Been away from the blog for a couple of weeks, and what we did on Valentine's Day:

It has been a couple of weeks since I’ve written an entry to this blog. The main reason I haven’t been making my usual entries is that I have been spending a lot of my time on the weekends preparing my job application and learning the Acts and Awards that I need to know for work. I am enjoying working at the new job, and I’m doing my best to get the position permanently.

I’m taking a break from reading the one of the Acts, and also trying to distract myself from the heat of today, by writing this entry.

The last few days have been record temperatures. Yesterday was 41 degrees Celsius, while the thermometer in the bedroom just informed me that it was 42 degrees a couple of minutes ago. It has been very hard to sleep at night, and I’ve been getting up two or three times a night to have cold showers just so I can get to sleep.

Cathy has also been flat out writing reports for work and studying for an exam she has coming up.

With all this, we haven’t really done much worth mentioning recently, except for Valentine’s Day.

We went down the Gold Coast for the day, planning to go surfing. The wind had messed the waves up by the time we got there, so we decided to go to the movies instead. We saw ‘The Last Samurai’. I thought it was good, but Cathy wasn’t overly impressed. We got out of the movie around 9:30pm, bought got some Thai takeaway, grabbed the blanket and picnic basket out of the back of the car, and had a nice dinner on the beach. The wind had died down, and the white of the waves looked beautiful in the light of the full moon. We had taken candles, but the moon was bright enough to even be able to see all the other couples spaced about 50 meters apart up and down the beach. After we ate altogether too much Thai food, we had a short nap before driving back.

I’m writing this from one of our laptops (both of us had one to take notes when we were at uni), as the hard drive on the desktop computer is dieing. I don’t have my journals from my trip saved on this computer, so I won’t include an entry this week.