Stop the world.

I am really pissed off.
These are actually rhetorical questions, so I am not expecting replies. I just need to vent before my head really does start spinning on my shoulders.

Why does the world have so many arseholes who think they are more special than others?
Why can't people stop playing bullshit mind games and be upfront and honest?
Why do people think I actually believe what they are saying? Do they really think I am that fucking stupid?
Why does someone's *word* mean absolutely.totally. zero and they justify their unprofessional, rude and condescending twattish behaviour with even more inane dribble?

Do I look like I have moron tattooed on my forehead?

Arrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. fucknuckle. I am done with this one.

Weekend Warrior

Well, that was fun. I am so tired. 12 people in one house is very noisy. Not to mention try to hobble around that many people and their belongings on crutches LOL

Dinner at the restaurant was good, although I was not happy to see they took my favourite meal off the menu, Veal Scallopini. Not gonna go there anymore. harumph. GS1 [5 yr old] did make his mother extremely embarassed though by sticking his head through a hole in the door in the ladies loo... yes, it was occupied. She's still embarassed ROFLMAO [ yes, I know he shouldn't have done it, but it's still funny]

So, I made them all watch the WSBK racing on Sunday night, because ya know, I am just that evil. Mind you, I think it backfired on me cos then I had to explain what each category was and who each rider was ROFL Don't think I managed to get any converts though! Top racing to watch though.

Everyone has now gone home, so I can relax and catch up what I've missed.

Hugs!

hearin' - Wish I had an Angel - Nightwish
feelin' - sleepy

Fridays Feast One Hundred & Thirty Seven

Appetizer
What are you proud of?
My kids.

Soup
What is the best thing you’ve ever won as a prize?
Paddock passes for this years WSBK from Pirelli.

Salad
Name something you do that is a waste of time.
Watch clouds

Main Course
In what year of your life did you change the most?
1995

Dessert
Where is a place you consider to be very tranquil?
My studio when noone else is home.

Ooooh,I have a Motorola

ROFL Well, everyone says I sound like a 20 yr old blonde on the phone, so that would be about right.

Mobile makes demonstrate personality type NEWS.com.au: "IF you're carrying a Motorola mobile phone the chances are you are under 24 and fashion conscious."


and we're going along to see this tribute show next month because the kids saw an ad and thought I'd like to go because I missed out on the real Robbie. I'll let you know.
THE EGO HAS LANDED - The Australian Robbie Williams Show

Took D1 to hospital tonight, small scare with the baby but everything is fine. They told her to eat more and stress less. She's got 8 weeks to go and finishes work in 3 weeks, I'm running odds she'll have her the day after she finishes work LOL

I'm all set, I've got the extra memory card for the digital video camera *g* No, she doesn't want me to video the birth but I keep teasing her. The new camera has a higher res, so better pics of bub when she's born. She's still going to call her Khiala, I'm so used to saying koala? that 10to 1 that's what I call her for real. heh. I really am evil, but in a nice way, I swear.

Listenin' - Grace Kelly - Mika
Feelin' - tired

Feedburning off the marked path

I bought a new book to read today. heh.

No, I was wrong in my choice for Friday's Feast, I got "William Morris by himself" [edited by Gillian Naylor] I love William Morris' designs. Sensuous lines that follow a path but wander off to do their own thing. Bit like me. the path going off wandering I mean *g*

I also changed my feed to feedburner, so if you have subscribed via my atom feed, you may need to change it over. Sorry.

S1 is all ready for camp. We ran around looking for a book that he wanted to read.
He's already read my Eragon books, so after much running around we found the next 2 books in the series Rowan of Rin by Emily Rodda. He's still a bit narky that his Dad hasn't been home for the last week before he goes.

I have to wake him up at 5am. That's going to be really interesting LOL
I'm so glad that we got that extra hour today!

Friday's Feast

Appetizer
Who is your favorite news anchor/reporter? Why?

Mal Walden.

Soup
Name 3 foods that are currently in your freezer.

1. Premium Mince
2. Chicken Drumsticks
3. Frozen Cauliflower

Salad
If you were to have the opportunity to name a new town or city, what would you call it?
Maya


Main Course
What will most likely be the next book you read?

Darkwitch Rising by Sara Douglass

Dessert
What's the first thing you notice about the opposite gender?
Eyes

Freaky Friday Indeed.

D3 went into the City today on a school excursion and we didn't know whether she was in the tunnel or not for a few hours. We knew the bus wasn't involved but they had evacuated the tunnels because of explosions and the fire and smoke,so we weren't sure where the kids were. They ended up coming back earlier than planned to avoid the traffic.

Then all the girls decided to butt heads tonight. *sigh* Over, of all things, curly fries. I won.

So, it's quiet here now. I'm waiting for Hubby to ring, he's somewhere in NSW. Not sure where and mobile reception is crappy at best.

And now the cats have started fighting. Geez.
It's still over 35C here,so I'm putting it down to the heat is driving everyone nuts.

Oh dear.

I can't take a trick.

I have an Anterior Cruciate Ligament Rupture as well as a Meniscus tear.

I wonder if they do these knee braces in this years fashion colours so I can coordinate my accessories?

My physio is going to be really pissed at me now.

Crap.

I want to be a contestant...

I would like to mention that I tore my calf muscle whilst bungee jumping off the stair and finishing off with a cartwheel landing into the lounge room. Everybody scored my effort 10. I might enter the act into Australia's Got Talent. Red will probably love me.

So there.

Of course, as usual hubby's away for at least a week. Good thing my car is an automatic and did you know other motorists are scared when you wave a pair of crutches at them? Almost as good as the automatic finger I want installed in my bonnet. I drove Warrigal Rd in peak hour traffic yesterday, twice in each direction. At one stage I had a semi in front, behind and on each side of me. I got through the lights quicker though!

And, the chicklet at Macca's still managed to stuff up our order.

Testing at Valencia was on this week, then they go to Donnington. Max did well running 4th behind Bayliss, Xaus and Lanzi. All of them broke the previous lap record as well as Corser in 5th. Steve Martin lost his ride though, the team's run out of funds to run him. His teammate is still running though, he's financed by a different source.

Well, have to love you and leave you. I have to go visit the evil dr who will prodandpoke my VERY sore calf muscle and ask me why I am so stupid again. LOL
Nah, he's actually a great Dr.

sigh

bugger.
I've torn my left calf muscle at knee level.

I've been doing physio to keep my joints from freezing up and we decided that I could start doing light *normal* excercise again. I'm gonna be in big trouble now.

LOL

Ha! At last. Maybe someone read my post about kids sport ROFL

Sporting offer on tax | Herald Sun


Been busy working on this project
Girls Guide to Sport

and running kids hither and thither. I get blocks of an hour to work at the moment. Grrr.

Listenin : Silence!
Feelin : tired

moving on

Well, looks like Bendigo will be the next stop on the list. I always wanted to go to see Hanging Rock :-) Far enough out of the city but close enough to get to.

I thought the cops were arresting a shoplifter down at Clayton but obviously not going by the news. This is who they were arresting.

I have no clue what is wrong with me today. I am restless but can't work out exactly what it is I am restless for. I can't sit still long enough to paint or read.

ch-ch-changes

Now noone can ask me why I haven't made my blog pretty ROFL

I spent the rest of today organising my laptop, I chuck stuff all over when I'm working or surfing,it all ends up in the strangest places! I also organised my studio and finished off by cooking my secret pasta recipe for dinner.

Well,have to love ya's and leave ya's as I am exhausted!

where the cuckoo clock always read 6:55

One banana, two banana, three banana, four
Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more.
Over hill and highway the banana buggies go
Comin' to bring you the Banana Split show
Makin' up a mess of fun, makin' up a mess of fun
Lots of fun for everyone

Tra la la, la la la la
Tra la la, la la la la

Way back when we were allowed to blow ourselves up with fireworks legally every year, I had a friend.

We were always in trouble, setting fire to the horse paddock trying to cook potatoes in their jackets, falling off the well tower and being chased by pissed off bees whose nest we disturbed in the coconut trees. Riding the horses bareback and pinching strawberries from next door's garden. We nearly died by twisting the swing rope so high it choked us and he was there again when I broke my arm in the wringer. He set fire to his bedroom making me charcoal to draw with. Our favourite show was the Banana Splits and we would run around madly singing the song.

He's gone.
I'm sad.

Just because I'm nice

If you're looking for info on how to fix your upside down monitor, try this:
CNTRL + ALT + UP ARROW [all at the same time]

If you're looking for the Crazy Cow vid, go here:
Crazy Cow

If you're just looking for a Crazy Cow, Welcome, you found her!

Now, onto the troll.
Yes, you are absolutely correct. I am so shallow that I only follow Max because he's HOTT [you forgot the allcaps and double t, btw] As for your other Q, I'd bet I could give you 10 points headstart and still beat you in a quiz about bike racing. You need to change your search keywords :-)

And because I am a nice person, this is just for you, with love from me MWAH!




Listenin' - The Saints are Coming - Green Day
Feelin' - Snarky

Happy little vegemites :-)

new ad with the vegemite song is being put out by Kraft. Just in case you forgot the words [ riiiiiiight] here they are :


We're happy little Vegemites
As bright as bright can be
We all enjoy our Vegemite
For breakfast, lunch and tea
Our mummies say we're growing stronger
Every single week,
Because we love our Vegemite
We all adore our Vegemite
It puts a rose in every cheek.

Playing the name game

I pinched this from somewhere, can't remember where though. It's a variation on the Nine Names game that was floating around.


YOUR REAL NAME: I forget

YOUR GANGSTA NAME (1st 4 letters plus izzle): Antiizzle

YOUR DETECTIVE NAME (fave color + fave animal): Indigo Great Ape

YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME (middle name + childhood street): Ann Townsend

YOUR STAR WARS NAME (last 3 letters of your last name + first 2 letters of your first name + first 3 letters of Mom's maiden name): Frakewin

YOUR SUPER HERO NAME (2nd fave color + fave drink): Purple Stinger

YOUR IRAQI NAME (2nd letter of your first name + 3rd letter of your last name + any letter of your middle name + 2nd letter of your Mom's maiden name + 3rd letter of your Dad's middle name + 1st letter of a sibling's first name + last letter of your Mom's middle name): eaniajh

YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM NAME (Grandma/Grandpa's first name + Jones): Florence Jones

YOUR GOTH NAME (Black + name of one of your pets): Black Pebbles

YOUR AMERICAN IDOL NAME (fav car and sea food): Maserati Moreton [bay bugs]

NAME OF YOUR DREAM BAND (name of computer + printer): Aspire Packard

MOVIE STAR NAME (sibling's middle name + mother-in-law's maiden name): Leah Johnstone

YOUR ALTER EGO NAME (name of one your childhood pets + popular brand of clothes when you were young): Turtle Levi

YOUR LAWYER NAME (fav actor's last name + fav hard liquor): Ratchford SC

YOUR HIP HOP NAME (fav candy + fruit): KoolMint Mandarin

Locked and Loaded

New version of site for client went up yesterday.

I forgot how exhausting/noisy having everyone at home can be. Every 5 secs the fridge door opens and the mournful wail of there's nothing to eat echoes from the kitchen. *sigh*
There's plenty to eat,they just don't want what's there. No junk food. heh. My passive aggressive method of torturing older children. They might move back out quicker. LOL

I'm in the process of organising my workroom again.

Hearin' - Made in Heaven - Queen
Feelin' - tired

Gardasil Vaccine?

The girls are talking about getting the Gardasil vaccine soon. Has anyone had it already or getting it? I've read the side effects and they seem to be pretty standard so far for immunisations with nothing jumping out.

The side effects of cervical cancer treatment far outweigh the gardasil one's as far as I can tell. They've seen firsthand someone going through tests,surgeries and follow up treatment for it [me], so they're all adamant they're going to get it first chance they have. The oldest 2 have the regular test every 2 years and we all pay for Thin Prep tests as well.

A forum I belong to has been covering the Gardasil issue and a lot are against it, although they seem to be anti-immunisation in general . Most of the people in the forum are American and I just want to get some feedback from Aussie women :-)

After going through the treatment process myself [ I got the all clear in July 2005 ], I'm all for anything that makes it so you don't have to. So..thoughts?

My name is Madge

Spelling rant of the day : It's LOSE when you have lost so much weight your clothes are LOOSE. Not LOOSE enough weight for your clothes to be LOSE. Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez! and these people are professional ad writers.

In other news, Hubby and I have turned into Madge and Harold from Neighbours. We have quite a collection of kids here. Some are temporary [ over to play] and others in transition [ friend with a neighbour drama] and then the semi permanent [here to sponge off the 'rents to save for a bond] and they bring all their worldly possessions and pets. Simba and Pebbles are hiding under my bed, I might join them.

Friday Feast 134

Appetizer
What is your usual bedtime? Do you like that, or would you rather it be different?

Anywhere between 2am and 5am. Love it, peace and quiet, noone talking to me or wanting me to do something else for them.

Soup
When it comes to advice, do you give more or receive more?

I have 4 kids, so more.

Salad
Describe a memorable meal you've had.

I ordered fried rice at a restaurant in Qld once, it had curry in it. They expressed astonishment that I wasn't expecting curry as "But that's how EVERYONE makes it!" ok then.

Main Course
Name a work of fiction that affected the way you think about something.

Huh?

Dessert
What is your favorite type of fruit juice?

Lemon and Lime

Sending and Receiving Babies

My son has been entertaining the last few days...

Yesterday he told me that he didn't have a drink at the school water taps as one of the girls drank with her mouth on the tap, he didn't want to get babies. I was like hmmmmm, ummmm, ok, well, you can't get babies by drinking from the same water tap as a girl. He rolled his eyes at me and said Muuuuum, I SAID RABIES!

Then today he asked if alfoil could get hot. I answered that it depended on whether he was sending or receiving. ROFLMAO

We're even. heh.

Listenin' - Robbie Williams dvd
Feelin - clever :-)

working for the man

Sorry. Busy getting the online version of the Magazine done and up.

I may change my job description to html wrangler cos that's what it feels like! LOL

D3 and her mates went to the Fall Out Boy concert tonight, she still can't hear *g*

D1 is complaining the baby is kicking her in the back, so I told her to get used to kids being a pain in the butt. hehe. she didn't see the funny side of it.

D2 is 21 tomorrow, I am making mud cake muffins with pink icing [ don't ask!]and then she and the BF are going out. We're having the family dinner when Mum comes down at the end of the month.

S1 is fast asleep with music from a computer game playing ???????? with both cats draped over and around him.

And, on that note, back to work for an hour then I am going to bed. Tomorrow I paint.

Listenin' - Angels -Patrizio Buanne
Feelin' -busier than a bee!

Maybe I could pay someone to be me for a day?

OMG I have to write a bio and promo piece on myself. Ack. I freely admit I am not the most socially outgoing person but add in self promotion and I totally freak out, my brain hits reverse and stalls,leaving more skidmarks than the hoon across the road. and now I've realised that people are going to want to talk to me and ask me questions too. Bloody Hell.

Maybe I could just do the mysterious artist in the background thing? I mean, it's the art they buy, not me. errr, ok, that doesn't sound right but I'm sure you know what I mean hey? [HA! I'm so freaked I've reverted to talking like a North Queeenslander!]

My mate Bob is still in hospital, he got bitten by a white tail spider and now knows why you should go straight to hospital, not wait 2 days. They may have to operate as the bite area is not healing :-( They've had him on morphine as well the last few days. Luckily he got his perm residency a few days before or the hospital bills would definitely kill him! I'm going up tomorrow to cheer him up *G* I already told his wife to up his life insurance as this is his 2nd run in with a spider in a month.

Our fantabulous weekend!

We had a great weekend! We always sit on the 200m mark at Superbikes as you can see nearly all the track as well as see the Super screen and hear what's going on.

Max is 2nd in the Championship after the weekend, which is excellent.Bayliss and Corser must have been a bit peeved after Qatar *g* This is only the 2nd round that he's raced in WSBK and he's in there mixing it up with Bayliss, Corser and Toseland.

We acidentally formed a Max section at our spot, I was wearing my fan club tshirt and people kept asking where they could get one, so they stayed with us during the races. Hope Max felt the love! ROFLMAO.

The races were excellent viewing! In the crowd all you could hear was cheering and lot's of Oh shit! as someone flew down past us on the front straight doing around 300kmh to go into Turn1. Fantabulously excellent to watch! especially Max as he was flying down the straight. I had my heart in my mouth a few times.

We went back into the paddock after Race 2 and watched the media conferences and hung around and got some signatures. D3 got into the media scrum outside Max's pit and took pics of Max as they interviewed him, so she's happy and now wants to be a motorsport photographer, she got some great shots over the weekend. She's doing a photography degree at Uni next year, so she has some good folio shots for that now.


I tell ya though, I couldn't stand all that attention the riders get, people grabbing you for photo's and not leaving you alone. I'd punch someone just to get away from them and be able to breathe. I don't know how they stand it. I know it's part of it, but still. I was freaking out having so many people standing around me waiting, so I kept moving to a clear spot, only to have more turn up! LOL

Anyway, so... was a great weekend. If you want to see pictures, you'll have to email me antikva@gmail.com and I'll send the link to you.

Back to real life. and work. I'll put up another WIP later tonight.

WSBK Phillip Island Race 2 start

I am verrrry tired!

and sunburnt/windburnt. Is Antikva smarter than a hamster?

Obviously not! LOL

I won Pirelli paddock passes to World Superbikes from www.mcnews.com.au in a competition they held. So we hotfooted [ ermmm, it's 1 1/2 hours by car ]down and wandered around.

I met Max Biaggi as he was going into his pit garage for QP2 and he stopped to say hello and a quick chat. I was reading an interview he did recently in the programme and it's a good one with a positive slant instead of the negative one's most media seem to do. I did get a photo too but it didn't work :-( Ahhh well.

And yes, as usual forgot to ask him to sign my shirt. *smacks forehead* LOL This time I actually remembered to speak and formed almost coherent sentences ROFLMAO

We're taking the 2 youngest down tomorrow and then going to Cowes, so hopefully it will stay cool and not rain. heh.

Crapola.

I couldn't work out why my last couple of posts weren't showing up unless I went to it via my profile. DUH. I was playing around with the publish to subdomain feature and when I transferred back it defaulted to .html not the original .htm

How sad am I that it took me ages to figure that out.


I think I broke my little toe again tonight. We also now have 4 kids plus a boyfriend living here along with assorted belongings that were chucked in the car tonight. *sigh*

Want to get lucky? Clean the toilet

Well. Obviously I better get cleaning then, I haven't polished the toilet floor enough.


Want to get lucky? Clean the toilet
From correspondents in Tokyo
March 01, 2007 01:09pm
Article from: ReutersFont size: + -
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CLEANLINESS has long been next to godliness for the hygiene-conscious Japanese, but fortune-tellers are now advising those who want to succeed in life to start by scrubbing the smallest room.

Cleaning the toilet to attract luck published this month is the latest in a series of books advising readers on how to attract good fortune using a brush and an array of cleaning fluids.

"Don't just wipe the floor, polish it," the book instructs.

"It's important to maintain a positive mood while cleaning."

Pregnancy update

Eldest had a biometric scan and baby is perfect. The cyst in her brain has gone and she's above the weight they thought. No sign of anything wrong. She's already engaged. She turned her back to them, so we didn't get a pic this time.

My Mum is coming down at the end of next month for a conference, then Dad is coming down in mid July because Mum is going to another one in Darwin then.

ffs

Hmmm, I guess for the money we pay, we didn't get monkeys working for peanuts, we got Great Apes instead.

Let's see, would I rather my tax dollars were spent on
a/ Politicians given a blanket $175 - $190 per night, no matter how much the actual cost to stay in Canberrra. Public Servants get $209 - $333 per night.

or

b/ Tell a family whose son is blind from cancer surgery she should only be paid $7 per day and she'll have to work at night then be up all day with her son while hubby works to support the family.

I'd say they were claiming from Centrelink already, so why the Government car pickup to take them to the Dr's appt? Can we say media hype from Centrelink? Look!!! They are really good, they Care! They should have donated the money it cost for the show pony car to the family.

Politicians seem to have lost sight of the fact that they work for us, the great unwashed masses. We don't work for them.

Billy Thorpe - Most People I Know

Vale another Legend

Ok then.

So, who tilted the earth? Put it back. I can only remain optimistic for a certain period of time before I lose it and I am this >< close to going off my brain.





Hearin' - Phantom of the Opera - Nightwish
Feelin' - PO'd

Crazy Cow - I Like To Muh

I know exactly how the cow feels.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I think I just imploded.

Not happy.

The Universe is laughing at me

Appetizer
Where on your body do you have a scar, and what caused it?

Top of my left foot. When I was 10 I was making a costume for a fancy dress party and couldn't find scissors, so I used a razorblade.
I missed the string but got my foot. Got 5 stitches but didn't get to show off my fantabulous costume.


Soup
What is something that has happened to you that you would consider a miracle?

I went into labour at 20 weeks with the youngest, waters broke at 22 weeks and managed to stay pregnant till 27 weeks. He turned 12 on Wednesday :-)

Salad
Name a television personality who really gets on your nerves.

The woman in the APIA ads. Who the hell is she anyway?

Main Course
What was a funny word you said as a child (such as "pasketti" for "spaghetti")?

Ermmm, nope. never mispronounced words even as a child.

Dessert
Fill in the blank: I have always thought ______ was ______.

I have always thought I was adopted.


Fridays Feast 132

Hearin' - A hard rains a'gonna fall - Bryan Ferry
Feelin' - like the crankiest bitch in the universe

Emjoi your day

Does anyone else remember Emjoi coming out sometime in the 80's? The ads promised so much, painfree chemical free hair removal? Well, I guess it was pain free if you'd already removed the hair beforehand cos if you didn't it was excruciating. I mean eyewatering, sailor swearing, hunt down the designer and thump them pain. Anyway, it's back and being sold as a NEW pain free hair removal system.

Really? Do they think the Emjoi is like childbirth, you forget? Do they really think we won't tell our daughters? Plus it's more expensive than the first go round.

I have the whole family hooked on playing Bubble Shooter. First off hubby beat my score but now I am the Queen! I have beaten my first high score. Let's see how long it takes for them to knock me off my throne *G*

Feelin' - still cranky
Listenin' - Puff the Magic Dragon : Peter, Paul & Mary

Not a happy little vegemite!

Well, we unexpectedly have nowhere to stay at Phillip Island next weekend for Superbikes. I am so pissed off.

Only options are
a/ Don't go
b/ Drive down and back each day

Everywhere is pretty much booked out at this late stage unless we pay megabucks. I would normally just camp at the campgrounds but I've had a really bad year so far PA wise and there's no way I could cope sleeping in a bag for 4 days on the ground.

Pa, get off the dang roof!

I just had the weirdest dream, so much for Nanny naps LOL

Hubby climbed up on the roof to try and fix the loose tile [heat/drought/winds/whatever] that caused the rain last month to come streaming in through the chandelier and also sheeting down the window like we'd installed water features. LOL, then I had to slash the smaller screen in our bedroom so he coud slither back through head first when he realisd he couldn't get to it from where he'd climbed up. I resisted the temptation to remove the soft chair *g* Anyway, that didn't work.

So yesterday, I heeded the dire warnings of BOM tellimg me we were about to be flash flooded, hailstoned and drenched so I enlisted 4/6's BF and success! the offending tile was put back in it's place. We got 2 raindrops.

It's so hot today the AC is just an expensive fan. I'm off to join the cats on the dining room tiles. Much cooler.

Feelin' - hot and tired
Listenin' - The Black Parade : My Chemical Romance

Bad hair day

Ok,well,you know how you roll your eyes when someone says you shouldn't have liquid near a computer? [ I'm an adult, I won't spill anything LOL] There's a damn good reason for it, especially when you also have a cold as I found out. I inhaled coffee while writing an email and coughed it back out all over my laptop keyboard. Which is why it's taking so bloody long to type this out as I have to keep backing up to separate the words. My space bar is sticking at one end. Strangely the end I obviously hit a lot. sigh.

Luckily the keyboard is pretty much a sealed unit, so only a tiny droplet got underneath it and no damage except for the space bar. Phew.

Better get back to painting!

Feelin' - Relieved
Listenin' - Nemo : Nightwish

New WIP

This one is platinum [the silvery disc,stars and rays] and gold [horse bridles etc] gilding with gouache on Arches Smooth cotton watercolour paper. No, none of it is finished yet :-) Pebbles keeps trying to help out.





Feelin' - busy
Hearin' - Phantom of the Opera : Nightwish

Simba guard cat

Simba otoh guards what he and the other males in the house consider the most important equipment in the house. You should try getting it back off him!

On Guard Duty!

Pebbles lets noone but me touch my brushes and paints. LOL

Help an Aussie farmer fight the drought

I thought I'd repost this as Alice now has a blog as well where you can keep up with what's happening at the farm. She's also appeared in the media now and you can read her story here

http://www.rangersdrought.blogspot.com/


Please buy a photo if you can, everything helps. As I said, I don't know her personally but you have to give her credit for not sitting around waiting.

Friday's Feast

Appetizer
What was one of the fashion fads when you were a teenager?

boots - knee high with stiletto heels. I think my feet still hurt.

Soup
Name one thing you think people assume about you when they first meet you.

Shit. She doesn't look like she sounds on the phone [apparently I sound like a 20 yr old bimbo! How ruuuuude]

Salad
On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being highest, how hard do you work?

15. heh

Main Course
If you were given a free 30-second commercial during the Super Bowl to sell anything you currently own, what would you advertise?

Television Remote, so the resident caveman can't surf channels. I don't care if it does resemble flickering fire. Bet the Scientist that decided that theory was a male too.

Dessert
Fill in the blank: I love to *read* when it is *raining*

blah.

I am torn between ripping someone's head off or making them invisible to me.

Hmmmm. decisions,decisions.

THe biggest load...

Seriously, I am so over this shit being in the news constantly. If they want to make a real difference, have free sport for all kids of school age and do proper health classes at achools for kids to learn it. Not this shit of running around the oval once a day either. Instead of profiting off kids and making them feel like shit listening/reading/seeing this kind of news, Put up or Shut up.

It costs a fortune to have a child do any kind of sport, when you have more than 1 child it gets to the point of being ridiculous.

I just had to take my 12 year old son to the Doctor last week to get him to tell him he is not obese and that he doesn't need to diet as long as he eats well and gets excercise. My 12 year old has bones sticking out everywhere and he hears the message that most kids in Australia are obese. Thanks a freaking lot.

In a couple of months the stories will all be about anorexics everywhere, *how shocking!* and they'll wonder why there's a surge in kids with anorexia.

Newsflash, most parents do know their kids/themselves are overweight but don't want to admit it. Many believe it's an indicator of how good they parent, so of course they're going to not admit it. Especially not to some stranger doing a poll.

So to all the Journo's, Researchers,Dieticians etc that are all so freaking worried about it to the point of these news stories being everywhere.. Lobby the Governments for free sport for all children whether it's played at school or on weekends.


"MOST parents don't think their overweight children are fat - and heavy parents are the worst judges of them all, a study has found."

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21142823-5007133,00.html

I'm a lemming...

Yes, I have Myspace. No great D&M's or anything but feel free to add me if you want.
or not.

http://www.myspace.com/antikva

Help an Aussie in the drought

I don't know the Seller, I just saw her auctions on Ebay. I thought we could all help out by buying one [or more] of her photo's to help her save her farm until it rains.

http://search.ebay.com.au/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZaws803

If I've stuffed up the link, her sellers id is aws803

Update:
Alice now also has a blog at http://www.rangersdrought.blogspot.com/

cars, cats and tatts

The car we just spent a fortune on replacing parts while chasing down an intermittent fault...
$15- sensor seal.

I'm glad hubby's a mechanic, would have cost an absolute freaking fortune otherwise!

Pebble's is on the mend. Whatever she ate/drink is leaving her liver etc. Still no idea WTH she got into.

Hubby got his tattoo, a tribal dragon. Excellent job from Central Ink at Oakleigh, very fine and looks great. Wonder how long it will be before his Mum sees it. Nevermind, I'm sure she'll blame my evil influence *G*

Let's see, what else? Oh, yes, I got an audition for Deal or No Deal. That's gonna be fun, hope they don't ask me anything hard. heh.

Got the youngest daughter tickets to the Fall Out Boy concert, she's happy.

Paid for the youngest son to be a mage or something in an online RPG, he's happy.

Might have more good news soon too. Just wanna make sure I didn't have a brainfart and dream it up.

And, on that note, I am off to bed. had a bitch of a migraine yesterday and still feel slightly yick.

Hugs everyone!

Pebbles the human cat

We got Pebbles [she's 8 now] about 5 years ago after she was tossed out of a moving car on the Bruce Highway. She'd been abused and starved but after a few weeks settled in happily to the family. Because of her former life, she's never really grown and people often think she's a kitten. Pebbles bonded to me first, so she sleeps on me and follows me around the house, sitting on me and holds my hand LOL which is the weirdest thing I've ever seen a cat do.

Poor Pebbles is having a really bad weekend. She had some kind of seizure, couldn't walk without falling over sideways and her eyes were bugging out of her head. She made it all the way back upstairs to our bedroom to me [with kids and hubby in hot pursuit] and ran into the blanket box at the end of the bed. Ouch. Poor Simba was even trying to help [our siamese cat] and the girls were crying. I was worried because she'd previously had a fractured skull and may have developed epilepsy.

We raced to the vet and they've done bloodwork and it appears she has ingested something toxic. What, we have no idea. So, back this morning to get another bloodtest to make sure that she's not getting into whatever it was [some kind of plant or grass is the vet's guess] again. Anyway, the vet nurse is new and held her wrong and accidentally choked her instead. Pebbles went nuts, good thing he'd clipped her claws first or there would have been blood from everyone in the sample.

I had wisely legged it out the door leaving them and hubby to it, but all I could hear was the cat screeching. I went back in and she practically launched at me and tried to burrow under my arm. Poor baby. She finally calmed down after I cuddled her and talked to her. She was so freaked she was panting like a dog and growling at everyone.

So, because the 1st attempt failed we had to leave her there for a few hours. They managed to get the blood the second time, but she's a very unhappy cat. She's hiding in my workroom in the shelves so noone can get to her with a look of total distate for the world.

I feel like an absolute bitch.


Because Pebbles is so unhappy I have been sitting in here so she won't have to move around the house looking for me. I have been making double sure there is nothing in here that she could have gotten in to. I don't have anything toxic, but just making sure!

*Sigh* now the kids are all grown up I have to cat proof the house instead of child proofing. LOL

Blimey. It's hot.

Very hot. I feel like I'm about to melt.

We moved down here because the lower humidity and cooler climate is better for me. ROFLMAO. That's been the biggest joke yet. Oh well. We haven't lost power like the rest of the State it seems, so that's a bonus. We don't have ac downstairs though as the tiled floors keep the house cool during the day, but doesn't seem to be making much difference tonight.

Good thing the testing at PI finished yesterday, I don't think they would have like been out on the track much today. I'd hate to see the track temps. It was still 39C here at 6pm. Good for gilding though LOL

I rearranged the house again and we moved my workroom to a different area. We're also trying to set up space for bub when she's born. I keep telling the eldest she's going to have give up her KS bed, but I don't think she's keen on that. Says her feet will stick out the end of the bed. Well, we all make sacrifices for our kids, don't we. hehehehehehehehehe. Sorry. but it is funny. She's gone and bought heaps of pink stuff, so I really hope the ultrasound wasnt wrong.

Did I mention it's hot? I think I'm gonna go and hide ustairs in the aircon for the rest of the night!

Catchya Later

Work in progress - just for fun!

Drawn and Inked so far, and working on the base colours. I'm using Spicers Parchmentine paper, which is similiar to vellum but a lot thinner and so buckles easily if you use too much water or paint. I use watercolour pencils as a base before gouache. I'm using gold and paladium gilding for the metal pieces.

Based on a line drawing from Homers Iliad by John Flaxman in 1805.

WIP1 for 2007 [this one is just for fun and so I can de-stress. Cheaper than medication!]

Watching the bikes go by

Yoda is going for another ECG next Monday, Dr doesn't seem worried but just wants to check it out. He says it could be caused by the virus he'd had.

See how useless I am at taking any kind of image that requires a camera. This was Max Biaggi screaming past while we were at the track and no, Yoda is not really giving me the finger. LOL Apparently there were crashes yesterday, but we didn't see them, so they must have been before or after we left. The riders are ok though.

It was a pretty good day to go, was pretty cool but didn't rain so the kids enjoyed it. Yoda was enthralled at how fast the bikes go, he said they don't look that fast on tv LOL
The ducks were well fed by the 2 of them though, they kept wandering off to feed them and hubby had to keep whistling to get them back to the fence. I kept telling him not to whistle [ they're not puppies! LOL] so he'd do it again. Finally, I gave up! I think the 2 riders doing promo pics on the track thought he was whistling at them, was very funny though, but embarassing.

As we were walking up to the pit roof, Troy walked past into his pit, Yoda casually says hello to him. Troy said Hi, how's it going". Yoda didn't even realise who he was saying hello to. He just thought it was some random track dude. heh. The guy in our group was shocked that Yoda was *forward* enough to say hello to one of the riders. Poor Yoda was totally bemused and got the *all adults are nuts* expression.


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Ahem...

I have decided not to panic until after he's been to his regular Dr. Then it will be open season if that's the case. His cough is almost better but I think it's allergy based. All my kids were lactose intolerant at birth, so didn't have dairy until after they were 4 and even then it was limited. Methinks something sneaky is occurring and something is tipping him over the daily dairy limit.

So, tomorrow we are going down to Phillip Island, WSBK are testing, so we'll do the tour then sit on the grass and watch.


Started working on a new image today. Finished the overhaul of a clients site.

Last year was a pretty shitty year all round. This year is shaping up to be exactly the same. We took our youngest to the Emergency Dept last night. He's had a sinusy/coldish type thing happening and got worse. Last Friday the Dr heard crackling in his chest and started him on antibiotics.

Nope. still coughing like crazy. Anyway, so last night we go to Emergency and they've discovered a systolic heart murmur Level 2/6 they also did an ECG* thingy as his pulse was erratic [ could have been the crazy lady in the waiting room who threw a phone at the Receptionist though!] and now we have to have a specialist follow up.

I can't understand how they could have missed it, he was born at 27 weeks, has partial deafness, 1 kidney [ the other is cystic as a quick description] and has been scanned and operated on, for a while we did nothing but rotate through hospital doors. I am gobsmacked. I'm hoping it's a mistake or it's something to do with him being sick and will go away.

2007 already sucks.

* erm,sticky things on his chest and hooked up to check his heart rate.

Merry Christmas!

I hope Santa brings everyone happiness for 2007.

heh. My elf name sums it all up really.

On the bright side, the year is nearly done. I need alcohol.

Christmas Elf Name My Christmas Elf Name is Get your Christmas Elf Name at JokesUnlimited.com

sugar and spice

It's going to be a girl, she's due on the 21st May. Eldest definitely has pregnancy brain, she keeps coming up with the weirdest names. Kiala is the latest, I keep thinking she's saying koala and cackling everytime she says it. Eldest says, yeah but call her Kia for short. Can you imagine calling the poor kid in for tea? Kiiiiiaaaaaaa! PMSL

I know. I should be more supportive.

Speaking of which, has anyone seen those problem gambling ads on tv? Geeeeez. I'm about to be driven to an addiction just from seeing it over and over. Tonight was like 9 times in 2 hours. I hope they're not paying prime time rates for the advertising, cos seriously, they could help gamblers with problems more directly using that much money.

I'm just about all news'd out for this year. I don't know how they're going to fix the road toll. I do know that people in general seem to be more careless and lazy while driving. Today at school, we watched while 4 kids nearly got hit in the carpark. It's not just the drivers fault though, the kids aren't supposed to be walking/running/anythinging through without an adult. 3 and 4 year olds running around madly and Mum is busy yapping with another Mum 100 metres away and not even looking.

TG tomorrow is the last day of school for the year.

all Joomlad out..

After reading all of the docs and looking at 6 billion Joomla! for dummies, I have decided to run with CSS and XHTML templates I've set up instead. Rather than learn a whole new system at this stage and for time and workflow ease, it's a lot easier and I can basically achieve the same effect without another learning curve.

I will be looking at Joomla! over summer though, nothing like a little light reading over the holidaze.

As I was having a reeeeeaaallly bad day yesterday, I have been working on our new portfolio galllery today. Should be up later today. Then, I'm going to paint, I don't care if someone else has a stuff up on their part, it won't be constituting a panic on mine. heh.

I'm off, catchya's later!

somewhere in downtown Seattle, a UPS driver gets his wings...

this is the funniest post I have ever read. Normally the Interweb Jargon would make me go i. keel. j00. but while I sympathise, I laughed my head off.

OMGWTF iz up with j00? ur bein a pain in our buttses also prefectly[ OMG. I have spent too much time on Myspace, that was totally accidental!] perfectly describes *some* people I know.

Later dudes!

Light a Candle

Go here and Light a Candle.

there's a party going on...

I am all Joomla'd out. Time to put the code away and play.

I'm converting a static html site to a css site as well, so that hasn't helped. You'd think by now all the *playahs* in the field would have made their browsers conform to standards, but no, they all have to render differently. 10 years on and I'm still adding in workarounds. Sheesh.

Youngest daughter turned 17 yesterday and has a party tomorrow night. We're hiding all of them around the side of the house behind the garage so we don't get the local gatecrashers.

Back later chooks.

sigh...

Here is NOT how to start off an email to me if you want me to do something for you.

Subject : Problems found NOW HELP

Especially when the problem is the idiot operating the computer.

Yes. I was nice when I replied. I'm like that, unlike people I have encountered lately who are rude and abrupt via email and can't even spell my name correctly even if it is sitting right in front of their faces.

Why is it that politeness and civility go out the window when people get online? Geez.

Hearin' - Stand and Deliver : Adam and the Ants
Feelin' - cranky

Glutton for punishment..

I have just installed Joomla on one of our new domains and learning how to use it. SOMEONE slap me the next time I say I have a great idea.

Supposedly it is the best open source cms around. Am I showing my geek side again? heh. Am I still a geek even though I listen to Bon Jovi?
Bit of a learning curve ahappenin' but so far so good, you watch, I've just jinxed myself. LOL

Good thing the new site doesn't deploy live until January, hey.

Eldest has the same bug I just had and is running around sounding like she's hacking up a lung.

Well, my standalone joomla server just finished downloading, so I'll catchya's on the flip side Mateys!

Listenin - Have a Nice Day - Bon Jovi
Feelin' - Geekified

random normality

Well, my mate made it to South Africa safely, he just emailed me from an internet cafe to tell me so. The Riders for Health African Enduro ride starts tomorrow. Bet he has a sore arse in a few weeks ROFLMAO

We have a new recruit for the crew going to Superbikes at Phillip Island in March. He has no idea what he's in for! Max Biaggi will be making his debut on a Superbike and being a rabid Max fan for years, he's in for a huge shock at the change in my personality. In RL I am extremely shy and quiet unless you know me really well. I'm so bad sometimes that I stutter when I first meet people. I do tend to get excitable while watching races though *G* and because it's at the start of the season, so I'll be even more bouncy than usual.

Then we all go out for dinner and don't give a toss about eating heart attack inducing food or whether the alcohol is a wise decision after being in the sun all day. Me drunk? Never. heh.

I just got a new office chair, it has a tilt back and everytime I lean back it triggers my windmill reflex [ arms in air waving wildly, legs and feet flung up trying to break my fall] I've done it about 5 times today already, so that's my excercise for the year done.

Yes, it's 2.30 am here, so I'm a bit more random than usual. Sorry. Errr, not really. LOL

Hearin' - Wake Up - The Living End
Feelin' - Sleepy

Today I am not a pigeon...

I am a statue.

That is all.

upside down like a fruit bat

Someone at Dell obviously has a sarcastic sense of humour.
Youngest was playing a game on my desktop and hit Ctl+Alt with the down arrow and the screen flipped upside down. Apparently, there is a setting on the graphics card that says *Enable Rotation* It was set to rotate 180 deg each time.

WTF????????????? Why would anyone want to turn their monitor upside down? Why would that even be a default factory setting?

Both kids at home ran for cover, the youngest thinking he was going to be the new monitor holder upper for the next 10 years. I wonder how many people have had a heart attack or stroke induced by high blood pressure when their screen suddenly flips? In order to fix it, you either have to stand on your head, tip the monitor upside down or have good skills in reading and scrolling the opposite direction you're used to.

Good thing I have a laptop, so googled upside screen and the first entry told me the problem. So then, I held the youngest up by the ankles and made him do it.

LOL. Nah, I practised my reverse scroll skills and fixed it. Then I went in and unticked the *Rotate Screen* box. If hever does it again though, he will be hanging by the ankles *G*

How Sad...

Belinda Emmett died in Sydney today.

I think I lost my archives.

oh dear.

heh. nope, they're back. LOL and I thought changing over was going to be easy.

I'm back again, yes, I know, today I am just a blogging fool. Annnnnnyway, I was over at Meatareda's blog [ lucky sods off on holidays!] and I realised just how much I miss going down to Queenscliff now that Nana isn't there anymore. I think we might have a trip down there in our near futures. This is the first year I haven't been there at all since I was born, I was only born in Geelong cos there was no maternity hospital there then, so Mum had to go to Geelong.

feelin' - loopy
hearin' - White Wedding - Billy Idol

cue twilight music

this is a test to see what happens.

sigh

Santa beat me at checkers. Can you believe that? Harumph. Better be a damn good pressie under the tree this year is all I'm gonna say.

Next time, I'm taking on Rudolph.

How on earth are baby boomers still alive? | NEWS.com.au

Great article on the removal of personal responsibility that is so in vogue these days.

This was the best part of the story though -

But perhaps the greatest question of all is this:

Why did a generation that spent the first half of its adult life dedicated to excess, independence, freedom and loud music decide to spend the second half of its life writing rules that tell everybody else how to live?



How on earth are baby boomers still alive? NEWS.com.au

a tomato a day...

Yesterday was a public holiday here and my partner in crime Dragonsand came over for a visit. We worked through some stuff, had a natter about art as artists do. Then he helped me pin put the new hide and sand it down with pumice sand. We have no fingerprints left *g* and the neighbours now *know* I am nuts. Thanks Dragonsand, you did good and saved me from many hours of work by myself. Although, you could have told me I was still wearing the facemask on my head like a hat. heh.

I can't get used to daylight saving, it's thrown my whole system out of whack. Being a North Queenslander, I am not used to it. I think it's why my curtains are fading quicker than normal, hey. Ok, not really but I thought I'd chuck that in to see if you were still awake.

Not so good news this week, my FIL has just been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He's going for bone scans to see if it has spread before they decide on treatment. He gets tested regularly as his Dad had it as well, so it's been caught fairly early on. Phew. I like my Inlaws, so it's been a bit hard.

We just had a new fresh fruit and vege place open up down the road. Cheap prices on most and it doesn't go off the minute you get it home. They have absolutely the best tomatoes around as they were originally tomato growers. So, hubby is going to be eating lots, as well as tomato sauce. Usually I sigh when he slathers TS over everything, but I've learned that Tomato Sauce has high levels of lycophene and so helps prevent prostate cancer. FIL stopped eating tomato anything about 5 years ago after he had a bout of gout.

Well, that's about it for now. The youngest daughter is in exam mode and got a job working at a restaurant on weekends, so she's happy. The middle one's car is almost ready for the road [ACK!] the eldest is 12 weeks along and throwing up every 5 seconds. The son is creating his own computer games and needs to clean his room.

Hugs everyone.

Feelin' - Sad
Hearin' - The Police Chopper coming in to land at the airport.

spiders...

Hmmmmm.
Dear Mr RIAA, nope. won't find what you're looking for here. Although it's just amusing now, that you guys waste so much money and resources. You should look into more time/cost effective policing procedures.

Speaking of spiders, last night I had a hitch hiker on the drivers side window of my car at eye level. Not sure what kind it was, but it was half the side of my hand, so I kept leaning towards the passenger side of the car. Yes. My window was wound up tight. You should have seen the eldest & youngest jump out of the car when we got home and run. They left all their crap in the car, so guess who had to hold all of it and get out of the car at the same time. Little chickens.

Anyway, when MOTH got home later, he relocated the spider to the bushland down the road. You watch, 10 to 1, the little bugger will wait till I drive past and jump on again. He probably wants to go shopping.

I've been busy. Uhuh. reading books and blowing your nose can take up a large part of the day. You know that week off thing? Totally out the window.

I had a water feature in my office yesterday. Streams of water from the storm we had poured in through the top of the window between the bricks and window ledge thing. I ended up standing on the arm of the couch with a towel trying to stop the flow. Yes, was useless.

My brain has taken a holiday without me.

I have a bad cold.
Really, that's the only explanation I can come up with for the totally stupid things I did and said today.

Of course, now when I can't think of anything to say, blogger works perfectly.

I decided since I was sick, it was a good enough reason to go shoe shopping today, my favourite place is closing down. I thought I'd found a bargain except they didn't have the boot I wanted in black, only a beige colour [eeeewwwww!] so thought I'd go to my 2nd fave shop, except they too only had the dreaded beige. So, in my logical frame of mind, came home & rang my fave art supplier in Sydney and ordered more art stuff. hehehehehehe. Yep, cost more than the boots. I ordered some of their papyrus as well as vellum, to do some more experimental art pieces in ATC size [ 64 x 89mm ] so may put them up here as freebies. Not sure, depends on how they turn out. I may put them up as What *not* to do's! heh.

I'll be back in a few days. Hugs everyone.

welll....

blimey.
blogger is actually making it quite easy for me to decide whether to keep it or not.
I am sick and tired of the bloody thing hiccuping all over the place. The last few weeks everytime I have something actually worth blogging about I forget by the time I can actually log in. hmmmmph.

Ya know, I only have so many years left in my life, I ain't wasting those spare minutes waiting for a log in. LOL

Back shortly.

Antikva Art & Design - We Listen. We Hear. We Create.

Just finished the redesign of antikva.com, well nearly. Have a couple of things to finish off when I get stuff and then it's done. I even redesigned the logo, so I put it all online.

So, this blog will be reverting to personal stuff now we have a production & design blog. Can't decide whether to change publishing platforms or not, if I do leave Blogger, the blog will stay at this url anyway. I just discovered my rss feed switched itself off yet again. grrrr. I won't be changing the link, but will probably rant more *g*

So, yep, I'm officially back as a web designer/developer, amazing how much I missed it. I'm still going to do artwork though, otherwise I think my head would explode.

In fact I am working on a new one, this one has multi strips of gold/platinum throughout and really looks pretty but the strips are microscopic and I keep seeing double LOL

Well chickadees, I am off to sleep. I feel like I haven't slept in a year!

'Avagoodweegend mateys!

feelin' :: tired
hearin' :: Underneath the Radar - Underworld

New client : Business Franchise Australia and New Zealand

Here's the new site I just finished.
It's a new franchise information magazine in Australia published bimonthly.


Business Franchise Australia and New Zealand

Tremor shakes suburbs - National - theage.com.au

HA! I win the bet, we were debating these choices for what happened:
1. Small earthquake
2. Methane build up at dump causing an explosion
3. Someone's drug lab blew up

House shook and it sounded like thunder a few times, Dogs in the neighbourhood went batshit.
I'd read that there were earthquakes in NSW that also sounded like thunder yesterday, so I thought that was what it would be. Plus, I couldn't hear any sirens, so obviously not 2 or 3.
Well, I just finished working, so I am off to bed.

Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs were shaken by a mild earth tremor late last night.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Fire Brigade said calls were received from people in St Kilda, Brighton, Caulfield, Elsternwick, South Yarra and Clayton reporting sounds of explosions and rattling windows over three minutes from 10.40pm.
Tremor shakes suburbs - National - theage.com.au

Masterful coup for Melbourne | Herald Sun

Masterful coup for Melbourne | Herald Sun

Guess where I'm gonna be going next year!

Not much happened today.

I'm in the process of rearranging my workspace though. I get bored if I don't change the furniture around at least every month or so LOL Drives everyone crazy. So, I'm sparing them the stress of having to find things. Of course, it won't stop the plaintive cry of " I put it right here, now I can't find it" that I hear every day.

I did buy a new ring today, it's celtic knotwork and matches my claddagh ring I wear. Aaaah, pretty shiny things! ROFL

hearin' - Whip It - Devo
feelin' - sleepy

Countdown - Supernaut - Young & Innocent - Google Video

Wow. I was in love with Gary Twinn when I was 14 or 15, I thought Supernaut were wonderful and drove all my friends crazy. They liked Bay City Rollers and Abba. I had my hair permed at one stage and it was stuffed up, so I told everyone it was supposed to be like Gary Twinn's. ROFLMAO I've only been able to find 2 of their video's though, but they also did *Too hot to touch* and * The kids are out tonight*
Talk about going backwards in time!

Click below to watch Young & Innocent on Countdown.
Countdown - Supernaut - Young & Innocent - Google Video


Hearin' - Aussie History
Feelin' - Nostalgic

sigh...

Spent the afternoon watching 80's music vids on you tube. Ahhhhh,Icehouse, Men at Work, Depeche Mode... I am in heaven. Marti Pellow and that smile!

Eldest is pregnant, so went to Baby Shop so she could show me the pram she was going to buy. Saleslady freaked out when she called me Mum, she thought I was her older sister supposedly. I am too damn short for my age.

Hearin' - Great Southern Land - Icehouse
Feelin' - tired

Charlie on my mind, Customer Service Special

My favourite perfume is Fidji by Guy Laroche, sadly it is getting harder to get and more expensive if you can find it. So, I've been on a mission to find an alternate. I'm pretty picky at how I smell and hate girly cloying perfume. I may not be girly girly but I like to smell nice.

You can get it at Duty shops at airports but I am not planning on leaving Australia any time soon. The only person I know going OS is going on a charity ride in SA for Riders for Health [ yes, my fault LOL* ] and I don't think he'd wanna be carting around exy bottles in his bag. Anyway...

Charlie - by Revlon, the original was based on Fidji. Supposedly it is readily available. Ok, well, yes, that would probably be true if the 2 checkout chicks could be assed to do anything more than say Nope, don't have it. They had Charlie Red & Charlie Blue, so I sprayed the Red & wanted to test the Blue, so back to the disinterested chicks again, answer was Nah, don't have a tester for it. So, my answer was, Well, that solved my problem of where to spend $100 +, not here that's for sure. I'm sure with that kind of stellar customer service the Store's future is guaranteed. When I see the 2 of them near a Centrelink Office, I certainly won't be surprised.

The shop I went to was not the shop I linked to above, they are great and answer stupid questions over the phone and are apparently interested in selling their items. Unlike another national company who specialise in female beauty products, like perfume & makeup but obviously not so specialised at customer service.

Charlie Red still smells nice on me after 12+ hours, so I think I might just go for that one.

* I saw an article about Riders for Health and showed my mate. After 2 years of fundraising & planning he leaves in a few weeks for it, he's the only Aussie going this year. I hope he has great fun but gets home safely in time so we can go to testing days at Phillip Island.
Hugs matey!

winds of change

I've just spent ages trying to locate a font designer. He was very popular and seems to have disappeared into cyberether. I want to use his font on the new site I am designing, so if anyone knows how to contact Graham Meade of Australia, please let me know at antikva@gmail.com

Antikva Art & Design is changing as well, I have a partner in crime now. Dragonsand is a mate from Uni who loves print design [ Why? I have no idea either! LOL He's demented.] All the legalities have been done, so we are off and running... err well, he's running, I'm kind of waddling along behind. So, there are going to be changes apart from the move to our own server [ yeah, sorry 'bout that! it was a bit of a cluster]

Dragonsand is an excellent graphic designer/illustrator/artist and friend, so I'm in a happy place with this change. Plus, he's used to random convo's with me LOL and is quite happy to put up with me charging off into the Illumination side at the same time.

Well, I am off to get some work done. Might go play JewelQuest for a while. Yeah. I know *G*

Motogp06

Back from the Motogp at Phillip Island. Yes, of course we had a great time :-) It only rained when the main race was about to start, then when they swapped bikes, it pretty much stopped raining as well LOL So this year the weather was pretty good. Sunny and cool at the same time. First year I didn't get sunburn and frostbite on my ears ROFL

Did hear good news though, Max Biaggi has signed to ride for WSBK next season.
Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra to be precise, so that made me a very happy lil vegemite. LOL, yes, diehard Max fan here, so there! I like the WSBK paddock better than Motogp as it's less formalised, less people, we don't sit in the stands, we hang off the fenceline near Turn One.

Working on a new artwork, so I'll put up some work in progress shots later this week. This one is a lot larger than I normally work at, so I'll have to work out how to manouevre it as I move along the sheet of paper.

Well, I better get to the backlog of stuff I have to do. heh. See what happens when you sneak a week off!

Antikva

Blimey. That took a long time! Didya miss me? no? ok. moving on.
Let's see...

I just had my annual full check up, I am as healthy as a horse this time. They took so much blood this time, I think I actually lost weight LOL My PA indicators weren't so crash hot though, which would explain why I walk as if all my clothes have been washed in starch a hundred times. That's cool though as everything else is normal. Hubby will have to go to Plan B to get rid of me now :-)

I wasn't going to go to the Motogp this year with all the drama of the kidlets etc but I am now. Dave is flying down from Sydney, so if you see the 2 nuts doing the F18 flyover wave at the top of the Wayne Gardner straight stand, that's us! heh. Sorry, it's extremely funny to us at least. I'm a bit sad though, my favourite rider Max Biaggi isn't going to be there this year. *sigh*

I have a new online project underway, but it's a secret for a while until I get it done. I do need a couple of female beta testers though, so feel free to put your hand up if you'd like to read and give feedback. Err, you do have to like sports though, in particular motor sports.

The 2 eldest heiresses [heirii???? LOL] both have f/t jobs now, so they are going to be able to flee the nest again shortly. The 3rd heiress in line is doing well at school and the heir is playing runescape or off flying a kite. Really. he is. Mind you it's 3x his size, so he has to have parental supervision so he doesn't take off into the stratosphere.
He's grown an inch in the last couple of months, he is going to be very tall like my brother. I'm still going to be the shortest person in the family. How rude.

Last week was a shocker, I'm still gobsmacked at the deaths of 2 Aussie legends.
RIP Steve Irwin
RIP Peter Brock


Feelin' - creative
Hearin' - Advertising Space - Robbie Williams
Readin' - The inside of my eyelids as much as possible lately.

At least I provide friends with entertainment!

Just signed up for a server, what fun. Not. If I manage to disappear and don't return whilst transferring the domain etc over. Feel free to have a belly laugh at my expense.

Or.

You could email me at antikva at gmail dotcom and let me know you miss me.

Hugs Bunnies!

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My laptop is home.

YAY! My laptop had to go in for repair, they replaced the harddrive. So we upgraded the RAM at the same time. Now all I have to do is finish loading all the software I use again.
So much fun.

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Anyone want a Vox invite? I have some.
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I have finally gotten rid of the damn bug! Talk about being sat on your ass. I finally feel as if the truck that parked on my chest has moved on. LOL

So, have done absolutely zero this past week. Boring.

Hey Dragonsand! I emailed you :-) I removed your post cos you might get spammed.

I have been sick with the same virus the kids had. So, I've been lounging in bed, watching tv, ignoring housework and reading books. I'm grumpy cos I feel so crappy. Got the laptop working again [Please, don't ask, I'll get even more grumpy]

It's times like this I miss Townsville winters.

I don't normally watch a lot of tv and would be quite happy without one. However, with the recent bout of illness in the house I have been watching weird crap in the wee hours.
Of course, I had to watch the World Cup like all good Aussie citizens and while watching that discovered the Tour de France when Ch31 stopped playing the fishy thing with music. Who knew a bike race could be so exciting? I'd always thought it would be extremely boring but it's not. Between the breakaways, the sprinters and the peloton chasing them, it's almost nailbiting to see who will cross the line first and if anyone will crash or get a flat tyre.

To all those doubters, it's a lot better than watching the endless repeats of the inane Infomercials at least :-)

Did I tell you I got a new Razr? hehehe. Sorry, I always only ever had a basic mobile until then, so I love my new phone with it's bells & whistles, such a pretty shiny thing. I can even set multiple alarms, so I don't have to remember to reset the alarm each time to do things like get up, pick kidlets up from school or remind me to stop hunching over something I'm working on.

I don't have to pay for ringtones anymore or fiddle around in composer hitting the wrong keys & torturing perfectly good tunes. So, I have put mp3 snippets on as my ringtones, I have 2 I use at the moment, both from Adam Thompson's RECONNECTED cd, She's a Machine and Electric Jesus and Yes, I have permission to use them [so snoopy spy companies, stick that in your pipe.] I even worked out how to put the album cover on as my wallpaper.
Did I mention I love my new phone? heh.

Apart from that, I have done nothing all weekend except sit on my butt watching tv, reading and beading. Tomorrow, I work & battle the beauracrats.

Hugz Bugz!

Feelin' - creative
Hearin' - Car Song - Cat Empire
Readin' - Hair Raiser by Nancy J Cohen

The Virus from hell arrived, the cold variety, thankfully! So everyone has been sniffling their way around for the last few weeks. The whole house smells of eucalyptus from the vaporiser and Eucy Bear rub. Strangely, of all things Mr Fussy Eater [11] loves Ginger tea, so he sits rugged up on the couch with chicken noodle soup, ginger tea and a good book and is in bliss. LOL Yes, I know. He does watch cartoons as well, so he's not that strange but he prefers to read rather than watch tv.

In work news, I have returned to doing print & web design for small businesses, so I have been flat chat with work. I didn't really want to go back into the print side but economic reasons have made it so that I'd be a complete idiot if I didn't. I've also been teaching myself gilding on glass, which is similiar to the gilding I already do, except it's glass rather than paper. It is similiar to working on scratchboard as you work in reverse, so it hasn't really been that hard for me to do. I'm also making each kidlet a necklet and so teaching myself the art of beading. I already sort of do beading with/on my bookcovers, so this is just a different form.

Stringing beads is good physio for my hands & wrists too, so wonder if I could claim the costs as a medical deduction? [ I'm only joking! I know it's not]

I've also been watching the Tour de France, as I've been up with sick kidlets, way better than watching infomercials LOL

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Sounds wonderful! My less than a year old laptop Acer 3503 is showing this error message and is stuck in a loading loop. I'm about to throw it out the freaking door.

So, of course Tech support for Acer is enjoying time off and I am going insane trying to repair it. Who was it that said computers make life easier? BAH!

On a brighter note, I have plugged my phone in and am merrily making new ring tones for my phone YAY! Although I did cause the kidlets to have a fit when I put a wallpaper on of Robbie Williams and all you could see was his bare butt. MUWAHAHAHAHA! I am sure that will cause some future counselling sessions! hehe. It could have been worse...

I'm off to continue the search for answers to my dilemna! Adios.

I was going to do Fridays Feast, but it's Saturday and I still haven't gotten to it! Story of my life lately. heh.

I found out all my comment messages were going to the spam folder, so I'll answer everyone who has commented that I have missed. Sorry, sorry, sorry! See, and I just thought nobody loved me. Why Google thinks their own blog service is spam is beyond me though. *snigger, snort*

I got a new mobile for my birthday, so I've hooked it up to the laptop and made a couple of mp3 ringtones for it. It's only going to take me 3 years to read the instruction book LOL Everyone better be careful now, it has a video camera as well as a still camera. So, be prepared for some amusing vids of my hubby & kidlets.

Poor things, they tried to get me tickets to the Robbie Williams concert in Dec but didn't. They even tried to win some on the radio stations but missed out. Poor MOTH nearly had a heart attack when he saw the prices on Ebay. So, they bought me the phone to make up for it. I nearly fell over when I opened it!

MOTH also gave me a hula hoop ?????????? ROFLMAO.

Son gave me a special present which he wrapped himself. I'm still unwrapping it 2 days later. He's a cunning little toad, he's wrapped it in packing tape and then hidden the start of it with more tape. I'll have to think of something more evil to do to him for his 12th birthday. MUWAHAHAHA. I could cheat and cut it, but he thinks he has one over me. And, as all parents know, letting them think that, is a good thing. heh.

Well mateys, don't forget to avagoodweegend! I'm off to get sleep!

Like I was sayin'...

heh.

So sorry, been very slack. I'm a bit stressed, a bit tired and a bit peeved and have been that way since the last time I posted. I have heaps of drafts that I wrote and didn't post. I ended up having a minor meltdown at my wonderful GP, who says I should just be me instead of worrying what other people will think. Their problem,not mine. But, nah, think I'll leave them as drafts, baby steps and all that. heh.

So, here is a little of what's been getting me cranky and frustrated. Seriously, Idiots piss me off and I have met many in the last month and a half. I'm sure I'll strike an intelligent person soon, it's just the number of idiots we have to deal with first that's driving me up the wall.

We have been on the Government Agency merry go round for the last few weeks. How the hell they think they are *helping* detoxed addicts out by being so slow is beyond me. She's trying & setting herself small goals, I can see why so many give up though.

First, Eldest is supposed to have 2 support services in addition to another she has to be tested at. Has she been to those 2 agencies yet since she moved here mid April? No.


So, we are dealing with the withdrawal symptoms she still gets by ourselves, which can be a bit hard. She's with me 24/7 eveywhere I go, she goes and vice versa, which is hard on both of us. It's not so much that we think she's going to start using again, it's just she has no other way of getting to places.

We've been trying to get her into a short course so she can see if she likes what she wants to do and can cope with it. First off, she gets sneered at by a Govt employee about how it's only 2.5 hrs per week. Well, trust me, after what I've seen in the last month, that's a lot more than he actually works. Sarcastic asshole.

So, then she finds out she's not supposed to be looking for work or education opportunities for at least 13 weeks. WTF?????? We've been chasing our tails trying to get this organised and been palmed off to another organisation each time. It starts on Tuesday and she's still getting frigged around. Because she moved, they cancelled her file instead of transferring it, we finally got a referral done, only to find they don't provide the service there. GRRRRRRRR.

I'm off to slap some pollies around the ear once we get it all sorted out.

In between all this, I've been trying to get some work done. Had a slight trauma with a gilding size and ended up having to toss the lot and start again. I ended up frustrated as I have to keep going and doing other stuff, so I keep losing the flow. I wouldn't mind except for the fact that it leads to yet another follow up and appointment, only to be sent to someone else.
And we pay these people? Geeeeeeez.

Hubby & I have decided that we are running away from home.