NaBloPoMo Lameness

I am preempting not remembering to blog later tonight when I get home so I am getting in early and posting now just for the sake of posting and meeting my NaBloPoMo commitments so here goes…

As an Aussie I don’t celebrate Thanksgiving unless a friend from the US is staying here (Where are you Sarah? COME BACK).  Now since Sarah is back in the US studying it has been 2 years since I have eaten pumpkin pie.  Here is some of the food from that Thanksgiving feast 2 years ago using Sarah’s secret recipes then adapted to Aussie ingredients (read: fresh ingredients because we don’t have them in cans!) and laden with butter, lots of butter.

Delicious food – stovetop stuffing, brocolini, creamy mash, chicken (I don’t like turkey), sweet potato.  I forgot to take a photo of the pumpkin pie – it was demolished too quickly.  Come back Sarah, I want an excuse to eat all this buttery goodness!

Happy belated Thanksgiving!

Racing the Clock

Argh, all of a sudden it is late.  Now normally that wouldn’t be a problem, but today it is.  Damn you NaBloPoMo, how can I possibly think of something worth reading in 3 measly minutes.  Now generally I work well under pressure but that is usually when I have some sort of idea of where I am headed.  Plans for where I am headed today?  Yeah, not so much.

As I type I sit and watch the clock on the laptop, hoping that it is working and not frozen in some alternate reality time warp.  This minute seems to be taking a while, not that it is a bad thing I just don’t want to miss the deadline by a few measly minutes.  OK, 2 minutes left and I have really nothing at all to say other than why am I not in bed?

I am tired, in need of sleep, I have to work tomorrow (and go out tomorrow night).  Crap haven’t got a sitter yet.  Ooops, must eat chocolate and press publish just to make sure I make it in time.

Did I Publish?

It is 12.41am and I know I wrote a post earlier but I can’t remember if I hit publish. I have spent the evening at a friends sharing a few drinks and chocolate. It was a great night but I hope I haven’t blown NaBloPoMo this early in the month. If I weren’t so tired I would check now instead of writing a post but after a few drinks that would be way too logical!

Happy Days

Hooray, the sun is shining, the sky is full of helicopters over the race track, the picnic is spread out and the barbeque is about to be fired up. What is even better is being in the park with friends, sipping bubbles, watching the racing and listening to the kids run and play.
Today is a great day, perhaps photos will follow.

NaBloPoMo again

I have just realised that if yesterday was Halloween then today it must be November and I remembered thinking there is something I was planning on doing in November, I just couldn’t remember what.  I was almost asleep when I suddenly remembered – NaBloPoMo.  I did it last year and enjoyed it.  I was still pretty new to blogging in this space so it was challenging to write every day but I did it and had some fun.

Of late I have lost my blogging groove.  I feel like all I do is a quick blow by blow rant about my day.  No insight, no commentary just a boring old itinerary of how craptastic some days really can be, so much so that I almost checked the psychotic ranting/anonymous foaming button for blog category when I registered.  I chickened out and am listed simply as ‘general’.

Visit NaBloPoMo

I am hoping that during this month I will dig myself out of this itinerary funk, finish some stories that I have started and join in some new themes to keep me busy in my 3.2 seconds of spare time that I have to blog.  So there I go, committed to posting every day for the month.

Weekly Winners #7 – Happy Halloween

Halloween really isn’t a big deal around here but all the kids know about it and want to get in on the action.  However I really don’t want them wandering around the neighbourhood begging for treats.  There was an organised group of people trick or treating that we could have joined but they weren’t starting until 7 and that was going to equate to another really late night.  Instead we had a picnic in the park with anyone who wanted to join in on the fun.  We hid lollies in the garden beds for a treasure hunt, had scary food and watched dozens of kids run around in costumes having fun.  It wasn’t a typical Halloween celebration but it was fun.

This is girl-child normally.

And now girl-child as Elphaba from Wicked.

Happy Halloween.

 

Question time

So boy-child has been pretty good all day. Not exactly normal but close to it. He spent much of the day playing with friends and fantasizing about life as a wrestler.
We spent the afternoon in the park with a rather group of friends sharing a picnic to celebrate Halloween. The plan was to let the kids eat too much junk food and run wild. In actual fact boy-child spent his time snuggled on my lap.
Afterwards I went to a friends for dinner but man-child took the boy home to rest. I am not long home and already his temp is up to 39.2 and not as hot to touch as last night (mine is currently 36.7).
The pharmacist was suggesting that over 38 was a trip to the emergency room. I am not sure though. Whilst hot he is not unwell. He is eating and drinking, he is hungry he is just hot and has a headache. I don’t know what to do. The emergency eo is likely to let is sit there all night saying it is just fever and ther is nothing they can do.
For now he is burning up andeatcjimg Toy Story 2, wondering why je can’t have popcorn. I think it is going to be another long night. Should I plan a trip to the emergency room or try wait it out?

More Plans Out the Window

I have grand plans for this weekend, plans that included sleep. I negotiated with the kids that of they wanted to go to the Halloween picnic they had to allow me to sleep in. Also as I still need to make/finish costumes I need them to clean up their room and put toys away as they do every Saturday morning prior to getting their pocket money. Once that was done we were going to make witchy fingers to take to the picnic. I even tried to circumvent the mess I anticipate will occour during the biscuit making so I pre mixed the dough before going to bed. And yes I made the dough to prevent mess not just because I wanted to snack on it!
Anyway, that was my plan. It was spimple really, how could it go wrong? Oh I forgot the moons have aligned in a most conspiritoral way again and I am spending the wee hours of the morning wide awake listening to the ragged, rapid breathing and delusional rants of boy-child as he lay beside me on the sofa bed in the study.
He woke up about an hour ago (about 3 hours after I went to bed) screaming. He has a headache, fever and by the sound of it a blocked sinus. Even after nurofen the poor boy is so hot it is like laying next to a radiant heater that can only be comfortable if draped over my body. I don’t think much sleep will be happening this morning

So Tired

I can’t remember ever being so tired. Everthing hurts and I am grumpy. I don’t like feeling like this or being this way I just don’t see any real lifestyle change happening in a hurry so I am trying to get more sleep.

I am in bed wanting to be asleep yet trying to wait for the kids to fall asleep first. I am willing them to go to sleep but it isn’t working. I could walk downstairs and ask them to go to sleep but that would require energy that I don’t have. Besides, hearing them giggle uncontrolably makes me wish I were young and energetic, filled with fun and excitement.

Perhaps if I shut my tired burning eyes I will drift off to sleep to the same sounds of laughter and it will lead me to a land of happy dreams…

Weekly Winners #6

After a yet another crazy, exhausting, glad-it-is-over kind of week, it is time to move on.  More things that have made me happy this weekend…

Spring is finally here, summer is on the way and the weather was beautiful.  We had to drag out the umbrellas to make sure that we didn’t all cook in the back yard.  I am really looking forward to backyard barbies all summer long.

Ready for Summer

Exploring Docklands and all the art installations.  This one of girl-child’s favourite.

Balancing Act

Then there is my favourite sculpture I love the Cow in a Tree.

Cow in a Tree

And finally, the purchase of the day – an early Christmas present, paintings of Melbourne already hanging on our wall!

Beautiful Melbourne

Another great weekend, I wonder what the new week has in store?