Winner

Well done to Cal who figured out what the mirror thing was. It is indeed for seeing bub in a rear facing car seat. Here's my one, modelled by my beautiful assistant :)

This is what it looks like when you turn in the front seat and look backwards:

And this is the driver's view in the rear view mirror. Sometimes I forget to look at the road :)

more craftiness

"What's that?" you all ask.

It's a pressie for my Sister from Cassie's leftover fabric, a mirror and some old bra straps.

Answer later this week. Maybe I'll organise a prize for correct guesses? (except Carol, Kirsten and Sarah, who already know).

The pics below reflect someone else's craftiness:

We got this cute wee hoodie in the post last week, courtesy of my Cousin Nicole. So cute! Thanks babe :) Charlotte was kinda wriggly when I took these with the cellphone, so she's a bit blurry.

Being Crafty

I have been in a bit of a lazy funk recently, and have had all sorts of things planned in my head to do "when I get round to it", so this week I decided to bloody "get round to it"!

Here's the jobs so far:

1. Make chair thingy for Cassie's mate's new baby. Here's my version, but hers is blue with monkeys and lions and elephants all over it.












2. Turn wasted cupboard under the stairs into coat cupboard.


I took two bits of 2 by 4 and an iron bar from Dads' shed (good thing he was a hoarder or I might have had to spend money), chatted up the woodwork teacher, who drilled a couple of big holes, and stuck it all together in the cupboard. Voila - coat cupboard!






3. Get next tattoo organised.



I've had this picture (the left one) for years, and last night I had a dream that I finally got it onto my arm. The pic is by Escher, but I want to modify it slightly. The purple fish are upside down, but I see no reason why they can's have eyes too. It's going to wrap in an armband on my big huge muscly bicep.







Here's a badly edited version showing what I mean.

In my dream it got all messed up though. The ends met in a bad place and stuffed up the pattern, and the colours were wrong, and it got distorted so the ends were different sizes. It didn't hurt in my dream though :)







4. Make a hole in a wall.

Our kitchen is at the back of the house and a completely separate room, which feels quite isolated. I want to make a window through into the dining space so I can watch the bub without having to have her on the kitchen floor where I might drop hot food/knives/heavy stuff on her. Haven't done this yet. Times like this I miss my Dad. And Leon. :)


5. Garden.

The side garden is a weed (no not that kind of weed...) heaven, but should be a nice courtyard.

I need to:
Remove the grass and weeds, make it level, super saturate the ground with nasty plant killing stuff, weed mat it, and cover it with big slabs of concrete/pebbles in a chequerboard fashion cos I think it would look cool.

This will be a summer job methinks. I feel a working bee coming on. Watch this space!

So, I went to the foot specialist, and he says that I am a candidate for surgery to remove the extra bony stuff from my foot.

There is a 70% chance that this will solve my problems (constant pain, lingering weakness, limited range of motion).
However there is a 20% chance of it not fixing anything and 10% chance it will get MORE painful (due to increased range of movement aggravating the arthritis there).

So for now, I am to see a man about an orthotic insole and see if that helps first. I've waited 16 years so I can wait a little longer!


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A bunch of us did a bike ride for Motor Neurone Disease awareness on Monday. It was supposed to be Sunday but the weather had other plans. I got a baby bike seat fitted and Charlotte did about 6km of the ride with me before we jumped back in the car and followed the riders the rest of the way in warmth and comfort.
Sam has pics on Facebook, but here's one that Miri took. CYOOT!


Sam and the others did well in not so pleasant conditions, and I gather Maria collected about a grand in donations, so yay us :)

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Seniors have exams at the moment (hence why I have the time to update my blog at work!). I have each of my senior classes for a 2 hour slot - one today, one tomorrow and one Friday. Nice and cruisy now, but then I have a bunch of marking to do. It's always so intimidating and I procrastinate my ass off. Funnily enough, once I actually start it's not so bad.

Spot the difference

One is a normal foot, one is mine.

Guess which is which!

Turns out that one of the times I sprained my left ankle, I actually broke my foot. I have to go see a specialist and possibly have surgery/bits of metal/moonboot/crutches etc. So now I am awaiting paperwork from ACC so I can figure out which time I did it, and if I can claim ACC and go private. Otherwise I have to go public and wait who knows how long.

Here are the three contenders:

1) 1991 - Confidence course, Linton Army Camp. Jumped off a 3m high bit of the confidence course and rolled the ankle as I landed. Went to the Medics, where they iced it, strapped it and said it was sprained.

2) 1996-ish - Vic Uni carpark. Tripped and rolled my ankle on my way to the car. Definitely heard an audible snap here. Had to be carried up all those stairs to Student Health (embarrasing!), where they iced it, strapped it and said it was sprained.

3) 2001 - UHC field. On lunch duty, walking across the field. Fell over my own feet, I think. Also wearing stupid sandals so that my heel slipped off to the side and twisted my ankle. Definitely claimed ACC for this one, as I remember being told off for not putting this in the workplace accident register. Oops! Iced and strapped it myself (pretty good at strapping ankles by now!), and the physio I went to said it was sprained.

My money is on number 1.

Posting FRENZY!

Wow - nothing for ages, then an edit and two new posts all in the space of an hour! Sam's at netball and Charlotte is fast asleep, so you gotta do stuff when you can.

Speaking of the Most Beautiful Baby Ever, please vote for her in the Treasures Coverbaby Competition!

Search for Charlotte Hall on this site, and exercise your democratic right to vote for the one I tell you to vote for.

Cheers to those who have voted already - I am quietly confident :)

Exercisey stuff

I did a tri 2 weekends ago...

...and a duathlon last weekend.

I have no events till October.

I'm gonna have some ice cream :P

We interrupt your regular programme for this Important News Flash.

Kelly Anna Mansfield was born at 10am yesterday. Both Carol and Kelly are fine.

Yaaaaayyy!!!!!