Due to privacy laws ...today, there is no photo. Noooooo!!! *distraught*

Today I was grateful for small, marvellous children [whom I was teaching to dance]. They are all so beautiful and it's such a joy to teach them :)
Also appreciative of Miss Maree and her general policy of "If you can still breathe, keep dancing!" :) my legs were about to collapse, but it was great to be back!
Only 104.25 hours of student teaching left, and a whole twelve weeks in which to do it! Woot, indeed.
Grateful for sneaky kisses! ;)

Happiness and peace, loves.
Lise xx

Hurrah and hurrah and hurrah!

Had a very nice dinner with the Cheesman family :) lovely catch-up and chat. The younger ones had a water fight all over the place - had to be careful to avoid stray shots from the water guns! Twas fun to watch them :)

Also grateful for a very cheerful phone call that resulted in much skipping and such! [l.o.v.e.y.o.u]. So very immensely excited! 

I was also thankful for my lovely, wonderful LOOPY family! Love them dearly :)

and for sleeping innnn :)

and for my trendy trendy new dress! Thanks to the lovely Jarrah for op-shopping it for me :)

Tis a short blog tonight, as my mathematical homework is raging in the back of my mind to be done :( But I hope your days were all enormously joyful! Love!

Lise xx

Dinner Partay!

Grateful for a lovely, lovely night and the fact that, [mostly], my food worked out splendidly. Just not so much lemon, next time ;)

It was a fantastic night; bruschetta as an entree, cous cous with feta and spring beans as a main, and mint brownies for dessert :)
Had a very nice time with a very good friend, chatting and cooking and such. A beautiful night! :)

Was also grateful for the marvellous rainbow outside my window!
And for a very, very pretty new dress :) thankyou, dear friend!

That's about all. The loveliest night, one of the loveliest in the world :)
Love and sunshine and joy to all of you!
Lise xx

Colour!

Grateful for coloured stationery, which makes homework and being organised a whole darn lot more interesting :)
Coloured highlighters&pens&pencils&books&such :)

May all your days be filled with beautiful colours. Be kind to others, because everyone is gorgeous someplace inside. Sorry its short and sweet [like the surprise dessert I have made, hurrah!].

Love you all, in a variety of colours and shades!
Lise xx

Lazy Days...

Grateful for those warm, lazy afternoons that fade into hazy evenings. I always seem to finish reading a book just on dusk, so I can watch the bats migrating past my window looking for tonight's meal, the sun just sinking, the stars just coming out. Its a beautiful, contemplative type of day. The best time for thinking, having a clear mind and being creative, in my own opinion :)
I adore these afternoons because they are perfect for reading, tea-drinking, and the general om nomming of biscuits dunked in said tea. [not pictured, as they had already been happily consumed :)].
So yes, that was my little grateful moment of the day. Hurrah :)

Love to you, loves!
Lise xx

A little bit sad, a little bit happy.

Today, this evening; grateful for...
> Clear, beautiful weather! [though the rain is expected to set in again by the weekend - darn!].
> Rad people working toward making the world a better place for the future [have a peek at http://vimeo.com/16382761 and www.thegreenwayup.com. Groovin' :)]
> New friends, who become old friends, who are off on new adventures in the scary 'real world' of Melbourne :) wish her all the best for the dance career she'll pursue there, and hope she has a whole lot of fun :)

Also went ski biscuiting with the family today. Along with the rest of Australia, it seemed, as there was almost no space left at the lake. Ah, Australia Day :) came home and chilled pleasantly for the afternoon, then over to good friend's house for dinner. Last time for some time that we shall be privileged with her marvellous culinary skills :( ah well, hope she has a splendid time in the big city :)

Happy Australia Day, pretty people. Hope the public holiday was kind to you.
Lotsa love,
Lise xx

Oh so excited!

Helloooo, lovelies!
Yes, the jerseys were dealt out to us eager seniors today! The authoritative powers of the school have been withholding them since the end of last year, and we've been questioning after them ever since :) but today, we finally have them in our hot little hands! For this, I was both grateful and immensely cheerful. As you can no doubt see from my incredibly excited expression!
Sadly, as a prefect, I am obliged to wear the formal uniform for the first month of school and, sadly, we are forbidden from wearing jerseys with formal attire :( fair enough, I suppose. Ah well, I'm thrilled that we finally have them! Senior jerseys are another one of those things that you watch the 'big kids' get every year and think 'ohhh, I can't wait til its my turn!'. So, now it is. And no doubt it'll be gone in a flash and we'll be pitched into the real world. How wonderfully terrifying :)
I was also grateful today for the opportunity for a lovely chat with a girl that I know a little, and who I like :) but who I see very little of. She sat with us to have lunch and it was just so nice to talk to. She's quite marvellous :)
It's sad, but yet true: I was grateful to be back at school :) lots of construction underway, classrooms [finally] being renovated. New timetable [WHY], some different teachers. Most of this I'm happy for, and grateful that my two favourite teachers [Math and English] did not change.

Hope your day was a groovin' one. And that if you have one, you're wearing that jersey even though its 25 degrees outside ;)

Love and love and love!
Lise xx