House Numerology

Why have we not finished any of our projects around the house? House Numerology!

3+ 8=11

1+1=2!

House Number 2
Here is a house that creates peace, harmony and balance in anyone's lives. It is a house suited for relationships, and people who are laid back and friendly. This is a great home for new lovers or people who have lived together for a long time. It will aid in the balancing of any relationship.

However sometimes we are so laid back that one may call it laziness. So don't forget to get off the sofa and DO. Do what needs to be done to fix the creaky floorboards and cracks in the pavement with this house.

Positive Colour Suggestions: Cream, Green and White.

Here's a link:
http://www.members.think-aboutit.com/Spiritual/TheNumerologyofHouseNumbers.htm

Hmmmm...................

Funny website

Stumbled across this amusing website today.

www.improveverywhere.com

Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 70 missions involving thousands of undercover agents. The group is based in New York City.

I thought some of their stunts were pretty funny and it's interesting to see the reaction of the public.

Frozen grand Central Station (link to full story)


Rob! (link to full story)



Food Court Musical (link to full story)

Pixar's WallE Review

It is the worst Pixar movie ever made!I am so glad I won those tickets and didn't buy them!
The kids said they didn't enjoy it but they didn't understand either, it was too political, and if they did understand it they would be probably coming out crying and screaming.
The kids got the characters and the love story but they didn't understand the plot properly.

"There are a number of important messages contained in WALL-E, but fundamentally it's a touching sci-fi love story. Yes, you can take from it the lesson of protecting our environment and multinational corporations running the world . And it's definitely a cautionary tale about our reliance on technology to do everyday tasks for us. "

When we got home Renae was playing on Gimp (Photoshop) and made a picture of WallE and Eve!

House extension plans

I've been having a bit more of a play with our (long term) future plans for the house. We're thinking of also extending the lounge room slightly forward. This would give us a larger lounge room, and also add some shape to the roof. Hopefully it wouldn't cost 'too' much as I quite like how it changes the overall appearance of the house.

A quick mock up (with new bedroom windows and garage as well) is below:
I've used the new Google image so you can compare.

Google StreetView

As you may or may not have heard, Google has just released StreetView in Australia!

It's very cool and very clever.

Here's our house. I think it was taken in Dec last year.

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Paulie the chatter box

Paulie is getting quite good with his chatter. I've managed to grab some of it on video this afternoon. The heater's on and there's a fair bit of background noise so see how you go picking the phrases out - some a really clear, others aren't.

On the clip below he says: "pretty boy paulie", "hello paulie", "good boy paulie", "give us a kiss, XX", "white with one" (how Nic has her coffee! - hard to pick on this clip), and he also does the phone ring.

There's a fair bit of him practicing in there too as I have no idea what he was trying say, but it's obviously 'talking' as oposed to chirping. We've also noticed that some stuff he's learned from me (Rob) he says in a much lower tone which is kinda cool, but it's harder to understand.



He says a fair bit more than this (including "what ya doing" and a great wolf whistle and we're trying to teach him "bom chica wah wah") so I'll try again soon.

We only got him in January this year (and he was quite young) so he's not going too bad.

Renae, Renae, Renae!

Where do I start?

I'll start with Rob's birthday. We all woke up early to sing "Happy Birthday" and open presents, when Renae was complaining about how itchy her feet were. We took her socks off to see both feet were swollen and to find her whole body covered in welts! So Rob's birthday morning was rushed as we took Renae to the doctors.

My Dr. was on holiday so saw another, and she said we had done the right thing by giving Renae Phenergan but could not tell us anymore other than that she is allergic to something!

Made an appointment with a Natropath for the next week, meanwhile I had to write a diary with everything she had eaten and drank. "Magda" the natropath had one look at the diary and said Renae was definitely allergic to colours Red & Blue with the possibilities of other colours and preservitives. (Which we did think was the problem as she was allergic to baby food cans & jars!)

We told Renae's kinder teacher the first day back and she freaked. She rang me during kinder to come in and check on Renae and I had to fill in forms! She scared me asking if Renae needs an eppipen. Didn't think of that!

So this morning I made an appointment with my faithful doctor (who I took Renae to when she was a baby and allergic to baby food) to get answers. Filled him with the info and showed pics of the welts. Within minutes he was printing a pathology request. So we are off to the hospital first thing in the morning to get her bloods done, and hopefully find out in the next week or so with the results.

Until then I have to not use any pre-packaged food! Do you know how hard that is? I did a big proper food shop this morning with Renae and it took us hours! I checked every packaged food I regularly buy and was shocked. No more "plastic" cheese, dips, biscuits, tin fruit and NO cereal! I have to make porridge from scratch (no microwave porridge anymore)

Renae had 2 parties on the weekend and she did really well as I had to make a cake from scratch(no packet mix)because she cannot eat icecream cake and sprinkles, and I had to make her own lolly bag with lollies made from no artificial flavours and colours (which aren't cheap). The worst part was giving her water only to drink while the other kids had fizzy. I just hope we find an answer soon and hopefully we all benefit from this new diet.