one of the many talents at Scrapboxx have started their own etsy store and is so generously offering this bundle of blog candy up to one lucky person... is it so fresh and funky? I LOVE the colour... (i know.. i know... something other than Green and im in love!)
Anyway.. you too can have a chance to win by becoming a follower of her blog and leaving post... im sure, like me, you will be crossing your fingers that youa re puled out in this draw!! Good luck!
Isnt he just the most gorgeous doggie? He is Bailey, my 6 year old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and I have just entered him in a competition at our local pet store... though he needs your help to win.. If you think he is deserving... please click here and look for his photo and give him your vote...
He has his eye on a new rope bone in the toy isle as well as a funky new lead. His prize money would sure help him get these items!
Thanks
Bailey and Me.
I just thought before I popped on a pair of runners and set out for todays challenge of 10km (in two 5km lots) and then go to a BBQ, I would stop by, say happy Australia day.
Hope that you all have a great one, remember the sunblock and if you are out on the roads.. stay safe !!
I am hoping to be back at a reasonable enough hour today to actually take some photos of my most recent layouts and pop them up here for a looksee.
Anyway.... must run.. (not litterally - yuk)
xxxx
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PS: thank you for your gorgeous comment Lyn... It means tonnes to me.. I think i fixed your posting issue... ;-)
Accountable for my life..
I plan on blogging the journey... so when I am at the end of it... I can see where I was... where ive been and what its like on the other side...
A journey is started with a single step...
This blog will follow that first step and all the others to follow...
I could sit here and ramble though I am just going to keep this short and say, WOW. I recieved my HUGE order from 3 angels today... you know, the store that I wrote about below that had the huge rediculously cheap sale!?
Well... its only been 8 days from the time I put my order in until it arrived on my doorstep. ( a little soggy after the stupid postal delivery guy left it in the pouring rain - however the girls were on their game and ensured that everything was packaged and bagged up, i guess for those just in case instances... like today)
Jo and Rosy are just so friendly. I had a need to email them a few times (to combine shipping. oops) and they were so prompt with their replies.. and just so very professional but still approachable. I don't think I have reason to need to look too much further than there for anything in the future, except that odd bit of paper or Cardstock needed to complete a layout. (you know what its like when your on a roll.. just gotta have it so you can do it)... Anything else.. well I am happy to wait the few days to arrive. (my first ever order with them took 2-3 days) to arrive. Like i said.. great service!
I have spread everything out over my bed and it is better than i could imagine... while the images online are great, as in colour representation.. though OMG.. some of these papers I am wishing I had bought more than one sheet each of.
I just may have to pop another (little) order in before their sale finishes on Friday..
When I am a little more awake, I may just have to take a picture of this package and let you have a little peek see.
Anyway.. happy Mondays to you.. I hope you had a great day.. for those who are just starting yours.. have a great one!
love ya..
xxx
a day late.. i know.. I know. hahah... firstly got home to a sick man and then crawled up 
onto the bed next too him for a "minute" and woke up this morning... 14 hours i was out! ~L~
the beautiful comments that I have recieved both publically here, as well as in my email in regard to my 82 candles layout... He was a man worthy of the pedistal that i put him on early in my life and the title, Hero.. There is not a day that goes by that I dont think of him, miss him or stop 
myself before I refer to him in first person as though he has just stepped out for a moment. I dont think there will be a day that will come when any of these changes. (wow.. I think I have just writte
n some journalling for another layout... if only i had the layout to put it on -- I guess that will come). 
badly of me... the email that you sent me before christmas, I have just discovered in my spam filter. Grrr to silly Gmail.
s long distance hugs... I am going 
through the same dramas, sort of, to a degree at the moment..
perhaps when we are totally insane and sharing a room in an institution, we can swap stories. 
to snail pace slow...
That is my internet connection at the moment and it is driving me I.N.S.A.N.E...
"Someone" went over our usage limit this month and it seems that the rest of us have to suffer the consequences. Arrrgh.
I know that I had promised to post some blog candy... though with my internet at dial up speeds it is prroving a little more difficult than I would have imagined. As of Midnight tonight though, it will be running at the zippee-fast speed that I have grown accustom to and am so sadly missing right now.. yippppeeee....
So... bare with me... my holidays are over and I head back to work tomorrow, although when I get home, I will do some sharing with you... (since I really dont think I will be still awake at midnight... sorry.)
Hope you are having a fantastic day...
xxxx
I have just been laying out some of the pages that I have created over the last little while to take pictures to share and just realised, that all but one layout has either green or blue in the layout somewhere...how weird is that!?
Totally weird...
keep an eye out... these photos will be uploaded shortly.
Why is it that with every birthday we gain a year? Don't you think that it is a little bit rude?
One minute you are celebrating your sweet sixteen... then you are excitedly announcing to the world that you are 21... ofcourse, for no other reason than to let the bouncers know that you are NOW old enough to gain entry to the night club(leagally)and then, next minute, your recounting on your fingers, sure that some how there has been a mistake... 36? Surely not.. wasn't it my 30th just last... whoa.. wait a minute... holy crap... 36!? Are you sure!? (count count count - huge sigh and slow nod of acknowledgement)
Well peeps... I came to that realisation last night as the clock struck 12 and fireworks began to explode all around us... some how, 36 didn't knock... it just barged right on in!
While 36 is a pretty round figure (much like the bearer) it is not really that bad i guess... its not like i can take it back and exchange it or anything... so I am just going to hold onto it for a while... see how we get along and see how it fits over the next year... what else can i do really? (well.. other than start to perpetually lie... but how long do you think i can keep up the "Ive just turned 30".. or.. i could go the complete opposite way and tell people that I am much older... atleast then I can be told how good i look.. oh.. shit.. but what if... oh.... what if (whispers) they tell me that I look every bit of that age!?) hmmm... yes... okay then... that settles it...
~screaming from the roof tops~ I have just turned 36 and I am proud of every wrinkle that it bears!
Happy Birthday MEEEEEEEEE!
I have had the best day... due to wet weather, the picnic that the children and Matt had planned for me got relocated to the living room floor, although after we had a yummy lunch we headed off to Geelong, just planning a walk on the Esplanade, though when we we got there, realised that the Geelong Council and the local radio station had done a huge event in the park.. so we headed off to explore the many things that they had to offer... jumping castles, teacup ride ( which we missed out on because we took justa little too long at the reptile petting area)laughing clowns (in which i won a teddy bear and a fluffy while halo), danced ourway through the variety of market stallas and had a right royal time... finishing off on the pier, taking some fabbo photos... of which i have yet to upload onto a computer... now... we are just getting ready to make our famous home made pizzas, have chocolate mud cake (yes, the same one we had for Matts birthday Cath. Yummo) and then we are going to watch the Blue Collar Comedy DVD set we have... I SO LOVE THOSE GUYS!
= )
(will post pics tomorrow i hope and add a lot of other eye candy too!)
Happy new year guys... as I write, i hear fireworks that I can't see... lightning that is brightening the sky EVERYWHERE and from being super hot earlier, Im now almost shivering from the cold wind and from standing in the rain trying to nab a picture of the illegal fireworks that seem to be going off everywhere.
We attempted this earlier, at the 9pm fireworks... though from the block of land, the fireworks were tiny... though we did get an awesome photo of natures very own light show... a streak of lightening that flashed before us right when we were ready to click the button on the camera.
I am now cool enough to sleep... totally sober (i know.. i know... who would have thunk it)... and going to call it a night I think...
stay safe and enjoy the party... and again,... happy twenty10
and we had a grand ol' time.
What a day.... It started with a lovely little text chat with my darlin girl... while I was still i bed and she was preparing for the cyclone that were here children (only minutes later)... and I was waiting for my own storm to build. I actually got to stay in bed until 7.30am. AMAZING!!
The kids enjoyed unwrapping the gifts that I finally finished wrapping only 5 or so hours before hand... totally sober and still in search of that stiff drink. Who would have been so stupid as to forget the second most ingredient!? Coke!?
(I know.. I could have just gone straight.. though I did'nt think that was a wise idea incase I tried to find our chimney!!)
After having my little text convo with my darlin' girl.. we turned it into a real one around 9am when all members of both our families got all our gifts from each other and did a mass ripping and squeeling as we did a long distance gift exchanging extravaganza... There was way too much food... (note to self, when I next say "simple, fuss free dinner" I MEAN IT!)And we broke in every single one of the kids games... I have never before laughed so hard as I did when I decided that I needed to show the children exactly how one plays Highschool Musical 3 DANCE (a dance mat game)... Not one for the 'tarded.
I hope that you all had a wonderful day... laughed as much as we did here... and got a little spoiled along the way!
I don't think that there has ever been a christmas before this where I was so bloody unorganised. The woman that has all her shopping done and at home by the beginning of november and wrapped a few days later has just now returned home from the store for the 3rd time today. 1st time, to get last minute gifts, the 2nd, to do the grocery shopping for tomorrow... and the last... because I realised that I had run short on wrapping paper... and ofcourse, I need that to wrap all the presents that are strewn through my wardrobe, still waiting to be wrapped!
Arrrgghh... Totally the picture of disorganisation!!! (and no.. i'm NOT going to share a photo of the chaos that is me today! haha. Though I am sure cath would get a laugh... my hair is disheveled, my cheeks flushed and am right about now in desperate need of a good strong drink! Who on earth leaves everything until christmas eve!? There were people everywhere and honestly, I would have gotten a better park if I left my car at home and walked!)
Well... I best go.. I have gingrbread men, cinnamon stars and choc-mint candy cane cookies a calling and I still have to cut veges, prepare the meats, get ready for a christmas eve party at a friends house, have that good stiff drink... and oh... how could I forget... wrap those presents!
I am sure when I get through my list, not a creature will be stirring... hmmm.. maybe... that will have something to do with the... mmmmmm.... stiff drink!
ho ho HO...
The clock says 11pm and the thermometer on the wall reads 31 degrees celcius while I'm sitting here at the moment battling the urge to jump on the first flight to the states and share the holiday season with Lyn... Honey, you got a spare bed.. sofa or piece of floor for a tired, hot and uncomfortable Aussie?
Thankfully tomorrow the weather should only be 27 and 25 for the 25th. Oh how a girl can only hope.
Christmas is hard to get into the swing of when its too hot to move, though we are doing pretty good at keeping festive (now I finally got the bug)... yesterday we baked gingerbread ladies, (who says that they have to be men!? Though i did have a chuckle and wonder if I should be burning my bra at the same time!)spiced christmas cookies, though due to an extremely heavy hand and or the fact that I opened the wrong end of the spice dispenser, these tasted very cinnamon-y... and topped off the cooking with chocolate cookies that had little bits of "candy cans" in them.. (aka candy canes)and extra sprinkled over the top for good measure.
Today... the postman knocked at my door rather early and handed me a package from an angel to open and pop the contents of beneath the tree... now its really looking like christmas... and feeling a lot like it too.
While I am rambling, I have just had a thought.... y'all have read about my advent countdown, right? The gift every day!? Well... since it is 50 minutes until tomorrow, does that mean that I could possibly open my 24th!? Honestly, this little package has boggled me ever since I saw it... even though the first time, it was through tears as I read the beautiful dard that was attached to it.. Seriously... the excitement of opening this last present is almost making me explode... could i possibly ever sleep though til morning!?
~L~
Okay... so.. im sticking to the chair here.. which is a great indication that i have to go have another quick cold shower..
Have a great day/night... Lyn, save some snow for me!
xxx
You know that things really suck when even your imaginary friend can't stand to be around you...
or:
You know that you truely suck when even your imaginary friend picks on you.
(this thought popped into Kiera's and my head whilst watching re-runs of LOST.)
thought I had to share! ~L~
Just wanted to send out a special birthday wish to a special birthday angel, my bestie... Cath...
Happy birthday gorgeous girl. Hope you have the most fantastic day.... you deserve lots of lovin' pamperin' and spoilin'.
Bring it on!!!
Love you to the stars and back..
xxxxx
well.... you will be glad to know that my day of blah is behind us... I was just down right feeling pathetic and sorry for myself. It is not often that I go on a pity party, guest list one.. though sadly, yesterday I just had to vent. I could not even pull on my own undies. Now that... is... just... plain.. right... SAD!
Pathetic even.
Day 4... day three of Chiro-Nazi torture and if i keep progressing, who knows, i could be dancing round the christmas tree in no time.. dependant on the amount of alcohol involved... clothes could possibly be optional. Ewwww... I know.... I just had to put that thought in your head... why!? Just because. That is as good a reason than any i guess! ~L~ Just kidding...There will be clothes... the way the weather has been here in Mexico, aka Melbourne, we could be in Ohio for all that the weather man would know. It is cold... and not at all like the melt your skin off - where you stand weather that Melbourne tends to be known for this time of the year.
I'm dreaming of a white christmas..... just like the one we have never had.....
Okay... im rambling now... though I just have to leave you with probably the most anim-olitically (yep, that is a new, Sandra word right there!)incorrect site ever.. though funny as all hell.
I wish I had seen it yesterday....
Cathy... remember that book that you sent me? "50 days worse than yours!"??? Well.... i think this guy may just be having a constant bad day... what do you think!?
FU Penguin
oke-doke then....
have a great night.. or day..... what ever the case may be!
xxxx
I'm am feeling pretty crappy at the moment... and just need to ARRGH for a sec and then I will be okay again... so If you dont want to read... come back later, perhaps there will be something nicer.. but for now...
ARRRRRRGH!
Last sunday, while minding my own business and making a general visit to the store for cold meat, bread and milk i did something to my back. One minute I was walking, next minute i was gritting my teeth, swearing like a trooper and barely able to put one foot in front of the other. OMG, I thought the pain of labour was bad... this, well... this was just like... do anything... just make it go away!!!!!!
I went and saw the doctor on Monday morning, who refered me to a chiropractor immediately. After waiting in the waiting room for about 15 minutes I met only the next worse thing to the pain i was feeling at that moment... the lady that would make me hurt in ways i thought was fictional. My chiropractor!
Well.. its been three days now... almost $150 and two visits... and "only" 1/2 a dozen or so more appointments to fix a pelvis that seems to have decided that it wants to move where it aint meant t' belong... While i can take a step now without swearing... i am still a long way from dancing up a storm... Worse than the pain is the fact that I actually don't have enough sick days banked to cover the week off which I have been told I need off... and that I can't figure out how to actually get to the station and sneak to work since Matt wont drive me to the station. Yes.... I am still contemplating work, even though I can still barely move... Stupid... I know.... though what a totally retarded time for my pelvis to decide that it wants to relocate to somewhere other than where its meant to reside!
okay... thats it from me... my ARRRRGH is over... more the fact that I can't take this sitting down no longer.
guh, totally a ba hum bug mament from me. sorry.
