Weasels!!!!.........

Spent the whole day in waiting for real estate agents (weasels) to do inspection.....10 till 2 my ass!!! Anyway over it....I am being dragged against my will to a school event tonight....A Pow Wow....or smelly hippies with drums and soup...The kids really want to go, so I will....But really not my bag baby!!! Hopefully due to the fact it is bloody freezing the whole thing will be brief....did I mention the soup? The mind reels at what it will be....The big money is on Lentils.... Where is a bloody thunderstorm when you actually need it?

Any update in a storm......

I am officially declaring July a bloody busy month....Holidays, trips, birthdays and outbreaks of the plague to name but a few. That and a hundred other little time eating buggers has me stuffed....So I am gearing up for a flat out August....

I have a new iPhone 4....My first actually...It takes a nice picture of a beer stein in the main street of katoomba, i will say that for it...

The evening post...... Early night tonight, big dull day of cleaning tomorrow. The joy of an impending rental inspection, a day of hard work so I don't get tut-tuted by a real estate agent for having a dirty oven. The upside is my house will be clean.

The Rainbow Connection....

Someday we'll find it....the lovers the dreamers and me......

Lapin Goes Boom!!!.....

So much for a week of getting things done.....A particularly nasty tummy bug, took down the kids and then me....The only thing being painted was the bathroom, and that wasn't something you wanted to frame....it looked more like a crime scene in there, and the smell wasn't helping anyone keep there lunch down....

I knew I was sick yesterday when I couldn't get the kids to school....that is a good sign you are on your death bed.....If you can't get the kids back to school for the first day back of the holidays, so you can get some peace, things are serious.

So it is Wednesday night....and I haven't put pen to paper in days....As this appears to be a 48hr, not much after effect sickness, fingers crossed I will be feeling a hell of a lot better when I wake up tomorrow.

I can't see on a pupil free day....

Three and a bit weeks of school holidays has not be that productive on the work side.....and for the school to have a pupil free day on the Monday of the first week back is quite frankly, taking the piss!!! The fact that my eldest is ill, and did a wonderful exorcist impersonation in vomit last night didn't help....Why that boy needs to run past buckets and bathrooms to let me know he is vomiting is beyond me....I guess I should be grateful he kept it contained to two rooms and the hall last night. Though my organisational skills must be improving....I had his bed stripped, and him....everything in the washing machine and floor mopped in no time and he is looking much less green today. So hopefully he is better for the first day of school tomorrow.

So fingers crossed and knock on wood and etc. I might get something done this week.....assuming the drama clouds, that seem to be lurking clear up. I am thinking i need a kick start to get back into it....so a picture a day for the rest of the week is the plan.....they don't have to be fancy just something everyday to post here and get myself back in the swing of it.

But I'm on me holidays!......

A week off......Trip to Sydney with Em.....Saw the new Harry Potter movie in 3D....Shopped....ate nice food, in nice places and bought some stamps......twas a good week.

The stamps I mentioned are not the lick them and stick them type....they are the dip them in ink and press them on paper type. Not sure what I am going to do with them yet?

Friday......

Nice relaxed day, Drawing lesson with Sebastian....Lily playing with Em's Zoe....Me babysitting, what are people thinking? Actually they are playing together really well, so I fed them and put DVD's on and let them make a mess....all good.

Finally got a chance to try out new Nikon, got Seb to run around the garden for 5 minutes....I was a bit worried about dropping a thousand dollars on a camera....but i feel better now....it is working well on auto, so it should be even better when I read the instructions.

And they Call the Wind......

....a bastard!!!.....Wild weather in mountains....140km/h winds....tree's down....no power for over 24 hours. The lack of power was a good opportunity to be less tech dependent....or at least a great way to see which tech has the best battery life....kids went through 4 DS's, a PSP and the iPad....I was looking for batteries to put in the vintage games I sell!!! Better night last night...Still windy, but the power stayed on....Spent the night at em's house....scary winds = lots of hugs....so all good :)

Nice day....Em and I took all the kids to Toy and Railway museum at Leura....I got to play a game of I got that in the museum....Kids were a bit bored by most of it....but they seemed to enjoy the gardens.... Not easy this 2 family thing....I always worry about how to handle it. Is it more important to have the kids like me, by being a push over....or respect me by not being to lenient.... very hard with someone elses kids. But I enjoyed myself even if I was fading towards the end of the day....Still not feeling 100% well.



So much for trust.....

From now on I may stick to art and non personal stuff in the blog for a bit.....Sad since it was a great way to get thoughts and worries out there and off my chest when I didn't have anyone to talk too......

I know I can be Naive.....but didn't expect people who knew me to read the stuff I wrote with negative and destructive thoughts in their minds....

So goodbye for a bit.....

Ok just back to say....bugger...it is my fault.

A lost weekend in a hotel in.....

Amsterdam.....damn I wish....Just a very long weekend that ends tonight....I should avoid having weekends that last 4 days....I am to old for it.  Love is a confusing beastie....especially the 2nd time round...it is a journey with a baggage hold full of luggage and a lot of other passengers.  It seems easier when you are young and stupid....two people and the rest of the world can go to hell.... Unfortunately the young and stupid and quite stupid and don't realize how easy they could have it.   So we get older and hopefully wiser and accumulate stuff and kids and damage...and we then have to fit this person we love into a giant jigsaw puzzle that is our life....but of course they have all the same and different baggage and have to fit me into their jigsaw....How on earth anyone makes that work, without a working knowledge of quantum mechanics is amazing.

Maybe that's what the love is for? It lets you forgive, forget, bend and twist that jigsaw into place....love is a crowbar.

Can you sprain your tongue?....

.....Just a thought? Anyway Friday went well....Kids delivered....coffee drunk....Mel Picked up....Pizza....Beer....Pool...Talking....Sleepy hugs....All good.  Hopefully Mel doesn't think that's a regular Friday night. Em and her friend Kimmy came over and made food...got hammered and dragged us all to the pub for pool and video jukebox abuse....Mel seemed pleasantly surprised by quality of her future accommodation...Kimmy is going through a marriage explosion (any other description is woefully inadequate) but seemed to be able to take her mind of things by chatting to Mel. However I mainly think Mel and her were chatting to avoid Em and I being Drunk, and overly pleased by each others company ;)

Slept for most of Saturday morning like a baby...waking only occasionally to be feed and burped. Apparently Mel and Kimmy had left sometime that morning, leaving made guest beds and a thank you txt....talk about perfect house guests!

Dropped my Em at home, and headed into K'town for coffee...Sat....Drew...Had coffee....Had ego stroked by the occasional passersby, stopping and complimenting my work....Even had to give a business card to a children's book author how is looking a various options for her new book.... Decided I needed new business cards....Designed them on discount card site and save the file.....So they should email me in a few days offering me a better deal to place an order.... Trying to decide if I should encourage success by ordering more than the 250 minimum? A pessimist might think that was tempting fate... the optimised prepared for success.... Me? I will wait till they send me the free offer and that will decide.

And I really think I may have sprained my tongue.....