Category: Blogging

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On my soapbox

(and I’m behind on posting daily again)

You know what really gets my goat? For one that saying – what does it even mean? Well there you go. Public service for the day

Back to the matter at hand – if you’ve follow me on Facebook you’d have seen this post Thursday night

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Backstory – Shane Crawford did a walk from Melbourne to Adelaide last year to raise money for Breast Cancer. Thursday on the AFL Footy Show he announced he was doing a bike ride from Melbourne to Perth, again raising money for Breast Cancer. This started my little rant on Facebook. I do think breast cancer is tragic and I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy BUT I get so sick of hearing about it and all the fundraising centred around breast cancer.

You hardly ever hear anything about other cancers (maybe with the exception of skin cancers in summer) and that really annoys me. It’s like all other cancers are lesser cancers. According to the Cancer Council website the most common cancers in Australia (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer) are prostate, colorectal (bowel), breast, melanoma and lung cancer. These five cancers account for over 60% of all cancers diagnosed in Australia. Why don’t we hear more about these other types of cancers? Why don’t we hear more about other women’s cancers like cervical & ovarian? Ovarian cancer is the eighth most common cancer and the sixth most common cause of cancer death affecting women in Australia.

I’d love to see more companies/sports clubs/celebrities/TV shows stand up and say there is more than just breast cancer and we’re here to support & raise money/awareness of these other types of cancers.

When events like White Shite Day, Afternoon Teal, Frocktober, Relay for Life and others get more national coverage it’ll be a great thing.

Do you support and cancer fundraising events? If so which ones?

20 years of Hottest 100

(I could have been serious but I decided to have a little fun with today’s topic – Get real. Share something you’re struggling with right now.)

How do you pick your favourite 20 songs from the last 20 years? Narrow it down even further to your favourite 20 songs from the last 20 years of Triple J’s Hottest 100 (yup the hottest 100 has been going for 20 years!). I’m struggling still. Maybe 1 song from each year? Other notable favs from each year in brackets

  • 93  Nearly lost you – Screaming Trees (No Rain – Blind Mellon; Would – Alice in Chains; Rooster – Alice in Chains)
  • 94 Closer – Nine Inch Nails (Andres – L7; No excuses – Alice in Chains; Gallows pole – Page & Plant; Masses Like Asses DEF FX )
  • 95 Queer – Garbage (Vow – Garbage; Time Bomb – Rancid; Better Man – Pearl Jam; More Human Than Human – White Zombie; Baby did a bad bad thing – Chris Issak)
  • 96 I’ll be your Magick – Def FX (Ballad Of The Skeletons – Allen Ginsberg; Mother, Mother – Tracy Bonham; Only happy when it rains – Garbage; Lay Lady Lay – Ministry)
  • 97 I go off – Diana Ah Naid (ADIDAS – Korn; Prefect Drug – NIN; Cows with Guns – Dana Lyons; Eat Me – Arkana; #1 Crush – Garbage; Strip Search – Faith No More) 
  • 98 Throw Your Arms Around Me – Paul McDermott (Sex & Candy – Marcy Playground; Dragula – Rob Zombie)
  • 99 You shit me to tears – The Tenants When I grow Up – Garbage; All the small things – Blink 182; Stripped – Rammstein)
  • 00 Teenage Dirtbag – Wheatus (Minority – Green Day)
  • 01 Cherry Lips – Garbage
  • 02 Loose Yourself – Eminem
  • 03 Are you gonna be my girl – Jet (Seven Nation Army – The White Stripes; Zebra – John Butler Trio)
  • 04 Coin operated Boy – Dresden Dolls (Somebody told me – The Killers; Common People – William Shatner; Girl Anachronism – Dresden Dolls)
  • 05 Figjam – Butterfingers (BYOB – System of a Down; Filthy/Gorgeous – Scissor Sisters; Why do you love me – Garbage)
  • 06 Smile – Lily Allen
  • 07 Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger – Daft Punk (1234 – Feist; Tick Tick Boom – The Hives)
  • 08 Another way to die – Alicia Keys & Jack White
  • 09 Love Lost – Temper Trap (Bonkers – Dizzy Rascal; One way road – John Butler Trio)
  • 10 Big Jet Plane – Julia & Angus Stone
  • 11 Somebody that I used to know – Gotye
  • 12 Thrift Shop – Macklemore (Love Interruption– Jack White)
  • 13 ???? who knows 😉

Could you pick just 20 songs. Give it a go over at the Triple J page. I struggled in the 2000s, some years more than others.

Fast 5 Favs

My five favourite blogs right now (in no particular order) & why I love them

  1. Autocratik – Dave’s a fellow RPGer from the UK. He’s written stuff for Conspiracy X (one of my favourite games) and Doctor Who: Adventures in Time & Space RPG. Currently writing his own RPG. Just nice to read a blog about one of my other favourite things to do (the majority of the blogs I read are fellow parenting blogs or craft blogs)
  2. A Vegas Girl at Heart – One of my favourite Project Life blogs. Melissa also does some great Project Life freebies.
  3. I’m cheating with this one cause it’s 3 of my favourite comic blogs – Two Lumps (if you love cats, check it out); The Devil’s Panties (cause she’s just funny & I can relate) and Weregeek (cause I’m just a geek)
  4. JustJenn Recipes – Food, Hello Kitty & Star Wars…. do I need to say any more
  5. Shimelle – I pink puffy heart Shimelle. I love her classes and her blog has lots of inspiration for scrapbookers

When I was just a little girl…

Tell a story from your childhood. Dig deep and try to be descriptive about what you remember and how you felt.
I kinda struggled to find a story from my childhood that I wanted to share with you all. I thought & I thought and then I thought ‘why not look through some old photos for inspiration’ and then I found this one
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That’s me & my brother sitting on a cage, made by Dad, and containing the 2 chickens we were looking after. Dad worked at on of the local colleges and as part of one of the subjects (Ag science?) They bred ducks and chickens. From what I remember they bred them, raised them then slaughtered them. After that I have no idea what they did with them – I never asked.
Anyways, back to my chickens. I can’t even remember how we managed to get 2 little tiny balls of yellow fluff to look after. I do remember they were both called Matilda though. Can’t remember the reason behind the name either. Eventually Dad had to take them back and I think I wasn’t very happy with that.
 

Something difficult about your “lot in life”

…and how you’re working to overcome it

  • We’re on a low income. We do without but always have food and power and splurge occasionally especially if we want to spoil Miss K. We’re working harder to make more money & I’ll return to study so I can improve my knowledge (& therefore can charge more)
  • I have crap vision. Upside = awesome glasses and contacts
  • Hubby has chronic pain & chronic depression. We’re working with ways to lessen his pain.

That’s taken me a couple of days to write cause I really wasn’t totally sure how to go about it :/

Catch up (Pt 2)

 

10: Most embarrassing moment (s). Spill. At the airport to pick up my cousin an in my excitement to see her I ran up to and hugged the wrong person. I was about 8 and mortified.

11: Sell yourself in 10 words or less.  Mum, blogger, scrapbooker, fun, approachable, photographer, wife, cat lady, me.

12: What do you miss? (a person, a thing, a place, a time of your life…) My cousin. Gone too soon and I miss him.

13: Issue a public apology. This can be as funny or as serious or as creative as you want it to be.

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(some great quotes on Pinterest)

14: Ten things that make you really happy

  1. Good food
  2. Cuddly cats
  3. Chocolate
  4. A good novel
  5. Cookbooks
  6. Croissants with ham, cheese & pineapple
  7. My family
  8. Photography
  9. Having a good internet connection
  10. My friends (both irl & online)

15: A Day in the life (include photos from throughout your typical day – this could be “a photo an hour” if you’d like) I used the Days app to capture some random snapshots though my day

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Back later with today’s post

Playing catch up (pt 1)

I’m so bad at keeping up with these things 😉

2 – Educate us on something you know a lot about or are good at. Take any approach you’d like (serious and educational or funny and sarcastic) – Something I’m good at – not keeping up with daily posts 😉

3 – Things that make you uncomfortable

  1. cold weather
  2. people who try to hard
  3. people who go out of their way to be rude
  4. spiders

5 – Publicly profess your love and devotion for one of your blogger friends. What makes them great? Why do you love them? If you don’t have blogger friends, talk about a real-life friend or even a family member. How can I choose just one hehe. Today I’ll go Fiona, Kelley, Eden, Lori. All amazing women, with different stories. Love them all.

6 – If you couldn’t answer with your job, how would you answer the question, ‘what do you do’?  I’m a mum, wife, lover of photography, a reader, a scrapbooker and so much more

7 – The thing(s) you’re most afraid of

Evil things. They aren’t of this world, i swear.

8 – A piece of advice you have for others. Anything at all.

I saw this on Facebook tonight. Great advice

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9 – A moment in my day. Seriously foggy morning that hung around most of the day

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I’ll b back tomorrow with 10-15