Category: Life

I would just like to say – Fuck teeth.

Specifically, the two top teeth of Isaac’s, that partially broke through the surface 2 nights ago and haven’t moved anywhere since. They’re just sitting there, almost through, causing pain and angst and woe.

So uh, fuck you evolution. I don’t like teeth. We should all just eat mush.

Mmmmm, mush.

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I’d also like to say fuck you to my period and the period pain it leaves me with. Thanks to enough pain killers to down an ox, I’m able to move through my day semi-normally.

It wasn’t much good this morning when the pain meds hadn’t yet kicked in and I was a ball of misery who couldn’t move, breath, or be touched without crying/moaning.

It was bad.

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In other news:

I haven’t really mentioned this yet, although a few people have found me already. I have another blog, a ‘writing’ blog. Slightly more professional and definitely darker. You can take a look if you like.

Only mentioning it because I’ve got two posts up there that I wouldn’t mind you having a look at.

One is on Tasmania, as part of Shannon’s ‘Around the world in 80 blogs’ challenge and the other is a humorous look at blogging that I’m quite happy with.

The wedding went very well, even though Nathan’s poor brother looked as white as a ghost waiting for his bride to arrive. When she did, she looked beautiful and 45 minutes later (with bored children running riot in our pew, but that’s all over and done with now) they were pronounced husband and wife and we all cheered.

The cake was a huge success, with the bride declaring she wasn’t sure she wanted to share it. I know there was a fair bit left over afterwards and according to an email first thing this morning, she was planning on having cake for breakfast. I call that a success.

I’ve gotten permission to share photos here, so I’m pleased.

Congratulations Adam and Charlene! Nathan and I wish you every happiness!

I know this has been done before, but…

There are plenty of Australian Women Bloggers out there in the blogosphere and what better way to bring everyone together than a list?

Technorati has recently undergone a huge makover, meaning that rankings have changed as well as Authority. In order to do this list, I used Technorati and Alexa ranks to work out who sits where.

Formula: 3X Australian Alexa + Technorati Rank + Global Alexa\5 =

If you think I’ve made a terrible mistake, please, email me and give me your URL and site name. I may have missed you.

In order to be included, you need to have both a valid Technorati Authority and Rank as well as an Australian Alexa ranking.

I’m thinking about updating this every 3 months, what do you think?

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Firstly, I can’t promise that I’ll give this post my whole attention, because there are cowboys on my TV. Cowboys, wearing chaps and riding bucking creatures. In all honesty, I’m writing this post in the ad breaks, spending the rest of the time staring at the chaps.

And the bums. Let’s not forget the bums.

Yes. I do have a small thing for cowboys. Shush.

It’s also pouring with rain, so I’m not even able to hear the cowboys properly. That might be a good thing though.

Anyway.

Updates:

I spent all day baking, levelling and freezing the layers for my BIL’s wedding cake. It was fun. I miss baking with proper flours and not having to weigh and measure and count 4 different types of flour to make things work.

Now I’ll I’ve got to do is make a ganache (a few days before), make some buttercream, source a large cake platter and get a giant list written up of things to do.

My children are sick. Snotty and grotty and I’m fairly sure Isaac is cutting another tooth. I’m sleep deprived. But then, that’s what I get for calling my blog Sleepless Nights.

I’ve also been writing an awful lot. Like, submerging myself in the writing until I dream my characters and spend hours having imaginary conversations inside my head. It’s not made me a great mother or partner that’s for sure.

I was thinking last night: Bravery is sticking your nipple back in the baby’s mouth once you’ve been bitten. That? Takes balls. Isaac is going through a bitey nibbley stage. He’s also spending a lot of time crawling up to me just to lick my leg or arm, and he loves licking my laptop, so I’ll suggest that these teeth are the problem. Either that or he just likes tasting things.

‘OOH! LOOK! A BATHTUB! SOME WATER! AN APPLE! A SHOE! YUM!!!’

He does everything at high volume too, just like his sister.

Tomorrow we have a Memorial being held by the Palliative Care people here. It’s going to be shit. I’m taking a box of tissues. Think of me at 3pm EST. Or you know, in about 18.5 hours.

And that ends my updatey time post. Sorry about the drivel.

But you know, chaps  and cowboys and stuff.

Yesterday, I headed into Gallery 71 in Hobart to take photos of Mum’s ceramics as she set up for her exhibition. I had a ball and got to snap some photos of the other work there.

After I spent all day editing and shaking children off my legs, you can see the finished results here, on Flickr. (Go on, click! It won’t kill you!)

I’m hoping to get to photograph some of the work there at the opening Wednesday night, because oh there is some beautiful stuff. And I’ve only seen a small part of it!