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Well, Akismet is out to get me anyway.

If you have Akismet on your Wordpress blog, be sure to check your folder regularly. Akismet has decided I’m a spammer, so go and check your folder and fish me ot. Go on, I’ll wait.

See, that wasn’t so hard. Thanks for your help. I now return you to your regularly shceduled blogging

Today I’m over at Aussie Bloggers whining about my family again. It seems I’m not alone with the weird family tea drinking habits.

But just to show I haven’t abandoned you, you’ll notice over in the sidebar you now have the option to subscribe via email. That means whenever I publish a rant thoughtful, well written article, you’ll have it delivered straight to your inbox. When you enter your email address you’ll get a new window confirming the address and asking you to enter a captcha. It will send you an email with a link to click on, and you’re away. But still totally in touch with me. And I don’t every see your email, so don’t worry about what I’m going to do with it, k?

Or if you’d prefer to use a reader, you can click on the shiny orange button to ensure you don’t miss any of my scintillating posts.

Just another way I’m taking care of y’all.

Posting may be a bit thin for the next week - I apologise in advance.

I was supposed to be going away this weekend for my friend’s 30th, BUT as usual everything happens at once and I flew down to Bris-Vegas yesterday and will be flat out for the next week. I anticipate being home on Tuesday night with more access to things like photos I need to share with you, and the like.

In the meantime, check out my blogroll to find some entertaining reads in my absence!

Today I can be found blogging some pictures from our camping trip over at the Aussie Bloggers Blog.

If you’re an Aussie, or a blogger, the Aussie Bloggers Blog features some great Australian Bloggers, and some great Non-Australian Bloggers too. The blog and forum is coming up to six months old, and if you’re looking for helpful advice on all things blogging related, Australian or not, it’s definitely the place to be. Everything from helpful ideas about what to cook for dinner, how to monetize your blog and friendly people willing to help with whatever technical issue you’re having.

So pop on over and say hi, we really are a friendly bunch over there, even if we are a little bit loopy sometimes

So here I am, finally back in the land of broadband. Hubby yelled at tech support on Sunday night, and miraculously on Monday morning we had internet. Meh.

I gotta say, while I could quite happily live without the internet, I really do need it for uni. Even with broadband it took me a good 4 hours last night to find a case I needed. Of course that means you lucky people get to put up with me read my entertaining and riveting rants posts on a much more regular basis now.

But for those of you who’ve stuck out my posting hiatus, thank you. And if the number of drafts I currently have is any indication, I’m also going to apologise for innundating you with posts for the next few weeks.

To let all my loyal readers (are there any of you left?) know that I will be only posting sporadically for the next two weeks.

Due to everyone’s favourite phone company taking forever to fix a line fault, I will be without phone and thus internet until Thursday at the earliest, and I’m off to Sydney for uni from Sunday til Friday next week. I’ll hopefully manage a few posts, but be warned I’m likely to be cranky being without internet again, and trying to study madly and get ready for assignments without a phone or internet. Yes, Telstra will be getting a complaint letter from me when this is all over.

Just a short post to let you all know my About page has been updated from nothing to share a little more about me and links to posts you might find useful if you’re wanting to know more About ME!

You’ll find it just below the header image, where it says Home, then About. Enjoy!

I have had to make a quick change to my feed, so if you suddenly have a pile of posts from me, feel free to ignore them (as long as you’ve read them already  ). I’m hoping this will fix all the problems people have been having with the feeds.

What do you think? Isn’t it gorgeous? I’m so in love with the orange. I think Snoskred has done an amazing job, don’t you?

So now you’ve made it (and you’re welcome to leave your shoes on, unless you’re Kiki in which case you must leave them in the box by the door because my feet can’t take it anymore!) make sure you subscribe to the feed by pressing the beautiful orange button to the left, and make yourself at home.

 I have like 500 things swirling in my head to post about this week, including Kiki’s birthday party (and a special section entitled “why you always make as many lolly bags as you can), and a special post entitled “Why it pays to flirt with the butcher”. Yessirree, There’s going to be a lot coming your way this week.

 But for now, welcome!

Ok, I seem to be getting back into the swing of things. I’ve caught up on all my favourite blogs, so things should be getting back to normal for me in that department. There’s a lot going on around here as well.

Hopefully sometime in the next week or so I’ll be making the move to Wordpress, with Snoskred’s help of course. This is assuming things go to plan, which I’m sure it won’t. So if I disappear bear with me. I’ll keep you updated on any progress.

While I was away a lot happened. I was tagged for a couple of meme’s.

Firstly, I was tagged by the Homemaker of the 21st Century, who was tagged by Amanda at “All About The Green”. She was tagged by Heather from Home With Heather and apparently the original tag came from Tamara Wilson of Tamara-Wilson.com.

So without further ado:

1. What did you accomplish this past week?
What a great question! Apart from sorting and packing $5000 worth of Tupperware? I’d have to say being able to cope with Hubby’s pay not going through. I haven’t blogged about it yet, but so close to Christmas it was a real challenge. It doesn’t look like it will be fixed until Thursday either. Not a nice way to prepare for Christmas. I was supposed to be done by now.

2. Did anything not go as expected?
Ha! See above. Christmas is now all out of whack. Due to the lack of income, even things like postage stamps for Christmas cards have been postponed, so many of those will likely not make it in time for Christmas. Ah well, people should just be excited to get one from me. It’s been 4 years since I sent any (about as long as I’ve had children).

3. What was the highlight of your week?
Oooh, tricky. Probably swimming lessons on Saturday when M&M was happy to show off her new swimming skills to all and sundry. Isn’t it amazing how the simple things provide the greatest joy?

4. Did anything exciting happen that you did not expect?
EVERYTHING that happens to me is exciting, so I have a hard time with this one. Umm, oh, I’ve got one! Yesterday I went to the Big City with my mother-in-law, and apart from catching up a friend (albeit briefly) we went to the Baby Shop, and physically put the three carseats in my car that I wanted, and THEY FIT! It’s been a bit of a saga, I was initially thinking I’d need a new car, but it turns out I don’t - hooray! That was pretty exciting.

So there you have it, now for the linky love! 5 people hey? I tag:

1. Kez

2. Our Patch

3. Angus Made

4. Lightening Online (check our her new pretty site too!)

5. Cellobella at Sultana Blog

There, that’s a nice variety of people.

While I was away Kez also tagged me for the 7 Random Things Meme.

Here are the meme rules:Rules:
1- Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
2- Share 7 random and or weird things about yourself.
3- Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
4- Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Ok, 7 random or weird things about me that I didn’t cover in 100 Things About Kin? Here I go:

1. I couldn’t float on my back until I was nearly 16

2. I am over organised in some aspects of my life, and really not in others. For example I have a complete travel set of toiletries ready to go at any point in time, but my bills? In a pile on my desk somewhere!

3. I loved lego as a kid. So much so that my Dad built me a tray on wheels that I could build a lego city on, and wheel out from under the bed whenever I wanted. I hope my kids enjoy things like that.

4. I have discovered recently that despite my age (27 remember?) I have a really really conservative risk profile when it comes to investing. At this point all I can do with my money is put it in a term deposit. Even buying a home is too risky for me. I might have to work on that.

5. I shouldn’t be allowed to name children. After my cat Anna, our second pet was a dog called Dog. Really imaginative hey? It did suit him though.

6. When reading, I have to read a book to the end. There’s only a couple of books I can think of I haven’t finished. One is Far from the Madding Crowd, and the other is Lord of the Rings. Oh the shame. I’m a big fan of the story/movies though

7. Once upon a time I could recite the entire movie of The Princess Bride. In fact, I probably still could, given half a chance.

Right, now to tag 7 people(!!) who haven’t already done it? Man. I don’t think I know 7 people who haven’t already done it. Let’s see how I go:

1. Homemaker of the 21st Century

2. Angus Made

3. Kelley

4. Ali

Oh I don’t know who else hasn’t done it. If you haven’t done it yet, I tag you, so get cracking!

Man, I’ve got so much more to write, but this post is long enough already. If you’re lucky you might get another one out of me later today, after all it is washing day!