Friday on my Mind

Fridays
Fridays always feel good, the end of the working week, the start of the weekend.

And the last Friday of the term feels even better! Two weeks of "freedom" coming up.

And the last Friday of term when you're about to go on a trip to Melbourne for a feast of football?
It doesn't get much better than that!!

Throw in Friday night football when your team is playing and you don't have to work, woohoo!
The Cats play the Crows tomorrow night and I'm going round to Dave's to watch it.

You may have noticed I'm looking forward to tomorrow.

Tomorrow
Talking of tomorrow, as I was walking back from Priceys with my two bread rolls for lunch today I was thinking about the word "tomorrow" and realised it is unusual. Maybe even unique?
That's what I'm about to ask you readers to establish, or refute.

What makes it so different?

It's the only word I could think of that contains the same vowel three times with the said vowel being pronounced differently each time.
ie. to with an oo, morr with an o (for orange), ow with an O (for Oklahoma).

There may be others but I haven't thought of any.

So, there's your task dear readers, see if you can think of another word with the same characteristic, ie. the same vowel pronounced three different ways in the one word.

Volleyball
We won volleyball tonight in a one-sided game that was hard to stay motivated in, but I do applaud the name of the other team, one of the cleverest I've ever heard of, they are called "Safe Sets"!

Favourite Daughter
It's a very exciting time for Favourite Daughter as she prepares to move to Perth to study at Tabor College for the next six months. There is a lot to organise and she was feeling a little overwhelmed by it all last night so Mrs Holt Press and I prayed for her. One of the items on her list was getting a pair of glasses. She's been wearing contact lenses for a few years but they've been troubling a bit recently and they are expensive to replenish every few months. Today she went into an OPSM store just to have a look and to her delight discovered they were having a 50% sale on glasses, and combined with the benefits from our private health cover, the glasses only cost her $180 instead of the full price of $480! One less thing to be anxious about.

That Friday Feeling

It's funny how different days of the week "feel" and there's no denying that Fridays feel better than other week days, just as Saturdays feel better than Sundays.

Today was another productive day, and tonight was another profitable night in the taxi, with three trips to Dunsborough, making up for last week's none. The icing on the cake tonight was the very exciting footy broadcast on the radio with Essendon coming back from 5 goals down to beat West Coast by a point! I was punching the air in the cab when the final siren went.

I've been helping one of the teachers at school with a particularly difficult class of year 10's, helping to prepare them for an overnight hike we're going to do on the Bibbulmun Track in a couple of weeks. Their behaviour is very challenging so the hike may prove to be an exercise in frustration and the testing of our patience. Hopefully they will gain something from the experience and feel a sense of achievement, something that seems quite foreign to them at this stage.

I've got Sport Boy's soccer game in 5 hours so I need to get some sleep before then if I can.