Fun with water

Posted on November 24, 2008
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Letting go…

This is my very first foray into pictures of water drops in motion. I sat outside and used a spray bottle to continuously wet this one leaf (whose colour I liked) It took a fair few shots but this is the result… I’m pretty pleased with it!Originally uploaded by She’ll Be Apples


Just thought I’d share the joy… my joy at finally getting a kick ass photo that I totally did on purpose.

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The Rich List

Posted on November 21, 2008
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Now that new season has started, Brian and I watch pretty faithfully. We are admitted trivia buffs and have a lot of fun guessing the lists from the comfort of our games room. For those of you that haven’t heard of the show, here is the Chanel 7 blurb.

“The Rich List is an addictive quiz show hosted by the clued-up Andrew O’Keefe. Pairs of strangers use knowledge and strategy to complete lists that can win them limitless amounts of money.

The Rich List throws strangers together to form two teams of two who compete against each other by filling in missing answers on a particular list. Wide-ranging topics could include films directed by Steven Spielberg, hit singles by ABBA or states with a coastline. “

It’s great! I can find out how stupid clueless smart I am with every game. However I have one bone to pick…

The topics!

One night the rich list (final where they win the money) consists of naming the letters in the alphabet used to spell “super-cali-fragilistic-expi-alli-docious” and the next night it’s name the women who won best actress oscars between 1982 - 1997.

What??!?

Why is one so simple that you are virtually guarenteed the top prize and the other a feat in human memory? One is relateable to pretty much any english speaking person on the planet and the other only for movie buffs who actually watch the oscars?

I get the diffferent topics; sports, geography, movies, music etc… they are all somewhat related to common knowledge (some people will do better than others in each catagory) but for the final list?? You’d want to give everyone half a chance wouldn’t you?

I don’t even think it’s the topic that gets me but the date range attached to it. Why only a 15 year span?

I know that if I ever got on the show and got to the final list and they said ‘Name 15 French open winners between the years 1960 - 1975 I’d be like…

Are you kidding?

 So.. Rich list people…. Are you kidding?

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Mind control is an art form…

Posted on November 19, 2008
Filed Under Australia - The land down under, Breaking news, A "How-to" tutorial of insanity, They never should have let me be a mother | 2 Comments

Yesterday while doing the grocery shopping, I suckered succeeded in convincing my daughter into cooking dinner for the next week. It went like this…

Me: So… you cooking dinner tonight?

Chelsea: Awww… (Typical teenage moan of “do I have to?”)

Me: Oh.. so I’M expected to put dinner on the table for 6 every night even though I work full time and chaufeur kids around and clean and…. (Fill in typical Mum moan here.)

Chelsea: It’s not THAT hard to cook dinner!

Me: *Evil glint in my eye as a plan blooms into fruition* You couldn’t handle cooking for 6 for ONE WEEK!

Chelsea: Yes I could! I will! I’ll make out a dinner plan for a week and if you buy the ingredients, I’ll cook every night!

Me: *internal self high-five* Fine! You do that and I’ll buy the groceries.

Chelsea: Fine!

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Dance puppet, dance! Mwahahahahaha!

Last night we had meat pie, vegetables and pasta side dish….tonight, swedish meatballs and mash!

Mmm Mmmmmmmm….:D

 

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SEE??? A little effort goes a long way (In a country that occasionally sucks)

Posted on November 3, 2008
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Blowing ribbons, originally uploaded by She’ll Be Apples.

This is the result of our hard work this Friday. Chelsea’s geisha turned out pretty cool and she was the hit of the party.
Good thing I learned how to tie an obi properly in Japan.
Goes to show… no knowledge is useless knowledge!

All of the kids had a great time and my bandwith at home is virtually non-existant because of the massive MySpace uploads…LOL

Here are some more perspectives on her costume…

How demure

Halloween Geisha

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