just plodding along

bland

enjoying corn thins, water, bread and lemonade.

rough night

i came home early from youth group last night because of my cold and feeling quite under the weather. for some stupid reason i decided to stay up until howie came home. which was stupid because he didn't come home til after midnight. although in the end he didn't have his keys so it was better that than me waking up because of the doorbell.

anyway, he arrived and i went to bed and as i lay there i decided that my tummy was starting to feel funny. so i just lay there for like an hour with howie. i made a trip to the bathroom to sit on the floor, but nothing came.

so i went back to bed at about 1:30am i seriously thought i was about to vomit so i ran to the toilet, but it was held back. i think the pramin i took was doing its job - coz i was burping lots and felt the occasional urge, but nothing happened. so after a while, back to bed. back to bed still didn't mean any sleep. it meant lying there, assessing how my gut was feeling and wonder which end was going to explode.

at about 2:30am i made another dash to the toilet and up came my winter vegetable cup-a-soup i had for dinner.

i HATE throwing up. it is the worst. so that was awful. the feeling of it, the sweatiness, the sore throat on top of my already sore throat. the wretching because there isn't really anything else there to expel.

i brushed my teeth and went back to bed, thankful that i felt better somewhat. although i didn't get back to sleep.

about 3:30am, up i was again for round two. more unpleasant because of the lack of food available for me to chuck. brushed my teeth again and back to bed.

at about 4:30am the urge came again so off i trotted to the bathroom. sat on the floor for a while, but nothing came. good news. so i had some water and back to bed.

i didn't really get any sleep last night. i started doozing off around 7:30am, but always with the fear my gut was going to erupt, and that i wouldn't make it to the bathroom.

so in the end i just got out of bed at 10:10am. feeling quite tired and empty, but glad it wasn't an all night spew fest. yuck.

and that is the story of my rough night. the first time i have vomited since i moved out of home. and i survived without mum being here! go team!

which means howie had a rough night too, because i left the light on all night and was in and out of bed. sorry howie!

dodgy

Does the following apply to the ARL (Australian Rugby League) or AFL (Australian Football League) players?

36 have been accused of spousal abuse

7 have been arrested for fraud

19 have been accused of writing bad cheques

117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least two businesses

3 have done time for assault

71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit

14 have been arrested on drug-related charges

8 have been arrested for shoplifting

21 currently are defendants in lawsuits

and 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

Can you guess which organisation members this list refers to?

Give up yet?

Neither! It's the 535 members of the AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT IN CANBERRA.

The same group of people who write and pass hundreds of new laws each year
designed to keep the rest of us in line.

Yikes!

(from an email forward, so you KNOW it's got to be true!)

hoorah!

happy birthday david!

in celebration of your day of birth i am declaring today a public holiday in your honour and staying home.

nothing to do with the fact that i'm sick.

home again

i've had my ease-a-cold. i will soon have my panadol. i've changed into tracky dacks. i'm sitting on my couch about to be lying under a doona. the heater it on. and the fellowship of the ring has begun.

being sick has it's advantages.

symptoms

onset of cold.

particularly not enjoying the sore throat.

i shall power on with my ease-a-cold

fumes

my parents house is being painted - inside this time. i'm visiting and there isn't anywhere to sit. everything is covered in paint tarp things and it's very headache-inducing. i hope the colours work out nice. there's always a risk with painting isn't there.

microwave this

microwave rice cookers are gaybo.

everytime i idiotically decide to try them again, they do exactly as they did last time. overflow through the microwave. yuck. it's like cleaning up a puddle of goobers.

i vow to never use them again. give me the saucepan.

10

tim bailey just told me it hasn't rained this much in sydney in june since 1950.

he would know.

round

oh my tummy is so very full.

tonight we had predinner eating and dinner with jo, ryan and tom. thankyou ryan for hospitality and culinary delights.

and yay for wedding present. it is a cool painting. we need to find somewhere good to hang it. thanks ryan, jo and jem!

lie in

still in bed. oh yeh. not quite sure what to do with our day. surely we haven't run out of adventure ideas!!! surely.

happy birthday mil in another continent and gemma in this one.

domestic

i didn't consult with BOM until after i'd done two loads of washing today. apparently the sun won't be back til later this week. so hopefully there will be a bit of wind to dry out all our washing.

and i did do the vacuuming. good housewife.

kayne & jamie

listening to some tunes to procrastinate from vacuuming.

sometimes you just need a bit of "gold digger".

knackered

oh i'm excited about bed time! not long now.

today went ok. people said they enjoyed it. so that's good. pretty full on though all day. tired legs and head and everything.

fun was going to swannies after. except for the part where they lost miserably. it's probably we weren't there to witness the first half. but it was fun to hang out with lach and debs. and yell at the swans and umpires.

next two days are OFF! yay! i plan to not see much of tomorrow morning. we'll see how i go.

nippy

i am glad we're not going up the mountains today. that would be cold! the city will be cold enough.

i hope today goes well.

now it's time to make some more sandwiches.

goodbye world... i wish

i just want to curl into a little ball and sleep for two days.

two rather stressful things jumped out at me this afternoon in amongst the usual stress of the day before a trip. so my head is so over everything, as well as light, busy and headachy.

bring on sunday.

Community Service Announcement

In case anyone missed the message of howie's post, don't ever, under any circumstances, sign a mobile phone contract with Soul.

I beg of you.

watery issue

i would be very disappointed in the government if they decided to reduce water restrictions because the dams reach 50%. iemma isn't saying there are plans to, but i saw the water minister (or whatever the title) talking about it last week, that it would be nice to allow people to wash their cars again. i don't really think that's a priority mr water man. i think people being able to drink clean water in the future is a little more important.

i would like to own my own house. so we could install tanks, and do things with grey water, and be more efficient and sustainable. but alas.

frozen spin

i'm sure it's not good that i keep getting little head spins throughout the days. this mornings one was as i drove of from our house, so i pulled over. smart thing to do. but it can't be anything wrong with my head - i had CT scans almost 2 years ago and nothing showed up. i mean nothing bad.

power on i say!

unconnectedly, my tootsies were so many frozens this morning. i need better socks.

error

i wonder how arnotts quality control is going. this weeks box of tiny teddies contained at least half a dozen beauties like these guys

the cookie cutter must have been a bit slack that day.

bye bye buddy

my good buddy sam is going away for three months on sunday. i will miss him. but he's going to be doing good things so that's ok.

because of his impending extended leave of absence, we hung out last night in almost true jenny and sam style. we watched a DVD, but didn't have the lolly bananas. this times viewing was "US Marshals" - love it. we also arranged our movie schedule for when he returns, because the poo head is away for die hard 4.0, but back in time for rush hour 3 (which i know will be poor, but we HAVE to see it together). so that brought some extra excitement to him coming home again one day.

in other news, husband also came home last night. it is good to see him again and hear his stories.

and lastly, i don't have any bread. i forgot to buy some. whoops.

now, what was i saying?

i got all my to do lists for this week written up yesterday. what a nerd. but i do feel organised so it's ok. and as i think of things, i'll just keep on adding to them.

i think i'm becoming more like my grandma. she writes everything down that she needs to talk to people about, so that she doesn't forget. so when i get to her house each fortnight, the first few minutes are used to cover whatever she may have written down for that particular meeting. but it makes sense. therefore, i must be getting old and forgetful. coz i'm finding more and more if i don't write things down, or don't do things as soon as i think of them, i either forget or have to repeat it over and over in my head so i don't forget. hmmm.. yes, i am a grandma indeed.

rain

so much usage of clothes horses and heaters at the moment. a sure fire way to get dry clothes slowly.

6 days

i have a feeling that this week could get a little stressful. there's a fair bit to cover for an event i'm organising for saturday. some of it isn't too much of a problem - things i can do like tick off shopping lists, get all the gear together and logistical stuff like that. then on the other hand are things where i have to wait on people, like finding out how many people are coming, putting together groups, estimating quantities to put on my shopping list. i will be a happy chicken when it is this time next week. no matter how many of these things you run, it never gets any easier in my book.

and i am a nerdy wife. i miss my husband.

do you fondue?

did you know cadbury flake doesn't melt? it just crumbles, and ends up looking like mince. weird.

we discovered this tonight at the fondue night of fun. debbie, cathy, grant, tamara, will, luke, elise and sharon joined me in eating a lot of oil soaked meat, some salad, and then some chocolate covered fruit.

it was good times.

then we played hours of guitar hero. i sure am not a guitarist! but it was good fun, sometimes frustrating, and pretty damn funny at times. luke ripped it up. but he is a guitarist. and he owns the game.

but how weird about flakes. what's with that? tamara, can you research and find out for me? consider it extra credit for your exams. i'll write to your lecturer.

year 6, 1993

i think i may have blogged something similar - about the 80s and the 90s. but there seems heaps more in this one. so were you a 90s kid?

i sure was, as you can see by the excess of bold type!

13

this afterevening, howie and i had the pleasure of seeing oceans 13

i liked it. it was much better than oceans 12. much better. much more like oceans 11. but i do like the characters, and it was funny and clever and somewhat predictable, but sometimes that works.

everytime i go to the movies at the moment, i'm excited about what's 'coming soon' - simpsons movie, die hard 4.0, bourne ultimatum. yay for the movies. boo for the price of movie tickets.

blanked out

i am so thankful for the old bar heater my parents gave us when we got married. this house is sooo cold. but the heater goes hard.

i am also thankful for electric blankets. i think my grandma gave them to us.

although there seems a blanket conspiracy.

the other night, at 9:30pm, i went in to our bedroom to turn on the blankets. i also put away things that were on the bed, so there weren't hot patches. but alas, when we went to bed an hour or so later, howie's side wasn't warm at all! in fact, it was icey. and his blanket wasn't on. i swear i put it on, but i may have been distracted by putting things away.

then last night, we went in at the same time, and switched each others blankets on. when we returned close to midnight (whoops - stupid addictive facebook), my blanket wasn't on! now i thought that maybe howie thought he was being funny or vengeful after his icey experience, but he swears he put it on.

so it's a mystery. hopefully tonight there are no mishaps!

drip drop

you can tell when xander is really happy to see you. beyond all the usual purring and head butting and smooching, it's when he dribbles on you, that's when you know you're really loved. delightful.

NEWSFLASH

HOWIE IS CONSIDERING GETTING A MYSPACE.

PLEASE TEASE HIM!

The end.

competitions

i enter competitions sometimes. ones that don't take any time, money, or "in 25 words or less" skill. today i hope to win $2500 worth of petrol. i never expect to win. but as they say, you gotta be in it...

i've won something once ever. it was a sydney swans pack through the monthly chronicle. it feels good. hopefully i can relive the feeling, and rejoice in fuel consumption!

i blame tamara

i am now slightly addicted to facebook. damn you tamara.

nice

it's always nice when people say "are you putting on weight" and "you're getting chubby". by people i mean one particular person. so thanks. way to feed any existing body image problems i might have. no more eating for me.

two stories to tell

the first is that yesterday we discovered that pineapple won't eat pineapple, but ham will. we already knew pineapple would eat apple, and ham won't. we also found they both like watermelon and kiwi fruit. they are definitely fruit boys. which is a good thing, but they need to like veggies more. and meat.

the second is that we decided to save petrol and walk to westie today. nice blue skies, and a pleasant trip through normanhurst and waitara to westie. we got some drinks, some lunch, saw anmol, and then decided there wasn't anything else we needed so began to walk back. the moment we stepped outside i commented on the not-so-blue-anymore skies, and the fact that i had decided to not bring an umbrella. we made it to normanhurst station thinking we might make it home dry, but the droplets that were occasionally falling on our heads since the pacific hwy became rain. we laughed a lot as we continued the walk home. especially as it eased up as we got three doors down from our house.

so now all our wet clothing is in front of the heater, as is howie, and i'm hoping my shoes will dry and not have that these-shoes-have-been-wet smell later on.

holiday, celebrate

queen's birthday holiday is such a good idea. love three sleep-ins in a row. particularly when i give it a good crack. 10:20am today! go me!

not quite sure what today holds. maybe a movie. maybe an adventure which doesn't use much or any petrol. but tonight is family dinner - mummy's yummy chinese food!!

partee

just finished cleaning up the aftermath of debbie's birthday lunch. actually it's wasn't too bad. people weren't too spilly. i offered our place as wahroonga park was probably pretty soaked.

so 22 of us shared ourselves between the dining room, lounge room and kitchen. there was debbie, howie, me, loz, lyndal, will, ben, cathy, grant, tamara, luke, elise, liz, michelle, elise, deby, james, zoe, tom, tim, kirri and erin.

sooo much food. sent most of it off with debbie. kept the choice stuff for us.

and the fun was giving debbie the coolest present EVER - "guess who: debbie edition" with pictures of 24 of her friends! so pretty much howie and i are the bestest present givers ever! even better than sam who gave her "bop it", which is pretty cool, but not the bestest.

can you see yourself or someone you know?

(click on the pic)

birthday girl

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY SISTER!!!

She's 24 today!

That makes her 284 months older than she was in this photo

Isn't she cute!!

Have a good one Debs :)

black and blue

half of thornleigh has been blacked out since midnight. fortunately it's not our half. but it is my parents half. so dad will be coming over shortly to watch the football.

having said the other half is in black out, woolies is the shining light. there's a massive generator in their loading dock powering the store. we bought some lunch and milk and the like. we also saw lesley. good old woolies.

but i still like coles better. they have fly buys.

don't stop movin

i beat lachie at singstar. yesssss.

silly sausage

me thinks it's a little wet outside.

though from the looks of things, it's a lot wetter elsewhere in this city, and beyond.

also nice to see some darker colours over the words warragamba dam.

it's one of those days when it would be nice to be inside, watching a DVD, lying on the couch with a doona, and some munchies. we can wish.

sortly we'll be off to get 150 sausages to put in our freezer, since we cancelled our planned school program - not really the weather for a BBQ. but it's a bit scum to have ordered sausages, and them make them, and then change our minds.

third time lucky

the joys of a day off.

we went to macquarie for some driving around a carpark for ages trying to find a spot, some oxfam, some lunch, and some movieness. and we saw shrek the third

going into this movie i didn't have high expectations. i saw it out of a strange sense of obligtion, having seen the first two. i must admit i giggled a bit, but overall, it wasn't anything spectacular. but they don't need it to be. people will go see it, and they will get their money. so everyone wins. particularly those, like us, that had free tickets.

book book

i was wandering through woolies tonight looking for inspiration (essentially not a good thing to do, like shopping when you're hungry), and across the PA came a lovely voice telling me that roast chickens were on special in the deli. was $6.95, now $3. dinner is served! i've never bought roast chicken before. we have NO idea how to properly cut it up (although my grandpa did give howie a lesson last year).

but it was good chicken. thanks woolies deli announcer man.

perks

we got to go to IKEA this morning to get a lockable cabinet for work. good old IKEA. it's not all that happening a place on a wednesday morning. we also visited socrates. i think labelling everything with orange price labels makes everything feel on sale. although it's not. but works on me. dammit.

and hoorah! got psalms stuff sorted out in time to send out to everyone today. go team jenny. i think it's a bit more stressful writing a study than a talk. i'm not very good at raising questions out of nothing.

tonight i am presently visiting my parentals house. next on the visiting list is zoe. then howie, although that's a visit and then take home. then tamara tomorrow.

the joy of tomorrow, besides seeing tamara, is the fact it is a day off. oh yehhhhh

present

last wednesday afternoon i was on the phone to howie, and he was bored, so i told him to buy me a present. i was joking.

later that evening, i found out he had bought me a present, and that it cost between $30 and $40. naughty boy! he didn't pick up the joke.

anyway, so my present arrived yesterday, and here it is

it's a gum ball machine (or skittle machine in our case), but for hanging on the wall! husband is still in trouble for buying a silly present, but it is pretty fun. so we bought skittles tonight and filled her up. yum.

although we don't have anywhere to hang it. hmmm... the dilemma.

psalms

need to get my butt into gear to write a talk and study on psalms. how very specific! i only got info about it today, and need to have it done by wednesday arvo. that's a little scary. i guess it will be ok. i'll just focus on a few of the different styles.

i'm feeling very lightheaded of recent. i'm not enjoying that. and my neck feels very weak. not sure the go. i'm sure it's fine. but it doesn't really make me want to pick up a book or type out a whole lot of info on psalms.

i should cook us some dinner. neither of us are very hungry, but we should have something i'm sure.

complete

1:30-4:43pm, that's how long we were in the cinema.

pirates 3 was pretty long. but we knew that was the deal. there was lots of fighting, lots of music, lots of talking. i couldn't understand alot of the talking. my ears aren't very good at picking up fast, accented, ye olde words. so i'm sure i missed a whole lot of the story.

there was a lot of story. and there probably didn't need to be. but the good guys (being the bad guys) won in the end. but it did take a long time to get to the end.

fun day

i hung out with parentals for an hour or so at my primary school's annual family fun day. it's heaps better now than when i was at school - granted it was a fireworks night back then. but they have awesome rides now, and nice food, and good prizes at various stalls. good job NWPS. there were heaps of people as well, which is a good for the school. walking around with my mum isn't such a good idea, unless you like stopping every 5 seconds because she is saying hi to some parent, or student, or teacher.

now husband and i are going to see the third pirates movie. hopefully it'll be a bit of fun. reviews haven't been all the exciting to read, but you've gotta complete a trilogy whenever the opportunity arises - hence my anticipation for oceans 13, the bourne ultimatum, and die hard 4.0 (yes i am aware that's a fourlogy).

so here's to skittles, our regular movie munchies!

robbed

a heart breaking one point loss to the bombers. not what you want for your saturday night at the footy. bloody boundary umpire didn't do his frickin job, and so they got an illegitimate goal, and it effectively cost us the game. stupid human error. there was pretty hefty security surrounding the umpires as they left the field after the game. and so there should have been. very very poor job gentlemen.

lunchies

into the vegemite and alfalfa sandwiches at the moment. haven't graduated onto cheese as well yet.

up and down

praise the lord for june 1st and the return of fast internet.

boo for the man who decided to mow the lawn at 2am this morning (ok, like 7am).