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I’m in the need for speed.. speed is what I need….

well no it aint but I felt like saying that.. don’t know why but that is what I thought.. what I do need though is..

INSPIRATION!!!

I want to scrap, create, make a mess, cut & paste, paint, ink, stamp… just do what scrappers do.. but I have no inspiration on where to start.

So I am challenging those few people that read my blog to inspire me. Link me to a site, give me a challenge.. do something to light the fire under my chair and make me create.

To inspire you all to inspire me.. those that leave a suggestion, link, challenge or anything in the comment will go in the draw to win a RAK from me.. cause hell knows I have shit loads of stuff here that just isn’t getting used.

So come on scrappers.. unite and get me scrapping again.

Happy Scrapping. 

Self Appointed – Worlds Worst Blogger….

Yeap that is me, the worlds WORST blogger.. the last time I updated this baby was well over 3 mths ago. That is terrible.

So I am making a vow that I WILL post on a regular basis.. I have too.. I think the reason I don’t blog anymore is FACEBOOK. Yes I am blaming facebook for my blogging demise. It’s too bloody addictive. Plus I honestly don’t think anyone truly reads blogs anymore. Prove to me that people still read blogs by commenting on this post… if there are no comments then I know that no one reads this blog anymore.. lmfao.

Ok so in 3 mths what has gone on. I am not going to go into detail so I will point form then attempt to update every few days.

Ok so we go to April -

* Paul lost his job after 4 weeks and is now unemployed. Come at a bad time but I was actually glad he was home

Um not sure what else happened in this month.. haha.. ok moving onto May….

* Cassandra turned 10.. OMFG I have a 10 year old on my hands.. that is amazing. She is changing in so many ways but I can still see my baby in her.

* I had a surprise 31′st birthday party thrown for me. A Pimps & Prostitutes night. Was awesome. The guys came as the Prostitutes and the gals and the Pimps. I will see if I can upload a video of it later.

* I had another cancer scare.. had biopsies to make sure everything was ok. Turned out the problem was actually scar tissue damage from when I had cervical cancer last year.. so I am happy to say I have been now 13mths cancer free… WOOHOO

* Paul is still unemployed and we are now starting to feel the pinch.. Centrelink wages suck and we are both looking for work.

Moving into June and I honestly can’t believe that we are here in June already. Where is the year going. It is going by so fast I tell ya.

* We celebrate 6mths in our own home.. YIPPEE.. I still can’t believe that we have actually built our own home. It is so unreal.

* Paul has got a job.. WOOHOO.. thank God for that.. I was beginging to ponder ways of robbing the bank and getting away with it.. I guess I could of taken my luck with changing my Westpac account to a New Zealand branch as they seem to be giving away millions. (see any news site for details of their F*ck ups).

Ok so that is all’s that has been happening.. not alot.. very boring.

I will leave it at this and go clean up a few things around the blog and then try and upload pics later on my birthday party and other things.

Love to you all.

Hope everyone is happy.

New Life…

today I have started my new life.. well one which involves me eating on a regular basis and getting some much needed exercise into it too.

It has been 12 mths since my chemo has stopped and I took my last lot of medications and I feel now is a good time to make some healthier changes and start looking positive about things.

This morning I started Lite n’ Easy. I am on a 7 day meal plan and all my meals are catered for so I can get myself into a routine of eating well. Once I have the eating down pact and I am happy with it I might stop the Lite n’ Easy and do my own meal’s .. we shall see though.

Doing this isn’t about loosing the weight, even though it be ideal to get a few pounds off, I am doing this as I don’t eat. I need to eat and I need to get healthy. With Paul now working away it is a really good time to do it as well since I don’t eat when he isnt here. This way I am forced to eat, well not so much forced but encouraged.

In saying that I’m not doing this to loose the weight I have taken record of my weight to see if it does make a difference. This morning I jumped on the scales and my weight was 79.2kg and my stomach measured in at 117cm. This is bad. For my height and age I should certainly not be this big, but I am not going to beat myself up about this. I have weight because of medications and illness’ I have been through.. but I also have weight issues due to lack of correct foods being eaten.. this is going to change.

So now that my journey has begun lets see how it pans out.

Hope all are well.

Happy 2009….ok mid January 2009

Before the search party is sent out I thought it best I get of my arse, more so remove myself from facebook, and update my blog.

So much has been happening in the Harman family and I feel that now I have a bit of time to stop and actually take a good breath of fresh air… I can literally say that now too.

We have finally moved into our very own HOME.

Yeap we built a brand new home and it was completed in December so we had a mad rush to move from one end of Perth to the outskirts of the other end all before Christmas. It was bloody mad but we did it and it was the best choice we ever made.

Our home is in Byford, which is about 35km south of the city of Perth. It is a quant little town, but now they class it as City Rural. Crazy stuff hey. The kids are in love with the neighbours and they actually have other kids they can play with.

The street we have moved into is awesome. The people are ever so friendly and its great. We have already had many drinking nights which have gone way into the early hours of the morning. Paul is even drinking and staying up past 9pm….lol. Shock I know.

I have pics of our house on facebook, so if you have access there just check out my album and you can see. I’d link to it but facebook is being a prick at present and wont let me do anything.

So what else has been happening in the land of Harman’s.

Pretty much nothing really.. just being extra busy trying to get everything set up here and sorted out for our new lives.

Paul is working. Has a job interview on Monday for FIFO and he is keen on that one.

Cassandra has settled down alot but then she does have her odd days where she is Queen Bitch again.

Joshua is doing great. Feel sorry for him as the only boys in the street are 18mths and 6mths old. Besides all the grown men of course.

Then there is that little girl who runs around all day like a ball of energy… Bianka is doing great. Not growing, but eating like there is no tomorrow. She packs it away that kid. She is also starting kindy in 3 weeks so there is 2 days I have back to myself kid free… woohoo.

So that leaves me.. how is me.. well for the first time in a very very long time I can say.. I AM GREAT!!!

I can’t remember the last time I was sick. Usually it was something like.. just yesterday, but nope.. can’t recall. I am so glad things have turned out like they have, I don’t think I can ever recall not feeling like I was going to be sick all day; now I can.

Well I really don’t know what else to say, unusual for me since I can talk a dead donkey alive again.. lmfao..

Lets hope 2009 is a good year and alot of good things happen for everyone.

Love to you all.

Just a quote today…

“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.”

- George Elliot

“Searching For Mojo?”

Well today I had had enough of not scrapping for over a month that I decided I had to do something about it… all fair and well but I had no mojo or inspiration. I needed a challenge or two to get me thinking.

All of a sudden I had an idea, to start a Facebook group to find some mojo and set challenges for others in the same boat as me. So I ask Mistra if she wants to play along and co-host the group with me. Long story short.. she is.. lmfao.

So now Mistra and I have started a group on Facebook called “Searching For Mojo?”.

Come and check it out. We have two challenges up there already, one from me and one from Mistra and I SCRAPPED! woohoo. Simple layout but I scrapped a sample for my challenge.

This is my layout from today.

Check out our new group on Facebook and join in with the fun.

‘coklat ‘

What does it mean?

Does anyone know what it means. Well I didnt until I asked Joshua who has been walking around all morning saying it.

Coklat is the word Brown in Indonesian. Joshua is learning Indonesian at school.

Why? He doesn’t need to know how to speak the language, he doesn’t interact on a daily basis with people speaking the language so why do they need to learn the language. It’s not something he is going to remember in years to come.. if he does I be very suprised.

I know it is a part of the education curriculum but in all honesty what is the point. I remember doing French and Italian at school and what use has it been to me today. Nothing, nada, zip. Not once have I had to use it but then again I can’t really remember any of it but some of the minor basics.

Is this a waste of a lesson? Should they replace learning a foreign language, which most will never use, and put in a subject that the kids of today should know stuff about. Perhaps replacing it with good ol’ fashioned Australian studies. Teach the kids about our own home, since that is done very poorly.

I know that it will never change, I just don’t see the point in the kids been taught something that they are never going to need to know.

So remember everyone, today’s word is brought to you by Joshua and it is COKLAT – meaning brown.

Have a good day.

Facebook Addictions.

Everyone has a Facebook addiction and I have declared playing in Yoville is my addiction.

Yoville is a game where you get yourself a mini me and then go to work and decorate your appartment, go night clubing or meet some friends in the cafe for a drink. That’s it. It’s not like Sims or those other virtual reality games as you get more interaction in those games than you do in Yoville.

This is me on Yoville. Meet Mini Lisa. I wish I had her waist IRL

I don’t know what it is about this game but it has me so addicted that I religiously log into work every 6 hours just to get my $233 for working. Then with this money I am saving it so I can renovate my kitchen.

This is how bad the game is, Joshua and I have worked out I need $2200 to get the items I want to re-do the kitchen. How sad is that. We have done the research and worked out a budget to redo a virtual game. If that’s not signs of an addiction then I don’t know what is.

So this is what my Yoville apartment looks like at present.

I will most likely get bored and change the living area around again. I seem to be adding stuff then taking it away. Glad I can’t do this with my own house.. lmfao

This is my bedroom. Paul likes the bed…. he asked me where the rope was.. Cheeky bugger.

I will most likely add some more to the bedroom. A rug for starters. I will just have to work some more and get a bit more cash.

And this is my Kitchen.. see how boring it is. I will certainly be doing this up once I have enough cash. There are some good ideas out there in Yoville and I have been taking snippets of ideas from apartments I visit so I think I know what I want now.

So there you have it. This is my Facebook addiction. If you have an apartment on Yoville be sure to drop me a line. You can find me under my user name Lisa Harman. If I know you then add me, if I don’t know you then sorry I won’t be adding you.

What’s your Facebook addiction?

The days are just passing by…

Where the heck are the days going. I honestly can’t believe that we are heading towards the end of another month and there is only 60 odd days left of this year. Someone slow down the time clock please.

I have been doing heaps lately and nothing to do with scrapping. Except the 24 cards I made for a Christmas Cookie Swap at TallyScrapper. I haven’t had time to jump on the forums and chat or even scrap. I really want to get back into it all but I think that the rest of this year none of it will happen. My new year resolution will be to scrap I think.

There has been alot going on behind the scenes with family and just organising ourselves with a few personal changes. More to come on this matter I think.

Ok so it has been about 2 mths since I had my biopsies and I must say I am feeling so much better. It is amazing just how well I am feeling. No longer sick in the mornings or during the day, able to eat more, still not sleeping 100% but otherwise everything else is a.o.k. I am more than happy about the outcome.

Paul celebrated his 37 birthday last week. Another celebration went as fast as it arrived. Nothing special happened. Just a family dinner and some gifts, nothing fancy which is what he wanted. I am still yet to get him a gift. Buying for this man is so fricken hard. Suggestions welcomed.. lmfao.

The kids are all doing well.. still alive so something good is obviously happening there.

Oh and be sure to check out the new website I have finished making for Kim & Robo of Still Art Photography. There are some awesome images on their site and they are both great photographers.

Well I am going to go and get dressed and then do some housework I guess. It won’t do itself for some reason..

Hope you are all well.

Holidays…

Yeap it is that time of the year again where the kids are on school holidays. It feels like just yesterday they were on holidays and now here we are again. My gosh after this two weeks they are at school for about 9 or 10 weeks then they are off for Christmas break.. HEAVEN HELP ME!!!

So this school holidays we are staying home and the kids will have swimming lessons every day and we will be doing other things in the morning. I want to wear the kids out so the late afternoon comes and they are so tired they will go to bed on time and I will be able to do what ever I want to do. I so hope this plan works.. lmfao.. I bet it doesn’t though.

Nothing else has been happening here in the house of Harman.. we are a boring mob aren’t we.

Paul has been working long long hours and the kids are hardly getting to see him. I keep them up till 8ish so they can have a late dinner and just get to have some time with Dad. Half an hour to an hour the most each day for the last 4 weeks. Hopefully the long hours are coming to an end but not sure. It’s a good thing we have a long weekend here so they can spend some more time with him.

Yesterday we went to Bailey’s 8th Birthday party. Was a nice afternoon..if only it wasnt so darn fricken cold. Was in a park and my dear sister Karen did tell me it was a beautiful sunny day down her way.. yet we get there and it is overcast, windy and bloody cold. Although the kids had a fun time and so did the adults.

Um what else… nothing.. thats how boring I am .. nothing is happening.. not even scrapping…boring…

Ok well the kids are now killing each other over a bloody yellow pencil.. yeap guess who.. BIANKA and her I want everything yellow.. she is trying to convince, pry, steal away from Cassandra her yellow pencil… of to stop the fights before Paul wakes up and gets all feral at me for not having a sleep in.. boo hoo.. lmfao.

Ok have a nice day everyone..