Please, quarantine us!

Ok, so its monday afternoon and we made it through a busy weekend. Keith took Sophie and Lachie to the football on friday night (a very last minute decision!) and the Bronco's won, which made it totally worth that last minute decision lol... saturday he was going to go fishing, but the weather was still very windy, and the guy he was going with was sick with flu, so they called it off. And yesterday we were supposed to go to Keiths brothers for a fathers day BBQ, but none of us ended up going because of the conjunctivitis/cold/flu epidemic that is washing all over this house.

So Becky, Hayden and I are taking drops for the pink eye. Lachie fell sick on saturday afternoon and spent all day yesterday on the couch, and for those who know him, he IS sick when he doesn't move from the one spot all day! He stayed home from school today and is again on the lounge sniffling, and watching a movie. Then yesterday Hayden started with this real horrid cough.. it may be croup, but it sounded worse than that! He came in to our room at 11pm last night and because I was worried and his cough sounded so horrible, I just popped him right into our bed and we fell asleep for a while. Then he woke me up with this horrible croaky crying, and when I touched his forehead he was burning up real bad. So I took off his socks, as well as his long sleeve shirt and left him in a very light cotton all in one. Gave him some Nurofen and tried to go back to sleep.. nope, he wasn't having any of that. So I ended up sitting up with him from 12.30am to just after 4am. He is still coughing and veryyyy croaky today, but his cough has broken, so it looks like he's on the other side of cold mountain :)

In other news, I got myself a 500GB EHD for $124.. BARGAIN! My computer is now running alot smoother, and I haven't even transferred everything yet! I also got myself PSE6 (YIPPEEEE!!!) but I'm having a bit of a time trying to learn how to use it lol I'm such a PSP girl, but I want the results PSE can give. So it will be time and alot of learning and tutorials :)

THEN!!! On saturday, Keith, the kids and myself went shopping with a few ideas in mind. We had talked about getting a new big TV, but the prices were a bit much. Then we went to the Good Guys and found our TV. OMG... seriously, its heaven on a stick! A 42 inch plasma.. at a rock bottom awesomely insane price! Mum and dad are in the process of saving to get themselves a new TV as theirs went kaput a week or so ago, and we've sold them on this one! We've lent them our "old" TV until they get their new one, because they were watching everything on a tiny little tv, and it was hurting dad's eyes. They very much appreciated us letting them use ours!

So now I just have to get some motivation up to scrap some pages.. I'm ITCHING to do some more layouts, but I just either have no inspiration, or I have no time. I might try tonight if everyone lets me have an hour or two to myself. Probably after the little ones go to bed!

So hopefully my next post will be about my new super dooper PSE6 layouts! LOL

Random rambles...

So I went to the docs yesterday, and I have bronchitis which I am now taking antibiotics for. The two little ones developed mild conjunctivitis, so got drops for them. And low and behold, I wake up at 2am this morning with one of my eyes glued almost shut... ughhh... so I'm taking the drops now too. And OMG, its awful! I can taste the drops at the back of my nose.. its like the liquid is going from my eyes and dripping into the back of my nose.. it tastes disgusting and I'm gagging every now and then at the taste of it LOL Ah, the joys of being a mum and catching what your kids get ;) That's ok, they like to share lol

We're supposed to be getting a pretty big storm today, with lots of rain and wind. It's already windy, and it started raining this morning walking out the front door to take Lachie to school. We need the rain! And it will be a good test of how well putting the gravel down on the driveway worked at stopping the mudpit that usually happens when we get a good amount of rain.

Lachie is having school photos done today. You have to return the form and money on the day of photos or they don't get photos at all. So I had to quickly run to the supermarket this morning before I dropped him off at school to get the cash out to pay for them. They better be good! $36!!! But if they are anything like last years, I will be well and truly satisfied :) I will have to scan one when I get them back! He really does take a nice school picture :D

Keiths got an almost full weekend ahead. Friday night he wants to go to the Broncos game. Its their last homegame and he hasn't been to one game all season. Then saturday, the guy two doors up has asked if he wants to go out fishing that afternoon/evening. And sunday we are supposed to be going to his brothers in the afternoon for a BBQ for fathers day. I won't be going to his brothers, with me and the kids having conjunctivitis. I wouldn't want to pass it on to their kids. So I've told him, he can do two out of the three things, because I am NOT going to spend three afternoon/evenings alone with all these kids! LOL So he can either do football/fishing, fishing/BBQ or football/BBQ LOL choices choices.. he told me he couldn't just choose two, and I told him that hey, 2 outta 3 aint bad ;) So I dunno. He may not even end up going fishing if the weather stays like this. Although saturday is still three days away. But still, you just never know. I would love to go fishing too, but have noone to watch the kids for 4-5 hours. Oh well.. we'll go out one weekend through the day when we can take the kids with us :) It's a bit more hectic and we can't fully put all our attention on fishing, but the kids love going out on the boat, and they've been cooped up in this house for long enough and deserve a day out!

On other news, I'm just days away from getting myself an External Harddrive for my computer! It's getting quite bogged down with graphics and photos and games and music, so once I clear that out, it should run alot smoother and faster. I also want to get my proper antivirus back, because I'm suspecting AVG isn't catching absolutely everything, even though they say it will. AND, I am hoping I can stretch it to buy myself Photoshop Elements 6... People rave about it, and it does sound (eventually!) easier to use than Paint Shop Pro. I will have to check out the price and see how much its going for. I think PSE7 has just been released very recently, so they will have hopefully reduced the price of PSE6 by a good amount. We'll just have to wait and see :)

I also have to remind myself that I need to take our two DVD players back to The Good Guys to get replaced. Ok, I only paid $50 each for them back in April, but we've had them just over 4 months and both of them have malfunctioned with the exact same error message. So back to the store it is, and they better replace them, or I want a full refund. My kids thrive on being able to watch their DVD's and its driving them crazy without a working DVD player in the house! Thankfully we have a VCR to fall back on, but its just not the same for them. None of the recent movies are on VCR, and they are dying to watch Ratatouille! So maybe over the weekend I will go take them back and then while I'm out price the EHD's and PSE6 :)

That's about it for my random rambles. I haven't managed any more layouts since my blue tongued lizard layout, so will hopefully find an hour or two to play around today. The kids will be staying inside all day with the weather as rotten as it is!

With that, I'll log off with this...

Random Thought of the Day: Can't they make eyedrops taste like strawberry??

Spring has Sprung!

I just wish it would show here and we'd all stop being sick with colds! I'm halfway through my 4th cold in just over a month and I am well and truly OVER it. I'm off to the docs tomorrow and hopefully will get some antibiotics to get rid of this icky chest infection that doesn't want to budge! My sinus is clogged too, and I just want to be able to smell and taste things properly! I also need to get my ears checked out too because I think one of them has a nasty buildup of old wax. TMI, I know LOL But that's me!

So I have applied recently to two Creative Team calls. I heard back from one today which was the second one I applied for, and unfortunately didn't make the team, but she was very graceful with saying no, and for that, I'm very appreciative! I'm yet to hear from the first designer I did an application with, and to be honest, I don't think I'm going to get a reply. I know I didn't make it. But it would be nice to get a definite no in writing. Such is life! I'm not worried at all. If I make a CT, great! But if I don't, I'm still going to have a blast scrapping anyway :) I don't need to be on a team to enjoy what I'm doing!

Speaking of scrapping, I have a few more layouts that I have done recently. I've been in a bit of a dive lately with coming up with layouts, but every now and then it works out lol

I did this for a challenge at Scrap Orchard. It was a wordart challenge, and I had alot of fun with this one. I luckily had Ellie Lash's kit "Lickety Split" and it worked perfectly with the wordart! The only thing I was missing was icecream.. so I went and bought the kids some icecream and cones, and then went snap happy taking pics of them eating them LOL

Honestly, I can't remember if this one was done for a challenge or not, but I used some wordart I found on Bethany's site. Her link is on the right hand side ;) I'd taken some pics of my son playing at the end of the driveway after Keith washed our car. A couple of hours later, checked Bethany's site, and that was her wordart freebie of the day! How coincidental! I just couldn't resist making this layout.

This is one I decided to do at the last minute one night. I'm quite pleased with this one, and it really reflects my thoughts at that very moment. It was made using the collab kit "Summer Lovin" by Ellie Lash and Pineapple Plantation Designs. Great kit with work with for lots of different themes.

And this was a challenge I completed today at Scrap Orchard called "Applecart Challenge".. you are given a free minikit (you have to be registered and logged in to nab it), and then you have to use every single piece of the kit in your layout. I decided to use one of Sines templates (and this one is a freebie on her blog!). The photos are of a blue tongued lizard that my dog nearly had for lunch yesterday. We rescued it and later released it in the gully in our backyard. He was so big and fat and healthy! Though he was missing the bottom half of one of his back legs, but it didn't seem to be bothering him!. How weird that the blue of his tongue and the green of the grass match the colours of the kit! I'm really happy with how this one turned out :D

Not a great deal else has been happening. Keiths pay didn't go in today so he didn't go to work because he didn't have enough fuel to get there and back. Lachie stayed home because I didn't have enough fuel to get him to and from school, and Sophie stayed home because she missed the bus.. AGAIN! Honestly, that bus driver needs to be more organised and get to the bus stop at a regular time, instead of at least half hour differences in times each day. One day Sophie left at 7.55am to walk to the end of our street (not that far!) and the bus had already been. The next day, she was still waiting at the bus stop at 8.30am as I drove past to take Lachie to school, and the bus turned up just at that time. Its ridiculous. She is missing more days than I like because of missing the bus, and with the cost of fuel the way it is, I can't afford to be driving her to school because of that. I need to get onto the bus company and complain. She has also put a job application for a fast food store that will be opening near her school soon. If she gets through to an interview, it will be this friday, but so far she hasn't heard anything. I really hope she gets something soon because she is desperate to get a part time job and earn her own money. Poor honey. She's just getting so down about being rejected time after time. I keep telling her that the right job will come along at the right time :) She just needs to be a little more confident in herself!
Oh another note, we were watching "Bridge to Terabithia" today and Becky was absolutely enthralled with it. I'm about to give a spoiler if you haven't seen the movie and wish to, so skip if you don't want to know!... anyway, the storyline ends up with the little girl dying and her friend is beside himself after losing his best friend. About 5 minutes later Becky turns to me most upset and said "I'm killed mummy".. I said "No you aren't honey, you are just fine".. to wish she replied "No mummy, I am KILLED!" and burst into tears. I told her to come give me big cuddles, but she buried herself face down into the couch and started sobbing. I picked her up (she protested so much to that), but I just grabbed her and held her on my lap and comforted her. She sobbed for a solid 10 minutes and it brought tears to my eyes as I realise that my little 3yo angel may finally understand the impact of death. I honestly didn't think it would affect her like that (because they don't actually show the girl die), otherwise I would never have let her watch it (Sue, you can attest to the fact that I don't let my kids watch things that will disturb or upset them!). 3 just seems too young to have any realisation of what death means. But she has a very intelligent little mind, this one.. just like her big sister. She understands far too much for her age, but its not something that I can avoid either. She just soaks in anything and everything around her. I love her so much :)
Anyway, I've rambled enough! Its SPRING! It's already starting to warm up, and we've moved from being rugged up, to wearing shorts and short-sleeved tops. The electric blanket hasn't been on for about a week now, and there have been a couple of days where we've had a fan or two going through the day. They are predicting a big storm season for us this summer, so I think we need to spend time cleaning up the yard, because they are saying they will be BIG. WOOT! Bring it on! As long as we don't lose our house (TOUCH WOOD!), I'll be sitting on my back verandah watching everything :)