o I come back to my blog and I see my last post and it is about how long it has been since I posted.  Wow it's like groundhog day or something.

Well quick update.  What have I been up to?? Ummmmm  nothing much.  

Some exciting news though.  Back in 2006 I upgraded my SLR camera to a flash Digital SLR.  I figured it would be easier to learn as I could take photos download them and see where I was going wrong straight away and I would learn heaps and .......

Fast forward to August 2008.  Thanks to the No. 1 photographer in the world I have found myself.  I am doing a Sheye Rosemeyer Explore photography course.  And guess what I get it.  Yes after 2 years I am fully manual.  I'm not saying I am good but at least I am getting there.  This has been my dream since 2000 when I bought my first SLR.  It only took me 8 years.

So I'm starting my blog again to record my photo journey into my new life through a lens.

Here is my first good photo.  Thing is Ellie is my little prop as the others are at school and aren't around much so you are going to see heaps of her.

xx

I've been tagged Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Oh it has not been 3 months since I posted. Seriously where has that time gone. Well I haven't been holidaying or anything exciting just doing the everyday life things.

So I've been tagged by

Vanessa and Carrie - I think people are giving me the hint to update my blog because I seem to have disappeared.

So the tag this is what i have to do -

Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours
Tag 6 fellow bloggers by linking them
Leave a comment on each of the tagged bloggers blogs letting them know they have been tagged.


1. Neopolitan Ice Cream I have to put the lid on so that the colours that are on the lid match those in the container.

2. I hate spiders, am petrified of spiders actually. I can't even walk near where one has died. Mark squashed a massive one on the wall the other night and I was waiting for him to ask me to clean up the mess it left. There is no way i could do that. Even vacuuming them up gives me the creeps.

3. I don't do work gathering. Even if someone is having a morning tea for their birthday I will stay at my desk and keep working. Just can't be bothered with office crap.

4. I am snobby about my coffee. I don't do Instant, there is only 1 coffee shop in town that I will visit and only a couple in the city.

5. I can't stand the smell of Bundaberg Rum. Pre children that's all I used to drink now it makes me gag when I smell it.

6. I don't do confrontations well. I like things to just run nicely. At work yesterday one of the girls started a confrontation with her boss right in front of me and I just shrank and wanted to crawl away.

Very boring aren't I. I suppose it's good I don't have any major weird things.

Well i'm off to read Lynda's blog to see what Meme she is up to.

Sue xx

Out my Kitchen Window Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Lynda has a fantastic idea on her blog for everyone to show the view out their Kitchen window. She has recently moved to Cairo so hers is very different. It has been raining the whole holidays over here in Brisvegas so it is green green green. I don't have an actual kitchen window my kitchen bench is in front of sliding doors then out to our deck.

So here is my view! I do love looking out my kitchen window, which is just as well cause I spend so much time in there.

Holidays ..... Thursday, December 13, 2007

Woohoo School holidays. No more lunches, no more uniforms, no more homework, no more swimming no more anything. I don't have to be anywhere at anytime oh except for work on Monday (bummer)!

Three things Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Three things have pissed me off this week. Firstly our local Federal Member who just happens to be (a Liberal member)! All of his campaign signs have been defaced with various markings and it was only his signs and not the other Parties that were right next to him. Even though I don't exactly agree with this it did make me giggle. Last week he writes an article in the local paper saying that it was the Labor Party that did it in their dirty campaign. WTF what higher being does he think he is that someone from the Labor Party would bother drawing on his signs. Did he not consider from even one millisecond that it was a constituent (or several hundred) that did not like him????? Grrrrrr

That gets me onto the next one which is still with bloody Politics. It's the ads on TV. Labor probably does it as well but I am sick of the Coalition ads on TV bagging labor and the Unionism. They are seriously just bagging the other side instead of giving us good Policy information and reasons on why we should be voting for them and not Labor. I just hate the crap during this stage where they just slag off on one another.

Now to my third gripe. I saw an Ad for A Current Affair where they were doing a story on that Bingo show and how it is rigged. Do they not have enough stories to run other than to bag other channels? Serious who cares! Not that I ever watched it anyway but I am turning away from Commercial TV and starting to watch a lot of ABC2 and reruns of programs. Watched one for the last couple of weeks showing couple who have gone through Adoption through other Countries like Vietnam, Russia, China, which have been so interesting.

OK will get off my soap box now :)

Blackbutt Friday, November 9, 2007

and we were all black by the end of the weekend. We went camping (real camping) with some friends last weekend to a place called The Farm at blackbutt. This guy has 300 + acres and he has put in a camp ground and motorbike tracks for families.

We had so much fun and I survived. I am not a camper I don't mind civilised camping where I can go a get a real coffee of a morning. But this was no electricity, no water, only a thunder box (or bush) for a toilet, no showers. Lucky it was only for 2 nights.

We have been wanting to get Tim out into some space with his motorbike for some time. He was so excited it was going to be the best weekend of his life. We Friday he was in the little kids track, slid out and broke his clutch. Well tears, he was so devastated he would be able to ride all weekend, his weekend will be so boring. Anyway the big boys decided to teach him how to ride with the clutch and how to change gears, so we were back on track :) They had so much fun all weekend and their jumping was a bit scary for me. Did liked the big boys track the best and by the end of day 2 was clearing the smaller table top. Oh and Mark was clearing the big one.

Mark is on the yellow big and Tim is in red!

And the Instrument is ..... Monday, October 22, 2007

The ..............

Trumpet yes i cannot believe it. He didn't even pick it but I am soooooooo happy. Because he didn't ask for it he got told before everyone else and they asked him what his thoughts were. He said he didn't mind as long as her got an instrument he didn't care. Awwww isn't that nice he was just so desperate for an instrument. At least he can play the Trumpet by himself.

Funny thing happened on the weekend. I was out at a shopping centre with the kids and we had finished and were at the car. Suddenly two empty cans of something come flying over from the top car park. One can just hit Tim's head lightly. I look up and this girl looks over so I call out "You Idiots". We get in the car and I try and find the ramp to get up the top. Georgia says can we swear at them when we get up there. Ellie says yeah "You Idiots" Tim says look what you are teaching Ellie Mum. I've been told by the 9 year old. Oh yeah I never did workout how to get up the top :)