Category Archives: Home Sweet Home
- July 20, 2010
- Passive agressive wifi- take 2
Funnily enough, after my last wifi message we haven’t really had a cat peeing issue. Maybe it works?!
Leaving for work yesterday, I noticed the side gate open. The gate, that can only be opened from the inside. Checked the shed and it was still locked, so just assumed the kids had left it open.
Manpet rings a few hours later, our outdoor table is gone. Our huge metal and glass table…gone.
Who the fark wanders the streets looking for outdoor furniture to steal?
Maybe we interrupted them before they had a chance to get the matching chairs. Arseholes…it must be someone nearby…how far can you get carrying a bloody table down the street?
- March 17, 2010
- Do you think my neighbours will get the hint?
I’m thinking probably not, but it makes me feel better anyway!
- August 30, 2009
- stick in a pot
The $150 stick in a pot that has had me rather nervous for the last few weeks is actually growing…she’s a live! and has leaves…woo hoo!
Aren’t they the cutest leaves…nawwww!
Hayden is OBSESSED with lizards at the moment, nag nag nag nag nag every damn day for one. Spotted this at Bunnings and got it for him…he was less than impressed..hahah! Not sure how long it will last before it’s knocked off.
- August 15, 2009
- Budget Garden Makeover
When we moved in, the front gardens were full of a bit of weed and that was about. So many things on the to do list, it’s hard to know where to start.
We finally got around to doing the front garden 2 weeks ago..and woo! nothing has died…….yet!
It was a nightmare just trying to decide what plants to plant. I couldn’t do a garden of a mix of different things, I have a thing about stuff matching.
Didn’t want to spend a fortune either, which after some shopping around seemed near impossible…damn plants are expensive!
I found myself taking a look on eBay…OMG you should see the plants there! 1000′s of them, who’d a thought. We ended up choosing some Purple Dazzler Cordylines, I got 20 of them for $115 all up including postage. That works out around $8 a plant, we had seem them as much as $19 in the nurseries! I also picked up some nandina..only for the manpet, cause I hate them. They were 20 for $30, another bargain compared to the nurseries. The plants faired really well with the postage, as long as you get a good seller who packages them properly.
Add with our soil, and the most expensive rocks there were. I tried to talk myself into the cheap ones, but there were just too ugly and brown, added with the brown house and roof, house would have looked a bit “emo” *hehe*
It looks a little bare at the moment, but once the $140 stick in a pot (weeping maple) grows some leaves, and we plant something in the bottom of it’s pot I think it will look really good.
All up, it came to just under $500. I think that was pretty darn cheap.
I am still of the look out for the perfect weeping Cherry Blossom, just love them, have always wanted one but the right colour and size is hard to come by and the price is heart attack inducing.
- May 29, 2009
- Telstra..you suck!
In the shops today, trying on shoes. I am NOT a shoe person..in desperate need of something to replace my fav poor dead converse 
. I loves them shoes…they are so comfy, they don’t make them the same style anymore or I would just buy another pair the same…how boring am I.Anyway…back to telstra’s suckage.
So the phone rings, private no..Hmmm. It’s Tesltra, calling to ask why I haven’t paid my bill. Umm, if I had actually received a bill, I might have paid it! He says you must have, the first bill was sent the 14th of April, then many reminders. As I said before..I have had no bill at all from you!
Well your address is Glenbrook St is it not, you would have received them. I am like WTF..I have never even heard of that address, it is no where near where I live…..Well that is the postal address you have given us. Why would I give you an address I have never bloody heard of FFS?! It doesn’t even sounds anything remotely like my address..and give the postal address I give for all bills is the PO Box, I have no idea where you got that from.
So he fixes the address up. The account was already terminated because we only got the phone connected with them to make our broadband connection with Internode faster, the line was switched the internode over a month ago.
He goes on to say the new one is in the mail, due in 14 days or they will have to take further legal action. o.O That surely isn’t the time you give everyone else to pay their normal bills. No, but I am being generous and giving you an extension he says. But it was not my bloody fault in the first place you farked up!!
Was only with them just over a month, and after the issues with a line fault and then this. Thank god it wasn’t any longer!
- April 29, 2009
- Best month of my life– also posted in General
I haz interwebs..WOO! It has only taken 6 weeks, better late that never ey internode
Seems a bit pointless to be writing about shit that happened last month, but I’ll give you a brief run down cause March was sofa king awesome! So a quick catch up and we can get back into it.
*Phew* what a month! I don’t think much can beat it, March 2009 will go down as the best month EVA!
March 14th, after 13yrs we finally got married. And yes, I managed to get a dress. These are about all the pics you’ll get..unless your a friend on flickr
After a lot of stuffing around, we finally settled on our house on the 19th and started moving in the next day. We then spent the next week painting. Can you see the beautiful job I did on the toilet *hehe* Still got lots of work to do, but it is wonderful to have a house of our very own..that I can paint what ever the hell colour I want.
And lastly, I got a job..out of the house! Very first job, outside the house in more than 10yrs! Working for Hallmark, just training at them moment, but it’s great to have something else other than being a mum..and I don’t think anyone is ever going to understand my online work.
