When my six year old told me that she didn’t like her jeans I asked her why not and she replied with “I only like trackpants!”  Oh my goodness… bing… a lightbulb moment… I’m raising bogans! Now the trendy little jeans I bought her are in the Lifeline donation pile and a pink $6.50 pair of trackpants are in their place.  I guess the upside to this realisation is that if we do move to Redbank Plains (otherwise known as “Bogan Central”) we would fit right in… we would only need to buy flannel shirts!

I think it’s so cute to see elderly couples walking hand in hand, it’s great to see that love can continue on through decades of marriage. Of course on the flip side there are elderly couples like my neighbours, they demonstrate why divorce can be a good thing! Just this morning  I was hanging out my clothes and I heard yelling:

Wife: If you keep going this way…

Husband: Oh you old drunk!

Wife: (something mumbled)

husband: That’s it, you’re on the curb!

Ah… the bliss of decades of marriage and built up hate… I’m just waiting for the day the knives come out to play!

I always assumed thieves liked to steal items of value but I saw something the other day that made me question that.  I was walking into Coles and I noticed a woman who stepped behind an unattended check out and grab a fist full of plastic bags.  She quickly folded them up and then stuffed them into her hand bag…  a bit odd I thought!

Have you ever mown the lawn and just pushed a little way out of your boundary and into the next yard?  You know, as a hint to your neighbours to cut their grass.  Well while walking back from the kids school the other day I saw a mowing hint that wasn’t all too subtle.  The occupants had mown their lawn and then carried on for the whole length of their neighbours frontage… just one strip. Now that’s got to be some un-neighbourly neighbours!

I enjoy making biscuits and I love a good ANZAC biscuit but I think I have found a recipe that beats the usual ANZAC biscuit recipe hands down! It’s an ANZAC slice that is so quick and easy to make your three year old could do it.

On a scale of “Spew” to “Frickin’ Awesome” I give this recipe an “Awesome.”

Ingredients

* 1 cup plain flour

* 1 cup rolled oats

* 1 cup desiccated coconut

* 125g butter

* 1/3 cup golden syrup

* 1/2 cup brown sugar

* 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Method

1. Preheat oven to 170 degrees Celsius

2. Combine flour, oats and coconut in a large bowl and mix well.

3. In a small saucepan combine butter, golden syrup and sugar and stir over a medium heat until the butter is melted and mixture is smooth, then take off heat and add the bicarbonate of soda.

4. Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and mix well.

5. Spread mixture into a 18cm X 28cm slice tin which has been lined with baking paper.  Spread mixture out and smooth the surface.

6. Cook for 20 minutes and allow to cool in the tin.

7. Once cool, slice into individual servings and keep in an air tight container.

OPTIONAL:  Being a chocoholic I like to pipe some melted chocolate over the top, as you can see in my photo.

While helping out in my six year old’s classroom last week there was a blocked off construction area right outside. Besides the rancid smell of  welding the children could also hear the men as they talked.  Perhaps these workers simply forgot they were right outside a grade one classroom because their choice of words came as a rather brutal lesson on construction site language for the little ones.  Here’s a snippet of the conversation:

Worker A: Oh mate he got the sack on Monday.

Worker B: Fuck!

Worker A: Yeah that’s why he’s been doing fuck all, all week.

Worker B: Fucking bludger!

Welcome to the real world children!

While doing the grocery shopping last fortnight I purchased a variety bag of Arnott’s Shapes for the kids lunch boxes.  It’s not something I usually buy but I thought since they were on special I would treat the kids.  Then on my way to the check out line I thought it may be cheaper to buy a box of  Shapes and separate them into sandwich bags… I’m always looking to save money! So back to the savoury biscuit section I went and yes I was right, for the same price I could bag my own and get 100g more.  Later in the week I realised there was a competition associated with the box Shapes that were not on the variety bag I initially picked up. So off to the Internet I went to enter my details and see if I was a winner but it was not to be as I saw a red box flash up saying “sorry you are not a winner”.  Oh well I didn’t really expect to win but I still had another chance as the promotion in store was two boxes for $4.  I entered the second code and as the words flashed up “you are a winner” I shouted WWWWWWHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I’m pretty sure the neighbours heard me celebrating.  I had won a $50 gift card of my choice so I went with a Visa debit card… yippee!  Shapes shouted me and I hope they shout you as well.

Natalie attended a birthday party over the weekend and she had such a great time she asked me to blog about it.  It was a pizza and cake night with games and late night girly activities.   When I picked her up at 9:30pm I was quite surprised that she was actually still awake and the drive home was non stop talking about how much fun it was and all the great stuff they did.  She had tattoos on her arms, pink spray in her hair and glittery nail polish compete with stars… shame I don’t have any nail polish remover in the house… oh well it will wear off eventually. Besides the longer it stays on the happier she will be.  When we got home Claire was amazed at the party bag her sister was carrying, maybe lugging is a better word? No joke, this “party bag” was bigger than her school library bag and stuffed full of goodies…  lollies, ballons, craft activities, gel pen, highlighter,purse, lip gloss, games, a watch, a jewellery box, a necklace, rings, badges, bracelets, pink fluffy handbag, dress up butterfly head band thingy and on top of it all a fantastic set of butterfly wings! I know I am leaving some stuff out here but believe me when I say it was the motherload of all party bags… the jackpot! Once Natalie had emptied it all out my coffee table was completely covered! I dare say this party will be talked about for a very long time and I guess it leaves a VERY high benchmark for all the other parties this year.  So I’d like to say thanks to Leanne for hosting this wonderfull event but also “darn it”… I’ll never be able to match this party!