Xooting along
Friday, 5 September 2008
 I've been looking forward to the arrival of my birthday present for months and it's finally arrived. Now I can scoot my way to work from the car in a third of the time and with ten times the fun. It's a bit hard to tell from the photo but it's grown-up sized rather than razor sized, but it still folds up in a snap and sits under my desk until it's time to xooot home. I love it!
In other news Jett is getting better but spent the day at home so I've pretty much got this weeks cakes completely under control. phew.
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Sick Day
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
 Poor Jett is sick today - in fact it's his second day off creche - and whilst I'm loathe to talk down my excellent nursing abilities I have to admit that he hasn't improved a whisker under my care today. It's looking like it will be over to granny to institute a turnaround tomorrow.
It's been bad for Jett but it has given me a chance to catch up on the cake stuff I'd otherwise be doing until midnight tonight so that's some sort of relief. And I have caught up on a lot of kids tv - the highlight being the catchy tune still playing in my head which goes something like "don't bite your friends, don't bite your friends minchy munchy crunch crunch but don't bite your friends..."
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I need a lie-down
Sunday, 31 August 2008
It's just past 11pm. This was my day: - 7:45 get-up (I'm not complaining about that)
- 8:30-9:30 make potato salad and generally pack food for picnic later today
- 10:30 - 12:30 play soccer (we won 3-1 yay)
- 12:40-3pm attend work family picnic
- 3:30 put kids to bed for short nap
- 3:35 start making cupcakes for jett's creche tomorrow
- 4:30-5:30 keep making cupcakes - with children's "assistance"
- 6:00 decorate cupcakes (with assistance)
- 6:30 make & eat dinner
- 7:30 put kids in bed, clean up
- 7:30 - 8:30 rest in front of tv
- 8:30 - 11:00 cover 2 fruitcakes and plan next week (3 wedding cakes & 30 kids cupcakes to do plus Jett's birthday and Tas Orienteering Champs in Launceston
Now I'm not saying that today wasn't fun - cos it was. but boy am I tired. Stuff I also wanted to get done today but won't cos I'm going to bed includes: - making lasagne for Jett's birthday dinner tomorrow
- washing work clothes
- wrap Jett's birthday presents
- get lunches ready for everyone
- unpack bags of soccer and picnic stuff
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going out essentials
Monday, 25 August 2008
 raincoats, jackets, fairy wings..
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the little stuff
Monday, 25 August 2008
 Although I don't ask her to, my sister buys me popcorn because she knows I can never find it in the supermarket myself. cool huh.
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more craft
Sunday, 24 August 2008
I got to do some craft today too - Jon and his new neighbourhood friend and sometimes-bus-buddy have decided to organise a street christmas party so my job was to format the 'pre' invitation. The other invitation is for Jett's third birthday party in a few weeks time. Actually it's his first birthday party not his third as we've gotten away with much more modest celebrations up until now.
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crafty cat
Sunday, 24 August 2008
 This cat Zali that made at 'big school' is the coolest thing ever! It's not easy to tell in the photo but it's 3 dimensional (i.e. puffed out with newspaper inside) and about 40cm across. It's fantastic - I want to keep it forever. I'm just not sure where..
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this is living!
Saturday, 23 August 2008
Today was a lovely relaxed weekend day which whilst similar in many ways to a usual Saturday it certainly didn't start in a typical fashion - Jon and I slept in then got up at a leisurely pace and headed down to the shops for some coffee/hot chocolate and to pick up some other stuff. Back at home we had breakfast on the deck in the sun whilst reading the paper. I'm thinking you might have guessed what was different by now - yep - no kids!!! They had a sleep-over at Denny and Robin's house the night before - cool hey! Anyway - our pre-children flashback was short lived as we picked up Zali, Jett and Toby and headed off to swimming lessons at 10am (yep - sleep-ins still aren't exactly what they used to be either!). Back at home later the kids (and Jon) slept off their big nights whilst I pottered about then we all went to Dru Point park which is by the water and has a little bicycle track for the kids. It was great and we all loved it. I even tested out my dodgy ankle to see if I could play soccer tomorrow (no) but it was nice to run about outside anyway. You can see the snow on the mountain in the background. The relaxed start to the day was particularly welcome after what has been a busy busy busy week at work with the animators back in town. I only really got to stop working for long enough to have an actual lunch break on Friday. This combined with a quiz night for the kindergarten and the usual nightly demands of the olympics have left me rather tired to say the least!
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games in the games room
Saturday, 16 August 2008
Our new fantastic games room has quite high ceilings and is of
course very spacious which is great but it does mean we have to do what we can to prevent heat loss at night or when the heaters are on (which is often lately as it's been cold and wet). We got some vertical blinds put in and whilst they are great for the light control and privacy aspects, they aren't the best option thermally. Which is good as it means we finally have somewhere to hang our excellent Sydney Olympics banners which I had to run my own 400metre personal best to secure*. As you can see they can go on either side of the blinds and are configurable and completely removable. And - even more excitingly - they are completely free. Yay for re-use. * Jon says it sounds like I grabbed them off poles and scarpered but it wasn't quite like that - Me and a few hundred other people were sort-of queued up outside a fence waiting to be let in to the sell-off sale. When the gates finally opened there was a 400m footrace over to the door of the warehouse outlet. My competition (which consisted mainly of big boofy blokes) all ran out of stanima at the 200m mark after gaining an early lead. Thus I got my banners. I did originally want an olympic podium to use as a coffee table but it was probably for the best that there weren't any available.
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No more door
Thursday, 14 August 2008
As you may have guessed by the previous post, the deck is up! I can't show you photos of the whole thing yet as 1) it's not completely finished and 2) it's wet out there. Now - as you can see we had a bit of a problem with a redundant door (going into the games room). After considering a number of options such as re-bricking the whole thing and putting in glass bricks, Jonno came up with the genius idea of putting in a blackboard. So here it is! It was his idea but I did all the sawing, painting and hammer drilling so I think we can both be satisfied when we look at it! The grand total was $86 which compared rather favourably to the quote for $621 we got for the glass bricks! oh - In other news I'm at home again today! Yay! Basically it was pretty quiet at work so I gave myself and olympics day off rather than spend the day twiddling my thumbs wishing I was at home. I'll be back to work tomorrow and next monday the animators all start so it will be full-on from there.
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NEWS FLASH
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
 It's SNOWING!! Big fluffy flakes of snow that is coming down by the bucket load. Unfortunately for Jonno he's out on the deck finishing the cabling and I'm not letting him in until it's done. At least it will be a memorable night for him!
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shaggalicous
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
 I've always thought our cork tiles, whilst functional, weren't very cosy. For example, whenever we tidied up the living room it got so echo-ey that people we talked to on the phone thought we must be moving out. (luckily the tidying thing didn't happen too often). Anyway - imagine my delight now that we've got a great big custom made shagpile rug in the living room. And I mean BIG. We actually set out to get real carpet from the carpet shop but we a) fell in love with the red shag, b) discovered how much cork tiled floors are worth (lots) and c) listened to the German carpet shop owner guy who advised us to get a rug instead. We even had some offcuts sewn together for a mini-me version in the games room. It's really really really nice. And we never need tidy again as things just get absorbed into the rug and never seen again. Come to think of it I haven't seen that kid in the photo for a while.
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flat out snoozing
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
 Yesterday I had to look after Jamie for a few hours. Now I know what you're thinking : "geee - that looks like an easy job". What you don't know is that I took this photo before Denny left the house. As soon as she went Jamie woke up and complained vigourously about something until 15 minutes before she returned.
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Everyone's a critic
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Zali has been at home sick(ish) today and whilst she preferred to watch ABC Kids in the morning, in the afternoon she really got into the olympics to the point where she decided to start scoring the synchronised diving herself...she used a fairly straightforward tick system although some teams might have found themselves shortchanged as her concentration span did waver during key dives.
In other news, I've been called back into work to start tomorrow. Actually they wanted me to start today but I managed to convince them that tomorrow would be better. Actually in two weeks would be even better but I didn't think that would fly.
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Swings and Roundabouts
Friday, 8 August 2008
On the one hand because I love my job, and it's good to get out and even better to earn an income, I'm devastated that Blue Rocket Productions didn't ring me this week to tell me that everything is back on track and I can go back to work next week. On the other hand, it is the olympics. THE OLYMPICS I say! NOW!!! AND it looks like I'm going to get to watch them! ALL DAY! and ALL NIGHT!! Yay.
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