Stuff that is making me feel grown up

• Wearing pants and a shirt to work today - I look like a man, but at least I look like a professional man.
• Walking to and from work
• Reading industry related articles in my spare time
• Doing lots of cooking in advance (some of it is even quite tasty)
• Going to a bar in jeans and a quite demure top (and giggling at the girls in skimpy dresses and lots of makeup)
• Getting up early and cleaning the house
• Gardening...the plants are still alive, although looking a little wussy.
• Opening a first home savers account (although it has no money in it)
• Deciding to use the money I would spend on Spring Carnival to kick start my first home savers account.

Stuff that is reminding me I'm not very grown up:

• You don't really think I'm stupid enough to put that in writing do you?

Gardening - Deceptively Easy

For once I actually fulfilled one of my resolutions - I spent this weekend gardening. It was fun, reasonably simple and the plants are still looking like they might live...at least for a few days.

Before...	Our trip to Bunnings	...after
Lots of chilli plants	Some of my herbs...(they didn't look this sad until I drowned them with my watering can)	The 'shrubbery'...I assume they'll grow and it won't look so dirty soon.

This Makes my Efforts at Showjumping Look Pretty Poor....

My Name is Heather and I'm a Collector.

I've always been a collector, as long as I can remember I've always like to acquire things - lots of things, lots of similar things. I've collected stamps, coins, rocks, beads, pony books, ponies, shoes, perfumes, hats, DVDs, bottles of spirits...in fact I seem to think that pretty much everything that you can get one of is better if you get lots of it.

I am really scared of flimsy stairs...and exercise

I'm not scared of many things, but stairs I can see through absolutely terrify me. This can be a problem in Hobart where most of the retail stores have horrible old school scary stairs that you can see through.