Andrea arrives tomorrow morning!

I have been tracking her flights since she left at 3pm her time (which was 5am my time) and so far, so good! She is currently somewhere over the Pacific, and will arrive in Sydney about 630am. But she has a 2 hour layover there, and then another 1.5 hours to get to Brisbane, so she won't be here until 10 am. So 17 more hours and I will be meeting her at the train station!

I spent the day today at home, which was very nice ^_^. My supervisor and I had a discussion yesterday about the paper that I need to be writing, and he gave me a lot of ideas about it. And then he told me that there was no point in my coming all the way to the hospital to work on my paper, so I might as well stay home and write. At this point, my actual research in the lab is predominantly finished (yay!) so I've just got to write the research up, and create a new Powerpoint presentation, and that will be my entire grade. Crazy.

Although I should have at least written a little today, I haven't yet. (But I still have time! And I will get to it today!). Instead, I kinda putzed around, straightened up my room, read my Lonely Planet- Sydney guide, put together a shopping list for food, and wasted time on the computer (ie, 100 games of freecell and hours on facebook). I did go through some of my things while thinking about what I am going to be sending home with Andrea. And then I started cleaning the house, because I don't want her to be as disgusted by it as I am ^_^. I wish I had "before" pictures, but you will just have to imagine everything as being disgustingly dirty - like so dirty you would be afraid to touch it for fear of contracting hepatitis. =) *not kidding*

"After" pictures:

Overall view of the kitchen/entry way:

I scrubbed down the front door (ewww dead bugs everywhere! and all sorts of dirt!)

I cleaned the sink and under the dish drainer (hello, slime!):


See that backsplash? It was so covered in grease that you couldn't tell what colour it was. The same thing for the stovetop. But thankfully, one of my flatmates saw me cleaning, and offered to help. So he scrapped off all the burnt crud until the thing shines now. I give it about a week and then it will be gross again.


And then I lysol'ed down the sink, mirrors, and walls in the bathroom:


I haven't yet gone near the toilet (which is in a different room than the bathroom). I am leaving that for tomorrow morning. Yuck.