i had an amazingly productive and fulfilling weekend. it all started friday night actually, when mark surprised me with a little cruise up the yarra after work. i'd always wanted to go on one of those - it was quite nice, especially going under the bridges. i love having a close-up look at bridge-undersides. then saturday we got our taxes out of the way - totally booked out an itp office because between us, we had six returns to do... the tax lady didn't bat an eyelid, apparently a lot of the people she's done tax for hadn't done their returns for eight to ten years. that made me feel a whole lot better! having that weight lifted off our shoulders, we returned home and dove into housework, had the obligatory domestic that goes hand in hand with diving in to domestic chores, and then got over it. a friend who we hadn't seen in ages came over and stayed the night, so we ended up having a nice, quiet night in. then sunday. up again at sparrow's, said hello to the day by cooking up one huge pot of dahl and another huge pot of lamb curry. i had the family over for lunch, and that meant a little bit of preparation - can you imagine getting up at nine thirty on a sunday to chop up three kilos of lamb chops? well, thats how my day started. but it was all worth it, we finally ate at about three, and it was so nice to have mum and dad, my brothers and their kiddies over. the littlest nephew is going through an interesting stage. if he sees his own reflection anywhere, he will stop to stare, then slobber all over it - it's quite hilarious to watch him in action. hence there are now knee-height drool-marks on every reflective surface in the house. we think he might be in love with himself. the weather was so so nice this morning, it's exciting knowing that soon, a coat with be optional when leaving the house. i'm starting to smell jasmine in the evenings. last week, i got excited because when i came out of class at deakin, the sky wasn't totally pitch-black. i can't wait till daylight savings starts...