Painting My Nails

Sometimes I just have having psoriasis in my fingernails. Mainly because when my nails break I lose so much nail it isn't funny. That's what happened last night when I was trimming my nails. I like to keep them fairly short because of my psoriasis as they catch on things if I knock them and it really, really hurts.

This looks like it hurt but thankfully it didn't.

I was also hoping to give myself a manicure and try one of the new colours (painting my nails is a great way to hide the psoriasis) I bought myself the other day. Maybe I might end up doing them this afternoon if I manage to find some time. I can almost see my fingers in that fluoro pink (~_~) 

Nice and bright aren't they?!

7 Year Itch? Not Likely...

On Wednesday it was the 7th anniversary of when Mark and I first started dating. I suggested that we should go out and celebrate. Any excuse to go out for a feed right?? Also any excuse to get out of cooking! Plus I thought it was a good idea to have two anniversaries (~_o) 

We didn't end up going out on Wednesday like we initially planned. Mark wasn't feeling up to it so we went out for lunch yesterday at one of the local Chinese restaurants here in town. 

We chose the two person banquet. 

Prawn toast and spring rolls with a sweet chilli dipping sauce

Mongolian beef - the sauce was divine!

Fried rice

Prawns with vegetables

It was very filling. I didn't even want to eat dinner last night. Although I think it may have had something to do with the temperature still being around the 38C (100F) at 8 pm. Yuck! Far too hot to eat. 

That old saying about the 7 year itch thing I guess you can say that it doesn't really apply to us considering we only just got married last month.

Here's to many more happy years together!

Thankful Thursday

Here's what I am thankful for this week:

• the cooler weather we've been having in between the very hot fire danger days is definitely a blessing
• that our little corner of Australia hasn't suffered from any bushfires (so far) this summer. Sadly New South Wales has been pretty badly hit as has other parts of Victoria.
• that we are getting closer to the start of school going back .. sorry boys, well I'm not really that sorry, I need the break from their fighting!
• even though my boys drive me crazy at times I am thankful that they truly are good kids. They could be out roaming the streets, getting into fights or smoking and drinking like so many other kids do these days. 

What are you thankful for this week?

What's For Brekky?

Yummy shallow fried* eggs, mushroom and tomato with wholegrain toast.

The best thing about this is that it doesn't send my glucose levels through the roof & that it fills me up for hours (~_~)

Now all I need to work out is what we are having for dinner/tea tonight ...

*shallow fried - I used a non stick fry-pan sprayed lightly with canola oil.

You Might Be An Autism Parent If ...

There have been some really good tweets on twitter recently sent mostly by parents of children on the Autism Spectrum. I thought I would share some of them. Rather than type them all out I took some screen shots.

Some of them truly tugged at my heart strings.

If you'd like to see some more please click >>HERE<<<

It's All About The Location

It looks like I have left the boys behind ...

Our little family all have smart phones. In fact we all have android smart phones. We also have the same free app installed on them. The app is called Live 360. It's a family locator. Basically it uses your phones GPS and it updates where you are. You or your family members who have the app can check on google maps where you are. You can also request updates through the phone so that you can get a more accurate picture of where everyone is. There is also a feature that allows you to send out a distress alert. Which I think is pretty good.

Mark & I got the boys to install in on their phones before we went on out 'aborted' holiday last week. Mark used it quite a bit on our return journey to make sure that we were safe. The boys and I all had the settings on our phone set up for different intervals. Mine was set to send details every 30 minutes. the boys had their settings on a much longer interval.

I had to laugh when Mark shared this picture of our locations on facebook. I had threatened to leave the boys on the side of the road if they argued in the car. The picture makes it look like I had actually done that. Surprisingly enough the boys behaved in the car but they made up for it the next day. It's no wonder I always feel stressed during the summer holidays!

What's On The Hook - Galaxy Tab TARDIS Cover

My latest creation. A cover for Brodie's Galaxy Tab.

It's funny how different photos can show two different shades of blue even though I took them both with the same device, my phone. I guess taking a photos at different times of the day really does make a difference. The next few photos show a more accurate colour. 

Don't mind the messy white parts that's part of the cover too.

Slowly getting there ...

I gave up trying to follow a pattern. I couldn't get my head around the one I had downloaded so I decided to  make it up as I went. The amount of times I had to pull this thing apart to fix things nearly did my head in! I kept losing stitches. In the end I pretty much had to count each stitch as I went.