Finally! All the hard work pays off

Well not really hard work, I did Jack shit to be honest but meh, I digress.

Remember how excited the kids where by the tiny carrots, so you can imagine the jumping around to be had when they discovered that we now have cucumbers. Liam consumed this one himself in record time.

At least one thing from the garden was a big hit.

Take me to the river

Drop me in the water...and a shit load of water it is.
Who would have thought that less than a year ago this Lake was dry. Last time I drove out there I could not see a single drop of water. But here is Lake Eppalock today.

Kyabram Faux Pas...

or should I say Fauna Park.

Where do I even start. To say the place is a tad run down would be an understatement. To say I was a little shocked would be an understatement too.

It wasn't all bad - the kids had a great time and I guess in the big scheme of things that's all that matters



I don't know...maybe my judgement was clouded by the fact that Gigi pissed on me only half way into the day and I had to walk around in 30 degree heat for the rest of the time smelling like piss.

At least the company I had was great and I managed to get a great pic of Jack.

There's a hole in my bucket dear Liza, dear Liza

I'm sure by now most people have heard of the movie The Bucket List, but have you ever really thought about it? I mean really. Have you taken the time to write down what it is you want from life? What do you want to achieve? What would you like to see? What would you like to change?

With a little prompting from a friend, I joined a health challenge. Not just a weight loss site, but a site about your overall health - mental, physical, emotional, workwise. This site gives you a challenge daily. Today was to think about my bucket list and list five items from it. I'd never even thought of a bucket list. So after thinking long and hard I've made a list that seems to never end. So here's five items from it in no apparent order.

1. Visit the Machu picchu ruins
2. Learn to say "no" without feeling guilty
3. Go on an overseas family holiday
4. Blog at least once a week
5. Make more time for me

And finally one dream on my bucket list and this one is for me and me alone...to have a tummy tuck. So how am I going to achieve this dream? Well I'm a realist. I know this one is a long time in the making. So the steps I'm taking are small ones. Joining this me you health site is just one step in the right direction.

So now the hole in my bucket is plugged.

Ah yes, it's a new year

res·o·lu·tion (rz-lshnn.)
1. The state or quality of being resolute; firm determination.
2. A resolving to do something.
3. A course of action determined or decided on.
4. A formal statement of a decision or expression of opinion put before or adopted by an assembly such as the U.S. Congress.
5. Physics & Chemistry The act or process of separating or reducing something into its constituent parts: the prismatic resolution of sunlight into its spectral colors.
6. The fineness of detail that can be distinguished in an image, as on a video display terminal.
7. Medicine The subsiding or termination of an abnormal condition, such as a fever or an inflammation.
8. Law A court decision.
9.
a. An explanation, as of a problem or puzzle; a solution.
b. The part of a literary work in which the complications of the plot are resolved or simplified.
10. Music
a. The progression of a dissonant tone or chord to a consonant tone or chord.
b. The tone or chord to which such a progression is made.
11. The substitution of one metrical unit for another, especially the substitution of two short syllables for one long syllable in quantitative verse.

See those bolded answers, kind of sound final don't they? When I think of resolutions at this time of the year I think the definition should read:
1. All the shit you where meant to do last year but decided "Screw it" I like to take the easy way out, and
2. All the shit you're going to try to do this year, but will undoubtedly fail miserably at.

So no, I won't be making a New Year's resolution. But what I am making instead is a little promise to myself. This year is the year of being a little selfish. This year I'm going to focus on me. This year I'm going to focus on my family. I've let myself go for too long. I've let my family take a back burner for too long. Enough is enough.

And on that note, I shall be off. Instead of sitting on the laptop all night I need to get a decent nights sleep...another of my last years resolutions.