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Made it through another week at work, which makes it 9 weeks straight working my full hours. Been harder this week because I'm also marking uni assignments.

I am past bloody exhausted, but I won't be able to relax till Mon/Tues when the assignments are off my hands :(

Just need to remember the money side, my bank balance is finally heading towards healthy again (after the month off over Chrissie and then buying the painting).

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Lara Kate reached her arms out to me yesterday when I went to take her from her daddy. The first time :) It was lovely. I'm just imagining the feeling the first time she puts her arms around my neck and cuddles me.

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Made it through another week at work, which makes it 9 weeks straight working my full hours. Been harder this week because I'm also marking uni assignments.

I am past bloody exhausted, but I won't be able to relax till Mon/Tues when the assignments are off my hands :(

Just need to remember the money side, my bank balance is finally heading towards healthy again (after the month off over Chrissie and then buying the painting).

*

Lara Kate reached her arms out to me yesterday when I went to take her from her daddy. The first time :) It was lovely. I'm just imagining the feeling the first time she puts her arms around my neck and cuddles me.

They had the wool pulled over their eyes...

From SMH:

Thousands of Japanese have been swindled in a scam in which they were sold Australian and British sheep and told they were poodles.

Flocks of sheep were imported to Japan and then sold by a company called Poodles as Pets, marketed as fashionable accessories, available at $1,600 each.

That is a snip compared to a real poodle which retails for twice that much in Japan.

The scam was uncovered when Japanese moviestar Maiko Kawamaki went on a talk-show and wondered why her new pet would not bark or eat dog food.

She was crestfallen when told it was a sheep.

Then hundreds of other women got in touch with police to say they feared their new "poodle" was also a sheep.

One couple said they became suspicious when they took their "dog" to have its claws trimmed and were told it had hooves.

Japanese police believe there could be 2,000 people affected by the scam, which operated in Sapporo and capitalised on the fact that sheep are rare in Japan, so many do not know what they look like.

"We launched an investigation after we were made aware that a company were selling sheep as poodles," Japanese police said, the The Sun reported.

"Sadly we think there is more than one company operating in this way.

"The sheep are believed to have been imported from overseas - Britain, Australia."

Many of the sheep have now been donated to zoos and farms.

They had the wool pulled over their eyes...

From SMH:

Thousands of Japanese have been swindled in a scam in which they were sold Australian and British sheep and told they were poodles.

Flocks of sheep were imported to Japan and then sold by a company called Poodles as Pets, marketed as fashionable accessories, available at $1,600 each.

That is a snip compared to a real poodle which retails for twice that much in Japan.

The scam was uncovered when Japanese moviestar Maiko Kawamaki went on a talk-show and wondered why her new pet would not bark or eat dog food.

She was crestfallen when told it was a sheep.

Then hundreds of other women got in touch with police to say they feared their new "poodle" was also a sheep.

One couple said they became suspicious when they took their "dog" to have its claws trimmed and were told it had hooves.

Japanese police believe there could be 2,000 people affected by the scam, which operated in Sapporo and capitalised on the fact that sheep are rare in Japan, so many do not know what they look like.

"We launched an investigation after we were made aware that a company were selling sheep as poodles," Japanese police said, the The Sun reported.

"Sadly we think there is more than one company operating in this way.

"The sheep are believed to have been imported from overseas - Britain, Australia."

Many of the sheep have now been donated to zoos and farms.