raising willow… and dexter!

I have been tagged by the lovely Melissa. 5 “If”s that would have made your life somewhat different today. 1. If I had stayed with my first ever boyfriend, my life would be so. different.  He was from, shall we say, the wrong side of the tracks.  In fact, that’s probably being a bit kind.  [...]

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I just worked out how, with some recognition of prior learning and summer school, I can knock over the second year of my uni degree in one year. That is to say, I’ll be able to knock it over while maintaining a work/study/family balance.  Speaking of work, it was the last day at work for [...]

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I got my haircut today, it had grown out and it was all a bit straggly.  I lost the longer bottom layer, so now I have a neater shoulder length bob.  At this length, my hair flicks out quite neatly. We had lunch at the fluorescent hell and spent the early part of the afternoon [...]

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I’ve always loved the idea of writing a gratitude journal. Brother David Steindl-Rast : Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy — because we will always want to have something [...]

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This is my beautiful boy Dexie with his tree.  I weighed him today at the chemist and he was 10.1kg. The weather has been glorious here so we’ve been spending quite a bit of time outside. The plum trees, both ornamental and fruit are blossoming and Willow loves standing underneath them and getting a petal [...]

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Last night while I was going to sleep I realised that I drove past A’s boss’s house, but about an hour and a half after he died.  It’s a bit of a zig-zag I take, going from FDC to uni, necessitated by a river cutting off some roads.  Already, along that route I drove past [...]

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I’m not usually a superstitious person, but my Mum used to say that deaths happen in threes.  First was the sister of a friend and this morning it was A’s boss.  He went out for a morning jog, came back and was getting ready to go to work when he had a massive heart attack.  [...]

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My friend and I were talking about taking our girls horseriding last weekend, but they were all booked out, so we decided to go to the Adelaide Zoo.  The two girls loved it, running all over the place with squeals and giggles. Some photos… I love that last photo of Dexie, mind the crumbs though!  [...]

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Tomorrow it will be 6 years since Dad died.  It was very convenient of both of my parents to die around their respective ‘days’. *sigh*

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I am planning to make these for my last week at work. I thought I’d do a trial run of this recipe here to see how they would turn out. They are nice but when I make them for real I think I’ll use vanilla extract (we don’t have any atm) and more cocoa. I [...]

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