Category: Life

Amy is sick.

Which would be very sad, was it not for the fact that she is so damn adorable when she is sick (aside from the copious amounts of snot and whining).

She needs a blanket. But not any blanket, no, she needs one of the wraps that we were given for the new baby. She needs to snuggle under one wrap, with another draped over her head for hiding under when the snot gets too much.

She wants oranges. But not to eat, no, she just wants me to peel and segment them so she can hold them while she hides under the blankets.

She needs a book. Banana’s in Pajama’s is good, as is any of the books from ‘In The Night Garden’ or her Bedtime Stories book. None of her other 1000 books will do. Not today.

She needs to be sitting next to me, but I’m not allowed to touch her blankets. The world will end if I touch them, unless she specifically crawls into my lap with them. The world will also end if I actually move from sitting next to her. Or out of sight.

She is so cute, even with a face full of snot and swollen weepy eyes.

Poor little pet.

**Updated:

She is now very sadly telling me that ‘Daddy is at work…sigh’ and requesting pumpkin soup. Weran out of pumpkin soup 2 days ago (I had made a big pot of it).

I’m thinking that this might get very old very soon. Cross fingers I can hold onto the cute and my sanity.

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Oh and if you are that way inclined, you can win a handbag over at Handbag Planet. They are giving away one handbag an hour for their launch and honestly? I am not a handbag girl, but these are nice bags. You can enter here.

How to tell when your toddler is well trained.

Me – ‘It’s nearly 9am, let’s go jump on Daddy!’

Amy – ‘YAY!’

Amy – *runs*

Me – *continues replying to emails*

Amy – *from the bedroom* ‘Bounce bounce bounce!! YAY!’

And I? Am sitting here giggling while I listen to the bed squeak and Amy laugh.

Happy Sunday!

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Also, head on over and congratulate Marie. She had her baby this morning! Congratulations!

I had plans this morning. Big plans.

I made breakfast and ran hot water to soak the dishes. I pulled out my cookbooks and told Amy that we were going to do some cooking. I planned dinner in my head (pumpkin soup) and mentally caculated the amount of housework I needed to do to make the house look the same all day (same being: slightly messy).

And then? At 8.15am as Amy and I were eating breakfast and watching cartoons, the power went out.

Snap!

Nothing.

I checked the meter box and then, finding nothing wrong (except a lack of power to said meter box) I rang Aurora (Tassie’s power providers).

Funnily enough, I was the first person to report a power outage. They said they would send a team to sort it out and I hung up.

90 minutes later, the faults message* still didn’t know where the power was out. 90 minutes after that they knew that power lines were down, but that ‘time of restoration is unknown, due to the extent of the damage’.

Now, we have tank water. Meaning that our water runs from our tank, into the pump that then pumps the water to the taps. So, if I have no power, lo and behold, I have no water.

Have you ever spent a whole day stuck inside with a toddler (weather was too shitty to be outside) with no power and no water? Also, no hot food?

Leslie, I know you have.

Needless to say, it was a shit day.

Amy spent alot of time asking for eggs and then crying when told there was no power to cook eggs with. She spent alot of time tantrumming because we couldn’t go outside. And she spent ALOT of time asking for us to ‘cook sumping!’.

Sigh.

By lunchtime, I was over it.

By 2pm I was ready to kill things.

By 3pm, I rang Aurora again, only to be told that the power had been restored to ‘all but a few’ houses.

Guess who wasn’t in the 99%?

Luckily Aurora’s technicians are pretty good and the power flicked back on at 3.45pm. I have never been so relieved in my life!

Amy got her eggs and I was able to take a break from being a human trampoline. At least to the Toddler. The little one is not so nice.

The good thing though? Nathan came home with a brand new charger for my laptop. YAY!

*You can ring the faults/emergencies line and get a computer message of where the power is out and when it is due to be fixed.

Just a quick post while I have the chance. My laptop battery charger is on the blink and I can’t make anything charge, so if I disappear for a while, you know why. Am hopefully getting a new one tomorrow. Fingers crossed that it is all I need.

BIG thankyou to Kat, I got a package in the mail today. THANKYOU!!! Will post pictures as soon as computer is working again.

And if you have a moment, head on over to Suzie’s blog, her little boy is in hospital with Meningitis at the moment and she needs all the good thoughts/prayers/well wishes she can get. Go and hug her for me.

I would just like to take a moment out from my busy Sunday to declare my hatred of the new Mozilla. It freezes. It fucks up. It randomly encounters errors and closes.

Dear makers of Mozilla, making your browser prettier DOES NOT make us overlook the issues it has. Bring out a freaking patch to fix it already!

I also hate email programs. Specifically Microsoft Outlook Express (2003) which decided this morning to randomly NOT FUCKING WORK. Sure, I might have changed anti-virus programs, but how the hell does that affect my emails? And my email program?

Also, if the repair option in the setup continues to freeze, don’t delude yourself that anything is going to be easy.

I have uninstalled everything and I am starting from scratch. Someone hold me.

Also, dear Vista. I have never had any problems with you, but your backup/restore centre really sucks. I don’t like it. Seriously, telling me there was an error when I was on the VERY LAST DISK? So not cool.

So to summerise. I have spent all day on my computer, getting approximately nothing done and finding more things that need doing with every minute.

If I don’t reply to your emails, they got lost in cyber space and I didn’t receive them. Send help instead.

xx

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Updated:

My email program is now working. Office is reinstalled (5th try lucky). I am going to bed.

I’m still shitty with Mozilla. And Sitemeter.

Oh and useless fact #102, my dog eats carrots. Raw ones.