Busy and productive morning

Today I was up bright and early getting my paperwork ready for a trip to the RTA (Road Transport Authority) … armed with a screwdriver (for my licence plates) and my various bits and pieces I trundled off to arrange the transfer of my car registration.  $300 later and I am the ‘proud owner’ (perhaps “relieved” would be a better choice of words!) of some ugly yellow NSW number plates, and a 12-month car registration.  Hopefully now there will be no further stress (car-wise anyway) for the next 12 months!

Next up was a trip to the ‘PC doctor’ for my laptop.  I have finally bitten the bullet to get a quote on how much it will cost to get it fixed – if it means an entire new hard drive etc, then I won’t bother paying to get it fixed, and I need to start saving up for another one … but I guess I need to know what’s wrong with it before I start making judgements.  I’m currently not reading many blogs (and haven’t truthfully for months now) because I spend most of the evenings in the lounge with Katie, and my PC is in my bedroom – by the time I come back into my room it’s too late to start blog surfing.  Oh well, fingers crossed it’s only something minor, ‘cos I’d dearly love to have it with me in NZ in October.

The next thing I did was to finally replace my laundry hamper which died a horrible death two months ago … gone now are the days of shoving my dirty laundry into bags, or leaving it piled up all over the floor … thanks to the local Bunnings store, I now have a relatively cheap sturdy hamper once again – yippee!!

The final thing I managed to tick off my list today was to finally phone up the TiVo service man.  I bought a 2nd TiVo a few months ago at a price that just couldn’t be turned down (a special direct from TiVo for existing owners) – well, but the darned thing hasn’t worked ever since I bought it … I’ve been trying to get it fixed via the Support emails, but have had no luck whatsoever.  Today I finally got on the phone and spoke to a real live person and he agrees with me what the problem is, and he’s escalated the issue so hopefully now I can get the unit replaced and have a fully functioning TiVo, which would be awesome ‘cos at the moment it’s a glorified ornament sitting by the TV!!!

And that’s all that my exciting day has unfolded today … this afternoon I intend to be semi-slothful after I’ve done my laundry for the week – the plan is to brew a coffee, and polish off the rest of the leftover cake that my boss bought me yesterday for my 10 year anniversary at work (the one in the picture – an Orange Poppyseed cake from Christopher’s Cakes yummo), then I’m going to settle into my bedroom with my fabric stash and kit up a few Christmas ornaments that I want to stitch for family this year.  Tonight I need to get cracking on my autumn exchange piece that is due for posting in 2 weeks time – it’s almost kitted up, and ready to be started tonight, although I found that I’m missing a few threads so I think a Spotlight trip will have to be in order next week if they don’t turn up before then!

I forgot the exciting news too – missing threads and (finally!!!) my border packs for Summer and Winter Snapperlands are on their way in the post (at least they will be very very shortly).  I haven’t had a chance to get to the PO Box this week, so that’ll be an awesome treat arriving in another week or two … it’ll be really great to get some of those WIPs that have been pushed to one side because they’re waiting for missing threads and/or embellishments.  That means there should be some more finishes coming ‘shortly’ aftwerwards – Halloween Fairy, Sapphire Star and Summer Snapperland … woohoo! 😀

Tonight I’ll be stitching on either my Quaker Huswif or a little bit more of my Gracie stumpwork … depending whether I end up stitching in my room or the lounge … ah decisions, decisions 😛