Bride to be and the social whirl.......

Goodness gracious me, I am engaged! Spent three days in near shock after Min's Dad and my on/off me amour of 6 years or so took me completely by surprise by popping the question the other night whilst having the traditional after dinner drinky out the back.....think I surprised myself more by actually saying yes! My mother was very excited, as were bro & sis in law and the friends, colleagues and family I've managed to inform thus far....think they were all (not so secretly) hoping we'd eventually get our act together. Its a big move for Linds, he's had a very bacheloresque life for quite a bit now...
Anyway, we took the girl to the beach for bit thisarvo and managed to find a suit jacket that fitted him perfectly in less than five minutes at the local op shop, and I found a pair or witchy looking dark burgundy size 11's (yes, I am a heifer!). Now to drop quite a few dress sizes by November 14th. We're scoping out Brookfield Winery tommorrow morning as a venue. Want to keep it sweet, antiquey & family oriented. My colleague Meleah's 5 year old Meg is to be my flower girl, other roles t.b.a.
so now I have my nephew and brother 's birthdays (May 27th & 30th), Min's baptism (June 7th), Spence's name day up in Sheffield (June 20th) our engagement party (June 27th) and am back at work two graveyards a week from the 29th of May too, along with all the non work type work as well (which Linds has been a huge help with lately) & wedding preps.....sheiser....how did my simple life get so complicated all of a sudden.
Still, a very happy munckin right now, and the cat does not have the cream, I do!!!

houston....we have pulling up

I must say I've been a nit lax putting the side up on the cot but I just went in to get madam and this is what I saw.....needless to say, we now obviouls have pulling up skills.

found this one at docwitchys site, interesting

You Are the Third Eye Chakra

You are insightful and spiritual. You trust your intuition. You are deeply philosophical. You spend a lot of time thinking and theorizing. You are wise beyond your years. People turn to you for direction and hope. You are a clear thinker. You often know what you want to do and how you're going to do it.

What Chakra Are You?

poem

My muse has been hiding for a few years now……….
But every now and then
She pokes a wary eye around my doorway
Or I catch a glimpse of her
Heading the other way down my street
Me with my pram, she with her glamorous
Identity,
My perverse and taunting doppelganger
Gave birth to a girl called power
Gave birth to my/her future self
Am almost jealous of her pure potential
Of all that lies ahead
All the joy and heartbreak
Things to feel & see for the first time
How good would it be’ to rewind?
But I am her willing slave
Would I make the choices differently?
If I had the chance again?
Would I just ignore the man/the yearning?
We are raw materials
Cell and blastocyst
taste and quality tested, packaged and marketed
We only choose which way to walk
In the shoes that are given to us
Today I walked out of probation
Into perdition
And he’s still driving my car

In the merry merry month of MAY

My aquaintance Natalie Monu Dixon is due to give birth to her first child today....GOOD LUCK!!!! Birth was nothing like I expected it. It was bloody awful. I cant think of one good thing about it. Except maybe the epidural, which wore off waaay too fast. I would really like to have more children but the birth thing is still a big sticking point....and the money thing. And the time to myself thing...maybe I should seriously rethink the more children thing!

Here is a cute pic of my baby girl holding onto the highchair and doing high singing noises...look out world, another future soprano diva in the making!! (in cloth nappy , you will notice...I have gone all freakin earth mother of late, even going so far as to purchase eco friendly bath cleaning products and make a better effort at recycling rubbish...goodness, what's going on??) So far so good, takes a little bit more planning , but hell, what have I got to do now?

Emily popped by yesterday afternoon which was nice, after I waited for her and Oliver to make an appearance the other day and neither of them did. I dont mind being a hermit, really, most of the time, but it is nice to find out what others are up to from time to time. She's doing ok, the jewellery is selling well, although not near enough to make it a viable employment option.

Linds is on bub duty today. We're planning on going out to base at Taxi Combined and hassling them to give me some hours back & updating his pv license.

Maudlin mood.....not sure why, has been a pretty good day. I made the difficult (but I believe, sensible) desicion to unenrol myself from Enrolled Nursing. I hadnt made it to enough of the prac or tuorials to take in enough information as the wee sprite I share an abode & a life with is entering the TEETHING ZONE. And then exiting. And then reentering. Also, since she weaned herself onto formula bottles a couple of weeks back she's come home at the end of each week with another horrible cold. I will miss all those antibodies. The upshot of all this is she doesnt sleep, I dont sleep , therefore function, and so... for the next little bit I'm not sure what life will hold, except for the inevitable baby household routine (which is becoming quite comforting, actually) Long live the domestic goddess.
I even walked her in the stroller all the way to Channel Court , library & postoffice, and back up the hill again. I figure if I can control my appetite and eating habits better (which should theoretically be more possible now that I have the time and a little more energy to cook and do food planning) and do a decent half hour walk most days , I should be 50 kgs lighter in about a year's time. Give or take Christmas, birthdays, Easter, the odd bakery binge with Mum.....
Of course my ever scheming little brain has kicked into "ok I'm not studying so how am I going to make a crust now?" mode even thought I said I'd give myself 3 more months of vertiable motheriness before I started applying for things, and had the lady round thismorning from the local family day care scheme. Of course, there are always hoops to jump like putting latches on doors, film on windows, getting more beds for little bodies to nap on and putting childproof gates everywhere, which should take me until July to afford, but apparently the Government has a $1500 rebate for start up costs available to help, so not impossible. And it would be great to be with Min during her formative years, not have to plonk her in the germ factory whilst I dash off to some unrewarding job......that's assuming that I can even get one. Not exactly a career, but who cares? Going to bed to read Slyvia Plath.

email to nanna coz we'll be gone b4 you wake up......

Dear Nanna, Thankyou for coming and staying with us, and I'm sorryyou didnt get as much sleep as you should have. I am sleeping fitfullyin Mummy's bed and she is cruising the internet because she cant sleep &is having an existential crisis regarding the validity of her life , butwill get to bed any minute now.Thankyou for all your hard work and for being so neat, it is quite anovelty as my mother is so laissez faire in her approach to basicdomesticity. We hope you will want to come again soon and I look forward to hearing your sermon in June.Lots of Love Minerva & the torturous teeth xoxops. here is a recipe your dad might like:Gluten free Gingerbread Cake (Grandma MacKenzie's recipe)Preheat oven to 160 degree celsiusCream 125g(1/4 of a pound) of butter with a teacup of sugar. Add 1breakfast cup** of golden syrup along with 2 eggs. Stir. Add 2 and 1/2cups*** of plain gluten free flour (or normal flour if you aren't having gluten issues), 1 level tbspn of dried ginger, 1 tspn of allspice, a tiny pinch of salt. Stir some more and then gradually add a teacup of milk inwhich 2 small tspns of baking soda have been dissolved. Mix well, (giveit a good beating if discipline required). Pour into a large-ish cake tin, (I use a generous square one) that's been lined with baking paper or similar. Turn oven down to 150 degree celsiusand bake for about 1 hour.