Thursday, March 29, 2012

Before you start baking make sure you have all the ingredients.

Tomorrow is child 2's 9th Birthday and as usual on the kids birthdays I bake cupcakes for them to take to school.  So I got the packet mixes(yes I am lazy) this afternoon and right now I was about to make them only to realise I have run out of eggs.  I should have checked before I left for the shops this afternoon but I had a lot on and forgot.

So now I am sitting here with most of the mix all set to go just waiting on husband to get home from the shops to bring me more eggs.  No I didn't send him out this late at night he was on his way home from work and called to ask if I needed anything so I said yep I need eggs.  So the big lesson in all of this MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ALL THE INGREDIENTS BEFORE YOU START BAKING LOL.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

I was so spoilt.

On the 27th Husband and I went to Sydney for a night away(as blogged about before).  All I was expecting was for us to get to the hotel stay there then go to the concert back to the hotel then home the next morning.

This wasn't what I got.  I told husband that I needed some jeans so we went down to homebush DFO(Direct Factory outlet) and went shopping not only did I get two pairs of jeans(from jeanswest awesome service), I got new boots plus some new tops.  Husband and I had a great time walking to DFO and just mucking about like young kids again and back again.  Just being young lovers(ok we aren't that old) but it was nice.  Then we went out to dinner at a lovely Italian restaurant.

Then it was off to the Concert.  We knew we had semi good seats, what we didn't expect was to be about 10 metres from the stage and was so close we could almost reach out and touch them.  It was a great concert I love Tim McGraw and Faith Hill they are two of my Favourite country music singers.








Just for once the whole day and night was about me and I felt so spoilt.  I love my Husband.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

LOL at the conversation my kids just had.

Children and I were just driving home from the shops where child3 didn't get any lollies like she wanted which prompted her to tell me I am a bad mum and daddy is the better parent.

Child 2 pipes up with no he isn't mum is the better parent because she puts us to sleep and all dad does is work work work or sleep sleep sleep mum is there for us.

Child3 goes No dad is the better parent because he allows us to buy lollies.

This amused me greatly I am not sure why because I think both of us as parents have our strong points and our weaknesses.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Wow to think that all woman have fought for that we are still fighting for.

I am very vocal pro choice I believe that every woman has the right to choose what happens to her body and when.  I was horrified to read today an article about the fight woman in America are going to have.  And that is the right to birth control yeap you read that right BIRTH CONTROL.  In the year 2012 woman in America are having their rights stripped away by the MEN in power.

Read the article here http://therumpus.net/2012/03/the-alienable-rights-of-women/ it is a rather sad state of affairs when men in power are trying to tell a woman what she can and can't do with her uterus.  Will the woman of America rise up and say no?

Recently there was a congressional hearing on birth control and not one woman was invited to join the panel it was 8 men.  A young woman was called a slut for saying that she should have the right to cheap birth control
http://live.drjays.com/index.php/2012/03/02/rush-limbaugh-calls-student-a-slut-woman-responds/

A state representative says woman should carry dead fetues to term because cows and pigs do it
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/03/12/442637/georgia-rep-compares-women-to-animals/?mobile=nc
why aren't woman rising up to tar and feather him?  You are being compared to cattle and pigs woman aren't live stock we are human beings and we have rights we are not incubators we are not brood mares we are equals.  I don't tell men that after a certain number of children they help conceive they should have a vasectomy.

So here I am asking the woman of America to rise up and vote the people who want to make your choice hard or damn near impossible OUT OF OFFICE.  Why do they get to decide? Why are they trying to put their beliefs on your uterus?  Why are you allowing them to?

In Australia when our health minister tried this we rose up we told him no.  

I have new neighbours

Unfortunately the man next door hasn't moved.  But the other side now has new people in and they seem lovely.  They have 2 children close to child 2 and 3's age so my kids are in heaven new people to play with and they will all be going to the same school.

It's actually a little weird having people live over there now since the house has been empty for close to 5 months I am not really use to seeing people in it. It's a rather new thing.  I am glad the kids get along they new neighbours have been in the house for 2 days and already the kids are running between both houses playing nicely :D.

Monday, March 19, 2012

8 more days WOOOHOOO

In 8 more days I am heading off to Sydney to the Tim McGraw and Faith Hill Concert and I can't wait.  Husband and I will be staying in Sydney overnight for the Concert and we will be KID FREE.  As much as I love my kids I can't wait for this tiny tiny break.

And I can't wait to see Tim and Faith in Concert.  I was lucky enough to be at the Tim McGraw Concert last time he was here in Sydney when Faith got up and sung with him it was great I can't wait to see it again and this time I will be even closer.  This is my Birthday, Anniversary, Easter and Christmas present all rolled into one.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Yay the nurses won.

If you have been reading my whole blog then you would have read me griping about the media getting the nurses fight with the Victorian Government wrong.  Well on Friday they WON, the Government finally backed down, the nurses get to keep their nurse to patient ratio, No split shifts and NO health assistants, they are also getting a 14 to 21 % pay rise which was MORE than they were asking for in the first place.  So now the question is why after 9 months did the Victorian Government cave in and let them keep everything and give them a higher pay rise than they were asking for?

Why did they waste 9 months?
Why did they waste tax payer dollars on lawyers?
Why Why Why are the rumours true that Baillieu was only in it for the fight?  Was he doing it because he thought the nurses would cave?

If he was doing it because he thought the nurses would cave the man is delusional you seriously don't go into nursing if you want to be a millionaire because the money isn't in this job you get paid pittance to look after sick people, you get abused on the job by patients, you run the risk of catching nasty diseases of you prick your finger with a needle.  The job is a labour of love people go into nursing because they care about other people.  The person taking care of you is there because they WANT to be not because they HAVE to be.

Some things about this whole fight amused the hell out of me like the Government saying that nurses were putting patients lives at risk when they did their planned stop work actions.  All they were doing was leaving the number of nurses that would have been on shift if the Government got it's way.  So why when the nurses are doing it it's putting patients lives at risk but if the Government had of gotten it's way it would have been fine?

Why did they spend millions of Dollars demonising the nurses who were only looking out for the public's interests(no one wants to be look after by and un qualified person).


SO TO THE VICTORIAN NURSES WELL DONE AND CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR BIG WIN.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

What to cook for dinner tonight?

I know it's Sunday and it's suppose to be roast day but husband is working and I can't be assed.  So I asked the kids what they wanted for dinner tonight and the answers I got was McDonald's and KFC LOL.  I then rephrased my question to what do they want me to COOK for dinner and I got no answer.  Funny because last night child number 3 was begging me to make her fried rice for dinner but when I suggested it for tonight's dinner she told me no.

Now I am stuck and I don't know what to cook.  I could do fried rice, but I could do casserole or any number of things but I just don't know what I want for dinner that I can get my kids to eat.  Any idea's anyone?

I am so silly.

Tonight I took the kids down to see a fireworks display.  Husband told me it was going to rain so I kitted the kids out with warm clothes and rain coats but guess who forgot to kit themselves out?

If you Guessed me you would be right.  I forgot to grab a warm jumper and a raincoat and an umbrella so I got soaking wet and cold :(.  When it first started to rain I sent a text to Husband asking if we could go into the his office building to watch the fireworks from there but he didn't think we would be allowed.  So there I was standing there in the pouring rain getting soaking wet and wanting to go home but the kids didn't want to miss the fireworks.  Finally husband calls back and says we can go into his office so we quickly walk all the way back to the office and watch the fireworks from there.  They were so pretty and I was finally dry.  Next time he says it's going to rain I am grabbing a rain coat umbrella the works then even if it doesn't rain I will be totally prepared.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Nightshift boredom

I hate night shifts I get so bored all the time.  I never sleep well when husband isn't here so I am always up half the night and I get bored.  I normally just fart ass around on the computer but I am getting sick of that.  I just want something to do.  I am also lonely with the kids asleep there isn't much to do.  I get sad and upset sometimes because I am bored and lonely at night but there really isn't anything I can do about it because this is my life.  It's not all the time just a lot lately and I can't tell husband about it because he feels bad enough as is it that he is gone so much and I don't want to make him feel worse.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

The day the game hated me

Ok I admit it I am a gamer, I have played world of Warcraft and loved it until all the recent changes and the ones still coming.  Seriously if I wanted to play Kung Fu Panda and pokemon I would do so on my sons Xbox but I don't so I had to give up World of Warcraft :(.  However this lead me to start a new game Star Wars The Old Republic and it's a fun game.

But yesterday it hated me, first I couldn't remember the answer to one of my security questions(yes I know) and then I have to call the customer service line(in America) 4 TIMES because I think we had a language barrier I couldn't understand what the hell they were saying.  And they kept giving me the wrong answers and they don't know the phonetic alphabet at all so I could under stand what they were saying.  But finally after about an hour and a half and an argument with husband I finally got on.  I hate the security questions because I never ever ever remember what I put down as the answer.

 

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Bringing back the Sunday roast.

This is a bit of a tradition with us, the good old Sunday roast.  Any time that husband isn't working and it's a Sunday we have over my father in law for a Sunday roast winter, summer, spring or Autumn.  I love it, it brings us together as a family for a while and we eat and talk around the dinner table as a normal family.

I miss these days when husband is working and long for him to get off the shifts that stop these days.  After a long day sitting at the table to a nicely roasted(if I do say so myself) leg of lamb and roasted veggies is a highlight of my week.

Your family should think about doing it.  It's fun and brings back days of old.

Friday, March 9, 2012

A right Royal Macca's(McDonald's) Fuck up

Today was my youngest child's birthday party.  We decided to have it at McDonald's.  I did the right thing went in to book the party and was told to do it online.   So I came home and booked the party online.  Then I waited and waited and waited for the conformation email and nothing came so I went back to McDonald's and told them how I hadn't received my conformation email about the party.  They took my details and told me they would call me the next day to fix the issue.  The call never came so 4 days later I was back at McDonald's talking to them again.

This time they told me yes the party was book for the 10th of March for 11:30am til 12:30pm in the afternoon gave me the invitations and sent me on my way with a see you on the 10th.  Invitations went out all but 1 person said they were coming(not bad out of 10 invites) and we were all set or so you would think.

Today we got to the Macca's 15 minutes early and THEY HAD NO RECORD OF THE PARTY AT ALL.  Just some vague reference to it.  So they had 15minutes to set up a party I had been planning for 14 days.  I did what they said I took the easier route of booking it online and they still MESSED IT UP.  Thankfully they didn't have another party booked and scrambled to get ours sorted before the guests arrived.  I was so angry I had done everything right did what they said and they still messed it up.  Luckily youngest had no idea of the stuff up and had a great party in the end.

Oh and it turns out their party planner had quit a month earlier and they hadn't hired a new one.  I think Monday morning I may take myself down there and offer them my services as their new party planner working Monday to Friday 9:30am til 2pm making sure no one else suffers this kind of stuff up.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Dear Children's School

Dear school

Please note that I know my child better than you.  So when I inform you this morning that Child number 3 is faking a sore neck please believe I know what I am talking about.  I knew she was faking it because of certain thing number 1 being that she uses the same sort of thing but her knee to get out of doing stuff she is suppose to be doing like sleeping.  2 I tested her on the way to school by pointing out things that she had to turn her head to look and she did so with NO pain indicators.

So Please DON'T send her home.  She slept for an hour(she was tired) and then got up and asked me to take her back to school because her neck was all better now.  I knew she didn't have a sore neck I knew she was damn well tired and using it as an excuse to stay home and sleep and NOT go to school.  Damn just listen to me next time.

One now very angry and frustrated mother.  I had a lunch date with Husband that we now have to cancel due to her put on and we only ever get this time together when he is off work and the kids are at school.

Theshiftwokerswife.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Why I wish husband wouldn't get a 9 to 5 job.

Husband has started talking about going for a promotion which is great as it's a pay rise however it means he would go from shift work to a 9 till 5 job I don't know what I would do with him if he was home all the time I finally have thing under control without him here.  If he was home every single night I would have to change the way I do things to accommodate him and I don't really want to(yes petty I know)

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Why do children have to grow up?

I am feeling a little down today, 6 years ago on this day I gave birth to my 3rd and final child and now she is 6. It's not fair where did my cute little baby go?  And who is this independent child who replaced her?  It's not like I haven't gone through this before I have twice now.  It's just a bit harder when it's your baby.  You have to let them go past the "baby" stage and let them move on and upwards to tweenage hood.

It gets even worse when your 10 year old daughter has the same size foot you do(ladies 8) and is half a head shorter than you.  Where did that baby go and who the hell told her she could grow so tall?  And my son isn't far behind his eldest sister at a head shorter than me and is turning into a fine young man right in front of my eyes.  And do you know what makes me sad?  The fact that my husband has missed half of it.  His missed all of the children's first steps, he got to hear their first words(dad, ball and finally MUM) His work has been so demanding of his time(which amuses me greatly because it's suppose to be "family friendly").

So here I am sitting here today bemoaning to myself the fact that my baby is now 6.  I was thinking earlier today that maybe I could go another one then I realised that I have passed the baby stage, toddler stage, screaming tantrum stage(mostly) and I am slowly moving on to the next chapter of parenthood, the dreaded teenage years, yet oddly enough they don't fill me with dread.  I am constantly told by my MIL(Mother in law) that I am being paid back times 3 for the horror child husband was during his childhood years.  Which is fine I am coping(and getting grey hair) but coming up against my self times 3 has me rubbing my hands with glee.  I can't wait.  I know every trick in the book more than likely WROTE half of them.  I will be able to catch them at every turn.  And with Technology they way it is these days Track them at every turn.

I remember when our oldest was born husband and I were having an argument about GPS chipping our children so we could track them when they were teens, I was the no side and he was on the yes side.  Now it doesn't matter we can just track them through their phones and won't tell them.  I do feel sorry for them though things were so much easier when I was a child/teen none of these smartphones, no text messages or emails to parent when you wag school just a note home at the end of term my mum never bothered to read just signed LOL.

Here ends today's rantings for now.  With a Big Happy 6th Birthday to my baby girl.  Happy Birthday Baby mum loves you heaps.

OMG I have become my parents.

As a kid I always swore to my parents that when I was a parent I was NEVER going to be like them.  Turns out I was wrong I have become my parents.  I say stuff to the kids and turn around to see if my mum is there then realise it's me.

It's really disconcerting I even get my mothers tone going.  When the hell did this happen?  How the hell did this happen?

Don't get me wrong my mum was great(still is) but she use to have these sayings that would drive me crazy.  I am sure you know them all parents use the same ones.  You know the " Because I am the mum", "because I said so".  "Do as I say not as I do".  All the sayings used to drive children crazy and then I go and use them myself.

I suppose it could be worse I could have become my father who's idea of telling us what to do was with a smack on the butt.


I don't wanna to be my parents.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Why are people so stupid?

Seriously I seem to see and read stupid all the time every single day.  Like the lady at my kids school who thinks it fine to leave her two youngest kids in the car for 15 mins every morning and every afternoon(yes I have called the police).  Or the people who park their cars in the school car park on the walk way where we have to try and navigate our way through them.

Or there is the never ending stupid that I read on a daily basis from a parenting website that I am on.  Today's bright spark of stupid thinks because my youngest daughter shares the same name as a tree in America that she was named after that tree.  Well let me tell you dumb ass NO SHE WASN'T NAMED AFTER THE DAMN TREE.  We just happened to like the name totally forgetting about the tree over there.

Really some people are just stupid I think that's way they invented the Darwin awards http://www.darwinawards.com/

It's why most things now have warning labels, They were put there for a reason people because some idiot tried it.  Ok rant over.