Monthly Archives: November 2009

Blah blah blah

An interesting exercise. What do you make of that, eh?  (specially those last two words… *snorts*)

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Hot and bothered

The temperature has apparently hit around 37 degrees, which is about 100 in the old money. No wonder I was feeling all hot and bothered.  Usually we are spoilt with a bit of a sea breeze, which tends to tempers … Continue reading

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And so what have we learned this week?

I’ve learned… .. that my desktop computer really hates me. (Or the universe hates me, or something…) This morning it froze with the wallpaper pic loaded, but no sys tray, and then subsequent rebooting didn’t even get me that far. … Continue reading

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And the relevance factor is…?

I had an appointment with a skin specialist yesterday – at an Outreach Clinic in town, where the doctors fly up from Sydney for a couple of days a week on a rotating basis. (That fact being totally irrelevant to … Continue reading

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Good stuff 25/11

Food court at the local shopping centre. Lunchtime. Just me.  (My usual M.O. – I spend a fair bit of my weekdays solo.) Carrying a tray with coffee and a sandwich.  Looking around for a spare table. Suddenly I see … Continue reading

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Crazy little things

I don’t think I have many foibles. (OK, family, stop laughing and pick yourself up off the ground). No, seriously, I’m the total opposite of OCD – particularly when it comes to keeping the house spick and span, so it’s … Continue reading

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Good stuff 24/11/09

So the awesome tag isn’t really ‘me’, somehow. Bit OTT and gushy really – which doesn’t really go with my image. But I’m still committed to taking note of the good stuff each day, if I can remember to do … Continue reading

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Letterbox surprises

Yesterday afternoon my neighbour invited me to have a look in her letterbox. On the  (umm…?) 29th day of Christmas, my true love sent to me…. One greeeeeen frooog…. Geez, I don’t know about the frog, but it would have … Continue reading

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Awesome things

Ms 16 sent me a link to this blog – 1000 Awesome Things. I know I often get ‘blogged down’ with the whinges and whines, even if I do try as hard as I can to turn them into a … Continue reading

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More fool Wii

More fool we. Or rather me. Who’s idea was it to get the kids a Wii? Mine. Somehow, miraculously, we managed to get thus far in their lives, and mine, without any electronic gaming devices in the house whatsoever. Yep. … Continue reading

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