Oops I did it again

Or mores to the point, didn't do it again, I really am terrible at this blogging thing, so much for an iPhone making it easier lol. I was out mowing my front lawn yesterday morning, and it got me thinking of my first posts about my goals way back in Jan'. When I came in for a break I jumped on the computer, found my blog and started read, it took me a whole of 30 seconds to realise that in 11 months I haven't achieved a single thing I set out to do. My garden is just as bad if not worse, the house never got painted (it is partially undercoated) and well let's not even mention inside the house 😞 . One of my first posts was about my kids first day of school for the year, tomorrow it is their last. A whole school year has gone by and I can't think of one thing to do with my house and garden that I've achieved and stuck too 😞 .

However, a few weeks ago I stumbled across a wonderful group of people who are just like me and struggle with clutter and being organised and getting stuff done. It will probably sound stupid to some, but I can't express what a relief it's been to find people just like me, people who understand the struggles, and are there to lend support when you need it and cheer you on to the right path. People who aren't afraid to show photos of their own cluttered houses, and who I'm not afraid to share photos of my own with. It's a great motivator knowing people are waiting and actually wanting to see your before and after pics, and seeing theirs helps me realise it can be done, and if any of us stumble and have a crappy day, well they're there for that too.

Bring on the New Year I have work to do.

Unexpected Exciting Surprise

Ever since I got my iPhone I've become somewhat of an Instagram addict, and I'm always posting one thing or another as I go about my day. A few days ago I bought Miss Emily a Jamie Oliver Greenhouse, part of the new Jamies Garden promotion on at the moment at Safeway/Woolworths supermarkets. During the build (post still to come) I took photos and posted them to Instagram with the tag #jamiesgarden among others. I totally wasn't expecting what happened next, low and behold I started getting notifications that jamieoliver had liked many of my photos, and also commented on one. With the internet being what it is, and fans of celebrities always making spam accounts and pretending to be them, I just assumed that this was what had happened here, so withholding my excitement for the minute, I clicked on the persons name to check out their account, where to my surprise I found one of my photos of Emily and her greenhouse had been regrammed along with a few other people, and underneath a comment saying how sweet he thought the photos were, and that he'd be sending everyone a signed copy of his book. Too good to be true right? This has to be spam right? Those were the thoughts in my head, though all the while I was hoping it was legit. Only one way to find out, so off I went to find his official website and just as I'd hoped, there was a link to his official Instagram. I clicked on the link and suddenly there I was back at the very Instagram account that had liked, commented on, and regrammed my photo. Well to cut the story short right here as I have to get Emily ready for dance, I contacted him and Emily is now awaiting a signed copy of his book :) 

The next morning we also found our photo on the home page of jamieoliver.com :)

Oops I Did it Again

Yes I've successfully once again managed to totally ignor my blog for the past 3 months, but oh what a whirlwind 3 months it's been, filled with birthdays, cleaning, parties, and cleaning, deb balls, and more cleaning, and of course lots of collecting as always. But now that's all over, except the cleaning and collecting of course lol, and so it's time to get back to it, so expect lots of back posts to be happening very soon, but first let me go do some cleaning, been a bit slack this week and need to play catch up 😊

Energy please

Lately it seems that no mater how well I wake up, or how good my intentions are for what I want to get done that day, without fail by mid afternoon I've fallen in a heap and all I want to do is sleep, which in turn sends all motivation out the window :/ somedays I wonder if I did lay down and have a sleep, if it would help me to recharge, but with a 3 year old in the house that's pretty impossible :( think I just need to learn to go to bed earlier, and motivate my self to get fit. Today hasn't been all bad, I have scrubbed the oven and cleaned the toaster, but that's a few jobs shy of what I had planned on getting done today :/ 

The oven was a horrible mess, but I really didn't want to use any kind of ready made oven cleaners and had been putting it off. So when I saw a simple method that used ammonia and water, I thought I'd give it a try. It didn't have the amazing results claimed in the article I read, but I can't deny it certainly helped with removing the grime, even if I did have to do it twice, and scrub scrub scub away. And I'm sure if it was done regularly it would work perfectly. Now I know how it's done I'll try my best not to let it get so bad again.

Finally a toy post

I originally created this blog with the intention of blogging about my collecting, but so far it's been anything but :/ Until now my photos had to be taken on my DSLR then uploaded to, and edited on my computer before I could use them on my blog. But now I have an iPhone I can take pictures and upload them straight to the blog via blogger. So here's to my first toy post :) This is Volcanic Lava Barf Eruptor, lovely name hey lol. If you don't already know he is a game piece from the electronic game Skylanders Swapforce, he is actually a special variation of the normal Eruptor and is normally only available when you buy the Nintendo 3DS version of the game, but I was lucky to find him second hand in EB games yesterday for a whole $8 :)

Blogger App

Yesterday after a long time dreaming, and then having to jump through what seemed like a million hoops, I finally got an iPhone :) I'm in love, I can finally take good quality spur of the moment snapshots, and upload them straight to the net. I loved my iPod but let's face it the camera was horrid, my Instagram is testament to that, and let's not even mention the pathetic 8gb memory that was forever full. I'm still waiting for my number to be ported to the new sim, but that doesn't stop me playing over wifi :) I'm writing this on the blogger app I downloaded this morning. And I'm finding lots of cool apps I was never able to use due to the space limitations on my iPod. Now I just need to go get an iTunes card so I can get rid of some annoying advertising on the apps I decide to use.It was a gorgeous morning out this morning just perfect for walking to the bus stop and testing out the camera :)

First day of school 2014

Well Thursday just gone was back to school day for all 3 kids that I still have at home. Meagan took the big step into her first VCE year, My little man was off to his first day of Primary school, and Miss Emily was back to 3yo Preschool, but it was all new kids and teachers so it was like she was starting all over again. Thomas was so excited to be starting 'BIG' school, and is absolutely loving it so far. When he got home on the bus the first afternoon, I asked him if he'd made friends and his reply was "yes everyone" :)  One of the many advantages of a small country school, and having traveled on the school bus to the Preschool (which is in the same grounds) all last year is that he already knew a good majority of the kids in the upper grades, and I think he has managed to charm just about everyone, including his teacher lol so his transition has been a smooth and easy one, now fingers crossed he continues on this same path and thrives at his new school. Emily has a few adjustments to make with Thomas no longer in Preschool with her, getting used to new teachers and their new routines and ways of doing things, but I'm sure she'll settle in just fine once she gets used to the changes. Also being that Preschool is only two morning a week, she also has the adjustment of being the only child at home for a good majority of the week, so lots of changes happening for Miss Emily.

Miss Emily refusing to look at the camera as always

So excited he ran to the bus stop as fast as he could

My big boy on the bus and off to his first day of Prep

Miss Emily playing kitchens at her Preschool Orientation day