I have made more things lately - here are two more items I made, both lampshades of sorts.
The black and white one is next to my husband's bed, and the red and white one, is next to mine.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
More crafty things
I have made more things lately - here are two more items I made, both lampshades of sorts.
The black and white one is next to my husband's bed, and the red and white one, is next to mine.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Wooly hat, just a bit too small
So, I have LONG planned to do all sorts of crafty things for my family, and finally today I completed a thing. I am making Morgan and scarf and hat for school. Here is the hat, although it may be just a tad too small.
I am using those roundy roundy thingies that I bought years ago with a view to making wooly hats.
Morgan's one is black so she can wear it to school. I am going to make one for Douglas in camouflage colours. I just wonder if we will be able to find it when he is not wearing it.
More pics later.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Hello Peter substitutes very strange words
I wrote a Hello Peter complaint today (I am sorry that it came to that, but customer service must be that - service).
Two words I used were bleeped out in the complaint that showed online: idiots, and screwed. As in, I had dealt with idiots, and if you bought from this company and your product broke down, you were screwed cos you wouldn't be able to get it fixed.
I can understand swear words and obscenities being bleeped out, but I didn't think those were bad? Sorry people. The thing is, with the substitutions, it looked like i said worse words, which is hillarious.
Maybe I am not as old as I thought I was.
Two words I used were bleeped out in the complaint that showed online: idiots, and screwed. As in, I had dealt with idiots, and if you bought from this company and your product broke down, you were screwed cos you wouldn't be able to get it fixed.
I can understand swear words and obscenities being bleeped out, but I didn't think those were bad? Sorry people. The thing is, with the substitutions, it looked like i said worse words, which is hillarious.
Maybe I am not as old as I thought I was.
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Save money on popcorn
Yes, I know it sounds freaky and stupid, but if your kids love popcorn as much as mine do, and prefer the microwave type to the type you do in a pot, then you know what I am talking about.
Save tens of Rands each month by doing this instead:
buy bulk brown bags (a couple of cents each) and the cheap bulk packets of popcorn, and use the two together to make your own microwave popcorn. It works fantastically, give the same exact result (except perhaps for the flavouring) and is a huge hit.
We also bought a shaker of salt and vinegar salt. Now all we need to do is figure out how to flavour the popcorn to butter...
Save tens of Rands each month by doing this instead:
buy bulk brown bags (a couple of cents each) and the cheap bulk packets of popcorn, and use the two together to make your own microwave popcorn. It works fantastically, give the same exact result (except perhaps for the flavouring) and is a huge hit.
We also bought a shaker of salt and vinegar salt. Now all we need to do is figure out how to flavour the popcorn to butter...
Monday, January 17, 2011
Geeks are all around us
So My husband sent me this link this evening and said that if he didn;t find me first this is the type of guy who would have snapped me up. Lovely...
http://notalwaysright.com/love-a-jedi-shall-know/9507
http://notalwaysright.com/love-a-jedi-shall-know/9507
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Blue Cheese
What do you get when you cross a technophobe with a deaf twit? A blue cheese dongle. Lol. No seriously, I was talking to my Mom about a Blue tooth dongle that I need to make my phone talk to my laptop so I can synchronise my calendar and mail contacts etc, and after a momentary silence, she asked me what a blue cheese dongle was.
It, like so many other humorous made up words, has made its way into our everyday language, and always amuses me and my husband when we talk about these things using our “private” in-jokes, and people correct us thinking we are mistaken and wanting to teach us the correct words.
It, like so many other humorous made up words, has made its way into our everyday language, and always amuses me and my husband when we talk about these things using our “private” in-jokes, and people correct us thinking we are mistaken and wanting to teach us the correct words.
So what’s next?
The World came, and saw, and then conquered us, then left – with the teams flying out only hours after their final matches. This surprised me. I thought that people were going to stay and spend their money looking at our “stuff” and visiting all the cool places, but I guess they didn’t want to. Can’t say I am surprised though. I have had a look in the shops, and I do see that the so-called World Cup merchandise was horrifically overpriced, and is on sale from up to 50% off. Perhaps even the tourists with their money going so much further than ours found the paraphernalia too dear.
At least the roads were bliss with our shiny bright new highways in working order. I can’t wait til they are fully operational.
At least the roads were bliss with our shiny bright new highways in working order. I can’t wait til they are fully operational.
Crazy cat lady
I now live with 7 cats. You may think that sounds like I am a crazy cat lady, but it is true. It is a mixed blessing, because we also have to share the space with 3 small dogs, which have a healthy respect for the cats – two of whom regularly punch or claw the dogs just to ensure their reign of terror continues.
So there we were sitting at our computers, playing one or other of our LAN games, when we suddenly heard a hissing and a yelping. I turned my head just in time to see our medium sized grey cat (Michelle, smelly belly) hitting the little black doggie – Chrissie. Now Chrissie is the sweetest dog, and her only sin was walking into the study to sit at the feet of her master, but Michelle decided that she was sitting on the box and no dogs were allowed to pass. Either that or the dog was too close, or she was grumpy, or who knows what else… but Chrissie was set right good and proper.
Another such incident – Ash (the fattest cat in the whole of Edenglen), walked into the room to see if she could cause my husband to pick her up onto his lap by clawing him until he picked her up out of exasperation, when Michelle decided to jump down off the desk and hit her in the face twice. It was the funniest thing. I could hear the knock on her little head and she kind of shook her head as one may do after a fall. Michelle then turned tail and ran.
But Michelle is a causer, and I worry about her because she is always full of sores. But I have seen her. All the cats will be minding their own business eating the food, when Michelle will come along and walk slowly up to the others and start hitting.
On the one hand, it is very funny, but on the other, it is worrying because maybe it means she is insecure.
Mind you, with 6 other cats in your space, perhaps that is the only way to survive.
So there we were sitting at our computers, playing one or other of our LAN games, when we suddenly heard a hissing and a yelping. I turned my head just in time to see our medium sized grey cat (Michelle, smelly belly) hitting the little black doggie – Chrissie. Now Chrissie is the sweetest dog, and her only sin was walking into the study to sit at the feet of her master, but Michelle decided that she was sitting on the box and no dogs were allowed to pass. Either that or the dog was too close, or she was grumpy, or who knows what else… but Chrissie was set right good and proper.
Another such incident – Ash (the fattest cat in the whole of Edenglen), walked into the room to see if she could cause my husband to pick her up onto his lap by clawing him until he picked her up out of exasperation, when Michelle decided to jump down off the desk and hit her in the face twice. It was the funniest thing. I could hear the knock on her little head and she kind of shook her head as one may do after a fall. Michelle then turned tail and ran.
But Michelle is a causer, and I worry about her because she is always full of sores. But I have seen her. All the cats will be minding their own business eating the food, when Michelle will come along and walk slowly up to the others and start hitting.
On the one hand, it is very funny, but on the other, it is worrying because maybe it means she is insecure.
Mind you, with 6 other cats in your space, perhaps that is the only way to survive.
Wedding bells
Well, I have been married for just under 4 months, and my life has been turned upside down, inside out, and perhaps, most of all, the right way round.
I had my dream wedding on the 27th of March at a place called Avianto in Muldersdrift, and it was an absolute fairytale. Everything went according to plan, I had the most beautiful dress in the history of the world, the weather played along fantastically, and everyone I wanted to be there, was there. It was a garden wedding, and the décor was fabulous. It was even better than I imagined, and the rain came pelting down about 15 minutes after we all came inside. Good luck indeed.
It is a challenge to have a complete family already, specially one with teenagers where I have not had children of my own yet, but I think that everything is going well, and it will all be fine in the end.
Best of all, my husband is a biker too.
Here’s to many happy years together my love.
I had my dream wedding on the 27th of March at a place called Avianto in Muldersdrift, and it was an absolute fairytale. Everything went according to plan, I had the most beautiful dress in the history of the world, the weather played along fantastically, and everyone I wanted to be there, was there. It was a garden wedding, and the décor was fabulous. It was even better than I imagined, and the rain came pelting down about 15 minutes after we all came inside. Good luck indeed.
It is a challenge to have a complete family already, specially one with teenagers where I have not had children of my own yet, but I think that everything is going well, and it will all be fine in the end.
Best of all, my husband is a biker too.
Here’s to many happy years together my love.
Wedding bells
Well, I have been married for just under 4 months, and my life has been turned upside down, inside out, and perhaps, most of all, the right way round.
I had my dream wedding on the 27th of March at a place called Avianto in Muldersdrift, and it was an absolute fairytale. Everything went according to plan, I had the most beautiful dress in the history of the world, the weather played along fantastically, and everyone I wanted to be there, was there. It was a garden wedding, and the décor was fabulous. It was even better than I imagined, and the rain came pelting down about 15 minutes after we all came inside. Good luck indeed.
It is a challenge to have a complete family already, specially one with teenagers where I have not had children of my own yet, but I think that everything is going well, and it will all be fine in the end.
Best of all, my husband is a biker too.
Here’s to many happy years together my love.
I had my dream wedding on the 27th of March at a place called Avianto in Muldersdrift, and it was an absolute fairytale. Everything went according to plan, I had the most beautiful dress in the history of the world, the weather played along fantastically, and everyone I wanted to be there, was there. It was a garden wedding, and the décor was fabulous. It was even better than I imagined, and the rain came pelting down about 15 minutes after we all came inside. Good luck indeed.
It is a challenge to have a complete family already, specially one with teenagers where I have not had children of my own yet, but I think that everything is going well, and it will all be fine in the end.
Best of all, my husband is a biker too.
Here’s to many happy years together my love.
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