Funny girl and other stories.

Today Freya did a totally wicked drawing on her Mega Sketcher (magnetic thingy), and then we did her Charlie and Lola puzzle. She was rather pleased with herself, so she came down to see me in the dungeon wearing her medal from the creche olympics. "I won," she said. "I got a medal!". That was very cute.

Here's the finished artwork:


Today was the first day back at creche after the Xmas break. Missed yesterday as Boog was a bit unwell. She moaned bitterly in the morning but as soon as we got there she was smiling and happy! When I went to pick her up she was asleep, poor chicky, and she took a while to wake up and cheer up but then she was quite perky.

I was feeling fairly good today, my cough has largely cleared up and I was only a bit wobbly at times. Made a nice curry for dinner, haven't had that recipe for years & it worked out quite well.

Scored something rather good today... saw an old monitor which had been left next to a charity bin (which technically is littering, so I have done a public service by removing it!) which looked quite nice and was fairly large. I snaffled it and took it home. I looked it up online, it's an old Sony 21" (!!!!) complete with built in USB hub. This evening I plugged it in (standing well back!) and then connected up my Laptop, and voila it works quite well! Cranked it up to 1280 x 1024 and it looked good, for some reason the brightness was way up but I tweaked it a bit and it seems to be in good nick... Hooray for scrounging I say!

Off to Canberra on Friday...

P.S.

Quite chuffed that Obama won the US election.  Much like the Labour victory in the federal elections here a while back, I can kid myself that the world will be a better place... for about 8 minutes LOL!

Was there a horse race on?

Managed to spend the week prior to Melbourne Cup with a weird throat infection which migrated from one side to the other, with sore swollen glands to boot.  Nice.  Over the weekend Freya & I both came down with a cold & were heaps of fun to be around.  More Goblin powered vehicle training which went OK, I had a ride in one of the vehicles which was quite fun.  They are surprisingly noisy as your head is quite close to the rear wheel and the fairing sounds like a gigantic wobble board.

Spent the day at home with Freya on Wednesday, went to the Drs and found that she had an ear infection.  Dr No-Antibiotics prescribed some antibiotics, and she improved quickly, although she spent Thursday home with Reb.  Twas a fairly pleasant day on the whole.

Thursday night was a Goblin powered vehicle session at one of the velodromes... turned out to be a fairly good venue and a good session.

Suffering some mind trauma with the end of year program at school... roll on the holidays.

How frustrating...

Another fairly pleasant day at home, but for a couple of frustrations.  I wanted to make some biscuits this morning, and it turned into a bit of a disaster.  The "basic biscuit" recipe in the Edmonds cookbook turned out to be pretty hideous.  It was super-dry and not very tasty, and it took me about a million goes before I could roll it out reasonably well.  Afte rmuch grinding of teeth and muttered curses, eventually I ended up with these pale, dessicated and rather unappetizing things.  Reb suggested that I ice them, so I did (lemon icing,  because I was feeling bitter LOL) and they turned out OK.  I called them "frustration biscuits".

Second item of frustration... the camera has decided to be dead again today.  Grrr.

Made some lemonade which was well yummy.

Freya was quite amusing last night... she took a while to go to sleep, and when I went in she was lying across her pillow, cuddling her big pink pig.  I moved the pig, and gently pulled her legs around.  She stirred a bit but then went straight to sleep.

She ended up in our bed about 3 am, and was a wriggly worm.  In her sleep she said "wet hands!" and "no I don't want to!" and laughed a bit as well... funny wee chick. 

Hot day today, mid to high twenties.  Lots of pollen is giving me a bit of hay fever.  The garden is looking nice (apart from the GIGANTIC weeds), all the trees have lots of flowers, the grasses are big & bushy, and the succulents out the front are completely covered in pink blossoms.  Very nice.

Funny old day.

Bit of a strange day today.  There is some back-story which I will hopefully get around to filling in with some retrospective posting, but the short version is that over the last few weeks a couple of things happened which were kinda annoying.

The first was that Freya lost one of her toys, a funny little dog that she had picked up at one of the op shops.  It was only 50c or something so we could hardly say no!  Anyway, it turned into the toy of the week,and even had a name (Rosie) within about an hour!  Rosie went everywhere, going to creche every day, and then... DISASTER!!!  It was really strange actually.  Rosie was on the dining room table one minute, and gone the next.  Freya didn't seem to know where she was, although she wasn't very upset we couldn't find her, which was probably a bit odd.  We looked more and more as the days passed, and eventually resigned ourselves to Rosie turning up at random in the distant future.  Perhaps stray black hole from the LHC had gobbled her up.  Then this morning we heard a commotion, and Freya yelled "I found Rosie!" and sure enough, there she was in her spotty glory.  Freya had put her in an old teapot "because she was scared" or something like that!  We were all very pleased to find her again.  Next time I've lost something I'll remember to check Reb's old teapot.

The other tragedy was that our lovely digital camera bit the dust.  Freya loves to use it (she actually has the hang of pointing it and pressing the button) and she brought it to show me what she had done.  Unfortunately, it slipped out of her hands and whacked down on the tiles, and promptly went dead.  It had a couple of moments of activity (which I thought were just death throes) as it managed to retract the lens before shutting down again.  It sat forlornly on my desk for a week or two, and then today I was just about to get medieval on it with my fine screwdrivers when I though I should check it again, and bling, on it goes.  I took some pictures and it all seems to be OK... fingers crossed it will stay that way.

Apart from those weird happenings it was a pretty good day.  Reb is somewhat housebound due to being on after-hours support, so we did heaps of gardening and tidying, and we both played with Freya and read lots of books.  Washed Bomb and picked up the patched tyre from the garage.  Nice not to be rushing around trying to do too many things!

Long time, no blog...

The school holidays have dried up and blown away like old ear wax.  Many exciting things to be blogged about...

That worked rather well

Was due to head off to goblin powered vehicle training today but the weather was inclement and the goblins were not organized. Instead I stayed home and made lunch. I fancied an omelet but and found a couple of recipes online. This one looked promising, but I liked the thought of the rosemary in this one. Made a double-triple recipe to feed us all. Actually worked really well & was very tasty!