Interesting few weeks.....

I know I haven't updated my blog in what feels like forever... but there is good reason for it I promise!

So two weeks ago I was getting everything set up for my mom coming down to visit, when she leaves me an offline message on facebook telling me she had something important to tell me. I was thinking something had changed with her flight details but something was niggling at me telling me it was worse than that.... and then she told me my uncle had passed away.

My Uncle Jr. was a good man, we had our differences just like every family but still he was my uncle and I loved him...  I remember Thanksgivings and Christmases at my Mamaw's house where Uncle Jr would be the one to carve the turkey or ham since he was the oldest.... and he always used to get a smack or shouted at because he would eat more of it than he served.... and he always wanted to use his fingers to serve it instead of a fork which my mamaw hated.... I remember him putting me on this big branch on a tree in front of my mamaw's house and pretending like he was going to leave me there because I couldn't get down by myself.... and I remember him coming down to my house to target practice with my daddy, and I got to be the one to put the targets up and take them down, as well as I got to watch and sometimes help them load their guns.... good times..... Now he's up in heaven with my daddy, as well as mamaw and papaw to keep him company and I know he's watching over us... just like they are.

My mom came down on Wednesday afternoon and we spend the week going shopping and making fruit salad as well as working on the kitchen, its coming along very nicely now the cabinets are all up almost and all thats really left is the countertops and tiles.... hopefully it wont take much longer to finish I cant wait until its all done!

Today I went to the doctor.... and he said he thinks I MAY have Endometriosis..... which is a scary thought, and I have an ultra sound scheduled for tomorrow morning to check it out, so please avid readers keep your fingers crossed for me that I dont have this thing!

The Big 2 - 6 you guys!

So yesterday I turned 26! Yay for me!!!! This has been a pretty good week so far, I'm pretty happy with it. On Monday, I got serious with the big project I'm working on for Lewy's birthday which is now in 8 days, somehow I do not think I will finish it in time... Tuesday I cleaned up my house and spoke to my mom, did more work on the project...

Wednesday I woke up at 5AM to Lewy jumping on me saying "Wake up birthday girl!!" and then he snuggled me for about 10 minutes before he had to leave for work. I had to work myself but it was all ok, all of my kiddies wished me a happy birthday and one of them even brought me a present! Then Jessie started going around singing to me but he was saying I was 30 and he was singing REALLY loud.... I came home from work at about 7:45pm and opened up the door to Lewy he gave me a big hug and stuck my birthday tiara on my head. He had also cooked me a very VERY lovely dinner, and then he took some pictures with me and we got a little silly.

Today, Thursday I am getting to start my online course Introduction To Anthropology, I have already earned my first point for the class! Hopefully in 12 weeks time I can write a new blog telling you all that I didn't give up and I actually passed it!

Tomorrow I'm not sure whats going to happen, but I know on Saturday we will head down to Dan and Rhiannon's house literally a week before their wedding which will be next Sunday... so we can celebrate our birthdays with them.

Next week will be a little bit hetic for us, so you may not get a new entry from me until after the wedding, since we will be so far away from a computer until Monday night when we get home, but next week is also my super sexy hubby's birthday and ooooooo boy do I have some ideas! My mom has helped me come up with the idea for his cake all the way from Kentucky, and I have asked his mom and dad to come down as well, as a surprise for him. I will be making pumpkin soup with veal tortalini for his birthday dinner, as well as breakfast in bed for him, since it is a long weekend he has the Friday of his birthday off work (the lucky duck!)

I'll leave you all with some birthday snaps I took last night while I get back to working on this project of mine so It will at least be attempted by next week!

(also if some one could please explain to me why my google is not wanting to work that would be great... I can access it perfectly from my phone, but if I try to search for images/ open my email/ add photos to my blog it just refuses to work and I have to do everything from my phone! It's getting annoying now!!)

Chocolate from one of my kiddies at work!

Me in my tiara and Lewy blowing a party blower

I said lets try to take a good one

He's looking like he has no idea whats happening

Copped a party blower to the face

Let's do some funny faces!

This is what I get for trying to take photos.... EATEN!!!

Before I went to work I was in my tiara!

Finally we got a good one lolz

             

¿Viva Los Mexico!

Lolz so this week we had to pay some bills, and book a hotel room for the wedding coming up, and we didnt have much left over to play around with and go out...

So I made a little "Fiesta" in our lounge room and we had a Mexican Date Night.

 I made a cake, which was ultra simple and only took about 45 minutes to whip it up and cook it from scratch! I covered it with some caramel topping like you would use on ice cream.
I spread some blankets and pillows out on the floor so we would have a nice soft place to sit and it would be like a little mini picnic (since it was raining outside we couldn't really go out there...and we don't have anywhere to sit since Sade ate out lawn chairs...)

I lit a few candles and put them around the room, because it was such a blah day outside they suited everything really well, if we were sitting at an old wooden table you would have thought it was an old movie at a bar! Speaking of a bar, no Mexican Date Night would be complete without some Sangria.... which Lewy so thoughtfully picked up on his way home from work to make our night more authentic.

 I set up a little table for our burrito fixins' and even added a little table cloth to make it a little more fancy, we had almost everything u could want for burritos, right down to the homemade guacamole! We were set for our little party, and as luck would have it Lewy did come home from work starving!
 So we sat down on our little indoor picnic blankets and got all comfy on the pillows I'd thrown about, and then we got started on the food, there were beans and cheese and sour cream everywhere! It was like we let dogs in the house to eat and they just knocked everything over and smeared it all over the plates! But nothing went to waste, there was only a little bit of guacamole left over and that's only because I don't like it so that was a special little treat for my bubz, and after all was said and done, we both had full tummies and were both a little bit tipsy from the Sangria, we decided to team with the theme of the night and watch some Mexican themed movies, so we watched Desperado with Antonio Bandares which I had never seen before, (I know you are all wondering how that's possible) and later on Lewy still got to go on the playstation and mess around with the boys, we both got to have a little time to do what we wanted to do, I got my date night and Lewy got his "boys time" it was a really good night and to be honest it cost less than $70 to do... Yes I know we had to stay home, and yes I know it was on the lounge room floor, but hey we don't have to be fancy all the time, sometimes going back to the basics and just having fun is really what it's all about!

So have a think about the last time you and your significant other had a nice little night out or in, maybe make it a surprise for them! And it doesn't have to be Mexican food, that just happens to be something both me and Lewy enjoy eating, but it can be changed to suit your personal tastes!

XxX
~Rah Rah

Loving Life at the moment....

Well going through previous posts it now seems that I am bi-polar..... I can go from loving life to hating everything in the span of a few hours.....

I guess its just a good thing that it doesn't really last long, and I usually get back to my happy self within a day or so.

This month is my birthday!!!! The big ol' 26th..... but lets face it, I'm not ready to be 26 yet so I've decided that this year I will be turning 24 again. And I will white girl sass you if you say anything to the contrary!

I've been working on a few things lately, gone into a little bit of a wedding planning mode even though we still havent set a date yet, but Lewy has been helping out a little bit, he's emailed me a few different places to look at that he liked (thats his job for the wedding he gets to pick the place and the date) and I get to pick everything else.... and so far except for those two things its pretty much ready to go!

I've been a bit sick lately, with a nasty chest infection, but after about a week of antibiotics I was finally able to kick it, and now I'm back to nearly 100%!

What have we been up to lately? Well this week I did my work shift where my big problem class finally turned out to not be such a big problem...

Tough love was all it took, my 3 girls who had never been swimming before in their lives are now paddling away on noodles and I can barely keep up with them! There are sometimes tears, when they go under the water unexpectedly, so I've gotten into the habit of telling them they will be going under and it seems to ease the tears a little bit, I am so impressed with them though pretty soon I will be able to take their noodles away completely!

Friday I had to go down to Lewy's mum and dad's house to wait for the dishwasher repair guy to come in, I think he mistook me for an idiot who doesnt know how to use a dishwasher, because he felt the need to show me step by step the proper way to open the door and felt that he needed to remind me that I shouldnt put things on the door when its open.... like I've never had to use one before in my life.... the only thing that was actually wrong with it was that the door had gotten jarred and wasnt closing properly, it took him 5 minutes to fix, a 10 minute lecture on how to properly use it, and then another 5 minutes of trying to get a picture of the serial number on the side of the door.... I wanted to hit him XD
But about 15 minutes after he had come and gone Lewys mum came home from work and we went out for lunch and got sushi, got some groceries and then we all decided to wash the cars since it was FINALLY a warm day.

Saturday we got up bright and early because we had to go vote.... and that doesnt even matter because the person I voted for didnt get in, and now the country will probably go straight to crap like it did the last time. But dont get me started on that....
Lewy took me out for a surprise day to Dural! We went and played putt putt and oh my gosh we had so much fun! I even got sun burnt.... on one arm....I even fail at tanning properly. He ended up beating me badly but I did get a hole in one! It was a really good day, nice and w

arm and sunny, there were flower and fruit stands all along the roads, and best of all I got to spend the whole day with my bubby <3

Today the rain clouds are coming in.... even mother nature is mourning the new pm choice, but we still went out for a little shopping trip, just to the local stores but we got ourselves some new sheets for the bed, and brand new pillows, we went and had a look around some of the charity shops and found a nice little lounge that would be perfect for the "man cave" but we didnt end up getting it because it wouldnt have fit in my car....
Then we went and grabbed a sushi lunch and some starbucks and headed home before we got caught in the rain, changed the sheets on the bed and put up the new pillows, and watched some movies ^_^ all in all it's been a really good week!

I hope all of you have had a good one as well!

Canberra was Awesome!!!!!!

So I haven't been the best little blogger out there, but this time I have an excuse....

Me and Lewy went down to Canberra for the weekend to see our friends Kirstee and Aaron for their housewarming!!! This was the first time I had been down there as well so I was pretty excited!

  Lewy had to work on the Friday so I got to stay home and run around like an idiot trying to pack two peoples things... I still feel like I forgot something but I don't know if I left it here or there. By the way, that's me to the left there, sporting a brand new bulky beanie I made for myself using my easy beanie pattern but altering it slightly. It was so warm and cozy I'm happy I brought it with me because it was absolutely freezing down there!

It took us about 2.5 hours to make it from our house to their house, but that was also at night and we did stop for food, all in all we made some pretty good time! We got really lucky too because Kirstee finally got a day off work, and we got to spend some time with her =)

Now, they have a dog named Zoe, and I swear to all that's good and holy this dog is the most cutest well trained animal in existence! I can only imagine Sade or Daisy being this well trained in my dreams.... the only bad thing was her tail was freaking deadly and she beat us with it every chance she could get (she was just wagging her tail), she was also very ball oriented. She would stand there and stare at the ball, get all excited when you would play with her but she never wanted you to stop throwing it, she would grumble at you if you even looked like you wanted to go inside.... which believe me we all wanted to stay inside because it was freezing down there!

 Kirstee also gave me a great big giant present, three pairs of shoes that didn't fit her any more =) Which made me feel really really special!

Sunday morning was a bit of a hassle, we had to wake up early, Kirstee had to be at work, we had to head off home so I could buy a pair of steel cap boots that in the end I didnt even need....

We said good bye to every one, hopped in the car, and 2 hours later I fell asleep in the passenger seat, and woke up about 30 minutes from home... It was strange to fall asleep in a place I didn't know and wake up knowing exactly where I was, I kind of thought I had dreamed the whole trip!

On Sunday morning before we had to leave I was able to find enough signal on my phone to check my email, (they hadn't connected the internet yet) and was pleasantly surprised to see one from my paypal account saying that I had received a payment.... IT FINALLY HAPPENED!!!! Some one out there in the world found one of my patterns on Ravelry, and they pushed that button and bought it!!!!! I finally sold one of my patterns!!!!!!! 

Also lately I have been doing some training to get started in a new field of work. I've been trying to get out of the swimming pool for ages, I reek of chlorine all the time no matter how many showers I take.... and while I love the work, its really taking its toll on me, my hair, and my skin, not to mention that since its now winter down here I have been cut back to one shift a week... that's just not enough to survive on when I have bills and things to pay of my own.
I did my white card online, which means now I can go onto construction sites, and then I did my blue card on Monday, I had to take the train to get to the place and O-M-G I really hate the train. I wore my steel cap boots (which gave me blisters) and brought my black pen like the website told me to do, and as soon as I got there they asked if I had a blue pen, and no one else was in boots. I really wanted to crawl in a hole at that point, but I went ahead and now I am fully qualified to legally control traffic using a stop/slow sign!

Well that's been my week so far, how has yours been?

 XxX ~RahRah