Babies Born ~ September 2007 #74

[Artechim]

Cass, hope you are hanging in there xx

Trill, won't be finished until the end of next year. Provided I pass my exam next week, I have three papers (=units?) to go. I am only doing one a semester or it is too much time pressure and there is really no need to finish it fast - I will still be an at home mum if it is done or not.

Cally, glad you managed to get the insurance to pay out a decent price. I bet my company is regretting offering the no claims bonus for life lol - they only replaced our car 3 months ago andI have already dinged it. We certainly get our money's worth out of them

[Cally]

Well DH didn't dilly dally - bought a new car on Thursday night! Hyundai I30. Will pick it up when we're in Canberra on our way back from Gold Coast.

Made brownies tonight with Mint Slices as the middle layer - Scrummy!

Cass - any results yet?

[AnyDream]

Cass - hope it's all going well, I saw on FB that you're home again.

Trill - I cheered (silently ) at you telling someone at the footy club where to get off! It's a pity you're going to have to give it away, especially as you're enjoying it, but that's not to say you can't pick it up again further down the track or even something similar, kwim?

Arte & Trill - stakes for you ladies if something were to fall off the car is a little bit higher than for us where the RAA is only a ph call away. The nice RAA man came out yesterday and changed a tyre for me because - yep - I'm too much of a flimsy-wristed girl to be able to get those wheel nuts off. (My inner feminist knows I should be embarrassed by that ).

Cally, I'm imagining the scene out of the jeep ad:
HIM: "I bought an i30."
YOU: (*shocked disbelief*) "You bought... an i30?"
HIM (*continuing to tidy the room while you stand there looking completely stunned/in awe of his car-purchasing prowess*) "Yes, Cally - I bought an i30"

Nice pick by the way. I bet it has awesome cup holders and everything.

Also I so want to know how the mint slice brownie thing works. Do you put down half the mixture and then a layer of biscuits and then the rest of the mixture and bake it? What happens to the biscuit part of the mint slice - does it go soft?

Anyway, I'd best be off. I'm single parenting AGAIN this weekend - beyond p'd off - DH was supposed to get home yesterday and now because some bunch of delicate aircraft workers couldn't be called into work on a Saturday, it now means we don't know whether he will even be home by Tues for his/DD1's birthday.

[Artechim]

Sucks MD. I am sure he will make it home in time. Has he given any thought to a change of career?
We have reasonable AA here - we ran out of petrol a few weeks back and the guy was there in 20 minutes! I told him our car doesn't have a petrol light (electric seat warmer, but no petrol light!), but then he pointed out it does have a fuel gauge. We agreed not to speak of it any more.

I am at home with the kids by myself while DH is off hunting. A bit P'd off also - exam on Wednesday, need to write a whole essay and had planned on both afternoons of the weekend but DH took the big kids out and left me with E most of yesterday afternoon and now it is 2.30 and he isn't home yet. E's day naps are getting harder to make happen on time, so she is staying up really late. I was hoping to get through next semester with day naps but I think we are into that stop/start bit when they start dropping the nap.

Today we have made salt dough to bake into shapes. Then I realised that kids don't really get to play with play dough once they get to school - W was loving it lol. So I made some proper play dough, and then all interest was lost lol.

[AnyDream]

LOL at your fuel gauge moment. Yes, he has been giving it some thought, but the whole organisation is geared towards making each person feel disempowered by requiring them to ask permission any time they so much as want to scratch their foot. So, needless to say, like many before him, he has no idea of what exactly he could be doing out there and no sense of why anyone would want to pay him good money for his time.

i would be p'd off about shortage in study time too. In fact I was - pretty much all week. Managed to get a very desultory essay handed in the day after the deadline - not happy jan - but with him away and a torrid bout of fatigue that I couldn't throw off it was the best I could do. Que sera, sera.

ETA - playdough is still massive in this house! Mind you I have never actually cooked up a batch... but we have every playdough gadget on the planet, especially the cooking ones. My girls (and their cousin/guests) will sit for hours "cooking" and then there are masterchef-style judging sessions afterwards LOL.

[Artechim]

Easy peasy to make - two cups of flour, 1/2 cup of salt, dash of oil and two cups of boiling water. I like to add the food colouring to the water so that it is uniform throughout the dough rather than the streaks you can get if you add it after. Don't need to worry about the cream of tartar - I have never used it and mine works just fine.

My lecturer was in hospital for a couple of weeks and it looks like our big assignment won't be marked in time for the exam. I like to know exactly what pass percentage I am aiming for in an exam!

[Cally]

MD - yes, the conversation did go a bit like that. The man who cannot make a decision, took me by surprise.

I was in one of 'those moods' this morning. Every time DD spoke I got cranky. It's amazing how an hour out can make such a difference - went for a walk and watched the big waves crashing on the beach.

Hope those of you single parenting this weekend are doing OK.

Oh and the cat has fleas - which I knew about, but wasn't really worried, until I realised there were about 10 larvae wriggling around in DD's bed. Icky. Cat has been Frontlines, bedding washed.

Arte - lol at your petrol light! I rely too much on that light, would be really stuck if if ever decided not to work.

Md - those wheel nuts are super tight if they've been done up with an air wrench. The RAA man may moonlight as The Incredible Hulk if he was able to do it! Yes, that is how we did it. The recipe originally called for caramel type biscuits and it served them warm so the caramel was all melty. But we don't like caramel so we put mint slices in. Biscuit was still crunchy, hard to cut through with a spoon.

[Cassius2]

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We have reasonable AA here - we ran out of petrol a few weeks back and the guy was there in 20 minutes! I told him our car doesn't have a petrol light (electric seat warmer, but no petrol light!), but then he pointed out it does have a fuel gauge. We agreed not to speak of it any more.

Oh arte!! that is too funny hahahahahaha!

MD: that totally sucks mega butt that he is away He better be able to come home in time xx

Cally: ooh the i30 looks so lovely! we had one of those hyundais when we hired a car from sydney a couple of years back and it drove beautifully. I was really surprised.

AFM: we have had a horror week. but there is some light! miss e hasnt got anything really dangerous/fatal. we cant yet rule out epilepsy....but we kinda have as i have latched om likw an eager terrier to our neurologists gut feeling that she has benign myoclonus (basically an imposter syndrome of the very nast 'wests syndrome'). he said het seizures need to be monitored for longer so we have to try and film a whole range and then meet in a few weeks again for another review. but her EEG came back normal and *of course* decided to NOT have any seizures while we were there...darn it! but she is gorgeous and we havent had any really major ones now since thursday (the usual small ones...that are still full on but not so massive and distressing for her ITMS).

Oh...and someone left a gorgeous wee package on our doorstep....a mystery someone....

[Artechim]

Cass, that is great to hear that E hasn't got anything really nasty. I really hope that it is benign myoclonus and that she grows out of it quickly xx Things sound so much better when they have the word benign in the title. Also, you referenced in your blog! You can take the girl out of academia…

I should be doing some study.

[Cassius2]

hahaha, i was totally not going to reference...but then i thought that the gods of academia might smite me hahahahahaha.