Break

Shutting up shop for a while. There are things going on that I have to think about and I need some quiet healing time.

I'll be back, just not sure when.

xxx

Sometimes ya just wanna give up

So ... lol, I've been sitting here sipping coffee and staring blankly for 20 minutes now. Another 10 minutes just went by. It's still dark, pitch black. The only light is from my monitor ~ and it's quiet. The only sounds are the hum of the comp and the tic toc of the clock ... and my typing.

When I'm not typing the clock gets louder ...

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... time is marching on, I can see it, I can feel it, and I sit and wonder what I'm doing with it. Apart from making another useless post, I don't have any other answers at the moment.

Fingers Crossed

VICTORIA'S firefighters and fire-hit towns are bracing themselves for another onslaught as extreme temperatures and northerly winds threaten to escalate bushfires burning out of control.
A statewide total fire ban has been declared and towns south of the state's major blazes have been put on alert as the northerlies could sweep flames towards them.

It's 9am and already 27c.

The teenager was planning on meeting her evil poophead b/f in Warburton today (click the map to enlarge and you can see it). Ummm, she's dreaming!

On another note ...

Aussie, aussie aussie,
oi oi oi!
Happy Australia Day.

Up In Smoke

The results of yesterday ....







Luckily it's cooled down a bit today so hopefully they'll be able to get things under control.

Scorcher

It's hot! Damn hot! Freaking hot! Stinking, sweaty, headache-inducing, killer hot!

I wanna be here. Doing this! Cos I don't like getting sweaty unless I'm doing ....

.... this!

Justice for None!

Corby's 20-year sentence reinstated
6:05 PM January 19

An Indonesian court has reinstated the original 20-year sentence given to convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby.

Last year Corby's lawyers had successfully argued for her sentence to be reduced to 15 years.
The ABC has been told that the prosecution's appeal against the leniency of that sentence has been successful.

The decision was made last week.
Corby will now serve 20 years in a Bali prison for smuggling 4.1 kilograms of marijuana into the country in a boogie-board bag.

Source: ABC

Sometimes you really have to wonder wtf is wrong with people. I won't even go into the fact they never proved her guilt and to be honest I'm beyond caring whether she is or isn't.

The fact still remains that under THAT system a fucktard who kills over 200 people, including 88 Aussies, and injures many many more, has his sentence reduced to less than two fucking years while she gets 20 for this crap.

Go and eat some chickens you bastards!

Pissed off? Damn straight!

Some 'Stuff'

It's 5.30am. I've been awake since 2. After an hour I gave up, got up and made a (strong) coffee. Here's to another day that starts in the middle of the night. *sigh*

The saga continues with rash-girl. After not being able to get a doc appointment asap, I took her to the local ER the other day. (This is no small thing we're talking about, she's covered from head to toe now).

So we're called in, doc asks what the prob is, she says 'mum thinks I have measles'. She's checked out, asked symptoms, etc and they tell us it's not measles because she's not sick enough. (I think bullshit it's not, you just wait buster) lol.

Guess what? She's now been throwing up for two days straight, the sore throat is worse, the rash is joining up making her look like she has a bad case of sunburn, she's sniffly and snuffly and .... need I go on?

Not measles my ass!

And they say we blondes are dumb?

The teenager stayed at a girlfriend's place Saturday night. When I picked her up late Sunday, she showed me a rash that had developed and it didn't look good so as I went into detective mode, as ya do, asking about anything new she may have eaten, was she outside, did she touch any plants, etc etc, here's what the response was to ....

Me: Where did it start?
Her: In the house
Me: (Slight pause) Yes ok but where?
Her: In the loungeroom
Me: (Stunned silence ... deep breath) Where ON YOUR BODY did the rash start? sheeesh lol
Her: Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh etc etc

No, she's not blonde lol.

Run me over with a bus ... PLEASE!

Three hours sleep and 15 rounds with the verbal equivalent of Mohammed Ali ... with more punches to come.

Oh what a joy. Happy fucking weekend to me.

Memories

A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, (even if we don't speak often) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me. It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE. When you're finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people DON'T ACTUALLY remember about you!

Pinched from Seamus (taaaaaa, you've made my life easier today) hehe

Procrasinator? Not me ;)

Hmm what to do, what to do. I should take the washing out of the machine before it gets stinky, but I'll do that later.

I should also don my sexy gardening clobber and pull some weeds. I should empty the dishwasher too and get rid of the cobwebs and sweep the floors and clean the bath and showers, and the loos too I 'spose, ugggh and put the new rego sticker on my car seeing I should have done that two months ago, but but but ... I only found it again yesterday so pffff.

Think I'll procrastinate a bit more though *clicks another song*. Yeah that's what I'll do. See? I can make a decision today :D

And here lovies, a couple of new random piccies for your boredom enjoyment.
















If there's a mess, she'll get comfy on it!















A small sample of my recent harvest :)

Do you think I speak English?

If you feel like getting a little confused, try this http://smartasses.org/aussiequiz.html

Score for Mushster

You got 20 answers right.
You got 0 answers wrong.

You're a bottler, mate!You are a fair dinkum, ridgy didge, dinky die, true blue, dyed-in-the-wool Ocker-like strine speaker. Well bugger me, you could probably even play a didgeridoo and know the proper way to twirl a billy. Goodonya. Get us another stubbie while you're up, will ya... and have one yourself while you're at it!

This n That

A bit of an update. Sorry I'm not very talkative these days. Part of me is saying to just pull the plug on this thing but I haven't decided yet. Anyway just a few tidbits ....

~ Firstly the garden. Boring I know but tuff lol.

* The tomatoes I planted are finally going great guns. I've got six varieties. I picked the first lot yesterday and threw them in a tossed salad last night and I hafta tell ya people, I was stoked. Very satisfying eating your own home-grown things and mmmmmm mmmmmmmm much tastier than shop-bought too.

* Also picked and threw in the solitary cucumber that was growing lol. Dunno if there'll be any more but that's ok, at least I got one hehe.

* Brown and red onions are doing ok too although I screwed them up when I put them in and planted them too close together ~ but! ~ they have grown into lill baby ones and man they're strong ... sniff sniff lol.

* Last but not least, the strawberries! I saw little pink flowers yesterday so I'll be paying close attention to them from now on and keeping the champagne on ice :D

~ In other (non) news ....

* A few weeks before Christmas, I spent a Saturday morning in the emergency ward with the teenager's boyfriend after he was beaten to a pulp at a party and turned up here at 6am the next morning, bloody, disoriented and barely able to stand.

It's a long and complicated story but the bottom line is yes his mother eventually showed up so I left her with him. After hours of tests and xrays he was released and ummm, guess where she took him? Yep, back here for me to look after (and pissed off before I could say a word).

Bleeding heart that I am, I did look after him and also discovered I'd grown attached to the lill shit because later on when I had time to sit I sobbed my heart out for the kid. Why did I do that and not his own mother? (And yes, I know she didn't).

Anyway things were going along well after that until my main rule was broken - they paid dearly for that. Bleeding heart or not, there is only so much even I can take and the evil teen's boyfriend was thrown out the day of Christmas Eve.

Timing huh?

That's about it. I'm sure there are other things I've missed but I've yapped enough for now.

Back to Reality

I have just had one of the best weeks I've had in a long time. I had the house to myself for 6 whole days and I made the most of every second. I did what I liked, when I liked and spent my time with whom I liked.

It was bliss. For six days I've been in heaven.

Heaven doesn't last though. It came crashing down around me yesterday around the same time the backdoor crashed open and the sound of clammering voices entered the house.

Sigh, it was wonderful while it lasted and I am so very thankful I had that time. I will have it again too .... op een dag!