Thrilled

Future hubby has not one but two big bad job offers. And another two interviews this week. You have no idea what a load this is off my mind!

Well paying professional jobs even.

After close to two years of me being the only one on a steady income and fighting about the reasons why his boss should pay him on time and oh my goodness how will we pay for a whole wedding??! this is very welcome relief!

Higher pay bracket than me - but that's really to be expected I guess, given the size of his student loan!

And they'll even let him start later this year! Which is very good because it means that things won't be quite so tight in terms of the wedding and bond money and rent in advance and all those horrible nasty things being a grown up costs you.

Thank God :)

Sheesh!

It's THURSDAY tomorrow! I'm not entirely certain where the week went/is going! I'd like to say work but all the big important people that give us work to do at the Network and NABS seem to constantly be out of the office on print tours and stuff like that. So work is trickling through in dribs and drabs.

Yesterday was particularly slow!!! I spent most of the afternoon on the internet...

Sad, I know!!!

But I have updated our wedding register - yay!

Today we occupied ourselves by taking photos - of ourselves. We seemed to get particularly giggly over nothing in particular. Girls, right???? Either that or retards. I'll post the photos when I get them off my computer at work. Too funny!!!

Can't wait for the weekend - my first in Christchurch for awhile! Will make a nice change not having to pack things to go places and sleeping in not my bed. I love my bed, it's my favorite place in the whole world. It's snuggly!!!

Am surprisingly untired for the time of night. Weird.

Edit: Photos! See!

We look particularly small and far away...

Haha we are further away...and standing gayly...

I am "Abi-no hands"...it was cold ok???

See...we are happy workmates :P

Supposed to be getting ready to head out to Retreat. I think I'm packed but I can't help feeling like I've forgotten something.

Had work drinks tonight - good wine. Lol. Feel bit tipsy though and I really need to cook tea and eat something but don't feel like it!

Ah well, busy busy :P

I just need a week(end) off!!!

James Morrison & Deni Hines

So thanks to my speedy email skills I managed to score a double pass to James Morrison & Deni Hines JazzFest headline act.

And may I just say that it was awesome!!!

I really honestly believe that you have many opportunities to listen to two people - one of whom is widely accepted as one of the best Jazz artists in the world. James Morrison is incredible. Not only is he an amazing trumpeteer, he's pretty damn good on the piano and he's funny to boot!

Deni Hines (although I hadn't heard of her before last night) is one of Australia's foremost singers. She's been backing vocalist for INXS and Kylie Minogue and more recently she's collaborated wiht James on an album entitled The Other Woman. It features some seriously old school tracks from some of the Jazz greats - think Ella Fitzgerald and Aretha Franklin - plus some newer original Jazzed up tracks.

I have never seen a band with more groove. It probably helps that these two have been in "the biz" basically forever. But the whole band was incredible. The bass player - Phil, I believe his name is - had some of the fastest fingers I have ever seen. And the brass section made me want to learn a brass instrument. Deni has an amazing vocal technique. You could actually hear her slip from head voice into chest voice when she powers up her vocals.

If you get a chance - check out Deni's webpage which lets you listen to the full tracklist of the album, starting with I Only Have Eyes for You.