This week has really dragged for me, particularly the last couple of days. Anyway, it’s Friday now, and I’m armed with Top Deck chocolate, and all ready to tackle my first Friday Five… bring it on!
1. List 5 things you’d like to accomplish by the end of the year
i) Get the house cleaned up - we moved in a couple of months ago, and there’s still heaps of stuff lying around.
ii) Get my house rented out - it’s been on the market for ages and still nothing! The agent’s got till the 30th, then I’m taking matters into my own hands…
iii) Have a barbeque at our house. We’ve got the bbq, we’ve got the entertaining area, but we haven’t yet combined the two!
iv) Get our new lounge - we’ve been waiting for months, and it’s supposedly due in early Dec (this is about the 3rd date modification), so I can’t wait to have it in there and have the lounge room set up. I’m sick of sitting on cushions on the floor!
v) Have breakfast on the balcony of our house. Or a glass of wine in the early evening, looking over the plains as the lights come on for the night.
2. List 5 people you’ve lost contact with that you’d like to hear from again
i) Verity
ii) Alex
iii) Fiona
iv) Anneline
v) Olivia
The first 3 are school friends, and the last 2 are penfriends. I wonder how they’re doing.
3. List 5 things you’d like to learn how to do
i) Basic car maintenance, so I don’t feel like an idiot when I take my car to be serviced. And also so I know if they’re trying to rip me off.
ii) Become proficient in Auslan. I’ve been learning since March, and I’m (hopefully) starting a course at TAFE next year. I know lots of vocab, but now I have to learn how to put it together using the correct grammar.
iii) Play the piano really well. I started off teaching myself, then I had lessons for 9 months but gave up. I wish I could just take a piece of music and sit down and play it without having to concentrate so hard.
iv) Take French lessons again. I used to learn in high school, and loved it, but didn’t continue at uni, which I regret.
v) Learn website design
4. List 5 things you’d do if you won the lottery (no limit)
i) Quit my job. I always said that if I won the lottery I’d keep working, but I realise now that that was a lie.
ii) Enrol in some courses I’d really like to do, but can’t now because I have to work.
iii) Buy a nice car. My car sucks. It’s reliable, and has served me well for the last 4 years, but it’s just so gutless and girly. I’m ready for something with grunt!!
iv) Go on a holiday with my husband. Overseas, or around the world… that’s the life!
v) Give some money to DeafSA. I believe that Deaf people have the right to free interpreters for things like trips to the doctor, dentist etc, and since government funding for this purpose has been cut, many Deaf people can’t afford to pay them, and have to rely on family and friends to interpret for them.
5. List 5 things you do to relax
i) Listen to classical music. My favourite is Mussorgsky’s Pictures At An Exhibition.
ii) Go for a walk. Where I live is quite hilly, so going for a walk is a bit more strenuous than it used to be.
iii) Read a book. My favourite author is Maeve Binchy.
iv) Take a long bath. With bubbles of course.
v) Play the piano. Not very well, but it’s still relaxing (probably not for the people who have to listen to it though).
