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My Daughter, The Foodie 2007-11-12 17:34:00 Toddlers + food = parental stress.
Nathan + food = Me pulling out my hair.
Amy isn't hard to feed. Admittedly she does need a steady stream of food that she only picks at, but she isn't fussy generally. I have given up preparing Amy involved meals, she gets quick and easy food that she can nibble on. This reduces my stress levels lots.
Nathan on the other hand is so very hard to feed. He Read more:Daughter
, Foodie
YAY! Photos! 2007-11-12 21:47:00 I figured it was time for more photos.
YAY photos! Say it with me now people.
Birthday dinner in my sunroom.
Happy Birthday to me!!!
The remains of my black forest cheesecake. It was so delicious! Thankyou Nan.
Amy showing everyone how clever she is by STANDING UP!!!!
Amy and I playing in her pool on Sunday.
What happens when Amy plays with the camera and works out how to take
My Goodness I Am Tired 2007-11-12 03:46:00 It was a great day! Thankyou to everyone who wished me happy birthday. I appreciate it guys.
I promise there will be photos to come. I am much too tired to actually download the photos from the camera, so you can wait right?
Amy had an absolute ball. She showed off for the whole evening and had us all in stitches. She learned to stand up the other day, so she spent the evening showing us how Read more:Goodness
Just a Quick One 2007-11-11 17:39:00 Happy Birthday to me!!!
I will post more this evening. I have a fruit tart to make and some stuff to get ready. I hope everyone has a wonderful day :). Read more:Quick
Weird and Random 2007-11-11 02:08:00 The wonderful Tiff from Three Ring Circus tagged me for a meme. Thanks Tiff
Here are the instructions: Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog. Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs. Let each person know that they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Here we Read more:Weird
, Random
Google Can Suck My Balls 2007-11-19 21:35:00 This afternoon I received this email from Google
Adsense -
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Hello Veronica F----*,
While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense
account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers. Since
keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage
our advertisers in the future, Read more:Balls
That Bloody Possum 2007-11-18 18:56:00 Last night the possum ate an apple...
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A trapped possum, or so you would think...
...without setting off the trap that the apple was baiting! My little brother, who set the trap for me, had made a few 'modifications' to the trigger, causing the trap to be incapable of triggering.
Unless of course we had a possum who was dying to be caught, who rattled the cage like a dramatic prisoner
Weekly Winners 2007-11-18 00:52:00 I am so very very sad,but because my camera broke, this will probably be the only weekly winners I will be able to participate in. Hopefully after Christmas I should be able to afford a new camera. Think of all the photo opportunities I am missing. *sob*
In the drier. No, I didn't put her there myself.
Me and my Dad on my 19th birthday. I hope he Read more:Weekly
, Winners
A Bit Of Everything 2007-11-17 17:15:00 Firstly, let me preface this with Never Ever stick your finger inside of your Toddler's nappy. Ever. Because the one time you do 'just to check' the nappy will be full of poop. Remember, I warned you.
(I also use a capital T when I type Toddler, because I think Toddler should be a proper noun rather than a common one. It describes them better with a capital. What, you don't think so? Do you have Read more:Everything
My Theories On Stuff 2007-11-17 01:37:00 Period 11 days overdue - pregnancy test negative. Not very hopeful.
Okay before everyone gets all sympathetic, I have a theory about our failure to conceive so far. It is a bit long winded, but bear with me because I would love your opinion.
I have put weight back on so I am healthy again, I am eating lots and healthily, we are having lots of regular good sex.
But still we fail to fall Read more:Theories
Aren't You Sick Of Hearing About Me Yet? 2007-11-15 20:35:00 I got tagged for ANOTHER meme. Thats okay, I am sure I can come up with new facts. Thanks to Suzanne for this one :)
Rules:
Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.Share 7 random and or weird things about yourself.Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their Read more:Hearing
Free Stuff! Sortof. 2007-11-24 19:41:00 If you want to be involved in the free gift thingy then go and comment on this post. At the moment I only have 3 people who want things, I need another 2.
If you don't want to be involved, you can still comment, just say, 'don't include me' or whatever. Then if you want to be involved, send me an email (my.sleepless.nights@gmail.com) with your address etc and vóila!
I'm going through a bit of a Read more:Free Stuff
The Things I Do... 2007-11-24 02:57:00 Dinner (the BBQ) was great fun. I had a drink for the first time in ages. It's nice to feel like an adult again.
During my blogging travels, I found a great idea. Thankyou Leslie for this -
(pinched from Leslie's site)
My fabulous friend Mackey has a game going. This is from her site: “The first 5 commenters here will get a small gift in the mail from me.
All you have to do is post this on
BBQ 2007-11-23 22:55:00 Just a quick post, so that I don't muck up NaBloPoMo.
Just been invited to have a barbeque at my Nan's house. Amy is being a little grot, but I'm sure as soon as the food happens she will be fine.
It should be a good evening. Will update later on. Bye!
PS. I promise that we are only eating normal foods, chicken, pork and lamb. No cat or snake or anything. I promise. Read more:BBQ
What Was She Thinking? 2007-11-22 21:50:00 I'm not sure what Megan was thinking when she let me guest post on her blog. However, she did and there I am.
Now go comment on me!
Sucky Things And Some Good Stuff 2007-11-22 20:26:00 I am having one of those days. You know, those days where you just don't feel quite right?
My ISP after first telling me that I could get broadband, have now told me that I am unable to get it. Something about the transmission and distance etc etc. Every single other provider has told me the same thing. Bastards.
So yeah, no fast internet for me. Dial up all the way, baby.
Ugh.
Amy was up
Am I Really Good At This? 2007-11-22 04:45:00 Dawn just wrote the sweetest post. You should go and read it.
It got me thinking, do I really have my act together?
As a mother, yes. I very much have my act together 90% of the time. That doesn't mean that I don't do things that other people wouldn't do if they were dying, it means that at the end of the day, I am basically happy with the parenting decisions I made.
Regardless of how much TV
Look! Aren't I Clever! 2007-11-21 19:47:00 Hi!
Welcome to my new! pretty! layout.
Sorry if you tried to visit before, I was tweaking the HTML (okay tweaking is a strong term, I was fiddling, not knowing what I was doing, trying to sort stuff out) and the site was in various stages of broken. I decided that my actual problem wasn't with blogger, it was with my layout.
Silly me, I hadn't even thought about having a look for new template, Read more:Clever
Wordpress v Blogger 2007-11-21 03:36:00 Not sure what I want to do now.
Google are still being arseholes. Hopefully I can get an email from them soonish, but I am not hopeful. From what I have heard, they do this thing quite alot.
I would like to move over to Wordpress
, but I am not sure how to go about it. Also I have heard that they won't let you host ads when you are using wordpress.com.
Anyone know anything about it? Anyone got Read more:Blogger
Guided Missiles In The House. 2007-11-30 19:50:00 This is a repost from Myspace (yes, I did blog over at Myspace for a time. Shuddup about it already). Why might you ask am I reposting stuff? Because a goddam bird just fell down my chimney again. I am posting this as I contemplate the best way to remove it from the fireplace. Wish me luck.I have two fireplaces. One in the kitchen and one in the loungeroom. I haven't lit the one in the loungeroom in a few weeks. I'm thinking maybe I should.Yesterday all was well in the household, WHEN all of a sudden THUNK, SCRITTER, THUMP, SCRITCH, FLUTTER FLUTTER THUMP. 'Tweet Tweet?' (I'm figuring the tweet tweet was birdy language for 'What the fuck just happened?')I thought about it. I figured I knew what had happened. I was hoping I was wrong. When we first moved in here I had an experience with a bird in the chimney. The bird survived, but I came away scarred and worried about having to ever EVER do that again. My windows open but I have screens on all the opening windows. So I can't ju Read more:House
The Routine 2007-11-30 19:30:00 Amy needs a few set things to happen so that she can go to sleep.For bedtime she needs a full change of clothes (into PJ's obviously) and a nappy change. She doesn't need these for naptime. If I don't change everything she is wearing, she thinks it is naptime and jumps out of bed after 90mins.I have to carry her upstairs, saying, 'It's bedtime/naptime. Time for Amy to have a sleep.'I have to lay on the single bed and give her a breastfeed. Before she will consent to breastfeed, I have to hand her her stuffed dog, her duck, her blue bear and the lovely knitted blanket Dawn sent her. It makes for a very crowded breastfeed. I then have to cover her in the doona because she isn't happy until there is a blanket around her ears.I have to be semi-sitting - NOT lying down. If I lay down, I hamper her ability to explore every crevasse of my face with her fingernails and that is unforgivable.I then breastfeed her, generally for 15mins or until she stops sucking. Sometimes she will break o Read more:Routine
I Am Going Grey Here. 2007-11-29 18:22:00 My daughter climbs. Alot.Today, she climbed up into the pantry and procured herself a bottle of chocolate sauce. Upon finding that the bottle wouldn't open and that Mummy wouldn't help, she had a tantrum and was removed from the kitchen.2 minutes later, she had climbed back into the pantry and found the tomato sauce bottle. She was quite happily drinking the sauce from it.She climbs up onto the couches and then onto the arms of couches. She tries to climb onto the window sills and complains loudly when I won't let her.She climbs up the pantry shelves and climbs up Nathan's computer desk. She can climb into the computer chair to reach the computer.If she can't reach something, she pushes her pram or highchair to where it is and uses them as a step ladder. Her plastic chair is also a much loved step ladder.The other day, I walked into the kitchen to find her sitting on my table.I don't know how she does it.Have you entered my competition yet? All you have to do is comment on this p Read more:Going
I Remember When... 2007-11-29 13:45:00 I remember when I used to get up and shower every morning.I remember when I used to do my hair and makeup and go to work.I remember not having to start work until 11am, but not getting to knock off until midnight.I remember lazy Sunday mornings and busy Sunday evenings.I remember split shifts and quick naps.I remember prepping, cooking and serving 150 people.I remember the thrill of planning and prepping platters for functions.I remember using red bull and caffeine to get through each and every shift.I remember the withdrawal symptoms when I quit.I remember being disgusted that my Head Chef was shagging a 15yo upstairs while everyone else worked their asses off.I remember good natured teasing.I remember covering for the Apprentice when he showed up at work still high.I remember getting screamed at the next day for it.I remember having spare money.I remember Tuesday nights playing 8-ball and underage drinking.I remember knock-off mocktails, spiked with vodka when the boss wasn't lookin Read more:Remember
, Remember When
Help Me Send B To Japan! 2007-11-28 15:43:00 My friend B has been chosen from a set of applicants to go to Japan
next year. She is only 13 so it is an amazing thing for her. She has until August to fundraise $1600 for her airfares and a little bit more for spending money (for meals etc).As you can imagine, she is very excited to have been chosen, but she is a little bit overwhelmed with the amount of money her and her family have to find.Here is where you come in.Here is a Paypal donate button. See it? Please let me know if you can't see it. I am going to ask you, the lovely internets for donations so that we can help send B to Japan.Okay, so we have the button, now on to the incentive.If you comment here I will put you into the running to win - - 3 blocks of Cadbury chocolate (family size) in your choice of flavours or - 2 bars of Aromatherapy soap in your choice of scent or - 1 bottle of Bath and Shower Gel, again, in your choice of scent. If you link back to THIS post I will enter you twice. Thanks Lotus for that idea.Yo
Dear Lotus... 2007-11-28 02:12:00 So you want a love letter hey? And I guess I'd better add some linky love. So to everyone else who isn't Lotus
, you should go and check out her blog. Really, it is work the energy you will expend clicking that link.Dear Lotus,You make me laugh so hard, on a regular basis. I love going over to your blog and reading your new stuff because I KNOW I will giggle. Thankyou for that, I need the laugh at times like this when my funny seems to have deserted me (I think it is my lack of adult conversation, I seem to have become socially inept all of a sudden).This time difference we have going here boggles me, I just worked out that you are 19hrs behind me. Does it bother you that I will get to have Xmas a day before you? Or that I wish you Happy Birthday early?It annoys me that you live so far away, can you imagine Amy and Braden playing together? Maybe Braden could teach Amy to walk for me (note to Amy. Walk already. Love Mummy).I am going to remind you that I was the first commenter on your
What Happened At The Doctors. 2007-11-27 04:17:00 My doctors appointment was today.I was a little nervous, as you are when you are going into the GP to consult on things to do with your girly bits. We talked for a while and his first response was to send me home to keep trying on our own for a few more months.After I reminded him that we had been having regular(ish) unprotected sex since Amy was born (okay since she was 8 wks old) and that I got my periods back 8 weeks after the birth, then he took me little bit more seriously.Somehow TTC and failing for 13mths, is much worse than TTC and failing for 9mths.Who knew?So while we may have not been actively trying for a baby when Amy was 8 weeks old, I distinctly remember being hopeful/scared when I thought I might be pregnant when she was 3 mths old.So onwards we go.I have to have a blood test at cycle day 21 to check my progesterone, then he wants to see the both of us as a couple. The whole cycle day 21 thingy has me a bit stumped, because said test is supposed to take place around a w Read more:Doctors
You Should Really Go See... 2007-11-26 18:40:00 Has anyone discovered A Little Place For Me yet?You should really go read Marylin's blog. She has Max who is 6 weeks old and Zack who is 2 and a half going on 12. Amazingly she still finds time to blog and to do it well!I feel a special sort of affinity for her, because she had Zack when she was 19. All us young mum's need to stick together (that doesn't mean I love the rest of you any less now though). Plus! and this is a big plus, she is from Scotland, so she spells things correctly!!! Gotta love the colour and humour (what does the American english have against the letter U anyway?).A Little Bit Of History is worth reading, we all love to hear about how a baby came to be and! it has a photo.So go on, head yourselves over and say hello. Tell her I sent you okay?This was done in response to my Free Stuff post. I offered reviews instead of a gift if people wanted.Have you entered my competition yet? All you have to do is comment on this post!
Shorts. No, Not The Ones You Wear. 2007-11-25 20:37:00 I have had trouble making the words work lately. I hope everyone will forgive me, but the writing? She just wasn't happening. Actually I think my sense of humour deserted me entirely for a bit. It was bad. I found myself being incredibly literal and hello? but being literal is just no fun. I was commenting and stating the obvious and EGADS it was bad.But I think I am okay now, even if my grammer is taking a beating. Never EVER start a sentence with But. Ever. Promise you won't tell my English teacher okay? She would murder me.I also found myself using smaller and smaller sentences. Maybe this is because lately I seem to be talking very slowly. So that Amy. Understands what Mummy wants. And does what I want. Well as much as any Toddler does as she is told.She is getting pretty good at simple instructions now though.Scene 1'Bring Mummy the book you want to read okay?Amy, bring Mummy a book.Amy. Amy, look at Mummy. I know you can hear me. Look at me.'Amy shakes head.'Don't tell me n Read more:Shorts
The Passing Of The Lawn 2007-11-25 16:00:00 My lawn is dead. All hail the passing of the lawn.It didn't last long once summer started, what was a tangle of mallow, weeds and grass, is now prickly, spiky and thorny. What was green, is now brown.I can't send Amy outside in trackpants, or all she does is track in dead grass and spiky seeds. I am constantly picking grass seeds out of clothes, the carpet and the clean washing.There are a few patches of green left, mostly from the grass that is stealing (stealing!) the water from my peach tree. The other green patches are the thistle bushes under the clothesline and the mallow near the door. There is no grass, just weeds.We need rain. Not because I care about a green lawn (I don't) but because I have hardly any water to keep the garden alive.At the moment, I am watering the garden using bath water. I have enough water in my tank to last us a week. Remind me to order water okay? $110 for 3000 gallons.*sigh*Have you entered my competition yet? All you have to do is comment on this po
Short and Sweet 2007-12-07 01:51:00 Revolution - Still on track. I got to sleep at 2am last night and was up every hour (for 30mins each time) until 7am when sleeping was abandoned.Blogger - Giving me the shits. Signed up for web hosting and am trying to work out what the fuck I am doing. Have no freaking idea. Help appreciated. Donations appreciated. Hosting expensive.Myself - Bashed knee, can't move it properly. Spent afternoon up and down a wobbly ladder in the wind trying to remove birds nest from chimney. Bashed knee more. Ouch.Conception - Who knows? Blood tests on Wednesday (cycle day 21). Hoping they tell me I am actually pregnant and have no need for further tests. At the moment? Too early to say.Amy - Teeth finally broke through. Now has a cold. Missed seeing her new cousin due to said cold. Pissed off at cold, also drowning in snot. Walking more and more. Yay. Crawled through the mud. Boo.Nathan - Same as always. Pissed me off this morning. Made up for it by being very concerned whilst I was up on ladder. Sto Read more:Short
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