What happened to sunday

Well......... I dunno

we did have the usual sunday night Pizza ummmmm and I we got the boys tail light working, Less than 4 months to go, he's in the shed every day for most of the day every now and then his bonnie (from now on known as Old Bess) roars to life revs and idles and smokes then he turns her off every now and then,
For me well I'm stuck in the ute again, Its driving me mad. I ordered the parts for my bonnie almost 2 weeks ago shes been sitting neglected in the shed ever since, I sould drag myself out there and give her a good clean up but well its to depressing to do things like that knowing that I still can't ride her until I get these parts, Mind you the parst I need could fit in the palm of my hand, I don't understand why they dont have a set tucked away in the back of their werehouse in melbourne rather than having to get the parts from england. The Bantam is also off the road still waiting to get the bits back for that, hopefully I don't have to go for a blueslip again, the rego runs out on wednesday, I was going to get my brothers mate to do a pinkslip for me but the boy talked me out of it
I do know it has been hot although it is a little cool today I hate it when it gets hot, the boy is one of those hot bodies that sweat as soon as the tempreature rises above 20'C which of course means no sleep for either of us, and waking up every morning to a wet bed, grrrrrr

I can't wait for autumn again

1 set gone things to do places to go

well, I did do better yesterday. I had a small bowl of weet bix, baked fish sanga for lunch and gnocchi with tomato and olive stir through, it wasn't all that great, I normaly go for a roasted vegie stir through the tomato and olive one was a little spicy but it is impossible to find sauce in single serve packs, If any big sauce companys are out there, I think there would be a market for single serve sauce and perhaps fresh pasta I am wondering how gnocchi will keep once it is opened. Since the renovations at work which gave us a really nice mealroom and the clever boys that they are, bought crockery, cutlery a pot a fry pan and a colander, now if the gnocchi can keep for a few days in a container in the fridge, I could buy a serves 4 pack and a jar of sauce for the week, and perhaps take something different to have with it occasionally, steak, chicken, chorizo after reading so much about it in good taste I have to give it a go

Jelly Belly

BLAH, I started here wrighting about weight loss and well I might as well admit it, there hasn't been much in the way of loss, it didn't bother me when I started to lose less and less but latley I've been getting no where



so starting, well tomorrow morning, no more mucking around, first up, I have to get up, then

• Breakfast Probably wheat Biscuts
• Lunch, will happen probably some form of meat sandwich, perhaps steak
• Dinner, I have yet to decide on dinner I might grab some gnocchi I haven't had that for ages

another thing I must do is keep track of my snacks, I haven't been Paying much attention latley so I have been throwing something in the oven or on the stove and grabing a musili bar out of the pantry at the same time, no more choc coated musili bars, I should start buying chocolate again then theres no musili involve
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Tomorrw is bound to be a busy day lost of things to do, I have to finish the gate to the veggie patch and get the dogs some food, also pepare for a BBQ with our dad's, Mum is going for a girls weekend

I'll be with you in Apple Blossom time.......

well, it is apple blossom time, which of course means come winter we will have apples...YAaaaaaaaaaaaay, the peaches are now mostly 2 cm in diameter, we have a mulberry growing, I hope more will follow, and the mango is in flower which hopefully will mean next year we will get mango's or at least 1 mango

Its amazing how spring sorta takes over, all of the plants at work are starting to flower, its funny seeing such beautiful things pop up in the middle of all of that industrialness


I love the big purple flowers, they are probably a nasty weed of some sort but they are really pretty

Spring at home is progress time, we have finally completely dog proofed the veggie patch, I put a small fence around my veggies after they decided to dig in them earlier but we also keep potting mix and gypsum and blood and bone in the place behind the fence dogs for some reason like tearing the plastic bags open and digging in the contents, we are also preparing to get our chooks sometime in the not too distant future which I'm sure the dogs would like to play with

WOW what a long weekend

I suppose I should start with Thursday, Yes I did go to work, with the help of a good dose of cold and flu stuff.
Friday I was the only one who was going to be there so I had to go, I woke up feeling a lot better though.
Hmmm Saturday, Saturday was a big one, the boy went to work early for an overtime shift I lazed about for the few hrs he was at work then we hit his nans place, armed with

• a BBQ Chook
• 1/2 doz Rolls
• a Chain saw
• chain oil
  
• a line trimmer (aka whipper snipper or brush cutter)
• a roll of line
• side cutters
  
• 2 pair of gloves
• rope
• 2 big sombrero style hats
• 2 bottles of water
• a Jerry can of petrol
• a bottle of 2 stroke oil

Nan's garden is now much tidier, I'm not sure exactly how big the yard is but it is pretty big, I did the mowing, I love mulcher mowers, I've never used one before its so great not to have to worry about the little twigs in the way. The boy chainsawed any branches that were below 6ft so that you can walk under the trees comfortably, nan kept saying, "don't cut that its in flower", "OK nan" says the boy, as soon as she walked away that tree got its cut, there is now a big pile of branches in the middle of the yard I think the plan is to go back over the next few weekends and take a few loads to the tip.

Sunday, I worked it was a pretty big day. on the way home I had a mega craving for a MC Chicken, or a Big Mac, I stopped at Maccas and stood in the line with 15 or so people, there were three people serving so I figured I wouldn't wait long, then one went to take an order out to a car, another went to take one of those rolls out to a table, and the third just disappeared I looked up and saw 4 or 5 people hanging around the chip station and no one serving, so I gave up and left. I got home and the boy had gone to his brothers to watch the footy which left me alone, I was pretty sad I wanted to see him before he went, I shared a garlic bread and a home brand pizza with the woofs. since my nose was blocked it wasn't all that great, I slept the rest of the afternoon, I was in the middle of a really bad dream, something about trying to smuggle some keys out of a country and we got caught the result wasn't going to be pleasant, when the boy rang he thought I sounded sad or upset, I assured him I was OK , I went back to sleep until he got home when I had a drink with him and we went to bed

Today I woke up feeling rubbish, did some washing, played with the woofs the boys mate came over, I rang mum, I was supposed to go and put a power point in this weekend, they were gardening, after his mate left I went to mum and dads where I helped put in some garden lights, then we went and mowed grandmas lawn, her yard is pretty big but its pretty much all grass with 2 mowers dad and I got it done in half the usual time, lucky me got the section near the mulberry tree which resulted in a few ripe mulberry's disappearing as I passed (its a small tree).
After grandmas we went to a friends place to christen the pool, they kept going on about how warm it was, I was bloody freezing, dinner was steak and salad, desert was vanilla soaked pears mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I am going to try this with some of the fruit we get from the garden, first experiment will be peaches which are growing nicely, we will be setting up fruit fly traps very soon

Sniff......

this time I am sick, after being kept awake all night with the boys coughing I seem to have caught whatever it is that he has.
It started a little last night with the sore throat and the headache, a couple of paracetmole, hoping it would help, a glass of water and straight to bed, I woke up at around 5 all stuffed up and feeling like I was going to be sick, the boy is a bloody fidget every time he moved I felt ten times worse eventually despite all of the sips of water, cursing him I just made it, sorry too much info, I dragged myself back to bed he got up not long after to do computer stuff, I had to get my own water he told me to have a shower but I felt sick again so ... back to bed, thinking he dosen't care, later he went to get some petty for the wippersnipper and brought back some cold and flu stuff so maybe he does care.

after some cold and flu stuff I feel much better, I still don't think I could eat anything so breaky juice it is today. the boy is trying to convince me to go to work, we'll see I'm not too keen on making everyone else sick but then I don't want to have to get a note from the Dr either

Is Tuesday???????

Wow it's tuesday already, my early morning walk didn't happen I woke up to the boy coughing constantly, he has some flu like bug.
I would have simpathy if he went to bed at a reasonable hr and rested more but, he tends to try and do more than he can handle and generally doesn't get to bed till after 1am. He complained today that it seems to be hanging on for ages, didn't agree with my reasoning, something about the clock always ticking and sleeping being a waste of time, oh well some people just can't be helped

we did however take the dogs for a long walk to get bread and milk, I also got the latest Good taste Mag, I did think about subscribing but it works out more expensive

is anyone else cold???

yesterday was a real scorcher too hot to stay in to hot to be out for too long today I was looking for the sun its sooo cold maybe that's exaggerating a bit but I have been busy, I have decided that it is time for our two sets of dining chairs to go I have cleaned and mopped the kitchen and done some washing the boy couldn't believe that I was doing things and started being very annoying when I had a go at him for standing where I was about to mop and dropping chicken crumbs on the floor I had just swept the very cute "I'm Sowy" only works once or twice.
Anyway I have gotten the EBay bug again and will need to sell things in order to fund by bidding habit Click Here to see my Items for sale hopefully the old chairs will fund a newer set of chairs that I am looking at and well the books will fund the books I'm looking at

Hoping to drag my bum out of bed early in the morning with the intention of going for a walk we'll see how that goes

Ever been to a clasic bike show??

No?? here's a good example,a nice big trip into the city, which seems to be becoming a weekend habit , at least it was away from the traffic this time It got very windy not long after we got there so we didn't stay long we also got there a little late because we stopped at his brothers new house, nice but the poor bloke definitely has his work cut out, lots of things to do, who ever built the house for them didn't finish it, we will be making sure we get a finished house before signing the contract when we rebuild here, neither of us have the time to spend building front and back steps or laying flooring

hmmm football

can some one please tell me how long an AFL quarter goes for. Last night they played the final, Sydney swans v Freemantle Dockers??? I think for the first time ever it was on prime time TV, I watched the first quarter and part of the second, by the time I got home from work they were still playing!

anyway I think I could like this game, so far I understand

• you can be out as much as you like as long as the ball stays in,
• a goal is 6 points but if you get close you still get 1,
• you bounce the ball every so many steps
• try not to be tackled, I don't know why but its not good

The boy is a big rugby League fan, Parramatta Eels to be exact, to me

• it's a field full of boofy lumps of blokes some with cute little bums
• running head long into each other to take the ball from one end to the other
• get it on the ground over the line "Try" that's 4 points
• after a try you get a free kick at goal that's 2 points
• but kick a goal while running and its only 1

wheres the mousey

The Wokness monster

well it turns out the Wokness monster has arrived I haven't mentioned it before because well, I don't think that much about those things, I try to avoid mentioning names, especially after the boy expressed his disslike at other people being able to see these things but in this case, my cousin Wok and his wife Ness are the proud parents of a baby boy, Nicholas James, 8 pound
(umm yeah whats a pound worth again)
anyway, I'm sure even if they aren't jumping over the moon they are very happy or at least I hope they are.

Mum always says I'm like Wok because we have similar manerisims and reactions to things, I can be jumping out of my skin but you wouldn't know it,

yep spring is here

I was watching our cherry tree today it has a few little flower buds on it, yesterday was 2, today is 5, anyway I was watching one of these flowers and I swear it was growing and changing by the second, early in the morning it was a tight little bud which by later in the morning had become a half open bud and by the time I went to work was a fully open blossom how awesome is that.The mango is getting ready to flower, I'm really looking forward to that, yes I like mangoes but I'm interested to see how it flowers and mangoes grow, one advantage of not spraying for insects is that I am not all that worried about weather the trees will be pollinated or not, at the moment there are plenty of insects around, my favourite are the native bees, its amazing how they hover and dart around

Ah ha

Well it seems the wonder full people at blogger have fixed yet another bug in beta, I can comment yet again, and yep other people can comment here too ha haa

now on to today or is it this week I don't know, I've been pretty slack with things lately,

I have sent the part from the little beastie away to be modified, you don't want to know how much its going to cost, but for an idea I had to work 28hrs OT to pay for it. I got a call from the bike shop the parts I need have to be ordered from England, bloody British bikes, so there's another 2 weeks off the road, but with daylight savings and warmer weather on the way I MIGHT drag up the courage to ride my bicycle and catch the train, notice the big might, we don't live in the greatest of areas and its at least a 15 minute ride from the station, in the dark, I used to when we only live 5 mins from the station but that was on a bicycle track which is very well lit.......... I know excuses, excuses

I have decided that the best way for me to get the things I want will be to work for them, I don't like working extra hrs it plays with the mind a little, I get very moody if I work too much, but there are too many things I want and I don't want to be relying on credit all the time

I have been informed that I dress as my mum would and need desperately to go shopping, also discovered I have a triumph bra expert living with me and I didn't know it, I found out while trying to find something to go to work in. Apparently my blue checked shorts which are almost too big for me are really daggy, so i tried on some I haven't worn for ages, they were too tight so I found another pair which were a little snug but not ridiculous, then I needed a top to match, the first one was too daggy the next too dressy another I wouldn't be able to wear a bra under, the fourth was too big but it also showed, "gee I've got big boobs","its not the boobs its that daggy old bra with the dead elastic isn't giving you any support, you need to stop spending money on things you want and spend some on yourself for a change", so my next mission is to go and find some not to dressy casual clothes which I can wear when doing everything from walking the dogs to going to work.

I DID IT ...........ARGHHHHHHHHHHH

I did it I diditIdidit, I called them ha haaaaaaaa I actually called someone on the other side of the world to order parts for a bike ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

OK so I'm a little shaky and bouncing of the walls, quick someone make me a coffee I'm so excited

For those who have never read My journey into the Unknown one of my biggest fears is talking to strangers or for that matter sometimes people I know on the phone, but as of about 5 mins ago I spoke to a really nice lady in England WoooooHooooooo

I also rang around for parts for my bonnie which didn't inspire me at all because the bloke didn't believe that I needed them, I almost went mad at him as I mentioned it has been almost my only form of transport for the last 5 years I forgot to mention it has almost 80,000K's on the clock that won't be cheap either but hopefully it will keep the baby working for another 80,000

new stuff

the bed finally arrived, I'll post a pic when I get a roundtooit It's soo nice I still wake up with a sore back but that's probably just me, so young yet falling apart, Kmart has a sale on Manchester 50% off some brands so.... two sets of new sheets and a really nice doona cover and a new doona the comforter and matching pillow cases can go back in the cupboard for the guest bed, they were originally bought for or the sofa bed but with the dogs sleeping on the sofa and tearing it apart, I would want to re-upholster and stuff the whole thing before I expected anyone to sleep there it's a little smelly and possibly uncomfortable, when we rebuild I will be pushing for a click clack lounge even though we will have at least two guest rooms the boy is now very discouraging of people drink driving it is likely we could end up with guests staying for breakfast, like the politician who recently got caught 0.06 after having 3 schooners at a function over a few hours he believes the limit should be 0.0 across the board, I got my licence at the start of Learners and p platers having to be 0.02 and had to stick to that for 3 years it's sort of ingrained I don't drink if I am planning to drive with in the next couple of hours

I hate waiting

I bought some cabinets on EBay on Wednesday, gee it's been that long since I have been online, we went yesterday to pick them up, stupid me didn't narrow the search to within 75K's so we went to port kembela to pick them up at 0630 which means we left a 5, I really have to convince the boy to get a car licence when he gets his back, we were back by 1030 and that's with a detour through the city that much driving wears you out I crashed (in bed) when I got home and didn't get up until it was almost time to go to work, I was going to ring the company that makes the parts I need for the little beastie but they are in England and waiting until it is late enough didn't happen, I will try again tonight at the moment its around 1 O'clock in the morning there, grr

now for the waiting, I was hoping the bed would be coming early in the day, turns out it won't be here until some time between 2 and 5, grrrrrrr so I'll be trying to spend the rest of the morning cleaning up and getting the old bed out, we are considering keeping the frame, when we get a new house(looking at the next 3-5 years) that will be one less room to furnish even if all it has is a bed, Oh well I had better get in to it, we also need to get the woofs and ourselves some food, and new sheets for the new bed

how awesome is this

Whats That?

yesterday I did a little gardening after the rain stopped, this garden has been very neglected, I actually thought these little sticks were long gone, rotted away, but they aren't they were just lost the long grass, originally the dogs chewed on the one below which is why it is so small, have you guessed what they are yet????

well they produce sour edible fruit, very small berries the plants are different colours of berry
the top one, I'm pretty sure is known as a Ribena Berry the bottom one is the red version or that's the other way round, the labels may have been mixed up

got it yet ???

the one is a black current an the other is a red current, as I was clearing the grass I was surprised to see buds on the big one, when I scratched at one underneath is green the little one has no buds but I scratched a bit of bark off to find it is also green, for their effort they got half a watering can of charlie carp

I forgot to take a before pic so here is one of the grass I removed

While we are here and bored

I thought I might share some more pics

I sent my dad a sunrise for faters day, as well as the rooster, which he loved of course dad dosen't regularly check his sms so he didn't get it till well after sunset, oh well here tis.......
nice eh, one good thing about getting up super early unfortunatley was just before I started work
this one I took when I was waiting for the boy to pick up some things in Old Mt Druitt, I liked the way flowering trees line the street

Just when you think it's over

I thought I'd wander out and take a few pics of the flood in our backyard, seriously if this keeps up we'll need a houseboat, just as I get outside playing around with the dog, they don't like getting wet, it starts again, anyway the first one was taken three days ago and the other two a few minutes ago, I don't know what happened to the grass it just all died off during winter, it is coming back slowly

Bloody Rain

I'm thinking about buying one of these..............

Think it'll look good on the bike....... Not ................................ yes I am a little annoyed, the Boy was SO keen to go to the show which he wasn't last year or the year before or........ well anyway we haven't even considered going for the last 4 years .......... bloody courts.........

yes I know he did the wrong thing and he did get caught 0.15BAC but its pretty sad when the only reason he got pulled over was because his tail light was out (its all in the police report, doing the speed limit, not swerving, tail light out, pulled over) he gets 5 years yet some kid gets drunk and steals his dads car and almost kills the bloke he ran over during a chase gets 18 months and 2 years good behaviour bond

.................sorry vent over never ever get caught doing something wrong in penrith they'll throw the book at you...........................

anyway yet again we didn't go, we woke up to a nice sunny day out one window, pouring rain out the other oh well I'll have to find something else to do

Driving in the rain, I'm driving in the rain, what a horrible feeling, not happy again

OK so it's not that bad, I went to get a new battery today, the boy wants to got to the Macquarie Towns and restoration show tomorrow, wait for it ....................................





ON THE BACK OF MY BIKE




Might not sound like such a big deal but since we got the Ute he refused to go on the back with me but apparently you can't go to a bike show in a car SO we must go on my bike which means I need to get the hiccups out of it battery is the last resort before puling bits off and changing little tiny parts

These things come in threes

Many people have been saying who's next and perhaps certain people should be careful yet even though it was illness and not an accident there were three

• Don Chipp, Politician who was going to "Keep the bastards Honest" Tue, 29 Aug
• Steve Irwin, Wildlife Worrier Mon, 04 Sep
• Peter Brock, Race Car driver Fri 08 Sep

(Insert Multiple swear words here)

I don't know why but the first thing I think when I hear these thing are multiple swear words

Don Chipp I heard on the news, he had Parkinson's disease but believed in what he did and even up to a few years ago was doing television interviews He create the Australian Democrats Or some thing like that, I was either too young or no even thought of when he was at his peak

Steve Irwin and Peter Brock I heard from the bloke I was working with

"Did you hear about the Steve Irwin thing"

"Nah whats he got up to this time :-D"

"He's dead."

Whoa did some one just slap me "Ya what"

"yup he got stung by a sting ray in the chest or something"

"oh............"


a few days later

"I just heard on the news Peter Brock might be Dead"

I gotta stop working with this bloke he keeps slapping me "What, How"

"Car crash"

"will you stop telling me these things its becoming a bad habit"



anyway it always seems like a slap in the face except for people who have sorta gone into obscurity and have been forgotten about for a while then you see it on the news and every one go awe wow xyz died gee he had a good innings, remember when s/he did this or what movie/TV show was s/he from............



Quick edit

Berrie just reminded me

Colin Thiele The man who wrote Storm boy passed away Mon 4 sep

Here is an exert from his web page

Colin Thiele

Author Educator & Poet

Monday 4Th Sept. 2006, Colin Thiele died in hospital after a short stay due to breathing difficulties (and a failing heart). He was 85 years old.He leaves behind his loving wife Rhonnie and two daughters and their families.

Wind and Rain

What a Night, What a Storm, I didn't realise it was quite so bad until this morning. When I got up the backyard was flooded, I thought it was bad on the way home last night.

My leathers are soaked I was thinking I was getting old, having trouble seeing thought the rain on my visor and having my glasses fog up, I'm outta practice, I thought, but then I read the news update I get e-mailed to me turns out it hasn't rained like that in a while, last time I rode in weather like that was on the way home from Oberon when I was on my 'L's ( I was 16 and 9 months) it bucketed all the way down the mountains I discovered the wet pants feeling, mum and dad were following in the car I was also learning to drive, Mum kept telling dad to get me to pull over and he could ride the rest of the way home, mind you he was also a learner rider, not that I would have, once you get that wet there is no point in stopping until you get to where you are going, except of course if you really gotta go or need fuel or get a red light

I'm going to look in to that rain ex stuff even if it never rains like that again it will be worth it.

Fish and Chips

I've been a bit off for the last couple of weeks, no breaky, whatever is easy from the pantry for lunch, and well whatever is easy for dinner, the boy was going mad at me for eating too many carbs I usually go for porridge for breaky, pasta for lunch and sometimes the same pasta for dinner or meat and veg the problem of course being this kind of diet works foe me firstly porridge keeps me full and so does pasta which stops me eating crud,

so with the lack of motivation to cook lunch or breakfast I have slipped into old habits of not eating then eating whatever is in sight another demotivator of course is the state of the kitchen thus one of my goals yesterday is to get the house tidy and keep it that way

OK so I'm just making Excuses I'm back in that couldn't be bothered mood again I still remember the June dally Watkins course the teacher said never ever couldn't be bothered
there were also these rules
Rule 1 Always be the best that I can be
Rule 2 Always be the best that I can be
Rule 3 Always be the best that I can be
Rule 4 Always be the best that I can be
Rule 5 Always be the best that I can be
definitely rules to live by

so starting tomorrow I'm back into it, Porridge for breakfast, we'll see what happens after that but it should start things back on the right track, after a discussion with one of the other Elecs yesterday night this week I am writing a Budget even if I can't get the boy in on it starting next pay I will know exactly where everything goes for me anyway. he has some thing about all of his money going on 2 debts and a carton of beer a week so he doesn't need a budget I think he would be surprised how much he actually spends on other things and how much he could be saving for parts for his bike ooh well that's my whinge for the day, dimmis for a late snack then back into healthy stuff tomorrow

Goals

I read a post on the NC board about september goals I put some ther but I thought I would also put them and a couple extra here

1. Track food and count NC points
2. Drink More water, lets start with 1 ltr very weak diet cordial a day
3. do a small ammount of exercise each day
4. reach at least 7kgs lost mark
5. keep things tidy at home

Where have I been

well.... I've been working, as I promised when my phone got destroyed I must say yes when asked for OT, I was asked to come in four early on Saturday and I was asked to work Sunday which being fathers day obviously not many people were willing to work Sunday was just supposed to be 8 but the Foreman got us together with the list of jobs and said the fitters are doing 12 hrs if my mate and I wanted to hang about and help with the extra work we had the choice of staying I figured I'm here now I may as well stay, usually even though the work is worth 12 hrs if it gets done early we can go

I was getting a little worried because the crew we had were from the permanent day shift and they were working like they do on days bloody slow and mucking around with simple things one of them kept walking away to answer his Mobile phone where I have seen others answer their phone and keep working 1 handed obviously not long conversations the first job which with a decent crew take 1.5 hrs took almost 4 I couldn't believe it normally they are waiting for me to finish my bit but yesterday I was waiting for them. the rest of the jobs I have no Idea how long they normally take but at the end the fitter who was putting in allot of effort thanked me for the help and the foreman as we were leaving mentioned that we could have done with one more person

Sunday night I made dinner for mum, dad, Pa, my Brother and the boy. Turkey thigh roll roast eggplant and sweet potato and peas, I attempted a queen pudding but the custard wouldn't set so it was a little runny, mum informed me that you can't make bread and butter based pud until you are 30 I hope to perfect it well before then, it would be good to have a desert to take that people ask for, mums specialty's are Pavlova, baked cheesecake, Apple pie, potato salad and apple salad or those are the things she regularly takes to BB Q's and Parties anyway

The veggie garden has changed SO much in the last few days we now have a row of snow peas and a row of beans which are almost 5cm tall, the peach tree is loosing its petals and growing leaves, I can count 6 potential peaches the citrus trees are budding there are green tips on the cherry trees buds spring has definitely sprung

dogs eat cabbage?

yep while I was hanging the washing out I caught them starting to munch into my cabbages, sometimes I wonder if we have dogs or sheep they eat an awful lot of greens, I don't mind too much because so many have come up I don't think we will need them all, I might have to do a bit of a cull when they get bigger, but I don't want them to think it will be OK to pick whatever they like from the garden, as it was last year they stole an apple off the tree when we only got 2.
Today we have the addition of snow peas popping up :-) and many more silver beet. after reading my Good Taste mag I am wondering if I planted the capsicums in the right spot it appears that some of them grow as vines and I have no support for them oh well I guess I'll just have to keep them small

I have done another workout on the bench still not using any weight other than the bar yet for most things, I haven't weighed the bar but it certainly feels heavy and it is definitely doing something for me

It's raining It's pouring the old man is snoring

I was lucky this morning I took the woofs for a walk they needed a lot of encouragement half way through I must have sounded like a personal trainer for dogs, "C'mon Champ step it up" we got back about half an hour ago and its pouring I'm very happy that I missed that

you have seen the cabbages well today the first of the Silver beet popped up Yaaaaaaay they all look pretty much the same little green round leaves in pairs, I'm still waiting on:

• snow peas
• climbing beans
• Eggplant
• Tomatoes
• capsicums
• cucumber
• pumpkin
• rock melon
• watermelon

I don't have much hope for the rock melon and cucumber because I heard on a garden show that they don't grow very well in clay soil which is where I planted them along with the pumpkin and watermelon because I ran out of garden soil and have yet to get some more but I wanted to get the seeds started, I have just realised I have planted quite a few things that I'm not all that fond of, cabbage, capsicum and watermelon but it is a bit of fun to see things that I have planted growing

The bench gets its first workout

Well actually I had my first work out on the bench today using the muscle tone and fat burning program in Rocco Oppedisano's Barbell and Dumbbell only Home Weight Training book 45 min 3 days a week he reckons, I can feel it already I will be very sore tomorrow, Tomorrow I will go for a little ride on my push bike or I'll find some time to skip,

Another good thing the bed that the Boy had when I met him is finally on its way out the door, the mattress started getting springs poking though a few months ago, we considered getting a new one but the boy was reluctant to spend the money at the time, recently one of the dogs sneaked into our bed and had an accident so I had to wash the Lecky Blanket, the springs were originally on my side but with me doing opposite shifts we swapped sides, the boy has found that there are now 3 or 4 springs sticking through,

so today we went bed shopping, the old one was part of a package from freedom and has started to bend where we sit on the side to get on/off, but he didn't want to spend the extra to buy a mattress and a bed, we went to Penrith where there is a huge home maker center straight to Capt'n snooze where we got assessed and the lady was very help full and showed us around, the mattress was what I considered very reasonably priced and well within our budget so I suggested that we have a look at the beds to go with it, it didn't take much, he has always wanted a low "futon" style bed they had one there which has built in bedside tables with options such as lamps (which we got), Sound system and Ipod dock, neither of us has an Ipod, I prefer to listen to AM Talk back than to music over and over again, so we didn't want any of the sound system stuff, all I can say is that my MasterCard is now very close to its limit but at least most of that is 48months interest free or 24 months differed payment, the new phone will be paid for in next pay

We have cabbages!!!!

Seee....

Aren't they cute? I have no Idea what we are going to do with all of that cabbage but I have seen some interesting recipies in my cook books now to convince the boy that pork mince will be OK since you don't cook mince rare no matter what the flavour

Happy Nanmas Day

I suppose I had better explain this one, Nan is no longer with us but today was her birthday, My cousin said to Pa If Christ mas is Christs birthday why don't we have Nanmas on Nans birthday,
So after lunch at a different cousins(I have 14 of them all up) house, Mum,Dad, The Boy and I went to pas to celebrate Nans birthday, we went out to the club for dinner which was really nice, I think Pa appreciated the company, days like this are difficult for him. unfortunately I have not got any photos of nan, if I find one I will post it, but for now, Happy Birthday Nan wherever you are

The room is transformed again

From this to......

This

Yep the puter is still inside the wardrobe all of the crud has been either put away or thrown out or is waiting to be listed on eBay I did have an eBay store for getting rid of all of my crud through but it wasn't doing all that well so I closed it and sell as I used to when I get stuff that I need to move in my clean up I found my tape measure so I will put some measurements up on my side bar soon

C-C-C-C-Cold

For the last hour or so I have been stuck outside, stupid me forgot to take my keys when I left this afternoon its bloody freezing out there,

I have succeeded in throwing a heap of stuff out, I'm a bit of a disposaphobic so crud tends to collect and I have a lot of trouble throwing a lot of things out but today I went threw the pile that has accumulated in the room and while yes there is an even bigger mess than before, there are half the number of objects, some are things that are use full to have around, like pencil cases, note books and envelopes, some are things that need to go back to work, circuit books, technical instructions etc, and the rest is crud that I cant quite bring myself to throw out yet, trophies, incense

I'm a little disappointed in my veggie seeds I think I expected them to come up in a few days but no sign of them yet, the woofs got into the garden and had a bit of a dig so there may be a hole in the row of cabbage or cabbage mixed in with the silver beat and capsicum or any combination of the three no longer in rows. I really hope the capsicum comes up I don't really like capsicum but these were heirloom variety's which are in 7 colours so I am very interested as to what the 7 colours are

Jen"Tagged" me

Hmmmm now this I will have to think about, copied from Rae's blog here are the rules

The player of this game starts with "5 weird things/habits about yourself ". In the end you need to choose 5 people to be tagged and list their name's people who get tagged need to write a blog about their 5 weird things/habits, as well as state this rule clearly, then tag 5 more victims. Don't forget to leave your victim a comment that says "you're tagged!" in their comments and tell them to read your blog:

Now my 5 things

1) I really don't like porridge with brown sugar and cream on it OK so I like the cream but you can keep the brown sugar I'll have jam thanks

2) I don't like cola, for those who don't understand that includes most types of coke and Pepsi and yes even though it is diet it is still cola, but I can drink litres of vanilla coke

3) I don't get all that excited about things mum reckons I could win a million dollars on a radio station and the station would be greatly disappointed (wow thanks that's great $1,000,000)

4) on occasions when people generally offer congratulations I have trouble finding words of the occasion (you're getting married? that's nice, Your having a baby?wow that's nice) I don't see what there is to congratulate, now pass a uni degree or win a competition and you'll get all of the congrats in the world

5) I am terrified of tunnels ( if the cross city, epping or lane cove tunnel collapse you get buried alive, if the harbour tunnel or the chunnel collapse you drown) but I like being in Small spaces

WOrk sleep work sleep work ... well you get the idea

Been pretty busy and lazy, is that possible to have both in the same time?? we got the rest of the weight bench on the weekend it is now fully assembled in this little room, I yet again have to do a big clean out and clear some crud to allow work out space, spring is close, I know because the trees are flowering, and just in case you didn't know yes pear trees are deciduous and that includes ours which has started to sprout leaves again

Pics and vid

My favourtie food, Pumpkin Gnocchi
Fathers day pressie

ok so I take alot of vids of the dogs people just do too many strange things when you video them

Lotsa posts today

Lotsa posts today, we got up late and there hasn't been much to do, OK so I'm just plain being lazy today

we did go to the markets today we got some fruit and I bought a fathers day pressie, for the first time ever its not the day be for or the day of fathers day, My dad is a very interesting man,
well to me he is, he loves going shopping not just food shopping but the type that groups of girls do the best thing is he picks out really nice clothes for me to try on and I know if it doesn't sit right or for that matter fit right he will tell me, the other great thing is that sometimes he pays, he also collects roosters (yes there are many jokes about cocks in that house), so at the markets today we saw a rooster made of different pieces of metal I had to grab it, there might be a jumper or a bottle of something to go with it later

I gained 0.2 this week which is probably the amount of pizza I ate last night for dinner, it also means I am still less 5kgs, we got the last of the pieces of the weight bench yesterday so I will put that together and start using it soon, the ball thing is going OK....... I did it 2 days in a row but haven't had time(or something like that) since I will start again tomorrow

I have also done a recovery on my puter, it was taking around half an hour just to start up, new rule .... no more stupid unnecessary downloads .... I know I am chief offender here so we will see how that Idea lasts hopefully this time I will stick to it, It takes a couple of hours to do a recovery and load the drivers for the printer and web cam etc I am sure I will find more things that need loading over the next few days

Millions of peaches, peaches for me, millions of peaches off my peach tree

when we moved in this tree was bare and tangled in roses and other vines, we decided it was dead and cut it down along with all of the roses and vines (never, never ever plant bougainvillea it is almost impossible to kill)

a few months later it started growing back and we maintained it at just below fence height, now it is flowering Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, until recently we had no idea what it was the leaves compared to similar at the nursery are either peach or nectarine but when the flowers came I started searching images and I have decided that it is a peach tree

What did we have for Breakfast?

he is such a grot I have no Idea how he managed to get oats on top of his head, I made a little extra today, since we ran out of dog food on friday night they have been enjoying shares in some of our food

Warning possibly Long and boring just need to type

OK so if you got past my title it's another one of those days which require much whinging and well release into the WWW

I got my seeds planted today, the boy's mate came over for a "few" (Like 20) they were talking about the boy's last bike which all three of us had managed to drop and how hard it was to ride, I told them I didn't think it was hard to ride and before I got out that it just didn't handle very well at low speed which is when it fell over on me, (not on top of me) he started saying something to the effect of how wrong I was even though I was simply expressing my opinion, I saw red and yelled at him to not cut me off like that, the mate went home very shortly after that I don't like him but I also don't want to be one of those women who tells their boy who they can hang around with so I sit there and bite my lip most of the time as the mate encourages the boy to do things that break the law

for example last night he got pulled over on his motorized push bike and threatened to be charged with drive while disqualified because the motor was more than 200 watts, now if he knew this he would not be riding it with 5 months till he gets his licence back, he came home and decided he would give it to a bloke he works with who would be traveling on the freeway and less likely to get pulled over, the mate made a big deal of all of the nasty things he should say next time they pull him over on it and bugger getting rid of it that's a stupid Idea by the end of the conversation the motor was staying

I got a big lecture about pulling my head in and I have only 5 years experience while between them they have 40 or 50, I don't normally swear on thing that I publish but it shits me that he drinks so much I could handle criticism if it didn't only come when by definition (swaying, glassy eyes, slurred words, warped perception on life) he is drunk,

One day I got the courage to tell him that I think he is an alcoholic, unfortunately I did this when he was drunk, not a good Idea, one of his mum's BF's was an alco who beat him and his brothers up which left them sleeping in the car and too scared to got home etc.... I have not yet told him that some nights I ring before I leave work so that I know what to expect when I get home or for that matter weather I should go the very long way like via penrith........It's not like he is always drunk but he binge drinks and way too often tries to drown his sorrows with alcohol I'm glad he has reduced his Bourbon drinking I worry every time he buys a 4 pack that I will have to as promised leave

after his mate left and his dad finally dropped off the ute we went shopping, he wanted to get something to eat first so we went to hungry jacks, he wanted to finish his beer b4 we went in, we must have sat there for around an hour the beer hardly got touched but he just dribbled crap for ages, he thinks he might need to go to a mental hospital before he hurts someone (not me) I offered to take him but he said we would probably loose the house, I think I could handle it(repayments) but then there are his personal debts which I could not handle I have to pay for the ute yet

so after all of this I am sure some are saying why hang about, well .............. seriously.............. I love the man he tolerates my moodiness he drags me out of downs he has faults but I can be really nasty come that time of month,
I do wish some times that he would go to a hospital and get his problems sorted

Thanks Blogger

I had to write about it, yesterday or the day before I swapped to the new beta version of blogger,
thus the changes to my page again, they haven't got the html section running yet when they do I will put my pics back up in the title,
for those who can but have yet to try go for it, you can add and change links without spending ages playing around with the html and ending up with strange things happening
the best thing though is ..... spell check now understands proper English :-) YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY no more spelling flavour right only to be prompted to change it to flavor

Smoky flavoured poridge

yep you did read it right, this mornings breakfast is smokey flavoured porridge, It's absolutely Gross but I can't stand to throw food out I had to put extra jam in it to hide the flavour and the pot needs a really good scrub, I suppose that's what happens when you are tired and sore and a little bit distracted hopefully tonight is a lot easier

I was planning on starting the second garden bed but well I'm still in my PJ's so it probably isn't going to happen today, the second bed will be for things like pumpkins and melons which tend to grow wild the idea is to let them go but trim anything that goes over the border we are thinking of fencing the whole section of the yard all we need for that are a pair of gates, the fence is already there, veggies need privacy and it hides the clothes line

What a night

I was thinking it would be an easy night tonight then .... well something happened and we didn't stop working until 2250 I had dinner a 2300 and didn't get home till well after midnight I have finished moving the dirt, next step will to dog proof the garden and then plant the seeds, I know I should raise them in a punnet or somethng first but it will be so much easier to put them where I want them to grow

My Bonnie

I had to take this one before I went to work this afternoon,she hasn't looked that clean for a long time and it was going to rain which will make her look dirty again, also I have no pictures like this, would have been better without the bag of clothes on the back but I didn't have time to take it off and put it back on again
two good things today, I wore my leather pants, they are still a bit tight to do any serious trips in but they are also a little stiff, wearing them more will fix that problem and gives me that little bit of motivation
the other is I made it to work 15 mins early YAAAAAAAAAAAAY, I hope to keep theis effort up at least for the next couple of weeks

gardening

from here
to here
Like this

and thats only 1/4 of the load can't wait to start planting the seeds

cough!

NO I'm not really sick, but at 230 this afternoon My Phone had not arrived, and I had to be home to sign for it, so I made the call and took the day off, just as I hung up the phone the delivery van arrived,
bloody hell, nothing seems to be working right at the moment

I also got my careflight bear today, I like them I think I might collect them, I already had Diver bear and now I have Road Services bear I think next time I will get the engineer bear

Most of the cost is donation to careflight, I like them too because

• they only call once or twice a year
• they are always polite
• I get something out of the donation (the bear)
• and one day I may need their help myself

arent they cute

I had a very bad lunch today which seems to have upset my stomach , fish portion sandwiches with home made cheese sauce, I always thought people were being silly when they say food that they used to eat all the time makes them feel off now, Ok so admitedly I never used to have cheese sauce on them it used to be masterfoods extra creamy tartare sauce so perhaps its the sauce I think it was just the whole thing, can't wait till friday, I am going to buy some fruit.

WOW!!!!!!

Ok so I'm too lazy to remember or work out how much I have lost this week, but I have reached the 5kg mark YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY, that did mean a nice rice cooker that won't spill in the microwave so much, but, see the post about expensive lessons and you and guess what my new reward is, yep a replacement phone, It should get here tomorrow or Tuesday hopefully early tomorrow before I have to go to work

No post yesterday, I mentioned earlier I like to keep my blog up to date so that it doesn't become like most of the things I start and enjoy, yesterday I was planning on going for a ride to Berima from what I can figure its south somewhere on the way to Goulburn and they have markets on today so I wanted to get home and to bed straight away

as seems to be the way atm my plans went astray, I opened the door and saw something on the floor .... The battery from the cordless phone.... Then further in there were little peices of something scattered around, I thought Oh No he's thrown a tanty and destroyed the phone, I later found that the phone wouldn't work and he threw it across the room or something like that he can't remember too well what happened, anyway the white bits were pieces of a bowl , next to the microwave there was half a plate and on the floor small shards of plate and a pile of what I later found out was pie filling in the sink was the packed and tray for a frozen apple pie
I figured something had happened and it was likely someone would be up during the night and get bits of glass in their feet so I spent the next half hour or so cleaning up and got to bed a little after midnight

I did ask about the plate and the bowl, apparently the bowl fell off the table and he dropped the plate getting it out of the microwave I'm guessing the bowl coped the phone then fell, the phone will never work again, the apple pie was eaten with however much icecream was left, Oh well that saves me from eating it, he did make a small attempt to clean up since there were a few pieces of bowl in the bin and the other half of the plate, we will be getting one of those multi handset phones hand the boy will be paying

anyway I 'm off for a quick ride while its still a brilliant day

SLeeeeeeeeeepy

I draged myself out of bed this morning, around 730, and went for my little bicycle ride to the mechanics, It felt really goo, I could get used to this racer thing but I think my legs have grown since I last used it, the seat is a little low for my liking
I also went to the tax man and got that sorted, lucky me I get just a little more than the tax mans fees back, hey its better than owing $XXX like I did when I started before he added the deductions and donations
I got back home and fell back in bed where I stayed till 1230, later in the afternoon, the boy who hardly moved from the first time I got up to when I got back, mentioned that he thinks he has cronic fatigue or something like it, I thought about it for a while but I think its either a lifestyle thing , late nights, burnung the candle at both ends etc.. or we have both managed to catch minor doses of colds or flu for the last month or so. first thing is first we deifnatley need to go to bed earlier and see how that goes, so, Good night I'm off to get some sleep

A good day turns bad and two expensive lessons learnt

Today I put the Ute in for a service had a talk with the mech who said it would be ready by 2 o'clock so I could get to work

The boy couldn't beleive it "all day just to do a service!?"
"yep thats how long it takes"
"bull......"
"Just let it go"
"you have to haggle on these things"
you can guess where the conversation went after that, one thing I don't do is haggle, I ask how much or how long and leave if the number given is too high for my liking,
Maccas for breaky, gloria jeans mudslide for morning tea
lots of walking around the shops
caught the bus home and decided to give my old racer a service (pump up the tyres, lube the rusty chaine, etc...)
Mechanic called I could tell it was going to be expensive by the way he was talking
turns out pretty much every fluid needed changing, spark plugs, air filter, fuel filter, front brake pads, wiper blades, I sorta expected all off this, it hasn't had even an oil change since I bought it and this gives us a clean start to work from
the big Q "how much?" tick tick tick tick , thumpathumpathumpathumpa
$785 .......gulp,....... "hang on a sec"
after a quick conversation with the boy it was decided that we would go with it
"yep go for it",
"it won't be ready by 2 for us to do all that.....",
"its ok I have another vehicle",
"Oh thats good I was going to offer the use of one of our little cars, will someone be able to pick your car up today or would you like us to lock it up here tonight?",
"no keep it there if you can",
No. 1 expensive lesson, keep the car serviced or do it yourself,I have to pick it up tomorrow morning now, it will be bloody cold on the pushy

back to the racer, I took it for a test ride up and down the street which felt good, a little wobbly in the front end but then I'm used to MT bike tyres
I got back and made a coffe, the boy noticed the dogs playing with something which did not look like a dog toy
this is what he found....................

I cried... the boy didn't understand why I was crying to him it is just a phone, to me it stores and organises my life, takes pictures and videoes, entertains

I thought about it for a few minutes, I could just go to cash converters and get something cheap , but it wouldn't have the features that the N70 has soooo....

I did a very bad thing, I pulled out my GO mastercard normally reserved for intrest free defered payment for xx months purchases, got online and ordered a new one, I now have $475 to pay off within 62 days so I don't have to pay interest .....

My punishment for doing this silly thing will be to accept all OT offered untill it is payed off which shouldn't be too hard or long since there is an abundance of OT at the moment

that is my second very expensive lesson

I am not talking to the dogs atm and they are no allowed inside

better

I am on afternoons again YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!! and I was only 5 mins late YAAAAAAAAAAY!! can only get better from here, but then, The car is getting serviced tomorrow so I may have a minor setback

I baked today, pretty flower shape chocolate cakes, I would post a pic but my computer dosen't want to talk to my phone or my phone dosen't want to talk to my computer wil try again tomorrow

new goal

My new goal is to get to work on or a little before time

today I got up a 0500, yep I hate dayshifts,
dragged meself out of bed
had a shower
packed a weeks worth of clean workclothes into a bag
grabbed some crispbread since the normal stuff was in the freezer and a tin of tuna and threw them into my lunch box
put some oats and milk into a container and jam into another, into the lunch box too with a mandy and an apple
strapped the bag of clothes onto the bonnie
found my helmet and jacket
put them on
0605 kissed the boy
0610turn the key and hit the start button (know by old fellas as the electric leg)
neah neah neah neah blah
neah neah neah neah blah
neah neah neah neah blah
neah neah neah neah neah neahneahneahneah bombom blah
grrrrrr
throw lunch bag into the ute
unstrap clothes bag and throw in tray of ute
remove helmet and jakcket and put away, change shoes, its bad luck to drive in riding gear
open gates start ute back out close gates
0620head to work
traffic traffic and more traffic some silly fools decided to crash on the M4
ring work
ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring
hang up keep driving for almost an hour
0743 arrive at work
several mentions of how late I was and how I will be docked 1 hr (oh well)

apparently there will be a please explain something about allowing for things to happen on the way to work ..... I wonder at these times when we will be getting a dorm/barracks built so that we can all be on time and go home for 8 or 10 hrs a day rather than to work..... I probably should leave at 5 instead of getting up at that time then find someplace warm to curl up at work

I have made phone calls and organised stuff yaaay

Ok so if anyone hasn't yet noticed or read here my communication skills leave something to be desired, I think my typing is ok but it's the talking bit that is a problem I have mentioned before that I will do a vlog one day on that day in front of the camera I will be shaking in my boots, knocking at the knees and shivering at the fingers
so any way I am very pleased with myself today I have made 2 phone calls and made appointments, the car is booked for a service at 0800 on Thursday and I have an appointment with the tax accountant at 0900 on Friday (I know it should be done by now), the boy has refused to make anymore phone calls on my behalf so I have to do it myself I would have preferred to go into those places and book in person but well petrol prices is all I can say on that one
tomorrow I am working so if I find the time I will ring the sand and soil place for a price on some soil and gravel, soil for the vegie garden, the fun of gardening in Sydney is the amount of clay in the ground we have put loads of gypsum down but its still very hard to dig in and I imagine it will be hard for the plants to grow in . I have been told that the vegie garden is all my responsibility, the boy is not going to interfere, gee I hope the vegies grow, almost everything that I have ever planted has died either from over or under watering, I might throw some water crystals into the soil when I get it
now the gravel that is to finish off the back driveway which with all of the rain over the weekend is very muddy

New week new day

so you can have an idea of how I went last week I'm - 0.2 this week yaaay if I keep on track for the whole of this week I'll be back below 75 very soon

we went for a walk this morning which was good I sorta ran for most of it since the woofs haven't been out for at least a week I was encouraging them to burn up some of that destructive energy it feels good to really stretch my legs and run a little, perhaps one day I'll be fit enough to go for a run rather than a walk
I do worry that running is a lot harder on the joints but then all of the sports that I have ever been involved in have been hard on the joints, Gymnastics, trampolining, basket ball, soccer and Oz Tag, its funny now to think of me being a gymnast I think I would be a little too tall and a little big to be competitive, if I didn't work shifts I would definitely get back into the basket ball and oztag again its good fun but the games are all in the evenings during the week too many people to let down as well
I have got a new weight training book and a book on the ball exercises coming soon, I like the idea of training and exercising by myself the new weights book made me laugh though the recommended diet for weight loss basically involved tuna baked beans and weightloss shakes, how anyone could possibly stick to that I don't know or even if the bloke who wrote it tried it, I seriously doubt it
I wanted to got and get a set of dumbbells and a bar today but the boy is in veg mode so it didn't happen :-( maybe tomorrow when I will go and find out the price of a load of soil for the vegie garden

Blah!!!!!

that about explains it, didn't get to bed till 2am was woken by various outburst resulting from rugy league on playstation until around 4 woke up at 630 then 820 was eventually dragged out of bed by the phone ringing at 1126
The boy his baby brother and his dad went to the club to watch the footy the baby bro thought it was really bad that I was still in my jammies and dressing gown, mind you I got out of be and got dressed in the warmest clothes I could find which just happen to be my flannie jammies and my polar fleece dressing gown with my teddy bear boots

Mum rang and said that my young aunty was there and could I bring her tupperware around(yaay all delivered) so I hung around there for a bit and discovered how evil bakers delight is, spinach and feta scones and pumpkin and sunflower seed bread need no butter and are really yummy
I might go to bed soon and make an early start of it tomorrow, the start of a new week and a new day

I will do well in the new week

More planning and routining etc

I have been thinking today and yesterday it is good to have days for things but I also need to get into a general daily routine
I have not been walking or for that matter wearing my Pedometer or doing any exercise at all

I have been spending an awfull lot of time in bed, I woke up today at 0630 was too hot so I turned the blanket off and thought that clock can't be right it's still dark then I woke up again at 0830 and it was raining so I snuggled in again then I woke at 1116 feeling like absolute rubbish I think there might be a touch of flu coming for me soon, it was still raining.

I eventually managed to drag myself out of bed and into the shower, gee we have a crappy shower I've been spoilt using the ones at work all week which actually have some pressure, anyway the shower made me feel a little better

I had a can of beans and two or three coffees then a bowl of porridge and a few more coffees.
I made a chicken noodle stirfry (I had some angel hair pasta which I had intended to use for chicken noodle soup hahahaha) with oyster sauce, and went to work which was a pretty cruddy place to be luckily there wasn't much work on and I could sit in the nice warm office for most of the night.
Got home to find that the dogs had broken into the sunroom and attacked their lounge, little tiny bits or foam everywhere, silly animals it would have been cute if they hadn't destroyed everything and just went in there to be warm and out of the cold, wet night.

Anyway back to routines, ok so its more like habits , I have bad habits which have been developed over the last 3 or 4 years at least here are some points relating to changing those:

• I must learn to get up not long after I wake up
• I need to walk most days of the week so do the dogs
• I must organise myself for work either the night before or in the morning so I am not in a rush
• I need to replace some of my coffee with herbal teas or water
• Breakfast is a very important meal which is usually easy to make I should do this more often
• Lunch is also and easy meal to make and best eaten hours not minutes after breakfast
• Dinner is not so easy but it doesn't have to be hard or take a lot of time or even be fancy

I have no problem eating lots of fruit or vegies I have a cube of goulburn valley fruit snacks in the pantry for the end of the fortnight when there isn't much fresh stuff left these also go well in my easi-yo which isn't very sweet, I like it that way.

hopefully we are going to the markets tomorrow to get some more fruit and veg we did a little shop on Thursday which sorta threw me out for the week since Friday is shopping day not Thursday.

OH well the dogs a reeking havoc again which I will have to go sort out, there will definitely be a trip to bunnings included in tomorrows plans

De widdle Bubba Mouse

We have a mouse, or more, which usually is fine we drag out the traps stick some soft rice to them and within a few days you will hear "SNAP", poor mousey, I kinda like mice and feel bad about killing them like that,

This one which at first the boy was annoyed about has become known by the above title, and for a long time wouldn't come out when I was in the room, so I got the description of the tiny bubba with ears that are almost as big as his body (I wish I could load a pic).

Then, the bubba mouse snuggles in the arch of the boys boot (under the sole not inside)

the other day I saw him playing around in the kitchen he is a little darling and his ears are almost as big as his body now here is where we come to a slight problem .....

How do you set a trap for a widdle bubba mouse????? Especially when you have looked him in the eyes and been almost close enough to touch,

since it is his fault that I feel guilty about setting the trap I have left this task to the boy I just hope the weather warms up and the Mouse finds his way to a nice field outside and stays there because I don't think the trap is going to be set

Spring is comming but it is sooooo cold

I don't understand it, we had three or four days of beautifull sunshine and 19-21 degrees, brilliant, it was very difficult to get up this morning bed was soooo nice and warm and it was soooo cold outside didn't get up till almost 1030 then, Shock horror, I got ready for work and spent the rest of the day bumming around trying to keep warm, I did venture out to the vegie garden which I have covered in palm leaves, those big fan shaped ones, cut from our palm tree in an attempt to kill the grass, the hoe just wasn't working too well, we will have to get a load of topsoil eventually, tried mulching the plam leaves today but the mulcher blade is blunt, the boy is going to try and sharpen it tomorrow, he isn't home yet and he has left his bum bag with his wallet and phone in it here so I hope he is OK he's usually home a bit before I am

Welcome to August

Well It's the first day of august Yaaaaaaay, It's and appropriately named month I think I'm not sure about anywhere else but this is when we get the big gusts of wind hahahaha today funnily enough was not all that windy but yesterday was, It makes an awesome noise the wind everything has a sound when it blows really hard yesterday Our Hammock was getting caught in the wind, here's a pic of My little Brother in the Hammock, I cut his Mohawk so he could get $60 for a dare then he kept it till the Korn concert

the Hammock makes a similar noise to corrugated plastic pipe being swung around, the shed rattles and bangs, the trees Shush and creak and the washing dries really quickly

I haven't got around to taking any pics of my shiny clean rear end (on the bike ) or what should be done on Wednesdays and Thursdays still thinking, I forgot that today was Tuesday so nothing has been thrown out yet , Rae I would love to throw out the old scales but apparently they are "good German scales" so they will go on the Boys side of the bed until he gets sick of them and does something with them

I have to admit the last few days have been very junky Bacon and egg sangas for brunch one day was KFC the other ( yesterday ) was hungry jacks which resulted in a trip to KK and almost half a doz original glaze, no I don't feel guilty, I refuse to feel bad over food its just not right, as mum once said about me, I could never be Aneorexic I just like food too much, But I do know that these are things that should be kept to a minimum, I will not go back to eating fast food every day for most meals, I like cooking even if the boy picks on me about my cook books and lack of adventure in the kitchen, but I don't like the tiding up bit and our kitchen is too small to be washing and cooking at the same time so the old clean as you go method just doesn't work