I celebrated my 33rd birthday a few days ago and my children got me the best present ever…. a flight control T.A.R.D.I.S!!!!  It has eight motion activated interactive sound effects, flashing lantern, opening doors as well as opening telephone door.  Now I just have to buy myself an eleventh doctor figurine and I’ll be as happy as a pig in mud.  Oh and my awesome children also bought me a sonic screwdriver… got to love sci-fi kids!!!

I overheard Luke reading the bible to the kids the other night and I must say I am not familiar with the edition he used.  It was Mark chapter 4 he was reading from, you know…  when Jesus is asleep on the boat during a storm and then finds his disciples all panicking so he  rebukes them for having “little faith” before calming the storm.  Well I’m not sure exactly what verse he was up to but I heard Luke say “and Jesus said you pussies!”   Must be from the Houghton revised edition.

Last weekend Natalie’s guinea pig turned one so of course being a family member he got a present.  To a guinea pig a pot of parsley is worth a million bucks so that’s exactly what our little treasure got… and he loved it! I never expected to love guinea pigs as much as I do but they are so packed with personality it’s impossible not to. The end photo shows Cookie in his night time cage and if you look closely you will see that his front paws are on the seed block and that’s where he stayed for about an hour.  He had gone a few days without a seed block and when he found the new one he wasn’t going to let it go,  his little eyes seemed to say… “my seed block!”  He makes me laugh that little piggy.

At age seven Natalie is still learning to spell so it’s only natural that she makes mistakes.  Most of the time the mistakes are simple little mix ups with vowels,  like this little corker.  I was on the phone and the kids were having trouble with the TV so Natalie passed me this note…”we cunt watch”.  I’m sure she meant we CAN’T watch, but close enough I guess.

I love getting junk mail and looking at what’s on sale and where.  When I looked at this flier above I though “great, buy one get one free… I might just take that offer up”.  However when I looked more closely I simply couldn’t find an address.   Fancy advertising the best Butter Chicken in town but forgetting to add the address… advertising fail!

While looking at land on the internet we came across a block that was 1.21 hectares.  Trying to get a grasp on the actual size I said to Luke,  “that’s 3 acres, it’s not bad”. Luke then turned to me and said “No it’s not, it’s far smaller than you think” as he typed away in Google to get the accurate conversion.  He then had to eat his words as the answer of 2.98997512 acres stared at him on the screen.  Ok, not quite the 3 acres I said but close enough from the top of my head.

My family is now addicted to Dunlop Volleys and it all started because they were the only shoes wide enough to fit Claire’s big elephant feet.  It started as a necessity but now whenever we are near a department store we pop in to see what new designs are out and if they are on special. We really have to thank Adrian Quist who first introduced Volleys as a tennis shoe way back in 1939… in my opinion it’s the only good thing to come from tennis. The shoes are comfortable, reasonably priced and in my opinion groovy. I know some people say they’re daggy but those people SUCK!

Today while standing int he kitchen I glanced at a packet of sugar on the counter top and thought… wow, they put Chinese characters on labels now.  I wasn’t too surprised since almost ALL of the shops in our area have signs in Chinese and if you’re lucky there will be a smaller English translation underneath.  I then leaned closer and got a surprise when I read PKD 24-05-10 16:o4:43 M … it wasn’t Chinese at all… just my bad eyesight! I leaned back again and there were the Chinese characters.  Lean in, English… lean out, Chinese… in, English… out, Chinese.  I will have to bite the bullet one day and go get my eyes tested but for now I’ll just entertain myself.  In, English… out, Chinese… in, English… out, Chinese.

I was all set to make a cheesecake the other day when I came across a little problem… no biscuits to make the base! I had bought biscuits but the problem was that I had hidden them so well  I couldn’t find them.  I looked everywhere I thought I would have hidden them but I simply could not find them.  I gave up and put all the other ingredients away and had a few games of on-line backgammon instead.  The kids were disappointed when they came home from school and Luke seemed a little disappointed when he came home from work but what could I do?  No biscuits, no cheesecake.  Luke had a look for them but he couldn’t find them either so in the end I bought another packet of scotch finger biscuits and I made a delicious caramel cheesecake.  However, somewhere in this house I have stashed a packed of biscuits and I have no idea where they are or if I will ever find them.

Yesterday afternoon I got this text from my mother:

Happy Anniversary…xx I have tried to ring you twice!!

After reading it I thought, ‘what the hell is she on about?’  So I looked on the calender but there was nothing marked.  Then I realised it was the 28th of June, my wedding anniversary.  When Luke got home he had three king size Cherry Ripes for me but he confessed that he had forgotten and it wasn’t until he received a text from my mother that he’d remembered.  In fact he said at first he thought my mother had text the wrong person because he had no idea what she was on about… anniversary… what anniversary???  Oh… our 14th wedding anniversary… darn it… we both forgot again!!!