Lauren returned from Darwin having had a great meet. She did 3 PBs and got 3 medals. She is having an easy week this week then back to normal training next week.

The kids are on holidays at the moment but of course Donna and I are both working. Karl is going to take them all to the movies later in the week.

We decided last night to try to get tickets for the Grand Final but there were no groups of 4 (the girls aren't interested) available at the moment. I have to get on the phone on the dot of 9:00am this morning to try to get tickets as they are releasing some more tickets today.

I have decided to go on a diet. I am going to lose 10kg by 8th December. I have never really tried this before, though I have eaten the meals that Donna is cooking when she is on a diet. I find that I maintain my weight pretty well, (it has only gone up by 3kg in the past 8 years) but I could definitely afford to weigh less. I have been doing a whole lot of work with NLP and have struggled to come up with a Well Formed Outcome to work with.. A brainwave came to me on Saturday that this could be one.

On Saturday, I worked on a Swimming Carnival at Homebush. It was really strange because neither Donna or any of the kids were there. When I agreed to help out, I expected that Lauren would be going, but she decided not to with the Darwin trip and all. Anyway, I normally work Meet Manager on the computers, but on Saturday I got to do the Main timing/scoreboard computers. It was not that difficult but swimming officials tend to treat it as a sacred trust that can only be performed by ordained ministers of swimming. There were lots of jokes about how quickly I had gotten my referees ticket, it was really funny.

Lauren is in Darwin at the moment, swimming at the National Schools Championships. So far, she has a silver and a gold medal, but she won't finish until Wednesday.

Karl is half way through his Year 11 end of year exams at the moment. Hopefully he is doing well, but from the amount of studying he is doing, he shouldn't be.

Rochelle is continuing to enjoy her Clarinet practice and is really good at doing her practice every day. She is starting to sound quite good.

Adam has started playing touch again for the summer.

I am still reading Peace is every Step but I am also reading The God of Small Things.