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Sometimes it sucks. I've really been struggling with it lately.  Trying not to make the same mistakes my parents made with me, but making my own along the way. I grew up in a house where one person drank and one person hit so I was determined not to make those mistakes with my children. For the most part we have managed or more likely, just muddled through. But this holidays I'm not really

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Debra Writes: Week 2 challenge: Go through the process and define your top 5 core values including ranking them. Share this information however you want next Monday (not on this post) – if you want please elaborate on your choices, talk about any difficulties in the process, any surprises or changes that came about. Blog it and link up, comment on next week’s post, share a journal entry or

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Like many others, I joining in with Debra Dane over at Home Life Simplified and her Simplify Your Life 52 week challenge. click on the button to visit and check it out. Here's what she has to say about the challenge for Week 1. At this time of year most people are focused on what they want to change, where they feel they failed or did not meet their expectations or previous “resolutions

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This is the last Grateful over at Maxabella's as Grateful's are moving over to Kidspot.  I've never been over to Kidspot (in my mind it's a place where mother's of young children chat about nappies, toilet training and preschool - stuff that hasn't been part of my life for a long time) so I'm not sure how I feel.  I guess I should drop by to actually see what Kidspot is about. Anyway,  it's

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We have been busy seeing things here that we can't at home and spent one night in a hotel at Darling Harbour. Last night we saw Happy Feet 2 here: This morning we had breakfast here: This afternoon we were looking at this: Tonight we are staying near these letter boxes.   Tomorrow we are going home.  Hurray, I really miss Mr E! I think I'll have a lot a blog posts to catch up on when I get

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Today's theme is Adore. So while I'm away from home I'll take whatever I can get....only kidding. I have taken a photo of my kids who were surprisingly being nice to each other. Actually they do get on pretty well despite the almost 5 year age gap. So here is a photo of something I adore.  It also includes something both children adore: the IPad. Joining in with Chantal and everyone else for

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The theme for today's picture is breakfast. Here is today's breakfast of champions - Gluten Free Toast with Nutella and a cup of coffee.   Now this isn't actually a standard breakfast for me anymore.  When I was a chocoholic (prior to March 2011) it  was my breakfast of choice at least once a week.  Since then, though it isn't really on my list often unless I need the caffeine to get moving.  

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So, how was your New Year? Ours was pretty good. We went into the city, had dinner and saw the early fireworks.  It was nice.You may remember that that I said I would be joining Chantal with her Photo A Day challenge for January 2012 which consists of:So despite wanting anonymity I am going to post a photo of me for this challenge.  So here goes, this is me.Now that didn't feel so bad, I guess.  

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What on earth would make me willing set the alarm for 7 am during the holidays? Getting my car serviced. Now while that is not very exciting itself it's the fact that I have actually left the house ALONE! I am completely and utterly by myself, if you discount all the other people in the shopping centre I have wandered into. So I am drinking coffee here: The thing is that I really love my

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Today is Christmas Eve. It's almost Christmas and that has me thinking about Christmases I have had before. I remember that at one point as a child I had a big plastic sack which Santa put presents in. One year, when we still in Sydney so I was between 5 and 7 years old, I awoke to to see some of Santa's beard stuck between the door and door frame of our flat. I guess that explained how Santa

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On Saturday morning we got up early to leave home about 7 am to attend an early with my extended family. It's lovely that they include us as we have no family here. My kids get to exchange presents with my cousins children and hang out with them all day. It's nice as we don't really spend much time with family. Boy Child is the oldest of them all but two of my cousins cousins (does that make

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While Girl Child and i were yesterday at home with her tummy bug, we decided to do Christmas things. We made some shortbread stars and snowmen.  This year we made some chocolate as well as the normal ones. The ones on the left aren't burnt, they are just chocolate! I also cheated a bit and added some water instead of the entire amount of butter so they are less short than normal but still

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It seems that everyone I know is busy at this time of year. I am trying to organise a dinner for some Mum’s at school who I used to catch up with for coffee regularly. They are too busy for coffee and all have different commitments on different days so I’m not sure dinner will be possible.  I have found an evening where only one person can’t make it but I probably shouldn't go either because Mr E

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Today I'm grateful for a few things.I'm really grateful that Nano is finished because it seemed to take up a lot of my thought process etc even if I wasn't writing. While I was doing Nano, I had my procrastination going in full gear. I am grateful that I managed to clean out and tidy up the plastic cupboard and I also spent some time cleaning out the linen cupboard. As a result of these

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Yes, I have just completed over 50,000 words on my written piece of work (which maybe considered an unfinished and untitled novel) and can now be considered a WINNER.  Apparently only 19% of people who sign up actaully validate their 50,000 words. So I am very pleased that I am one of them. I have a badge and everything to prove it! Doesn't that look great?  I'm not sure how I feel about it.

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November was going to be a big month here in our house. We have Girl Child's dance concert - had been Boy Childs too, until things got very messy about 8 weeks ago. Three shows held over two days, with a dress rehearsal and a stage rehearsal leading up to them. Then there was my long awaited MRI and finally the appointment that Boy Child had which got bumped from February to November after Dr

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So it's the fourteenth day of November.  It's almost half way done and my NaNoWriMo is still progressing but oh so slowly.  I have currently written 16157 words is is slightly less that the 23,338 that I should be up to right now. On the plus side I am consistently writing at least 1,000 words every day.  Which has been great. At the rate I'm writing my 50,000 words will be completed on or

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Today I'm joining up with Madam Bipolar for Grumble Sunday. Now I actually just feel a bit blurgh today so I thought this might cover it. Today I'm grumbling about a few things so in no particular order they are: Signing up for up for NaNoWriMo with no ideas. I had no characters and no plot just had a very general theme. I have become a compulsive word count checker and am behind my target

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Of course I have no plot, no characters, no ideas at all really. Well, there is this idea for a series romance book (think Mills and Boon) I thought about writing years ago but I think it's extremely a bit stupid now. Sarah suggested I go back and check out my W.O.W stuff and I think that's the best way to go. But if anyone wants to donate an idea, a character or perhaps even a plot line just

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Okay people, I have a Day Zero list and on it is to do NaNoWriMo. (National Novel Writing Month for those who don't recognise the acronym).I have enough time to complete the NaNoWriMo within my thousand days but I had also wanted to get all my things marked off before my next birthday which means I need to it this time around. Problem is I have missed so many Write on Wednesday exercises and I

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I can't believe how many W.O.W. Exercises I have missed. While a one point I thought I could catch up this is the first one I've managed since exercise 6 back at the end of July.Here's Gill's spiel about this exercise:Write On Wednesdays Exercise 20 - Write the words " I thought I saw" at the top of your page. Set a timer for 5 minutes. Write the first words that come into your head after the

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This week I did two things that were outside my comfort zone. I'm grateful that I did these things. While not big in the scheme of things, they were things that I normally wouldn't have tried. Firstly, I went to a Nutrimetics party. Now that isn't so scary in itself. It was a party held by a friend, and I knew all bar one person there. Thankfully it was a Christmas catalogue party so nobody was

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Together without the children! How is that worth a blog post? Well, this is the second evening this year that we have managed it. There was another aborted attempt but there was no sitter required as both Boy and Girl were at a disco. Generally our time out sans children consists of us attending a Christmas function together but the last two years there hasn't been a Christmas function.The plan

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This week, like Lucy, I am grateful for friends.I am grateful for coffee with them, phone calls with them and catching up over morning tea and lunch - check out this post by Leanne. I am grateful for the people who commented on my last post. As you could probably tell I was shattered, completely broken. But with my friends allowing me to brain dump, I'm in a much better place. As always I am

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by Elizabeth Stone which is: “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” Boy Child is Dealing with stuff, both figuratively and literally - mostly figuratively. My heart is bruised and battered. It is not yet broken but it certainly feels like someone has well and truly stomped on it. I'm surprised that my

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I was planning on hooking up with the other grateful posts on Saturday but somehow time got away from me and it's Monday afternoon. I discovered that I have a huge amount of things to be grateful for.  Here are just some of the things in the last fortnight. FamilyBoth nuclear and extended. I was lucky enough to be interstate when a member of the extended family was having a celebration. We

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I missed doing anything for RUOK day as I was away and operating on limited bandwidth.  So I thought I would do a post on Mental Health Week.  World Mental Health Day is held every year on 10 October.  This year Mental Health week started 9 October and runs until tomorrow.  Here is the description from the Australian World Mental Health Week site. Mental Health Week is all about raising

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I've been thinking. I'm pretty sure the reason for my need to escape the family last night was not, solely, related to the lack on alcohol in my life. I'm thinking it was related to the Smurf Movie. Yes, I blame those little blue people. Or however that songs goes. And the sugary sweetness that was Smurf movie. La,la, lala, la, la, la da, la, sing a happy song. Or however it goes. Image from

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Is it wrong to want to get away from your family? For some reason today my tolerance level is low and I had to leave before I said something I'd regret (or even worse NOT regret) to my children. Things along the lines of Just bloody leave me alone. So with Mr E. going out shortly, I'm hiding. I'm not sure what's going on in my head. Part of it is having been interstate visiting relatives. Now

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A long time ago, during my blog-vacation, just prior to my real vacation in New Zealand, the lovely Lene who blogs quiet aptly and adeptly at Musings of Another Mother passed the Versatile Blogger award over to me. Of course, as always accepting one of these awards there are certain things you have to do. So, these are the 3 (thank goodness there are only 3!) things to do. Firstly, you must

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I would have thought that after an almost 3 hour sleep this morning, I'd not be feeling so tired. But in fact, I almost fell asleep again this evening while Mr E. cooked dinner. And this has me a little worried. I'm taking a lot of medications at the moment to help with the head. Are they what's making me so tired, is it the having the headache / migraine or is it something else?I hate being

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We are back from our adventure in the Land of the Long White Cloud. It was a very busy time but we are all alive and well (tired though - I'm still tired a week later) so I think we can count our first ever overseas family holiday a success. All up we spent 5 nights in Auckland and 4 in Taupo. We probably over scheduled ourselves, especially as Boy Child had 2 school assignments he was supposed

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And I have started to freak out. Today I realized that in a few days we are going overseas as a family. Not far really, just over the ditch. My brain is spinning out with all the things I need to do.So far today I have:Had coffee with my friend W (she is struggling a little at the moment),Printed out our plane tickets, car bookings and our hotel booking confirmations,Ensured the car insurance

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In our house Mr E. sometimes refers to me as the 'Queen of No'. I seem to have veto power on a lot of things, which is good for the finances but not so good for the 'I Want' people in my house. When the rug rats ask why I have said no, I often reply because I'm mean. Which while not exactly true is an answer that I am kind of okay with. And its not just monetary things. Recently I told Girl Child

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Being back again. Hopefully this time I'll be back for a while. This week I'm also grateful for vets. There was a lovely warm day last week and i took Smiley and Serious dogs down to the dog wash. They were filthy! Unfortunately, I discovered under the dirt that their skin was irritated. We think that Smiley dog was sad because of this and he lost his smile. Now, as Smiley is deaf and blind any

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And that may explain why I have been missing from the blogosphere for the last three plus weeks. It's not that I haven't wanted to know what is going on in your lives and live vicariously through those of you who have the courage to stretch the boundaries or actually go to blogging conferences etc, it's just that I have been so wrapped up in the the possibilities (and in some cases the worst

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It's Write on Wednesday and I'm late again, oops. A big thanks to Gill for keeping the linky open.Write On Wednesdays Exercise 6 - Status Anxiety: Log onto your Facebook/Twitter page and write down the first status update you see. Set a timer for 5 minutes. Write the first words that come into your head after your prompt. Stop when the buzzer rings. Do this exercise over and over if you wish. If

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Yes I know it's Friday but for some reason I haven't a had the opportunity to do Write on Wednesday yet. But I noticed that Gill's linky is still open for a few hours so I thought I would give it a go. Write On Wednesdays Exercise 5: Write the Music - A bit of choice this week: Pick your favorite song and write down the first line of lyrics OR turn on the radio and write down the first line of

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Sorry that I haven't actually blogged in a while.  I did sort of blog on Monday (okay it was really a plug for me being famous over at Deep Fried Fruit), it was fun. Thanks Leanne! So I am grateful for: Being famous at Deep Fried Fruit! Having all my family safe and well.  Drop by Jemikaan's Grateful post to send her dad get well wishes and also Jodie’s (Mummy Mayhem) as someone she knows

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I like being one of the cool kids!     The lovely Leanne has invited me over for a cuppa and a chat.  Why don’t you drop by and join us? You know you want to!  

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This week , in no particular order, I’m grateful for: Girl child’s first party invitation for the year. Sleep ins. Dinner invitations from friends (especially those that include the family and understand food issues). Dr Jesse starting me on a preventative medication for my head. Celebrations for Friends (especially with GF cake!) A lovely and loving husband who understands that I need

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It’s the end of another Financial year here in Australia which means I have much busier doing work stuff than normal.  I think I worked about 12 hours on the weekend.  Luckily only one job has June 30 as the end of the financial year.  The other one uses a calendar year.  Which is much better for me.  Of course despite 30 June being the end of the financial year you don’t actually finish the

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The Write On Wednesdays Rules: First of all, I am not a big fan of rules. Feel free to get creative with the writing exercises - there is no right or wrong. But please try to visit the other members of Write On Wednesdays and leave a comment. You can grab the button for Write On Wednesdays from my sidebar if you fancy doing so. Write On Wednesdays Exercise 4: Two Fat Ladies (88!):  I am sticking

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Yes I know it’s supposed to be Hear ME Roar but in this case there is no roaring. I am just whispering.  As a mother when one of my children are threatened my my first instinct is to protect them.  Fairly standard I think.  But what happens when your child needs protecting from another child and that child’s parents are standing there doing nothing? What do you do when you have seen that child

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Even writing fuddy duddy makes feel feel old and …older. Maybe times have changed a lot since Mr E and I hooked up over 17 years ago or maybe it’s just that my thoughts on this are completely different to OMG I can;t believe I’m typing this the younger generation. Wow, typing the younger generation makes me feel like a fuddy duddy as well.  So maybe I am one. The scenario is: A couple have

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I have been doing work all day in order to get the company file ready to go to the accountant tomorrow and completely forgot that I am doing NaBloPoMo and therefore should be blogging.  Oops. So, it’s almost midnight,I’m cold and tired, with nothing to say except: If you are still up – GO TO BED! Night all.

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This week I did something that many of my fine readers would have already done. I learnt how to apply make-up. Scary thought for me really as I'm lucky if I wear makeup more than once a year and the majority of my recent makeup experience has been stage makeup for Girl Child for dance concerts.  I must admit I am getting better with her makeup and now I have some actual technique.  Well, maybe

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I have recently discovered Blunt cards. Obviously this site has been around for a while but it was only recently I found out there was a whole website with these things. Yes, I am often slow on the uptake. So Instead of a proper post today I thought I would show you all how my week was in cards.  If you haven’t discovered these yet go over and check them out.  These are just the cards that I

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Okay I have tired this exercise again.  I did it twice this afternoon.  This first one was a blow out but thought it was interesting to see where my brain actually wandered off to. I remember nothing….absolutely bloody nothing.  Scary really.  Another day another empty head. Nothing to see here move along.  Nothing to see anywhere really.  Not sure why i ’m bothering to even try this

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The Write On Wednesdays Rules: First of all, I am not a big fan of rules. Feel free to get creative with the writing exercises - there is no right or wrong. But please do try to visit the other members of Write On Wednesdays. You can grab the button for Write On Wednesdays if you fancy doing so. Write On Wednesdays Exercise 3 - I remember: Write "I remember" a the top of your page. Set a

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Tonight for dinner we were having roast pork sandwiches. Boy Child has had issues with food and it’s only been in the last 8 months that he has even eaten meat other than chicken. Having a roast pork sandwich is a big thing. In fact tonight’s may have been the first he has had. I made him two (he wanted BBQ sauce – how weird is that?). All was good until he dumped his plate on the bench with

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This seems to be Girl Child’s mantra at the moment.  I want Littlest Pet Shop, I want Zhu zhu pets, I want a Barbie, I want chocolate, I want chips.  Me? I want a break! I lost it with her this evening after about 20 I want’s.  I went all Bad Mummy on her and said if you stop saying I want I’ll give you McDonalds for dinner.  Doh! Bribery and corruption. Bad parenting moment there. Well, it

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What do you think of them?  Whether they are for single parents, parents of Special Needs children, people with mental illness (including depression / PND etc.) or Something Anonymous they are out there.  You can find them in real life and on line.  You can find some that meet daily, monthly or yearly or something in between. So you go to them?  Do you laugh and think people who go to them are

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I’m grateful for the public health system in Australia.  While it’s not always great, I managed to get an appointment with a neurologist a week after the referral was sent in. I am grateful that I have a follow up appointment with the neurologist in 6 months. I’m grateful that I will be sent for an MRI at the hospital in 5 months. I am grateful that this will all be free. I think it will be

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  Our new fridge arrived today.  After we moved the contents of our old fridge in, it seems to be a little bare.  I guess that happens when you go up a size.   As Boy Child said “We don’t have much food, do we?” Yes, that is one empty looking fridge. For some reason Mr E decided to put beer or cider or something in one of the Deli drawers and one of the vegetable crispers has tubs of

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Write On Wednesdays Exercise 2 - *Detective Dialogue: For this exercise you need to be a little bit sneaky. And brave. You need to be around at least 2 other people (or a small child who will happily chat to himself and/or imaginary friends). Write down a conversation/ dialogue exchange as you hear it. Feel free to write down things that accompany the dialogue (E.G. gestures, interruptions,

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I was planning on participating in Write On Wednesday today, but I haven’t managed to do the task which was be a dialogue detective.  Thankfully, the linky will be open until sometime tomorrow so hopefully I will manage to eavesdrop get some inspiration in the world around me. Check out everyone’s entries over at ink, paper, pen.

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The kitchen! What were you guys thinking? On the weekend Girl Child and I made Chantal’s 80 cookies for under $7.00.  You may know as I posted about it earlier.  Later that day I also made Glowless’ Very Vegetable slice.  This we ate with Beef Stroganoff for dinner .  Now for all you foodies out there (what are you doing reading my blog?) this may seem slightly odd.  But I have made no secret

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It’s weird but I thought I would have mentioned this before but I just did a quick search and I couldn't find it.  So I’m sorry if you have read some of this previously. I don’t like this long weekend very much. It’s a combination of factors – all family related.  Which bring me to my delusions of belonging. My extended family live about 3 hours drive away (if you don’t stop).  We probably visit

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During the week Chantal (aka Fat Mum Slim) posted her recipe for 80 cookies under $7.  So having discovered a can of Sweeten condensed milk in the cupboard I thought that Girl Child and I would embark on the adventure of making 80 cookies.  In different flavours of course. So yesterday we bought a snickers and a Caramello koala for the top of some.  I wanted to make some jam drops but Mr E

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Not X-men: First Class as it’s only being released in June 2011so I can’t comment on that. But classic X-Men is great.  Especially with the comments between Cyclops and Logan.  Things like: [commenting on the X-Men uniforms] Wolverine: You actually go outside in these things? Cyclops: Well, what would you prefer? Yellow spandex? [Cyclops doesn't know if Logan's an imposter]

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But as I’m doing NaBloPoMo I have to post something.  So this it it. I have nothing to say that’s worth reading this evening.  I’ve had a vaguely busy week and am looking forward to this Queen’s Birthday Long weekend.  Which of course isn’t on the Queen’s (Elizabeth 2 that is)  Birthday at all.  For some reason I think perhaps this celebrates the birth of Queen Victoria but I could be very

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Remember how I started seeing a new bloke? Well, during the week I started to get a little buyer’s remorse when it came to him.  You see, he sent me for blood tests but then there was no feedback.  And that made me bloody a little frustrated.  I felt that I had moved from one Dr who never got back to me to another who, while being good looking and much more approachable (aka Dr Jesse in honour of

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Darn it.  I should have done some blog reading before I did my blog post earlier.  Because if I had I would have discovered this really interesting blog called Ink, Paper, Pen.  Gill over there will be running Write On Wednesdays and today is the inaugural edition. See the button in the sidebar?  Go on press it and check it out.  After you have read my first Write on Wednesday Exercise – Very

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Giving my whininess in recent posts, I decided a prompt would be a better option.  So the prompt I have chosen is one from the discussion over at NaBloPoMo Prompt Suggestions. Are you more inclined to blog regularly when your writing is commented on? Do you get discouraged when your posts are not commented on? I’m inclined to blog regardless of whether I get comments or not.  I really enjoy

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Here, I am again in all my passive aggressive glory.  And I even had a 4 hour sleep this afternoon.     But it’s not all doom and loom, so let’s end on a high note:   You can play along by going over to the Only  Parent Chronicles. I’m planning on being back tomorrow in a better mood.  Or at least pretending I’m in one.  Night!

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I have updated my Day Zero list.  I now have 101 things on my list!!! How great is that.  I’m very impressed. According to the site I have completed 9% of my list so far. Now if I’d had influenced someone else to create a Day Zero List and Go to a Roller Derby Game I would have had 2 extra things completed.  But they weren’t.  Drat!  So without further ado here is my list. Blue are completed

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Remember Thursday’s Post about my really sucky week?  Which really wasn't that sucky I was just feeling sorry for myself?  Well our washing machine chose Friday to die.  Not die exactly, more like leak a great deal more than it had been for the last few months.  Given it had been leaking for a while and was 17 and a half years old we were tossing up whether we should get it repaired.  The first

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Coffee with friends.  Yes, I know it’s on my list often!  I don't like chocolate anymore so I need to have a vice.   http://www.dreamstime.com   Girl Child getting an award at Assembly. My family for letting me go to bed at 6.30pm last night. I think short but sweet works today. Oh, wait Girl Child is grateful that the clothes we ordered on line on Tuesday night arrived today. Want to

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So after yesterday’s whining post I thought I would start off Friday with Happy stuff.  So instead of writing my own I thought I would steal borrow some cool, happy and uplifting stuff I found on other blogs while reading last night.  Obviously many bloggers were in a completely different place to me or were blogging their way to a happier state of being. Image found here: http://

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But the thing is, in the grand scheme of life nothing has really happened.  No one has been seriously injured, I haven’t had to turn anyone’s life support off (like the family of Senior Constable Damian Leeding yesterday) or attend a funeral. All the angst has been due to crud in my own head.  Fancy that!  I think I need to take a leaf out of DFF’s book (check out Tuesday’s post) and change my

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Yep, at some point in my madness today I signed up for the June 2011 National Blog Posting Month. I thought maybe the idea of having to post every day would kick start my blojo again.  Of course, suddenly realising that I have to post tonight before bed freaked me out. So here I am blogging about nothing just to get the the runs on the board. Cool pun there as the theme for this month is Fans.

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I did these this morning and since then some of these issues have been resolved.  However, I thought as they were a snap shot of my brain at around 10 am this morning, I would post them.                 The child who hurt mine is apparently being suspended.  Not just because of this issue but others as well.  My friend has now thanked my child for involving

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  Here are a few of the comments I would have made if I had the chance: To Deep Fried Fruit on her 600th post: Oh no, thanks for the reminder that we will need to passport photos done soon.  I think the reason you don't smile in passport photos is because long haul trips can be uncomfortable, tiring and you basically just want to thump people rather than smile.  (or is that just me?).

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This is an angsty, whiny post.  Keep this window open at your own peril! This headache (or what may be  a migraine without an aura) has been hanging around for 10 weeks.  Tomorrow starts week 11.  And I’m sick of it!  I hate the fact that I have to take meds every day. I hate the fact that the migraine med makes me feel nauseous but isn’t enough to bang the pain on the head,  I hate that fact

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So…Marriage.  Does anyone else read that word and hear it pronounced the way it’s said in the Princess Bride? Marwage? Is it even the Princess Bride?  Is it also said like that in Four Weddings and a Funeral? Right back on track. I can’t actually remember our wedding vows but I’m guessing to death us do part was in there somewhere.  Of course death is something which ends a marriage but with the

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Sorry, another ASD post.  Feel free to wander off now before I get into it.  Here’s some nice music to help you make up your mind… Do, do, do, do,do,do do…I have no idea what music that is, just chose your own song depending on your mood. All good now? Let’s go. Why is it that because Boy Child is smart that he doesn’t need or isn’t entitled to help?  Why was it when I mentioned to someone

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So on Sunday 10 April 2011, I joined Naomi (from Seven Cherubs) with about 80 others in the happiness project. The deal was a to write a sentence every day from 10 April to 10 May about the things that made you happy and grateful.  These sentences were to be collected and then posted aka revealed some time after 10 May 2011. So my little brain wave was to start a draft blog post and put all my

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It seems to be going swimmingly so far.  He is friendly, articulate and has made Girl Child laugh.  At this point Boy Child hasn’t met him. But that’s okay.  I don’t really even want Boy Child to have fledgling relationship with this guy until I think it’s going to work out. But do you know what I like about him best of all?  He does what he says he will.  So I guess the question is why did I

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And I feel guilty. Our City bus service has apparently entered the 21st century.  We have gone from have paper term bus passes with magnetic strips to chipped cards (similar to credit cards) that you have to add money onto, swipe near a card reader as you get on and off, and can keep indefinitely. We have had one for Boy Child for just over a week. Recently, a Bus Driver took Boy Child’s bus

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I’m one of those weird people who feel homesick before I leave home.  I guess I get pre-emptively homesick so that then I can enjoy actually being away from home.  Or not. I had an appointment with the GP yesterday.  I was already annoyed with him. I think this post may have given my feelings away.  But now I’ve decided that I am done with him.  Completely and utterly done.  So I will be seeing

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Hello lovelies! Today’s post is going to link up with Maxabella’s I’m grateful for: And Melissa’s new linky My Sweet Life.  This first one is the Family edition. On my holidays I went to visit my family.  We got to see the new baby.  But she did not resemble the photo I posted there much at all.  She was more like this (even without a dummy/ pacifier/ whatever you want to call it): We

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The Sydney Morning Herald magazine Good Weekend recently published an article about Munchausen by Internet.  In short Munchausen by Internet is a fairly new term coined for people who pretend to be ill on line to elicit sympathy from online support groups, bloggers etc. I have been unwell with a headache for 6 weeks now.  The GP(General Practitioner) I have been seeing for years has been close

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There was a post the other day over at Beautifully Mundane about fitting in.  I didn't comment on the post but I did spend quite a bit of time thinking about it.  Melissa also posted about where to from here about her blog Then Lucy posted this one about commenting.  Again I didn't  comment but spent a lot of time thinking about it. So here are my thoughts now. They do seem to mostly related to

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Once upon a time there were two girls who grew up into seriously good looking, smart, trendsetting women (this is my story and I get to tell it the way I want to!).  They both had children and lived in a small city where north is north and south is south and never  the twain shall meet.  Unless of course you packed a picnic lunch to journey to the other side. One day these smart women both

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I haven’t done one of these for a while (check out here and here for the previous posts) and I’m a bit whiny today so I thought this might break the low mood. The idea is to list problems that only rich (or first world, or affluent or comfortably well off) people have. My current issues are: My frustration at the Dr for not getting back to my with my test results and me having to chasing

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I am going to be participating in Naomi’s (from Seven Cherubs) Happiness Project.  Click here or on the picture to learn all about it!  anyone else want to join in? It’s not hard.  Naomi says: Starting today, April 10th, and finishing on May 10th we will take time each day to record and write one sentence on what has made us feel happy during that day or things that we are grateful for

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It seems that the only time I’m blogging at the moment is to play along with Maxabella. I guess you could all be grateful that it is all I’m doing I am managing to do that. I love the idea that some of you use about being grateful for a particular things like Jodie and Coffee.  That’s the one that stood out to me today!  However it appears that my head is so random I probably couldn't do a post

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My cousin’s baby girl being delivered safe and sound. Yes, this pic really is her.  Her father titled it: Happy Face. My Husband who understands that coffee dates are an essential part of my life. The coffee at the above coffee dates.  I had three coffee dates last week!  Three! Friends who have asked how I am. My very generous sponsors who have helped raise $1,145 for the Leukaemia

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Remember this post? The one where I wrote that I had lost myself? That I didn’t know what to do with my life?You wonderful lot made some great suggestions.  I went away to a convention on the weekend.  At the convention I meet some really friendly authors and picked up a book.  Beneath the blurb on the back was this: ‘A discontent gnaws at me. I’m Geordie’s wife; I’m Josh and Robbie’s mother.

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Hello again. On the World’s Greatest Shave front, I have currently raised $1080.  I am so grateful to all the generous people I know who sponsored me, or blogged or send messages or support.  Or all of those things! Thanks to those who have enquired about my health and my purpose in life.  Health wise I am okay.  I got some really cool slow release meds for the headache.  I was away for the

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Long time, no post.  Sorry.  I hope those who went to the Aussie Blogger Conference had fun.  I hope everyone else reading their posts got to live vicariously through them.  Me? I didn't go. I have had a headache since Thursday last week so I will probably be deleting a few hundred blog posts from my blog reader.  Not sure what’s going on with me but feel like crud.  Yep that very descriptive

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Hello everyone.  Thanks for those who read my angsty post the other day.  I will reply to you all.  I just thought as the Great Shave was yesterday I should update.  These photo’s were taken by P. (I owe you a huge Thanks!) and I have taken them from Face Book which is why they aren’t edited at all. To start it was crazy hair day and Girl Child decided I need three pony tails: In order to

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I have no clue who I am anymore.  And I’m not even wanting to eat chocolate!  How sad is that? The other morning I woke to Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime.  Now the words that have been ringing in my head ever since are: And you may ask yourself-Well...How did I get here? And you may ask yourself How do I work this? So…. how did I get here?  How do I work this? And most

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It’s been a whole week since I last blogged.  And a few days since I have read any blogs as well.  Tonight I logged in to discover 82 posts to read.  Thankfully that was better than earlier in the week when I had 120 plus to read.  Are you all prolific or what?  So if anyone thinks that I’ve snubbed you, I’m sorry. I just have been a little busy and have only skim read some of your posts. It’s

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So to go with my vibrant coloured hair I have an Official Receipt Book and a donation box. Plus, I have organised to have the Shave done at Girl Child’s School Assembly on 11 March 2011.  Another parent from school will be having their head shaved as well so thankfully I won’t be sitting up on stage by myself . Some very generous people have already sponsored me for $342.00!  Plus people have

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Yes, the hair colouring is now  complete.  After yesterday's bleaching, today's exercise consisted of applying streaks in red, blue and pink.  I must say I like this much better than the blonde.  Probably because the blonde was so stark and such a huge change to my normal hair colour. So without further ado I give you the multi-coloured me: Just after it was done. Once it was dry -The

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Today, was the day I was going to dye my hair.  I was about to start when I spoke to a friend and volunteered to do it for me!  Hurray!  I was more than a little worried how I would manage to do it myself.  And so I should have been.  J is a former hairdresser and she had to bleach my hair twice. I started with brown hair: After the first bleach I ended up with rather orange / yellow hair:

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Yes, I have done it.  I have a Page on the Leukaemia Foundations website and I have bought the hair stuff so it’s all go.  Once I have a meeting with Boy Child’s school tomorrow I will be bleaching and then colouring my hair.  I have got red, blue and due to popular demand pink.  The last time I tired to dye my hair at home it accidently turned green so we will see how this goes.  Once the

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What colour/s should I dye my hair? I haven’t signed up for the World’s Greatest Shave as yet but I’m planning on it.  But I thought that I would also dye my hair for the few weeks before I shave it.  So what colour/s do you think I should go?  It’s currently collar length and medium brown.  But I thought I might bleach it and then dye it a bright or maybe colours. After all, if I damage it it’s

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