Someone else cleaned my house Tuesday (and Wednesday)

I'm so tired, I'm going to combine yesterday and today together.

On Tuesday, Brook's mum cleaned my entire house while I was out. The floor, the blinds, the kitchen, the bathroom. She put stuff away she had no right to touch, and cleaned my house. MY house. Is that an insult or what? She stays here and then after I've left for work she's like 'this isn't clean enough', and so she cleans it. She put manuka oil in our vacuum cleaner and vacuum the house. It's not ok. It's really not. My house is how I want it, not how she wants it. Go home and clean your own house. And now it smells like her too.
I may be being irrational and over-reacting, but I am so mad! Who gave her the right to clean MY house? Full of MY things, paid for with MY money!?! Yes, her son lives here, but she has NO RIGHT TO CLEAN MY HOUSE.
Ok, I'm over it now.
Brook and I went to see two movies back to back yesterday, and I only got to sleep after 12am, and had to get up at six. I'm one of those people who needs 9 hours sleep to feel right, so today's been tough :D
So, top five from yesterday and today:

1) Brook took me to Massimo for dinner, where I had chicken and mushroom risotto. It was pretty good, I think we'll probably go back there.

2) We watched 'Bad Teacher', which was so bad it was good. Honestly, it was truly awful, but so funny because of it. Then we accidentally met up with a couple of Brook's friends and decided on a whim to see the new X-Men, which was fine, but no amazing.

3) I think my laptop got fixed today. He replaced the power supply and the motherboard. I'll have to give it a good running on the weekend.

4) Freezing temperatures, fluffy down duvet, hot water bottle, flannel pyjamas. Enough said.

5) Lots of students who I've taught over the last five weeks stop me in the hall when they see me to say 'Hi Sam', ask how I am, and chat. It's kinda nice :) I even remember most of them!

Ice Cream Monday

So, back to work today! And Brook's mum came to stay for the night, they're watching 'Black Swan' on DVD while I do some lesson planning and blogging. I'm relieving for an upper intermediate class all mornings this week, and they're really nice. A very cool mix of friendly students, and quite a high level. We're looking at 'celebrations' and they've got heaps of good stories of different celebrations from Thailand, Taiwan, China, Columbia, and Korea. Plenty of fun :) 

My arvo class has had quite the mix around, there's about four new students. This tends to make the class a bit more quite while everyone gets comfy again and works out where they fit. Only five people showed up today though, so it was pretty relaxed. We did some work on countable and non-coutable nouns to do with ordering drinks, and they were so into it! I though they'd find it boring, but they were very keen to learn how to order drinks, learn about different containers (glass, cup, carton, shot glass, etc.) and practice the intonation for ordering. It was a good lesson.

So, today's 5:

1) Two good lessons, with interesting content and enthusiastic students.

2) The buses are heated. Apparently it was 3 degrees this morning, and man was it heaven to get on the bus and warm up after waiting in the cold!

3) I listened to some music I liked when I was younger, Scooter to be exact, and it was cracking me up, big time! The lyrics are so bad they're funny!!

4) Brook's mum took us to Renkon for dinner where I had beef yakiniku. It was delicious!

5) And to top it all off, I had Movenpick ice-cream (vanilla brownie flavour) in a waffle cone for dessert. Some days that ice-cream seems to have magical properties.