A weekend of not much at all

I finally got to relax this weekend! I've got a 2 week break before I have to hand in any more assessment, so I figured I'd do nothing this weekend. I got out my sketch book and pastels and did some designing. Which then made me want to go to the fabric store and start sewing. But as my sewing machine is in desperate need of a service, I didn't go. Whenever I turn my machine on, it goes in reverse until I hit a complicated routine of buttons many times to get it to go forwards. Odd.

I also decided that it was time I fixed my laptop, so I backed everything up, deleted everything, and then reinstalled it all. It runs so much faster now. I'm also pretty sure I had some dodgy spy or malware on there, as it did some odd things some times. At least it will all be fixed now.

Saturday morning I got my car washed, and then we went to check out the Da Vinci machines exhibition at South Bank. It wasn't as exciting as I thought it would be. I mean, the man was a genius and his inventions were spectacular, but I was expecting there to be his actual drawings or notebooks or something on display. Instead, there were models of his designs next to cardboard facsimiles of his notes. So yeah. Still interesting, but not as interesting as it could have been.

We then bought soft serve cones from an ice cream truck and ate them in the shade. I can't even remember the last time I bought something from an ice cream truck!

Saturday afternoon saw another dust storm blow in. Fantastic. I just spent $40 on a car wash and now it's all dirty again. *sigh* I'm going to wait 2 weeks before I clean it again. I figure by then the dust should be gone for good.

On Sunday, I made two batches of biscuits (chocolate chip, and white chocolate and macadamia) and a batch of brownies and took them with me to a make up party a friend of mine was having. Her wedding is soon and her bridesmaids are doing their own make up, so it was supposed to be an informative session on how to put it on. I figured I wouldn't be buying anything, so that's why I brought the food with me. The session wasn't very informative. The woman was more concerned about selling the stuff than telling people how to put it on. It was like a Tupperware party, but for Body Shop products. Bleh. Still, I got to talk to my friends, so that was nice. I felt really awful for the girl hosting though. We have an uneven relationship. She has heaps of friends, so I am not in her inner-circle, but she's in mine because I have a lot less friends than her. Her hen's party is just her inner-circle, so I wasn't invited (which I really don't mind about, I understand that). However, a mutual friend of ours, who she works with, was invited. I guess our mutual friend assumed I was invited, as she asked me at the party (whilst sitting next to the host) what time I was arriving at the hen's party. I could see the host felt really awful and started squirming. She must have thought that I would be upset that our mutual friend was invited but I wasn't. I just told her that I wasn't going and made it seem like I was busy with uni. I felt really sorry for the host though. I could tell she felt awful about it.

My assistant starts this week. I'm very excited. Although I suspect it's going to be somewhat unorganised around here to start with. I don't have my computer yet, and I don't have anywhere to sit when she's here. Hopefully my computer arrives in the next two weeks, and we have another workspace built by the end of the year - and I really hope my boss will let me reorganise the whole office how I want it!