Oprah will change my life
After talking to Paula this morning about how we are in desperate need of an oprah-style make-over I discovered the “Be on the Show” page at Oprah.com. While we didn’t manage to find “Do you spend too much time blogging and not enough time applying your eye-liner” we did find one for getting our whole families made over and we discovered an absolute goldmine of other possibilities. For you in the corner over there (yes, you know who you are) “Are you addicted to video games?” could be your chance for tv fame. I am personally going for the: “MOMS – Here’s Your Chance At SUPERSTARDOM!” which sounds like it might be Australian (or American) Idol in tracksuit pants and stained t-shirts with a load of washing under one arm. And here’s a special one for Big-P “ATTN HUSBANDS: What Do You LOVE About YOUR WIFE?“. Heheh.
Pizzzza Buzzzz
Last night was our Survivor Sushi and Sweep night get together, sans sushi. My gal was voted off last week but I am still enjoying this very eventful Pearl Islands season. Everyone came along to our place (Mum and Dad are away and we have the key to the liquor cabinet!) and we started the evening watching Millsy being voted off Australian Idol (there is a god of crap TV!). Much discussion was had over the pizza menu for our local, quite delicious pizza place. Choices were made — mouths were watering. I rang the store and got a recorded message saying that they are now closed on Mondays. Oh woe!
We aren’t exactly in the restaurant heartland out here, and when it’s ten past 8 and pizza is on everyone’s minds, a desperate decision was made to get Pizza Hut pizzas. Oh woe!
15 minutes later the pizza were being flung onto plates and you know what? It actually wasn’t too bad. I haven’t had a pizza hut pizza for maybe 12 years and I remember them to be doughy, fatty, chewy things with bits of ham that look like the erasers you get on the end of pencils. The pizza we had last night to some extent resembled food. The bits of topping were kind of irregular and tasty. Unfortunately the fatty bit that I remembered remains and after two slices I was feeling that kind of take-away slimey feeling you get. The one interesting thing I did notice about the whole dining experience is that I got a salt – sugar rush and pretty soon Nic and I were laughing it up in an out of control way. Pretty soon the chocolate coated biscuits were being circulated and by the time I hit the hay I was spinning. Woo… resolutions abound today about never eating any kind of anything with salt or sugar or additives again. Ever.
In other news my cards have sold out. If you bought a pack or two (or three or four!!) thank you so much! Parcels have almost all be mailed out with the rest going out in the next couple of days. Hope you enjoy them.
Also, the amazing Lliam has revamped his site. It’s already well known around these parts that he’s an illustrator extroidinaire (how big is that folio??), a heart-throb and improvisational beatnik, but now we can read his very most inner thoughts about how it feels to be a dad, mobile phone user and zombie.
Also, I love Keri’s latest creations; Hortense and Giles. Lovin’ the textures.
Solo mission
My holiday card sales are going really well… in fact at this rate I might sell out (so get in quick!!!) which is pretty exciting. I have spent the last couple of days bundling up parcels and addressing envelopes. The free stickers are yet to arrive from the printers — I had to get them reprinted three times! Dodgy printers. Grr. So once they get here in the next day or two the parcels will be released into the world.
Mum and Dad have gone off on an epic trip north for a couple of weeks leaving Big-P, Amelia J and I here to play house. I have grown so used to having lots of help around the place that to be suddenly thrown back in the deep end of solo toddler support I am feeling a tad nervous. I know it’s all about making the absolute most of every spare minute – chopping up veggies for dinner while Amelia J eats her lunch, hanging up the washing while she naps etc. She is beginning to get around a bit more in the last few days. I wouldn’t call it crawling exactly, it’s more like she drags herself with much leg waggling but she’s getting pretty fast. This means she can’t be left alone for a second now otherwise she is clambering into danger zones of which she seems to discover more and more of every day. I guess a new routine will be established by the weekend. Today I have to concentrate all my efforts on making soup.
Shop till you pop
My Loobylu Holiday Cards are now on sale!
Please be aware that the prices are in US dollars and that shipping (and GST for Australian residents) will be charged on top.
Hope you like ‘em, and if you buy two or more packs, you will get a special free loobylu sticker. Please let me know what you think. All feedback will be greatly appreciated.
Big, big thanks goes to Jez and Daniel from Segpub… who are not only awesome hosts, but the most diligent, talented and friendly coding folks around.