W H Y ??????

A few things have made me think about the whole human race in general...
OK, so the animals have their fair share of species' that are born "sticky-beaks", case in point : the bird is on the floor of the cage in the extreme near corner watching me type...whenever I get home from somewhere, the cat needs to know what I have in my bag, and the fish gives the googly-eye whenever anyone is on or near the computer..or maybe he's just begging for pellets? But why do we humans feel this strong urge to know EVERYTHING that's going on????
Come on, those of you who say you don't pry or gossip, YOU ARE LYING!
It's just in our nature really. The papers, magazines, TV, internet, are all full of some scandal or another on a daily basis. The popular media simply wouldn't have it at all if it wasn't in demand. Who hasn't logged into a social networking site and "snooped" in someone's profile or at their status message? I can freely admit, I have! As I'm sure others' have done to mine also. It's a complusion sometimes, the need to see for ourselves that our seemingly boring lives are not that bad after all, and just for a bit of juicy gossip!
Free-to-air soap operas you could call them in some instances! Full-on comedic dramas in some, quite entertaining really, reading day after day someone's struggle to fill their quota of "LOOK AT ME! PAY ATTENTION TO ME!"
It's like the old traffic accident adage...you know you really shouldn't look, but you just can't look away!!!!
While I'm on a rant...what on earth possesses a complete stranger to ask you for money? Or more to the point, what makes them think that everyone in the world is dumb enough to do it and that they're smarter than everyone else to actually pull it off?
Geez if I had half the balls they think they have, I'd be doing it too! We all would, let's face it! I could easily pay off my wedding dress in record time!
Why does someone who already seems to blog a couple of times a day, about nothing in particular, suddenly blog more than 6 times a day, coincidentally just after they have been a "blog of note"? Fame going to their heads just a wee bit? But, strangely enough again, I can't bring myself to stop reading the damn thing!!!
Why do WE say sorry when someone bumps into US? Or , in my case, why do we apologize to inanimate objects that we bump into LOL? Why do we say "excuse me" only after the burp and not before, as to give a warning of the rudeness to come? Why do we say we're "running to the shops" or "running the kids to school" when we drive there? Why do we find ourselves singing along to songs we hate? Why does it seem when you're straining to hear a noise in the middle of the night, that you hear better with your eyes open? Why do kids like "why?" questions so much, and do they have some secretly hidden file somewhere of key questions they must ask? Is there some agency somewhere that grades their performance? i.e. the real stumpers like "Mummy, why can't the Sun be pink?" or the ones that last forever, like : Q."Why do I have to have a shower?"A. "because you are dirty and have to wash yourself" Q. "But WHYYYYYY?"A. "Argghhhh, just 'cos I said so!!" Q. "Why do you always say that Mummy?"
There are just too many questions!!!! But hopefully it'll mean now I can stop all the damn thinking that's been rattling around in my head.... Why do people say that, there's only a large sponge-like material and blood and stuff in there, it wouldn't rattle!!!
But we can't ever have all the answers to life's questions, but it sure can be fun trying to answer them!!!
WHY????

Flickr !!!!

Well, so much for no more annoying blogs this week, sorry!! haha
After doing a Note on facebook that required getting a picture from Flickr, I thought I'd finally have a look-see and ultimately join up, seeing as already have a Yahoo account, though why not?
Some of my friends already have one too, so that's fun!
Looking for more contacts on Flickr, love sharing my weird pics and seeing other people's beautiful ones and trying to replicate the effects! I'm still learning my way around with every click of the camera's button.
No aspirations of being some famous photographer, just like "nice stuff" !

http://www.flickr.com/photos/suesuebear/

PART 2 of 2 : SOLVED!!!!!!

The offending article.
The problem from earlier today has been solved, but not by me, by Pixie....perhaps she was trying to prove her innocence (of sorts)!
I've just apologized to her for jumping to conclusions with some nice yummy chicken wing tips.
Well, she did do something indirectly naughty though!
Turns out she didn't rip open a jigsaw puzzle box as I thought, or chewed up pieces, well hopefully! But she did bring them out to the hallway.
I'd kinda given up on the search, it was driving me nuts like I figured it would. I was having some lunch in between pottering around putting off the vacuuming when I heard an almighty CRASH (hehe sound effects). Pixie had reached the summit of Mt. Waitingforshed, and was conquering MT. Cupboardtop, when she knocked a whole heap of stuff down, one item being the pictured jigsaw puzzle box - empty!
Light bulb moment!!!!
Remembered Nathan was doing the puzzle like 6 months ago (lost interest quickly it seems now) and was doing it on an old magnetic posterboard, which he then put on the top of the cupboard to keep it out of Jasmine's reach I'm guessing!
Pity it wasn't out of Pixie's reach LOL. So she must've decided to bring a couple of pieces out to play. I shudder to think if there's any pieces missing amongst all the crap in Mt. Waitingforshed, it may not be seen for quite some time yet!
But the best thing to do would be to do the damn puzzle to see if all the pieces are there.....
BUT I AIN'T DOING IT, NO WAY!!!!!!!!
LOL p.s. Nathan : Mum knows what you're doing this weekend when you get bored! ♥ hehe

PART 1 of 2 : Enigma wrapped in a puzzle, wrapped in a jigsaw???

ARGH!!! Was only thinking last night, haven't blogged for a bit, but then, had nothing happen really to talk about...
Till 5 minutes ago, sorta.
Having just given up (for now) looking for eggs and realizing the housework fairies must be having a sickie, was on my way to start the cleaning, seeing Jasmine's away at daycare today. Good time to get all the things done I can't usually with her "helping" me.
Stopped in my tracks by 2 mysterious jigsaw pieces on the floor in the hallway!.....
You may be thinking, 'why so "mysterious"?'. Well, thinking Pixie has somehow gotten into a jigsaw puzzle box - there's nothing that cat doesn't get into, or eat it seems - do you think I can find the wreckage and debris anywhere? NO!
Now I know she was climbing "Mt Waitingforshed" in Nathan's room, having a fine ole' time, but besides the fallen down blankets, outgrown clothing, junk etc, no puzzle boxes! And geez, the picture is REAL helpful too, not exactly many jigsaws without "sky pieces".
Or are they water pieces? A check in the girls' room, usual mess and kaos, but no dragged out puzzles there either! I know they're not part of my 'special' ones, Simpsons, double-sided Cats, Glow-in-the-dark White Tiger, cos I put them out of Jasmine's reach ages ago.
"Now I have something to blog about" I think to myself as I grab the camera! And wow, finally find a use for the scrapbooking words I bought like 3 yrs ago...which brings up another mystery, in a box of words, claiming to be over 4500, why is there no "where"???? Just about everything else weird and wonderful you could think of and some you probably would NEVER ever use in your scrapbooking ventures!
What to do now? I was going to find the correct puzzle and complete it therefore seeing if all pieces were present and accounted for, basically to see if Pixie had eaten any, but I can't even find where they're from....Is it a sign, an omen? Are the fairies playing with my mind?
All I know is, it's going to drive me nuts till I figure it out, stupid things like this prime example always do!!!
Off to search again!!! Might even get some cleaning done while I'm at it, or maybe this will be todays convenient excuse! LOL

Australia Day Long Weekend

Saturday, lunchtime.
Dean's just finished work for the morning, Ant, Em and Jac have left, Jac leaving me with a request for an eraser from the Ginger Factory, we're finally packed, despite every time I put something in the bag, Jasmine takes it out and cracks a wobbly!
Yay! So we set off up the highway for Coolum...going great till we get to the first true Aussie long weekend tradition. Around Burpengary traffic slows to a crawl (no exaggeration). I guess everyone else was working on the leave-early-and-she'll-be-right-mate theory.
Now there's many things you can do while stuck in the crawl, play eye-spy (Jas not too good at it though), look for horsies/cows/trucks/buses, or do what we did...count the Combi vans, ratio of how many of them were broken down on the side of the highway, and remark constantly about how many bloody cars have Australian flags attatched!!!!
Did I miss something this year? Cos I've never, ever seen so many flags on cars any other year!
This had me wondering, does it make you look un-patriotic NOT to have one I wonder?
When the traffic finally thinned out, paying more attention to the radio, an ironic and/or fitting set of songs is being played, one of them being "Working Class Man" Ok, now feeling very Oztraylyan!
More traditions encountered, obviously the heat and humidity...pointed out to us by everyone when we got up the coast, what, do we look like we don't notice? Is our sweat less noticeable maybe? This problem was promptly solved by a swim in Poppy and Nanna Julie's pool, which Jasmine enjoyed so much she didn't want to get out even after the pruny stage. It's pretty cold that pool, but was a great relief. Even Dean got in!
The great Aussie BBQ for dinner was great, felt just like Xmas again, eating so much yummy food cos it's just too damn good!
Sunday we set off to the Ginger Factory at Yandina. Really code for, we HAVE to go to Nutworks across the road, the best flavoured Macadamia Nuts anywhere! The Sour Cream and Onion are the best, closely followed by the Hickory Smoke flavour yummmmmm. I was adventurous enough this time to try the Wasabi flavour ones too, hot in the moment for sure, but passes quickly. Anyway, we set of on the Coolum-Yandina road, a really nice scenic drive, lots of moo moo cows for Jas to see and even a donkey! Nice views of the mountains and canefields...which started one of those "internal music connection" things happening (don't expect me to explain it lol) well the canefields made me think of that GangGajang song "Sounds of Then", (some may know it as "this is australia") I know it's in some ad but can't think of it off the top of my head.
So another patriotic-feeling moment, minus the "lightning crack over the canefileds" cloudy, but no lightning to be seen. We get to Ginger Factory, we've been hundreds of times cos how many other places are still free admission? Not a lot to do really but some good window shopping. We took Jasmine on the "choo choo twain" ride, that weaves around the factory buildings etc, but she was far more interested in the ducks, chickens and roosters that would run alongside the train!
Everything there pretty much is all about ginger, but resisited trying the "gingerbread" ice cream and had some scrumptious lemon cheesecake flavour instead, which we had to eat fast, was melting too quickly to truly savour it. Also wonder if Jas is the only kids I know who DOESN' T like ice cream! Weird if you ask me lol.
Then we get our nuts and go back to Coolum, which was hotter then before we'd left argh! I'll stop complaining about it being hot at home now I think, seeing as I sit here without even the fan on! Good excuse for another swim!!! Well, Jas went in with Nanna Julie and Poppy, I dangled my feet in, Dean blissfully enjoying the all-channels access of the cable while we were up there, I'm too stingy to pay for the movie channels, we wouldn't make the most of them I reckon.
After her swim, Jas went off to the beach with the grandparental units....ALONE! Dean was beside himself worrying she would be naughty or cry for Mum and Dad, but I had to just quickly get her ready and usher her out the door with them before he tried to go along too LOL.
Of course she was just fine when she left! I got to have a nice long un-interrupted shower (no water restrictions there yet) and he probably did enjoy the quiet TV watching time. They returned a good hour and half later, she was nicely worn out and wet and sandy!!! She had a ball! Hopefully will have no trouble convincing Dean to let go a little more now.
You'd think after all the time in the water, a bath to remove the sand would be welcomed, but no lol. Screams and protests followed the forced removal of wet clothes...funny thing too she has the same reaction to getting wet in the rain! Can't make her realise it's all water.
Monday, Australia Day...I must have run all out of patriotism over the weekend, cos it just feels like a normal day. Packed up, ready to go home. A mixture of bummer and glad to go home, have been wondering how the cat is coping with the solitude...probably annoying the absolute crap out of the bird, hopefully not finding a way to reach the fish...
Traffic on the way back was flowing smoothly, still lots of flags to be seen. Stop for a break at Caboolture, discover there's a Krispy Kreme there now...damn dangerous knowledge, now Dean may be able to gain access easier! Usually has to rely on my coffee runs into the City and gives me a shopping list for KK!
Very dangerous when he needs to drop some kilos, Dad is going to take him sky-diving in a couple of months...why jump out of a perfectly good plane anyway? He can have it! Might make some good photos though.
Finally home, very much cooler, the cat and bird are fine, we lost one of the siamese fighters, RIP Mori. So no time for relaxing, clean out the tank before Kasai is lost through contaminated water. Unpacking and all the usual...then spur of the moment decide to go to the pool! Which is a miracle in itself as Dean usually has an aversion to using public swimming pools. But another good time had by all, and you can't beat half-price time!
The day comes to and end, time for dinner. Well what do you know, the oven is busted!
Final Aussie tradition for the day, pile into the car and go out for some take away LMAO! Will make more of an effort to be more Aussie next year I reckon... OI OI OI!

Squeaky!

Took Jasmine to daycare...kicking and screaming all the way, wasn't looking like it was going to be a good day :( . So after that Georgia and I got the bus to Geebung, well nearly didn't! We were too busy gasbagging we forgot to press the bell, but luckily for us there was a red light and the grumpy-bum bus driver let us out haha.
So we make it on the train, get off in the City in the totally wrong place, having to get directions from Tehannne lol. Shameful, been here all my life, I shouldn't need to be told how to make my way out of the subway into Anzac Square ffs!
Meet us with Tehanne and off we go for coffee at the Shingle Inn (the one in the city doesn't smell like burnt raisin toast like the one at Chermside does haha), Georgia got snap-happy with Elmo and the camera.
After the coffee break we had to run an errand with T on her way back to work...pmsl!
We get out of the elevator, she goes in to do what she has to do, we decided to wait in the corridor. I take a step bak, a floorboard creaks and Georgia bursts out laughing thinking I've farted!
This is where we both turn into 5 year olds LOL, we made it our mission to find all the squeaky floorboards!!!! This produced more silliness, maybe was something in my coffee and Georgia's spider?
We think maybe T had had enough of us by then because she came and told us off...with a grin! So we stepped to another area of the corridor, safe right? WRONG! New section had some more creaky floorboards hahaha! by now we were on a roll..Bad enough we were laughing, then we heard someone else down the hall with a really weird laugh, then the strange assortment of people and their hairstyles, we were GONE!!!!!
We walked back with the long-suffering T back to her work, then we caught the bus to Southbank to explore the Sciencecentre.
It was pretty much as we remembered it, maybe a bit smaller than we thought! We took our time mucking around and having fun, sending email postcards, doing puzzles, watching a lecture on light and it's properties, and taking heaps of Elmo pictures!
Unfortunately we were both getting blisters so thought we should make a move towards home, kinda.
We went into the City then for lunch and some gelati (yummy), then making our way home, where we couldn't wait to get our shoes off! An exhausting but fun (and Funny) day was had...Wonder what we might do next daycare day? Maybe only boring things like school shopping, but I'm sure we'll find a way to make it enjoyable..my daughter/bestie and Me!
Or as Tehanne called us : Squeak 1 and Squeak 2 LMAO!
Bye for now!♥

A whole new world....again!

Well here I am finally on a "real" blogging site, if you would call it that?
I got sick of myspace really, a bit too much hassle with adding pictures etc. Not sure how I'll go with it here either, as I'm learning to use Firefox browser.

A lot for someone who is used to Internet Explorer..actually till a few months ago I thought it was the only one LOL. I'm resisting the temptation to import everything fro IE though too, cos I can only imagine the mess it would be!
Just the "favourites" would probably make it have a spack (technical terminology).
I have a bad habit of saving sites in there and never getting around to organising it all.

So the "bookmarks' in Firefox have got me totally dumbfounded, so it's a case of ignore that they are there, or use sparingly till I can figure it out! Firefox is faster but more confusing and a bit harder to use (well I think!)

Makes me think of past mistakes...like at Wavell High, when computing was introduced as a subject, I remember thinking : "It'll never catch on, I won't bother!". What would have become of me if I had chosen the subject? Would my life have been any richer for the experience????

No.....probably not!!!
I may have been wealthier, with a career, but that doesn't mean I would've been any happier, does it? I probably wouldn't have had my kids, so I would've lost out there.
I definately wouldn't have met Dean, or most of my post-school friends either.

I don't think I'd change a thing. Even though people will try to convince you that you could have a better life, more of this, more of that, I reckon that being happiest with what you have is a better life...If you never had all the better "things", you wouldn't miss them anyway, would you?

But would I know how to use a computer? Well yeah, der Fred!
But where would be the fun in that???? I'm learning as I go, with many people along the way to help me with even the stupidest-sounding questions LOL.
- this is from someone who still thinks if a drink gets spilled on the keyboard it'll ruin the WHOLE computer LMAO-

But all said and done, I reckon I'm damn rich!!
Well this is the end of the rather boring first "actual" new blog entry.
I was hoping it to be better, but the creative juices are just not flowing today, so better luck next time!!!
bye for now♥