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Stomach bug - or why I haven't been around the last few days

Very nice weekend overall. Had a lovely BBQ with great company on Saturday and a mothers group gathering on Sunday. Nice weather for both days, which was a plus since the kids could just run around while we all sat outside and relaxed in the shade. 

Turns out I'm the only one now in the group (that was present on  Sunday) not to have a second baby or one on the way. J used to keep me company but she spilled the news that she's now a few weeks preggers. The pressure is on! The end of this month is pretty much my deadline to make up our minds. After that, the shop is closed.

The only glitch in that whole weekend - if I don't count ending up at a Subway for my birthday dinner due my MIL faffing around again - is that Lily woke up in the middle of the night (Sunday-Monday), puking her guts out. So yesterday, on very few hours sleep, I had to care for a baby throwing up every 30 minutes or so. One of my t-shirts barely lasted 10 minutes before I had to go get changed - again. Oddly enough, last time we had a big meet with the other kids from mothers group, it was for her birthday and she got sick then the following day too. The good news is she seems better today - unlike last time when she dragged that out for days.

The inlaws are catching a plane to Perth tomorrow morning and then they'll be off back to England after the weekend. Life might get back to normal again... though since October I can honestly say I can't remember what 'normal' is.

A year older... or is it just a day?

spacellama

, you rock! You know I've never had paid account time before? I've just uploaded a new icon and I'm over the moon! :D Thank you so much! What a nice surprise! 

Got this from my younger brother in the mail today. Shep, Eo and Hicks. What else could a girl ask for? (well, I would have gone for Ronon but he didn't know...)

Life's good

Still haven't seen The Golden Age. How sad is that?

Fell out with some writing buddies in the last week. Never a happy time. And it saps so much energy all that bickering. Really not worth it. Shelving another chara and that's that.

Been out to the city with the little one and the inlaws today. We attacked the botanical gardens by the harbour. The sun was out, the sky was blue... and actually quite busy with all the many bats flying about because a chopper had disturbed their sleep.

Busy weekend coming up. Last one with family here. Going to visit friends in Gosford on Saturday and BBQ lunch with Mothers Group on Sunday. Kids, kids, kids.

Oh, and finally got around to checking themes and such. What do you think of this new one? Quite limited choice when you're not a payer.

And now for the memage. I think I saw that at... 's?

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Club- huh, so you actually went to detention. This says that you are fun yet unrealistic
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The Guard

Anyone watching that show? It's actually pretty good. I'm Canadian so maybe I'm biased a bit but the characters are interesting, multi-dimensional and it's a great cast. Of course, I've only seen two EPs so far so who's to know how it will pan out? But I'd say they're definitely on the right track for now.

Oh, and of course I get a kick of watching it because it seems to be a reunion of actors from two different sci-fi shows... Stargate (SG-1/Atlantis) and Andromeda - with a little JAG thrown in (not that's sci-fi but it was certainly more fantasy than anything else!).

 

 


On a personal note... is there anything worse than potty-training a two year old? And , don't say projectile vomitting because that goes without saying... ;)

Valentine's Day

Hehe! Someone posted this on a Yahoo list. Hers was a very nice cover of one LtCol. Sharpe (played by Sean Bean) so it tempted me into getting silly too. Why else do we pay attention to Valentine's Day anyway? ;)

If you want to play too, here's how to make your own romance novel...

On a personal note, I woke up to roses this morning, with a lovely little teddy (of the stuffed kind). Awwww!

Music time

Tagged by

Rules of the game:
- list your top five favorite musical artists;
- list your top five favorite songs from each artist;
- tag five people to do the same.

In no particular order...

I. Seether
1. Walk Away from the Sun
2. Truth
3. Your Bore
4. Given
5. Fine Again

II. U2
1. Indian Summer Sky
2. Elevation
3. Tomorrow
4. Bullet the Blue Sky
5. Drowning Man

III. Midnight Oil
1. Short Memory
2. Jimmy Sharman's Boxers
3. River Runs Red
4. Bushfire
5. Lucky Country

IV. Pearl Jam
1. You Are
2. Immortality
3. Bushleager
4. Given to Fly
5. Jeremy

V. Red Hot Chili Peppers
1. Sir Psycho Sexy
2. Venice Queen
3. Road Trippin'
4. Behind the Sun
5. My Friends

This is incredibly hard. There are quite a few more. Alice in Chains, Metallica, John Butler Trio, Coldplay, INXS, Loreena McKennitt, Queen, Live, Baka Beyond, Daniel Belanger... the list goes on.

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Josh Brolin, the Casting Mistake of the Year

Hehehe, this is too funny...

By Joel and Ethan Coen:

"Boo-boos," David Merrick called them -- those big-time show-business casting mistakes that are never widely publicized. Not errors of taste or tone, but flat-out boners. Robert Urich, for instance, was asked to play Spenser, the TV detective, because the show's producers had him confused with Robert Conrad. We had waltzed through eleven films before our own first misfire.

Our movie version of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men had Tommy Lee Jones in place -- no mistake there -- as a crusty west-Texas sheriff (...) and to round out the cast we hired -- we thought -- rugged everyman Jim Brolin as Llewelyn Moss, the aging Vietnam vet caught in the middle.

Well, there were some red faces on the set the first day of shooting when Jim Brolin's son Josh showed up to play the part.

Rest of the story at Esquire.

Anyone seen this yet?

Into the Wild
Screenplay and Directed by Sean Penn
Original Songs by Eddie Vedder



An interesting interview with both men at Time.com: Nature Boys. 
 

Mallozzi discusses someone's departure

Am I the only one celebrating? :D

The story's here.

That said, I'm not a Carter-basher. I like Sam Carter. I like her in SG-1. But I never thought she'd be a fit for SGA and so far the 4th season has done nothing to change my mind. I usually steer clear of spoilers so I had not heard about this at all until Gateworld's RSS feed came through. Left-side news for me, and I do fear who's next in line on the short list for the commanding position, but I'll celebrate while I can. :)