Tag: good things

Family & Parenting, Food Glorious Food, Stuff About Me5 Comments

Splash!

mimbles

We went to the pool today, it’s not our closest public pool, there’s one at Hornsby too but this one at West Pymble is in such a lovely setting that it’s well worth a few extra minutes drive to go there instead. You can see what I mean from the Google satellite image This is the pool I used to come to for swimming lessons in the summer holidays when I was a kid, I have vivid memories of doing water safety and having to jump into the olympic pool fully dressed, tread water for a while and then swim … Continue reading Splash!

Family & Parenting, Stuff About Me, Things We Should Talk About at the Dinner Table6 Comments

Adam missed seeing Santa – AGAIN!

mimbles

Every single year it happens, just when Adam has had to duck out to run an errand or fix a problem, there’s the call of “Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas!” and this big guy in a silly red suit turns up at our Christmas party with a sack full of gifts for all the kids. Saturday afternoon was no different…. This year our Christmas party doubled as Adam’s 40th birthday party but slack buggers that we are there was no cake and we never actually sang Happy Birthday to him. Poor Adam, no Santa and no birthday song either. What … Continue reading Adam missed seeing Santa – AGAIN!

Stuff About MeLeave a comment

John Scalzi offers “A Story For a Donation”

mimbles

From John’s blog: Hey kids! I’m doing a holiday fundraiser!Short Explanation: Science fiction writer and publisher Vera Nazarian is about to lose her home due to various medical and legal expenses. Various folks are fund raising to help her make the payment on her home. My contribution is to offer you a free short story behind the cut below. If you like it, consider donating a small sum via PayPal, which I will send to Vera next Saturday. For the first $1000 sent to the PayPal via the address provided in this entry, Subterranean Press will match the contribution 1-for-1, … Continue reading John Scalzi offers “A Story For a Donation”

Family & Parenting, Keeping the Masses Entertained, Stuff About Me, Things We Should Talk About at the Dinner Table6 Comments

This weekend

mimbles

We have: Demolished most of the kitchenette downstairs in the rumpus room (L-shaped bench and the cupboards underneath) to make room for the old entertainment unit. Now I just have to figure out what to do with all the crap that came out of the demolished cupboards. Moved the old entertainment unit (yeah, that bloody great thing ^) from the lounge room, out along the front path, down the precipitous driveway, through the garage into the backyard and then back in to the rumpus room. Moved two huge bookshelves to make space for a clothes rack in our bedroom. Shifted … Continue reading This weekend

Family & Parenting, Food Glorious Food, Keeping the Masses Entertained, Pets and Other Wildlife, Stuff About Me, Things We Should Talk About at the Dinner Table3 Comments

I’m going to read to you whether you like it or not!

mimbles

Today I spent the whole day feeling like nothing was working out quite the way it was supposed to. I had planned to give myself the morning off, once I’d dropped the kids at school I was going to come home and spend an hour and a half doing whatever I bloody well wanted to and then pop up to the school 30 minutes before my Canteen shift began to partake of the Helper’s Morning Tea – a thank you from the staff to all the parent who have helped out at the school throughout the year (I’ve never been … Continue reading I’m going to read to you whether you like it or not!

Blog Link-ups and Memes, Family & Parenting, Keeping the Masses Entertained, Stuff About Me, Things We Should Talk About at the Dinner Table5 Comments

Getting ready

mimbles

I’ve spent the last few weeks responding to every hint of Christmas – decorations in shops, carol singing kids at the breakfast table, request from Adam for fruit mince pies (he ended up cooking his own) – by growling “it’s not December yet!” in true bah humbug fashion. But come Monday it will be December and that means there’s a whole bunch of Stuff To Do this weekend. As I mentioned, we’ve done barely any Christmas shopping, so tonight is list writing time and the plan is to be up and out bright and early tomorrow morning for a bit … Continue reading Getting ready

Blog Link-ups and Memes, Family & Parenting, Stuff About Me, Things We Should Talk About at the Dinner Table7 Comments

I always miss historic moments

mimbles

But not today. This afternoon I came home with the kids after spending pretty much the entire day at the school doing canteen duty, helping out with refreshments for the Kindy orientation and giving my intro to the P&C speech for the second time. I opened up my laptop and was greeted with the news that McCain had conceded and the USA has as President-Elect one Barak Obama. I was just in time to jump on board the Hoyden’s live blogging of the event (in mostly lurker mode) and the kids, Adam and I sat in the lounge room with … Continue reading I always miss historic moments

Gardens and Bushland, Pets and Other Wildlife, Stuff About Me8 Comments

Beautiful plumage!

mimbles

Our back deck has a number of regular visitors. There’s the rainbow lorikeets who cling to the fly screen and screech at us demanding breakfast. There’s the possum who comes every evening to clean up anything the birds leave behind. There’s the crimson rosella who with great daring braves the wrath of the lorikeets to try for a share of the apples and bird seed (it never works, those lorikeets are fierce!). And very occasionally we get the King Parrots who are regulars at our neighbour’s back deck and rarely grace us with their presence. One of them dropped in … Continue reading Beautiful plumage!

Food Glorious Food, Stuff About Me5 Comments

And a fun time was had by all

mimbles

Tonight was the P&C Trivia Night. More a social occasion than a fundraiser so not too much organising needed to be done, I bought a few prizes and we decorated the school hall with some token balloons and tealight candles on the tables. Ariane‘s sister was our trivia master for the night and she did an awesome job, everyone was very appreciative. So, we sat around eating cheese and bikkies, drinking red wine, answering trivia questions, attempting to burn down the school… …WHAT? Um. You know those tealight candles on the tables? Turns out it wasn’t such a brilliant idea … Continue reading And a fun time was had by all

Fat Acceptance, Stuff About Me4 Comments

Being everything I can be

mimbles

I read a post on Nat’s blog this morning that got me thinking. Here’s the bit that gave the old brain cells a prod: …even now, ‘just’ 52 kilos lighter I am much more of a person than I ever was before. This seems so shallow but it reinforces my belief that we categorise ourselves and filter our world through our obesity…just like someone who is depressed. And this stops us from sharing so many of our good qualities with others. We allow ourselves to become less of a human being. We allow ourselves to watch the rest of the … Continue reading Being everything I can be