A New Family Member- Meet Oscar

I have nothing to say, I really do not. I have been sewing slip covers ( well actually only one so far) and trying desperately to get around to finishing off the furniture arrangement in our room (since I knocked those walls down I have had to rethink where things are going and IF I will be keeping it at all).

We are caring for a tailless (runner) Scaly Breasted Lorikeet that was being attacked by his 'friends' down the bottom of our driveway. My Beloved's step mum saved him and passed him to us... we are loving his presence and he seems to love us too.

Big Miss and Oscar

Apart from his food I bought ( as I really was not interested in 'making' it up from scratch coz I am lazy like that ;) )  Mr Cheeky and I go and collect a heap of flowers every morning and every afternoon so he can have a treat. I throw in the odd peach from our tree here and there too.

(He loves the Hibiscus at the moment.)

What you looking at?!

He surprised us with how friendly he is.

The Man Child and Miss Thinker have taken a huge shine to him.

 I have also been waiting patiently for the Man Child and My Beloved to do more of the back yard, which they assure me will happen tomorrow, besides that I have been busy doing 'life'. More tomorrow, I promise!

 I am tired and ready for the Xmas Holidays... SLEEP INS HERE I COME!!!!!

Customer Service

This past week has consisted of me trying  to get things done and failing spectacularly. It has also opened my eyes to the appealing lack of customer service skills of many stores in my local area. I usually find everyone to be pleasant and helpful. I am always mindful of the fact the people behind the counters at any of the businesses I go into are there to do a job and have to deal with the public ( who can at times be incredibly stupid and very rude) and I always try to make sure I smile and am polite and friendly, unless I am tired or have the shits, then I'll still smile and be polite but I wont be one for a chat.

I have however had two shocking moments of utterly terrible customer service the first left me shocked and certain to never shop there again and the other left me furious and kinda wishing I was a man who happened to be built like an ox and didn't have a problem causing a 'ruckus' in a seaside towns' shopping centre car park. I wont go into detail except to say this...

Don't assume that just because a store is a well known fabric and other related items retailer, it will have nice, crafty, homey type people, who are more than happy to help. Or even have the items advertised on sale in their catalogues in stock. You should in fact expect them to actually have the shits with you for asking if they do have these advertised things in stock especially if they have to go looking out the back and you don't want to 'come back Monday'. If you should happen to have a three year old son who is feeling very hot to the touch and out of the blue decides to vomit all over you as you (stupidly, it turns out) run out of the store with him so he does not vomit all over the store (whilst you are running out the three year old manages to spew all over you, and I do mean ALL OVER YOU) do not expect to return to find the fabric you were going to purchase actually has been cut or that the sleeping 11 month old you left in the pram by the counter to be there. Expect to find both the 'sales assistant' and the baby gone, just not together. 

Also do not expect to go shopping in a local seaside towns' IGA and manage to put the groceries in the car and drive off to your destination, apparently it is not as simple as that. In fact, expect the man, who you would be forgiven in thinking was a drunkard sitting in the gutter outside the bottle shop, ( that is situated next to the said IGA) to walk over to your car as you are reversing and COMPLETELY IGNORE YOUR THREE ATTEMPTS at asking him what he wants. Expect him also to stick his head INSIDE your car and take a good look around with a cocked eyebrow and an arrogant look on his face. Then expect him to walk off back into the bottle shop. If you are anything like me, expect to fight off the very strong urge to pull back into the parking spot and go into the bottle shop and find out exactly what he thinks he was doing and let him know just what you think of him. If you are like me, the only thing stopping you would be the fact you have small children in the car. Turns out (if you asked the teenage boys in the back of the car what the hell just happened) you can not expect to buy a carton of coke cans without complete strangers thinking you are stealing the little red shopping baskets!

But one thing I have found is I can expect to go into my bank branch and come out with both money AND a kids video! But that is another story!

I hope your week was better than mine!

Welcome To The World Twinnies!

Malachi Lee and Asher Lee Hamilton made a easy (well for me) entry into the world on the 28th of November 2012. Asher was born at 7.19pm and weighed 6 pound. Malachi was born at 7.49 pm and weighed 7 pound.  Mummy Rebecca did very well I am told and Daddy Lee also managed to 'hang in there'. Well done guys!! :) They are just perfect in every way. Nawwwwwwwwwwwwww Aunty Emma loves you so much xx

Our Week In Pictures

1 I spent a rather sad amount of time trying to figure out how to add an image to some odd tiles I had. After brainstorming I stumbled on using gesso (an acrylic primer). To my utter shock it worked, not perfectly BUT it worked!!

2 Mr Cheeky and his sisters did a lot of drawing. Mr Cheeky decided to display his art work (the fridge was covered) in his room. I saw no harm in that, until he asked me to come and see how 'pretty' the room was. I walked up the hall and briefly noticed a zinc cream tube. I soon learnt why it was there, he had used it as 'blu tack' to decorate his sister's cot.

3 Our peach tree has been a great source of sustenance. The kids have been helping them selves to fruit all week.

4 After some discussion about entertaining yourself and Miss Independents constant cries of boredom I showed her how to make 'card castles' and it was a hit for most of the weekend.

1 The size of the dining and lounge room was bugging me (has been since My Beloved built the walls to make an extra room) and when My Beloved left for Fraser Island I decided they had to go!!

2 The night the walls were due to be knocked down the girls and I had Maccas for dinner, Littlest Miss missed out as usual and as usual she was not impressed! We sat around the table talking about our day and we had some laughs at some of the things that were said.

3 Is the 'before' photo. The black wall was stripped of the family pics and I had long given up on painting the brown wall white to make it 'disappear'. Littlest Miss slept for a few hours that day and Mr Cheeky managed to not wake her up with his constant singing.

4 Little Miss was being cute all day.

1 The back side of the black wall. I took a million pictures of the knocking down process and it must be said I was excited, even the mess didn't bother me... then.

2 It was a hot day and my brother worked up a sweat. He had just finished a 26 hour stint on a fishing boat the day before and had come home from work an hour earlier, he is a good brother, I think I'll keep him!

3 the fine dust from the crushed bricks and mortar was everywhere and after day 1 I decided that I'd use dust covers the next day. I took me three hours to dust everything but the floors, walls and doors then I used most of the sheets in my hall cupboard to cover everything.

4 Dust, mess and excitement.

1 Day two saw my brother bring out the 'Big guns' and instead of using a hammer he used a hammer drill and I made him clean up the rubble!

2 Mr Cheeky, who thinks his Uncle is exceptionally cool had to be told to go away from the 'worksite' regularly through out the morning.

3 With the walls gone I realised just how much space we had again and just how much more tiling My Beloved still has to do! ( Something he noticed when he came home and he said it with a sigh)

4 I found this clock and I had to have it, of course it does not work, at present it is about three hours slow!!!

1 My Beloved and I  got excited about buying the paint and cornicing required to start on the finishing touches... so we painted and painted and painted... the wall with the fruit salad plant stencil still is not finished...

2 LOOK AT ALL THE SPACE! :)

3 We used carpet squares to cover the untiled floor in the lounge room so we did not have to see the old painted concrete floors. ( The whole area will be tiled, but not before Xmas.)

4 It was 7pm when My Beloved and Miss Independent put the carpet squares down ( Miss Independent 'created'  the 'design'). It only took twenty minutes, they make a good team!

1 I found this old cast iron bed, with wheels and I bought it, only to discover that the rods that hold the base were missing... I am still working on that one but it should be easy enough. I hope.

2 The clock, again...

3 My Beloved earned himself a caramel tart, yes a very basic one, but I am not a dessert chef! ( Yes I cheated and used the canned caramel AND a pre maid tart shell - what?

4 I saw this sign at our local auto shop and I had to have it. The graphics and colour were what drew me to it, it was not until Biggest Miss questioned the message that I actually realised what it said. Ooops.

1 Littlest Miss was a very good girl all week considering we were very busy.

2 I was on top of the world going on (and on and on and on) about all the space we had since those walls were knocked down.

3 Mr Cheeky was his usual cheeky self. There were a MILLION pictures of him through out the week, however he was unfortunately naked in just about ALL of them.

4 We went to a B.B.Q on Friday night ( a well deserved break) and we had a great time Thanks TANIA!! ;)  She gave Little Miss a talking cookie jar ( can't imagine why she'd give it away as he has such a way with words...)

How was your week?