I've been feeling pretty down today... so in conversation on email with Judi saying I need some inspiration, this is what she replied....
"well now.... breathe in - stand up - stretch - fill glass of water - and empty it at the first person who passes you..... he/she will then CHASE you.... and force your metabolism UP and VOILA - an instant fix....... whahahah !"
Now that would really really get me going hehehehe
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Monday, 6 October 2008
Kids say the cutest things
Remember my post about the ironing? Well this sure sparked off some interesting conversation in our house on Saturday.
Aaron was "playing" with my old camera... the one he is allowed to touch! and wanted to take a photo of me... he wanted to zoom and I said "Not so close. I don't want to see all my wrinkles"
"Mommy you don't have wrinkles. Only Grannies have wrinkles." says the little guy
Boy was I happy about that... hehehe
Aaron was "playing" with my old camera... the one he is allowed to touch! and wanted to take a photo of me... he wanted to zoom and I said "Not so close. I don't want to see all my wrinkles"
"Mommy you don't have wrinkles. Only Grannies have wrinkles." says the little guy
Boy was I happy about that... hehehe
Saturday, 4 October 2008
Wow today was a good day.
Why you ask... hmmmm well I'll tell you...hehehhehe :)
1. I got to sleep in till 8am
2. Poppa & Granny brought Aaron home
3. It's my old school friend and new scrapping buddy Theresa's 40th birthday - HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY FRIEND
4. I've scrapped tonight and I've now only got TWO pages left to do of my 2006 year... one of which I can't find the six pics I had done so will have to reprint!
5. My eye hasn't been itchy AT ALL today... hallelujah!
Oh and as a side note: Aaron washed the dishes today... yip after lunch he OFFERED! And so after I ran the water for him he stood there and washed ALL the lunch dishes. Poppa dried and I packed away... such team effort. But the big thing is that this was truely a FIRST. Yes I have pics of him "washing" dishes in the past (mainly just the plastic stuff) or drying dishes at Poppa & Granny, but today he decided and did! Makes me very proud to see him growing up.
1. I got to sleep in till 8am
2. Poppa & Granny brought Aaron home
3. It's my old school friend and new scrapping buddy Theresa's 40th birthday - HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY FRIEND
4. I've scrapped tonight and I've now only got TWO pages left to do of my 2006 year... one of which I can't find the six pics I had done so will have to reprint!
5. My eye hasn't been itchy AT ALL today... hallelujah!
Oh and as a side note: Aaron washed the dishes today... yip after lunch he OFFERED! And so after I ran the water for him he stood there and washed ALL the lunch dishes. Poppa dried and I packed away... such team effort. But the big thing is that this was truely a FIRST. Yes I have pics of him "washing" dishes in the past (mainly just the plastic stuff) or drying dishes at Poppa & Granny, but today he decided and did! Makes me very proud to see him growing up.
Right enough waffle... just been so used to blogging this week that I guess I couldn't stop. hehehee. Off to do one of those two outstanding pages.... catch you soon.
Friday... last day of my week
Friday (Day 7) started off VERY noise.... Keith got up just after the alarm went off and of course on flushing the loo the water hammering started... remember when I went to bed last night there was no water.... well it came on during the night and now all the pipes are making noises... every tap has to bubble and splatter and squeak to get the air out... very noisy when you're trying to sleep! And then when he tried to have his shower.... NO HOT WATER... so who knows what time the water came on.... we have a timer on our geyser so it obviously didn't have enough hours to heat the water up. Even when I had my bath it wasn't hot (and we had over-ridden the timer!).
Anyway I digress..... I got up at 6:30. Made Keith's lunch and then we had breakfast... decided to do the muesli/yoghurt thing again today. Keith watered the garden... I think as much to get the pipes clear as to give the plants something to drink and him something to do! (We had had a smattering of rain drops around 6:30... only enough to dirty the car!)
Well as soon as breakfast was finished I started chopping the veg for my duck recipe... said goodbye to keith and then finished putting the duck in the slow cooker. Had my bath (very luke warm!), got dressed and decided to cut my fringe... it's between the dust and my fringe hanging in my eye that's causing my eye to itch! Packed the dishwasher and turned it on. Stripped Aaron's bed and put the washing machine on. Took my vitamins. Boiled some eggs for my lunch. And Phew!, looked at the time... it was only 8am!! So after pulling my car out the garage all ready to go to work, I sat and read my book for 10 minutes! Feel much better!
In order to upload yesterday's pics I decided to take my camera to work and then being inspired by Ali's photos I tried taking some of me driving in the car in the traffic (please don't try this at home... hehehehe)... I think the other drivers around me must have been very puzzled by the strange site of a camera in the car! But I did it!
Another restful day at work (yip I don't do much here but still get paid for it... NOTE TO SELF: must really start buckling down and working harder!) Scanned my scrapping layouts from the last few days, updated my blog and in general just had a good day.
Left at 1 and went past Town Square to get some double sided tape that I had run out of half way through a layout last night... ended up getting album refills as well as I didn't think the till lady would be impressed if I gave her my credit card for R12 only!! Was home by 2 and then the busyness started. But the first thing when I got home that I noticed was the SMELL of my yummy duck cooking... mmmmmmm. Kicked off my shoes and put my slippers on... much more comfortable. Hung up Aaron's bedding then started the whole process of making Apple Strudel.... fiddly but yum yum once finished. Had left over pastry too so just made some pastry cases... must still decide what to do with them.
By now it was 3pm and JUdi was due in half and hour... went upstairs to "tidy up" and make space for her to be able to scrap.... you know what it's like ... the more space you have the more you spread out! DOne that then decided to read my book a bit while waiting. By quarter to four she still hadn't arrived so I took in the washing, boiled the kettle (again!) and read a bit more. Judi arrived just on 4pm.... having left work at 3 but got stuck in Friday afternoon traffic with TWO broken down trucks.
So we had lemon meringue pie (saved from Tuesday night) and coffee and a good 'ole natter to catch up on all that we've missed. Then it was on to upstairs and my "show and tell" of all my scrap stuff I got from convention (yip hadn't seen Judi since BEFORE convention!!) We got on with scrapping then with a short break for supper and later for pud... apple studel and cream... well recommended.
THe funny thing about our scrapping was that though I did 3 and a half double pages, Judi did one double and one single... both inspired by the CONVENTION layouts... she did Kah-Mei's and one of Rachels.... beautiful. Judi left just after 11 and I scrapped until 12... not after, just till 12 then went to bed!
Had also spoken to Mom & Aaron just before 7... not much news there... he had played trains for most of the day by the sounds of it and Mom was busy on the pc. Aaron is excited to be coming home tomorrow.
Well that has been my week... thanks for sharing in it with me.... now I guess the work starts... printing the pics and making something with them! Let's see what happens in the week ahead.
Anyway I digress..... I got up at 6:30. Made Keith's lunch and then we had breakfast... decided to do the muesli/yoghurt thing again today. Keith watered the garden... I think as much to get the pipes clear as to give the plants something to drink and him something to do! (We had had a smattering of rain drops around 6:30... only enough to dirty the car!)
Well as soon as breakfast was finished I started chopping the veg for my duck recipe... said goodbye to keith and then finished putting the duck in the slow cooker. Had my bath (very luke warm!), got dressed and decided to cut my fringe... it's between the dust and my fringe hanging in my eye that's causing my eye to itch! Packed the dishwasher and turned it on. Stripped Aaron's bed and put the washing machine on. Took my vitamins. Boiled some eggs for my lunch. And Phew!, looked at the time... it was only 8am!! So after pulling my car out the garage all ready to go to work, I sat and read my book for 10 minutes! Feel much better!
In order to upload yesterday's pics I decided to take my camera to work and then being inspired by Ali's photos I tried taking some of me driving in the car in the traffic (please don't try this at home... hehehehe)... I think the other drivers around me must have been very puzzled by the strange site of a camera in the car! But I did it!
Another restful day at work (yip I don't do much here but still get paid for it... NOTE TO SELF: must really start buckling down and working harder!) Scanned my scrapping layouts from the last few days, updated my blog and in general just had a good day.
Left at 1 and went past Town Square to get some double sided tape that I had run out of half way through a layout last night... ended up getting album refills as well as I didn't think the till lady would be impressed if I gave her my credit card for R12 only!! Was home by 2 and then the busyness started. But the first thing when I got home that I noticed was the SMELL of my yummy duck cooking... mmmmmmm. Kicked off my shoes and put my slippers on... much more comfortable. Hung up Aaron's bedding then started the whole process of making Apple Strudel.... fiddly but yum yum once finished. Had left over pastry too so just made some pastry cases... must still decide what to do with them.
By now it was 3pm and JUdi was due in half and hour... went upstairs to "tidy up" and make space for her to be able to scrap.... you know what it's like ... the more space you have the more you spread out! DOne that then decided to read my book a bit while waiting. By quarter to four she still hadn't arrived so I took in the washing, boiled the kettle (again!) and read a bit more. Judi arrived just on 4pm.... having left work at 3 but got stuck in Friday afternoon traffic with TWO broken down trucks.
So we had lemon meringue pie (saved from Tuesday night) and coffee and a good 'ole natter to catch up on all that we've missed. Then it was on to upstairs and my "show and tell" of all my scrap stuff I got from convention (yip hadn't seen Judi since BEFORE convention!!) We got on with scrapping then with a short break for supper and later for pud... apple studel and cream... well recommended.
THe funny thing about our scrapping was that though I did 3 and a half double pages, Judi did one double and one single... both inspired by the CONVENTION layouts... she did Kah-Mei's and one of Rachels.... beautiful. Judi left just after 11 and I scrapped until 12... not after, just till 12 then went to bed!
Had also spoken to Mom & Aaron just before 7... not much news there... he had played trains for most of the day by the sounds of it and Mom was busy on the pc. Aaron is excited to be coming home tomorrow.
Well that has been my week... thanks for sharing in it with me.... now I guess the work starts... printing the pics and making something with them! Let's see what happens in the week ahead.
Friday, 3 October 2008
My layouts from this week
The "Baby" bit of this layout is done with mauve stickers that I got at my very first scrapbooking conference I went to... "Scrapbook Den University" and I think the paper is also from around that same era... I've always loved it and had it FOREVER.
This is the layout whose journaling took me two days to do and put on!
This is the layout whose journaling took me two days to do and put on!
Did this layout at 10:30 on Thursday... just about threw it together... okay not quite but it was pretty quick. Nice to have things planned.
A layout about Christmas Carols. The little frames are all Making Memories... and we learnt how to use these at last years ISE... I even bought myself the tool especially so that I could do the page from last year... which I STILL haven't... but at least now I can say I've used my frames! The buttons, ribbons and the tag are all stickers from Bo Bunny while the rubons are from Scrapbook-King
This layout was lots of fun but a pain to think of a title... It is really a little girls birthday party but I wanted to record the photo of "us moms" as this was the last time we were all together... two have subsequently immigrated.
Okay so that's my work from the last three days.... Going to be doing a whole bunch more today (Judi is coming to scrap) and hopefully also over the weekend... my boy gets home tomorrow too... yippee!
A huge THANK YOU
Remember this post.... Commenting does pay off ? Well I opened my email this morning I found FOUR emails from Jackie with my photos in them... well boy oh boy am I doing the happy dance. Thank you, thank you, thank you Jackie for your stunning work.... here is just a smattering of those she sent to me.
ps... if you notice I now have a new "ID" pic on my blog too!
ps... if you notice I now have a new "ID" pic on my blog too!
Thursday...
Day 6 of my week... boy has it gone fast. When you actually sit down and document the what/where/when life does tend to fly past.
This morning Keith actually had to wake me up... I was fast asleep in dreamland and didn't even register the time... nearly quarter to 7! Well got up and started making our lunches... just ham and cheese sarmies today. Judi sms'd while I was busy to warn me about the traffic backup on the highway. Keith had also heard about it on the tv... evidently there had been an attempted hijacking just past Malibongwe offramp around 4 this morning and a 32 year old man was killed (with his own gun I heard later in the day... and his wife was sitting in the car... I really feel for her.)
So anyway after Keith left for work I had my bath and then breakfast... muesli & yoghurt today. I've also spent most of the morning putting drops into my right eye... all puffy and itchy again... between the eye drops and tissues (when my eyes itch my nose runs!) I am also never without my book to read!
Quickly stripped our bed and the one upstairs too and put all the sheets, pillowcases and duvet covers into the machine to be washed while at work. Then left for work and tried to take the back roads... well once I got to Malibongwe along President Fouche I looked towards the highway and people were turning on to it so I took the chance and went that way too.... all sign of the earlier drama was gone and the traffic moved pretty well so I was at work BEFORE 9!
Another quiet non-event of a day at work... just compiled a list of the drawings I had used to create another drawing... for some report. So not much activity on that front. Did email back and forth with Judi who had had a week of leave and today on getting in to work had no water.... real bummer.
Got home just after 1:30. Hung up the washing and even unpacked and repacked the dishwasher, all before Isabel (our domestic) arrived to do the proper cleaning.... now you ladies will understand why I have time to do baking/scraping/reading in my afternoons... I have someone who comes and cleans.... very nice!!!
This morning Keith actually had to wake me up... I was fast asleep in dreamland and didn't even register the time... nearly quarter to 7! Well got up and started making our lunches... just ham and cheese sarmies today. Judi sms'd while I was busy to warn me about the traffic backup on the highway. Keith had also heard about it on the tv... evidently there had been an attempted hijacking just past Malibongwe offramp around 4 this morning and a 32 year old man was killed (with his own gun I heard later in the day... and his wife was sitting in the car... I really feel for her.)
So anyway after Keith left for work I had my bath and then breakfast... muesli & yoghurt today. I've also spent most of the morning putting drops into my right eye... all puffy and itchy again... between the eye drops and tissues (when my eyes itch my nose runs!) I am also never without my book to read!
Quickly stripped our bed and the one upstairs too and put all the sheets, pillowcases and duvet covers into the machine to be washed while at work. Then left for work and tried to take the back roads... well once I got to Malibongwe along President Fouche I looked towards the highway and people were turning on to it so I took the chance and went that way too.... all sign of the earlier drama was gone and the traffic moved pretty well so I was at work BEFORE 9!
Another quiet non-event of a day at work... just compiled a list of the drawings I had used to create another drawing... for some report. So not much activity on that front. Did email back and forth with Judi who had had a week of leave and today on getting in to work had no water.... real bummer.
Got home just after 1:30. Hung up the washing and even unpacked and repacked the dishwasher, all before Isabel (our domestic) arrived to do the proper cleaning.... now you ladies will understand why I have time to do baking/scraping/reading in my afternoons... I have someone who comes and cleans.... very nice!!!
Spent the afternoon alternating between the pc and scrapping.... finished my journalling from Tuesday's layout and scrapped another double page. Also had the radio tuned to Jacaranda FMfor background music.
The weather forecast for today side "30% chance of rain" so I kept an eye on the clouds... ended up seeing the most stunning site of the sun peaking through...so snapped a few shots. Then at 5:30 I had to take Isabel home as Keith hadn't arrived. We again saw a beautiful sunset... grey clouds all round and the most brilliant bright red ball showing through... now where was the camera!!!
Got home at 6. Made supper and while it was cooking Aaron phoned... had a nice chat with him... he was feeling tired so I reckon it would be bedtime pretty soon. He had coloured in, watched movies and played trains all day... typical day at Poppa & Granny.
I then ate supper. Keith arrived home as I dished up but he didn't want to eat them. Watched some tv till around 8pm then decided it was time to remake out bed. Around 8:30 I went upstairs and scrapped... started working on a double page with lots of pockets but ended up running out of doublesided tape... bummer will have to go get some more. Did two singles instead and went to bed just before 11. Read for a while then off to dreamland.
Oh and a side note.... on Tuesday night when I got home from bookclub we had no water. And guess what... when I went to bed tonight... no water either!!! Luckily there was some in the fridge that I could use to rinse my mouth after brushing my teeth!
Thursday, 2 October 2008
3's About Me You May Not Know
Three jobs I have had: Girl Friday, Data Capture, CAD operator
Three places I have lived: Riebeeck West, Boksburg, Roodpoort
Three shows that I watch: Survivor; Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Masterchef goes large
Three places I have been: UK, Cape Town, Coffee Bay
Three people who email me often: Judi, Jackie, Scrap Girls
Three of my favorite foods: Chocolate, chicken broccoli, lemon meringue pie
Three places I'd rather be right now: Home, scrapping, scrapping at home
Three things I am looking forward to this year: Tomorrow when Judi comes over, Aaron coming home on Saturday, my 40th
Three places I have lived: Riebeeck West, Boksburg, Roodpoort
Three shows that I watch: Survivor; Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Masterchef goes large
Three places I have been: UK, Cape Town, Coffee Bay
Three people who email me often: Judi, Jackie, Scrap Girls
Three of my favorite foods: Chocolate, chicken broccoli, lemon meringue pie
Three places I'd rather be right now: Home, scrapping, scrapping at home
Three things I am looking forward to this year: Tomorrow when Judi comes over, Aaron coming home on Saturday, my 40th
Wednesday, 1 October 2008
Day 5.... Wednesday
Wednesday morning dawned (a new month) and I got up at 6:30... made loads of toast with sardines on for both Keith and my lunches. Then we had breakfast and he left for work just after 7. I then made coffee... took and uploaded some photos and wrote up my notes of yesterday.
Aaron phoned and I had a long catch up chat with him. He told me about the bird park visit (There were 11 babies... um Veronica what were those baby birds?... oh yes baby ducks mommy. And I saw a bunny and bunny holes. Shaun spot a tortoise... I didn't, but he told us, so that's alright.)
Also spoke to Shaun, Denise and Veronica just to say Bye as they fly to Cape Town at 11am.
Once done I brushed teeth, put on my shoes and left for work. At work I read emails and then did a quick search for duck recipes... to be cooked in my slow cooker... not a huge selection.... reason I'm looking is my friend Judi is coming over on Friday and seeing as we have a duck in the freezer I thought I'd make that for supper. Did find one recipe that I thought I could manage... if it works I'll post it on my blog.
Managed to do an odd bit of work but also sorted out my coupons on to a proper "grocery list" so that I could be a bit more organised on my planned shopping trip. Due to the fact that I've been late a few days for work I decided to "work" the time in... so only left at 1:30. Went straight to Pick 'n Pay at Northgate.... arrived just on 2pm and after wandering around, checking my coupons, checking the prices and finding (or not) the stuff I wanted I eventually made it to the check out at 4pm! It then too the lady around 20 minutes to process my coupons.... she had to enter each one at a time... from 50c to R1 or R2.... the most was a R10 discount.... but it was TOTALLY worth it I got a total discount of R126 (or there abouts).... okay the bill was the MOST I've EVER paid for groceries and I really really don't want to pay that much again.
Got home at 4:45 and then had to unpack everything... ended up even having to repack my freezer to get everything in. Put the dishwasher on and washed the dishes that didn't fit in. Decided that it was now time to phone Aaron and catch up too. Spoke to my Mom for a while and then my Dad and finally Aaron. The first thing he says is "I want to come home NOW"... sorry my boy it's another 3 sleeps. Besides that he is full of beans and happy.
Made myself some supper and read my book while it cooked. After eating I watched the news and then while updating my "journalling"... ie typing this blog entry.... I watched Extreme Makeover Home Edition. Then also paid some bills and read my blogs in google reader.
And that my fellow bloggers, is my day.
ps... didn't get to scrap but tomorrow is another day!
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