THIS IS IT .........

I went to the movies tonight to see "This is It", to me it was fabulous and certainly worth it!!! I have been a fan of MJ forever it seems I have ALL HIS ALBUMS and ALTHOUGH the movie was AWESOME I cried through the first half and was ok through the second HOW can ONE FILM make you really Sad and Happy at the same time? I took my young son HE WAS BLOWN AWAY we got home at 10.45pm!!!! was the highlight of my week!!

Classic MJ moves and songs and in the cinema AMAZING sound the dancing was unreal and the legacy he has left is huge! THE dancers and crew MUST have been absolutely devastated THE AUDITION dancers were crying at the start JUST at being selected WAS REALLY emotional!!

Ciao

Gorgeous FEW DAYS .......

We went to the Rotorua Markets yesterday Samuel and I shot over in the morning I bought him a new bone (Maori Carved pendant) from a local artist whom has been carving for over 40 years (I have bought several significant pieces fromt his man over the last 7 years)it was his birthday present (1 month later I know) BUT I gave him my BONE on his actual BIRTHDAY day 16 years old it is he had it on less than 2 hours and the string broke (SO thats his omen HE wasn't meant to have it ), I got a new string for mine BUT aren't happy with the colour the man gave me it for free (R$19) then he gave me $9 off the piece I bough for Samuel (R$89) and then he gave me A FREE greenstone PENDANT (R$30) which we will gift onto our Chinese student who will be with us at XMAS so all in all I have had a lovely 3 days!!!!!

Although we have had BLARDY frosts YES FROSTS!!! the pay off is BIG FAT SUNS!!! and with that I did all my housework gardening everything I have walked every day for the last 5 days so thats good! taking a little puppy out n about at night too has helped BUT that wasnt walking it was more ambling for about 40 mins! each time.

So far this long weekend I have SUNBATHED (the glare I KNOW SWORRY!), READ one whole book "Sleepers" about the systematic abuse of 4 boys in a boys home(USA) GRAPHIC VIOLENT and SAD (a true story!), read my Mana magazine did I say sunbathed OH YEAH I did just my LEGS though as my face and arms are lovely and brown !

Have helped cook two glorious dinner Roast Lamb and new potatoes asparagus and zuchinni and bean platter, then Rhubarb crumble, then Schnitzel mashed potatoe cauliflower cheese and garlic mashed peas with FRESH MINT!!! (my new FAD yummo) Boil peas lightly then mash in 1 tsp garlic a little margarine and FINE chop fresh mint BOOTIFUL add alittle raw sugar!Followed by coconut sponge type cake with lemon syrup (homemade), JUST AS WELL I am walking at the moment.

When I was sick I lost 8kg I have only put back on 1kg so figure thats not too bad huh!

Tonight it is Chicken with Satay Chicken Rub with salad and cous cous! gawd I'm hungry now! The guys can have icecream slices with wafers I am having fruit salad! (homemade).

Strangely enough I dont want to go back to work tomoorw I have 2 late nights this WEEK and have to work Saturday so I am squeezing in my walking first thing in the morning (IF my insides HOLD OUT that is!!!) and IF AT ALL it is sunny through the week I will attempt to sunbathe for sometime inbetween jobs, HAVE AN AWESOME week everyone!
p.s (I did squeeze in some washing and ironing too SO I didn't have withdrawals from housework!)
Ciao

For once twiddling my thumbs NOTHING happening!

Yesterday in Taupo (sunny ish a little cold) spent the morning GARAGE saleing, and mooching and grocery shopping, nothing exciting, HAD gorgeous chicken and a curry sauce for dinner with NEW SEASON asparagus cauli carrots and mushrooms all mixed in and lightly steamed JUST divine and some new potatoes!!! tonight mini meatballs and spaghetti with garlic bread HOMEMADE(the garlic butter that is).

Back at work this week and it was GOOD(school work teacher Aide etc), 7 weeks until school camp and then only 8 1/2 weeks until end of SCHOOL, MY SON is off to college next year and is EXCITIED!!!!!!!! as hell.

HAVE DONE most of my xmas shopping only have Samuel left to buy for so that is good nothing drastic he is getting new beach towels, body board and a sports bag he saw one of his presents already in the car a shoulder bag the ones that the boys wear slung diagonal over their shoulders like a satchel, so thats cool picked it up garage saleing. (Saw one for $130 down to $65!! outrageous!! in a closing down bag sale here)

I am sooo on top of my cleaning gardening and spring cleaning I have nothing to do AND NOW I WISH I could sew!!!! Then I could make things (NOT LIKE Chris H though), I might look and getting a cheap sewing machine and venturing into sewing (thats a dream though) ...

Have a good week everyone and start your xmas shopping soon so its NOT TOO STRESSFUL!!!
I have a banana box in my garage and have been adding TINS of fruit and food like jellies biscuits and crackers and toiletries through the year to spread over xmas etc and it normally lasts over 4 weeks in the xmas period and I dont have too buy many groceries just fruit and veges!! (have been stock piling CHEAP cuts of meat in my friends CHEST FREEZER I SOOOOOOOOOOO wish I had a bigger fridge/freezer!!! and WISH I hadn't given my CHEST FREEZER AWAY) Have 3 weeks ahead of meat towards XMAS so fingers crossed it ALL LASTS over xmas AND I get a break from SHOPPING (food)..... We normally get a Turkey given to us and A HAM so thats xmas and NEW YEAR sorted then the groceries just spread out over holidays and I normally dont have to grocery shop for 4 weeks or so!

Ciao

Sunbathing me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH yay 2 fine days in a ROW the glory of it BUT FARK did we have to have frosts with is AND BOY OH BOY it is gonna be a big frost tonight I can tell!!!!

I have every windiw and door open in the house and IT IS BLISS, so that helps with the spring cleaning YEAH!!! ALL FINISHED and then to air the house out ALL DAY NOOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIICCCCCEEEEEEEEE.... Samuel has Butter chicken in the crockpot he is doing RICE and beans and peas strange combination BUT HIS CHOICE!

I will miss him going back to school we have pottered around gardening cleaning and clearing draws cupboards HE HELPED me do all the cleaning and clearing and gardening and then did the cooking too!!! Under supervision of course but he is rocking up there TO BE ABLE to self support SOON!!! (leaving home inserts TUI AD )......

Off to watch more BATHURST and maybe get some reading in and file my nails BLISS I tell ya see I AM READING and relaxing!!!!

End of holiday for me......

At the end of my few days off I have finished ALL my spring cleaning EVEN the linen cupboard OHHHHHHHHHHHH and DID I MENTION I also cleaned out my PEG BUCKET!!! ANAL I know but I took all the broken half and brittle pegs and turfed them YALL know the ones that you keep picking up!!!!

Samuel cooked SOYA chicken tonight on a bed of rice and did julienne carrots beans and some breaded cauliflower!!!!!!! The chicken I slow cook in the crockpot immersed in LIGHT SOY SAUCE all day and its TENDER as and salty YUM!

Family back and back to work for me today 7 hours hard into it ! THEN RAIN all day and well SNOW and RAIN tomorrow I have no ruddy jobs left to do either I have cleaned wiped sorted tidied my self out OF A JOB I AM READING tomorrow I AM!!!! Might whizz me son into Whitcoulls he has $60 in vouchers to still spend yet from ages ago first thing in the morning BEFORE all the MAD HOLIDAY makers start heading South/North!

I am helping my friend later Saturday to prepare for Bathurst Day we make homemade Chicken Liver and port Pate with garlic toasted bread slices for the Pate and do a cheese board and fresh fruit, carrots baby toms cucumber and dip etc, BUT for BREKKIE we have a FAIR cook up Bacon,sausage,egg,toms,mushrooms,hash browns, AND WAFFLES then we dont eat again until TEATIME unles you count the nuts chips dip pate and fruit inbetween OH and have BUCKS FIZZ (flash champagne stuff) AND the YELLING at the TV helps .......... and I DONT CARE IF IT SNOWS RAINS OR HAILS I am inside all day on SUNDAY!!!!

Ciao

Having ya FACE ripped off????!!!

well today I treated myself to MICRODERMABRASION !!!!!! 1/2 price special at my Beauty Therapist (I haven't been there for like 2 years) I got a text SCHOOL HOLIDAY special, was $130, THEY send 15% vouchers for your birthday and I used that so got it done for $55 JESUS well worth it and MY skin was absolutely BEAUTIFUL and SOFT and GLOWING (a little stingy during the treatment), but after having multiple tattoos, a my tongue pierced some 15 years ago it WAS NOTHING!

I have smooth as babies bottom skin ! Would highly reccomend it BUT not if you have thin weak or sensitive skin! So I have a NEW FACE NEW HAIR(well a trim), was SUNNY today BUT the WIND!!!!! blardy hell that was stiff and breezy...

At the moment I have 6 loads of washing (2 are done ready to hang in the morning) 4 are waiting to be done, I will get 1 more load done tonight, then I get to time set my machine to automatically WASH, I have a LG FRONT LOADER, I LOVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEE IT!!! AND given the weather is turnign to custard again HENCE THE MEGA WASH!!!!!!!!

So yall can guess what tomorrow day will entail hanging out washing and IRONING!!! ohhhhhh MY FAV, 3 loads is light stuff sheets etc and polar fleece gear, rest is annoying heavy stuff!!! I am going to do some more gardening and ENJOY my last day of holiday!!!

Last night Samuel stayed at a friends, tonight he cooked schnitzel, with mashed spuds and a medley mix of fried gourgette red onion and toms (fresh) with basil (which takes about 5 mins max to cook), IT was scrummy!!!!

Ciao

RAIN ROTORUA and RUNS

THIS IS my hair after the TRIM at the hairdressers as of OCT 9th it will be 4 months since I have had my hair straightened I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT BUT YOU CAN NOT have colour in your hair at all to have it DONE like mine so for those considering it I THINK it is worthwhile !!!

This is our language student Chen with Samuel the night of the maths competition Chen is 18 Samuel is 13!!!!! It is going along great guns, and I am likely to have this student with us until END of January....

Well I have been unwell for a few days on and off, been to DOCTOR and have to be on a syrup for 48 hours NO FOOD, I have lost 5kg, in 5 days NOT CUTEY, I am not holding much down, hence the runs!!Feel ok for awhile then cramps and pains and not ok the next.Have had tests and more tests and more tests ... I started feeling unwell Thursday arvo and left it until Monday arvo CAUSE WILD HORSES and NEAR DEATH wasn't going to make me BUDGE from my house over the weekend!!! (I told the doctor I have been sniffing too many cleaning fumes!!!)

RAIN need I say more BUT wait there is more throw in sleet, hail, snow wind and FREEZING weather and THATS not cutey cutey either.

ROTORUA went this morning and sipped syrup all day mildly pleasant (the syrup ) I WANTED to go I HAD to go and get out of the house and the cabin fever scenario, sunny there BUT HELLISHLY windy cold FROM you guessed it TAUPO, I didn't venture near any food places and coped alright admidst many toilet stops! TMI I know... End of Day I bought some new lingerie, A polypropylene top for Samuel, looked at a heap of bags towels sheets even jewellery BUT nothing took my fancy, Samuel bought some games (with his birthday $), and that was it .....

Sipping on some syrup before bed I WOULD so love to sleep through the night tonite without having to trudge in the COLD to the toilet!!! PLEASE NIGHTIME bed GODS be nice to me!

Ciao

BBQ weather (Insert Tui Ad here)....

Well I must say IT has rained all night and gotten heavier and heavier all day and then rain sleet hail rain sleet hail YOU get the drift, AND all the roads south are closed!!!!!(south of Taupo) ...

Well I cleaned the oven (it did'nt really need it BUT I WAS DESPERATE to do something!), I then cleaned the inside of the windows I got visitors so WHIPPED up some scones and threw sausage rolls into oven (freshly cleaned) for everyone 4 men and 3 boys!!!!!! man can they eat (they the guests also bought fish n chips to share) and everything was eaten amongst hot chocolates and coffee and POTS of tea, they the stoopid people were looking at caravans I MEAN to say WTF!!! in this weather sheesh!! (they travelled down from Tauranga!!)

NO I DID NOT clean the BBQ not even 1 MILLION DOLLARS would have enticed me out into the weather so that may be another job anytime soon!!! I still have 1/3 of a book to finish and a MAGAZINE i must get into it is the MANA MAGAZINE I have amassed so far 90 MAGAZINES they come out only 3 copies a year or 4 copies so I have been collecting for a few years now hell nearly 17 years I have every issue from 1 - 90, NOW there are several isssues you can't get anymore OUT OF PRINT so I feel I am lucky I love the stories in them and love the photographs!

AT this rate I will nothing to do until Thursday but alas I am vaccuming tomorrow whoooppee, just to freshen up and I am getting my hair trimmed so will post my nice hair (hairdressers always straightened and brush and preen your hair better than you!).

Tuesday I am off to Rotorua hopefully for the whole day,Samuel has a sleepover Tuesday night and then he has a friend over on Wednesday (holidays are the only time he catches up with friends as he comes to my work after school everyday), he has had a friend over Friday afternoon Sat arvo, Sun morning then someone different to the movies to see G Force, then tomorrow he has someone coming for the day!!! HE HAS A DAM better social life than me !!

He has to squeeze in 3 more friends from Thursday to Sunday before school goes back, I have decided that every Friday afternoon he can have somone over for the arvo and dinner so he can feel more connected to his friends he gets invited everywhere and I feel stink having fleeting visits of his friends!!!! because of my work committments..

Stay safe and warm everyone... Have a nice 2nd week of the holidays MUMS and DADS.

Ciao

I LOOOOOOOOVVVVVVEEEE the holidays....

I AM OFFICIALLY on holiday my family I work for is away from Sat - Thurs AND I AM making the most of it. Yesterday I worked 5 hours, then hell cleaned my own place in amongst doing all OUR sheets yes I managed to get 3 loads of washing done and dried and did the ironing and then I mowed the lawns I AM DANGEROUS at the moment LAST TIME I FELT like this I was pregnant (13 years 9 months ago) BUT ALAS you have to have S E X to manage that and thats something I AIN'T doing at the MO.

So far today I washed again I have done the last of me gardening, then I HUCKED (tidied) out my garage and managed a whole trailer load including a defunct fridge, so THEN I went through all the cupboards and pantry and bathroom cupboards spare room cupboards etc (you get the picture) I GATHERED up all my unwanted stuff broken toys rubbish magazines papers etc and threw them out I went through every wardrobe and THOROUGHLY de cluttered, I also washed and did more ironing!! SPRING is here thats for sure I rearranged garage and then onto the outside windows ALL WASHED and sparkling.

MY SON has cooked dinner 3 nights in a row and is cooking all this week I AM coaching from the sides offering tips and advice as he goes he has so far done Roast chicken and roast veges homemade gravy and all the trimmings, then he did Fri night Spag Bol homemade pasta sauce and spaghetti garlic bread, then tonight meatballs and rice asparagus and julienne carrots tomorrow is sausage casserole and mashed potato and cauli/broc in a cheese sauce, he is so good at cooking he has made scones today for lunch and did pikelets for pudding, I started cooking with him when he was a little fella 2 years old cutting chopping and GATHERING the food from the fridge and WHATEVER size they the veges were cut thats what they stayed as, he has been at my side cooking for a longtime and he loves it YAY he makes a MEAN chocolate cake too, and muffins, chocolate chip cookies, he does a mean nacho mince, and does funky meat and vege kebabs, and next I will do the schnitzel thing and this SUMMER I will teach him the fine art of BBQ NOT BURN but good cooking most people cook too high and too fast I on the other hand take ages on the BBQ and garlic, oil and marinades ARE my thing basting etc!!!!

OHHHHHHH theres another 2 jobsI have sprayed the oven to clean it and for tomorrow CLEAN and freshen up BBQ and fill gas bottle!!!

Boy I had better sleep tonight CAUSE I feel wired!!!! Too much cleaning I feel sniffing the fumes perhaps....

Ciao