36 Rules of Life

Found this over at Holly’s blog while cleaning up my saved bloglines & just thought I’d share 🙂

The 36  Rules of Life:

1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

2. Don’t worry about what people think, they don’t do it very often.

3. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car.

4. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

5. If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you’ve never tried before.

6. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

7. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.

8. A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

9. For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.

10. If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.

11. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.

12. A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good.

13. Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.

14. Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.

15. No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes.

16. A balanced diet is a muffin in each hand.

17. Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

18. Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.

19. Junk is something you’ve kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.

20. There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.

21. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

22. By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.

23. Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.

24. Someone who thinks logically provides nice contrast to the real world.

25. It ain’t the jeans that make your butt look fat.

26. If you had to identify in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’

27. There is a very fine line between ‘hobby’ and ‘mental illness.’

28. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with  them.

29. You should not confuse your career with your life.

30. Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.

31. Never lick a steak knife.

32. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.

33. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

34. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment

35. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that deep down inside we ALL believe we are good drivers.

36. Your friends love you anyway.

 

Have a great day!

Create

I’ve been reading Ali Edwards blog for ages now & love the idea she has of One Little Word. ‘The idea behind the one little word concept is to give yourself something to focus on throughout the year.’

So my word for 2009 is Create.

I want to be more creative. I want to create more. I want to create more scrapbook pages (& maybe complete an album or two). I want to create more cards.

Speaking of creating. I made some orange cupcakes today.

001

Happy New Year

Well it’s 2009. Didn’t stay up til midnight (crashed at around 11:30) but was still awake to see in the new year.

Exciting things happening this week with heaps of sales & the grand opening of Roll 2 Create. Hybrid Designs Scrapbooking is undergoing a makeover & I’m looking forward to seeing the new look. Mystical Scrapbooks is back up & running after some nasty Christmas gremlins in the forum & gallery. And the January challenges are slowly going up.

Speaking of challenges, I’m taking part in the Scrapbook Graphics Project 365. I’m gonna try and do the photo a day but I feel it may end up being a photo a week (therefore Project 52)

So here’s my pic for January 1.

005

Playing with the macro on my camera.

Just because…..

Just a quick post this morning with a Christmas meme (feel free to steal & put on ur blog with ur own answers – I got it from Lizzie’s blog)

Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends.

Wrapping paper or gift bags?
Wrapping paper but if the present is a weird shape (or a plant) it goes in a gift bag.

Real tree or Artificial?
Artificial only cause real ones give me hay fever, which sucks cause I love the smell of real trees. The kitties would have a ball in a real tree too I bet.

When do you put up the tree?
Usually on 1st Dec

When do you take the tree down?
Usually on 1st January

Do you like eggnog?
Not really

Favourite gift received as a child?
the dolls house my dad built me. I’ve still got it too.

Hardest person to buy for?
My dad, My FIL & my brother.

Easiest person to buy for?
Any of the rellies who does scrapbooking LOL

Do you have a nativity scene?
nope

Mail or email Christmas cards?
Mail to the locals, email to overseas.

Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
Honestly can’t think of one

Favourite Christmas Movie?
Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas

When do you start shopping for Christmas?
Um usually the fortnight before Christmas. Every year I promise myself I’ll buy before then but it never happens.

Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
yeah

Favourite thing about Christmas?
Turkey, prawns, choc truffles… the food LOL

Lights on the tree?
Yes

Favourite Christmas song?
Ate too much at Christmas by The Sunny Cowgirls (check them out they rock!)

Travel at Christmas or stay home?
Travel as far as mum & dad’s (bout 15 mins lol)

Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer’s?
Rudolph, Dasher, Donner, Blitzen, um that’s all I can think of (without the help of Google lol)

Angel on the tree top or a star?
ATM it’s a star

Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?
Christmas morning

Most annoying thing about this time of the year?
The crowds when you go shopping

Favourite ornament theme or colour?
I love anything silver or purple.

Favourite Thing for Christmas dinner?
Turkey & cranberry sauce

What do you want for Christmas this year?
More cards for my Slice

Snow Christmas morning?
Hmm I wish. but unless we get snow in summer… no

Brrrrr it’s cold

Went out to grab some wood this morning cause it was cold enough to need the fire lit & decided to grab some snaps to share with u all. (check out the fog)

yeah I hate spiders but I love the way spider webs look covered in dew.

Now got a little challenge for ya. The first person to guess what this pic is of will get a little something from me 🙂 I’ll take guesses up until Monday evening (9th June) when I’ll post the winner & what it is.

(If you didn’t guess it – it’s the flower bud of an Aloe Vera)

Ok enough for now. I’m off to scrap!

We’re a happy team at Hawthorn

Game on of the AFL NAB Cup against Sydney Swans & we won. By 2 points.

Wasn’t the best of games & neither team really deserved to win but wh well at least we won 😉 Good day was had by all. Seemed weird not being able to perve on barrack for Ben Dixon but he’s retired 🙁

Sharing some piccies. Sat in the Gunns Stand this time so a slightly different angle.

(didn’t take any during the game play cause I was too busy yelling at the umps & players hehe)

& two from the after match function.

With Simon Taylor (check those dimples – yummo)

& a piccy with Chance – just for my mum.

Have a great day!!

Australia Day Pics

Just thought I’d share some snaps from yesterday.  Had a BBQ to celebrate my birthday (which is tomorrow).

The sunsets in Hillwood are seriously gorgeous

A little froggie that visits mum & dad nearly every night (apologies for bad pic but it was taken inside, at night)

& my Aust Day temp tatt (thanks to my brother)

Hope all in Australia had a great day.