4th OCT

Now today was more like my wedding day, pouring with rain and 22 degrees.
Max and I enjoyed a nice sleep in to 9am and a PJ morning, gotta love those.

Max looked so cute as he helped Darren fill the car with petrol tonight. He held Barney (the dinosaur) up and he was holding the hose too. Such a cute picture. As I got out to take the shot Darren ordered me back into the car and said they would turn the pumps off if I used my camera.....man I tell you he has no patience when it comes to a good photo. So i took one form the car instead and nothing went BOOM!!!!

9 years today

my house looks like a FLOWER SHOP! thanks Dazzy.
9 years ago today it poured with rain, stopping briefly for a 3pm service. I must scan a wedding photo.
Today it was 33 and HOT. Daz was exhausted after a hard day at work, so we cancelled dinner plans and we had take away Chinese. I annoyed him for the usual anniversary photo, I had 3 goes before he had had enough and this is the best I got!!!! He was snoring on the lounge by 8pm - the joys of getting up at 4.30am 6 days a week.
Dinner out tomorrow night with my boys.

a day at home

It went toooo quick. We spent 2 hours in the pool as it was 30 degrees.

Here is Max at the end of the day

LOVING Duplo at the moment, towers are all the rage!!!!!

October begins....

what a nice way to start my second favourite month!!!

A nice catch up with the girls from work, lots of swimming, nice food and lots of laughs.

Here is Max with Luke and Ben, all tired out after many hours in the pool. Narelle and I took off to scraploot after everyone had left and the boys had more fun times together while we got some hot NEW products.

Oh - 30 days have September

Gee i had one more day left in September until I went to the calendar and had a OH YEAH moment! I teach this rhyme over and over all year.....and I still thought I had until Sept. 31 before OCTOBER arrived. lol..........I wish time would slow down, I have lots to do...

Anyway holidays are here and I am sooooo happy. A busy term over

Starting TOMORROW (since it is OCTOBER)

Octoberfest 2008
For 31 days - each morning you will wake up to a new layout, sketch and super easy step-by-step instructions and material list. There will be four amazingly talented guest designers, a few new doodle sheets to download and lots of fun to be had.

The class is $31 AU and payable via pay-pal or direct deposit - you will get the user name and password for exclusive access to the classroom blog (which will remain open till January)

Check out the details here

off to do some washing

Happy Birthday Miss Alison

Since you dont blog anymore I will for you!!!!

Had a great day at Gold Class with you today and LOVED Pandora shopping.

Mr talkative

Max- “mum wot dat?”
Mum – “Gravy”
Max – “Gravy mum, oh yeah, GRAAVVY, it is mum…Gravy, oh yeah, oh yeah, gravy”

Max laying on the lounge – “want dummy mum”
Mum- “lets go get it”
Max- “no mum, I stay here, you get it”. (points upstairs)
Mum – “No if you want it you go and get it”
Max – “Oh ok mum, i stay here” (continues to watch TV)

Mum - "maybe today we can swim"

Max - "no mum TOOO COLD, you said NO MORE, too cold, oh no, no more pool, goodbye pool"

Mum - "that was in winter, now it is warm and you can swim"

Max - "oh warm.......ok (s)wim warm, ok mum ok"

remember challenge

I am getting frustrated with myself as I love to remember.....i have a good memory for dates and remember LOTS but I just can't remember EVERYTHING. Sometimes I cant even remember where my keys are...let alone when Max started his obession with diggers. I have been meaning to sit down and add to our journals for weeks as I have really let this habit go and that makes me sad....I love to remember.

the other night I was looking for a shot of me..........I have a lot, thanks to my friend Alison, my bathroom mirror and my husband who will snap away for 12 seconds and hope he gets one IN FOCUS one of me not blinking.

Anyway I started to remember..........lots, but not all ......so as of tomorrow I am going to write more down before I go off blog hopping and posting on the parent chat forum i love reading.

I also found this CHALLENGE on a blog ...

Here’s how you play:
1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn’t matter if you know me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It’s actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I’ll assume you’re playing the game and I’ll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don’t want to play on your blog, or if you don’t have a blog, I’ll leave my memory of you in my comments.

SO PLEASE leave me a memory........PLEASE

memories of me in this photo ( Sat. Sept 13, 2008)

I am not happy with my weight

I love having my hair curled by my neighbour

My mobile was broken and I failed at going for 2 years with the same mobile by 4 months.

I worked a 4 day week.

I spent Friday night having fun with the girls from work, Saturday at a wedding and Sunday night having fun with at our IDOL party.

I can't keep up with the ironing and washing lately.

I spend way too much time on the computer thinking about the things I love instead of doing them.

I wish more than anything that I was pregnant.

I am 31 years and 326 days old

Yesterday I was rel. principal of a school and while I liked the comfy chair I don't think I will ever go there.......it just does not seem rewarding...the classroom is rewarding.

I hate the fact I cant do things to my house at the moment as we dont have enough cash...I hate high interest rates, I go to bed dreaming of having money to spend on everyting I WANT AND NEED.

Today

Happy Father's day Daz.

It was great watching you receive the handmade gifts Max made you at Linda's (FDC).

We also gave you a retro Parramatta Jersey and a book called My Dad.

Max was so excited about mowing the lawn with Dad today, he just follows him up and down and holds on to the mower when he can. I remember when I was little I would follow the tracks my dad made. I guess as a kid it is relaxing watching someone mow the lawn.

We went to visit my Dad too. Max soooo adores his POP, he follows him everywhere and enjoyed time in the garden with him today too.

Sheree gave me a blog award. Sometimes I wish I had more time to scrap with this girl, life always seems to get in the way, maybe these school holidays.

The rules for the award are - (1) The winner can put the logo on their blog. (2) Link the person you received your award from. (3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs. (4) Put links of those on yours. (5) Leave a message on the blogs of the girls or boys you’ve nominated.

I guess there are so many blogs I love...there are over 150 in my bloglines and it is part of my daily routine to check bloglines. I am tired and lazy and going to tag everyone in my side bar as I love all these blogs

another blog I dont have there is Karen Russell's blog. She takes the best photos ever, and I adore all of her products, she just does it for me!!!! If Max was to fall in love with and marry Annie (her gorgeous daughter) one day I would be one happy mumma!!! LOL but I think i have said this before.

have a great week everyone

Saturday night in

rain rain go away....... it is tooo cold !!!but I remember a year ago it was APEC long weekend here and we went up the coast and had shocking weather too!!! Come on hot weather hit us this year..PLEASE
mass upload.............
a big share........

look what I can do

thanks to my new photoshop elements 6 and Janine Kaye's great classes I am ROCKING! (doesn't hurt to love yourself does it!!! LOL)

before

grubby face, light pole sticking out from his head & flat colours

after

bright, almost clean face and NO POLE

Now I just gotta find more time in the day to practice and MASTER this program

For Sale.....

2 APs who have had a hell of a day..................from tears to police, broken computers, missing money, people complaining about strike times, to a near evacuation of 750 singers and dancers ( a joke that Narelle and I will only understand).........but I tell you we laughed through it all.......Chris if you are reading this it is all OK please enjoy your holiday but NEXT time leave the Combi in the car park so they think you are still around !!!!! Oh gee i love where I work! thanks for a great night at the music festival Narelle!!! LOVE ya long timeHere is another LO i did at the retreat

Spring is here!!!!

YIPPPPEEEEEE!

My mum's birthday always means the end of winter and brighter warmer days! Day light saving is 4 weeks away, another big YIPPPEEEE!!!

I had a fantastic time away scrapping with the girls, we got the best deal EVER and it was fantastic. So good we are doing it again at LEAST 3 times next year......we had a private cabin, great light, great food and great company - what else could we ask for.

A comment (by a male) was made at work today about me going away scrapbooking and suggesting that means I HAVE NO LIFE!!! It made me think of the line

"I HAVE a LIFE that is WHY I scrapbook"

Here is a LO I did on the weekend. I got 12 done in total, 10 for me and 2 for Kathryn as she was my bidder in the KSK auction. I will share more soon.

Oh my.....

I am meant to be taking off tomorrow at 3 to a scrapping retreat at the bargain price of $86, and YES it includes FOOD! I cant wait but Narelle NO I never got my photos printed.......not that i dont have any!!!!LOL

My bags are not packed, i have a back ache and I am glued to my heat pack

I have 3 baskets of ironing

I got home at 8 tonight after 4 days straight at work, which includes 3 inserves in 2 days and many miles!

anyway the bright side is my working week is over!!!!!

Here is some scrapping I did AGES ago for KSK. Forgot about it!!!LOL

I will have a good weekend, 20 scrappers in the one room , of course we are going to have fun!!!!

will share when i get home

have a great weekend

tonight....

I actually changed the TV from 7 to 10 for the first time in 16 days and saw this



Oh my gosh...........I LOVE IT!!!!!! very clever.
3 days left of work.....2 days of HEAVY courses but as of Thursday at 6pm I am FREE!!! scrapping with the girls.here I come!!!!!

goodbye Beijing

16 great days are over, and I tell you in my next life i want to come back as a sports photographer look here http://www.smh.com.au/multimedia/beijing08/photographers-best/gallery.html

Australia 14 gold, 15 Silver and 17 bronze. Very good for a country of 20 million. China walked away with 50 gold, 100 medals amazing since they only got 28 gold in Sydney.

I would love to go to London 2012, i know I have a bed, I just need some money (Hi Kirsten!!!!)

the memories (too many)
Michael Phelps - 8 gold
Grant Hackett - sooooo close
An Australian diver winning gold and stopping China's blitz of the event
Jamaican MEN!!!!
relay batons being dropped
a great opening ceremony
Watching Australia win gold at school in the library with 100s of kids cheering on

Well done Beijing - 2nd best games ever in my life time, but HEY who can beat Sydney??? NO ONE!!!!!

thanks everyone too on your kind words about Pebbles. We have told Max but he still tells me she is at the doctors and is sick, so I am thinking he just may forget about it all ......we will see!

Next weekend I am on a scrap weekend with 20 girlfriends..cant WAIT!!!!!!!!!

love ya Pebbs!

We lost our little staffy (my little pussy cat) today.

We noticed she had weepy eyes on Wednesday and thought she just had a cold as it has been very COLD here. Today she would not leave her bed so Daz took her to the vet.

She had a massive eye tumor and that meant her eye had to be removed and as it was so big it could give her brain damage. The vet said she might not be her happy self again as she would be protective as she would be blind in one eye. As Max and her play together I could not RISK it. I could not take her to the vet and I am feeling empty as Darren said his goodbyes and has had a cry. I could not go, I could not say goodbye but now as the tears start to swell I feel sooo bad I did not give her one last kiss!

My fondest (and funniest) story of this little rascal was when I walked both her and Bronte though the lakes at the back of the new estate in 2001. It was a hot January morning and I had lost a lot of weight and my wedding rings were loose. Bronte would go for a swim in the lake but Pebbles would never leave my side. This time Bronte swam right off and I was calling her back, all of a sudden Pebbles jumped in and started to swim too. It was like she did three strokes and just SUNK, GONE!!!!! I ran into the dirty lake and scooped her up as I did I felt something weird on my left hand............OH MY GOSH my rings. I splashed and searched and just paniced as Pebbs gasped for air and all I could think about was my wedding rings. I walked home in the HOT morning sun WET, MUDDY and CRYING. no one could see the tears as I was sweating sooo much. I thought about borrowing my friends pool scoop and going back!!! I even wondered about redrawing from our home loan. I cried all the way home......................i had a shower and sulked for 3 hours.

THEN I sat on my bed and there they were. My rings, they had fallen off that night and I had forgotten i put them on my bedside table...............oh man the day Pebbles made me save her life had turned out ok!!!!!

Miss ya ! We will never forget your noises, your big tongue, your gorgeous muscles, and the way you cleaned yourself like a cat.

16 Dec 1999 to 23 Aug 2008

random thoughts

Well I am on weight watches (again) and it is a SHOCK to the system but I am IN THE ZONE and need to loose 10 kg. Baby making is on hold, my brain needs a rest from it all, it was doing MY HEAD IN!!! I have done VERY well for 4 days now and I know once this week is over it will be second nature again, and as the weather warms up I will walk more and 10kg will come quickly.

I am madly saving $$$$. I have to realise I just can't spend like I used to. Plus if i want to get to a great holiday destination for my 10th wedding anniversay next year I need $$$. I have done very well and hey I am eating less food so that has to help!!!! LOL.

today i was sad when Grant Hackett lost the 1500m. The Aussie's have owned this race at Olympic and Commonwealth games level since 1990, and today the reign came to an end. In 2000 I was screaming at Grant for beating Kieran Perkins, hoping and praying Kieran would get the triple. At least in 2000 it went to another Aussie! but today we lost our second chance at the triple. I feel sorry for Grant, I just wanted him to have that bit if history for him and the Aussie fans!!!!

and WHY will i be staying up to the WEE hours of the morning for the next few nights! I am now a photoshop FREAK!!! LOL I went to Janine's house today for a photshop course. And i leant sooooooo much!!!! I am off to play and tweak. It was a great afternoon spent chatting, playing and learning, what else could a girl ask for on a Sunday afternoon!!!!

I love..........

the Olympics!!!! I love seeing Aussie's win and being proud of them. At school i am loving the buzz too! We had an Olympic day and there was sooo much colour and spirit, it was sooo nice. Here is the slide show I created for the whole school, 10 kids in my class were born in 2000, one on the day the Sydney Olympics started!!!!

I have loved walking my class to the library this week to watch the swimming finals and cheering on the aussies. They are sooo cute, one of my students asked me how I knew we were going to win as every time we went to the library we WON!!! I just nodded and told her I KNEW everything!!!! LOL

I am loving watching Max as I have taught him to call out GO AUSSIE - he yells "Aussie GO GO" too cute! Each afternoon we sit and watch the diving and as they jump he says "WHOOO........splash" "WHOOOOOOO............splash".

Kylie Tout I love you too! After coming home with a headache yesterday as I had toooo much fun in the sun at the Olympics I was soooooooo excited to open all this!!!!!!! Wonderful scrapping clearly albums!!!!! I cant wait to use them, they are the cutest shapes - a house, a van, an arrow and a train, plus a 6x6, 3x2 and lots of little bits. Plus the funkiest scallop scissors that I cant wait to use. HUGS Kylie you made my week!!!!

Oh and here is wags THE DOG Max had a great day with Alex, Sophie and Charlotte at the Wiggly play centre at Seven Hills. He was sooo HAPPY to meet wags too, I am turning him into a Wiggles groupie!!! LOL

08.08.2008

Every 4 years I enjoy the goose bumps



Go Aussies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh the roller coaster ride of life

well it has not been a week that will go down as one of my favs, and hey it is not even OVER YET!!!

I guess my PMT set in early and it led me to be very emotional and angry in a staff meeting, I was sad (holding back tears) about what was being said and after many weeks of hard work just really wanted to walk home! If it was not for my wonderful class I would have. It really should not have upset me...........I know better than that but hey..........oh well!!!!

Anyway DH is driving me nuts as he is stressed and having a very bad time...........grrrrr...so we are both bears with sore heads. Then to top it all off another month of not being pregnant has just made me feel so blue tonight. I hugged Max sooo tight tonight and tried to talk myself into the fact that it would be ok...............will it be??? I know it will it just does not feel like it right now........I am so looking forward the 29th month of trying (15 with Max)!!! Yes life could be worse i know!!!!!

To tip me over the edge bloglines would not work for me......i had 2 nights of withdrawals. it kept reading page can not load. For those of you that use bloglines you can imagine how stressed i was. LOL. I have fixed it by downloading a new version

here is a photo that cracks me UP!!! On Sunday night Max showed off his passion for photography (just like his mumma) by setting up a Wiggles photo shoot.

love ya little man, having you makes life sooooooooooooooo much better

Two and a half years old

WOW doesn't time fly!

Today my lovable, tantrum throwing, funny and clever baby boy is 2.5.

We had a busy day. We went to say happy birthday to Alanah and then went down to the lakes for a play at the park. You love the slippery dip. When we walked down to the water you were calling the sharks "shark come". When we got to the jetty you said "oh no shark..gone". You loved looking at the boats and god excited at the littlest things... I love it when you see something new (like dirt in the water) and you point and shake and say "mum, mum...ohhhhh look mum". after an hour at the park we went to Liverpool to get some fruit and a quick look at Spotlight. You asked for a continental frankfurt at the Deli and walked around the mall munching on it! You are soo independent...you don't want to sit in the stroller and you want to ride the escalator all the time. We stopped off on the way for tickets to the circus and then took some shots with Russell. "idontwantto" is your fav word and after getting some great shots ONLY to discover I was using the settings I set up for outdoors and they were all dark. Getting you to sit down for more photos involved me popping out from behind the camera SCREAMING my lungs out in a game of peek-a-boo (worried the neighbours might call the police).

You have 100 expressions and you are soooo funny when you tell a story as you laugh at yourself and throw your hands around in the air!

After your nap we watched a Wiggles DVD and danced around! Between us we finished off 2 punnets of strawberrys! I was on the phone and you stuck 3 pegs to the heater and turned it on....i was quick to save the melting pegs! For the first time in months you let me put on a non Wiggles DVD next {Max and Milly}! We played some more and Daddy got home after a long day with our Chinese dinner. I love the way you eat veges and you love curry like daddy. You then went out in the garage to play with dad/ All of a sudden it was 8.30 pm and i had lost rack of time. I was folding clothes and tiredness had set in. Nothing could calm you and you threw a 20 minute tantrum. "no nappy" so i walked away, then you screamed "nappy on". You had hit the wall. i managed to calm you with a puppy book and you fell asleep in 1 minute.

thanks for another great day baby boy....you will always be my baby boy!

YOU at 2.5!

• You are obsessed with the Wiggles and adore Jeff.
• idontwantto is one word and you use it alot these days.
• You are so independent and insist on doing most things yourself, including walking down the stairs. when i try to help you always say " no me".
• You hate having your nappy changed. Whn i say you can wear undies you say "NO...idontwantto".
• While the water is boiling for your morning weet - bix you start to eat one dry. You say "mess mum...mess" and I push the crumbs in your bowl and you nod in approval!
• When you wake early (7.30am) you don't snuggle in with me anymore, you want a DVD on, oh I miss the days when we went back to sleep!
• You only hear me speak occasionally.
• you said your name for the first time in July, you refused to say it to me for many months.
• You love jumping on the bed. Since you cant get up you turn the clothes basket upside down and climb up.
• you love your little $20 trike and speed around the tiles on it. i love it when you take your wiggles dolls for a ride and talk to them.
• I love it when you say "mum, the sun is in bed" at night time and then in the morning you say "the sun is up".
• You ask if Dad is home everyday, but when he is home you say "no mum do it".
• You stopped calling a drink a blawah- blawah and started to call it a dink, I was sad to see that cute little quirk go.
  
• If I tell you something is gone or not working you shake your head and say “oh dead”.
• You love diggers and trucks and get excited when we see them on the road.
  
• You love to drink fresh passionfruit from a cup, and you get cranky when I steal some. You love cake and love it when it is someones birthday as it means you will get some CAKE!!!!
• When people talk to you in the shops you are sometimes unfriendly and say "no go".
• What hasn't changed - you still love puppies, your favourite word is still MINE and you love cords, power and anything with a switch. You still always ask to play in the car when we get home.

Happy 8th birthday Alanah!

this sweet little girl got a SURPRISE trip to Disneyland today! She opened the pressie at 9.30am and left the house for LA at 10.30! you gotta love stories like this - and deep down i wish i was her!

photoshop elements 6

I am loving it!

WOW ever since doing Janine's photography course I have been obsessed! In June (when I was snowed under with reports) I learnt sooo much about my camera but have only had the time to play NOW!

I am loving her tips. It is hard to get GOOD shots of Max these days as he is always on the move. I have resprted to practising on LITTLE PEOPLE (by fisher price).

I can't wait to August 17 for my next photoshop course!

My little ROCk star!

It is pouring, the holidays are officially over and I am catching up on Max's journal.
NOTE TO SELF take this holiday list and complete a lot of it next holidays!!!! lol
I started to look through some photos and forgot about how much I laughed last Thursday (10 July). Max and I got home from an evening at the shops (maybe it was the dough-nut) and we walked into the kitchen. He just grabbed his mike and started to entertain me, singing
"laaa long la, rahh rahh, ummmmm, rah rah!!!!, oooo ooooh oh yeah!!!!!! "
All he needs is a nappy box for a stage and he is READY to entertain!
I moved the box today actually and when he woke up from his sleep he pointed and cried "oh oh gone, no ...my up ......gone!!!!"

and a bow at the end!

today he made me laugh again as I got him some baby love nappies as they were on special and they have the Wiggles on them!
When I showed him he had the biggest FIT, crying NO, NO! I asked him why and he said

"Jeff, ..no poo....on Jeff" GREAT!!!! $50 bucks well spent! I will stick to Winnie the POOH (pardon the pun) until we are in undies!!!! Oh hang on i bought Wiggles undies - at least I will know he wont wet his pants!

thanks my little man for 2 fantastic weeks of holidays, I loved out PJ days, our trip to the farm, our adventures at play centres, shopping, feeding the ducks, riding your bike, fixing the computer, our picnic with Tayla and Alanah and lots of Wiggles DVDs. I love spending my holidays with you, it makes me happy that I am in a job where I can be with you every ten weeks for a nice break! LOVE YA Maxi

back to reality tomorrow!!!!

Narelle I hope you are feeling better, I am thinking of you. It is not nice being really sick in the holidays, get well soon.

celebration

I am writing to say for the first time since about Christmas there is no ironing basket in this house. NOT one bit of ironing to be done, there are 2 loads of washing waiting to be hung out tomorrow but no ironing.
I also have a SMASHING looking program for term 3. I have organised pen pals for Flat Stanley in Texas, planned some FANTASTIC maths activities and a fantastic Olympic program!!!

on the sad side I have not scrapbooked in 4 weeks (that is SAD i know).

Whatever happened to the slack ironer, teacher that planned weekly (ie Sunday night before) and scrapbooked till dawn in the holidays??????? All the scrapbookers out there need to SLAP me!

Jeff Wiggle we do love you!

WOW I spent 2 hours today trying to upload my 400 plus photos from my 350D, no matter what I did (reinstalled/deleted software 100 times) it did not detect my camera.

FINALLY I found a troubleshooting section on the Canon website and it turns out I have my PC connection on my camera turned off......!!!!!!! Don't know how it happened but gee it wasted some precious time.

Anyway since I now have my photos uploaded I have no photo editing software as Daz bought me elements 6 and I am waiting for it to arrive, I am tooo lazy to load 4 on as it will arrive tomorrow in the post. ANYWAY back to the point of this post!

Last Friday a Wiggles play centre opened at Villawood (20 min from home). We love the centre at Seven Hills and the add said Jeff was going to be there and since Max refers to Wiggles DVDs as "Jeff on" I knew he would love to meet him! So Veronika, the kids and I got there and joined the line an hour before the centre opened.

The line grew and grew and I started to wonder where they may put all these people......no management or staff really appeared and people were starting to push in the very badly organised line! The staff announced the first 200 would get in, great as we counted and we would make that. When the doors opened there was no real respect for the line, people just pushed and the 4km line became one MASS crowd. ALL that was needed was for management to come out and give the first 200 people tickets, stamps WHATEVER but no they were sooooooooo disorganised and DUMB. People were booing and kids were crying. Here's my little boy heart broken when I said we had to go home.

The centre had to do something...I tell you there was 1000s of angry people! I should have been inside, instead children who were behind us in the line and had RUDE pushy mothers were inside and I had to explain to a 2.5 year old that he was not going in. Come on these guys sell out the entertainment centre 5 times over and they weren't expecting a crowd.

After some "we want Jeff chanting", he appeared and I tell you he is such a sweetie. Jeff spent over an hour outside! He was sooo kind and was happy to get 100s of photos taken and he signed Max's Jeff doll for him!

we then drove to Seven hills and had a great play and danced with Dorothy...WOW what a lucky little boy! It was a great day and we BOTH slept when we got home, we woke up at 5.30pm and had to rush off to Alyssa's birthday party and WOW her mum cooks a FANTASTIC cake...YUM! We were out until 11pm, we are such party animals!!!!

oh Summer days

I love this LO it sooo reminds me of warm summer days and lazy afternoons in the pool! It was 14 here yesterday so I am really missing days like these. Look at these 3 cuties. They would have been Quads but Zoe left before the fridge raid began.

I am glad Max has playmates his age, as they grow up I am happy they will keep each other company in school holidays and on weekends

I have spent many hours uploading fonts, i tunes, picasa, favourites, printer software, photoshop elelments, sorting documents and video footage. My computer has had a massive clean up and I love how fast it now is!

Tonight back to the school work and fingers crossed I will be scrapping by Wednesday.

ARGH!!!!!!!!!

Late Wednesday night my computer stopped working! OMG I was soooooo BORED. I had to resort to cleaning the house!!!!

the good news- all my photos and documents were saved. I am NOW the proud owner of a 19 inch flat screen (so everything is bigger and better) and I have faster working bits in my tower lots more grunt (no idea of technical names!!! LOL!!!)

the bad news - I lost ALL my email addresses, downloaded programs, FONTS!!!!!, the 265 emails I was saving as they were toooooo important to delete, MY FAVOURITES and I have no idea how to get into MSN as my hotmail email was on remember me and so i don't REMEMBER it! Belinda V I know you can help there!!!!

The sweet man who fixed my computer (QUICKLY) was sorry about this but said he had no idea WHY I would want to save fonts (over 400 fantastic fonts LOST), favourites or emails from 2006!!!! HELLO!!!!!!

SO please if you like me, and we have conversed by email before drop me a line so I can save your addy!!! or if you have any suggestions for my favourites send me some too as I lost over 50 great educational web sites and about 100 scrapbooking favs. Thank goodness for bloglines or I would have lost all of my blogs too!!!!!!!

I tell you I get more sleep when this machine is in the repair shop! Off to reload HEAPS of programs and download some of my fav handwriting fonts!

have a great Sunday!

blog award!

I am addicted to blog surfing!
face book not soooo much my cup of tea, I like it but....!!! I dont know ...blogs well I cant go a day without logging into bloglines and seeing what the scrapping world is up to, plus a few more creative people I have met along the way!
I have made online buddies through blogs and I know some friends tell me I am weird (or dont tell me, they just think it) I dont care as I love my blog, it is addictive and I love lots of my friends blogs.
Sheree gave me a blog award!!!! thanks Miss Sheree, I love your bloggy too! glad we became friends in cyber space, looking forward to another summer scrap with the kids one day, just hoping we get better weather for a swim this time!

there are many blogs I love, especially those in my side bar. There are many great blogs I visit because I am "friends" with that person.

1.Alison Miss A I have always wanted to scrap How this great craft brought us together and how now I have another great friend in my life. you know I love your work! PLus you UNDERSTAND my sayings like "6.85 of one and 233 of the other LOL!

2. Narelle I see you 3 days a week and it is SOOOOO not enough. working with you is a joy and I will follow you to your next school! we just need to scrap together MORE! I just sooooo wish you would come away with me in August to scrap, you would sooo love it

3. Alison J now you are coming away with us! I say it every holidays but we need to catch up more! cant wait to August!!!!

4. Helen I soooo love this ladies work plus she named her blog like her age too! I guess we will always both be 30 and 33!!!

5. Kim A Janine Lisa my buddies down SOUTH! love your work !!!

6. Shannon Tidwell this girl rocks, I soooo adore her work, but for some reason her blog is SLOW at home, it is made on a mac and I just cant get it to load! I will have to try it at school on the mac as I simply love everything she does

7. Raylene my teacher buddy from VIC I love your style and witt, you crack me up! i think your link has changed......i wont link you but I miss your blog, glad you still chat at KSK..........i must find you again!

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holidays are here!!! YIPPPPPEEEEEE

What a great way to start 16 WORk free days!!!!

lots of Champagne, sing star, yummy food and good girlfriends!!

ANOTHER morning of crawling into bed after 3am, and another Nanna nap today as my b

Tina and I last nights at Karen's place!

HOLIDAY LIST

the basic rules are...... no scrapbooking until all the ironing and Term 3 program is DONE! If I put my head down and DO it I plan to see my supplies my at least Wednesday!

I also need to...

work out a storage system in Max's new room and hide away some pressies.

clean out my wardrobe.

continue to update my slip in photo albums.

organise tax documents so i can get some $$ back

start to make a quilt for Max

Do Kim's online classes

put many layouts inton albums

catch up on my notes and journaling

walk everyday and eat well

clean out the drawers in the hutch

sell a few things from my TO SELL basket on ebay

take Max out to the farm and to see Wags at the Wiggles play centre

relax!!!

sleepy head

I survived the toy sale!!! thanks for all the calls and messages, LOL. Numbers were really down this year! I guess BIG W was open too, but after the initial rush in Kmart it as dead by 1am, except the HORRID lay by line! We did big W too and it was quiet at 2.30 am ! I was curled up in bed by 3.15am. there was lots of laughs as usual but I am tooooo tired to type! I had a two hour Nanna nap today and am feeling tired NOW!!!!

Here is a LO I did at the retreat i was very inspired by Vanessa's trees from 2 crafty! She cuts and sells all her own chipboard. I love this naked tree, adding the buttons was sooo much fun at 2am Vanessa was soooo nice to sit with at the retreat, thanks for the laughs Miss Vanessa, I hope to come and visit with Maxi these school holidays as I need some of your funky chipboard owls!!!

1 day to go at school. I have been invited to a girl friends house tomorrow night for drinks and DVDs, I just sooo want to come home and VEG!!!! but I will go as I know I will have a great laugh

roll on holidays!!!!

24 minutes!

TODAY the BIG W TOY sale catalogue arrived in my mail box! Here is how the afternoon went!

4.15 - look at the catalogue page by page, think hard that Max needs nothing, I want sing star and "do I get the 8 foot or 10 foor jumpoline"!

I see the Wii and think of Miss Alison as she may want one for Rebecca, funnily enough the phone rings and it is Alison. We talk toys and scrapping for 24 minutes (my phone has a timer)

I ring Elleni and talk Wiggles tickets and toys with her, we compare KMARTS prices and talk presents! we talk for 24 minutes!

5.35 - go to leave for the shops to grab some chicken for tea, the phone rings, meaning it is pasta for tea! Karen and I talk tactics about the MIDNIGHT TOY SALE TRADITION. this year we have many options as big w opens at midnight TOO!!! Oh the choices!
for some strange reason we talk for 23 minutes??!!!! that may be a record!

I call local big w and check if they will be open! I get the service girl of the YEAR and she gives me all the hints of where things are going to be. and they are only getting 70 Wiis in bigger stores and 40 in smaller SO RUN people! Oh yes back to my angel, she is a mum of a 2 year old too so of course we get talking!!!! we talk jumpolines too and V tech laptops! She tells me to come in tomorrow lay by everything come and see her on Friday, cancel the layby and re layby it at sale prices!!!! REALLY??!!! I always thought you could do that but felt scabby doing it! My sales angel insists I can do it and then tells me to enjoy my sleep at midnight!!!! NO!!!! the whole tradition involes coffee and cake at Rashaeys first while the TOY TEAM (AKA Karen, Anabel, Tanya and I ) swap maps and lists and PLAN out attack! So I might layby everything and go in anyway!!! LOL
Oh and Naomi and I (sales assistant of the year) spoke for 24 minutes!!! WOW!!!

I call my MIL Ann and we talk TOYS for a while, SIL Donna and I talk jumpoline sizes and if Max will be able to ride a bike (with trainers) at Christmas time as if so she will get a bike!

We eat vege and chesse pasta and leftover bbq from last night...max also ate a bowl of bubbles and 2 choc yogos for dessert (yes he snuck the second one in while I was talking TOYS!!)

Narelle calls! gee I missed home and away ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!! we would have talked for 24 minutes but Daz came in all fired up saying I had hit the garage door with the car!!! MEN! i HIt nothing!!!!!!!!

Am I obsessed or what!!!??? I get a little crazy this time of year...... wish me luck at midnight on Wednesday, I will enjoy my strawberry pancakes at Rashaeys(which I will fast all day for as I am starting a diet tomorrow) and REMEMBER to go to the ladies this time as last time I ran for toys I had to STOP or it was not going to be pretty!

on that note! GOODNIGHT!!!!!