Yesterday was my first wedding anniversary. The morning started out well - I woke up we had bagels with philly cheese and salami the baby ate her cereal and funnily enough her ad came back - the St Margarets schoolad that Elana LOVED had gone away for a few weeks but yesterday morning about 7:15 it came back - Elana went into hysterics - she LOVES that ad. I packed Nicks lunch - leftover pizza, a muffin and a surprise (the DaVinci Code) - he found it on the bus and is absolutely glued to it ...

It is my fondest wish that the following will leave your mouth watering and drooling with jealousy. And the Australians will rush to Brisbane and book a table for the winter menu. Saturday night Nick's dad came over to be in the house while Elana slept - so we could go out for dinner for our Wedding Anniversary. (Which is today - Monday 19th) We had an 8'o'clock reservation at Venice a bar/cafe` on the river in Brisbane. It was our fourth visit to this restuarant & once again we weren't d...

Since she was such a hit last time - I thought I'd let her write another blog. Unfortunately Janders she's just not quite old enough to have your own blog but I'll let her borrow mine occassionally anyway this is what she had to say to all of your this morning She was blowing rasberries at the time (as opposed to yesterday when there was complete silence apart form the noise of the keys) so I think she's quite passionate about this particular note yji j ...

I'm exhausted. I actually haven't done anything much today - no more or less then usual but I'm feeling really drained. See Elana has been really weird about eating the last couple of days - I think it was ... actually I don't know what day it was and it doesn't really matter but I changed her pattern from 5 bottles of 180ml and 2 feeds of solids to 4 bottles of 240ml and 2 feeds of solids It worked really well for a couple of days and then she just stopped she'd eat about 50-70mls fr...

Last Thursday I was talking to Nick on msn while surfing Joeuser and I read Muggaz's Michael Moore article almost as soon as it popped up in the recent articles section and I told Nick to read it and tell me how I felt about it - because I couldn't aryiculate a political discussion - he told me but I couldn't even articulate what HE was saying - so then he posted as himself and while he didn't say much or anything that I thought I wanted to say but couldn't and didn't articulate - it gave me ...

Brisbane Lions defeat Western Bulldogs 136 - 68 Lions 20 16 136 Bulldogs 10 8 68 FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bring on the Magpies Saturday night (of course I'll be missing it because I'm going out for my wedding anniversary but we'll still win!) In other news Mugz team Melbourne Demons beat St Kilda 146 - 89 Melbourne - 23 8 146 St Kilda - 13 11 89 Great weekend for Sport - what with the Bronco's triumphing over the Dragons 28-14 on Saturday night after that disappointing...

Today I'm blogging for me. Yesterday just because I could I was looking at old files on this laptop - the laptop is Nick's old one and the old files were MSN chat logs- I was only interested in reading the conversations he was having with me -- boy did I make a mistake going there. Reading a chatlog from 2years ago.............I felt like I had NO idea who that person was - she called herself variations of trina like I do but she was 19 going on 14 and I feel like I'm 21 going on 30....

Oy this is bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad Okay 2 minutes into it and Freddy takes out Matt Sing - he's out for Idon't know how long with a broken jaw! Wesser missed a try from the sideline when his foot touched the line. There were a coupleofmissed penaltys But the very worst thing is the score - I stopped watching at 28-8 it's now 34-8 and Nick's stopped watching too - he's put Prince of Persia back on - there's like 6minutes left and there's no way QLD can ...

Holy moly this is a weird game. It's half time the Blues lead 18-8 which sux majorly but our boys will bring it home. I'm not sure about this ref - especially that call he made when Minichiello held back Sing - I mean he so should have been sin binned for that and the ref didn't even go to the video ref - even the commentators were left wondering. And there's been SO many handling errors - on both sides - I don't know the exact stats cause Nick's playing Princeof Persia on the xbox ...

I moved this because I really liked it and it got bumped by my Orgin nonsense article and I didn't want to delete them but I still wanted that article to be on top and because I can I just want to say - I love this song Hunters and Collectors - Throw your Arms around Me everybody go out now and buy a Hunters & Collectors CD - with songs like throw your arms around me, when the river runs dry and THE HOLY GRAIL you can't go wrong. Go now!!

I've been watching Sunrise all morning and the top story of the day is Mark Latham's drop in popularity. People have been emailing the soapbox with their opinion and I just can'tunderstand it. There's all this talk about Mark Latham's buck's night video - StevePrice from a radio station in Sydney said that they had a caller who has seen the tape and told them off air his personal details (name address relationship to the Labor leader) and what is on this tape. Apparently thefootage is of ...

I really had to get the washing off the line and I was planning of grabbing it after Elana went down for asleep - but I just looked out the window and it looks like rain. So I turned the TV on and hoped Elana wouldn't bop too far off her mat and I ran downstairs. Grabbed the washing and ran back up - she hadn't moved she was staring intently at Nathan, Kelly, Tim, Charlie & Kathleen dancing on the spot and yelling at the TV.

Currently Elana is sitting on her mat playing with the various toys (ie picking them up shaking them and putting them back down and picking up something else)- I just looked up and she was sucking her thumb - nothing unusal about that - however she had her thumb through one of the buttonholes of her jacket and she was sucking her thumb. She had me in hysterics. But then she often does - like when she was trying to control the tv with the xbox controller. Or when she accidently changed the...

There's alot of debate and discussion on JU about welfare and women having babies for the money - I read this comment on Wisefawn's women entrapaneurs blog Women are not going around spitting out babies to get welfare money, as she is saying they are and I thought Yes, some are! then I went to News.com.au (www.news.com.au) and typed in a search for $3000 baby bonus and this is what I came up with Link however I've posted two of the more relevant posts below. It's all over th...

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