Saturday, October 18, 2008

Not so yummy.

Last night FM and G-Dog came over for dinner, which was delicious by the way, we had spicy chorizo and pumpkin couscous. Very good. Since FM is about to have a milestone birthday we were looking at cupcakes online and becoming inspired decided to have a go at making some marzipan flowers since I had some left over from the Pixie's birthday. It is not as easy as you might think to make flowers from marzipan but we did end up with a quite impressive bowl of fruit and veg. We were making icing to help stick the bits together and I was complaning that the icing sugar was taking a lot of water and hard to stir and FM agreed whole heartedly until she looked over and saw I had a fairly smooth paste and she had lumps. It was as I told her to add some more lemon juice that I saw what the bag in front of me said... corn flour. MMM I had dusted the tupperware mat with it too thinking it was icing sugar and the marzipan was covered in it. We were laughing so hard. FM went outside to tell the boys who were sitting holding hands (okay not really) by the fire but I said later she shouldn't have because we could have tricked them into eating it.

My baby is sick today, she has had a temperature and has been vomiting. LHT took her out to the park this morning where she vomited all over herself in the back of the car but would not relinquish her regular saturday morning pizza that her father buys her from the bakery. Despite the fact that she was covered in vomit she still insisted that he take her for a walk to look at the ducks before vomiting into his hand. Lucky daddy. I am so glad that wasn't me, I am not terribly good with vomit. Yes I know being a nurse you'd think I'd be okay by now but I'm not. LHT loves to tease me about how watching Fat Bastard drink a stool sample in Austin Powers made me throw up once.

Her being sick all day and wanting to either sleep or lay in my arms has given me a chance to watch the Dr Who dvd's I got out. I am totally in love with the current Doctor - David Tennant. I am dropping lots of hints about him buying me the whole series for christmas (67 days away). He is on night duty on christmas day so the Pixie and I will have to play with the Barbie Quad bike by ourselves! I will also have to eat all the ham. (That is almost his worst nightmare, it would only be worse if I ate all the prawns as well so luckily for him I don't eat seafood.)

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Ah the Serenity

LHT is up away at his new job which is totally kickass and even if it's not the benefits are. He has put his name down to do an emergency services training course so he will learn to abseil and do rescues and advanced CPR and stuff. They have medical cover benefits for our whole family and we can use a counsellling service anytime we like. LHT told me even the Pixie can use the counsellor but I am really hoping she doesn't need one just yet. They will pay for him to go to uni and do a degree if he wants to and assist him to advance in any way they can. He is stoked and so am I. They will pay for us to move if we want to and they have all kinds of social clubs not just for the workers but for the Mums and kids too. I am pretty excited and it would be a fabulous adventure but I don't want to leave at the same time. I have heaps of great friends now and I would hate to leave them but leaving also means making even more great friends. Ah imagine the space you'll have to hold my funeral in. (Weird how the word funeral has fun in it isn't it.) He does get paid monthly though so we are really going to have to learn how to budget!!
LHT and I had to break open the KTM tin so we could survive the next couple of weeks. He had saved $337.35 cents in total which is great because the change is coming in very handy.

HHML and I have been saying, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeh, yeh, yeh, ye, ye," to each other a lot over the last couple of weeks being the bogans that we are. Well now the Pixie is also going around the house, phone to her ear saying, "Yeah, yes, yeah." Like mother, like daughter eh! Poor LHT - no wonder he wants to work away. HHML's son told his grandmother that he was enjoying the peace and quiet the other day when he spent the day with her because when he is at my house HHML and I are so loud he needs panadol. How hilarious is that? Poor boy has been overshadowed by not just one but two loud women and two squealing little girls!

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Congratulations



Congratulations to Friendless and Vegie Pi on their engagement. Friendless proposed to VP on her birthday on sunday. They had recently been on holiday to Cairns and had visited Kuranda and been to the opal shop there. She tried on the ring and really liked it. When they got home he called the shop and asked if they remembered them coming in and luckily for him they did. He had the ring sent down to him in time to ask her for her birthday. They celebrated with a bottle of NiQuil and some cold and flu tablets since they are both really sick at the moment. Luckily for him he was not a tight ass when he bought the ring, and opal is VP's birthstone so he has really outdone himself. I love weddings! I can't wait.

Friday, October 3, 2008

My Gorgeous sister


I just told LHT I want to burn the image of my 40 year old gorgeous lovely sister on my eyelids so it motivates me to lose weight so I don't look 10 years older than her rather than 10 years younger. She is stunning isn't she?

HALLELUJAH

Thank God!! He's in!! He's really truly in at Rio Tinto - no more waiting around for them to call him and no more waiting for my husband to have a job! It's really great, great money and heaps of benefits, including removalists if we decided to move and some sort of medical benefits fund. Hooray! We have waited 10 weeks for this call and to finally get it is a HUGE relief and now our lives can get back to a new kind of normal. It will be weird for LHT to be away for four days at a time but I am sure I can live with no water on the bathroom floor, no wet towels on the bed and no dirty motorbike gear around the house for at least half my life (minus 200 hours holidays). The pixie and I will get into a routine and then Daddy will come home and mess it up! I have been blogging this since five this afternoon and since it is now half past nine and three glasses of champagne later I really have to go and lie down.