quick one....started one the other day but computer crashed and haven't had a chance to post since.

got back to bne ok. not as great as the trip to perth (where she slept all the way) but pretty tame. only a few cries when she was hungry...and the one time that mum took a loo break.

wall cleaning - nope. never been cleaned/wiped. not a very good housekeeper here. don't usually dust either until it gets REALLY bad. oh, except for surfaces that get used often...ie. coffee table.

proposals - well, dp asked if i would marry him and i said "sure, why not" while walking around central park in new york....this was followed by dp saying "now i can say that i proposed to you in central park"....oh, obviously, no ring came with it. we're wearing matching wedding-type rings already courtesy of my mom who loves jewelry. dp calls it the enticement ring.

weddings - funny that the subject should come up at this time (or maybe not really) coz' dp and i have been talking about it. mainly for convenience (ie. medicare). am not really fussed but i guess it sort of gets tedious having to correct people with my surname since max has got dp's and they assume that that's mine too. anyway, because my family's having a reunion of sorts in the u.s. this march-april, we've decided to just do a vegas chapel wedding. so, by april, dp should be dh.

update on max, she's found her voice.....can't stop "jabbering" away...oh, except for when her nana's on the phone and wants to talk to her....then she gets soo enthralled with the phone that she stops talking.

have been reading posts but everything i've read have flown out the window.

happy anniversary to cally and greg!

leanne, loved the toilet training story.

arte, i so don't envy you the move. i think that i'll hold off on any moves for a while. and maybe we'll rent the house out furnished if we do. am so sick of having to pack and worry about my furniture and stuff. but then, at least you've got a real pot of gold at the end of the rainbow....being home and happy.

katie, was it you who was asking about the 2nd hand market? just went to the website and they're going to start having them at the gold coast (upper coomera) in april.

guess this isn't as short as i thought it would be.