Life

It’s that time again! Welcome to my weekly winners

Amy, hamming it up for the camera.

Vegemite on toast. Amy loves it, but I can’t stand the stuff!

Amy’s cat loves her.

I know a few people asked about about my water tank. Here it is, 5000 gallons worth of water tank. It’s probably only a quarter full at the moment.

The apples are getting bigger. I’m starting to wonder if maybe will get to eat them before we move out!

Blue skies today. Thankyou for all the condolances Friday and Saturday, I truly do appreciate it. Today was a much better day. Amy was funny and happy and I have felt more together. I *heart* you all.

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My Great Grandfather had a massive heart attack and died this morning, aged 81. He had been married to Nan for 54 years. She was devastated when I spoke to her earlier.

Honestly? I don’t think it has sunk in yet. I feel a bit numb still, even though I have been processing it for hours.
We had a brilliant Christmas here. Nan and Pop brought up loads of meat and Pop wouldn’t take no for an answer when he gave me all the leftovers to keep.

He joined in the cricket game and bowled like a champion. He even had a bat as well. For a man that was blind in one eye, he played a mean game of cricket.

He would probably hate this photo of himself, but it captured the spirit of the day.

Thank you Pop for the wonderful memories, for showing me where to find the best raspberries when I was a kid, letting me eat all the black currants off the bush and laughing when I ate the jam cherries.

Thank you for the black currant bush that you grew especially for me. I plan to take it with me when I move.

Thank you for everything. You will be horribly missed.

Love Veronica, Nathan and Amy.

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Place Toddler away from you. Lament the lack of childrens DVDs you have all the while getting ingredients together.

Remove Toddler from your ankles. Remove onion from Toddlers mouth. Wonder how the hell Toddler manages to munch on an onion like that.

Peel and slice onion. Ignore the chunks that toddler has nibbled out of your (last remaining) onion. Get sick of Toddler trying to bend your knees backwards and pick her up.

Race to the bathroom to rinse Toddlers eyes as she screams in pain. She can eat raw onion, but not look at it? Weird kid. Towel Toddler off and place her away from you.

Sauté off the onion and some bacon. Remove a cling-on from your leg. Give in and open the door so Toddler can harass sit on molest play with the kittens.

Remove Toddler from the puddles. Place back amongst the kittens. Resume sautéing the onion.

Race down the path as Toddler disappears from sight. Promise her a nice tasty RIPE apple if she will juse leave the unripe ones on the tree alone.

Swear lots and race back to your onions, Toddler on hip. Save them from burning just in time. Remind self to remove pan from stove before chasing Toddler.

Toss up the odds of the kittens crapping inside vs your Toddler not running away. Decide that it is worth it and bring the kittens inside.

Remove a smaller, spikier cling-on from your leg. Swear. Lots.

Add mince to pan and cook. Resist Toddlers attempts to climb your body. Drag yourself, the Toddler and a kitten (all attached to your legs) over to the cupboard. Swear when you realise Toddler has lost the tomato paste. Search for tomato paste in toy box. Recover tomato paste from bookshelf. WTF?

Add tomatoes, tomato paste and seasonings to pan. Add water and cook for 45 mins stirring occasionally. Avoid stepping on kittens. Throw them back outside and tickle the Toddler to avoid a tantrum.

Spend 45 mins entertaining Toddler.

Sit Toddler in her highchair and dish her up dinner. Realise that you completely forgot to cook pasta.

Give up.

Eat the mince without pasta, just add extra cheese.

Enjoy.

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Oh the tired, it has me.

So do the annoyances.

Little things are pissing me off more than normal.

1) I applied for a blogging job a week ago. I haven’t heard anything back from them. Seriously, if you don’t want me to write for you, then just shoot me an email saying ‘Sorry, not what we are after kthxbai’. Limbo annoys me. Not knowing annoys me. I want to know one way or another soI can move on, or write posts. Also? I would really like the job.

2) I had to pull my spacebar off to remove crumbs from underneath it. When I put it back on, it didn’t feel right. After much fiddling it feels right again, but half my spaces don’t actually show up. Also? I seem to be having a bunch of trouble spelling. I am having to delete every second word and retype it. Can we say annoying?

3) It is raining. WOOT!!! The bad thing? All my clean clothes are still on the line. Ah well, I don’t suppose an extra rinse will hurt them.

4) There are swarms of flying ants outside. I am hoping like hell that the rain washes them away, but still! Last time they were about, it was New Years Eve and I ended up with thousands of them in the house. They were mostly dead the next day, but vacumming up an inch of dead bugs off the floor? Not my idea of fun.

5) The space bar typey thing. STILL!

6) My period is due on Friday and I am hating the waiting. Am I pregnant? Am I not? Am I thinking about it too much? Am I going to go insane? Will I have BIG issues if it actually shows up? (Uh, yes to nearly all those questions. The ones I know the answers too anyway). We had sex at the right time, I feel ‘funny’ I don’t feel normal. However, I want it so badly I probably reading too much into stuff.

7) Again. The space bar. It is pissing me off. Why is it funny? Why isn’t it registering if I hit it on the edge where I ALWAYS hit it? (It even has a shiny patch worn from where my fingers hit it!)

8) Finally? WP has a new update? Seriously, didn’t I just do that? What a hassle.

But it is raining outside and it sounds fantastic. And my fingers aren’t cramping too badly from having to retype every second word. And Amy went to bed like a dream. And the house is tidy.

So maybe it isn’t a complete write off.

Now if only the space bar would work…

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