to busy to blog!

What a hectic few weeks!! The news is...we are moving..sooner than expected...the contract on our new house went unconditional TODAY so..*insert big scream here* we are busy organising and decluttering...the garage sale is next week and we should find out by the end of next week (if not this week) when hand-over is. To say I'm excited is a little understatement. BUT I'm also a little sad about leaving this house. We've lived here for nearly 16 years, I gave birth to Cameron, just over there <---------*pointing to the lounge lol*, raised 5 kids and countless animals (and that's just their friends lol)...but it's time for us to open up a new chapter in our lives and that is exciting!.. Had a little giggle listening to the boys (who are very upset that our new house doesn't have stairs! they have always wanted to live in a house with stairs!! oops, too bad)...anyway, they were talking about moving and Aaryn was very concerned that we wouldn't take the dogs, Cameron re-assured him that yes we would take them, but not the puppies, we move after they are sold..that problem solved..Aaryn then asked him if perhaps we could take Bruce..Cam said he couldn't see why not and not to worry about that either, there are 2 shovels, they could both move him together...OK..OK...worried now...I had to intervene...before they got the shovels!!..I told them that although we loved Bruce, he couldn't come with us. Why not??? well, he isnt' there anymore...Where is he??? oh i dont know...ask Dad!!! problem solved!!..Who is Bruce?? well, he's our dog who died in August 2005..oh yes indeed, the little darling were all set to dig the poor animal up and put him in a box to bring with us!! They had me worried for a while there...I saw Aaryn down the backyard earlier, explaining to Bruce that although we still love him, he is just 'goop' now and so we cant take him with us..(gee thanks DAD for that great explanation of why the dog can't come!) but we will take his cross with us so they wont forget him... I dont know when I'll be back to update..although I do find the time to update Scrap the Stuff everyday...SO, keep sending me those layouts, i'm really enjoying looking at them...This month's competition is nearly finished, The voting starts on Monday..THEN I shall be announcing Octobers monthly competition (a great Idea from Sharon!!! thanks sharon) and the prize is looking to be a good one too!!!!

slack I am!

I am so slack, just haven't had time to update what with cleaning out stuff ready for the garage sale (which will be in 2 weeks!). ANYWAY.. Last night, the boys went to the school disco SO, Gary and I decided we'd grab a takeaway and have it at the beach, Got to a little Thai restaurant, went inside to order, it looked so damn cute and comfortable in there, we ended up eating in, something we certainly haven't done for a very long time! The meal was delish and the price was even better! I certainly thought it would have been dreadfully expensive especially since Gary insisted on buying a bottle of wine which as you know after 2 glasses i'm usually legless, but last night i wasn't! It actually took 4 glasses LOL..We had money bags for starters, very delish, just a fancy name for fancy wontons and then we had Pad Thai, i had prawns and G had pork, YUM (but Cafe de Orient at Palmwoods still wins for most delish pad thai)..Authentic Thai, have non-english speaking Thai's as waiters/waitress (i mean that nicely LOL it was nice to be bowed at every few minutes), anyway, Gary has trouble understanding people who dont speak English very well so I had to order WHAT a laugh, i couldn't get my tongue around, Pork and Prawn and kept laughing (only had 1 glass of wine then lol) I kept saying to the guy, yes yes, PRORK and Pawn he then thought i was taking the piss out of him i'm sure and was getting upset, so in the end i just flashed him a smile and winked (much to gary's amusement) and said, hang on I'll start again, so finally managed to say to him one Pork Pad Thai and one Prawn Pad Thai, to which he replied ahhh yes, one prork and one pawn...that made me lose it..anyway the meal was superb and definately going back there again AND we were out with plenty of time to pick the kids up at 9! Picked the boys up and they were hyped up...Aaryn was very excited, he said..Mum I think I have a girlfriend!! poor child, only thinks he does..apparently his little friend danced with him all night, showed him a few 'kewl' moves (like kicking back your leg, while holding hand up in air with finger pointed, it's called break dancing you know!) and then he gave her all his spending money but she went 'psycho' because she drank too much soft drink and then wanted to kiss him! (my goodness!!)..I'm sure the child never drew breath until we got to the car. Then Cam started, I couldn't even look at Gary on the way home for fear of laughing too loud!..Cam said he couldn't wait for the last day of year seven because everyone is going to expose who they really like etc, but he doesn't need to because ALL the girls just love him, and why he has even kissed one (ewwww), Aaryn told him that kissing his mother didn't count (awww)!!! Cam has decided that when he goes to highschool he can go to blue light disco's every friday night and he can PASH yes PASH any girl he wants too, he also explained to us what Pash meant..yes it involves tongues (aaryn goes...EWWWWW) Gary says..KEWL can I take mum and Pash her?? and Cam replies...No dad, you will cramp my style and i dont want you watching me pash! By this time i was nearly purple from holding in laughter! Couldn't help myself when Aaryn whispered over to Cameron, "old people sex"...where do they get all this from????? GOD they think we are old!!!!

how exciting

a few exciting things happening today, I can share one thing..I have been chosen to take over scrap the stuff blog! bit nervous about that but i'm sure i'll be ok. SO come on ladies, please send me some layouts to put in!! (Mary has decided to throw me in the deep end and wants me to start immediately OUCH). She will be helping me until the end of Sept!! The email will stay the same etc and the competition is in full swing SO if you want to win about $30 or more in products AND have your layout be banner of the month, send in your entries!! BUGGA now I cant enter the competition LOL poooh!!!

something for Sunday

Nothing much to blog about, been very busy organising and sorting through the whole house in preparation for the garage sale and impending move to new house if it ever happens! the way gary is cleaning out you would think we were moving tomorrow, we haven't even started to look for a house to buy yet LOL..but at least we'll be prepared when it all happens! Tina came over, hijacked my camera and took some 'baby' photos. She's biased, she only took pics of one puppy! this is Obah, or is his name Mika? or is it George? everyone has a different name for him, lol, the other pup is plain brown with a black face, looks just like his mum. This one looks exactly like his dad..ANYONE want to buy a boxer puppy?? or 2? lol...shall take pics of Kostas, or mika or george (whatever his name is) later, too tired right now and he's asleep!

amazing home remedies

1. If you are choking on an ice cube simply pour a cup of boiling water down your throat. Presto! The blockage will instantly remove itself
2. Avoid cutting yourself slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold while you chop.
3. Avoid arguments with your wife about lifting the toilet seat by using the sink.
4. For high blood pressure sufferers: simply cut yourself and bleed for a few minutes, thus reducing the pressure in your veins. Remember to use a timer.
5. A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
6. If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives, after which you will be afraid to cough.
7. You only need two tools in life - WD-40 and Duct Tape. If it doesn't move you should, use the WD-40. If it shouldn't move and does, use the duct tape.
8. Remember: Everyone seems normal until you get to know themAnd one last thought for the day -

And remember

Some people are like slinkies - not really good for anything, but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs.

White Picket Fences & other myths!

This poem, was written for me i'm sure! Sally Meyers has an autistic son and writes inspiring Poetry. I love her writing. It helps me when i'm down and having a bad "asperger's day" and as i've had quite a few these last few week, i felt it time to drag out her book of poems to get me through this week.. I'm going to be sharing her work a little bit this week so watch out! This is my Aspie boy! Cameron...nearly 12, going into highschool next year, full on, drives me mental BUT he's my Aspie boy and I loves him and his little eccentricities, without them, he wouldn't be HIM and now i feel a layout coming on OH BOY lol...

There are days when I feel alone

when life is so different

than I imagined.

Of course I wanted thewhite picket fence,

the two kids,and the dog.Who doesnt?

But dreams are like that,

they disapear in the morning of life,

and we wake to reality.

with a thumpas we fall

out of ourbed of roses.

Is it silly to still dream?

is it naiveto ponder?

I sit sometimes on my porch

when the house is still, reflecting on these last few years,

when that little boywandered into our lives.

Oh how he wanders!l

ike a pixie, an elf,

a wonderful little creature

who fascinates andterrifies us all.

Who can know him?

does he know himself?

Who is he, and where is the key

to unlock,

to discover,

to hold,

and to find?

Oh yes, I wanted it all back then,

before he came,

I didn't realize that his coming would change me so,

that a small boy could work his way into my heart,

twisting it somewhat tearing it sometimes,

but finding his place, nonetheless.

And I still can dream,

despite the sadness,

in spite of the pain,

I dream in color now,

back then it was all

blackand whitepicket fences.

Asperger's is not the end of the World. . . .

just the beginning of a new one.

(copyright. 1999. Sally Meyer)

as promised....

a Before Photo:

This pic of me and Chris, taken exactly a year ago last week! I'm the fatty in pink!

an After Photo: Taken this morning! That would be me in the black dress i vowed i WOULD fit back into one day and lo and behold..picture proof...(do those legs belong to me?? lol). Hayley's eyes nearly bogged out of her head when i walked out in it, she said she knew i had lost weight but hadn't realized how much because i was still wearing most of my 'fat clothes'!!!! I know i still have a lot to lose and i'm still rather big but it's just terribly so uplifting LOL...thank you all so much for your positive comments, every time i go to eat a choccie or something naughty, i think of you all, and how weak i am so i stop at one LOL (ah you thought i was going to say i dont eat it didn't you lol)

Meet the new me!

Here I am,

the true me! Bad MUMMA! LOL.

susan had the link to make your own south park character as predicted the boys love it. They made this character and called her bad mumma. Dont you just love my whip and corset LMAO Aaryn said they gave me blue knickers cos that's my fave colour. Bless him..and the cut above my eye? oh that's because i'm clumsy you see!

This is Aaryn...he's a terminator

And this is Cameron, the warrior...

WHY are boys so gorey?? lol they've made heaps of them and played nicely together all afternoon making them THANKS SUSAN!!!!

Oh yes, to find the south park site, click on the bad mumma pic and you will be transported there. I AM SO CLEVER..betcha didn't know i could do that did you!!!

girlish giggle!

imagine me sitting here, giggling away...I AM NEARLY THERE!! Nearly into the 70's...what is she babbling on about i hear you all saying LOL.....just 2 YES 2 more kilo's to go and I'm into the 70's!! OH YES..down to 81 kg today.

Now Ive never disclosed my starting weight LOL because there are 2 things a woman must keep secret, her weight and who she is sleeping with LOL..ok..secret one disclosed......i was 98.27kg to start with when i was weighed by Sure slim they set a target weight at 20kg, i told them NO it was too much 15 would be sufficient. I then didn't bother to go to them when i saw the price ($880 faint),

THIS i have done all on my own, no diet, no gym, just cut down on a lot of stuff but mostly because i don't feel like eating. (stress and illness helped kickstart me!)

Back at work helps, i get a good workout 3 mornings a week and get paid for the privilege!! nothing like 2 hours of vaccuuming and mopping to work those upper arms and running up and down flights of 16 stairs up to 6 times in 4 hours! great for the legs i must admit!!!

SO if i lose 3 more kilo's I'm down to what Sure Slim wanted me down to and I had a thought that if I did get there and was to ever go in that place again, they would tell me I need to lose MORE! Because that's their job!

So tomorrow, if it is still raining I'm off to the shops to do a BIG clothing shop (well layby lol) all in a new size ready for summer!!!!!

AND i will try to get someone to take a decent photo of me minus my pirate costume!!!!!

And yet another

Puppy, passes away. I got home from work to find Milly..I rang Gary and told him "I think Milly is a little bit dead"...his reply.."how can she be a little bit dead? she either is or she isn't!" hmmm I hadn't realised i said that. anyway, she's now a lot dead and i cant bring myself to dig a hole and bury her, so have wrapped her beautifully and placed her in a special tin and she is now waiting for Gary to do that unsavoury job! I was fine when Molly died, I was ok when Mika died but now that Milly has gone i feel a little teary. I knew I shouldn't have gone to work, I should have stayed home and looked after her. But the sensible me, knows that she was tiny and not as strong as the 2 pigs AKA her brothers...Mother nature is strange..last week there were 5 today there are 2..Thank Goodness the vet had already reassured me that Boxer litters dont usually have 100% rate the first time around. (and I should have known that anyway because we used to have a boxer when tina was a baby, had her for 10 years, aww she was beautiful our Tara, anyway, she had puppies and only half of them survived!)...

I think thats all for today...

my i shouldn't have gone to work, i've come home in dreadful pain so i'm going to throw some panadeine forte down my throat, crawl into bed with my scrapbooking memories that was delivered yesterday and that i've not even looked past the cover of. One always knows your sick when you dont read your magazines straight away (well with me anyway lol) and i've also had my Stampin up party order delivered, can you believe i've had a huge box of stamps and inks etc sitting in the middle of the table since yesterday morning AND i've not even felt like looking at it! took out 1 persons order and that's it...*sigh**sigh* it's just all a bit much this week..so off i go with my SM and gloomy mood to the doona of recovery and hope i get up feeling a little bit better!!!!

OH....SM...LOOKIE WHOSE LAYOUT IS ON THE COVER!!!!! The one and only.....TADA drumroll puhlease..

BEV WATT

Well done Bev!! A little birdie tells me she's as pleased as punch!!!

WOWOWOW

Found this on youtube. watch Simon (HOTHOTHOT) Cowells face when Paul tells him he's singing Opera, in fact, watch all the judges faces. THEN watch their faces as he sings! it's really worth watching to the end! This guy is fantastic (oh and he's Welsh so that makes all the difference ROFL) he went on to win the series too! He has really done justice to this song and made me break out in goosebumps!

I couldn't find the original with Luciano Pavorotti, but this is the next best thing. RIP...i thought Pav was the only person who could put goosebumps on my goosebumps and tears to my eyes with this song...

what a week

I've been layed up in bed since Monday, but sick since Friday with a blasted kidney infection that in all honesty is more painful than childbirth (and i should know i have had 5 of them lol). I remember being taken to the doctors on Tuesday morning, I dont remember passing out at the reception desk, i sort of remember speaking to the doctor and swearing at him (see just like childbirth), when he asked me if i felt i should have a morphine injection. (he gave me one lol). I dont remember coming home at all, but i do remember all the dogs dressed up as doctors, quite bizarre really, that morphine is one great trip LOL NOW if someone could tell me, just how i got this bandaid on my bum??? Gary laughed, he said it was from the injection, i've been so out of it with the pain-killers, quite high really, this is my first day out of bed and i've been back and had a 3 hour sleep already and going to head back again soon! I've not eaten since monday SO i had better have lost some weight when i have weigh in at work tomorrow (that is if i go i probably will).

Hayley and the kidlings came over for a visit this morning, all was going well, until a blood curdling scream came from the bedroom and Brayden came in clutching his chest, came straight to me and was sobbing.

• Nanna...stop crying i cant understand you
• Brayden..*sob* emily hurted me
• N....what did she do
• B....she hurted me i told you
• N..lifts up his jumper to see a small scratch and large red mark "did she punch you??"
• B...NO she hurted me (getting nowhere fast here)
• N..Calls in the divine miss Emily (who isn't so divine!)
• N...What did you do to Bray?
• E....Ohhhh I I I stabbed him with the scissors (imagine voice going up and down in a sing song fashion)
• N...YOU DID WHAT
• E...I stabbed him with the scissors
• Hayley now paying attention...SCISSORS, WHAT BLOODY SCISSORS?
• N...now dont panic they are probably just paper cutting scissors..Go and get them for nanna Em.
• E...here they are Nanna (emphasise nanna and look at her mother with a look of disgust)
• N....OMG my scrapping scissors? where did you get those?? you are a very naughty girl.
• E....with that look on her face! "i just got them and brayden weellll he's not allowed to have them so i stabbed him"
• N...you could have killed him
• E...NOooo nanna, look, (lifts his jumper) it didn't come out the back you silly. (to much tv perhaps?)
• N...*gobsmacked for an answer*
• H... Finally gets up and deals with daughter while Nanna comforts brayden which Emily hates!
• AFTER A LITTLE WHILE....
• Nanna....that was a bit naughty wasn't it
• Emily....yes nanna it was
• N......you wont do it again will you
• E.....No nanna i wont stab brayden again ever
• N...and you wont play with nanna's special scissors anymore either will you.
• E....Looks up, with THAT look again....OH yes i probably will
• N....I dont think so, because if i ever see you with them I will smack your bottom...
• E.....sigh....ok then...followed by a whisper of...but i will play with them again.......
• she always has to have the last word!
• .........................................................................................................................
• Puppy update:
• Molly passed away on Tuesday morning and Mika died this morning, Molly, milly's twin doesn't look too bad, she's still very small, but the vet said she's holding her own, as for Kostas and Obah, well, they are not puppies but PIGS, huge little fat piggies, it's no wonder the others had to be comp fed! but i still loves them

Fathers day and more

• We had a quiet Father's day, well as quiet as you can expect with 4 grandies running around, 5 puppies and 1 mother, 2 boys, and 5 grownups, all in the one room LOL
• Naturally, I forgot to buy a father's day present and fell asleep last night before making cards, BUT you get that, but Gary forgave me LOL it's the first time ever and i told him i would buy him something this week, He told me he would like some rod holders from BCF (or is it BFC? i can never remember). He has described to me what it is he want's, they are like pipes that stick up and you put the rods in them. Of course, i wasn't really listening, in fact, I have no idea what the hell they are BUT rest assured, I shall make an idiot of myself going in there to buy them. I think I'll get him a voucher and he can buy them himself.
• The last time i went in there, the salesman, well, he was just downright rude! Looking at me like i didn't know what i was talking about LOL
• I wanted to buy a fish-finder for Gary for Christmas, so in i went, to the fish-finder part of the store. Found what i was looking for, but the salesman was having none of that..
• Him....Can I help you?
• Me.....Yes, I'd like to buy that fish-finder
• Him....Hmm, are you sure you want that one??
• Me.....YES
• Him...OK...what sort of boat does your husband have?
• Me....AHH a yellow one
• Him...sigh...what is it made of
• Me....UMMM hang on..(phones G)...it's fibreglass!!
• Him...ok...where does he go fishing..
• Me....on the water (thinking this man is so stupid)
• Him...WHERE?
• Me...OH..on the river? he doesn't go into the ocean the boat isn't that big!
• Him...great, that's what i wanted to know
• Me...well why didn't you just ask me if he goes in the ocean??
• Him...SIGH
• Him...what does he want to use the fish-finder for?
• Me.....TO FIND FISH (absolutely stupid man)
• Him....gives up, sells me the fish-finder that i wanted
• I mean, who in their right mind asks you what your going to use a fish-finder for?
• Took a couple of pics of Keiran with the pups today. Now, this little man, has been terrified of Bonnie and Tyson since we got them, BUT since they've had the pups, he's become fearless, even going outside with his mum to pat Tyson and sitting next to the box to pat Bonnie on the head. So today, as a treat, Nanna let him help her feed Milly, he was ever so proud.
• The pups are all doing really well now, and today only had to be bottle fed a few times, preferring to stay with mum, I'm still comp feeding them to keep up their fluids, but only Molly and Milly are getting comped.. YES they have names..Gary relented and said i could name them because I have been through so much with them LOL and then told me NOT to get attached...too late!!!

isn't the close up of milly just so cute (thank's Tina for taking the pic!)

TAGGED

• I have been tagged by the girls over at Scrap the stuff...so now it's my turn to tag YOU...
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so far so good

What a night and day! The twins had gone into metabolic shock, (they were severely dehydrated and very cold) that's why we thought they had died, if we hadn't taken them to vet they wouldn't have survived the night at all, but, the vet gave them a glucose injection, told gary to tell me (why me?? lol) to formula feed them and if they survived last night there was a 50% chance they would survive today. Not only did they survive, but i also have them suckling again as well as bottle feeding. Had to buy an electric blanket, what a drama that was LOL no shops have them now because it's spring, luckily Big W had 2 left, but we only needed 1 lol. So far, so good, I've just fed them again and now they are all snuggled up under mum, the hours sure go fast when your feeding babies LOL i had forgotten! the only difference is that these babies dont have smelly nappies! ****************************************************************** Cameron had his semi-finals for Tennis today, they missed out on going to the grand finals by 1 point, he seems ok with it NOW lol but earlier, you would have thought it the end of the world! OK, babies are asleep, will try to get Miss Emily into bed, she's having a sleep over at Nanna's, she came running through the front door earlier, shouting "I'm here, and I will be good, i promise"...and she has been quite good she even helped me feed the babies and wanted to know why nanna wasn't using her booby! I told her i would tell her later, hopefully she has forgotten LOL