Bloggers Boogey- 90;s Gems

I love my digital radio and have it constantly tuned to http://www.chemistwarehousemix90s.com.au/.  It totally rocks and is so awesome!!  Who knew how many awesome songs there were in the 90's!!  This 5 were played back to back the other day and had me dancing around like a crazy woman!!   I may or may not own at least 3 on cd single or album!!

FFS friday- still sick and over it and whinging about it

  Still sick here.  FFS   If I wipe one more snotty nose or buy one more box of tissues or see another child wipe their snotty nose on their arm or hand or dog I will lose my shit in a spectacular way.  FFS   I am sure I have infected sinuses but cannot be bothered sitting at the doctors for 2 hours to confirm my diagnosis.  FFS   I cannot be in bright light or sit at the computer or look at my phone as it makes my head hurt.  FFS   In other news sunday saw us driving around buying stuff for the house again with the kids. FFS   I went on strike and wore trackies and looked like crap but as it was "family day" was informed to have a cup of concrete and harden up  FFS   We saw 5 people we knew all of which were not in their trackies and looked at me like I was some diseased monster.  FFS   We stop for petrol and some guy pulls in front of the HOTH and steals his bowser  He says "FFS" and before I can go mental for his swearing 2 little voices are heard in the back.  The big one said "oh for godssake" and the baby said "blah blah sake".  FFS   The big one is having a massive growth spurt and needs a couple of pairs of pants which I cannot get as all the shops are now only selling shorts.  ITS STILL WINTER.  FFS   Thats it for me.  My head hurts and I have to now go and hold string lines and dig dirt.  FFS   I will be doing this all weekend.  FFS   The things we do to save money.  FFS   Speaking of saving money bloody Matchbox Twenty are coming out and playing near me and I am too damn responsible to buy tickets as we need to spend the money else where.  FFS   Apparently AC/DC are touring next year which means the HOTH has something to look forward too.  FFS   I missed out on Bon Jovi as I was massively preggas and did not want another early baby.  FFS   Spellcheck I like to make up words stop trying to cramp my style.  FFS   Also I cannot comment on a heap of blogs as I have the wrong browser.  FFS   Whinge over.  FFS                        

Dinner Tonight- Shepards pie with a twist

Here is another simple why did I not think of that recipe!! 
I made this a couple of weeks ago using my own savoury mince recipe and not having read through again before I cooked it I only used 1 pack of gnocchi and just sprinkled grated cheese on the top not the butter and parmesan  but it turned out perfectly and so yummy and simple!!

My savoury mince is simple
Fry 1 onion and a couple of cloves of garlic.
Add 500g mince and brown
Grate in a carrot and zucchini.
I sometimes add other veggies like corn or peas or whatever really.
A splash of bbq sauce or Worcestershire sauce
Sprinkle in some gravy powder and add some water, stir until it is thick and the powder is dissolved. I let it simmer for a little while adding a little more water if it gets too thick!!
Easy and tasty.
Thanks http://www.kirstenandco.blogspot.com.au/!!

Linking up with One Mother Hen for open slather monday!!

FFS Friday- Enough Said

We are a house of snot.  FFS

I actually do not mind being sick every now and again its pretty much an inevitable part of life and I roll with it but this time around I am not happy at all.  FFS

Sure its not like the good old days of calling in sick and curling up on the lounge with the midday movie.  Now its curling up on the lounge with sesame street and 2 boof heads climbing all over me.  FFS

Ever since I was young I have used lemsips.  I love them.  Nothing makes me happier.  FFS

Something changed yesterday.  I knew I was diseased and went to the supermarket to stock up and to my horror they only had the new capsules which you can either swallow or make into a hot drink.  FFS

I was way too lazy to walk to the chemist so I purchased the capsules thinking I would give them a go, how bad can they be?  So last night before bed I made as directed a hot drink out of them.  FFS

OMG worst thing I have ever had in my life no exaggeration.  Who the hell test tasted these things and said they were good.  FFS

Worse still they did not make me feel any better it made me want to vomit.  FFS

Even worse still I am stuck with them until tomorrow as we are not dragging our diseased backsides out of this house today.  FFS

I tried swallowing  them this morning and it still tasted like shite.  FFS

I now get to miss out on seeing 2 brand new babies and a baby shower thanks to the disease.  FFS

Talking of babies "one born every minute" is now finished  FFS

Why did no one tell me.  FFS

In other news we spent a great deal of time on saturday night writing lists of stuff to get done and buy into a cute little note book.  That deserves a FFS as seriously thats how exciting life is around here.  FFS

Anyway we had a massive sunday planned of looking and pricing stuff when first of all the big one lost our pen at our first stop and then by the third stop someone lost the freaking notebook.  FFS

All that hard work gone.  FFS

It may or may not contain stuff like carpet, letterbox, boob job etc.  FFS

By our last stop the kids were feral and some one (not me) did not put the baby in the pram and he ran riot causing the shop lady (who was a bit of a cow) to ask whose children they were.  FFS

Last thing about the shopping trip.  We went to a ton of shops and we got crap service at all but one.  The staff were all to busy or knew nothing about what we were after.  FFS

On a positive we went to bunnings and got snag sandwiches as is mandatory on a weekend and it was a proper sandwich with 2 pieces of bread.  FFS

Oh and the baby god love him slept 6 nights in a row but last night decided that me being sick would mean I would want to be up at 330am and not get back to sleep.  FFS

The baby also now is weaning himself off dry nutrigrain and grapes are now his latest addiction  FFS

And lastly my computer has shat its self 4 times this week with fatal error messages.  FFS

And really lastly it helps if you are going to link up to actually link up.  Not like last week.  I used to have a brain.  FFS

PART 1, You need a beginning before a happy ending.

IN THE BEGINNING

8 years ago we (me and the HOTH and the cat) were living in our first home which was a townhouse.  We always wanted a house with a back yard and a dog and he wanted a shed!!  Our sort of dream house/block of land came on the market and we grabbed it.  We knew the condition it was in and that we really only had about 2 years before we needed to do something as in knock it down. 

Time passed which will be Part 2 and 14 weeks ago we said goodbye to the "old girl"  I unashamedly cried on our last visit there  Even though we knew from the start that this was the inevitable and quite frankly I hated most parts of that house it was still OUR HOME 

It was where we had good times and bad times.  Good news and bad news.   We brought our babies home from the hospital, they learnt to walk and crawl and do all the baby stuff there. We added dogs and another cat  We froze in winter and sweltered in summer thanks to its uninsulation  I never had a bedroom door for 8 years.  The bathroom was disgusting with tiles falling off the wall and eventually a hole in the wall where a tile fell off.  The squeaky floorboards that could wake the whole house in the middle of the night if someone walked on them.  In fact it was nor even proper flooring it was just chip board.  The leaky roof which we even fixed 3 years ago but still leaked in the boys room.   Its kitchen was about the best part as the previous owners had only just put a new one in  The HOTH pulled most of it out and put it in his shed.  It never let in much light and it was really dark and dingy unless it was a bright sunny day.  It was always messy with no places for anything to go.  I could go on and on and on but I wont.

Fast forward 14 weeks and we are a week off handover on the new place and it looks a heck of a lot different but most of all has retained that feeling of HOME  We cannot wait to get HOME. 

Please feel free to contact me if there are any questions you may have about our experiences or if you need someone to bounce ideas off  help_stuck@hotmail.com

FFS Friday Always look on the bright side of life.

After the sad week I have had you would think the universe would have said "lets not give Ann anything to say FFS about"  Right?  WRONG  FFS

I am glad it didn't  Life would be boring if it did  FFS

I burnt dinner on Saturday night  In my defence The baby got another temperature just as I started cooking and the big one was whining at me so I left the stuff cooking and sat on the lounge and did not think about it again until it was pointed out that it was burning.  FFS
What was The HOTH doing while I was wrangling kids and burning dinner?  Talking on his iphone playing on the ipad.  FFS

I also managed to burn microwave popcorn at playgroup on Tuesday morning  FFS

The baby has slept for no longer than 6 hours at any one time.  I think he thinks he is a new born  FFS

The big one fell out of bed on Monday morning scraping his chin and then fell over at preschool scraping his cheek  FFS

I feel like making a sign to hang around my neck every time I go out so when people stare it clearly states the situation  FFS

Like Wednesday's sign would have read something like-  Yes he fell out of bed and banged his chin and yes the baby does have half a tub of baby powder in his hair.  FFS

Both dogs also ended up with powder all over them too  At least they smell better now.FFS

Quiet kids that shut themselves in the bathroom with the dogs = one big mess.  FFS

The big one also managed to make me say a hell of a lot of expletives on Tuesday afternoon when he did a poo in his pants and then carried the poo into the toilet in his hands  FFS

Lucky I can see the funny side of things most of the time and that only the second time he has ever pooed in his pants  FFS

They both have twice this week had a shower, got in their pjs and then done a poo.  FFS

Our house will be ready for handover in a couple of weeks.  FFS

Yes FFS I am not ready at all for the next insanely busy couple of months of packing, unpacking, sorting, being put on hold for hours at a time reconnecting all our services. FFS

I may start charging all the companies I have to deal with a fee for every minute they keep me on hold and for every person who says "not my department" and transfers me.  FFS

Thats all from me I am off to write a list of shit that needs to be done  FFS

Also the baby managed to delete half of this post.  FFS

Deflated but THANKFUL

kids with the photo editor again

On sunday morning we had to say goodbye to our cute little 9 year old white cat.

She had been fine at 1030pm and at 315am the HOTH woke me up to say he had found her and she could not move.

We had to take her to the Animal Referral Hospital at Homebush where the vet kindly examined her and told us the brutal truth but in the kindest way

Although I am extremely sad I am also thankful.

Thankful that the night played out the way it did.

Thankful that I freaked out about driving to Homebush and the HOTH although he was cranky put the kids in the car so we were all there.

Thankful to the vet and nurse for their kindness and compassion I can never thank them enough.

Thankful that she did not suffer.

Thankful for silly stuff like splashing out last week and buying her favourite whiskas cat food instead of the aldi stuff which she really did not like and the fact she was white and we will forever be finding white fur everywhere.

I am thankful we have photos.

Most of all I am thankful that 9 years ago we went to the RSPCA and got a 10 week old kitten who was my first baby and who has given me 9 years worth of love and memories.

Thankful I was owned by her.

So even though this has been one of the saddest things to happen to our little family I am thankful.