adventures for Noddie and me

Noddie (2 and a half) has lost front-garden priveleges after she tore off up the street and hid in someone's yard instead of getting into the car so we could zoom off to her carer's and then to work. I was speechless and helpless - chasing her would make it a game, leaving her to come back on her own would put her at risk of being hit by all the other cars heading to work. Luckily she popped out of her hiding place before I had apoplexy, so I could threaten her with driving away without her, which made her burst into tears and run back down the hill. Ah, parenthood. Guilt in a curly-haired package. Thank goodness toddlers have the memory retention of a sandfly so she won't be permanently scarred by her adventure LOL.
She was probably a bit over-excited because we were packing the car so I can drive to Mum's straight after work tonight for a long weekend. I work the first part of the week and uni doesn't start again until next week, and J is working so I'm off on my own! Yippeee! The Spousal Unit will bring Noddie into work for the "handover" and we will take straight off, and get there about 9pm (it's 300km). I don't often get to drive as J is quite old-fashioned about that sort of thing, so I'm looking forward to a night drive into the country!
I've packed my running gear so I can go out on the river path near Mum's place. Bliss!
*you will notice I've just worked out how to work the "bold" function*
Holiday things to look forward to
- shopping with Mum. Why is it I hate shopping near home but away is ok?
- going out for coffee
- sitting around reading, knitting, listening to the footy on the radio - except when Mum has the horse racing on
- running in a beautiful setting
- singing and dancing to Playschool with Noddie and Mum. Mum was a kinder teacher for many years so she gets right into it :)
- going for walks with Noddie. This is what she did last time we were there

GOAL UPDATE
(I nearly typed "goad update" - how apt, eh?)
No wine - CHECK
No carb-fest - well, less of one than Monday, so CHECK
Portion sizes - CHECK
Rang estate agent. No tenants yet but plenty of enquiries and I'm keeping the agent on his toes (a long story, but a GOOD THING) - CHECK

TODAY I WILL - see you at 5pm :P
Respond to emails and clean out folders - this took ages since I have been neglecting it but CHECK
Make the calls I need to do - CHECK
Revise 2 sections of manual - I am clearly avoiding this!
Email about project 1 - CHECK
GOOD THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED TODAY
Noddie didn't get run over.
We were dancing and pretending to be leaves
The traffic was miraculous - we left 15 minutes late, thanks to Noddie's adventure, and I got to work on time!