See? I’m feeling slightly upbeat again.
Photo by Tipiro on Flickr Under a Creative Commons Licence
Maybe pretending to be planning to run away yesterday did the trick for me.
Or maybe it’s the deluge of graphic design work that is FALLING OUT OF THE SKIES for me right now.
It might as well be raining money (hands up those of you picturing me doing a nekkid rain dance, with sticks, or wait… better not tell me).
As facetious as that sounds to say that it might as well be raining money, (yes I have no idea how to spell that so I’m going with the wordpress spell checkers version of it) it is MOST welcome.
Yessirree, very welcome.
It’s quite bizarro really, because even some of my old photography clients are emailing me and asking me if I do websites, etc and while the two fields do go hand in hand a lot, it’s kind of like ringing up your doctor and asking them if they do homeopathy. Like I said, not entirely out of left field, but still suprising. Breeeng eeeet on universe!
So it is the joy of design, and the related work that is pulling me out of my funk.
How many people are blessed enough to say that their WORK is keeping them going? I realise how grateful I am to have this stay-at-home-job, given that Skip has been off school since Monday, but the fact that it is the thing that is lifting me up and giving me the will to not just live, but to succeed and reach for my dreams again, is…well, really cool.
My husband has been stellar. The kids have been, well, themselves, except that now, when they reach out for me spontaneously, or Skip turns as he’s leaving the room and says, “I love you SO much Mommy.” it lifts me so much more than before.
So while the search is always on for a miracle weight loss product, at least my spirits are beginning to lift.
Oh and I still have to share the story with you, of how I’ve seen my dad twice since his death.
But I’m going to make you wait some more.
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I just had a small “Twilight Zone” moment.
I was standing in the kitchen preparing a marinade for the beef we’re having tonight for dinner, when I picked up my blackberry to read an email that just pinged in.
It was one of those ‘so-and-so’ is now following you on twitter emails. The weird thing about it – or at least the ‘Twilight Zone’ moment came about because I realized that the person who was now following me (Jaden from Steamy Kitchen) was none other than the author of the book Steamy Kitchen - whose recipe I was using for the marinade. A recipe that I actually picked up via the Pioneer Woman, when she made it and published it on her blog (with Steamy Kitchen’s permission of course). For the foodies among you, I’m talking about the Beef with Broccoli. It’s insanely awesome. Jaden also has a cook book out, take a look here
It just *really* struck my how much blogging, and bloggers have become a part of my life, and this has been an amazingly good thing.
I think my husband would agree that the entry of The Pioneer Woman’s recipes into his world has only been a good thing too. He’s practically swinging from the light fixture with happiness about the extension of my repetoire. His waistline does tend to argue this point, and whenever he requests that blasted fried chicken recipe, I try not to be too quick to point out that unless he’s about to go and saddle a horse and spend 8 hours either riding the range, castrating calves or being engaged in other waist reducing pursuits, then I probably shouldn’t make the chicken dish. Yet Again.
I hear a joyful clucking arise from the nearby poultry farm (or was that just my stomach?).
Anyhoo, apologies for my longer than normal absence. I’ve been engrossed (first in Eclipse ) and now currently in Breaking Dawn 
Reading the book, and dealing with the amount of work that I have (forgetting for just a moment the two little male darlings of my life who currently require much fetching and taking, and tending and feeding) at the moment must be something akin to Bella’s bloodlust. Seriously. I mean hello – that freaking book calls to me while I’m busy getting on with things like work, eating, bathing, and yes I consider taking it to the loo just to get some alone time.
TV is a *thing of the past* I tell you. The ONLY TV that I am currently watching is Greys Anatomy on a Monday night at 19h30. That is IT.
Things are going so well right now work wise, I have a steady stream of work that is keeping me happily occupied (I’m definitely doing the right thing for me, I mean how many people get *excited* to sit down at the computer and work???) the only down side of course being that working keeps me from reading the rest of the book. But I’m being a good girl and getting it all done to the best of my ability. In a way I am glad that I am dragging it out just a little for myself. I usually don’t read books, so much as devour them, and since I read really quickly (Eclipse took me a little under 24 hrs – WITH all of lifes interruptions) I really am trying to enjoy every last detail of this story.
Anyway since I promised to take some photos (I didn’t take nearly as many as I should have) of the last few days food exploits I’ll leave you with a photo of Bakerella’s Fast Food Cupcakes, mine aren’t nearly as elegant perfect as hers, but dayam they are delicious! I should also point out that putting cupcakes in this format, completely threw my boys for a loop. They are both refusing to touch them…leaving all the more to the hubby and me. (This is a bad thing, but it’s also a good thing 
I forgot to add – that bakerella used buttercream icing as her ‘cheese’ but I have used fondant. For those of you who are confused – this is a vanilla cupcake, with a brownie as the ‘patty’ with buttercream lettuce and tomato, and yellow fondant icing as the cheese. It’s very, very naughty.
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My husband came home with a shiny new wifi router last night, having organised a new connection for us, after the old one’s contract was up.
Which means, that you’ll now have to put up with a whole heck of a lot more of me Doesn’t that make you, like, SUPER HAPPY!!?
I can actually see the whole month stretching ahead of me, withOUT interruption.
OH the mind boggles at the thought of what I’m going to be able to DO!
Starting off with another free blog badge!
This one is for all you southern hemisphereans. If you’re feeling that Spring vibe, feel free to grab and paste the code into your blog template/sidebar etc.
We’ll simply ignore the fact that today, the 1st of September is colder than the last 2.5 months of Winter we’ve experienced so far, and we’ll try to focus on the Spring VIBE that everyone has, yes that’s VIBING that everyone is doing, as opposed to shivering. Here is your suitably vibey, very chicklike (bizarrely unlike most of the stuff I design – again, must be that Spring Vibe) button for your blogs.
Those of you who are facebook friends, may recall my excited status update about the fact that I found lilac tulips?
Well that there is a photo of them. They look more pink in my photos than lilac, and I’m still editing them, but I have some big plans for those photographs, including adding them to my Redbubble portfolio and other sites where I’ve enjoyed success in selling my images and posters etc like Zazzle.
(((HUGS INTERNET)))) Oh how I have missed you!!
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I’ve now designed and uploaded three blog buttons (for South African bloggers) for Capetonian, Joburg, and Durban bloggers.
Here is what they look like:
Clicking any of the images will take you to my graphic design blog where you can pick up the code to paste one of these buttons into your sidebar.
I also just successfully updated to WordPress 2.8.2, so the problem I was experiencing with 2.8.1 is taken care of and my post entry WYSIWYG editor is back to normal- hurray! (Remember, I’ve started a service to self-hosted wordpress bloggers who want help with the technical side of keeping things updated etc, you can email me for more information if you’re interested in joining.)
Other than that, I’m developing the website for the wordpress support service, there’s a whole lot of testing and tweaking going on, as well as getting the content and finer details ironed out, but I’ll let you all know when it’s up and running so you can take a look see okay?
Hope everyone is having a Super Friday Morning! (Oh, and happy 5th anniversary babe!)
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Hey folks
Button created and hosted as promised.
Head on over to my graphic design blog and to pick up the code.
More free buttons appearing at Macnessa, for as long as my July bandwidth cap holds out!
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