Bay of Islands and 2 nights on the Coromandel Peninsula. Cannot wait. We've also all but locked in the video peeps. And we get some concepts back this coming Thursday for our invitations - did i tell you, we've decided on a great little up and coming business called Zed and Bee to do them for us. Its run by two very creative ladies who i think will really try and capture our personalities in the stationary we have. They seemed very enthusiastic at our meeting with them, and we've given them a whole heap of information about 'us', so i think they'll do something lovely and personal, and fun too.




June is going to be the busiest month, starting from tomorrow - we are babysitting Jack most of the day, so we'll see how that goes, especially in this rainy weather. Tomorrow night, a party at our place to celebrate not just Jo's birthday, but DT and Ash's as well. Then we have Jo's brother coming to stay next week for a week, more birthday celebrations for Jo, Yvonne back in Sydney for a wedding marathon - dress fittings for both of us, shoe shopping, consulting with the florist, and debating the age-old question - to veil or not to veil? We end the month with Jo's cousin Christina coming to stay, for her dress fittings too. Maria and I have to find time between all that to go see Sex and the City 2 - hopefully next weekend - and then before you know it she is OFF to Italy for 5 weeks, and i shall miss her, and the pest. (5 weeks! JEALOUS MUCH?)




I'd better go, before i fall off my chair just thinking about all this. Thank God for my day planner.