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Susan from Momabetes (she also can be found at James and the Giant Moose) tagged me for a meme.

I know, I know, you hate me. I hardly ever do memes.

Instructions…

1) Write your own six word memoir;
2) Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like;
3) Link to the person that tagged you in your post, and to the original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere;
4) Tag at least five more blogs with links; and
5) Leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play!

Lets see, a 6 word memoir.

Needs more sleep to function normally.

No?

Or we could try…

May explode under stressful circumstances. Avoid.

Or or or!

Needs chocolate and hugs to function.

But the one that seems to fit me best is…

Amazing cook, indifferent housewife, fantastic mother.

You can find examples of my amazing cooking here.

My terrible housekeeping here.

And my mothering skills here. (Okay so that link? Is more like my negotiation skills, but you know. Negotiation is a big part of motherhood, right?)

So there! I am not going to tag anyone for this (heh, you know I just can’t be bothered doing all the links and all the comments right?), however I invite you to share your six word memoir in my comments. Or not. As you see fit.

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As a side note, Nathan and I just finished watching the movie Planet of Terror.

There is alot (a freaking lot!) of gore and I watched a good portion of the movie with my eyes covered, but if you can cope with that kind of thing I highly recommend the movie.

It is so fucking funny. I pissed myself laughing through most of it.

Have you seen it? What did you think?

Kat asked me…

Let’s see… how about this:

1. How did you meet your man?

This is too long of a story for today. I do promise to tell you guys one day though! Wait for it, it will probably take me 3 posts to tell the whole story.

2. When you were a kid, what did you want to be and do when you “grew up”?

I swore black and blue I wanted to be a vet. For years, I wanted to be a vet. Then I changed my mind and decided I wanted to be a chef. After completing part of a Certificate II in Kitchen Operations and working full time in a kitchen (towards an apprenticeship no less) I quit my job.

I still love and adore working with food, but honestly, I don’t think I could be a chef and a mother. Not at this point in my life.

Eventually, after the kids are all in school, I want to study nursing.

3. Are you grown up yet?

No. definitely not. I am 19 and I think I have a whole heap of growing up left to do. That said, I am mature (you can tell, right?) and I don’t enjoy alot of things people my own age do.

4. What has been your most embarrassing moment with Amy so far?

Well, how long do you have?

I don’t get embarassed very easily. I tend to just laugh as Amy does stuff, I mean, how else would I cope? The funniest (albeit red face inducing) was the time Amy popped one of my boobs out in public. From the top of my shirt. In front of a group of teenage boys. As red as I went, I nearly pissed myself laughing at their faces.

She also tells everyone out in public ‘Mummee boobies!’ and pats my chest.

5. How much time do you spend reading/writing blogs every week?

I used to spend alot more time than I do now. Since I moved into this house, I probably spend 2-3 hours a night writing and reading. My internet connection sucks, so I don’t get done nearly as much as I would like.

This explains why if you are on blogger, you haven’t had a comment from me lately. It takes me ages to load the comment form and generally fails a good 4-5 times before my comment will go through. After 3 refreshes I tend to get impatient and swear I will come back later. then I forget.

6. How many kids do you want to have?

4. or 5, maybe. I want a big family. You know, when we finally get #2 happening!

7. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go?

France, but not Paris. I want to see rural France and eat their food. I would also love to have ‘real’ sushi at a sushi bar in Japan.

8. Who is your best friend?

To be honest? Nathan. But if you are talking best ‘girl’ friend I don’t have one anymore. I miss having a BFF to talk to. Alot.

9. Do you like ducks?

Yes! Alot actually. Even though they are messy, noisy, bossy creatures, I really like ducks. I am actually wondering if getting a few muscovy ducks after winter would be such a bad idea. Although they would probably end up down at the river and NOT here giving me eggs and young ducks for the table. Hmmm, I wonder if there is any cash in raising ducks.

10. Why?

Because they give large delicious eggs. Because they are one of my most favourite roast meats.  Because I am always thinking about my stomach.

As a side note, Amy ADORES ducks. She has a few books and some blocks with ducks on them and she loves them. I even caught her kissing the duck blocks the other day. Very cute.

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I have Burgh Baby’s question and answer half written in a draft. It was a tricky question and I need to answer it with my tact firmly at the front of my mind.

If you like, you can ask me more questions. I promise to try to answer them.

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Also, if you have a spare moment, you should go check out this interview between Xbox4Nappyrash and Frogpondsrock. I nearly died laughing. Trust me, it is worth the click.

Amy has been full on lately. And by full on, I mean the the kid never stops.

2am? PLAYTIME! 4am? PLAYTIME! 5am? PLAYTIME!

6am? CRYING WOEFULLY UNTIL MUMMY HUGS ME BACK TO SLEEP TIME.

7.30am? PLAYTIME! BREAKFAST TIME! PLAYTIME! RUNNING! LEAPING! JUMPING! TIME.

And yes, everything she does deserves capitals and exclamation marks.

I am having to nap every day as soon as Amy does. This means that nothing gets done, but hey, at least I have had an extra hours sleep.

[Sleep is god. Don’t knock the sleep]

Currently we (meaning I) don’t have any cold weather clothes, so we are spending alot of time inside. I know, I need to buy clothes that a) fit me decently and b) stop me getting frostbite [in freaking autumn? heh].

Also, we need some play equipment that Amy can play on without my heart stopping. The slide, while she loves it, is either wet or too hot to slide down, as well as being unsafe if I am not standing right! there! next to her (her feet get tangled in the ladder and there are spiders).

[It is Tasmania. We went from 37C to 8C in 24hrs]

So, indoor play with a 19mth old.

So far we have tried acrobatics (Amy takes all the couch cushions off the couch and jumps from the couch, onto the cushions). We have tried cooking (Amy cries while I cook. She refuses to help unless helping actually means eating).

We have built block towers (I build towers, Amy destroys them, Seven eats the blocks, Amy screams at Seven). We have played ‘Help Mummy Fold The Washing’ (Amy takes all the clean washing and covers Seven in it. I try and fold faster than those two can unfold).

We have watched TV (until my eyeballs felt like melting). We have listened to music (Amy WON’T dance with me. Refuses in fact. If I hold her and try to dance, she squirms and tells me ‘Amy go DOWN! Me wanna go down now!’ which actually sounds more like ‘A-me go DOWN! Me ‘anna ‘o DOWN ‘ow.’ all slurred together.)

Did I mention the climbing? Amy CLIMBS. And then STANDS UP. On the arms of the couch, on the back of the bean bag I am sitting in, up the bookshelves, onto the bench!

So at the end of the day, I am left with this god awful cabin fever and a sense of unaccomplishment (is that a word?) not to mention a train wreck of a house.

I love my life.

And my frazzled hair. And nerves.

Okay firstly, WordPress? I LIKED the old layout. I knew my way around the old layout and then you go and change it on me? Hell. Anyway Weekly Winners thanks to the gorgeous Lotus. (Do you read her yet? You should, she is HAWT.)

Okay, I think I’m set now. it just took me 5 mins to work out how to upload an image. Damn you WordPress *shakes fist*.

You know what sucks even harder? I can’t write the post while the damn picture uploads. *shakes fist harder*

I’m getting peeved now. (Okay peeved is a VERY VERY MILD WORD [insert expletives of choice here]) I can’t make the photos upload any faster than one every 15 mins.

See this? This is what happens when I ask Amy to smile for the camera. She thinks it is hilarious.

It has been raining here for days, which is good because we do need the rain, however the cold and grey? I can do without. The grey however serves a purpose, in that it makes the rainbows look all the brighter. Yes, on the right hand side is a second rainbow. Not very bright, but there all the same.

This is one of the kittens we decided to keep. She spends all her time annoying Seven (the puppy) and leaping in the air for moths.

Amy has been cooped inside for a few days (see above: rain) so cabin fever has been a problem. Unfortunately she thought that hiding my camera was a great fun thing to do, so I have no photos of the havoc she has been causing. It took me 20 mins to find the camera so that I could take the photos of the rainbows.

See this one though? It takes lots of concentration to try and steal the camera as I take a photo. LOTS of concentration.

I promise I will have more photos next week. Next week I will even have ADSL (yes, I know, I was supposed to have ADSL last week. They messed up). Maybe tomorrow I will even get my linky thing to work rather than having to link everything by hand. Please let me know if anything is messed up or broken.

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