Come on everybody, let's all get married before Trees

Cat & Andrew's engagement photos up ;) I'll save most of it for the happy girl to type up but in short, it twas on the 17th November, sunny, windy Maroubra, we were served crudites and dip, salami, sundried tomatoes, cheese, mushroom sandwiches, very nice frittatas, chicken drumsticks, chocolate slices and cake, anzac biccies, mangoes and more.
Thank you for letting us celebrate the engagement with you, your present from Shilpa, Viv and I is in the mail. ;)

Also that night (yesterday) was Phil's little bro's 18th birthday, volunteered to help out a bit, so just organising the food to go into the oven and serving somewhat. But I was dehydrated and sunburnt from the day so I had a headache and eyeball-ache so I retired early with 2 paracetamol and crashed on Phil's bed. Woke up this am with sunburn, mmm... yea... I missed out on speeches and cake *sadness! tear* but I am determined to get a slice tomorrow night :)
- canapes included: spring rolls, feta & spinach triangles, mystery veg roll, spinach & cheese quiches, mini pizzas, crudites, spinach dip cob loaf *shove, shove shove, gobble*
- chicken, lamb kebabs
- snags
- green salad
- tabouli
- cabbage & noodle salad
- potatoes
- beetrooooooot!! So much beetroot! YUM!!! I just nicked a tupperware container of it all
- macaroni bake
- garlic bread
Dessert was marble mud cake and 2 humongous pudding bowls of jelly. There was fruit to be cut up too but it looked like everyone was gonna be rolled out of the house by the time dinner started so save the fruit for another time.

So Phil and I went Christmas gift shopping today after church with some success. I got half his present and plan on getting the other half when I can sneak in the time. Still have to buy presents for Janene, Keith and Sascha.

Okay, gotta go to bed now, tired with eyeball-ache again which was why I skipped evening church. Gonna be busy all week, must get week sorted out before it starts, I hate Mondays. Okay, gotta go gotta go

Guillaume at Bennelong Leach, you and me baby ;)

And Malay food pleeeeeeeeaaaase!!

I need some replanning on my spending and saving, since I've upped the savings deposit and my pay going down, there's a considerable difference in the amount left previously and now in my streamline account.
My 4-weekly spendings:
Savings account $1500
Tithe $200
Petrol $180
Commbank fees $10
Mobile $30
Groceries + miscellaneous $250
Monthly income $2700 - Spending 2170 = $530 leftover
Yikes! And I have to pay for the car ($500) when it gets fixed whenever that'll be. And it's Christmas coming up and spending season as it is... *sighs* I think what I'll do, is lower the savings deposit to $1300, if I'm still over $500 over the weekend before my 4-weekly deposit, I'll do the once-off $200 deposit. Am I confusing anyone? It's working in my head.
Okay gotta go, gotta find some clothes to wear to work tomorrow.