Chitter Chatter

It was late, about 10pm. Chestnut Cheeks wondered down to the lounge room & asked for a drink of water. He had it & I told him to head back to bed. He asked me to come and pat him...

How could I resist? So I went...

After a minute or two he said to me with a cheeky grin on his face...

"Mummy, donuts are only a sometimes food eh?"

I agreed & said " You like donuts hey!?"

He replied with a giggle...

"Yeah!"

The promptly went back to sleep. Cute!

1, 2 now 3...

She will be three in only a couple more weeks....


The day she was born.

Her First birthday.

Her second birthday.

I still cant believe that my baby girl is almost 3. Where does the time go?

She melts me everyday. Even on days like today when she makes me so mad....

My Beautiful Ella...

Stay tuned for third her birthday...

I am here

But I just dont have a lot to blog about. Well I do have a few things, but I need photos & well I still cant upload off my camera yet.... Sorry to be a bore!

A gala event...

Every year Swift Jim's work put on a Staff Gala Dinner at the end of the year. They dont call it a 'Christmas Party' because that title may offend some people....

On Saturday night we went along. It's usually a great night out. We all get dressed up. The food is delish, there is awesome entertainment (this year it was a steel theme, so tap dancers & drummers etc), and usually prizes.
The first year that Swift Jim & I attended one of these functions, the theme was roaring 20's and I was 5 days shy of giving birth to Almond Eyes. We had a fun night & won a bottle of wine! Nice! Except I started to get contractions at about 10pm & freaked out, so we went home (it turned out to be a false alarm). Trouble is we forgot to take our bottle of wine home & some other lucky person got to take it home instead. That was the first & last time we won something.

Until Saturday night. They did the token look under your bread plate for a winner sticker & guess who got the prize?! Yep yours truly! I was soooo excited! I never win anything!! (except that one time).... The room was elated with excitement ! The MC guy really hyped it up, then he announced what the prizes were...

First of all the room made a "Huuuh" sound.... then laughter!

It turns out it was the only prize for the evening and it was somewhat of a boobie prize....

Can you tell what it is? Probably not. This lovely piece of plastic was the centre piece for the table. It was sitting on top of a light so it was kind of a cool table centre piece for a engineering company's Staff Gala Dinner, but apparently they didn't want to keep all 108 of them, and thought the staff would? Interesting! Anyhow, I thought it was hilarious! So there ^ is a picture of me & my prize! Needless to say, we left it there!

Chitter Chatter

With the remote control up to her ear....

"Doctor? Hello Doctor, where are you? Oh in your room. Well... hmm... the girl has a sore ear. Ok? "

To me...

"She is in her room." [nodds and heads up the hallway]

Back!!

Last Night Swift Jim cleaned out the PC. Which means all important stuff got put a a disc & everything got wiped! Nice to have a working computer again, but now I have to remember what all my favourite websites are....
Thats ok. I'd rather spend some time browsing the web than have annoying (and some yucko) pop ups all the time...
I will post something interesting soon.

Sick Computer

I will be offline until it's all better.
My PC has a virus. It sux, it's slow & I keep getting nasty pop ups and the keyboard wont recognise what I am typing properly.
So I will see y'all around, soon hopefully...

Tamborine Treasures

I promised I would post some pictures of the treasures I got on the Women's retreat....
These are my favourite things...

I have wanted a clock for a long time. I loved this one when I saw it a few months ago. I was umming & ahhhing about it. But decided to wait until the Women's retreat, if it was stil there then, I would get it. This isn't where I will put it, but I just wanted to show y'all how it goes....

The same shop had this little sign which I decided would look great on my deck. And it does...

And I couldn't come home without a gift for the kids. These Koala's were just too gorgeous to leave behind! They have been oddly named by my children as "Connor" & "Ella"... I wonder why ;)

Confetti Head

Over at Where the blog are you, we are having some fun today! Check it out....

Today I am going to choose to write about a memorable high school moment...

Well there are several I could choose from. I remember being dacked in the year 12 locker room. Quite embarrasing since I was wearing really daggy undies! I think Aunt Flo was visiting too, so of course I panicked!

But instead I will blog about my band "Confetti head"....

In year 11 & 12 I did contemporary music as a subject. It wasn't 'proper' music. It was just a school subject [not the board subject]. I loved it. Mostly because it was prac. Hardly any theory!! My type of thing! For one assesment we had to form a band. Two bands from the class stood out. There was us. We were originally called 'Solitary Confinement' but we decided our songs weren't hard core enough for that name, and changed it to 'confetti head'. Then there was a band called "The Farmers Handshake". They were punk. Between the two band we performed on assembly quite regulary. Ours got more gigs, probably coz our songs were'nt so hard core!

Here's us on assembly. I think from memory, now this is going back 11 years, but I think we were doing a cover of Zombie by the Cranberries. I also think from memory that we murdered it! I also remember worrying during the song that I would get in trouble for wearing doc Martens on assembly. I was always in trouble for wearing them to school.

Once we got to grade 12 we started writing our own songs. Well. They were interesting. One was actually quite good. It was called "Everyone is like the wind". My singing teacher was impressed with it! But we were most famous for our song, "Raindrops, stripey sock & skittles".

I wish I had kept a copy of the lyrics. You see I am an anti hoarder, and at the time I was sure I would never need them again. Who would have thunk it! I can kind of remember the chorus. It went something like this...

"Raindrops, stripey socks & skittles making me hap-py when skies are grey, Raindrops stripey socks & skittles .... la la la"

[imagine my bright red embarrased face here]

We had a lot of fun! My most fun music lesson was when we were making a film clip for our hit song. We wandered around the school grounds with a giant video camera, with coloured celophane over the lense for special effect, looking for butterflies and things to record. We were so cool!

This is a picture of me. It was the night of our school's talent show. Confetti Head was one of the leading acts (along side the Farmers Handshake of course). We were going to do a cover of Frente's Accidently Kelly Street, as well as RDSS&S. I looked cool! My hair was bright pink. You really cant see it in the pic, but my eyes were covered in glitter, and my outfit rocked! I had a tight knee length skirt on with knee high socks & chunky spice girl type shoes on... mmmmmmm LOL... I must have looked great coz I remember EVERYONE made a comment!

So it was our turn. I was on stage, the band started. Just as I was about to open my mouth my youth leader walked in and sat right infront of me. I forgot the words. Eventually they came to me, but it wasn't until the band got the the chorus. The shame of it. I think my cheeks matched my hair!! We had fun any how. But I am not sure I sang on stage again that year!

In all due respect...

I am Australian.
I get that the US election is important to Americans. Of course it is! The Australian election is important to me. I also get that today marks an important day in American history. I do, I get that.
But I am AUSTRALIAN and I dont see why my kids favourite t.v show "playschool" had to be interupted to see Obama's acceptance speech.
It could have waited til the 6 O'clock news.
Does American television go on & on about the Australian election? I am just curious?

Dont get me wrong, I am interested, after all Australia and America are good friends... I just dont get why our lives have to stop today?!
Rant over.

Refreshed!

On the 7 November 2007, pretty much a year ago I booked the Tamborine Lodge for our Women's retreat. We had been there once before & the location was lovely! The views spectacular! I though it was a good place to have it again!

So for a year I have been anticipating this weekend, planning and preparing. Fifty six ladies registered for the retreat! Awesome number. But that changed in the last week and became fourty six. It was a bit of a shame, but that is life. I was excited anyhow!!

Now in part of the preperation I had purchased some glow sticks.

The reason you ask? Well, the road on which the retreat is located is rather dark at night, and since the retreat wasn't going to start until after dark, it would be tricky for all the ladies to find there way. The purpose of the glow stick was to notify the ladies that they had reached their destination. I thought it was a great idea! .... What I hadn't taken into account was that, friday was Halloween. Now normally us Aussies dont celebrate Halloween. But up on Mt Tamborine, it was celebrated quite well. So when I started recieving phonecalls saying "we are lost! Where are the glow sticks?" I started to get suss.... trick or treaters had nicked them!!! Cheeky little buggers!

There was also a dirty big black snake stretched right across the road out the front, which freaked a few of our ladies out (including moi)...So that was the start to the weekend...

But it didn't set the tone. We had a wonderful time. We laughed. A lot!! Which is good really, because the theme after all was, "she who laughs, lasts!".

People asked me was I missing my kids? I replied with, NO WAY!! Haha... I love them dearly, but It was only 2 days people!!! I enjoyed my break :)

Probably my favourite part of the weekend was the little shopping expidition we went on during free time on Saturday afternoon. There are lots of lovely little shops along the main street. And I purchased a few delightful treasures. I will post pictures of them in another post. I was going to take some pics today but unfortunately it is rather overcast & the light isn't doing them any justice.... I will however leave you with a couple of photos from the weekend....

This one I took out side a wine tasting shop. It was the cutest little rose bud! And it smelled amazing!!

And this one....

Well, I will let Givinya & Crazy tell you about it!