We’re Moving!

Mar 11

Posted by ness in Moving House | 1 Comment

Yes, at last, after nearly 12 months of searching, we are moving house.

Yes, it’s still in this country. (little pout)

We are not buying, but still renting.

Here are the Pros:

  • Close to Skippy’s school
  • In a nice area
  • In a security complex
  • lower rental than where we are now
  • It’s slightly smaller than our existing house, so easier to keep clean, forcing me to purge and de-clutter like a mofo. (yes this is a good thing)

Here are the Cons:

  • No Swimming pool (this may actually be a plus, considering we are officially in Autumn, and Winter is approaching – and who knows we might be out of here before Summer anyway)
  • Apparently the lady at no. 16 is a complete busy body. Oh well, I can deal with that.
  • The garden is smaller (but easier to manage) but it does mean that my doggies will need more walking…oh well, my butt could use the exercise too

We are going to be selling a lot of our furniture off, and replacing it, because it’s old, we’re tired of it, and frankly, after living with the same stuff for 10 years I’m SO bored with it. We are not going to be going ballistic and buying the latest, greatest LCD TV or anything, just getting rid of our old two seater couches, and buying a nice new 3 seater and a single. Ditching the old TV stand and coffee table and picking up new ones, and a new rug. Maybe a new fridge if we can stretch to it, but like I say, our long term plans do not include shipping any furniture with us when *we go* (whenever that is), so ultimately, what I’m looking for is newer, slightly better looking stuff, not my dream house furniture. With two boys under 5, practicality and ease with which stuff can be wiped down is a major deciding factor in what to get!

Anyhoo, I’m just glad to be getting out of our current house, the landlord has been a complete douchebag and never fixes anything (we have fixed stuff ourselves and withheld it from the rent, with the approval of the rental agency) and well, there was that whole bureaucratic mess up with our water supply as well. So we are OUTTTTAAAAAAHHEEEEEERE.

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Energy Levels

Mar 10

Posted by ness in Health & Beauty | No Comments

An old gal friend told me (her kids are 10 and 7 already – I can hardly believe it), that when she had kids, she used to feel so tired, then she’d laugh and tell me, “But you just get used to it, you just get used to feeling tired all the time.”

Boy, was she ever right?!

We just seem to cope with less and less sleep! Or we get accustomed to just feeling tired, and frankly looking like sheet.

Those aren’t permanent wrinkles around my eyes, no sirree, those are tiredness wrinkles. Therefor only temporary. *snort*

The bizarre thing is that sometimes I get so tired, but my brain is so busy that I *still* lie awake at night. Contemplating the merits of the over the counter sleeping pill sitting in the cupboard. Then I worry that if I *do* take it that I won’t be awake enough to deal with any potential kiddy alerts that might arise.

The last time I took one, I was in hospital after having my youngest, and was having complications around my intestine being all twisted (not due to the caesar) and I was in so much pain that they offered me the pill and I swear I would have taken three if they’d offered!

I’m generally not a pill popper, but on rare occasions, I have been so utterly grateful for a little help from my chemical friends, that I think used with moderation, caution and medical advice they are a good thing.

Yay for medical technology!

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Carte Blanche

Mar 10

Posted by ness in Health & Beauty | No Comments

We have a programme here in SA called Carte Blanche. It’s one of those exposé type shows where shafty business deals are exposed, and government corruption gets put under the spotlight etc. They’re particularly good watchdogs when it comes to health insurance companies, who always seem to be in hot water.

This week the show has a story coming up on some or other diet product where they ask questions like does nutrisystem really work and I can’t wait to see it. Because while they may be great industry monitors, and more often than not expose those that are doing shady business, they *do* tell both sides of the story, so if something appears to be odd at first glance, they will always give it a fair review.

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Way to Give Myself a Coronary…

Mar 10

Posted by ness in Technology, weight loss | No Comments

I just got bombarded with a whole bunch of error messages on some of my blogs, all at the same time.

It got my heart pounding and blood pumping, better than jogging or alli weight loss products could have! I though it might have been a permalink problem, but they appeared to be untouched. Bizarrely, my homepages were showing up fine, but if you tried to access a single post page (by clicking on the post title) then it coughed up a scary looking 404 page not found error.

Now for the likes of me who makes a neat income from doing the odd sponsored post, this effectively means that my income could have been cut off at the knees.

Thankfully for my tech support at my web host, they seemed to sort out the problem within an hour, and I could breathe again.

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I’m Mad about the Oscars

Mar 8

Posted by ness in Movies | No Comments

Avatar should have won Best Picture! Ditto Best Director! Ditto everything else it was nominated for!

The fact that it is the highest grossing movie of all time, should have said something about how amazing this movie is!

I’m really pissed about this! I mean James Cameron devotes over a decade of his life to producing the best movie ever, and well, he gets completely snubbed by the Academy!? What gives!!???

Who the heck are ‘the academy’ anyway?

I really shouldn’t be taking this so personally, but being a creative person myself, from start to finish I sat completely gobsmacked in the movie, MARVELLING at the creativity and AWE INSPIRING work that James Cameron produced (well, directed), and it sure as hell should have beaten out some piddly topical flick, made by his ex-wife! Bloody hell.

There I was looking all forward to watching the stars walk the red carpet (it’s only being screen tonight on SA TV), having dutifully applied their best acne treatment, and make-up and decided which ludicrously expensive frock to don, when I heard the jaw dropping news that Avatar only took 3 Oscars.

What does this say to the creative industries in general? Don’t bother taking it seriously enough to work on it for 14 years, because at the end of the day we’re going to give the award to a less interesting, less entertaining movie, that some people will never have heard of.

We’ll just ignore the fact that most of the population that have seen Avatar, have loved it, and well, then there was the fact that it’s made the most money of any movie EVER in HISTORY.

James Cameron, you were effing ROBBED mate.

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