making some progress :-)

the sound of rain on the tin roof - i will never tire of that sound

working in a factory means i get to hear similar sounds if it rains at work too - like it did today a few times...

i had a good day today - i love having a day where i can do something at work that makes me realise that i am getting the hang of things on my own..... today it was doing a couple of material take offs.....

had a little bit of help from brent over the phone just to talk out loud about a proposed makeup of a couple of windows, just so i was sure i had the right parts in my brain before i went ahead to price them up...

and then at one point in the afternoon i had a *click* in my brain and i just instantly smiled and thought "i'm doing alright, and i'm enjoying my life right at this moment" - it doesn't happen very often, but when it does that, i bask in it...

brent's going to teach me to make some more frames tomorrow morning....

i got an email from masters today for the trade month specials, a big bag of cordless power tools for about 1600 bucks or so... i told brent about it and showed him the email - he suggested i should think about buying it for myself so i could have my own tools to help out in the factory and on site too - that was a really cool feeling :-) me being a fully fledged tradie dude.....

i can't afford it right now but maybe later down the track - although i liked the offer in the total tools catalogue that brent showed me - it had a bonus tradie's radio thing - as he said it "you could listen to 3aw on your own radio!" hehehehe

i almost made orange cake tonight cause i got home at an earlish hour.....

i'm taking friday off as brent's going away for the weekend with one of his kids who is in the scouts - maybe i'll do the cake on friday.....

geoff called tonight just as i was getting off the freeway, was nice to have a catch up chat with him, even though he was sounding sick (poor bugger)... the phone call left me feeling good that i have a great mate in him :-)

7.45pm..... rain still pitter patters down on the roof and my nose is getting cold... might go snuggle in bed with teddy......