My Life. The Blogable Bits.

Another op shop day with Sarah. This time we decided to hit the lower Blue Mountains. We were quite disappointed in our finds for the first few shops. Then at Blaxland we found some great stuff!

Some gorgeous flash cards. Yep. These were the find of the day. Just awesome. I also found some old photos and I thought they were cute, so I picked them up as well. I think they were taken in the 1940′s judging by the subject matter of one of them, so yeah, a good 65 years old I would say. I don’t have any old photos of my family, which, trust me, I am more than happy with since I still have 3 out of 4 grandparents!

Well, that’s about it for today. Just some finds. Steve was most happy I didn’t come home with any more furniture!

Well, since I am busy working on my Scrapbooking Memories Masters entry, I have naught scrapbooking to share.

I do have a photo though, it’s not a great photo as bugger, I forgot my ISO was set to 1600 so it is a bit grainy.

But here is my cheeky wicked little girl. Wicked because she has a wicked sense of humour. Can anyone say class clown?

See the chair she is sitting on? Well, I picked up the biggest bargains. I went op shopping with my pal Sarah-Lou and I got 2 of these for $5 each! They are awesome and just what I have been looking for! Love it when that happens.

Dang it. My hard drive died. Indeed. I backed up my photos so nothing to worry about there. But. I have lost all my emails and addresses. This I find distressing.

Funk. Yep. That’s the place I have been for a good couple of months now. In a funk. It’s all good. My annual leave starts in two more days. I can survive just two more shifts. Because it makes me happy going there and counting down the days to anyone willing to listen. Yep. I am annoying like that. Did you know? Only 2 more days! Yeaaah.

Now, I haven’t even continued with my A-Z photo challenge. You would think B would be easy, Beth, right? Well, you know, my hair is always messy and well, I can’t be bothered to set up the tripod. So after about 10 minutes of scraping ice off my car windows on tuesday morning after work, I thought I would take a photo of the frost on my front lawn. Now. The one thing I didn’t remember was my ISO was at 1600. I thought it was my lens giving me grief and not wanting to focus. No. Just turns out there was too much light. LOL. I always forget to check that!

So, there you have it, my B is for Brrr photo. Now to think of something for C. Hmmm.

So, my friend Daph was just starting out with her photography business. Then she was in a car accident and well, she is still in a bit of pain and is not quite as agile as she used to be at the moment. She decided to set herself a challenge in order to help her keep shooting and gaining experience from the little things. Daphne has created her own A-Z disabled challenge. “Photographing whats around me until I’m fit to shoot.”

Well, I may not be disabled, but I thought I would partake in this challenge. The best part about it is that it makes me take my camera out in winter. And from looking at my photos in years gone by, I have next to no photos during the winter months.

So, here is A. Really, how could I go past Amy? She is the cheekiest little chicken. She will say “Check it out!” and strike a pose. On one condition, there is no camera involved. Once I crack out the camera, that’s it! She doesn’t want any photos taken of her! But here is a sneaky one. I had to yell “dad’s home!” in order for her to even look at me!

A snap decision saw us taking a road trip to Canberra on Sunday along with my sister and her family. There is so much to see and do in the Nation’s capital. First off we stopped at the Australian War Memorial. It is an amazing place. You feel humbled just by being there. The only drawback was the WW2 section was closed for a refurbishment.

I wonder how often they take the coins out of the water because I know the kids absolutely cleared me out of silver just throwing coin into it. I however took a different approach when I tried to frisbee a 20c piece into the water. I missed the water completely. Hmmm. I am always good for a laugh. Or to be laughed at. Either way.

Then afterward we headed over to Cockington Green. I don’t think I have been here in a good 20 years. It’s amazing the difference between kids eyes and adult eyes and I love the fact that some of the creators have a sense of humour! From zombies to streakers to ripped pants on the man getting on the horse. All good for a laugh.

Amy was quite smitten with the big green buttons. She was racing around the International Display just pressing all the green buttons. Well, not just the International Display, the whole Gardens. Wherever there was a green button, there was Amy worming her way past people to push it.

The displays really are quite amazing. So much work must go in to each and every one. I didn’t have a favourite, they are all pretty awesome, but I did like the photo I took of Stonehenge.

Onto Telstra Tower. The kids were scared because Steve may have made some quip about “how much do you trust concrete?” You can always trust that man to make you feel uneasy about situations! LOL!

And here we are at the end of our Canberra trip, up the top of the tower. Don’t even ask me what Luke was doing. This was the best photo of Luke out of the two. The other photo really needs to be kept for a 21st birthday embarrassing photo collage.

Well, I guess that’s about it. It was a very tiring day by the end. But most enjoyable. Maybe next time we will plan ahead and stay overnight as it really was alot to jam into one day.

You know, for all the photos I take, I only have one thing on my walls. Just one.

This little picture of  a kiwi that Steve’s mum gave us when we were in New Zealand last year.

I am scared to put things on my wall. Scared that what I put there wont look good. Scared the style will date. Just scared that I wont like it after I have gone to all the effort.

Watch this space. I am going to put my big girl panties on and start making this house feel like a home.

Afterall, we have been here almost 3 years now… it’s about time.

Amy, in all her 2 1/2 yearness, rolled her tongue today. You know, when you fold the sides up and it meets in the middle? Yep. Pretty talented my girl is. Hopefully I can get a photo of her doing it as she can do it easily now that she knows what to do. Toilet training next, perhaps?