July (Already) and Oscars Ninth Birthday

So already it's July and four months since my last post... so much for keeping up the blog.

July, so it's Oscar's birthday month. For the past four years, Oscar's birthday treat has been (at his request) a trip to Underwater World. We're not sure why, neither is Oscar, but for some reason he absolutely loves going there and refuses to consider any other "...World". I can understand why - Underwater World is a great place for kids! This year, we asked Oscar if he would like to take some friends with him as a bit of a party, and so Angelina and Massimo came along for the day. It was like herding cats, but very enjoyable!

It's the big day tomorrow, so Oscar is understandably quite excited about it! Mum has made some cup-cakes for Oscar's school mates tomorrow, plus one or two for his teachers (never hurts!).Can't believe he's nine already...

I had a good time too, took my camera and snapped a few decent shots, like this one here. There are more photo's of the whole day here. I also took video of the day and will be sending out DVD's shortly.

In other news, you will recall from my previous post that we had put an offer on a place in Mango Hill. Well, sadly that fell through as we were gazumped (in no small part due to the evil real estate agent who tried to get me to spend an additional $2000 to advertise our house!) but as it turns out, no bad thing.  Rowie was made redundant in April after seven years at Aon Consulting. I was actually quite pleased, because I had been worrying about her health post-operation. We had been talking about her maybe quitting, so when Aon announced that she would be made redundant, it was like the decision had been made for us. It helped a lot that Aon also paid her out a great deal more than we were expecting, but in a way it was good that we weren't in the middle of a move at the time. We've since put our house on the market anyway, as we've kind of decided that the move out to "the country" doesn't suit us at all, but currently the market is quite flat so we haven't had much interest so far. Maybe we'll just stay put for a while, we'll see...

My work has been absolutely crazy, as we have been pushing towards a new product release since pretty much the day I started. I have up and down days I have to say, sometimes I wonder why I even moved away from the technical stuff to be honest. But there are definitely rewards to be had from managing people, and it's mostly all ok.

Anyway, I may try and get Rowie/Oscar to contribute a bit more to the blog in the future, so maybe we'll get some more posts!

In the meantime, hope everyone's well and enjoying themselves wherever they are!

Cheers,

Neil