All in one easy step... I just added the "blog it" application on facebook :)

I was trawling the news pages this evening and came across this article...

Have a read and then come back here to read what I( thought )

These are the roses at the front of my house... They look incredible when in full bloom which is not often enough for me :)

A lot like Christmas !!

We did our tree today. Ok - Mostly I did it but the kids both helped at times.

Trees up.

Ornaments out of the box.


Jess hung the icicles on the tree, eventually. First they went on her :)


We have lights :)


We have ornaments :) I'm not quite sure why the tree looks like it's emulating the leaning Tower of Pisa in this shot because it really doesn't...


And a Star atop the tree Completes the task...


It only took me 6 hours...

1. I wish I had.....  a magic wand

2. If only I could..... Wave it

3. Did you see..... me having a tantrum

4. Have you heard..... the story of, a boy, a girl, unrequited love

5. Isn't it fantastic how..... husbands manage to never be available when you need them?

6. When I was young..... I was heaps thinner than I am now

7. What's it like when..... You get time off?

8. How did you know..... When it was the right time?

9. Where's the closest..... toilet - that's important, you know.

10. What's that..... on my shoulder? Chocolate? Vegemite? Dirt? ....

11. With all the knowledge they have..... you'd think they'd figure out how to make cling wrap not cling to the wrong thing

12. Can you please..... take my place for a few days

13. How the..... F*** did I manage that?

Been playing Second life a bit - just love it :) I've met a heap of lovely people along with a few total tools. You have to laugh at some of them. Some people can't do enough to help and others just feel a need to be a nuisance.

So what is Second life? It's a three dimensional virtual world. You have an avatar to represent you and you can build another life complete with house, pets, family etc if you'd like. Or maybe you want to be a "furry" or animal avatar. I've seen dragons, cats, penguins, pumpkins... you can be anything you want there :) I'm creating a home for myself there and love exploring all the different places there are as well as going dancing... I'm quite a good dancer there even if I can't dance to save myself in real life lol. Just about everyone is... Play trivia a bit and chat with various friends. It's nice to chat in real time with people , very little delay on responses but not as good as face to face chatting still.

In my first life - well things are much the same as always. DH is not making much effort, my children are just wonderful and the absolute joy of my life. I'm off to Adelaide the weekend of the 16th for the launch of the book I contributed to. It got a good review in a Tassie newspaper...  Dh has arranged to have some of the day off on the Friday so I can get there in time. Just about over all the sickness I've been plagued with the last few weeks, just a bit of a cough left now. Hopefully that's the last lot of illnesses we have to put up with for a while :)

Started the rounds of Christmas party invitations already... I think I have two on the same night - wouldn't you know it :) Almost all of them will revolve around the kids and their activities but that's pretty much my life so that's cool :)

I love Christmas :)

Two aliens landed in the desert near Birdsville.


They spotted the petrol station that was closed for the night.


They walked up to the old time petrol pump and the younger alien addressed
it saying,
"Greetings, Earthling. We come in peace.Take us to your leader."


The old petrol pump, of course, didn't respond.


The younger alien became angry at the lack of response and the older
alien said, "I'd calm down if I were you."


The younger alien ignored the warning and repeated his greeting.


Again, there was no response.
Annoyed by what he perceived to be the pump's haughty attitude, he drew his
ray gun and
said impatiently, "Greetings, Earthling. We come in peace. Do not ignore us
this way!
Take us to your leader or I will fire!"


The older alien warned his comrade again saying,
"You don't want to do that! I don't think you should make him mad."


"Rubbish," replied the cocky, young alien, then he aimed his weapon at the
pump and opened fire.


There was a huge explosion.
A massive fireball roared towards them and blew the younger alien off
his feet and deposited him a burnt crumpled mess about 200 metres
away in a dry creek bed.


About a half hour passed.
When he finally regained consciousness, he refocused his three eyes and
straightened
his bent antenna and looked dazedly at the older, wiser alien, who
was standing over him shaking his big, green head.


"What a ferocious creature!" exclaimed the young,fried alien.
"He damn near killed me!
How in the name of hell did you know he was so dangerous?"


The older alien leaned over, placed a friendly feeler on his crispy friend
and replied,
"If there's something I've learned during my intergalactic travels,
you don't want to mess with a bloke who can wrap his penis around himself
twice and then stick it in his ear."

Ok sahm3170 gave me the letter L

The idea is list 10 songs that start with "your" letter and anyone who comments gets given a letter by you.

I'm putting a twist in mine... 10 songs plus why I chose that song...

1) Lust for life - Iggy Pop. Because it's just so recognizable.

2) Luka - Suzanne Vega. It provokes thought, not your usual pop fluff.

3) Lowdown - Boz Scaggs. It came out when I was in high school, nuff said LOL

4) Loves me like a rock - Paul Simon. I like the concept of picking on the US president :)

5) Losing my religion - REM. Poignant...

6) London calling - The Clash. Punk at it's best and most worthwhile.

7) Livin la vida loca - Ricky Martin. Well OK - it's cos you get to see him dance... :) and I love the version that Donkey & Puss do in Shrek 2 :)

8) Linger - The Cranberries. Just always liked the Cranberries.

9) Light my fire - The Doors. Everyone wants to have their fire lit...

10) Let there be rock - AC/DC. Well how could you have a list of L songs without this one ? After all you don't have the bible without Genesis do you ? :)

Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody
I got some money 'cos I just got paid.
How I wish I had someone to talk to
I'm in an awful way...

Everyone else is in bed including all the animals. Jess and Oliver headed off about 8:20 to their respective rooms which leads me to photo op number 1...




Two nights ago Oliver decided all of his accord, that he would sleep in the big bed in his room. So this is night three and there have been no issues or concerns. YAY !!!!

Wonder if the toilet thing will be like this too ??? Cross everything people ! LOL

So Jess is in her bed, Oliver in his, Andrew's in ours, the dogs are on theirs, the cats are outside (and I feel guilty since we've had frosts the last three nights but I can't stand the issues that go with them being inside so I have to close my heart) and the rabbits - well that leads me to photo op number 2...




Please allow me to introduce "Panda" our newest addition to the family. We met Panda at the petshop when we went to get the cat food last Thursday. She was on hold for someone and we had two rabbits so I thought "just as well she's on hold since I'd love to take her home and I can't". She tugged at the heartstrings... When we were leaving I told the girl at the petshop that if the people she was on hold for decided against getting her to let me know, just in case. I'm not sure why I did that, I've ignored all the other rabbits that have tugged at the heartstrings and I'd said very clearly that we would stick with two rabbits since three's a crowd.

Wierd...

Anyway, fast forward to this morning. Jess woke up around 7am as usual. Came in and said good morning, asked if she could watch TV. Got the usual affirmative answer for a Saturday and off she went. Only to return crying a minute or two later. She'd gone out to get one of her rabbits to cuddle and found Silky had died in the night. RIP Silky.

She wasn't an old rabbit, only about 2 and a half but she did have snuffles which is a respiratory tract infection and with the frosts and Mistletoe's death I think it was all just too much. She and Mistletoe were very much a pair and I think she was pining badly. So a very sad girl again today and another burial. When Andrew was taking Jess to her squash lesson he asked if he should just go past the petshop and buy a rabbit. I told him not to and said what I'd done on Thursday. I got a phone call around 10:30 from Jess, very very excited. The sign on the cage about the little rabbit we both loved was gone and she was available, "Could we please, please, please get her, Mummy?" So we got another rabbit :) Jess is still very sad, she's been crying tonight over Silky's death and it being such a hard week for her but she's very happy to have Panda. Since we were concerned that the frosts had contributed to Silky's death we decided the rabbits will have to be in at night through the winter so they are ensconced in the laundry with newspaper on the floor of a cage and towels etc to curl up in. It's 8c outside and 14c in there so much less to worry about :)

http://www.librarything.com/

You can catalogue your books and get recommendations based on your library or a book.

Found it today and it looks good :)

to Denim :)

Hope you're having a wonderful day Denim.

Hi everyone,

I was wondering around LJ today and found a link http://fawx.com/software/ljarchive. It's for an archiving program. You can download all your entries and comments to your hard-drive so if you delete them or they get deleted you don't lose them... I downloaded it this afternoon and archived my blog - it's awesome !!!

So if you're getting close to your space limits, want to do some housekeeping or just like to be prepared give it a shot.

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This is Tears for Fears original version of "Mad world"



This is Gary Jules' version - I love this one and what a difference between the two...



And in case you don't watch Grey's - this is another of his songs with a clip from Grey's (no official clip is on www.youtube.com yet)