*Tap* *tap* Is this thing on?

You know how people say "If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all"? Well, that fairly accurately explains why I haven't been saying anything much at all for the last several months. I have been a cranky bitch and I refuse to inflict that on others when it's just not necessary. Unfortunately being a cranky bitch who isn't talking to others means that it takes longer to get over the grumpiness.

But. One of my bugbears is finished for the year as we have finally completed our community group application for funding, now I just need to accurately work out how much funding we have left for the current financial year (for the non-Aussies, financial year in Australia goes from July 1st to June 30th) and make sure we expend it by June 19th, since that is when the school holidays start and the neighbourhood house officially closes down for a month. That said, since the school holidays here last for a month and my mother is coming to stay for about 10 days I foresee a sharp decline in my temper during the month of July.

I am also in the downhill slide towards moving out of this tiny, tiny, frustratingly not-quite-broken-enough house. DH is due to be posted out of his current job in December and although he has not yet been told where his new posting will be we know it won't be in Darwin. Don't get me wrong, I really have nothing at all against Darwin and I think I could be quite happy living here, but this house is too small, too badly designed and too broken. Since December last year we have had one broken airconditioner, one broken toilet (that is still not fixed), three broken computers (only one of which was due to a small child), 4 different issues with internet connectivity, 5 blown light bulbs, one rewired fusebox, one massive black eye from a child falling on the stairs, lots of bruised legs from children falling on the stairs (mostly because the toilet that works is upstairs from the bedrooms and two of them can't reach the light switches so they walk around in the dark), and one mostly absent husband/father. Oh and one son who is still having major issues about leaving his friends in Sydney, 17 months after we left.

Add to this the fact that I have had to withdraw from university this study period due to a) lack of working computers b) lack of working internet connection c) lack of silence to think and d) lack of time since I've been spending all of the last month working on the funding for the community house and you might understand a little why I ended up with e) lack of motivation.

But the past is the past. Hopefully May will be much better. In one way it already is, since we have just spent a stupidly large amount of money on paying for a Club Med holiday.

So, enough about me. What about you?