If you see a faded sign at the side of the road...

It occurred to me the other day that the closest any of us will come to living in High School Musical is when Love Shack comes on the PA system in the supermarket.




It was amazing to hear EVERYONE in the store start singing along and all the trolleys started moving a little faster because everyone was doing that "I'm dancing but I don't want you to know it" move... You know you've done it. They were all singing softly so no one else could hear (except the guy in the next aisle buying toilet paper and fish fingers which he was also loud about(and I have no idea why they are in the same aisle) he was REALLY getting into it) but the combined singing was loud enough to be heard across the shop. CLASSIC.



It has made me think that perhaps I need to post something I wrote a while ago out of boredom and avoiding a conversation with Mr-stinky-arm-rest-hog on my flight to Brisbane for the Tupperware thing. I have made no secret of my dislike for all things HSM, well, actually I don't go around sharing it willy-nilly but should the topic come up I will share openly that I find those movies disturbing and downright weird. All that breaking into perfectly composed song (how do they all know the words???) and those perfectly choreographed dances where the frenemies are all doing the same thing when at my school if you didn't like someone you wouldn't be joining in their dance about how they didn't like you!!! This weird little interlude shouldn't come as a surprise to those close to me. But if the uninitiated wish to stop reading this blog after you read all this then so be it. So anyway this is what my up before dawn brain strung together...




Do you ever wonder what the world would be like living in HSM? I have "Manic Monday" going in my ears and I'm secretly wishing the whole plane would jump up and burst into song around me. Then on comes "Here I Go Again" and I can see the old bald guy behind me jumping into the aisle and rocking out! Agh the ways I amuse myself flying without kids. "And We Danced" would see all the hosties whipping out instruments up the front and doing a little number with the passengers grooving along from their seats. The worrying thing is when I start to see the pilots come out as a backing dancers for the business class chicks singing "Roam". So who's flying the plane in this hallucination brought about by a severe lack of sleep? And am I starting to groove a little to much siting here in my seat? I must keep myself in check so I don't jump onto the aisle and start singing along to the music that is only in my head.



That was the flight down, the flight back was equally sleep deprived and full of weirdos (it's up to you if you think I am including the Tupperware folk as part of that "weirdos" group or not)


Okay my world got just a bit weirder when we were sitting at the conference and they were doing another lot of recognition and they were calling excited Tupperware ladies out to the stage to give them more gifts and they were playing "All In This Together"! Seriously, that was a turn I didn't expect in a room full of grown ups. Next thing I was expecting Zac Effron to groove out on stage and start serenading the number 1 tupper-chick. Now I don't scream and I don't surround myself with screaming chicks all that often so between hysterically excited Tupperware ladies and thumping loud music and not enough sleep I got a headache pretty quick. I also got gas. That was nothing to do with the Tupperware ladies, music or sleeplessness that was more to do with flying. I had a rather uncomfortable morning session with those combined but I was determined to do something about it when I got to check into my room at lunch time. Problem was I got to my room and found I didn't have any panadol on my bag! I had so many delays getting into my room that by the time I had eaten my lunch I didn't have time to duck back to the chemist I had seen down the street to grab some. As I was walking out the door a familiar package caught my eye, panadol in the minibar...
$3 for two tablets! No way I'll keep the headache thanks. I got back to the ex-centre and the music was thumping again. I figured someone would have a spare panadol, it was a room full of (mostly) women, someone had to have one. Thankfully my manager did, I got her last one... now I could get back to my own little HSM hallucination.



So, now you know what is on my iPod, if you still like me then that's just great. You also know a little more about the inner workings of my brain, if you still like me after that then you are probably about as strange as I am.

Tupperware Trippin...

I thought I should finally catch people up on my trip away that was over a week ago. So this is what I went for...

A king bed and a nice big room all for myself. Nah, I actually went for this...

A bathroom all to myself. Really, ALL MINE! Problem was Brisbane is on such strict water restrictions I couldn't just go and have numerous unnecessary showers just because I wouldn't be disturbed. Okay, still not what I really went for. Um, will you believe I went down there for this?

Isn't she beautiful? I'd like to introduce you to Baby C. She was 5 weeks old at the time and not supposed to be born for another week. Oh so dainty, she had that beautiful little baby smell and she was a girl! I don't get to hold many baby girls. Her mummy is my only (really close) friend that manages to produce girl babies. She makes some good looking girl babies too. Check these two spunky monkeys out!

Baby C's big sisters E and A. They abandoned us here when E was just a little tyke and C was pregnant with A. Boy to we miss them.



Still not what I actually went for. I went for the Tupperware February Sessions. It's a full on, day long event where the new catalogue is released and people are recognised for their achievements in the last 6 months. But... I'll post on that another time.

I'll leave you with some more pictures of these gorgeous girls and their yummy mummy (and one photo of me). I didn't get to see their daddy, A. I know it made him very sad so I made sure I sent him a photo with my phone of me holding his little baby C and eating some very yummy pizza that he wasn't getting so he wouldn't feel completely left out. I'm kind like that.

My little A My not so little anymore E.


Baby C and her Yummy Mummy C.


Everyone say "Aunty McT is my favourite aunty"
Soak in all that girl babyness. It's unlikely to be happening in my uterus.

He'll miss me... kinda.

I had this little conversation with Lion today.

"What are you going to do when I'm gone tomorrow?"

Thinks a little "Maybe you could send us a message, yes, take your phone so you can send us a message"

"I will absolutely take my phone and send you a message, probably even ring you"

"And maybe you could leave us your iPod... Please?" (This must be said with your chin resting on your hands and eyelashes fluttering with a BIG cheesy grin on your face)

Now I know I'll be missed because I'm taking the iPod. I don't care why they miss me, if it's just for the iPod access that's fine, as long as they miss me!

I'm all packed. I could probably fit it all into the big bag but I do need to have two so I'm not fishing through the big bag to find my id to get my ticket and other little things like that. And nothing ever goes back in as well when it's time to come home.

All going well I will be on a plane at 6am heading for BrisVegas.

I did at one point this afternoon think I would be spending the night in the E.D. with Dragon after he split his little lip by falling over with a drink bottle in his mouth. There was a lot of blood and he was quite intrigued by his blood on the white nappy (why when a child is bleeding can you only find something white to get the blood, lets make it look as dramatic as possible). I just poured cold water on a wadded up terry nappy and that seemed to be all it needed in the end. He even asked me to pull off the dangly bit of skin, I warned him it would hurt but it was really annoying him so he wanted it gone (I was hoping that would wait until he was all daddy's). I think it may have been numbed a bit by the cold water or he is one BRAVE little man.

Oh I'm gonna miss my babies... I just had to look up pictures of what my room will be like to remind myself that I will have not just the bed but the whole room to myself and that I really am kinda looking forward to that.

A time for everything...

A time to horde, a time to clean out your handbag.

The boys are being unnaturally wonderful and playing happily with duplo and watching TV. I thought I might take the opportunity to pack for my trip tomorrow. I was starting to worry, I am not a light packer so I wasnt sure I was going to be able to fit everything I need for overnight into just this

my massive mary poppins handbag and also one smaller handbag. I thought a good start would be cleaning out my big ol' handbag of all the every day stuff that accumulates (I know, I'm as surprised as you are, me, collecting junk in my handbag???) Turns out there's a lot of stuff that I don't need in there for this trip. I made quite a bit of room.

I got rid of about 50,936, 742 receipts, 464 scribbled notes that mean nothing anymore, last years bible study roster, enough snacks to keep an army alive for a week, 3 drink bottles (for 2 kids?), tissues, tissues and more tissues. Oh, and a few of those recipe cards that are on those tear off things on the supermarket shelves. I think the winner though was this...

Yep, that is the last 2 urine sample baggies, urine samle jar and poo sample jar (all unused). We've had the odd little spot or swollen ankle since Christmas but he's better now so I am guessing they can go.

Now I have in my handbag my wallet, my glasses, my sunnies, my fruit tingles and some nappy change stuff. After we have our outing today I'll even take out the nappy change stuff.

I think I may just fit my pyjamas, a fresh top for day 2 and some underwear, toiletries and my diary in there:) Ya reckon?

The boys are still sleeping on the floor in our room because although the weather has cooled down because of all the rain we have to have windows closed because of all the rain. So it's still air con weather. Lion was put to bed the other night and obviously didnt feel like sleeping on his mattress on the floor. We went in to go to bed and found him laying across our bed, covered by a pillow, wrapped in a towel and with his santa-hat head propped up on another towel.

He's kinda cute when he's asleep. I'm gonna miss these little ratbags.

Ugh

It's not yet 6am...
Delight of my life #1 woke up and refused to go back to sleep. I told him it's not wake up time yet, go back to sleep. He said he couldn't find his gecko, so he went looking for it in the dark bedroom of Delight of my life #2. Of course he needed to turn on the light to find it. Now this wakes up Delight of my life #2.

I am cranky.

VERY CRANKY.

This is honesty.

This is who I am before Midday 6am .

While I am being honest that I do occasionally get cranky, do you wanna know what else has made me cranky this week?

Of course you do.

Can you see what's missing from this picture???

That's right, it's the other 93,714,879 pieces of my front passenger window. And the 6 or so pieces that are here really arent doing all that much good by themselves. Did you know that a car window is made up of over 93,714,879 pieces? well it is and a lot of them went all through my car.

Oh, and you cant really tell from this picture but my handbag is also missing.

I was at a Tupperware meeting and before I went in I grabbed my handbag and realised that my wallet wasnt in it. So I rifled through it for change and found 20c (left it, wasn't going to do me much good all alone, sort of like those window bits) and I shoved my handbag half under the seat. Fast forward to the end of the meeting.

I walk back out to the car with my haul of free tupperware for the night (I love the gifts!) and instead of my usual open the drivers side door and toss it all across I walked round to the footpath side. "I've parked in a pile of glass, what an idiot" I think as I see a rather large mound of glass on the ground. I look up at the door and realise that I didnt park in a pile of glass, that is my window all over the ground. It's a dark area so I hightail it back to the office to get someone else to come and investigate with me.

In the end, long story short, it's a very late night of car dramas. The next day I went to get the window replaced and they didnt have one in town so it had to be overnighted here and I had to face not having air con the next day as well. But I was thanking God that our insurance covered it with no excess! Aparently our insurer brought in a clause a few years back for some of their policies where front and rear windows counted for their no excess cover and side glass didnt. YAY, we werent on one of those policies. I hav eno idea how much it would have cost all up but I am sure that since it took 3 housr to fix, it wouldnt have been cheap.

So what did they take I hear you asking??? well, this is where it is almost funny. Well, it is funny to other people who didnt have to survive 2 days without air con in their car or deal with making a police report at 10:30 at night.

They took the handbag which was a mothers day present but I'm in touch with reality and never get too attached to handbags, they all die eventually and this one was starting to need replacing. The handbag did have one of my favourite pieces of tupperware in it (that is really hard to get hold of even if you are a dealer) with arnica tablets for all our bumps and bangs. It had my cheap sunnies that I bought to replace my favourite ones that are missing, I never wear these sunnies because they make my eyeballs sweat, but that's a whole other post. There was a whole wad of used tissues in there, and some spare tampons. That's what they got with the handbag, they did however rifle through the glove box as well. They took nothing of any value from there, just a little cardboard box that probably looked like it would be a great place to hide money but guess what.... it had more tampons in it. I do have a habit of throwing a spare one in once a month and never using them so there was quite a stash.

There was $100's in Tupperware in my car. It was all still there. they didnt open the door at all, they just broke the window and took what they could reach.

Guess what makes me happy???? My Tupperware manager is having a handbag party tonight!!!!

And what else???? I am going to be a manager now!!! I have my 4 recruits to make up my own little team. YAY!

Well, it's getting closer to wake up time, I might go make these little delights some breakfast.

More what's for dinner antics...

What, I ask you, am I teaching my boys about cooking??? I asked the boys what we should have for dinner.
"Chicken-pork" says Lion.
"Oh, what's chicken-pork? what do you put in it?"
"You get the packet and you empty it out and you put in the ingredients that it says on the packet" (this is the point I realise I may use packets too often lately)
"Has mummy ever made it?"
"no"
"is it something you just made up" (because that is so very likely I will find something your imagination just created to be on the shelves at the supermarket)
"yes, I just thought it was yummy"
"So tell me about chicken-pork"
"well it's pork that..."
"goes buuuk buk buk buk..."
"no, it's a rooster that is cut up into little bits so that we can add the rest of the ingredients"

Suffice to say, I still have no idea how to make "chicken-pork" but I hope he'll be happy with spaghetti. At least he didn't ask for horse this time! Anyone would think the boy would actually eat meat if it was put in front of him! No chance of that, he'd be a vegetarian if only he would eat vegetables. Come to think of it, how on earth he survives I have no idea???

I've been thinking lately that I have got very boring with dinner. I'm just struggling finding things they will eat. Things they used to love like cheesytaters and mashed potato and peas and cheesybroc and pumpkin risotto are just sitting on their plates uneaten. They dont get dessert, they dont get anything else until breakfast and they still wont eat it. and half the time they wont eat their breakfast either! I bought kid-vitamins for them because I figure they gotta get some nutrients.

So still no more wedding photos, or carpark sale photos, or anything of interest really for over a week. Been crazy busy lately. But I'm as of today a "Manager in Training" for Tupperware so if you are interested in selling plastic let me know:) if you just want to buy I'm having a "Mystery-host Auction Party" at my place Tuesday morning at 10am. Come along and win some free stuff and have a great time!

Whole lotta nothing

Coles brand salt and vinegar chips dont taste real good.

But other than that... I have my first member of my Tupperware team!!!! YAY!!! I did the interview all by myself today (with my manager sitting close by telling me that she wasnt listening but I know that she most deffinately was!) Next step is to get her through her first party where she tells all her friends she's now a tupperware dealer and get her trained and going off on her own! Anyway, she is freaking out at the moment but very excited. She is a christian girl and a lot like me in lots of ways. she likes to maintain the status quo so a change like this is kinda scary. I woke up with nightmares and in a cold sweat when I was starting and ws wondering what insane thing I had done, thankfully my manager put me at ease, hope I can do that for this girl! 3 more and I am a manager myself! then on to earning my car.

Kids have been saying cute things, doing cute things, but I cant remember them, my mind is a fog lately.
We put wolf on a plane this morning and Lion says every plane that goes over is Daddy's plane.
I am on antibiotics for my sinus issues, they are making me feel really, really sick.
I felt really bad on sunday afternoon but I think that was my own fault, I shouldnt have played soccer with they boys in the back yard.
I hate those spiders that lie along the clothes line and you dont see them until they jump off as you are putting the clothes over them.
For the first two days of the olympics I started to doubt that it was really happening, every time I turned on chanel 7 all I got was ads.
I have a papercut on that bit between my thumb and first finger (i am sure it has a real name but I dont know it) and it really hurts!
Dragon thinks Lion is the most wonderful person on earth, I wanted us all to hold hands today and cross the road and he chose Lion's hand over mine!!!!!!!!!
I am getting a real itching to get out and do some real photgraphy.
I have to get the house cleanish before we have someone stay with us on friday night.
Dragon is getting quite a temper on him and lets us know when he doesnt agree with our decisions. Dinner time, bed time, getting in the car, cleaning up, they are all open for discussion according to Dragon.
I still have no blinds.
My good friend is coming over tomorrow avo and we are making pizzas and toblerone mousse and going to get the kids into bed and then sit around doing nothing.
I really should go to bed right now.
Tupperware party on friday night was great, Chimera got the gift she wanted and heaps more.
I lost my voice for the entire weekend. I would write something profound about learning to listen but really i just got annoyed that people kept saying stupid things and feel really uncomfortable when you dont say anything during a "conversation" so they say even stupider things just to fill the nothingness.
The kids are quite enjoying mummy not being able to raise her voice at them. They are taking full advantage of it.
If you read through this I am very sorry. it was never going to be exciting, I was just writing.

Avoidance techniques...

I should be doing something else... I should be getting out my kit and checking that everything is in order for the new month of parties and deciding what goes and what stays in the kit for tomorrows party and making sure my tablecloth is clean and checking my stash of gifts and... and... and... but I'm not, I'm reading blogs and wasting time following link after link from website to website... On the up side I have done one thing today that I did need to do (other than go to my tupperware meeting) I made a doctors appointment to get my sinus' looked at. I am figureing I cant be taking over the counter sinus+painkiller tablets for much more and since I am not supposed to let infections get too settled so they dont go to my heart I had better do something about it. Trust mum to point that one out to me. Now I need to make a dentist appointment (but no point in that until I get this sinus sorted) and an eye appointment (gotta do that while I'm not pregnant or I waste my bulk-billed eye appointment on dodgy pregnant eyes) and I'll be all sorted out health wise. I have a packet of timtams calling my name... I am resisting, and purposely not putting them in the fridge so that I will think twice before chowing down on the whole packet. When I do open them I will be posting all about Timtams for the education of Emily from Lift Up Your Hearts. I just need to find a willing party to be photographed doing a Timtam-slam... Any takers????

Oh well, off to clean out the tupperware kit while the kids are still asleep...