Celebration time...

This time to my mum, who is having her birthday on December 13. Which is today, when you factor in the time difference.

Happy Birthday, Mum!

It's also Mum and Dad's anniversary, their... 35th, if I'm counting properly (I don't always).

Happy Anniversary!

Yes, I'm calling tonight. *grins*

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In other news... I got the payrise - up to $18 an hour, starting yesterday. Go me. I also have been a very bad Rossi and haven't been contacting people as much as I should. As in, at all. Shame on me. If I haven't pinged you by AIM/email for a week or two, it's not because I hate you. I've just been settling back into things and dealing with the whole bouncing around between countries, climates and seasons thing. Plus, y'know, broke, so feeling like a bad friend. However, I get paid on Thursday and that one's all mine. No paying rent or bills or anything. Yay! *muppetflails* I can do my very small amount of Christmas shopping.

Once I find out from Mum what to get people. :P

Fire update...

Since people were worried in my second last entry...

The fire's still going, but Wodonga is about three-quarters of an hour's drive away, so mum and dad are fine at this point. At this stage it's restricted to the Victorian Alps, so basically burning all of the national park and the ski resorts I grew up going to - I went to school at the foot of Mount Buffalo. Fire fronts are joining up, which is not a good thing, and the hot weather isn't helping.

There's also a second bushfire in Victoria, one in Tasmania that's destroyed a lot of holiday homes, and another on the outskirts of Perth.

Beds are burning, indeed. :(