crazy meezer- Siamese cats, kids and internet life

Mar 13th 10 Posted by Leigh in General

My hot date with a sexy fireman

well, sort of. Manpet did some fire drills yesterday and had to put out some real fires…so that kinda counts..yeah?

Tomorrow is our 1st wedding anniversary. How fast has that year gone! And we haven’t killed each other (tho we have been together 14yrs this year, so I had already beaten all the bad habits out of him long ago) If we are really honest, he some kind of super human to put up with me LOL

What am I buying him? What…am I not present enough?? I don’t work for Hallmark any more, and I am certainly not actually paying for a card.

He doesn’t want anything tho, who says that? At any given moment I could rattle off about 10 things that I “want”..but nope, not him…weirdo. So I shall just have presents for the both of us. Like a new car, stereo, a magic mouse…I best not let all my secret purchases slip..in case he is reading, but thank you darling

So we are off out on a date! Nothing too exciting, Dinner and Alice in Wonderland (see how well trained he is ) And having a child free night, the kids are sleeping at the inlaws.

When I stop and think, this is the first night out without the kids in nearly 3yrs. Wow, that sounds bad saying it out loud, doesn’t it? Didn’t realise it had been so long. I guess it is just easier not to worry about putting people out getting a baby sitter etc. Not that I have minded at all, or missed it. Do you do date nights?

Mar 12th 10 Posted by Leigh in General

New Car

It has been nearly 18mths since finally got around to getting my P’s.

It was not long after that I bought myself my first car (which technically wasn’t my first, but lets just say first that I could legally drive )

Wow, forgot it looked OK. Reminds me a little of why we actually bought it. I can tell you, it looks nothing like that now! Through no damage or neglect on my part mind you, she had just been badly neglected in the past. Was and still is wonderful to drive (cept in summer, no a/c in black car is NOT noice)

We swore never to buy a black car, or any car in the dark again. I still stand by my decision to buy it tho. We aren’t stupid when it comes to buying cars, we have done it many a time. Of all we looked out in my tiny budget, I just liked that one. We bought something super cheap, so if I smashed it, we could just toss it out and get a new one. Yay me, I didn’t so put so much as a scratch on it.

So I get my new job, which involves 3 days a week in the office…in Nth Sydney. There is no freaking way I am driving that ugly thing there! Even the kids were getting a little iffy about going in it.

SO after much looking, bought my new car last Friday, in the dark and rain.

I love it! Nice to have something you actually enjoy driving (with A/C!), and don’t feel ashamed to get into. New stereo is also awesome.

Mar 10th 10 Posted by Leigh in General

Blush

I started a new job this week with the wonder guys over at Media Cafe.

Finally putting to use all the skills I have learnt bumming around the net for the last 12yrs. Whoda thought they would be so useful..and you could get paid for it!

Even had a press release just for moi..how cool is that! And no, I did not write it

Leigh Sundstrom joins Media Cafe
Noted blogger and women’s web-site developer Leigh Sundstrom joins Media Cafe today as Head of Product Development.
Noted blogger and women’s web-site developer Leigh Sundstrom joins Media Cafe (www.mediacafe.com.au) today as Head of Product Development. Leigh has an impressive record building and populating such notable women’s sites as allforwomen.com.au and thatsnoice.com. Leigh also controls blogchicks.com.au…the top 100 women bloggers in the country.
‘Leigh has built significant community websites from scratch and developed huge membership and user bases so we are particularly pleased to have her join us at Media Cafe.’ said Media Cafe MD, Chris Muir.
Media Cafe is a one-stop communications shop for media planners, buyers and sellers and contains a plethora of useful media data. Media sellers can load up their data or news in over 17 major categories all of which are fully searchable x demographic x geographic x media type. They can load up sales opportunities, trade promotions, events, reps details, media kits, case studies and many other things which media planners and buyers will find very useful.
Since its launch only 2 weeks ago Media Cafe has garnered a significant audience on the buy and sell sides of media. Most of major media sellers have already loaded significant amounts of data and others will follow shortly.

Mar 8th 10 Posted by Leigh in General

I give up

Stupid photo memes, I should have known better. I have thrown in the towel already.

It wasn’t the lack of photo opportunities, more the lack of decent camera. I really enjoy taking and looking back at the 365 pics I have taken, but the crappy quality has annoyed me no end. (yes, I am aware that most of it is probably driver error…but shuddup k while I’m bitching )

It has been 12mths since my beloved canon powershot died. I loved that camera, I knew how to get the best out of it, life hasn’t been the same since .

I replaced it soon after a new model powershot, thinking surely a new version will be much better. Quite frankly, it sucks and I hate it! I knew I should have upgraded to an DSRL, but, to be honest I thought I was too lazy for that..bit like driving an auto car..I can’t be arsed learning manual.

At least I used to have my n97 as a camera back up, awesome pics for a mobile. But now with my iPhone *covers my iPhones ears* I love my iPhone to bits, I really do. But the camera…what a piece of shit! My gawd apple, would it kill you to include a decent camera?

So perhaps when Apple stops releasing new goodies that I.MUST.HAVE, I will finally get around to getting a DSRL.

Feb 3rd 10 Posted by Leigh in General

How did you sleep last night?

I am a bit of an iPhone app junkie, often checking the app store for something new and fun to play with.

The latest is Sleep Cycle. I had seen it in there before, but never paid much attention as I thought it was just an alarm. But when I saw the added bonus of analysing your sleep pattern I had to have a go. I LOVES me some stats and graphs!

So basically it is a bio alarm clock that analyses your sleep patterns and wakes you when you are in the lightest sleep phase. Haven’t had a chance to test out the alarm yet, because I have woken up both mornings before the alarm. But the stats are cool!

You stick your phone under your sheet near your pillow and measures your movements during the night to graph your stages of sleep.

I always thought I was a pretty heavy sleeper, get into bed and I am out pretty quickly and didn’t wake till morning. But it seems not. Clearly I didn’t sleep too well last night and may explain why I was ready for a nap before lunch.

Will be interesting to see the graph over a few more nights. It’s also going to be handy to prove to manpets dr that despite his screwed up ENT he does not have sleep apnea, I don’t think he believe me.

sleep sleepy

Feb 2nd 10 Posted by Leigh in 365, Kids

January/365

So I decided to take ANOTHER crack at this 365 thing. I’m not into pics of myself, and the food I make is way too boring and awful to inflict on people (tho I am sure these pics are just as boring LOL)

Last year I really enjoyed looking back at the pictures I took, so hoping to get a little further in than the 130 or so like last year. And hoping to get a few more family pictures (of course that includes kittehs!)

And yes, I know there aren’t 31 pics there…a few pics I set to private…just cause I can

jan