It was quite strange finally finishing my thesis yesterday, I felt incredibly...happy. In that moment it was just such a relief to not have anymore work to do, nothing waiting for me. I came home, spent some time with the kids, put away ALL my research notes etc, cleaned the house & then at 7pm we had friends come over to celebrate.

We opened the bottles of champagne & the kids played in the loungeroom. Then, some newer friends wanted to know more about Morrissey, so I showed them my copy of Peepholism, & they were flicking through it & I'm not sure if this is a little bit (lame) but I felt really worried the whole time. I didn't want any grubby hands on it, or spilt drink!!

Then after the champagne was all gone, we got onto beer, then white wine & then my partner had red wine...and of course ended up not very well! Strangely, I felt, well not quite sober, but kind of unaffected by how much I drank. I was just really happy with finishing & having friends over.

Today, I thought about Morrissey playing at Hyde Park & how I dearly wished that I was there. I've just been watching some clips on youtube from Dublin - I really wanted to hear 'What She Said' as it has long been one of my favourites. My daughter is into the Long Blondes, so I let her watch a couple of their film clips.

We watched the Miss Potter movie (about Beatrix Potter) on the couch, cosy under blankets. Eating popcorn. It was so nice & something I haven't done for such a long time. Then another thing I don't usually do ever, I had an afternoon nap. However I was awoken by the sounds of the little one, so got up to see what the matter was. The kids were making pancakes with their dad, I stepped out of the room for a moment, then my daughter said "Mum, Jude's vomitted!"....and so he had. Poor thing! He still wanted pancakes though! But he has now gone to bed & I am hoping that he won't get much worse, he seems to have a bit of a fever.

Tomorrow I am getting ready for the 'one of' art class I am doing on Monday (during the school holidays), there is also a garage sale a few streets over that I want to go & check out & maybe go to the Art Gallery to see an exhibition of indigenous art.

Then...who knows? It is kind of nice not having anything to do.