To share a little of me....

I have in the past been on a scrap design team, competed to gain a place on another and while i did not get that place, i lived so far outside of the square while i was learning so much about myself... i saw my style change so much throughout that time and grew more than i could have ever imagined. (even if my friend Gillian says she could pick my work anywhere) Someone told me to refrain from sharing my work with others on the Scrapbooking Memories forum incase my work was scraplifted...personally, i think it is the greatest form of flattery to see that someone else loves your work as much as you do and wishes to recreate it for their own memories...

thinking back on it now, i wonder if it was simply so i was not sharing them with anyone else but her.. !?!? Who knows... anyway...here i am... finally taking the plunge... so.... here are a few that... well... i prepared a little eariler.. :)

My love, my life, my world... MY FAMILY!

Thanks for looking...

Quote of the day

"Scrapping is really the closest that you can get to being immortal. To ensuring that future generations will know about you, about what was important to you and that you meant something to others.
Do i want to live forever?? Absolutely!!"

~Ali Stafford

Howzat!?!

Well... I'm wishing after all the years that i was subjected to the cricket being the ONLY thing on Television over the christmas break, that i had actually taken some notice and perhaps took mum and dad up on their offer for teaching me the rules so i could understand what all these guys in whites were doing running around in the sun on a perfectly good beach weather kinda day.

We were given tickets to todays cricket match at the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground ~for the Yankees reading this ;) ) for today... 5 of them so Matt and i took the kids along and between us all had our first real cricket experience.

While i enjoyed ever bit of the game, i really didnt understand the finer pointers of the game... but... really.. i dont think it mattered all that much, save for the few times i stood up with the English supporters to cheer when they got our guys out! To my defence, this was just after we got there and i didnt realise it was our guys in batting! Doh!!! How on earth could i have known... i had not been watching the highlights and didnt check the scoreboard... and in the sun dark blue hats look very similar to dark green! ~L~

Im sure if the Aussie cricketers knew this was my very first game they would have forgiven me..

regardless.... i soon figured most of it out... stood up with the right supporters and showed the aussie spirit of hollaring in cheers REALLY loudly.. and guess what... im looking forward to going back to watch another cricket match soon...i even have the tickets... courtesy of Jamie.. who was in the right place at the right time and won some for a local game in February... yay!

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afterthought: i even got to be part of a mexican wave... figuring that we are now south of the boarder and all... i thought it was very appropriate!

PS: Lyn... see that dead bit of grass looking thing where the guys are standing!?! Thats a cricket pitch!! :)

4 sleeps 'til my birthday!

(picture taken by Matt)

364 days til we do it again..

Why is it that the wait for christmas seems to take forever while the day it self is over in a blink of the eye!?!

I love christmas... always have and i think i always will... what is there not to love... seeing the childrens faces on christmas morning when they see the tree stacked, weather they are young and total believers or older and know the "secret" it doesnt matter... that look is what all that penny pinching and crazy waiting in cues at the big sales is all for... makes it all worth while... the smell of cooking pudding, the kitchen wafting of all manner of cullinary delights... the laughter and love that seems to be more prominant on this day than any other day of the year...
there is not one part that i dont love...

I cant believe though how fast the day goes.. from about 3am i laid awake hoping to hear foot steps to creep out to the tree and the squeels that normally race through our house.. (even though this year after the party i didnt find myself in bed til 2am anyway~L~)... it took a call from mum at 7.30 am to wake the kids, importantly Miranda who would make sure that noone else was sleeping...

.... present opening... breakfast.... present opening... lunch....

it all seems to pass in a blur.... before you know it... its 9pm and the day is all but over... and its time to start the count down all over again!

Anyway... i had a fantastic day and hope that all those i love and hold dear enjoyed theirs just as much...

To Richard, Tannie, Lee, Lyn, Dave, Rita, Paul and Laura... i hope that you all have had a fantastic day seeing as how in the states... you too shall now be starting that same count down again too...

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afterthought: well... believe it or not... i dont have one!
6 sleeps til my birthday!

Quote of the day

There is nothing sadder in this world than to wake on christmas morning and not be a child.
~Erma Bombeck~

Merry Christmas to All....

and to all a good night....

Well... last night was a wonderful night... our new home filled with new friends, our children...happiness and lots and lots of laughter... what a better way to spend christmas eve!!

Today... what is left to say but Merry Christmas.... and hope that you were good!

Santa came to our house.. and slipped back a little later in the morning with another shipment of presents... needless to say... they were ones that were "forgoten" to be wrap in the aftermarth of the move... a quick distraction... some hastey wrapping and the tree replenished!

Though... im not to sure if i will have a job with santa next year seeings how the presents that were given up as "wrapped" were barely that... what can i say... it was a rush order!~LMAO~

anyway... there is wine to be drunk, toys to play with and still many hours of day light in which to enjoy....

Merry Christmas!!


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afterthought: We are thinking of all those of you that we love where christmas will soon be starting! We love each and everyone of you and hope that one year soon we shall be able to do it together... XXX

Quote of the day

~The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough~

Tis the season ....

Tis the season for some to be jolly while others just figure christmas is too much to deal with, cancel it and think that because they dont want to be festive and make the most of what they have, like to spoil the season for others with their selfish ways..

I have a friend that is sick... can't get better... is no cure and all that...i understand this.. but there is not one thing i can do about it... you know... im not a doctor... i don't have some miraculous healing powers.... and while she has not been doing the best recently... i do what i can by sending her my thoughts... telling her i hope she is feeling better and that she is okay... isnt that what your meant to do!? Being supportive!?!.. i thought that was a friends role... well... obviously i had that arse about face and upside down even because, for sending her wishes hoping she was okay got my arse chewed out and spoken to like a stupid 10 year old, it was all spelled out to me "what life is like" it almost seemed i was expected to go on the same ride of pity that she seems to have boarded and because i had otped to go with "hope" that i was some how a traitor..
Well.. thats not me... if i cant fix something i try to be positive... and hope... that is the one thing we all have... right!?

I have another friend... her sister in law for most of the time i have known this friend has been struggling with cancer... yes, cancer has a cure... sometimes... but regardless... this lady has been really sick... but the difference with her is that she didnt give up on the world and will it to open up and swallow her whole... she held onto hope... looked to the parts of her life that she could fix... do something about... and fought on.... and you know what... she lived life to its fullest and didn't dwell and let her self be pulled into that ugly place where depression dwells...

I really don't know what to do in my situation... do you sit back and be someones sounding board every time they have a bad day... be treated like crap for doing what you do and "hope" or do you do what i did and tell them that it hurt... open them up to the fact that you see them as selfish for the way they are acting about something that you just damn well cant fix.
I love this woman like she were my own flesh and blood sister though do i deserve to be abused every time she has a bad day!?
I guess none of this really matters since she has decided instead of facing the truth of how she has made me feel she has decided to be REALLY adult about this and ignore me like Miranda does when she doesnt get her own way.

I know that no one but me can answer what my head is asking but i guess.. it helps just to get it out..

Thanks for listening...


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afterthought: Now... back to my previous program of CHRISTMAS CHEER!
Merry Christmas Y'all!!!

Quote of the Day

There is nothing sadder in this world than to wake on Christmas morning and not be a child ~Erma bombeck~

Im baaack!

Its beginning to look a lot like christmas for sure... and with only 4 days left, finally im ready!

Its been over a month since i last wrote here i think and so much has happened... firstly.... there are no more counts left.... we are here.... in windy smokey Melbourne...

A date that i thought would never get here came and snuck up on us very quickly and before we could blink the truck was there and the removalists were going through my cupboards packing everything up. It was a strange feeling to say the least.... excitement and anticipation was quickly flooded with panic and dread... it took until the house was half empty to realise the enormousness of what we were really doing...
We were moving hundreds upon hundreds of miles from everyone we loved... everyone that we could count on and everyone that we often visited of a weekend and heading off to a City that none of us were familiar with with people that we didnt know...

What sort of crazy is that!?!

Well.. it was the crazy that we faced just over a week ago and one that i have to admit came with tears from almost all us us and a plea to Matt from me to take me home...
I'm not sure exactly what i think of Melbourne yet... while there are tonnes of shops to explore and things to see and do, its not home.. ya know!?!
I made the biggest leap so far and went out and bought both side neighbours a box of chocolates and had the kids play knock and run, leaving the treats wrapped in festive paper for them to discover once the door was answered...
while i did this, just for something to do and to feel like i was getting into the spirit of christmas in a place i just dont feel i belong quiet yet, it turned out to be a wonderful thing to do... within about 30 minutes i had the neighbours at the door, intorducing themselves and thanking me for the wonderful thought... while it was not a thought i expected to be returned, the next afternoon we were again answering the door to the neighbours, this time with gift in hand...
One thing about the people here in our street, they like to make you feel welcome which i think is lovely... not only was the gift one in responce to our own christmas gesture, though more so a welcome, formally to the street!

We were again greeted with another gift, this time on our door step yesterday... truely, its beginning to look a lot like christmas... our tree is up and now we have gifts besides our own to place under it.. totally unexpected which makes them so much more wonderful.

Getting back to the tears though... the day we arrived, we were greeted just on the outskirts of Melbourne by Alison and Geoff, whom had thought it may be a little less daunting if we followed them to their house where we were staying instead of watching us fumble our way through the city, regardless of the whopping big UBD that had been glued to my lap. Although, having said that, im not totally convinced that it was for none other reason than that Al just could not contain the excitement any longer and needed to be that 30 mins closer to meeting time in an instant!

After talking to this woman that had become part of my life after months and months of million hour long calls we met... after i have to confess, SMS messages flying back and forth between us from about Wodonga...we met.... was truely a day that neither of us thought would come soon enough and our Men prayed would come to save on the huge phone bills!

On the sunday, the tears flowed... it was hot... we finally got to the hotel and were alone... we couldnt swim in the pool because some idiot being chased by the police thought it would be smart to toss his heroine stash into the motels swimming pool so he was not caught with it... so on the hotter than hell day we were having we could not swim and didnt know where we were well enough, so could not find the beach we could smell... we got inside the hotel to find one crummy OLD air conditioner whirring away... not barely cooling the living room much less the rooms that ajoined.. totally AC free... gah.
We had litterally stepped into hell... it was hot, smelled, was tiny and nothing worked..
I swear, two days could not pass soon enough until we were out of there and waiting for the truck out the front of ou new house... which.. i have to say.... is FABULOUS!

This house is bigger than anything that we have ever lived in before, has a cricket pitch as a hall way (swear its true) and keeps cool without the need of air conditioners... im sure it will be happily called home for a number of years to come.. and.. better than anything else, its BRAND SPANKIN' NEW!!!
It only took us 24 hours to have the entire house unpacked and set up after some minor damage done to the walls by the removalists(dont ask) and a few breakages...(we wont go there either... grrr)

so.... there is nothing left for us now to do but put up our feet, relax and wait for the fat man to arrive...

oh... and explore this huge place!

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afterthought: after having some photos taken with Santa at Sanctury Lakes shopping Centre by daddy, we have decided they were not good enough to his standards and will be going back tomorrow... hopefully i will have something up here to share with you all.


4 sleeps til Christmas!

it's beginning to look a lot like christmas...

not long to go now til we move and looking forward to the days to come... Having christmas dinner with mum and Miss Cath and Gail are coming to visit...

I CANT WAIT!


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afterthought: Had Dinner with mum... she went to all the trouble of making the table up like we would have if we were all together for christmas day... while we sat around, talking, eating (way to much) and opening presents, Matt snapped away some brilliant shots of the kids and i... (i wont go into the fact that the computer threw a fit not long after and took them all to oblivian)... we did all this with silly bon bon hats on our head way to big but none the less... we looked the part!

Had a great visit with Cath and Gail... i will have to try and find the pictures of the presents i made them... or, if they too have been lost, plead and beg with them to take a pic and send it through so i can show y'all.
What a night... it was great... wine, good food... great friends.. what else could i ask for as a going away present??? Well.. it got better.. i got exactly that... a going away present.. or better called... "A Travellers survival Kit" which i used very welll through our voyage.. This was a suitcase kind of tin full of everything that one would need to keep sane through a long trip as well as the kids happy... from coffee satchels to asprin to wet wipes and colouring books.. Cath thought of everything.. ...and finally.... we got together for some long awaited for scrapping!!!thank you so much to both you girls for making my last few days in canberra some of the best there, your laughter and friendship is cherished by me.

the sinus nerve's connected to the... tooth nerve

After putting up with a tooth ache for most of the time that i have been sick i finally decided it may be time to visit the dreaded dentist. Bleh... Why are those places so sterile and unfriendly looking? Who in their right mind enjoys going there... i am rather scared of dentists... and the thought of a needle makes me steer clear of them... afterall... they say a lil pain makes you realise your alive.. right!?!

After i started to stop taking Advil for the fevers i found this tooth ache... it reminded me of its presence every time i moved my head or walked... (the vibration through my body as i walked hurt my tooth.. go fogure) anyway... after sitting what seemed like forever in the waiting room.. (about 10 mins) with totally white knuckles, visiting with the dentist and xrays it was discovered that my sinusitis was actually causing the tooth ache..

yay... no needles.... no horrible proceedures...
i just wish that all my dental visits where as pain free!

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20 days to go.

After thought: All but a present for Jamie and a few stocking fillers to buy... Christmas is all wrapped up.. literally! YAY!

Takes my breath away.

Check out this picture.. a total fluke though in the photography world... almost perfect!

Matt had to take some photos of Miss M after she decided to dress up in her Nannys pearls... which, by the way will be the title of the Layout HAVE to do once i print this photo... anyway... He set her up infront of the camera in the studio and for the life of either of us, we could not work out where the tiniest lil bit of glare was coming from... dinner was almost ready so we decided to come into the main part of the house. While he was uploading some of his pix from the camera to hard drive i decided to play around with her, since she is such a poser... Anyway, i was sitting in the single sofa chair sideways and started clicking.. the light was pretty messed up since the sun was going down and some blinds were open... and some closed... wanting to snap off a few photos of my own before dinner i was not really fussed about giving too much thought to what i was really doing... i got a couple of other alright shots... then ... the flash bounced off the wall as i shifted in my seat and this one was the result... a total fluke! (would you believe that there is another sofa behind her, a painting on the wall and a candlabra... oh.. and yeah.. the background was cream!

It takes my breath away....

i swear, she will be hitting our photography friends up for a shoot in a few years time... she loves the camera.. and as this photos shows.. the camera loves her. She is a natural.

Matt decided to put it in his online portfolio at a photography community he is a member of... this is what the photographers had to say....

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24 sleeps... (getting closer)

Cancelled

Well.. i planned today to go out and buy my mother her christmas present since we will be spending next saturday with her and doing an early christmas dinner and exchanging presents although the Shopping Nazi has cancelled my expidition today, reason being: Doctors orders

Part of my not being admitted to hospital the other day was a vow made to the doctor that i would stay silent for atleast 4 days and would remain indoors in a controlled climate so that my lungs were not taking in different temperatured air until i was better... Constable Matt of the Fun Police is on duty...

I'm so sick of my own company.. am bored beyond tears and so so so tired of being sick.

The constable has gone to the store, i wonder what surprises he will bring back!?!

Quote of the day

Courage doesn't always roar.

Sometimes courage is the quiet voice

at the end of the day saying,

"I will try again tomorrow"

~Mary-Anne Radmacher~

when one journey ends, another must be started

Well... as a few know, for the past while I've been in a competition... Well.. this comeptition was for a spot on the Scrapboxx design team.. Something that i have wanted ever since i joined an online scrapping community and seriously... the spot that i have considered the pot at the end of the rainbow.
This scrap competition was to be done in 6 rounds... While i have been so lucky to be part of this experience, part of me thought i was crazy to take on such an indepth challenge with the move looming so close and with everything else happening at the moment. For the past week or so ive been really stressing as i look at my callander and try and figure out when the last round should be needing to be submitted and when the announcement would be made. While it was only a rough estimate, i had calculated the last round being submitted the day of our move and the announcement on who had won the comp announced the day we moved in!!!
talk about stress!

Well...last night, the announcement was made as to who would go through to the next round, round 5. I was sound asleep when this descision was made. Unfortunately, this is where my journey ended. While im bummed that i must now bow out of the game, part of me is breathing a big sigh of relief that it is one stress crossed off my list now...

Last night, before turning in i finally plucked the courage to submit some of my work to Scrapbooking Memories Magazine like Alison has been harping on me to do for months.. well Al, im sure you will be very pleased to know that i have submitted 8 last night.
I shall submit my Scrapboxx DT challenge work now as well...

when one door closes, another normally opens.. right? Lets now sit back... put this all in the hands of fate and see what door shall next open for me.



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25 sleeps to go

afterthought : If at first i don't succeed, i will try again on their next DT call!

My own 'lil bubble

I sit here in total silence and feel litterally like im in my own private bubble...
No one is talking to me because i can't talk back and they are getting frustrated that i cant communicate properly...... grrr... my ears are blocked up and it sounds like im listening to everything under a few million liters of water... glug glug glug.

Today has to have been the most boring day in my existance... i've checked out both of my favourite forums, responded to everything i could and even sent PMs and Emails to people in hope for some human interaction... and no one wants to play with me.
Perhaps its my germ ridden self .... who wants to play with the manky person.. right?
Perhaps something happened while i was sleeping and im the only person left on the planet? ~LMAO~
who knows...
all i know is that im bored.

hold on... me.. the only person left in existance???

oh god.. then i would truely die not being able to talk to anyone... as it is... i cant do my normal thing and talk to myself... im slowly going insane!

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27 sleeps and counting...

Totally Bummed

Why is it that when you have a million things to do and all these wonderful plans.. you always get sick?
It appears that i have let myself get a little run down over the past few weeks... ive had a niggling cough and a runny nose that i have been trying to nab at home with codral so that Matt would not freak at me... ofcourse, being the mum... i just CANT be sick while the kids are... right? Wrong...
this morning i was whipped off to the doctors for a visit since i woke and could not move my head, was coughing severly and struggling for my breaths... well... my worst nightmare was realised... i was really sick. NOOOOOO! & He also told me i was not allowed to talk for 4 days... i have the startings of laringitis... WHAT THE? How will i go 4 minutes without talking let alone 4 days!??
28 days to go til we move, tonnes of things to do and a million phone calls to make and i have no voice, a bad chest infection and sinus infection that is requiring full bed rest...
im so mad right at the moment... this is totally not fair...
and to make a bad situation worse... ive missed just over a week at the gym already because ive felt like crap (but i didnt let anyone know that ofcourse) and the doctor has told me atleast another week will go by before im back there again! GRRRRRR.
stupid sickness.... bleh!
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28 days to go.

Quote of the Day

Music is what feelings sound like.

~unknown~

the number Four... 4

i was tagged in my email earlier today by a friend and thought that i would share you with you the answers that i offered her in reference to her questions...


Four Jobs I’ve Had :
1) Medical receptionist
2) Claims Officer for Zurich Australia
3) A sales assistant in the best candy shop ever!
4) A Mama

Four Movies I Can Watch Over And Over :
1) Notebook
2) Pearl Harbour
3) Dragonfly
4) cocktail

Four TV Shows I Love To Watch :
1) Grays Anatomy
2) NCIS
3) Any CSI
4) Bones

Four Important things to me :
1) Matt and my children as well as our parents.
2) my mobile phone… id be lost without it.
3) Bailey, my pooch and my friends.
4) Scrap~booking
(i think i cheated.. that is a few more than 4.. though.. since this is my blog... its allowed! :P)

Four Tunes That Play In My Head :

1) Seven years, Norah Jones
2) board walk angel, (from the eddie and the cruisers sound track)
3) Big black horse and the cherry tree KT Tunstall
4) going under, evanecsence

Four Favorite Food Dishes :
1) Chinese : anything
2) Lemon meringue pie
3) Seafood dishes (not oysters. Bleh)
4) a nice hot soup in the middle of winter… mmmm.

Four Websites I Visit Daily :
1) Scrapbook Memories
2) scrapboxx
3) My gmail account
4) my blog

Four Scrap company's I like :
1) Basic Grey
2) Bazzill (their flowers are divine)
3) Making Memories (loving their chips, rub ons and stamps)
4) 7 gypsies (goes without saying!)

Four Favorite Colours :

1) Purple
2) Pink
3) cornflower blue
4) lime green… (this is a new discovery)

Never look a gift horse...

Well... you know how the saying goes... right? Never look a gift horse in the mouth... and all that... well... it seems that because of politics and liabitity, that is exactly what companies like the Salvation army are having to do these days...

Two weeks ago i organised a pick up with the Salvos, offering them in total, about a $1000 rrp worth of baby stuff that was still tucked away in our garage from Miss M... ofcourse, that is not what i would sell them for if i wanted to... though very much what they cost us in the beginning...
anyway... yesterday, even though i felt like crap i took the fabric covers off a few of the things (even though the items had been covered in plastic wrap) and washed them... recalling something that the woman that took my call said "this time of the year we have many things that just go directly to people in need... christmas is such a rough time on some families"... i figured, if these items were to be given a new home and not placed in a store, how nice it would be to have them glistening, shiney and with fresh covers..

well... this morning the truck arrived and the guys came into the garage to have a look at the things, telling me that they needed to sight the "australian safety standards stickers"... i told them that i had never seen them on the items and if they had been on the handles of the pram that im sure Mira would have picked it off at some point.
Because of this small technicality, still... sitting in my shed are the items, in excellent condition...
Much to my horror and dismay they were not able to be taken because these stickers were missing. I think the young guy that was with the driver was in as much shock that such great items were being left.

It makes you wonder what the world is coming to that items that are so expensive and can be such a burden to have to buy by people facing financial difficulties are being refused simply because of the fear of liability claims and some idiot in parliament.

While i could have very well sold these items, i figured that since Matt and i were in need once upon a time that giving these things... especially so close to christmas... would be a nice way to "pay it forward"...


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29 sleeps and counting

Chicken spots dots & even pox!

Well.... could you believe it... this morning Miss M(Miranda) woke up with a spot on her eyebrow that i thought was simply a pimply lil thing that kids get some times... obviously i didnt think it worth mentioning here in my ramblings... though since... they have bred, mulptiplied, trippled and spread all over her poor lil body... how much more could really go wrong with my sweet lil babe in one week?

I guess the up side is that she is not at all perterbed by them and is not in any obvious distress from their hurting or itching though a few of them are very big!?!
Now... i guess we wait to see if Jamie, who only had a very mild case of 3 dots when Kiera had them, gets them again... what joy! (not)

and they're off!

i dont know what drugs i was on this morning thinking that demerger had a chance of winning the cup... stupid horse... did it even finish?? ~LMAO~

anyway... i'm not caring cause i won 2nd prize in the $3 sweeps on Pop rock and will have a wonderful lil bounty of scrapping goodies arriving in my mail box very soon!!!

30 Days and counting

Well yesterday we recieved official confirmation of our move dates... i'm so excited..

Prepack 7th December
Uplift 8th December
Deliver 12th December

I think that gives us a good little time to pack things away exactly where we want them and be totally settled and comfortable before the fat man arrives...

ofcourse... the christmas tree will be up the night we move in..


Talking of christmas.... we had our first this weekend with Matts mum and dad... was cool... the kids got some great presents and Matt and i will surely make use of the electric frying pan we got!

Christmas with my mum may have to be postponed this week because of remeberance day... though at this stage, im hoping Matt doesnt go to work on monday which means we could do christmas on sunday...
i guess.... though... we will just have to wait and see!

Quote of the Day

A horse is a horse, of course, of course,

And no one can talk to a horse of course

That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed.

~Mr Ed -Ray Evans and Jay Livingston~

The Gid~dey~up cup

Well... its that time of the year again... time for drinks and horsies and major fashion stuff ups!

Its the Melbourne cup today.... while i'm not betting on the ponies in a traditional sence i have gone into a sweep... or five with some girls for a prize pool of scrapping products...
all i can say this morning... between gut wretching coughs (from my cold that has got nasty) is... giddy up Demerger!!!

For some reason, when i saw the names of the horses this year, i thought that Demerger was a winning name and if i had the energy to get to a TAB i would have placed a bet on that horse... (my usual $1 or $2 each way)... i know... im the last of the big spenders!~LMAO~... anyway.... much to my surprise and excitement... Demerger was my horse for my $5 sweep... how happy am i??

(i guess we will re evaluate that after the race has run... right??)

my sweep ponies are :

$1 : #20 Glistening
$2 : #22 Dolphin Jo
$3 :#12 Pop Rock
$4 :#16 Kerry O'Reilly
$5 :#19 Demerger


Im not too sure about any of those other names... though... i must say... the horses i have have better names than some of them that are racing this year, thats for sure....

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30 sleeps to go.


after thought: Why are horses given such weird names and how do they hold their head up in the stables when they have a rediculous name? Talk about embarrassing!

Yesterday...

Yesterday was the first time that i had taken Miranda out since her eye started to bleed earlier this week... more to her request than anything since she didn't like the look of her eye and thought that everyone would laugh at her.
It is very noticable... its very red from the blood and yellow from the pigmentation where some of the blood from earlier bleeding is healing. She is right... it doesn't look nice... though... as her mama.. her eyes to me... are still as beautiful as ever.
She knew that since she was not going to preschool (because of her cold) that she would have to go shopping with me... though, where i thought there would be a fight of wills trying to convince her that it would be okay, much to my amazement she donned on a pair of sunglasses (that daddy bought her last sunday) and said she was fine and ready to go... while her eye was still noticable beneath the sunglasses... to her... they were the magic that she needed to go out...
i watched people yesterday... some looked at her in curiosity... others just smiled at her cheeriness and seemed to ignore the very sore looking eye... out of all the people we passed, and we would have had to have passed hundreds yesterday, only a handful noticably... rudely... stared.
The thing that really made me smile was a little boy in the bank no more than 5 who willingly approached miranda and started talking to her... not once did he ask what was wrong with her eye or seemed to care in the slightest that she looked different than him.

why is it that small children seem to have this ability to just accept everyone ... no matter their race, features or disability?
When is it that most change and allow the very thing that makes us all individual, to divide us?

Hopefully before long my sweet beautiful girl will be showing those gorgeous dark blue eyes to the world proudly again.


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34 sleeps to go

Quote of the day

~The difference between a flower and a weed is the judgement~

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Quote of the day

~A hug is worth a thousand words~

Another grey hair for Mama...

Well... as y'all can see i was not here yesterday... though... in brief.. i can say that most of my day was slept away after being up all the previous night with a very sick miss M...
By about 2pm i was finally glad to see my baby wake up... though that happiness turned quickly to panic as she looked at me with her left eye full of blood beneath the covering of the eye... ofcourse... so not to shock or scare her i had to fight back those tears and sobs that threatened to consume me... I WAS SCARED... how do you not relay even a little of that to her?
I had to wait for Matt to get home... i can tell you.. that was the longest hour of my life...while getting my shoes on Jamie came home... (without me being able to warn him) i returned to the lounge room with top end panic of both him and now a very scared miranda..

to the doctors we went... they were waiting for us... (now.. wouldnt this scare you a lil knowing that medical staff were preparing for your arrival?)

Thankfully though, after the doctor gave her eye a good look.. said that it was "only" a subdural conjunctal heamorhage!?! WTF??

there is no such thing as ONLY when your own lil baby is involved...
anyway... apparently, from her severve coughing and the extreme pressure put on her face when she was throwing up she ruptured blood vessels in her eye. It should only take a few days for the blood to vanish.. a little more has spread.. but i will take the doctors advice and just watch it over the next 2 days..

so... there you go... yet a few more grey hairs for me... :(



Afterthought: Happy Halloween!

It's the first year in many that we have not taken the children trick kor treating in full costume... hopefully we wont get any trick or treaters.. with all the drama here i forgot to go shopping!!! ~eek~

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37 sleeps to go

Quote of the day

Never leave
that till
tommorrow
which you can
do today.

one weekend down...

well... its one weekend less 'til the move... leaving 5 more... which are TOTALLY going to be hectic but so good regardless...

this weekend was spent christmas shopping... and miraculously... save for a few minor presents for the kids, something for Matt and my mum... im all done!

Within a few hectic hours yesterday and today, i had bought everything i set out to ... (not one thing i didnt) and let the children wander through target and get the clothes they wanted for christmas... Matt and i cringed all the way to the change room considering with the children three and a trolley load of clothes we thought we would be there forever...
Thanks to some planning and sticking Jamie and Miranda in the disabled change room since it was bigger and Kiera in the first change room in the ladies side (just a few steps away) we had everything tried on in about half an hour... definate a legendary effort on all our parts...

Miranda my poor baby is sick again.. she has a cold.... and to top it off has contracted conjuntivitis and infected both her eyes... she is so brave...her top lip and the skin between her nose and the lip is all burned from a runny nose and her eyes hurt something bad though she doesnt complain.. instead, has laid on the sofa most of the day, listening to movies with her eyes closed.. (since that doesnt hurt).. she has drops which hurt her.. though.. again.. so so so brave... She makes her mama so proud!

Well.. im off to wrap these christmas presents...


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39 sleeps

afterthought: i wonder what santa is planning on bringing me this year...afterall, i've been a good girl... mostly.

Tip of the day.

Never ever EVER leave a open little bottle of coke on your desk when you go to the bathroom... (even if it is only for a minute..) if the window your desk is against up open and there is a strong wind blowing.

~insert pulled face here~...

well... the secret i told y'all about today is no longer a matter of being kept top secret thanks to the blasted wind... hmmm... although... the coke did mix nicely with the ink to give a pretty kinda marbled effect im not sure if Alison would have thought it was that pretty.

Though.. even though two days work is now litterally wasted... you know what? im not going to do anything but laugh over it and take the lesson learned and continue on with making the rest of my christmas presents on the list... what else can i do? Stressing is not going to bring back the work gone and no amount of paper toweles will rectify the damage.

On a positive note... Matt and i were ruthless in the garage today... OCD comes in handy sometimes.. i tell ya... never before have i seen a better organised garage. Everything has a home .. archive boxes are a godsend.. everything is labelled.. what has not got a home due to being evicted... is neatly awaiting the truck..

i think im going to go and sit on the fold up chair in the middle of the garage and revel a little bit at this perfect organisation!
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41 sleeps.

Quote of the day

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

~R. Buckminster Fuller~

Even the best laid plans....

go to shit!

Why i ever wrote myself a challenge for today i will never know... it all started out smooth sailing.... went to the Scrap store as planned and stocked up on the Basic grey Romani & gypsie papers... uh.. have you seen these? they are so so so purdy! Anywho.. then i went to the warehouse... bought some things for my project for Kiera and came home...

I was true to my word... the phone was ringing off the hook when i came in... i ignored it! ~insert very proud assed grin here~ I guess i should say... "Alision.. if it was you...errrrr... ya should have read my blog and be forewarned... i wasn't answerin'!" :P

I started on Miss M's puzzle.. only to get 11 pieces covered in paper before i ran out of glu stick. Shit-bugger-damn...grrrrrr... soooooo... i left it... i was NOT going to waste valuable scrapping time in a que anywhere waiting to buy more.~L~

So.. you'd think that i would have gone to the next thing on my list right???

WRONG!

while i was out at the scrap store i got all inspired to make something ENTIRELY different... for someone not even on todays challenge list.. wanna know more??

okay... c'mere... but shhhhh... you can't tell.. okay??? she has admitted to being my stalker.. goodness knows when she may be listening in...

i started one of Alisons christmas presents... i'm so excited... i think im a legend in my own lunch box at how well its coming along... but... its s secret... i can't tell you what it is... i guess thats one of the sucky things about blogs... you never know who is reading... right Al? ~laughing~



Afterthough: make not to self not to make notes or to do lists!

and through the clouds comes sunshine.

There is no other word to describe yesterday... other than dismal.. cold... dark.

Have you ever had a day when you have just woken up and from the onset of the day felt like a boeing 747 plummeting out of control from the sky towards land?
That was my yesterday... much like the weather, i too was shrouded in grey skies and no sunshine... it was cold and miserable... bleh...
i hate days like that... though... thankfully... today the sun again shines.. both outside my window and here... with me...
i have a bunch of things on my "challenge me" list to do... though...while they are the same things that were there yesterday, today i have no doubt they will fully get underway..

~*~Challenge me List for today~*~

fridge magnet photo tin x2

ABC jigsaw puzzle

make a start (even if its thinking about) my next SB challenge

plan ahead for Jamie and Kieras christmas mum-made pressy.

Then... all the dull-drum phone calls i have to make in re: to rego etc... double bleh.

its almost the christmas season and i have presents to make.. and fast!
Matt and i as you know yesterday organised our diary so that we could do christmas with his mum and dad and my mum ... well... last night, mum and dad call and say that they want to come down to visit on the 4th of novemeber... (a week EARLIER than Matt and i had planned)... yep.. you know it... ive not started their present... let alone done any shopping for them re: a present... Gah...

i think that my first port of call after dropping Miss Miranda off at school today is a trip to Richardson to my local scrap store.. i have started a puzzle for Miranda what is not like any normal puzzle.. its going to challenge her entirely.. though.. i ran out of the paper i wanted to use...and... well... what other excuse do i really need to visit a scrap supply store? :D

then.. a trip to the warehouse, just to peek at what they have... who knows.. i may find something totally wonderful to alter for Jamie... and a box for kieras pressy... i think im rather settled on what she is gonna get.. though.. more of that later...

after those little visits... im going to stick the car in the garage so i "dont look home" and let the answering machine screen calls for me... (meaning.. ANSWERING THEM ALL) and im gonna

SCRAP!!!

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42 sleeps and counting

For Sale!?!?

While perusing some forums this morning i came across a thread asking if you were to write a for sale advertisement for yourself, what would you write.. well... this is what i came up with... given the mood i was in this morning.. i think its rather spot on!

"1974 model, eccessive KMs and weather worn appearance. Runs well when given time to warm up. Has many dents and dimples in the exterior and leaks somewhat though nothing that cant be fixed with a little TLC. If nothing else, she would be perfect for parts!"

Perhaps i will write another one in a month and see if the old gal is still as run down!

~LMAO~
time for bed... man... have i been looking forward to this!

And its coming like a freight train..

Wow... I've just been on the phone with Matt this morning, well.. texting anyway. We have been trying to schedule things into our quickly diminishing weekends.

I can't believe how little we can actually do now... We have known about this move for so long now and seriously, up until about a week or so ago.. a day was a day.. you know... it didn't seem to be moving along very quickly... and now.. its hurling towards us like a freight train.

I'm a little scared now... i dont know if that is the word or not... im worried about being that far away from everyone that i love. No longer will we be able to be impromptu and say "what the hell... lets jump in the car and go and visit mum, or mum and dad".... they will be a days drive away! We wont be somewhere we are familiar with... we will i guess.. in a nutshell.. be away from "home". I was born not far from here and in all the places i have ever lived... for the first time.. ever... this place has felt like home.

While we like moving.. (most times) to see places that we have not seen before... for so long i wanted to live in Canberra and now.. here... we are having to move... i don't feel like i've been here long enough. i guess... because 2 years is NEVER long enough somewhere... well.. unless its Katherine, NT!

There are so many beautiful things here that we have said we would visit... take photos of etc... and now... with 2 1/2 weekends free... it looks like we will be running around, doing fly by tours of all those things and snapping away all crazy like... yep.. in the true form of a scrapper and her photographer.

can we do it? I have no doubt we can.

But.. on the lighter side of all that... we get to do christmas 3 times this year... who in their right mind would complain about that?!?

Now... all that said... im off to create create create... i have christmas presents to make... and who knows... i may even get motivated enough to make some cards instead of doing the cheats thing this year and buying them.

(haha. i can imagine a world of scrappers covering their ears at hearing that)


After thought: why is the dictionary on a mobile phone automatically set to dyslexic?

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:43 days until the truck arrives.

Quote of the day

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
~Milton Berle~

I won't be beaten.

As with everything.. there is a period of teething problems.. for me.. that is today...right at this moment and about 3 hours before it...~L~ i finally took the plunge and got myself a blog... i'm not sure what you will discover here... what i will discover about myself for that matter... though one thing i know... is i wont be beaten... this blogger thing will not win... i will master it... and all its little secrets! Mahahaha.

So... i guess.. its welcome to any~one bored enough to read my welcomes... along the journey... you will get to know me... meet my family and really see how over~rated rational though is... afterall.. you will be ultimately looking into my mind... via this page...

DONT TELL ME I DIDNT WARN YOU!

Quote of the Day

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
~Elbert Hubbard~