Home Again. Home Again...

We headed home from our holiday in the Blue Mountains this morning. I think without doubt it was the best holiday we have had as a family. Despite the seemingly constant drain on asking the kids to do the same thing over and over again, they were really good. They didn't drag their feet, they enjoyed all the sights we went to, and overall they were fantastic.

All the kids, but perhaps now moreso Josh, have the Peters Loud Voice. I lost count on how many times each day I had to ask them to keep their voices down. Amusing now to look back at that.

Good job by Origin Energy too. We arrived home to a new bill, after their first bill to us last week incorrectly only credited us for 6 cents per kilowatt for our solar energy instead of 26 cents. Helen spent about 50 minutes on the phone to them last week to get it fixed, and they cancelled that bill and said they would send out another bill with the correct amount.

They sent a new bill... that was EXACTLY the same as the last bill.

So as soon as we arrived home at 11.30am this morning, Helen was back on the phone, until 1.10pm. What a freaking joke. They assured her that this time it would be fixed. All I can say is... it had want to be...

Watched the movie Up with Josh today (before he fell asleep half way through). It was okay, but seemed to harp too much on the sadness of the situation. Maybe I'm just too old and taking too much of it in. It was OK.

Went to Mum and Dad's this afternoon, and saw Ange and Louise and their tribes for the first time in a month or so. Sophie has shot up about a foot in recent month's and is beginning to become a young woman. As Ferris Bueller said so correctly, time moves fast...

Dad's feast tonight was spicy pumpkin soup and musaman beef curry. Another triumph with the soup, but as good as his curry was, I think mine is still the superior.  :)

Having come home and suffered through Carlton belting the Magpies by almost 60 points, I had to endure another showing of The Towering Inferno to help to wash away that agony. There is nothing worse than losing to Carlton, but we've had a good run in recent seasons, so I can't complain too much.