Day two of my challenge 
I was up early today, dinner thrown into the slow cooker, and off for a day of errands and fun! My squash opponent had the afternoon off work due to the Melbourne Cup, so we were able to play on the day, rather having to reschedule or forfeit. Actually it’s the first time I’ve managed to get on the court with this opponent, either one of us has had to forfeit or someone else has played for her for the whole comp! I say ‘play’ but it wasn’t really much of a match, it was more her wiping the floor with my arse 
I scored…drum roll…one point! One point in three games ROFL! I do not play well after lunch, apparently, I just couldn’t concentrate. At. All. Oh well, I may not have to play her again, if the comp is kind and I don’t have to play her in the finals.
Due to the reshuffle, I was able to go to the movies this morning, hooray! I saw Tomorrow, When The War Began, finally! I have been looking forward to seeing these books in movie form since they first came out when I was a teenager. I was glad that it takes a while to get movies to Tenterfield, our small cinema doesn’t get the reels until the bigger theatres are done with them. I was able to get opinion from my step-daughter, who is generally spot on with whether I’ll like something or not (I’ll be eternally grateful that she encouraged me to watch Pirates of the Carribean some years after it had come out!), and is a massive fan of the books. I knew if she enjoyed it, I would, and I was right! It was fanTAStic! The beginning was a little slow for someone who is already intimately familiar with the characters, but I understood that it was necessary to introduce a new generation to the story. Now I just hope they made enough money to encourage them to make all the other books into movies, it was nowhere near long enough!
I wanted to get Hannah’s hair cut today, she is tired of tangles and head lice (yuck, our first encounter with them last week, not fun at all!) and has agreed to a short style for a few years. However, hairdressers have the day off for the Cup, apparently, they were ALL CLOSED!! Not impressed. Thursday will be our next chance.
The splinter under my thumb nail last night was incredibly tender by the time I wanted to go to bed, so I sat up with some aloe vera soaking in under the nail and a wheat pack from the freezer for a while, and while it was still very sore in the morning, the dirt is easing itself out and by lunch it was much better. It didn’t bother me at all during squash. Hopefully it will be thoroughly mended soon.
My wee girl, Beth, is so grown up now that she’s two. She ran up to me when I came to pick her up from daycare and instead of clinging, she began to tell me about her day, unprompted! In the car on the way home, Abby had the things she hadn’t eaten during the day, and she told me she was hungry for the baby tomatoes, but she wasn’t going to eat them because they’d spray all over the car. What a sweetie! She got all the way to the garage before she gave in and bit one!
