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13 things I found this week that inspired me,challenged me and made me giggle

1. Nicki talks about her son with Down syndrome and the Merry makers and I also found this one Heaven's very special child
   
2. Jane @Kidzarama writing on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
   
3. This inspiring story on the Shrinking the Bulte family by Craig Harper Motivational Speaker bonanza
   
4. have you ever made said the wrong word ...to your boss Xbox did
   
5. Lilly's Life -has some great finds this week ...Oh Happy Day , this inspiring one on the importance of imagination
   
6. Lizzie @Lizzie's home shared this story on human kindness -My Very Own Loaves And Fishes Miracle (Call Me Blessed)
7. It is Louise @ Journey to Eliminate Debt's blogoversary
8. It Kin's@Kin's home of slightly cracked dreams too blogoversary too
   
9. 'Babies' - Jane and the boys- a old post on her old blog but it made my hear sing -her new blog See Jane Blog
10. mmmm WARNING : don't go here whatever you do if you are on a diet-ICECREAM CUPCAKES@cupcakeproject
    
11. Want to see some great sights near where I live too (thanks Louise)
12. How about a series of delicious flowers-# A must see
13. I am sure we all want to save money easy
    
14. Thanks to Jenn@Jenn's den for giving me this idea today...it has taken me hours but they are all great links.

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I have to finish our business and personal 2007 Tax returns amongst other things ... washing , folding and dusting.

I've have all the receipts/ dockets /deductions and now.My least favourite part is to collate it for the accountant.It is munchies time the scrunchy, crunch time when my procrastination skills are really put to the test.

These are the things I would rather be doing do when I should be completing our tax return while the Brothers are sleeping

1. Make a cup of tea
2. Check my hotmail and other emails. Drink my tea.
   
3. Have a 5 min break walk to the fridge , stare at the mess fruit ... move a few things to look for something else more enticing
4. 
   Open the pantry ... to find something more satisfying and feel guilty grab a few rice crackers


5. Notice the bench needs wiping ...and tea needs a refill.


6. 'Spot' the new Target catalogue on the bench .I browse through all the things I don't have enough money to buy but covet need .
   


7. Walk back to desk swap chair for fit ball have bounce and roll a bit.
   
8. Check comments on my blog (respond to a few)
   
9. I hear a noise ... check on the Brothers ... go take a p ee from all that tea. Change the toilet roll - the teen does it on purpose.
   
10. Go back via the kitchen ...repeat 3 & 4
    
11. Take t- towels to laundry ... remember the load to hang out and put a fiftieth another load of washing in the machine.


12. Go back via the kitchen ... repeat 3 & 4 ... find chocolate.Eat I am feeling low.
    


13. Can't remember what's for dinner ... go to blog and check my Monday Menu plan ... go back to kitchen ... check fridge that I have everything for dinner. repeat 3 & 4


14. Return to fit ball ... see Google reader open in tab ...think 'what I have that many in my RSS reader ...I'll just browse for 30 mins 5mins' . I hear loud sounds telling me of one the Brothers are awake and he is going to wake his brother. I run quickly ... too late t w o u p ... time for a break.
    

Sigh.I just don't seem to get anything done !

Two more nappies to wash ...are you still with me ? I won't go on. I guess you can't care less are as bored as I am no doubt .

Time to play outside and of course make a snack for me the Brothers and cup of tea, maybe read the same page in my book 3 times my book while I watch them fight over the bikes,hit each with the plastic golf sticks [accidentally] and tip out the dog's water play and jump on the trampoline .

Where has my motivation gone ?

I have such a lot of things to get finished ... the alphabet cross-stitch I started in 1992, the folding, change the sheets, sort the winter clothes for the Brothers, get dinner started . It would be a relief to get my Tax return in - I am hoping for a refund but hub will have to pay ... so I can go shopping to the bank. Oops, I think I am making another list - shoot me.

♥ ps It took me 30mins to make the image above do you like it LOL.

Thursday Thirteen # 11 Chocolate death and rules of chocolate

13 RULES OF CHOCOLATE ~ Death by Chocolate

1. If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it too slowly.


2. Chocolate covered raisins, sultanas, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.


3. The problem: How to get 1kg (2 pounds) of chocolate home from the store in a hot car. The solution: Eat it in the car park.


4. Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It’ll take the edge off your appetite, and you’ll eat less.


5. If calories are an issue, store your chocolate on top of the fridge. Calories are afraid of heights, and they will jump out of the chocolate to protect themselves.


6. If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet? Don’t they actually counteract each other?


7. Money talks. Chocolate sings. Beautifully.


8. Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger. Therefore, you need to eat more chocolate.


9. Put “eat chocolate” at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you’ll get one thing done.


10. A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Now, isn’t that handy?


11. If you can’t eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can’t eat all your chocolate… what’s wrong with you?


12. If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control top pantyhose. An entire garment industry would be devastated. You can’t let that happen, can you?


13. Special Rules for Men on use of chocolate ~cut and keep handy
    

~ The Hormone Hostage

The Hormone Hostage knows that there are days in the month when all a
man has to do is open his mouth and he takes his very life into his
own hands! This is a handy guide that should be as common as a
driver's license in the wallet of every husband, boyfriend, or
significant other!!

DANGEROUS: What's for dinner?
SAFER: Can I help you with dinner?
SAFEST: Where would you like to go for dinner?
ULTRASAFE: Here, have some chocolate.

DANGEROUS: Are you wearing that?
SAFER: Gee, you look good in brown.
SAFEST: WOW! Look at you!
ULTRASAFE: Here, have some chocolate.

DANGEROUS: What are you so worked up about?
SAFER: What did I do wrong?
SAFEST: Here's fifty dollars.
ULTRASAFE: Here, have some chocolate

DANGEROUS: Should you be eating that?
SAFER: You know, there are a lot of apples left.
SAFEST: Can I get you a glass of wine with that?
ULTRASAFE: Here, have some chocolate.

DANGEROUS: What did you do all day?
SAFER: I hope you didn't overdo it today.
SAFEST: I've always loved you in that robe!
ULTRASAFE: Here, have some more chocolate.

I received these rules by email and they are well circulated . Original Author(s) unknown ...

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WARNING : 'Death' by Chocolates

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Thursday Thirteen (+1) # 3 Amazing Moments in my life

Thirteen Amazing Moments in my life I got my inspiration for today especially from Tiff & Tracey well as they say in no particular order ...except maybe a little chronological (how could I even articulate which was most important) Meeting Liss on a family holiday when we were both 16 going on 17 and then ... becoming a Christian soon after. Going to College (it was actually called a college but then became a Uni) to complete my nursing diploma to be a Registered Nurse (RN)and getting my first job ... as RN (The Assistant in Nursing job at Nursing home wasn't so amazing as the money) Moving out of home and sharing a house with Liss and another housemate. Meeting my first blind date on 15th October 1988 and wondering if he would be the one (and only !) and yes he was ! Riding 1100kms on a bicycle from Melbourne to Sydney in 1988 - with 2000 other people (including my uncle) to celebrate the Bicentenary ~ 2 weeks after our relationship changed from friends to something more (* borrowed this from ,Tiff ) The day I married him at Hillsong church [when it was still in a concrete warehouse] - I guess this rates high (Our wedding day not the venue!) Our six week caravan road trip around South Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland including Climbing Uluru (Ayers Rock) -exhilarating and frightening wondering how we would both make it to summit and then down again and paddling a canoe down the Katherine gorge. A weeks holiday in the Whitsundays @ 'Club Crocodile' Long Island ...then coming home and getting the phone call a day later that would change our lives ...into being mummy & daddy by Adopting our son D in 1994 Getting pregnant naturally after 12 years infertility in 2004 ... (a bittersweet ending) The two pink lines on the home pregnancy test on our 2nd IVF cycle and a 'high' positive blood test ... and my husband taking the call to say we were pregnant. Hearing and seeing two heartbeats at our 7 week ultrasound , then 6 months later the birth of S & J by caesarean section @35wks 4days. Hearing them cry and finally having them placed in my arms 8 hrs later. Every day waking up to my little guys cuddled up beside me and privilege of loving them and watching them grow. Not forgetting their big brothers part in my life too. I could have written 1001 amazing things now I have started thinking about the Grace of God in my life.

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Thirteen Things I need to do asap (well sooner or later) work out & monthly PAYG sort babies clothes into giveaways, return to lender, and for sale compile my 101 in 1001 days list keep working on my 43 things get my Tupperware lids replaced go through my wardrobe and de-clutter clean my desk start our tax (x3) ride the exercise bike I paid my uncle $300 for ring my friends or email return my BP nappy cover Meet all needs of twins 14 months old ,one 14yr old and 1 DH. Including, but not limited to: bathing, feeding, breastfeeding, dressing, playing with, reading to, praying with, refereeing... Get more sleep Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)

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