23/9/2008 - *chokey*

Dude - check out the dust storm that hit town yesterday.... apparently the worst in 40 years. As I have said to a couple of people, I think I could grow a pretty good crop in my lungs after being out in this at lunch time....(these photos haven't been altered in any way, this is exactly what it was like!)

That's about all the excitement we have had of late.

Shall be back at some stage soon when I have something interesting to tell..

xo L

5/9/2008 - *birthday*

Category Stories is a whole 1 YEAR OLD! Yay us!

So swing over there to www.categorystories.blogspot.com and check out our birthday month - it is a recap of all the categories so far, so if you missed any it is an ace chance to catch up!

And we have four awesome sponsors - so there will be four winners.

Way too cool.

So, what else have I been up to. Lets see.

Ummm.

How about....NOTHING!  Well nothing interesting anyway. I am coordinating the creation of a fabulous cookbook for the princesses school as a fundraiser which is slowly driving me demented, but we'll get there I am sure! I have been cleaning (shock horror - yes, I am amazed too, as I never seem to have to clean.....NOT!), cooking stuff (actually that is a real shock horror...HA!)

The princess lost another top tooth last night, and it finally looks like her 2nd middle top tooth will make an appearance after 7 months of gapness. She has also been going around singing Mamma Mia songs so I can't wait to get her a CD of them! ANd for the movie to come out on DVD!

The Destroyer is still trying to break everything. He is funny, he is speaking heaps now (although still much of it is incoherent) but he is very good with his manners "peese" and "tank ooo" , has taken to calling Donughts "dunnos" and trying to sing the incy wincy spider ("inny winny pidah", Humpty Dumpty ("hunny ditty onna wall"), Baa Baa Black Sheep (just "baa baa"), and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ("twinnal far"). It is very cute, he likes to sing those songs before he goes to bed, and has a go at the hand actions for some too, very funny!

Oh, I have also just been generally trying to figure out where all the time this year has gone and why Spotlight felt the need to have their christmas decorations out in August.

Seriously, shops that get into the christmas spirit too early should be flogged publically with a giant candy cane - I can barely cope with seeing christmas ads and displays at the end of October, but in freaking AUGUST - what the hell!!! I'll betchya the retailing monsters will have easter stuff out in November.....

Ok, rant over. Acually  not quite.... I am so pissed with Ch7 for their dicking around with the Heroes scheduling - the stupid bastards for some reason had held over the final 2 eps of series 2 of Heroes and ran them just prior to the olympic with barely a peep of promotion (or without pointing out when they "finished" the season before that oh, by the way, there are actually TWO MORE EPISODES in the series that we aren't going to show for ages and ages and when we do we won't tell you we are going to do it...) - so I missed the first of the two eps. They then promised Heroes will be back when the olympics is over, so there I was all ready last week to watch, and NOTHING. SO apparenlty they won't be back on till October or something. I tell you what I freaking HATE Ch7 with a passion and I wish one of the other channels had those so I never had to watch their stinky programming EVER!

Ok now the rant is over.

AND I just need to congratulate the fabulous Sharmaine for making it to the top 3 of the Project Scrap-Away comp - such a fab effort - well done! LOVE your stuff!!!!!

That's all for now, hope you weekend is smashing kids!

xox L.

29/8/2008 - *giveaway*

I've been in a few ATC swaps over at SIStv and I just received back a set where we had a couple of flakers in the group who ended up not sending their cards in to swap.

As a result, I now have two of these here.....

the theme of this swap was "Girl Crush". I have rather a large crush on Drew Barrymore - I just love her movies and she is so cute!!

 So, I am offering up to whoever wishes to have them! The first two commenters will get one each. Please make sure you overtype the "anonymous" with your name too so I know who you are!

On to other news, a few of us mums are taking our princesses to see this tomorrow night:

We'll be all going to have Chinese first then catching the movie at the heritage listed art deco cinema in the other town over. CAN'T WAIT!! It should be so much fun!

Hope everyone is rawther mahvellous weekend! (sorry, I have been reading the Eloise books with the princess again and the way they write some of the words is rubbing off on me!)

xox L.

ETA: Courtney - the first card is all yours, I just PM'd you via SIStv.  So if anyone want's the other card just post below! L.

Christina - the second card is yours!!! Email me at lalalee1 (at) ymail (dot) com with your info!

25/8/2008 - *gold*

Beijing closing ceremony was on last night. I didn't get to see it all though, but isn't there something so "primary school concert" about the closing ceremonies of any games event (comgames or lympix) - cuz you KNOW they used all their A+ ideas on the opening ceremony, and then for the closing it was just digging back through the rejected pile of "things we can fill time with". And it TOTALLY seemed like the sound was cut (or something) during the Poms section with that girl singing - funny though how it magically came good again once the chinese singers were back on deck...!

And I think that the Beijing games officials must have had a bulk discount on stack hats to use in the closing ceremony - note these images.

I quite liked those bike/wheel things - they were cool.  Wearing a stack hat was appropriate.

Here are the opening sequence drummers in their stackhats (unless they were concerned they were going to accidently dong each other with the sticks). I reckon the bell ladies in the front may have also had stackhats under the bottle top bell-ey bits on their headwear....!

And as for the guys playing the big babybell cheeses - that looked like fun, until they popped them on their side so one guy was upside down for part of the performance - HARSH! They didn't have to wear stackhats though, so I think hanging upside down was a good trade off for that.

These bouncy guys looked like they had fun (note more stack hats) - which again are used in context.

I commented to the Farmer (who BTW did not die from his 6in1 sheep vaccine injection - phew) that I would have liked to see them use the same costumes as for the opening ceremony (hey, they would have been better than the stackhats spraypainted GOLD) but put them in different sequences. They did recycle the star men it seems though. Anyway, after it is all done and dusted, is still think the games were a waste of 43 BILLION DOLLARS (you heard me right!!). It had good and excellent and cool moments and achivements, but still, I just don't think it can justify that price tag!!!

And I am not bitter that the poms beat us in the medal race or anything. Testing will show they were all roided up on black pudding. Or that they were actually quite good underdogs that got up to place in the top five. Either way.

I am happy to be a gold medalist though.

How you might ask.. well I shall tell you.

Elise B had a challenge going over at her blog www.eliseblaha.typepad.com for the Crafty Olympics. And I thought her idea was fun. So I entered. And I saw my entry was a winner. Stoked or WHAT!!!! Speshly seeing as I gave the entry that won a 0 in 600 chance of winning anything. You see I liked the concept for my page, it went together OK, it looks fine in real life, but no matter what I tried it looked dodgy when I uploaded it. Wonky and just a bit odd, to me anyway. But I am rawther a happy camper now! YAY ME!

Ok that's all, hope you have a wicked week. I will be excited my regularly scheduled television programming shall return, and I get to watch Heroes again on Wednesday. (*sigh*swoon*)

xox L

12/8/2008 - *underdog*

I love a good underdog story and I managed to watch a great one this evening.

 I was channel surfing waiting for The Hills to start, and Ch7 were showing the K1 finals. The aussie guy ended up 5th after a dodgy upstream turn, but the excellent story of the event was the guy from TOGO (French speaking nation in Africa) who won their first ever medal - a bronze. His name is Benjamin Boukpeti and he was so stoked at his placing he clean snapped his paddle on the front of his kayak. I cannot find pix of him in his race...... so imagine a wet burly guy looking super super pleased with himself! The kayaking makes me laugh though - the guys all look like king kong shoved in a dingy!! Massive arms and torsos which taper down to disappear into this little kazoo looking contraption which proportionally seems to look like they have the legs of minime to fit in there..... Anyway, YAY BENJAMIN and  your Togo self!

Cranky lympix story - I was soooooo pissed with the Ch7 coverage of the Kookaburras match - seriously they cut away to show the bloody judo and missed the goals being scored....ARGGHHHHH! They need to figure out a way to split screen telecast or something because that was reallllly annoying!

In other news, the Farmer stabbed himself in the leg with an immunisation needle whist doing sheepwork today - apparently it got pushed down to the bone and the Farmer also says he probably won't be in need of a tetanus injection anytime soon. He would also have me believe he is dying. We'll see in the morning. Also, the episode of The Hills was quite good tonight.

BYE!

11/8/2008 - *tha lympix*

Ok that title should get me out of trouble with unauthroised use of the following pix...

cool drummer action

More cool drummer action

Fab neon lighty guys.

and there was other stuff. Which google is letting me down when trying to find images to borrow...and I can't be bothered looking for more.

ANYWAY - There are good things about tha lympix.

* Like aussies winning stuff (how ace is it that the girls were first off the mark to get golds - YAY!)

* And aussies having a crack at winning back to back gold (go the kookaburras hockey team!)

* Watching sports you don't normally get to see on the telly (unless it is a funniest home video style "sports gone bad" segment) like badminton and ping pong.

* The stacks people have when they come a gutser - always a winner with me....(*ha*)

* Roy & HG's commentary on Triple J (way.too.clever).

And there are bad things.

* Bruce Mackavaney (sp?) and his hyper annoying commentary on 7.

* The rampant, repugnant commercialism of the whole shebang now days. It is revolting.

* The stupendously ridiculous amount of money that is spent on the opening ceremony and associated hoopla when A) parts of China are in abject poverty B) people are still homeless after that earthquake C) whilst very pretty and spectacular - the "performance" section of the OC is totally NOT NECESSARY - really, is it now. The athletes parade should definitely be it - but the Arty Performance section? Nice and entertaining YES, necessary for the spirit of competition NO. I heard today the opening ceremony cost approx. $7900 PER SECOND to stage.

That is a LOT of money, for something that people probably won't remember terribly well in about 4.5 years anyway.

* The drug cheats - they basically suck and should be drawn and quartered for depriving a deserving person of their place on the dais at the medal presentation. How much would it suck to get posted a gold medal in the mail with a note "here you go, sorry the other person was a drug cheat, but you can have their medal now". That would be SUCH a downer to know you missed getting your medal at the proper ceremony in front of thousands of cheering people.

* And did I mention the waste of money on the opening ceremony and associated hoopla....Seriously, I had a think back to previous opening ceremonies I have seen for tha lympix and for the commgames = and just two things stick in my mind. The kangaroo they had for the Brisbane CommGames back in the 80's which floated off into the air and made me cry because I didn't want it to fly away and I kept going to look out the window to see if it was flying over my place. In Condo. (I was like 7 at the time so give me a break...*ha*) and Kylie at the Sydney lympix (along with that annoying Nikki Webster). Thats it in all my 30+ years of obsessive TV watching.

But I can remember sporting performances more clearly - like Kathy Freemans gold in Sydney, The Kookaburras winning in Athens, Andrew Hoy and his gold, The truly fabulous swimming stars back in Atlanta, cycling victories. And those people who are the Underdogs - like Eddie the Eagle and those swimmers from landlocked nations who get sent to jump in a pool and try and crack a lap when they haven't actually tried swimming before - they totally make it a memorable event!!

I was the same with the ridiculous amount of money spent on the Sydney lympix which was staggering, when there were hospitals crying out for refurbishments, kid who were still getting through school without being able to read, and roads like the Princess Highway that are total death traps being left to flounder without upgrades.

Really, while I dig the lympic spirit, and the competition, and the sporting aspects, and people enjoying competing and trying to achieve personal bests if not create new records, I always have to wonder if it really is worth all the money spent.

Anyway, nuff said. I am off to go watch the kookaburras in their game tonight.

5/8/2008 - *cobwebs*

*cough*splutter*sneeze*

Just picking my way through the cobwebs and dust on my poor neglected blog....howly COW I did not think it had been almost two months since my last update...sheesh!

Anyway, it goes to show how very mundane my life has been for the most part.

So lets kick of with some random scrappage.....

Danielle, the gorgeos owner of the fab Q-Tea embellishment kits, sent me this months awesome awesome awesome "Oh the places you'll go" kit (which I see is sold out now) as I am a guest creator of stuff this month. Here are my first two things...

The fab swirly paper is from LUCY! and her range for Scrapdiary  - love it, am very sad now cuz it is almost all gone.... Anyway, the pix are from the princess and destroyer's first train ride which we took in Melbourne back in April.

And this page has pix from our visit to Questacon in Canberra back in Feb - the Princess absolutely loves it there, the Destroyer was ok for most bits (some scared the living daylights out of him like the lightning machine when we weren't quick enough to have him out of the room) and others he loved like the little kids exploring area.

I still have a heap of bits & pieces left over from this Kit so I am hoping to make a couple of fun cards.

What else is news... we hosted a dinnerparty on Saturday night - a couple of our group of friends bid on a catered dinner party that was part of a pre-school fundraiser, and asked us if we wanted in and I said "hell yeah!" - I mean anything that doesn't involve me cooking is a winner in my books anyday! So I volunteered our house as the venue, and it was the BEST NIGHT! OH MY GOSH the food (5 courses + wine) was fabulous, and it was brilliant that we didn't have to do any of the cooking OR cleaning up. One could get used to having staff....... (*snicker*giggle*snort). I do have photos but they are still on my camera.

The only other thing of note was we took the kiddos to the Dubbo Zoo during the holidays - they had a blast, we did the behind the scenes tour were they took us to feed the black rhino & giraffes, and up close to the cheetah and white rhinos. It was flipping AWESOME and worth every cent, so if you go there you must do that!  Here are my fave two pictures....(with my new camera at last - a panasonic 10meg 10xoptical zoom compact. I.Love.It!!).

Yep that's me - and that cute giraffe licked my hand which was about 15 levels of gross.....(*ha*)

Isn't she cute....!!

And finally, the new category is up at Category Stories - it is SUNSHINE so pop on over and check it out, we are only doing one category this month as everyone is flat chat, so please play along, everyone seems to be having such fun with that theme at the moment!

Ok, that's it till next I update. I might be around 60 by then...*snort*.

I leave you with this image of hoff in all his hairy chested puppylovin glory. Thanks Rhi for showing me this pic originally - I love we share a very very very dodgy and scary hoffmania. 

Hairstute warning - Please guard your retinas upon viewing of the image, they may fall out from sheer horror....

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L. xox

9/6/2008 - *LOST/SATC*

dude, birthdays totally rock when you get prezzies that involve fab jammies, chocolate, a couple of bottles of bubbly plonk, cavalini & co note cards (with matching pen), cash (toward a new camera), accesories, a pedicure voucher, the Ting Tings cd (purchased for self), and then decide that morning you are going to also nick off to the 6.30 session at the flicks with a couple of the girls to see this...:-

LOVED it - am a bit of a fan and rather biased though so that made a difference. Will be critical and say I was disappointed Harry & Stanford & Anthony weren't in it much (although Anthonys few lines were rather good), Samanthas LA storyline was a waste of space really (except for Dante's hot bod) plus Sam & Smith in sequined matching black dressing gowns, I totally peed myself laughing that that stupid idea!! The whole honeymoon sequence was about 10 minutes too long - they could have totally cut it nearly all out and not made a scrap of difference to the movie. And the dialogue wasn't as fab as the tv series. But still loved it.

I loved all the other storylines going through, loved the miranda/carrie scene at the restaurant and the carrie/big closet scene, and thought it had a really satisfying ending, going along futher than I would have predicted it would have finished at (and I am being vague as I don't want to spoil it for peeps who haven't yet seen it).

So two thumbs up.

LOST season 4 finale also had two thumbs up - dang especially the scene with Sawyer and the surf..... total PHWAR!! I am loving LOST after a dipshit season 2 & part of season 3, I think they reclaimed it this year. Adding shirtless Sawyer scenes may or may not have helped  in that perception though.. (HA).

Made this for the www.scrapmojo.blogspot.com current challenge - use the martha stewart catchphrase "It's a good thing" and whack some stamping on the page. Sigh, isn't that a pearler pic of Josh/Sawyer...? I think martha would surely approve of using the quote as such too...(*snort*).

Ok it is trying to rain at the moment. So Hughey, I am asking you VERY nicely - POUR DOWN YOUR BASTARD.

Nuff said.

Happy week kids!

Lee : )

3/6/2008 - *Music*

The Ting Tings rock.

Their page is here The Ting Tings and the fab graphics rock.

The princess and I bop to Not My Name whilst driving. We love it. It would be added to the sidebar but I am yet to track down the code.....

Anyway....

Triple J featured their album last week. I purchased it whilst at Sydney Airport yesterday when I was bored and waiting for my flight. It shall be my bday present from the fam. And I have uploaded and listened to it already. About 3 times. 

It. Rocks.

It pop funky rocks.

I might change my name to Mary-Jo-Lisa. Or maybe not. Cuz that not my name... *snort*

Nuff said. Nightnight!

1/6/2008 - *first*

Well its the first of June, which means the following.....

1. It is officially winter. Although because of "no rain" it looks like the middle of summer outside...bleugh. Stupid drought.

2. It is only a bit over a week till my bithday. Which I always celebrate for a week. And this year the Aussie government is officially recognising the fabulous event of my birthday by giving all us central & eastern states the day off. Because I am Queen Lee. Bow down.

3. The new Category Stories is up at www.categorystories.blogspot.com - the first June category due on the 14th is Armchair Travel. The gorgeous Danielle from Q-Tea kits (http://qteakits.blogspot.com/) is our sponsor - YAY! This months winner will receive a future Q-Tea kit, but Danielle was kind enough to let all the story tellers have a muck around with the fabulous Phone Gnome add-on kit - and here is my result -a travel notes mini-album made up the fabbo Gnome and other bits from the Phone Gnome kit, and of random bits from Q-Tea kits that I had been saving to make a mini-album.

The mini has random notes and thoughts on my love of travelling, things I adore about it and not so much. I'll eventually fill it and include some photos as well - so it is an ongoing project. There is a pic of it with the transparent cover closed and open, and it is one of those books you totally want to keep picking up and flicking through - so fun!

I've been joining in for the Cyber Crop over at the CountryPapercraft forum - which has been ace fun, I even managed to do all of the scrapping challenges that were set, which I have never managed before! I think my fave page is this one, based on a sketch Mish set to use. The pic is from our 10th wedding anniversary trip with friends to Echuca.

Ok not much else to report. HOpe you all have a fabulous week, and I'll probably get back on here to say hi after the long weekend.

tootle-oo

L. : )

16/5/2008 - *neglect*

Yep, lock me up I am guilty of blog neglect.

But as I only ever seem to update with random shirtless hottie pix I didn't think you'd miss me too much.

BEHOLD - a non-shirtless hottie image. Yes it is the new www.categorystories.blogspot.com category of CANDY (or lollies to us superior treat scoffing aussies...*HA*). You know i am obsessed with freckles. Here is another page about them. (*bored yet*).

I used some KittyRobot goodness on here, as well as bits of my  Q-Tea babushka kit, and some yummo new sassafrass PP from CountryPapercraft that Marg kindly ordered in for me!

Not much else to report. I had a rather fun Mothers Day - we hoofed it for the looong car trip over to the Conargo Mothers Day markets again. Here are my flowers -

I picked them out from the protea man (that is what I call him anyway) who does ace bunches of mixed stuff and also bunches of the stems & protea blooms.

The kiddos purchased me a metal Kookaburra sculpture that is freaking ace - this lady makes them www.thegathering.com.au I first saw her garden art last year, and wanted to get kooka then after seeing him on my first swing around the stalls, and when I went back he was SOLD. So needless to say this year her stall was my first stop! The kooka I got isn't pictured on her site though - mine is eating a little lizard. And the shitty swallows (literally - the pesky swallows are pooing on everything) don't like him and were swooping him the other day - so he is serving a dual purpose of pissing off the pesky swallows who haven't been back near their "toilet" on our car port, and looking might cool sitting on the fence post.

Right, I am off to do stuff. Have a fab week. I shall be back with the shirtless hottie ATC's I made for the swap from a couple of posts back.

I know you can't wait.

xox Lee

2/5/2008 - *rations*

OK I am on internet rations till the end of next week - I had been busily using up my prepaid allocation until the 30th thinking we'd have a new lot on the 1st. I was wrong. So now I am just about over limit until the 9th. So you won't see me again till then!

To tide you over until the next dose of Leeness is around, here are a few things.

1. (cuz you KNOW I am all about the listing of stuff)...

CATEGORY STORIES - www.categorystories.blogspot.com has the new topic up - PLAYLIST! Go forth and share your playlistness people (I am all about the ness today it seems too - lets see how may more times I can plonk that sucker in this postness).

Here is my page - it used a  Truth or Dare Friday challenge one of the SIStv chickas gave me a few weeks ago to make a mainly white page, use some denim and add a splash of red. I realised after that I was to use a b&w photo as well, but as there is no photo, I'll just say the b&w titleness will do instead.

2. 52 Pieces of Me is firing along over at www.countrypapercraft.com.au - here are my lastest couple of pages.

number 25 was bling. This is about the vintage/retro tiara I wore to my wedding. It was the Farmers mums. Yes I am aware that I have misspelt a word. It is fixed now but I couldn't be arsed scanning that sucker again.

number 26 was fave sandwich topping/filling.

number 26 was either about Faith or Aliens and you had to quote something. I chose aliens. And the *fammus* X-Files "believe" quote with the spaceship. *sigh* I so very much loved that show. It totally rocked coolness and I actually saw part of an episode being filmed in Toronto back in 97 with Duchovny oozing hotness as Mulder, and the dude who played that freaky smoking man in a scene being shot on a street. The girls I was with and I snuck a photo (note to self - find where photo is and scrap it) and then we got totally yelled at for someones flash going off. Um-ahhhh(*ness*).

3. Lets see. I nearly lost my wallet when kicking around the "big town over" today. It was left at the chemist. Because the Destroyer was about to buck himself out of the pram in a punkness fury and I just grabbed my crap and got out of there (if the pram is moving it seems to sate the wild beast). But I left my wallet behind. I was on the way out of "big town over" when the Farmer rang to say the boots for said Destroyer had come in, so I turned around and went back to get them from the shopping centre. Which is when I realised my purse was missing. Luckily the chemist was only a couple of shops over so after much panic I located and safely secured my wallet. I exuded much more calmness as I returned home safe in the knowlede that no lowlife scum was using my Mr Visa to purchase internet porn.

4. The princess has a friend for a sleepover tonight. They will eat chicken wraps for dinner and watch Hairspray.

5. That is all-ness.

Hope your weekend freaking ROCKS people!

xx L.

23/4/2008 - *shoes*

jinkies - I just realised I hadn't uploaded my current Category Stories page - the current category is SHOES. And we are getting some corker pages in, fueling my current addiction for pretty flats. Which are what my page is about. And I love them. Lots. 'Speshly the silver ballet toe ones I am wearing in the photo. I actually purchased another pair of flats in melbourne....a lovely pair of dark brown/maroon-ish coloured ones with a buckle on top......naughty me, but hey, who can go past a pair of $40 one season wonders, and hey, they were the only clothing related item I ended up buying DESPITE being tempted by lush items in Forever New and Valley Girl and Tempt and other stores I don't have near me!! I felt I was VERY restrained. Having spent almost all my spending money in Smiggle didn't really help though... (*ha*). ANYWAY, it appears Winter 08 may be all about the cute flats as well...

See the red heart tape on there - it is from Kikki-k at Melbourne Central. LOVE that shop, it is 2nd to Smiggle because I can afford to buy more in Smiggle, and have a wee beano splurge at the Kik-ster on the side when I have been good and saved doleros up. Most of the other stuff on the page is from Q-Tea. Except for the heart sticker. It is smiggley goodness.

ANYHOOOOOO here is my page! Come on over to the blog and share your shoe pages, I'd LOVE to see and drool some more!

OOOH by the way, I am almost out of that punchinella stuff. Just thought I would add that in. You know, in case there are any secret agents wandering by who happen to know where I can score obtain some more.

23/4/2008 - *ooohhweeee*

Thought that sounded like a fun zippy opening bloggity post. Am I right?

How's things peeps? Hope you all are keeping well. I am rather *ugh*&*%%$* at the moment, I had a festy bout of a cold related razor-blade-insterted-in-throat bizzo over the weekend while I was visting my friend Han in Melbourne with the kiddos. Although a few drugs later and I was feeling much improved, but it seems to have come back and I no longer have access to Han's medicine cabinet so my throat is not liking me at the moment.

I also daresay the 5.5 hr drive home on Monday combined with the 3 hr drive I had yesterday and the 1.5 hr drive today is making me feel rather flat too.

ALTHOUGH - it could be something silver/white/or/black glimmer mist OR a sheet of Glittery pink roller rink thickers, a fabulous handmade item and chocolate could solve.

Just sayin. (like you know if there are any secret agents having a wander around my bloggy today).

Things that made me feel much brighter whilst visiting Melbourne were going to SMIGGLE (my most fave of all stores ever) and pretty much emptying half their inventory of little wood mounted stamps and I now have one of each of their decorative tapes. SIGH I wish smiggle was near me. Or even better that I owned my own smiggle store.

Oh I have also been a bit sad, my camera fell victim to a cracked LCD screen on the Destroyers 2nd birthday (I knew it was too much to think that everything/one made it through unscathed). So now I need to get another, as it would cost more than a new camera to have the screen repaired. Which makes me sad cuz I love my tiny little camera. Sigh (again).

NO other news to report, so I'll leave you with this pic of the Sky Wheel where Han & I took our kiddos to on Saturday in Melbourne. Thank goodness the princess got a cheapo digi camera for christmas so we could still take pics while we were down there or I would have thought my throat was cut with those razorblades FOR SURE! And yes that is the Destroyer in the foreground tipping all the water from his drinkbottle on the ground. I think he wanted to force me to get him a Red Bull instead. No way man - can you IMAGINE what that would make the already hypermonkey do??? He would be like 50 circus clowns hopped up on sudafed and cocacola - he would not stop for days!

Have a happy non-razorbladeinfestedthroat week kids!

L. : )

14/4/2008 - *swap*

I am going in "My Crush" themed ATC swap and the cards I am contributing (as it is a small swap I am making two different sets) will have the following images on them....

Card number 1:

Card number two (a special LOST edition with both these hotties on there)

can anyone say PHWAR. The other lay-dies in the swap are doing cards with the images of people like Beckham, Colin Firth (cute in that foppish pommie way), Josh Duhamel, Orlando, Matthew McConahey, and more.

So see all you non-scrappy types - there IS a reason to crack out the glue sticks and cardboard, totally capture the hottiebombottie-ness that is floating around the traps.

(I am SOOOO going to be staking the postie next month.....)

I may or may not decide to share the finished product with you all. It depends on if the hotness factor would kill my computer or not.... HA!

OH that reminds me, we are how hoofin it around cyberspace on the Next G broadband system - MAN it is quick. Beats the stooooopid satellite dish by about a billion kb a second (or there abouts...maybe). Anyway, even with just the little modem it is faster than the big hoofin satellite on the roof, so I am getting the Telstra tech out here next week to hook up an external aerial, and then we'll be cooking with gas (or something like that). Bit excited. I must stay that the Next G coverage and the Telstra service has sure has hell improved out of site in the last 5 months. They are bending over backwards to help people who had suffered the dodgy handsets & what not now, and I can get service now where I couldn't on CDMA, so I am rather pleased with the whole setup right now!

ANYWAY - as you can see from that drivellous (new word) post I have nothing new to report. Actually, yes I do. The Destroyer managed to make it to two years old despite his best death defying intentions. So we celebrated it with a sausage sizzle lunch that included a couple of the rellos and the back fence neighbours. Then my folks turned up from their trip to the coast & cooked us up some delish fish & chippies for dinner. YUM!

Ok, play nice. and pop your tongues back in your noggins, those boys above are MIIIIIIIIIINE!

6/4/2008 - *away*

been away for the last 2 weekends, but home now with one sick kiddo and one happy kiddo.

Happy kiddo is the Princess who got to come to Melbourne with the Farmer & I this weekend and I took her to see High School Musical - The Ice Tour  at Vodafone arena on Saturday arvo. High School Musical 1 & 2 are big hits in our house. I totally love the movies, (as cheesy and saccharine heavy as the movies are - and even though I prefer Mr G's musical in Summer Heights High ), because I can watch them with the princess and we sing along and just enjoy it and the fact that there is no swearing or behaviour that needs "explaining" to a 7 yr old. So when I saw there was the Ice Tour out I decided it would be great to go along to. And yep, don't start slanging me about my gullibility for slick marketing campaigns - or how evil the Disney corp is - this was about my lovely princess and her love of said slick evil disney production. Anyway, we went with a couple of friends and their kids. It was GREAT - especially the stacks the skaters took at time when they were doing some big sequences - the ice must have been a bit dodgy I think because they kept stacking it in the same area. The "Troy" character had a bit of a spill at one point during his solo and then was lining up on the ice to go diagonally and do another jump. I tell you, what I could barely watch the second run up because I was sure he was going to fall again, but he landed it and I totally clapped and yelled as did half the audience because most people were on bated breath weather he would stack it again!

Sad kiddo is the Destroyer who is crook with a bad cold. He had been organised to stay with his grandparents for the weekend while we took the princess to melbourne (let's face it - vodafone arena does not have enough security personnel, guard dogs, and hot wire fencing to keep the Destroyer off the ice.....). But he was sick and when we rang this morning he wasn't doing any better so we cut short the trip to come home. He seems OK now, still a bit crusty wtih the cold but seemingly on the mend.

And last weekend I went for a scrapaway to Scrapping Away in Albury for the weekend with the girls. It was FABULOUS, we had such a good time, I got heaps of things done (everything I had wanted to do and more so I was stoked), I got to eat chocolate & drink lots of champers, sleep in (yippeeee) and just hang out with the "SGAK" girls (sgakbooking being the way the princess spelt scrapbooking in her school "what I did on the weekend" journal last year). I think we shall totally be doing it again. And I can highly recommend staying there if you ever want to do any sort of crafting getaway, it is so handy to everything in Albury as well, so we had a good shop up and just RELAXED. It was GREAT!

So I am a luckyduck who has been away every weekend for the last four or so. I am actually looking forward to staying home this weekend.

Ok, I'll be back during the week with some pics hopefully, but here is my lastest SGAK page for the Category Stories challenge - the category is RELAX! - hmm how appropriate for the last few weekends! Come on over and play along - this month's sponsor is Paper Pixie Kits - YAY!

Tah Tah for now.

L.

27/3/2008 - *i-dumb*

soooo i-have had an i-pod for a while now. i-am an anti-i-podder though, really think they are a overpriced but I succumbed to the snazzy marketing and got me one. That was pink. But i-will not give the Apple Corp one ounce of linkage - so how'dya like THEM apples. Crappy rip-off Apple..

Gah, it must be late and I am tired..... i-can't even type proper like.

ANYWAY The Farmers nephew uploaded my music last year as i-was too blase to bother figuring it out and he was 14 and all 14 yr olds are like pre-preprogrammed with i-pod usage in the womb or something, cuz he had my little machine all musicified quick smart.

Or so i-thought - stupid fucking i-podland ate some of the music i-had on my computer.

Or so i-thought....I figured out only tonight after months and months of limited i-podage that i-can actually load cd's straight onto i-tunes (look i-don't ever profess to be quick when it comes to techie stuff - i-never read instructions either so that may or may not have been 1/5 of my problem) and not have to put them on via the windows media player cuz the windows media player as trouble with some cd's in not being readable (or something) when you try to shove 'em across to i-tunes (or something).

ANYhooooooo i-got it figured i-did and i-proud of i (me).

Now i-have spent about 4 hours that i-should have spent packing stuff and cooking stuff.

Hope y'all had a good easter anyway. The bunny pooped out some choc that all of us scoffed and subsequently had us feeling rather poopy ourselves. There are lots of eggs in the freezer now though. Although beware, I looked at the expiry date and most of the stuff is due to cark it in June & July THIS YEAR - what a frickin rip off! Stupid snazzy easter marketing with their yummy yummy chocolate goodies...

ANYWAY enough from me. It appears I really do need sleep. Catchyalataallagatas!

L. : )

17/3/2008 - *ooooooh*

today has been a good day - well evening anyway...

1. The Tudors on Showcase the showcase on pay. I had forgotten to include this show as my new must watch along with Lost. Jonathan Rhys Meyers as King Henry VIII now makes my Monday night viewing a pleasure. And the guy who plays Brandon (Henry Cavill ) - total PHWAR! This is a totallly awesome series, check it out if you haven't already.

Here is Henry Cavill/Brandon...

2. I am loving the new look over at ScrapInStyleTV - speshly their new Sisterhood Blog which had my $1M CATEGORY STORIES PAGE as the layout of the day. W00T to me!

3. Totally love the sounds of  Kate Nash (myspace)  (check out the cute graphics on her site Kate Nash webpage !) - pumpkin soup is an AWESOME song, has been on a good rotation on Triple J! (although I really don't like pumpkin soup in real life....ewwww).

3. I don't have to work tomorrow.

4. That bears repeating...I DON'T HAVE TO WORK TOMORROW! YAY ME!

That is all, have a fabulous week!

L. : )

16/3/2008 - *randomish*

SassySasha from over at SIStv tagged me with the 7 Randoms too, so I'll do it slightly differently this time.

Here are 7 reasons I think Orlando Bloom is hot.

1. he is hot when he is being a pirate (rescue me Will Turner...)

  2. Or as an Elf - Legolas could defend me any day!!!

3. He has dreamy eyes

4. He has a meltworthy smile

5. He loves dogs

6. He has a hot bod

7. C'mon - how can you NOT think he is gorgeous!! Lookit this one.........sultry. YUM!

Sigh.

OK I tag anyone who wants to list their 7 reasons you love your particular favourite star. And let me know if you do OK, I speshly want to see if you include any shirtless pics.!

L. : )

16/3/2008 - *$1M*

so what would YOU do if the money tree fairy walked up an plonked down a million dollars no questions asked for you to do with as you wished??

Yep, thought so, well don't bother, I would already claim the night with Johnny or Olando or Josh or Matthew so don't even think about it! *snort*

*hmmmm*

ANYWAY - The $1M topic is the newbie over at Category Stories so get your keisters into gear and pop your page together and get it uploaded ASAP OK - as the sponsor for the March challenges is the awesome KittyRobot  Etsy shop - YAY!

Here's my page...and yes my journaling is a rambling hodgepodge of info that is not grammatically correct, but you get that...and I don't care..*ha*

what else is new in the world of lee... OH YEAH, I have still been doing my 52 Pieces of Me pages for Country Papercraft which have been fun, here are some of the recent ones:

"Your Bag"

and lookit that - I have used some of the paper (the cute mushrooms) designed by the gorgeous and brillliant LUCY! who is also a category stories team member. I also used some Q-Tea kit goodies, and that brilliant houndstooth gaffertape from SIStv (see sidebar for links to both those places). 

and this one is entitled "things to do before I cark it"... used random bits that were on my desk at the time (bam pop stripe paper, KI memories pink lace paper, smiggle tape, Making Memories noteworthy diecut paper), and some of the KittyRobot March kit and some cool bling & DCWV "rockstar" paper that Elly sent me and SEE - I did some typewriter action! Go me (typos and all...*hahaa*)! The list is not exhaustive, but these are all I could fit on there...

And what else have I been doing.

OH yes, melting in 43 degree heat that's what! We stupidly agreed to take the kiddos into town yesterday to be part of the town parade that was going on, with the kiddos representing their school/daycare. The theme for the school one was to do with the church centenary - so you had to go as something/someone relating to church.

The princess wore her "sunday best" to take her "baby" to be christened - it was very cute! And the Destroyer's daycare had a farm theme going on, so he wore his "farm boy best" (including boot covers that I had very cleverly trimmed down from some real ones the farmer owns), while riding his toy john deere tractor down the street - with the farmer towing him on a rope.

It was rather adorable even if I was totally melting from the horrendous heat. I mean who the hell has a freaking parade at 1.30pm during a part of the year when you can fry eggs on the pavement? Surely 10.30 am would have been much better?? ANWAY, the kiddos enjoyed themselves, and the Destroyer attracted the attention of the regional newspaper photographer who snapped a couple of pics of him so it will be interesting to see if the get in print.

Plus we unexpectedly ended up staying in for chinese dinner with some friends which was aweome on three counts - a) we caught up with friends b) it involved ice cold beverage consumption and c) I didn't have to cook or do the dishes. It is point c) that always hooks me in to almost anything really!

OK kids, I had better go and be constructive, hope the coming week is rather ace for you.

XoX L.