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I think i was "officially busy" today.. i often dont get things done and when i say i was busy (not that its a huge thing) hubby doesnt get it.. true a lot of my days are where i am at home i do cleaning, cooking and the rest i have to get stuff done on the computer... but today i was offically 'busy' (except for right now where im blogging and ignoring some housework..) today i was rushing around getting Tia ready for her 1st day in childcare.. walked tia to her childcare *cried there* (how embarrassing.. and i cry more coz im super embarrassed argh!) walked to hubbys work and dropped off his cd wallet then walked back the other way for some shopping (money to cheer myself up) and i went to target and pick up $224.94 stuff FOR JUST $38.25!! I got 2 pairs of shoes, 2 tops and a matching suit jacket and suit skirt.. and ahem.. none of the clothes fit! So i really have to do this challenge!!!! i really needed new shoes, i wear them out very quickly with all my walking! so i shopped at both far ends of the shopping centre (got stuff for my pav birthday cake). Walked home, grabbed the dirty laundry walked to the laundrymat.. walked home, hanged up the clothes to dry then walked to childcare and picked tia up and later i will go out and walk to hubbys work and then walk home with him.


picked up tia from childcare, turns out the reason they only have kids older than 3 at the centre is because 1 child is deadly allergic to dairy, nuts and eggs and Tia kept getting up from her chair at snack time... (well we have never had a big enough place to have a dining room with tables and chairs) so because of that she isnt welcome to come back on thursdays til she can sit still with her food. bummer.. instead she will go tuesdays, i guess. but other than that and her problem hitting kids apparently.. oh dear! (something she has to learn i guess) they also said she was very polite and very funny and went to the toilet very well.. YAY!
Of course we were the last to leave and *oops just remembered i forgot to sign her out* tia did not want to leave..

now ive got a half hour to do some more cleaning til i go out again.

shopping

I got a really good night sleep apart from more strange dreams.. bleh.. but thats another post in itself if i can remember it all. 0.o Today after giving lil miss a shower and washing her hair (removing liquid candy) decided i would get her backpack ready for tomorrows childcare visit. But then of course Tia thought she was going to the park or to the childcare and she was happy to leave the house but only with the backpack. So i unloaded it and gave it to her and we got out the door!

Went around looking for shoes, i usually find some really nice almost new shoes at op shops.. but today no luck there was a pair that looked about her size (but she wasnt in the mood to try on shoes) hardly worn on the inside or at the heel but the buckle was somehow all broken so i decided on not getting them..

But it was also half price day at the op shop and i ended up coming home with that lot for $6.30. not bad.. i got dominoes, 2 bday cards with badges, beads, a tambourine, fairy wings, 2 dolls a paper lantern and a glass pyrex bowl and a untouched BH&G's pink lantern (only i got home and got it out of its packet and opened it up as i can't resist paper lanterns!)

Might go back out and have a look at the opshop out near hubbys work as i wanted to find some shoes that look good and that are easy enough for lil miss to put on/off, she has these silly Hi-5 runners/shoes from k-mart that are badly designed and are super tight still after 3 months... wondering if i should do that roald dahl thing where you but a bag of water inside the shoe and put it in the freezer.. but maybe that only works for leather shoes?! i need to basically weaken the elastic somehow...

Did some grocery shopping and walked home *yawn* oh and we had lunch.. i thought id be good and go halves on a ww muffin (they are half the size as normal muffins! and for 3.5pts for such a small thing i think i'd rather go halves in the real thing!) and as i waited i switched it to half a double choc muffin from muffin break and i waited and then decided screw this im going to maccas. Poor kid working at muffin break, 1 kid! And all the myer snobs getting their coffee and muffins..
so i ended up having a cheeseburger, 1/2 a crappy chocolate thickshake and 1/2 a crappy small choc sundae. the chocolate sundae was tasteless and the sundae, well their fudge heater wasnt working so the fudge was thick and messy and i worried about salmonella poisoning as i noticed they were using a normal maccas tray under the machine and it had lots of melted ice cream on it?! what the?!

i remembered the glace cherries today, so i hope to make some florentines b4 going to hubbys work and the op-shop.. *yawn* think tonight will be a early one!
hope you all had a great day!!!

I could so go a coffee right now! (pic of lil miss, with a hot chocolate ring on her face.. lol!!!)
ugh! I hope everyone had a great day today!

It must have been something in the air.. or cabin fever..

Tia has been a right royal pain in the bum. She usually behaves herself, but today she started out silly and it just got worse..

I was developing a headache, went to do laundry and Tia wanted to be silly.. as my load finished Tia announced she needed to go wee. So we hurried off home. (and got there in time)
I was craving hot chips badly and my head was lying to me saying "have the chips, you will feel much better!" so i ordered the chips and walked to the childcare centre got the forms for Tia to start on thursday, went back go the chips walked back the other way to the park (thinking that a bit of a play could do Tia some good) I go to leave and Tia is throwing her wordie tantrum.. pick up a 2lt milk and a loaf of sunblest bread (for $7.80!) continue home as im unlocking the door Tia announces that she needs to go wee... struggles in getting her lil shorties down and wets herself. So i put her in a bath, and then she cuts her finger on my razor (which is kinda hard to do, but yet she well and truly cut her lil finger) i need to pick up a shower caddy thingy-bob when i go shopping next..
its 4pm, tia is in her pj's with a snack and drink watching one of her strawberry shortcake dvds. And im still waiting for my painkillers to kick in! (but there is now peace here!)

last night i was posting on LITS and i remembered that i hadnt had any water all day (this is around 8-9pm) so i joked about drinking alot of water before bed.. and that waking up at night and walking to the loo would be considered as 'exercise' lol! Well in that case i got alot of exercise last night.. *yawn* ive been sleeping like crap the past 4 days, its been colder (but thats not possible? surely! its the start of spring)

so this is the other thing empty schnapps bottles are good for! Keeping the shower curtain in the bleach/hot water.

take care!

Are you serious?

Im looking at the time.. 5pm? no way! where has today gone?
What did i get done today:

• Dishes.

• Recycling out in the bin.
• Got little miss to put her toys back in her room.
• Bleached the shower curtain.
• Cleaned the kitchen.
• Cleaned the bathroom.
• Did the vacuuming.
• organized the wardrobe and hanged up more clothes.
  
• folded clothes *gasps*.
• found the clothes that have acquired that musty-ive-not-been-worn in ages smell and put in laundry bag.
  
• found the socks with holes in them & thrown them out
  
• Rang my dad for fathers day that i had forgotten! oops!!!
  
• Uploaded more deviant art.
  
• catch up on blogs.
  
• catch up on forums.

have u seen the new weight watches adds on tv the ones for the food? It has kate richie from home and away.. interesting (not a fan)

have u seen the awful lite n easy adds? wow do they suck, its paid actors the whole 'say no to fads' if u watch the actors they are all (okay 2/4) shaking their heads saying 'no' while they are blabbing on how its so easy and i lost weight blah blah blah. my hubby picked up on it and now it bugs me alot watching it! argh! basically if ur lying sometimes you might be shaking ur head. eg you say 'that dress looks great on you' shaking your head u really meant to say 'nope. thats awful, but gosh it would look great on me!' HAHAHA..

the picture is of my quilt/duvet cover set oh and my handbag! I miss my duvet and its cover so bad! (i need to organize the delivery of our stuff!)
our duvet would have been so nice this winter, it was only new and we only used it for last spring/early summer til we moved.

Ive been buying reduced to clear capscuims lately, which is great $$ wise. i bring them home wash and cut them up and then put them in the freezer and then i have capscuim on hand already cut up when i need it. (unfortunately they go soft when thawed which is ok for cooking but not ok to be used in salads or uncooked)
Also i chopped up some carrots awhile back (for when im lazy) and put them in the freezer ready to be put into a hot frying pan (i miss my wok) for stirfries..
i chop everything that needs to be chopped before freezing it as i only have 1 crappy sharp knife (i miss my knife block)

Whoot! aw hubby is being sweet and while he is out getting sake he is going to do some grocery shopping also. what a honey-pie! its been rainy all day so i didnt bother to venture out into the wilderness to go grocery shopping (i have to walk everywhere..) besides i didnt have time today..

tonights dinner is left over spag bol (meat) on hot roasted potatoes with sour cream and sweet chilli sauce. yum.

last night i made up a home pizza, it was delish! wish i took a picture! hehehe red capscuim, onion, lite ham, lite cheese & mushies! oh and 4 pieces of garlic bread.. so nice and so naughty!

i also found out that empty schnapps bottles make great rolling pins! lol! and today i found another great use for them! *just wait and see, i havent uploaded the pics to the pc yet!* dont hold ur breath, lol.. its not that interesting..

*excuse my scatter-brain-mode* its monday after all!

;) Fathers day

<~Breakfast art. LOL! Its a butterfly. Now i know what your saying, a butterfly breakfast for a male?! ;) well i had one too, it was a spur of the moment thing. I think i will challenge myself to make some sort of transformer pancake or bacon & eggs brekkie.. i love mucking about with food. This is the first time i attempted to poach a egg using cling wrap. So in reality its not really poached, more like a boiled egg. Ive never had a poached egg before but hubby says they are very soft, id love to try it one morning where im not trying to get the timing of coffees, bacon, toast and eggs correct so we aren't eating some part of it cold.. lol. To put a egg inside cling wrap, i put the cling wrap over the top of a bowl then smoothed it down inside the bowl (so the egg doesn't just spill off) empty the egg onto the cling wrapped bowl then gather all the edges up twist it and tie it up a bit. Then its cooked in a simmering (i suppose) water not boiling like i had! (it did melt a bit of the cling wrap on the bottom i guess my eggs had cooked enough before it melted and thats why it didn't flop completely!) i will have to try the 100% original vinegar poached eggs version next time.

On another note the challenge starts tomorrow! *time to stop stuffing around.. or rather stuffing myself with crap!* (says me who just polished of some licorice bullets!)

I've made a mental note to catch up on a few blogs, i feel so behind right now.. =D

Update on me: I'm 100%. Im not sure what it was, probably influenza the virus (not just a cold) Theres been a scary influenza going around making alot of lil kids very sick.(not that we know any) :( bless their lil <3's *i somehow just lost what else i had written* i know it wasn't gastroenteritis in english thats 24hr tummy bug with projectile vomit and for that i am thankful! So now we are all great! Thanks for all your kind prayers and thoughts!

last nights dinner, was roasted beef and roasted potatoes.. i got to lazy to cook up carrots and in the end i was greatful that there wasn't anymore on my plate (not that it was stacked up on my plate) i guess my stomach got very full quickly from a big hit of protein. (i think my body was still healing up) Im counting down my birthday, nothing special (just want to be more aware of it approaching this year and so i don't forget!). i do like birthdays, i grew up with birthdays being the best day of the year besides Christmas! My mum would always bake a cake, there would be a family party (before high school there were the friends-over-birthday-parties) it was a big thing! i was thinking on doing the tourist thing in the city and only today thought of making my birthday list!

tadaa!!!!!!!! surprise, surprise! must be doing something right!


The Cure - Burn (The Crow Soundtrack)
via FoxyTunes

Sakura sunday

Photo taken from a tree in my neighborhood!

sickie saturday

Update on Tia: She had a fever! Woke up through the night for some water and in the morning she was well and now she is 100% again.
update on me.. well i felt unwell (stomache pains) after eating anything that was dinner last night and up til now basically.. so im 80% ok now! YAY!

Maria you asked about the painting i was doing awhile back. James's boss is working on a project thats pretty cool and basically i was just painting some gel compound to give a canvas some texture.. but i think i went a bit over the top, but they did learn a few things.. and i know thats rather cryptic but im not sure how much i can disclose about this.. so hopefully when the project is in full swing i will let u guys know what im going on about!

my 5cents on the 'so you think you can dance': that crazy producer/judge dude is on it again, *sigh* and i really am not keen on watching auditions where they show the worst dancers.. same with idol theres just some auditions where the pitch, tone or costume makes you change the channel! i cant imagine they get great ratings for the audition-part of reality tv as thats what happens you loose interest or someone comes on and its a complete turn-off.. bleh!

I've been a real sook today and ive just remembered (as usual) im behind in that i havent got my dad anything! Its fathers Day tomorrow! Ive bought some chocolate for james and he knows he is able to go out and get whatever it is he wants.... im so behind in presents! its shocking! 4 birthdays (all in august) and i havent gotten them yet!

anyways best be checking on dinner. Roast beef n veggies!