How many sleeps ?????????????????

Countdown to Christmas

Can’t Wait?
How long ’til Christmas?

115 Days

10 Hours

36 Minutes

…But who’s counting?

I love Christmas and I can’t wait ! Well I can, actually, cos then it means that the wedding is over. Leigh-Anne and Steve’s honeymoon has finished and real life has to begin. Ok, so then I will be waiting for grandchildren. Right ?

You are R-I-G-H-T

I have, in fact, always been a forward looking person. Always looking forward to the time something is happening. I think that’s what makes me tick. PLanning and thinking about some upcoming event. It might be loking forward to the time I can afford to buy something I can’t right now. At times this was food, or a new pair of shoes. Or the time I will go on holiday. Or the time I may be able to stop trundling to work each morning after I have dropped the kids off at school.

I hope I don’t start to plan my funeral … or my final resting place. Well I hope I don’t start doing this soon anyway !

If you want to know HOW many sleeps it is til Christmas bookmark this
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Sense of humour

Do you have a good sense of humour? or does it have to hit you in the face ?

Is it at it’s height when someone falls over into a cake ? or when someone says something so funny you spit out your coffee all over your computer ?

I love humour. I have a sick sense of humour and am not really offended by much if it is funny. I see it as it is. And let’s face facts, humour is like art, we all see it in a different way. I think a good sense of humour helps me personally getting through life (firstly) and secondly helps me in my scrapbooking.

But I think I inherited it. Do you think there is such a thing? My kids have fantastic senses of humour (great English) but they do ! My dad was a great orator of stories and his sense of humour belied the fact that he had had a really crappy life. I think his constant tease and mock attitude to us kids having 5 living at home must have been straining in every way) was the only way he could cope. But it instilled in me the fact that I cannot take things too seriously. And to see the cup as half full (damn lucky) and to try and see the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel. (and NO it isn’t a train coming)

So, thanks dad for my good sense of humour, albeit a bit whacky at times. I miss you.

To diet or not

That is the question.

OK SO I bet you have asked this question a few times in your life. Unless you are a skinny b&*ch and then I hate you anyway ! not really – I love all my skinny freinds.

So here’s the thing. And hear me out here. I think that my weight worries other people more than it worries me. I worry about my weight for others more than I worry about it for me. And here’s why.

I look at myself once in the morning to make sure my skirt isn’t stuck in my panties, or that my trousers haven’t shunk (! yeah right) and are sitting on my ankles. So I look at myself for say…. 1 minute … you ahve to look at me for the rest of the day. I kinda think people think Shame look how fat she got…. ok if you want to be politically correct maybe they think…. gee she is eating well.

You might be thinking is this woman weight obsessed? I probably am because I have fought it every day of my adult life, I have gone to gym and boot camp, I have in the past bought most of the …and if you call in the next 2 mins you get this potion for free. Yes free. However at the age of 45 I have worked out that they don’t work. Took me a while though. And I have to admit I do get quite exited when I watch that stupid channel and the thought of maybe – just maybe – it could work. Then reason kicks in.

One of my clients said the other day : ” I am waiting for 70 , cos I hear that’s when weight just starts dropping off”.

So maybe we should all just wait until 70, and lets just eat and be merry…. what’s your theory ????

nothing…nada…

what do you say when there isn’t anything to say? lololol

well I guess that doesn’t really happen to me. But don’t you find sometimes you have time to scrap, or chat, or read, or photograph or watch a program on TV and then this feeling of not really wanting to do it, or finding it all boring comes over your being ?

I wonder what it is ?

So instead of waffling maybe I will just say it in a few pics !

Should you just run away?

or admire the beauty.

or go into the world of fantasy

or just sit and contemplate

Have a great weekend.

we have a winner !

Congratulations Kelly !!!!

Your answer was

OMGosh that’s a tough one, Sam. If they were really young it would be, “Guess How Much I Love You”. If they were a little older it might be Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (good family values and morals along with the fun). But if they were older I have no idea. . . how about “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff”. . . I just named 3 and you said 1. . . dang. My husband is the one that reads to learn (always). Me, I read for pure entertainment, so left up to me an older child would not benefit much from my selection. (Curious to see what others suggest. Great question, Sam.) :O)

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so well done Kelly . I will email you ! and find out if you are happy to share with the others that read the blog.
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it’s homecoming day

Well today the man arrives home after 6 weeks of hell for him ! It was a devastatingly hard business trip so I am really chuffed he is coming home. To me .. and the dogs … and the place that we call home.

Dunno about you but I most often find that after being away, even on a great holiday, I am thrilled to be coming home. I may only wanna come home for a night or 2 to get the feet grounded and then head on out, but still.

I am a REAL home body. I love to just do my thang ! and hang out with the noises and the smells and comfort of 3 Orion Avenue. What about you ? Do you love being home ? or use it as the place you sleep and that’s about that. I suppose working from here too allows me to be comforted by the familiarity of it all.

So, home he comes and I know we gonna enjoy having each other back. Well at least for a day or two

Welcome home bubs.

if you could only

give one book to your child what would it be ?

Think about it. They can only have ONE book … now many of you will want to say the Bible but let’s leave that one outta here for todays discussion.

I want to hear your answers so leave me a comment . And I am giving away a prize this week ! YAY !

THE PRIZE IS : my time and knowledge. Seeing as this is kind of a knowledgable question. To the totally random winner I will crit their best/worst 5 photos and answer 5 of their most burning photography questions ( even about their camera) Ok ?

You have until 7am EST Friday 22nd 21st August. (Ok for those timeline challenged) this is midday South African time and 11am Uk time 7pm Brisbane – did I leave anywhere out ?

have fun and think laterally !

talking ’bout the weather…

when Dustin was round about the horizontal age – see later explaination – he said to me “mom, adults talk about the weather when they have nothing else to say ” Maybe he is right. Maybe I mention the weathermen in previous posts because I have nothing else to say !

Life is difficult at the moment on the business front for dh and we are simply going to have to mull through.

But, back to the horizontal age. This is round about 14 – 18 when if they are actually stood up on their feet their bodies are at 90deg to those same feet leaning on something. It could be your back. It could be the counter in the shops, it could be the kitchen counter tops. If they have their feet lifted off the ground then they are horizonal. In other words on their backs. In other words watching tv. In other words sleeping ( and growing !) the only time I think they are not in the above position is when they are standing at the fridge door, staring in, as if something is going to miraculously appear ! As if the statement ” MA there is nothing to eat in this house” won’t come out of that mouth. This statement actually means there is nothing nyummy, pre-packaged and easy to ram down the mouth. Nothing with chocolate on. Nothing with a salty finish. Nothing that takes 1 1/2 minutes until you hear BEEP BEEP BEEP cooked start to finish.

You know I don’t really miss those times !

weather predictions

You know, I want the weather man’s (or to be polictically correct – the weather person’s) job. You can be wrong everyday and NEVER get fired ! How come?

Surely with all the modern technology around.. I mean they can say where/when/how the hole in the ozone layer is. We can talk via an invisible radio wave. We can have you dancing on the beach and captured on a piece of equipment as small as your hand, your cell phone, and via video call can see it on another continent instantly ! we have a thing called the www that we can all share no matter what creed or culture. It is there for all to share.

So.. you wouldn’t think that when you are expecting a day like this …

you land up getting a day like this……..

I think they need to hear the words : You’re fired !

Sunday Funny Sunday

geez it’s weird having been on my own for what seems like f-o-r-e-v-e-r. and THE MAN returns this coming Friday. YAY

But this post is not about the homecoming, its about life here down at the ellis ranch. It must of been Saturday yesterday cos this is what I saw in my garden this morning….

like I hadn’t noticed all night. The bed shuffling… the teeth nashing of Kia and #1 and Jordan and #1. Oh yes I forgot about the snoring of #2. That flat face and the dropping jowls certainly are making this sweet little puppy turn into a force to be reckoned with. I think a C-PAP machine would probably be a perfect Christmas present to the owners of #2

So today I got invited to #1 and #2 house and they showed me how they are treated in their house

they think I care
they think I will be as nice as this
they think I will go out and buy them LOADS more toys
they think that if they show me that tummy tickling
and tummy blowing happens at their house
I might give in
I won’t
even if you sulk

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