tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86242449564880166542024-03-13T20:54:09.770+09:00This Was Not MY idea.....but it is my REALITY!!!!!Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-58468788362276583922010-09-06T23:34:00.000+09:002010-09-06T23:34:20.321+09:00Happy Birthday to my mom...Today is my mother's birthday.<br />
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I remember this day as one where there was a buzz in our house with more phone calls and drop-in visits than one could handle on a particular day.<br />
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It was always her highlight of the year !!<br />
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Today my mom has no idea that it is her birthday.<br />
Dementia robbed her from the joy and awareness that comes with this day.<br />
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But WE know... and we celebrate her life still to this day.<br />
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I am so thankful for the wonderful mother that brought me into this world.<br />
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I love her.Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-92219700198263882312010-09-02T23:28:00.001+09:002010-09-02T23:29:27.760+09:00Typhoons and Technology don't go together.<div style="text-align: center;">A typhoon was coming... so I heard.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I had no idea what to expect and also didn't even give it a second thought...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Untill I was woken up early this morning with the trees banging on the bedroom window and the electric cables violently swinging back and forth entangled in the top leaves of the trees reaching beyond the third floor of our house. I heard the wind gushing in somewhere.... this door had flung open at 5.30 am ...how did that even happen??? </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yes - it is closed now - I don't carry my camera around 5.30 am.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The kids woke up and messages from the school came in from more than one source..</div><div style="text-align: center;">NO SCHOOL today.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Kind of a relief when you realise that there would be no rush to finish breakfast to catch the bus, no responsibilities for the day - since every other person in this town would be doing the same thing...waiting for the typhoon to take its course, move through and then move on.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The power dipped...dipped again and then it was all dark.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">With a squirt of foam soap in his hands, my husband realised that there was no water to wash hands...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Kids' excitement of a whole day hanging around where you can watch TV, play games, watch silly stuff on computers soon turned a little gloom when they realised - </div><div style="text-align: center;">no power = no computers = no internet = no TV</div><div style="text-align: center;">.....WILL WE SURVIVE this ONE day without ANY technology??!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You can live without those...that I knew in my own mind....</div><div style="text-align: center;">but when I realised that we also dont have any bread or milk in the house, my mind did start to wander to "what else could I feed them for a whole day if all other foods are frozen or needs a microwave!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Some days my life flashes before me like a typhoon...a sudden burst of chaos...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But the good coming out of a typhoon is definitely this..</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Life stops for a while... you realise how lucky we are every morning to be able to take a shower...have a cup of coffee....or even just wash the smelly fish dish that got left behind last night after the shrimp pasta I made - when there is suddenly no water.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You realise how lucky you are to have lights by the click of a button....to have computers that connect you to the outside world.....how thoughtfully you suddenly have to use your mobile phone to make sure its' battery power outlasts the storm.....or you would be completely disconnected from the rest of the world....for even 10 minutes??!!! CRISIS.... in this day & age....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You realise how lucky you are to be in a safe house....away from all the sharp objects and tree sticks that are flying all over and have shattered green leaves all over the street in front of us...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The typhoon is over and all I hope is that we would remember all these things and be thankful for all of these....when we start taking them for granted again.....as soon as the first light beams out again...as soon as the familiar start-up chime from the computer comes on...and as soon as the first drop of water drips from the faucet again...</div><div style="text-align: center;">HOW LUCKY WE ARE.....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The typhoon is over...the technology is coming alive again..</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I can blog...we can buy bread and LIFE IS GOOD!</div>Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-20080191557089061362010-08-30T16:02:00.001+09:002010-08-30T17:22:51.128+09:00So happy to hear from her...The phone rang 10 to 10 this morning. Perfect timing.<br />
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Morning routine done and Pilates just finished. Just grabbed a coffee and sat down in front of my computer when the Skype buzzed up.<br />
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I was so happy to hear her voice.<br />
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So happy to hear her laughter over the phone.<br />
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My neighbor called. I call her my neighbor because nobody moved into the house where she moved out of about a month ago.<br />
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Now she lives in another country and the house is empty.<br />
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In fact, the whole street is empty after she left and many times I feel the emptiness just from being in my kitchen, knowing that she is not next door anymore. Not there when I need an egg or milk to borrow....not there to quickly come give advice about how to rescue a failed recipe.....not there to go have a cup of tea if the day is running over me....<br />
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Don't you just LOVE that kind of neighbor? Do you still get those kind of neighbor everywhere in the world?<br />
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I had one...and now she is gone.<br />
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But she is still on the other end of Skype.<br />
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And what a relief when you know you can answer and put the video rolling - with no make-up, no hair done, before taking a shower, after having done your exercises....and she still answers your "Good Morning" with a "Hey - you look great, girl !"<br />
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Oh.....I miss my neighbor!Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-4997882874814134212010-08-27T23:45:00.001+09:002010-08-30T07:35:53.879+09:00The Land of the LeavingI live an expat life. ...which is, for most parts, a very good life.<br />
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But it is a huge task to attach and detach to the friends, mostly in the expat circle, that you meet upon arrival and during your stay -<br />
who then have to pack up and leave again - sometimes without much warning.<br />
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...that is if you don't leave before them...<br />
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It is a roller coaster of making friends and seeing them off<br />
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.... ALL THE TIME.....<br />
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Sometimes there is not even enough time to get to know the other person all that well.<br />
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You just know that you truly like somebody and that you wish you could have had more time to get to know that person.<br />
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Tonight, yet another friend left..<br />
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One of those people who just makes the world a better place to live in.<br />
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Someone who just makes everybody have more fun when she is in the room.<br />
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We will all miss her. And that is where I got stuck - in the "missing" part.... in how "empty" it is going to be at the next lunch when she is not there anymore....<br />
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But then, in saying goodbye - her departing words to me was not - I will miss you....<br />
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but "I am so glad I met you !"<br />
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And again, it showed me her enlightening spirit - seeing things the way she sees it.<br />
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And that reminded me of a key part of this life again<br />
"I am less sad that I have to leave, than to have never come to this place<br />
I am more happy to say farewell than to have never been introduced."<br />
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The people we meet and the ways in which everyone teaches me things about this life and about myself and influences the way I see the world and live my life makes this process have both power and meaning.<br />
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I live in the LAND of the LEAVING.Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-43047409870285510722010-08-27T13:27:00.002+09:002010-08-27T13:36:56.765+09:00We are taking these small steps....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/THc3R_lV-FI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/w9ybnqKGarI/s1600/spieel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="330" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/THc3R_lV-FI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/w9ybnqKGarI/s400/spieel.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Today this photo caught my eye as I was looking for something.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It is a note from my mom - 17 years ago....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(read below to see what it says)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My mom ALWAYS left notes for me - </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">be it when I would get home late after a date and she was already in bed or not there, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">or be it years later after we had left the house many years already.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Next week my dad will be visiting me from an overseas country.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This will be his first time ever leaving the country without her.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It will be his first time going on holiday without her.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My mom, living with Alzheimers, was placed in a home of care, the week after their 50th wedding anniversary. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> It was a big and heartbreaking move to make.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It will be impossible for her to make the journey to come visit us.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And as I saw this photo, I realised that she will never be able to step into my house again and neither would I in hers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have known this for a while..but some days it strikes harder than others....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It was not my idea to have this photo out today to make me sad...but it is my reality.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">No more notes from her to me or from me to her</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She can neither read nor write anymore and hardly comprehend anything you even say.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It breaks my heart to know that my dad has to come alone - for his sake as well as ours, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but we need to take these small steps to move on with the important role he still plays in our lives.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These are sad, but necessary steps to take.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It will surely be on his mind when he departs. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A departure from yet another part of the life he shared with my mom.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But these notes I am forever thankful for and however painful it is to write this and as sad and sobbing as this has made me today, so happy it makes me that I took this picture that day to remind me of how special she made me feel and how proud she was with this accomplishment of mine....even if she had to do it in lipstick on the mirror !!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Today she can not be there for us anymore.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But we can still be there for her.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I will miss her on this visit.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But I am thankful for my father whom I can still welcome in my home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He will be in our home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And she will be in our hearts.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">I will write my dad a note when he arrives </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">and I will leave some flowers in his room when he comes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Flowers......for my mom.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>The note translated:</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">"The first C.P.A (CA) to have slept in this room in 25 years !</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">Luckily she did not take 25 years to get there...</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">The C.P.A (CA) was 3 years old when she moved into this room</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">and 3 years ago she married the most wonderful husband that a women's heart could desire....</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">Congratulations you two !"</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Written by my mom to me (in her own lipstick !! ;-) , the first weekend we went home for a visit, after I became a CPA.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>We lived in the same house for 30 years and this was in my room where I grew up.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Typically my mom, she did not only include me in the congratulations, but equally so she praised my husband with this achievement as she knew he was with me every step of the way in getting this qualification. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">If you leave this blog before you have answered the question - you will truly feel bad that you did that to me. Yes, even if you don't know me.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So, please don't be THAT person who leaves without a comment.... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Because I DO want to know what YOU think?! You read this far, come on...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Do you think that DAILY ROUTINES are compulsory to keep a household or a person sane/ effective??</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">If you HAVE the answer - please COMMENT NOW !</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">P.S If comments give you hassles, please mail me.</span></i><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">If you dont know how to comment - check side bar for instructions I left.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">Since I have gottin' almost ALL my comments on this blog via mail, I know I get them..but PLEASE FIRST try to do it on the blog - people reported problems and I need to take it up with Blogger...but wont know if you did not try !!!). PLEASE. THANKS!!</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"><br />
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</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">If you are still unsure about the question - read more here:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am a very organized person - that means my STUFF is organized.....my house....my shelves... but NOT my schedule!!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Having a tidy, uncluttered environment works for me - WONDERS !!! But that's me.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Organizing our activities and daily routines will affect all those around me ! But - it is somewhat chaotic trying to get my kids on bed same time every day</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Some days dinner is ready at 6</div><div style="text-align: center;">.... other days at 7 or 8.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Some days I exercise</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">...and some days I don't!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Some days I take vitamins</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">...and some days I don't!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So - it is EXTREMELY difficult to keep track of what is happening around me!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I think that keeping ROUTINES - same time to bed each day, same old story each day - will help everyone to get to what we are suppose to do in a day ! And be GOOD CITIZENS of our own health and performances !</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But - my FEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...is to become one of those old people one day who can't come visit because they have to have their "hair" done on Tuesdays...</div><div style="text-align: center;">or those people who yawn at a party because they usually go to bed at 10pm and now it is already 11pm - my goodness?!</div><div style="text-align: center;">or they can't go for coffee...because this time every day they do spinning....</div><div style="text-align: center;">or the kids are running havoc because the hostess is serving dinner at 8 pm and we "forced" ourselves into eating everyday at 6 pm??!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">WHAT IF THAT HAPPENS??</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">What if we loose our easy-going, whatever comes, whatever goes type of attitude and become one of "THOSE" people???</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">THAT is what stands between me and seriously implementing the routines in this house.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I started implementing ROUTINES and STRUCTURE - I think that is the missing piece???</div><div style="text-align: center;">But I am SOOOOOo AFRAID that will ruin things in the long run??!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am so worried I will "over-engineer" this household.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">CAN you help me out??</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Is it working for you??</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tell me about YOUR routines or lack thereof and how it affects you and your life and OTHERS around you?????</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">PLEASE, PLEASE dont leave without HELPING ME OUT !!</div><div style="text-align: center;">The rest of my life depends on this decision I take today.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And you will be so happy you helped . Thanks.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I need it.</div>Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-69890554280652787092010-08-23T18:43:00.001+09:002010-08-25T07:24:35.463+09:00Oh husband......Where art thou ????!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/THJALQVt99I/AAAAAAAAAiI/hT3TustuX0c/s1600/IMG_4819.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/THJALQVt99I/AAAAAAAAAiI/hT3TustuX0c/s400/IMG_4819.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">This is what I loved about the holidays...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">that my husband was there to take whoever needed to be "removed" from society for a short while ....</div><div style="text-align: center;">for a little "chat" to get them back on track </div><div style="text-align: center;">to re-think their attitudes and actions !</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Back into the swing of things at home and it is THAT time of the afternoon !!!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Homework is done and 3 kids plus friends are running wild all over the house.... </div><div style="text-align: center;">getting into all sort of little squabbles which totally ruins the peace and tranquility I was dreaming about on the beach ....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Well - he is back at the office, having a real job...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I get that!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">so, it is up to me to sort them out amongst a lot of other things i am trying to do.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oh, the joys of motherhood.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Have to admit that it was a wonderful break to have a back-up parent for the past 2 weeks!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Not that I have terrible children or an absent husband...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But still - wonderful to have him RIGHT there to take care of things when needed...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and he does such an amazing job with the kids !</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hats off to my husband....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">HATS OFF TO ALL SINGLE PARENTS!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-53820576206705846622010-08-22T13:05:00.006+09:002010-08-23T19:23:35.466+09:00There are other BENEFITS too... !!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Our eyes....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The way we see the world</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And I guess probably one of the first things people notice about your face.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Not much we can do about our eyes...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I can not complain. I am happy with the eyes I got.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Still no glasses, contacts or eye surgery...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yes - I did go into panic mode when I realised I neglected to take good care of the areas around my eyes!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(read my earlier entry about the sagging eyebrow saga in this post:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">"Replacing the old with the new..."</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Not much we can do about it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But I swear by MASCARA - if nothing else - plain mascara does the trick for ME!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/THCfedQGP-I/AAAAAAAAAiA/4PwXH-WwnfI/s1600/IMG_3251.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/THCfedQGP-I/AAAAAAAAAiA/4PwXH-WwnfI/s400/IMG_3251.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">No matter what kind of emergency or time crisis ....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I ALWAYS make time for Mascara.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Just my thing...even if it turns out little cloggy like the above !</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But, WHEN there is time for MAKE-UP, we can do magic and transform our eyes !</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It can be work...and so many people neglect....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but it doesn't need to be work if you find the right thing for you !!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I Found something great!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And if you have a great product - I would LOVE to know!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">About a year ago, I bought this little nifty "all-in-one" eye make-up from 'benefit"..... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">It almost went unnoticed because it is in a cardboard box and not a fancy shiny container and it had almost put me off from buying it - not sure whether it would last!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/THCHY92vn0I/AAAAAAAAAho/OphJKb8Xj0M/s1600/IMG_4923.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/THCHY92vn0I/AAAAAAAAAho/OphJKb8Xj0M/s400/IMG_4923.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But it DID and after a year, the content was done and the container still in perfect shape !</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Last week I picked up 2 new boxes again at the airport!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And today I just want to say - I LOVE it !!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So I want to do my share of giving them the benefit of having a GREAT product that others might not know of - </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">just - spreading the word!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">If you have not tried this - it is WORTH giving it a try.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I can not vouch for any other products but I love how they have the perfect combinations in their eye make-up kits - for my everyday use.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ever bought those sets where you use one or maybe 2 out of the 6 colours you got??</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The OTHER BENEFIT is that it comes with complete instructions.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/THCdazijI7I/AAAAAAAAAhw/6CnHKeSVhFI/s1600/IMG_4926.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="252" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/THCdazijI7I/AAAAAAAAAhw/6CnHKeSVhFI/s400/IMG_4926.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We all know how you start to fall into the same routine ....</div><div style="text-align: center;">and how fun to get a free make-up lesson - without having to go sit in the cosmetics section of a department store on a high chair just to get an update on the "how to" for eyes !!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">It works wonderfully !!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I got this new one (well - new for me!) and am looking forward to give it a go today...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can find it here:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.benefitcosmetics.com">http:www.benefitcosmetics.com</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">LET ME KNOW how it works for you - </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">OR if you have any other BEAUTY products that goes a little "unnoticed"<br />
but has worked wonders for you !!<br />
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I would love to know your secrets.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-68127821043331784472010-08-20T18:16:00.000+09:002010-08-20T18:16:07.170+09:00Blogging benefitsSomebody totally randomly checked my blog and sent me the most fascinating links and info that I checked out.!<br />
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Keep doing that !! <br />
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I love learning new things and keeping life worth living for!!<br />
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Had a fantastic holiday! Now back in the swing of things at home, but posted the ones I did and had no time to publish...so, the most of August so far has been holiday snaps...<br />
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A new year ahead...new opportunities...new ideas..<br />
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THIS TIME MY IDEA was to have a great holiday and the REALITY turned out to be EVERY BIT in line with the expectations we had..and even more !!!Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-54879233927117626382010-08-20T17:53:00.001+09:002010-08-20T18:01:09.968+09:00The beauty and the beach...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG0HxuUoTRI/AAAAAAAAAcY/Hj-BMqWLekw/s1600/IMG_4508.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG0HxuUoTRI/AAAAAAAAAcY/Hj-BMqWLekw/s400/IMG_4508.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">By now - we all know the drill...."how to put our own sunblock.."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">.....well, kind of ...?!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You dont need to go to the beach to be needing it - </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">no, the beautiful sun is great but also vicious...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">even at the FARMER's MARKET !!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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We went to check out what the locals produced</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">not to mention the flowers..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">is it possible that things are just more beautiful on an island ???</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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the land of CHOICES !!!<br />
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the WORK in PROGRESS<br />
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and the HAPPY CUSTOMERS !!!<br />
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HOW fun to get all these duckies in your bathtub??!!<br />
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"Can I have them mom??"<br />
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(there is one in the mail for a lucky friend and one for a relative....mmmm.....wonder who that may be??!)<br />
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and met the COLORFUL CROC family !<br />
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Maybe this will be us one day ...<br />
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I thought they would be seriously having second thoughts after showing them "BLUE CRUSH"...<br />
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but, it only inspired them......<br />
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so, I might go watch the PIPELINE masters one day?!<br />
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.....kind of felt sorry for these guys after I met so many of them still alive at this morning's market??<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I hope this guy isn't one of them?? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">oohhh...naughty....don't let the people at the market see this one - this is anything BUT homegrown or organic...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but if you don't get it in you own country...well, then if you're a kid... you gotta buy .....a whole LOT ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Does Vanilla Coke make your feet grow..? 'cos I want this one !!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG28oZbzzcI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/DLUh_iw2rH8/s1600/IMG_4770.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG28oZbzzcI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/DLUh_iw2rH8/s400/IMG_4770.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">maybe it is just because this guy is selling them...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and we've never bought anything from a guy that looks like this !!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG29rP_aNXI/AAAAAAAAAfY/VOrBRu_JhGw/s1600/IMG_4780.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG29rP_aNXI/AAAAAAAAAfY/VOrBRu_JhGw/s400/IMG_4780.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But it's not only the shoes that are oversized...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">MAN!!!!! Is this a burger or WHAT????</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG2-GFCAmRI/AAAAAAAAAfg/8K-2gyxEpUw/s1600/IMG_4785.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG2-GFCAmRI/AAAAAAAAAfg/8K-2gyxEpUw/s400/IMG_4785.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is the only turtle we saw in town....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">so we decided to go hit the beach again and go look for some more...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Had to go take one big dive before time run out</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG3H5JS_sfI/AAAAAAAAAgA/qAwCxbA1BTI/s1600/P8130269.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG3H5JS_sfI/AAAAAAAAAgA/qAwCxbA1BTI/s400/P8130269.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG3IPqEoviI/AAAAAAAAAgI/qWkRIY8gIrQ/s1600/P8130274.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG3IPqEoviI/AAAAAAAAAgI/qWkRIY8gIrQ/s400/P8130274.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">How fun not to be in the office today !!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You get a whole new perspective down here...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG3JS_hgqRI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/vykNnM_JyYU/s1600/P8130280.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG3JS_hgqRI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/vykNnM_JyYU/s400/P8130280.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But it is cool up here too !</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Actually, anything is cool when you can do it with your dad !</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG2_JaqCbmI/AAAAAAAAAfo/9c-czALZuDo/s1600/IMG_4829.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG2_JaqCbmI/AAAAAAAAAfo/9c-czALZuDo/s400/IMG_4829.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yep - think he agrees...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG3Aaa2qupI/AAAAAAAAAfw/e_dOmbOeEJI/s1600/IMG_4851.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG3Aaa2qupI/AAAAAAAAAfw/e_dOmbOeEJI/s400/IMG_4851.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG3RLduZcbI/AAAAAAAAAgg/vcIDaSS23wM/s1600/P8140303.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG3RLduZcbI/AAAAAAAAAgg/vcIDaSS23wM/s400/P8140303.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and hanging out with dad is super cool - especially HERE !!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The sun has set on our vacation...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG5AhHeJbmI/AAAAAAAAAhA/ijKTnpNKwqM/s1600/IMG_4906.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG5AhHeJbmI/AAAAAAAAAhA/ijKTnpNKwqM/s320/IMG_4906.JPG" /></a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It is 1.30 am </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and Honolulu is not exactly the most glamorous airport to hang out this time of the morning...</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Not often that we have to catch a plane to get to school...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG5B7aoDt7I/AAAAAAAAAhY/DDg53kIfX3A/s1600/IMG_4908.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TG5B7aoDt7I/AAAAAAAAAhY/DDg53kIfX3A/s400/IMG_4908.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but this time we made it....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">18 hours later since we left our holiday home...our car parked at the school at the exact minute we usually arrive from home!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">YEAH!! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On time for school - on the MINUTE </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(except that we were a day late?!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oh well - anyone noticed??? Neaaaah....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We had a great time !!!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-69389954041015383482010-08-19T16:41:00.001+09:002010-08-19T16:43:36.296+09:00Hit the road Jack !<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">By now, we have become one with the creatures out here...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So, after a week...it is a good time to hit the road !</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Time to go choose a car so the rubber can hit the road.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TGzHtJoMj-I/AAAAAAAAAaw/DNy_-2XnrzY/s1600/IMG_4274.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TGzHtJoMj-I/AAAAAAAAAaw/DNy_-2XnrzY/s400/IMG_4274.JPG" width="400" /></span></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Oh yeah... this could work...</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TGzKDADx4uI/AAAAAAAAAa4/f1Zejug_Iw8/s1600/IMG_4278.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TGzKDADx4uI/AAAAAAAAAa4/f1Zejug_Iw8/s400/IMG_4278.JPG" width="400" /></span></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Definitely can work !</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TGzNdI1D0xI/AAAAAAAAAbI/8lDmK1wCIYE/s1600/IMG_4277.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TGzNdI1D0xI/AAAAAAAAAbI/8lDmK1wCIYE/s400/IMG_4277.JPG" width="400" /></span></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Only problem - he's a little young to drive.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So, we got the JEEP again and let dad drive.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Left this wonderful place .....</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">where you daily see a bride and groom on the beach...</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">OOPS ! - did not see that coming !!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And the cool lifestyle....</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and some weird people up the trees</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to the part of Hawaii they call NORTH SHORE</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and there we found...</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">well - </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">this guy</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and this guy </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and this little eat-out...</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and we found that here people are as laid back, playing guitar anytime, anywhere....</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and they also have BEAUTIFUL sunsets here</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So...we knew we arrived at another piece of PARADISE !!!!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.</span></span><br />
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</div></div>Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-36002218415685832282010-08-19T13:55:00.001+09:002010-08-19T13:58:47.051+09:00Going down deeper....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can only go down in the pool so many times and then....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well, then you need to go down deeper.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am not quite a Scuba person.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So we hopped onto a Submarine.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It wasn't quite on the agenda for the day, just sort of happened.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Atlantis - Cool !!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well, we didnt quite just hop onto it... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">a boat took us there !</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Quite a neat idea to go see what's WAY down there....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That is IF you trust the driver of the SUB.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(especially since she was a woman!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">No - I think she will be JUST fine !!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...and what we need to look for...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Waaaayyyyy down.....</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">were awesome stuff to see like this plane wreck.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Some of us kept looking for NEMO...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but I think we can blame it on those sunglasses she was wearing 100 feet down the ocean that may have caused her to never find him..?! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Even the camera looses so much light that certain colours dont come out anymore....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Certainly dont need shades !!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We went to 5 reefs before our pilot sent the huge air bubble up to mark the place where the submarine will merge again</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Would be kind of fun for us if we just pop up...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but might not be SO FUN for these guys if the Sub just suddenly pops from out of nowhere!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And after a pretty cool afternoon in the Atlantis, we had to leave it behind again and go back to shore by boat</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Quite a memorable day !</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-46914038932174957082010-08-18T21:26:00.002+09:002010-08-18T21:40:37.117+09:00Blogging stopped...but life not !!Blogging stopped for a while as internet is not always that readily available and as fast as we are used to.<br />
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And as my son pointed out...you have to live your life first, Mommy, before you can blog about it...!<br />
That is very true.<br />
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If one only blogs and dont find the time to go out there and have fun....well, in the end there will be nothing to blog about !<br />
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So, here are some of the things we did after the last posting...<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">splashing around at the pool..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">just hanging' out at the beach...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...but NEVER without a camera...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yes - EVERYONE had one ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And I mean EVERYONE...EVERYWHERE ....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, everything got caught on camera..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the goofin' around below the surface.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But despite having a camera EVERY step of the way...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We could NEVER be as prepared as THIS guy....???!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">bringing his own tri-pod to dinner in a restaurant to take a shot of him and his date for the evening...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and spending FOREVER to try and set it up..??!!! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">To take just that ONE picture of the two of them...with their self-timer....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Really ????!!!!- he could have just asked us - we take a MILLION photos every day</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">- one more would not have hurt us..?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Got a little bored at times..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but that happened to everyone around here...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thank GOODNESS we never got as bored as this guy !!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and when we did...some of us found other ways to keep everyone busy..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Like at dinner time - </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it's for entertaining your family !!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">with the "straw-claw" put to use...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">or convincing everyone a paper could be folded 8 ways...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">oops, sorry - could not prove it...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it can ONLY be folded 7 times EVER !!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(I did not know that - only learnt that at dinner that night?!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But mostly we were just hanging out together.... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">just our family....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">well..our EXTENDED family</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">they kind of went EVERYWHERE...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and when they were not tucked away in Mommy's chest for their "nap"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">then they were up on the dinner table - RIGHT there next to the TABASCO...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That's right - Tabasco and Aurora goes hand in hand.... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The great thing about the beach is...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">whenever you got too bored....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You could ALWAYS waddle right back into it !!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And on the lagoon's side....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">enough pictures in one day ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">is ENOUGH !!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I said STOP IT !!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is my ANGRY face....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Okay... maybe she has a point..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> ENOUGH for TODAY !!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-5685784233063934662010-08-11T05:20:00.000+09:002010-08-11T05:20:30.588+09:00Rooster on the RoadtripSaturday was another good day. We went on a ROADTRIP.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Rented a car, got a map and decided do just see where the road leads us...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">How free - no GPS required...we are after all on an island !</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, the first we found ...who knows their history....???</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That would be PEARL HARBOUR</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The kids saw the movie, so it was really special for them too....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">But it was still very cute to see BIG BROTHER walking LITTLE SISTER through the whole series of events again..</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ok....I admit - I just couldn't choose between these picutres...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">they are so adorable together !</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But it was a good place to start our road trip and remember this..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Our trip ended in the afternoon with our final stop at HANAUMA bay..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">AMAZING beach in a Nature Reserve area</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(you actually have to watch a video before you are allowed entry!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">SInce everything is preserved ...the coral reef and sea life is just incredible for snorkeling!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, that's exactly what everybody did</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">that is besides the Yosemite Bear she brought along...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But there were also the creatures we did NOT bring</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">who expected to find a ROOSTER on the beach??</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">THAT suddenly sparked the interest and a whole new load of fun on the beach.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pity he wont come in the water... I miss my family...?!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">awwww..... STILL snorkling...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Meanwhile - back on the beach.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I did not really mean for THIS to happen??!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">WHy, oh WHY did I let this happen ???</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">TIME to get out of the sun.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">LIFE IS STILL GOOD !!!!</div>Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-38014759595804821412010-08-09T17:56:00.001+09:002010-08-09T18:08:59.053+09:00Surfing and Shopping goes together, right.....?!<div style="text-align: center;">or so the dragons told me....?!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">They also said : "Good Morning... another beautiful day !!!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TF93bH0Y6zI/AAAAAAAAAPI/ljnjrKiPKXQ/s1600/IMG_9752.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TF93bH0Y6zI/AAAAAAAAAPI/ljnjrKiPKXQ/s400/IMG_9752.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In fact - a great day to go for SURFING LESSONS !!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, that's what we did.... I mean...half of the crowd did....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here they just returned from their session...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">with my Monkey turned into a real ROXY chick !</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TF942B3TfqI/AAAAAAAAAPY/MnrFulsaZKQ/s1600/IMG_9776.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TF942B3TfqI/AAAAAAAAAPY/MnrFulsaZKQ/s400/IMG_9776.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I know my son and that big smile says just one thing - </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"OH MAN..... THAT WAS FUN !!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and the instructors were cool too !!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TF9566X785I/AAAAAAAAAPo/ythkw-kI4qQ/s1600/IMG_9789.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TF9566X785I/AAAAAAAAAPo/ythkw-kI4qQ/s400/IMG_9789.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but THIS is hard work ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"You know how much this weighs, Mommy??"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but YES - Handsome also enjoyed it !</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For me....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I prefer spending time with my family in the calm waters...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">without the big waves....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In fact...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TF98785cL2I/AAAAAAAAAQA/8R5bJTYrXR0/s1600/IMG_9872.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TF98785cL2I/AAAAAAAAAQA/8R5bJTYrXR0/s400/IMG_9872.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I can do this the W-H-O-L-E day long.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In the lagoon...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TF9-iMnwUMI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/-3qXel9b3Zk/s1600/IMG_9862.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TF9-iMnwUMI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/-3qXel9b3Zk/s400/IMG_9862.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yes - that would be ME !!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But who cares what you call it...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lagoon - Kaboom</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's a great place for the family to hang out...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But the beautiful waters of the sea kept calling us back...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">at least Lollipop now runs TO the water and not FROM it....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, we spent the rest of the morning - </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">everybody just doing their own thing...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I watched a little Oprah in the car just before we left, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">was about this book,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">saw it in the bookshop here - mmm???</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">....maybe there's the answer??</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oh well - reading it anyway !</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">ohhhh...but SOME people are not used to THIS much laziness.....<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"We can fix that Daddy...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">you can be a CUP holder..."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">THAT could be hard work...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">as a BIG can for a LITTLE girl can take a looong time to finish..!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and around here it does look like only SOME people get to do all the work while others just enjoy the ride....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but she did not see this coming...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You DO have to wash your own shoes an awful lot around here...?!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Talking about shoes - </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Never thought I would buy CROCS..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but I DID</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and wow !!!!!....they sure are comfy !!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With the SURFING done for the day, the only thing left was to go SHOPPING ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">that's what the dragon told me to do, this morning, right? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Surfing and Shopping goes together...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">HAPPY CROWD</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">See the BIG SMILE on MY face??</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Maybe one day she will understand the fuzz about Victoria's Secret ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">that's all I could make of this face I got when I pulled out my camera in thes hope while she was waiting on me..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But then there is also the GREAT world ahead of someone who has had her FIRST personal shopping experience today...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">First your dad has to give you money and explain how it </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">works</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(tip: if your dad is not doing this anymore, try to find a husband who will...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">give you the money that is.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">by that time you would need no more explanation how it works!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Little nerve wrecking..but the relief when the man finally puts the "princesses" into the packet !! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lollipop's first transaction completely on her own...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">oh, don't worry - she'll get the hang of it !</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But everybody got THEIR turn</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The "BACK TO SCHOOL" list is not exactly the way it was in my days...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">OH....the evil....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Why, oh why, did Eva ever take a bite out of that apple..??!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but NO TECHNOLOGY can beat the TREAT of going into BARNES & NOBLES - </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">ESPECIALLY if the whole store has books in YOUR language !!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lost them for a while, but was very happy to find them </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">- even if it was on the floor...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">ONLY thing we forgot about the US, is how many choices there are in ONE FOOD COURT.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and there is ALWAYS the poor sucker who volunteered to be the audience participant.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But for us... well, we all got everything we wanted or could ask for for the day..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">.....except for the pink champagne I ordered and then got this !</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But the day ended in fireworks </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So no one really cared.</div></div>Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-50537218640409995912010-08-09T12:05:00.003+09:002010-08-09T12:11:47.954+09:00So we woke up again....<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Skia;">..and it was yet another perfect day in Paradise...</span></div></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">In fact - it has been now for the past 3 days..that is how quick time flies when you are having fun !!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">All agree...??</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Yep - we all agree !!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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We have NO AGENDA and NO RUSH for the next 14 days...<br />
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so we had plenty of time to stop.....<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">and stare....<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...and be silly at the lunch table.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">FANTASTIC just to be able to order ANYTHING off the menu...and it is food we KNOW !!!!<br />
and like !!!<br />
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But my toes and my bag were equally happy when we finally hit the beach !!<br />
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</div></div>Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-87409260660947674912010-08-07T06:35:00.000+09:002010-08-07T06:35:47.122+09:002 months later we left.....Summer holiday started 2 months ago - in case you missed that - we have been at home for these 2 months !!!<br />
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YES. HOME SWEET HOME. That deserves a whole blog (or 5 ) - another day....!!!<br />
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But finally time came for us to take off to have our share of summer break - and this time around......<br />
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ALOHA......need I say more ?!<br />
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Day 3 into our holiday now, but here is an update on the flight thru day one from the moment we left home......<br />
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They say a holiday is all about the planning - well, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-large;">I</span> planned WELL this time round!!!!!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As we passed the KIPLING store - Monkey saw another monkey - on a bag....in her favourite colour....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TFxsigj0TXI/AAAAAAAAALQ/0AhuT9XbEVk/s1600/IMG_3651.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TFxsigj0TXI/AAAAAAAAALQ/0AhuT9XbEVk/s320/IMG_3651.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Look mom ! No hands... I mean both hands??!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">BOTH hands - at the same time?? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Lolllipop has a peculiar way of coloring...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-26645703008062568302010-08-06T20:16:00.000+09:002010-08-06T20:16:19.536+09:00To blog or not to blog....??! To BLOG !!!!!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">This blog started off (in my mind at least) so that I could write about things that I had somehow planned in my head or thought about as an intial idea...even if that idea in the end never turned out to be the great idea I anticipated ....</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">And I even had an IDEA what I wanted those things to be..??! Still makes sense??</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Yes - I usually think I have it ALL figured out - long before I even start with something !!</span></span><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">Most of all - I didn't want to do a "mommy" blog - who out there wants to read about me and my family all day long??? .... </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">and at the same time...I didnt (and still dont) want to really put my family out there...showcased - for others to have their opinions and comments on how annoying something was that I thought was really cute - or the other way round??!!! There is something novel and stylish about keeping things private - keeping things "exclusive" to those who really, really knows you....so, even MENTIONING my family on my blog was crossing that line of "exclusivity".......</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">REALITY is however that I AM a mom .......and a wife .......and many, if not MOST of the things that happen on a daily basis, how I view things, what is important and how it affects me and my ideas and my world, comes from that perspective..so it is also somewhat impossible to try and make sense of the things that I say if you dont know me and my family and why I say things the way I say or see them! Blogging is about keeping it real and it is impossible to keep it real if you constantly have to be "SO" strategic that you can hardly think straight !!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">I can do that type of blog - VERY easily - I have many things I observe, many things I think the world would love to hear...but those kind of things should not be around family and should also not be mixed up with family life if you want to attract a certain reader population! </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">That is a WHOLE different kind of blog !! About this world and all its weird and wonderful people.... But my dilemma is also that my good judgement often times prevent me from saying certain things - simply because they would hurt or be funny on one level but perhaps insensitive on another...and then there is most certainly the notion that some things are better left unsaid.....</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">So - the stumbling blocks for blogging started to stack up - not to even mention the fact that everything I write is not even in my native language..which means it is even a little harder to say things exactly the way it would come out..if just spoken from the heart and not have to go pass the mind before putting it in writing....??!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">I know what "sells" a blog - what make people wanna read, and what makes people wanna come back...And initially that was my idea.... to come later with an "offering" on my blog...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">REALITY once again was that I have FOUND THE 'offering", but have NOT YET had the TIME to get that all up and running - TOO many THINGS...TOO LITTLE TIME - Typically me, for those who know me.....and then there was the BIG question - who do really blog for - for a FOLLOWING??? creating a crowd so you could feel good about yourself - or to write for YOURSELF.... having an outlet when you need it...?????</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">SO....What to do then??? To blog or not to blog??!!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Strangest thing is that I hardly ever (almost close to never) got a "Comment" on my blog - for many reasons known to me, but besides the point for now.....BUT the great thing is that that did not mean people did not read and/or respond??!!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">I received e-mails in response to things people read on the blog.....</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">I have to admit that it is great to comment - from a person bold enough to say it on a blog (usually bloggers who are not afraid to comment in public) and it is as great to get an e-mail.... from someone I do or do not know or knew long ago...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">and that has made me decide to keep on writing...to keep on blogging.....</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">because just today I received another e-mail that has opened up a whole new chapter for me in my life and where I am right now.....</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">EVERY single comment and EVERY single e-mail has been extremely gratifying and the great thing is that it became less and less important what I blog about, but the fact that I do.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">That makes blogging worth its while !! To know that a friend giggled about something I said....and another wants my red shoes if I think I will only wear them once !!! Or someone felt the heartache with me on another matter...or helped me make up my mind about some decisions I had to make.......or took the time to write me a 10 point plan and tell me what he enjoys about me ......or to know somebody out there cares enough to take the time to write - about something that lies so close to my heart and that may just be a key piece in one of my life puzzles ! </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">What a great idea it was to open up this blog today and dust it off a little !</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">What to blog about - what NOT to blog about ???</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">What to say and what to rather NOT say????</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">Which parts to keep private and which parts to go public??????</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">I have a fairly clear idea. I dont think the tiny details matter and I still want to protect my family in all of this....dont think the world out there really needs to know their names, and their fears and all our tears......the whole world dont need to share in every bit of laughter, every activity or action........and I will keep it that way. It is still hard to not write or post pictures of friends and family.....because they are such an integral part in all of this....but I respect that - and please remind me if I ever cross that line without permission !!!!.......but it is time to use this blog as a tool - keeping it real !!!!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">And then - who knows...one day when I am ready, I might find the time to turn it into the REALITY of the initial IDEA I had about this blog - something STRANGERS wanna read about...something that will create a FOLLOWING... here we go again...the blogger's blurred vision.....</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">BUT - UNTILL THEN !!!! and for NOW !!!!!- </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">I have decided to forget about the initial idea and just blog about me and my life and my family and everything else that might pop into my head....RANDOMLY !!! WHo cares if it even fits into the theme??!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">I cant keep up with keeping everyone informed and stay in touch with all those who care...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">So, here is to going public - sharing with those who are caring !</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"><br />
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And all of a sudden it has a ripple effect and the whole crowd around gets affected by it..the mood suddenly drops...the cookie crumbles and voila - life is not that great anymore - all of a sudden ??!!!<br />
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Maybe you need those incidents sometimes...because here I am... 1 am in the morning - wondering why we sometimes make each other so unhappy..... had it not happened, I would have not thought so long and hard about what is really important in life..... and how we let our things and own ideas and ideals get in the way of precious, personal relationships...<br />
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I wish I can fix everything in a day...but some of it takes time...and only on one of the "lows"...you realize..that some things you better pay attention to...or it will be too late ..?! My kids are growing up..... and time with them are precious. We can not control how they react and respond....and it is very easy losing them somewhere inbetween.....Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-5461654097427814392010-07-09T15:58:00.000+09:002010-07-09T15:58:33.494+09:00So it started !!!<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Those lists were glaring at me for a day...so I started the huge project of getting things OFF THE LIST !!!</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I see a GARAGE SALE coming up - can't believe it ?! </div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Have never been a garage sale person...but this is now my last resort of de-cluttering my life .</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">and THAT is the part I REALLY LOVE DOING !!! </div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Re-doing ROOMS ...</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">so many ideas...</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">so little time...</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">and the reality of the money it takes...uggh !!!</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div>Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-15685284271160855062010-07-09T15:53:00.001+09:002010-07-09T22:40:44.219+09:00A life of LISTS !!!<div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I am a LIST person. Once I have everything on a "to do" list...I can sit back and relax.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I feel like I achieved a lot, even though I have not even made a start ?!</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">All the million things that are on my mind, are jotted down and I can start to think and focus again...not feeling the burden of all the things I have to (or sometimes "choose" to) do...</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Making the list is a huge milestone in itself to me.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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Yes - it is neverending....<br />
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But I have every intention to start NOW and DO the things I jotted down.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Gotta go...need to go fill up these pages !!</div><br />
</div>Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-61079073590153018832010-07-07T19:58:00.001+09:002010-07-08T22:30:42.834+09:00Shoes, oh shoes.......can never have enough of those, can you??<br />
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Bought these ones the other day - oh, so cheeky... will wear them maybe ....once??<br />
But couldn't resist - nevertheless.....<br />
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They are not the most practical kind....<br />
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...but you need those kinds of shoes too..! Sure, you'll agree. Thanks. Thought so.<br />
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Yesterday we ended up behind this truck.....it felt like looking straight into my head...and my LIFE at this specific point in time !!<br />
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I have so many things piled up on top of each other...in no specific order and a lot of junk inbetween the useful bits?!<br />
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The load is a little too heavy for the capacity of my brain right now and some bits are at high risk of simply dropping off somewhere along the road....although I have it all tied in and attached to me - somehow.......anxiously clinging to every bit that I possibly can carry around with me!!<br />
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I could not help but wonder whether all these pieces are REALLY worth taking along and whether the owner should have not taken stock a little bit deciding which ones are really worth over-burdening the body of his truck?? But then again- who am I to suggest a crazy idea like that???? - maybe he is exactly like me - not able right now to determine what is important, what is urgent, what is needed, what can wait, what can go...... simply carrying EVERYTHING along - hoping that one of these good days - I will find the time to sort between it all and put it ALL to good use and in good order and find a PLACE for every little item and every bit of detail I want to somehow orchestrate !<br />
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I am sure I am not the only one whose load looks like this???!!! It is just that it was never my idea to end up like this??! But it ended up one of those nasty realities that made me think of this blog.<br />
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See - I am a SUPER organiser ! Yes..that is one thing I have enough proof of and others to vouch for it, that I can say it with confidence. Because - to be honest..my first instinct was to pull this guy over to the side of the street and unpack the whole truck, sort it between like-items and then to re-pack it from him in a neat, tidy, organised way that would make any mess look like a Martha Stewart invention.<br />
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But, I have my own sorting out to be done. So - I just let him go...<br />
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I am just wondering why I dont let go a few of my "ideas"...a few of my "projects" .... a few "items" that I really do not need to have anymore.... a few activities that I really dont need to squeeze into a day that has too little hours already...WHY oh WHY do I carry a load like this in my mind, my body, my house and my LIFE??!!!!<br />
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It happened over a couple of months...<br />
Things got a little out of hand over the past few months when stress took the better of me... And so things started to end up in little corners of my house and some in little corners of my head....and now they need to all fall back into place.<br />
I have a life strategy - and that is to have a SPECIFIC place for EACH SPECIFIC item ...and that somehow got a little off track when life got too busy and too complicated. And in a house of 650 square meters (almost 7000 square foot), that can very easily happen ! But looking at this guy yesterday and just laughing at the very idea that people will look at me this way if they had ANY idea what goes on in my head and house right now...... I am very determined to sort that ALL out.... before anyone notices (am I the only thinking no one noticed??!!....)<br />
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In principle I have taken a decision to de-clutter my life....and are somewhat in process.....<br />
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and I will report back on my progress on this blog (by the way - did I mention that keeping a blog was exactly to find a place where I could blow off steam when I got run over by this "life-truck of stuff" of mine...)<br />
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I am not a clutter-person and dont have a lot of junk...but I DO have a lot of STUFF !! It creates some level of discomfort to think that I will just get rid of some things and the next week I would need one of the old masks I chucked in the bin for one of the kids' dress up costumes for a concert or something !!<br />
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But then again - I try to think of the load that will be lifted off my shoulders once I have at least scanned every item in this house again and have sifted through things and will feel on top of it !!<br />
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There is nothing wrong with having all the things..but when I realised that when I could not pay full attention anymore, it got the better of me..then I realised it is too much. It can only be good as long as it can stay under control without having someone to have to pay full attention to keeping things under control all the time.<br />
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So, I better be off to start sifting and sorting.... starting with my house and the items around me...then the almost 90 000 photos on my computer that needs organising and then last - but CERTAINLY not least - starting to go through the IDEAS in my head ..that I keep toying around with and that I hope ONE DAY I will have time to turn into REALITIES...so I would have some REAL IDEAS to blog about !!!!!<br />
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The truck's body, carrying the load, is also not quite what it used to be.... or should be..or could be...SAME HERE .....but taking into account that it still carries the rest, it survives...but only just survives...definitely does not thrive.....and is a little shameful, to say the least. It is exactly because of the load it carries, that there is not really time to think of or spent time on getting the body back in shape...and while it is still able to do the job...well, I guess - it just sometimes does...so - it is not just the pile ON TOP..but the body below - that is all in need of serious sorting out....<br />
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But - first things FIRST... I will report back !<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-73750802061542596082010-06-19T13:03:00.001+09:002010-06-19T13:05:03.610+09:00BLOGGINGToday I feel like blogging about all the million things I have not blogged about. Things that are mulling over in my head and things I should have said out loud.<br />
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I got caught up with wanting to make it perfect, wanting to add a photo, wanting to say something interesting that others would wanna read...<br />
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But - who cares...thats not why i wanna blog. I just want to let it out...<br />
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I have things I want to say - but I am too caring...too worried that people that I say things about will read it one day - by chance, by mistake...and that might hurt their feelings..... so...again... I am cautious about what i say.. WHY ? What's the point of blogging then? Where can you let it all out...???!!!!<br />
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Maybe when I have that all figured out, I can start to freely blog !!!Ilzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219645954423733082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624244956488016654.post-81345201015952073992010-06-14T12:05:00.001+09:002010-06-14T12:07:03.021+09:00A sad thing happened....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TBWaMPbx5oI/AAAAAAAAAJA/WREYgyZ1RuQ/s1600/IMG_0525.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2KnRdf2-Low/TBWaMPbx5oI/AAAAAAAAAJA/WREYgyZ1RuQ/s400/IMG_0525.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
This morning I woke up to a mail that my mom's dog died....<br />
What sad news to wake up to??!<br />
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I am far away from where this all is happening...and I dont know what my mom's reaction is to all this. I have not yet spoken to anyone as they are asleep in that country now.<br />
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This little dog has been her "life" and comfort for a number of years.... and was given to her because we read in a book about Alzheimers that a pet is a perfect companion for a person in her position. And it was.....this little doggy stood by her in times where it became difficult for everybody else to do that...she stayed loyal to her even if she did not have the capacity anymore to take proper care of her. She knew that she was loved by her and vice versa and that was all that mattered to the two of them.....<br />
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The saddest part to all of this is also the most comforting part... My mom's dementia is causing her to probably not get the fact that this happened... she will not realise the impact of the news and would probably never know about the accident that happened when she was run over by a car outside her place of care....<br />
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Like her illness this is affecting everyone around her, especially my dad, who are the ones having to cope and mourn this loss of another precious soul in our lives....<br />
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And for our kids who felt like she was our own - the only comforting part was that "maybe she will now be friends with our little puppy who died earlier...so they can play in doggy heaven.....<br />
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