Yep, I’m a slacker

Posted on October 28, 2008
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I’ve noticed recently that the number of blogs I follow pretty regularly has grown. There is an amazing amount of talented writers out there who make me crack up, shake my fist or sympathize on cue and I have been extremely lax in passing on the joy.

I’m in the midst of doing a major overhawl of my blogroll for this very purpose but please be patient it will take time cause I’m lazy and sorta un-motivated a lot because I do have a job and kids and pets and husbands and all manner of other time consuming things y’know!

For those interested, my top 10 favorie blogs of the moment are (in no particular order)

Wow, I got to ten. Guess I wasn’t so lazy busy after all!

If you get a chance, check ‘em out. It’s well worth it IMO.

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The stuff my nightmares are made of….

Posted on October 27, 2008
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THIS…

…was snapped in Queensland somewhere near Cairnes a little while ago and made it to the news page of nineMSN where it caused me to spit coffee all over my keyboard and thus informing the IT department of my stupidity. What was harder to explain was the fact that I tried to suck it back in (the coffee, not the spider) and proceded to choke to death. (Well, not quite death but close…)

Not the thing to do when surreptitiously surfing the net at work….

 

PS It’s a Golden Orb Weaver, and no, they don’t get that big in WA.

PPS Yes, it is eating a bird.

PPPS Two posts in one day!! Do i get a gold star?

 

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I shouldn’t be allowed to talk to smart people.

Posted on October 27, 2008
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Ok, I am now officially terrified.

I hate clichés. I use them only dripping with sarcasm or for comedic effect but today I say in all seriousness…

It’s a small world.  I’ve just realized the effect of global miniaturization, and it’s got me into a whack of trouble that makes my stomach want to find out how my toes are feeling today.  

I will start at the beginning, which makes sense because it would be seriously boring and confusing to start anywhere else and I’m really not into that whole Memento segmented reverse story-telling.

A few months ago I changed jobs and wound up working on a project that included the services of a consultant who comes once a week to torture work with me on the development of the software we are implementing. Let’s call him M.

After several weeks and many conversations, we learned that M’s daughter attends day care with a very good friend of ours, C.

One day a few weeks ago, I went to visit C and bumped into M’s wife, E as she was picking up their daughter. “Lovely lady,” I thought.

Murphy (as in Murphy’s Law – who runs my life with an iron fist) thought “I’ll show you for daring to meet new people!”

I get a phone message from E last week. No explanation, just “Please, call me back.” I did and got the machine… urgh! I’m lame at the best of time but answering machines reduce my IQ to that of a house plant.

I thought perhaps that E wanted ideas for C’s birthday and when I didn’t hear from her the rest of the weekend, figured she didn’t need me anymore.

I was wrong.

She did need me.

…and this brings me back to abject terror.

Side note** I did do sort of a loop in this story didn’t I? So much for starting at the beginning. Memento, eat my dust! **

Today I get another phone call from E. Apparently, she’s a member of the Society of Editors WA and while talking to C one day, found out that I blog and have been blogging for a number of years.

It just so happened that her society is having a meeting next week about blogging and would I mind giving a 20 MINUTE SPEECH on getting drunk and wetting my pants blogging?

Now I, by no means, consider myself an expert on the topic but I have had 10 or so years experience blogging (Yep, even before they had blogging software and websites.) I started with my own web space, creating a “News” page to keep family and friends apprised of the goings-on of our family, then moved to numerous different programs and hosted websites and finally came to rest here at She’ll Be Apples. I’ve even dabbled in paid blogging although that didn’t last long after Google wiped all paid blogs from the blogosphere.

This still doesn’t give me rights to pretend that I know what I’m talking about, hey?

Well I’m going to anyway!! I’ve been taking a course in training and assessment and I need to prepare an hours presentation for that so this should be a snap, right? Nothing like doing humiliation twice.  I may take to hiding in the bathroom with a bottle of vodka snuck in under my hat. That’d loosen my tongue. If I do, I promise I’ll totally take pictures… It could happen!

On the bright side, if I am a complete and utter ass, E is to blame.

After all, she picked me.  Fair warning, E…     

 

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Chelsea in the flowers

Posted on October 13, 2008
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Chelsea in the flowers, originally uploaded by She’ll Be Apples.

Yesterday, we headed out to King’s Park for a wander to enjoy the sunshine and the spring flowers.
I borught my camera with me (as I usually do now, whenever we go anywhere that I might find interesting) and I caught Chelsea off guard.

She may look like she’s smiling for the camera but in fact, she’s smiling at something Brian had just said and happened to look my way at just the right moment.

Beautiful, isn’t she?

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And now, I totally want a winch

Posted on October 2, 2008
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Recently, Brian and I decided that it was time to upgrade the ute. We were both dead tired of the “white work ute” look (him more than me) and he wanted something a little flashier. More bells and whistles and whatnot.  (Is whatnot an actual word or just a lazy persons slur? - I’m using it anyway)

After a lot of consideration, we decided to move away from Toyota (gasp!) and spring for a Mitsubishi Triton. It’s perty lookin’, it has all the bells and whistles and whatnot (hehe) a person could ask for and it’s a 4 wheel drive.

*insert collective “Oooooh!” here.

So now that we can go off-roading, we of course feel the burning need to drive on surfaces that are not meant for cars. Beaches are pretty cool, rocky trails are cooler.. and hey! camping is fun right?

This is totally going to change our lives! *Note sarcasm. For those of you that know me, you know that Murphy keeps a constant eye on my doings so it stands to reason that we’ll need rescue gear ‘just in case.’ Recently, friends of ours wound up paying over $1000.00 for a tow to get out of trouble (as an alternative to sleeping over at creepy tow-truck-guys house - as offered.)

Now I really don’t want to be spending nights in the bush with creepy tow-truck guys so I guess we’re gonna need a winch.

But first…. it’d be great if the truck was ready…

Watch this space!

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