Grouchy me and Jayden, Farmer Lai doing a fantastic job
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Bacchus Marsh
Went fruit picking on the 27th Dec with family. Loads of cherries..yum yum yum...the other berries were no longer in season and there wasn't much nectarines and peaches left but who cares...cherries are my favorite anywayz..hee hee..and they were really sweet and cheap...about 8 bucks a kg..ok...at least they were much cheaper than the markets, which were selling them at 13 bucks a kg...I have to admit it was abit warm..and the irritating flies were out in full force (hence the excuse for the grouchy me in the picture)...but it was great and am looking forward to the season again in Dec 09...hee heee...HERE I COMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE .... oh..btw..this is the link to the orchard we went to http://www.paynesorchards.com.au/activities.html and it's only 45 mins drive from my place...
Grouchy me and Jayden, Farmer Lai doing a fantastic job
Grouchy me and Jayden, Farmer Lai doing a fantastic job
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Thomas's Birthday!!
Got his birthday cake from Brunetti's
http://www.brunetti.com.au/celebrationCakes.aspx#ProfiteroleLrg wanted something different...so got the Profiterole...it was fantastic...loved it...they were filled with zabaglione cream and coated with chocolate ganache...YUM YUM YUM
http://www.brunetti.com.au/celebrationCakes.aspx#ProfiteroleLrg wanted something different...so got the Profiterole...it was fantastic...loved it...they were filled with zabaglione cream and coated with chocolate ganache...YUM YUM YUM
Jayden amusing himself with Thomas's shoulder
BEWARE!! Naked shoulder(Thomas's) and booger in nose(Jayden's)..
Jayden Crawling on all Fours
Jayden proceeded from the leopard crawl to the REAL crawl about 3 weeks ago. This clip shows Jayden crawling to get a drink....
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Another Painting
This painting had a little note at the back of it...this is part of what it says...
"Jayden seemed very interested in exploring the paint for the first time today. Jayden looked at it closely for several seconds before touching it. Jayden then poked a blob of paint on the table. He smiled and looked closely at his yellow fingers. Jayden then picked up a paint brush and banged it up and down on the table, while spreading the paint around with his other hand. Jayden giggled as he explored. He picked up a paint pot and looked inside it and then pushed his hand inside it. Jayden spread his handful of paint around the page before re-dipping his whole hand back into the paint pot and doing it again. Jayden continued to explore the paint with both of his hands for over twenty minutes, Jayden smiled, giggled and babbled to himself as he created his wonderful art work."
"Jayden seemed very interested in exploring the paint for the first time today. Jayden looked at it closely for several seconds before touching it. Jayden then poked a blob of paint on the table. He smiled and looked closely at his yellow fingers. Jayden then picked up a paint brush and banged it up and down on the table, while spreading the paint around with his other hand. Jayden giggled as he explored. He picked up a paint pot and looked inside it and then pushed his hand inside it. Jayden spread his handful of paint around the page before re-dipping his whole hand back into the paint pot and doing it again. Jayden continued to explore the paint with both of his hands for over twenty minutes, Jayden smiled, giggled and babbled to himself as he created his wonderful art work."
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
There is something about this book, which I cannot put my finger on. It is horrifying, disgusting yet funny and witty. This book literally made me sick when I was done with it. Actually, it lingered on my mind and my me physically sick for a couple of days after. I am definitely not homophobic but I just cannot shake off the horrible feeling after reading about the way he described about his underage sexual encounters with Bookman and about how he found out about his mum's gay affair. Dr Finch is so bizarre I cannot believe anyone would actually go to him for any advice and his house..to say it's a pig sty is probaby an understatement. It is interesting and not a hard book to read but it is just...what's the word for it...controversial I would say.
From Publishers Weekly
"Bookman gave me attention. We would go for long walks and talk about all sorts of things. Like how awful the nuns were in his Catholic school when he was a kid and how you have to roll your lips over your teeth when you give a blowjob," writes Burroughs (Sellevision) about his affair, at age 13, with the 33-year-old son of his mother's psychiatrist. That his mother sent him to live with her shrink (who felt that the affair was good therapy for Burroughs) shows that this is not just another 1980s coming-of-age story. The son of a poet with a "wild mental imbalance" and a professor with a "pitch-black dark side," Burroughs is sent to live with Dr. Finch when his parents separate and his mother comes out as a lesbian. While life in the Finch household is often overwhelming (the doctor talks about masturbating to photos of Golda Meir while his wife rages about his adulterous behavior), Burroughs learns "your life [is] your own and no adult should be allowed to shape it for you." There are wonderful moments of paradoxical humor Burroughs, who accepts his homosexuality as a teen, rejects the squeaky-clean pop icon Anita Bryant because she was "tacky and classless" as well as some horrifying moments, as when one of Finch's daughters has a semi-breakdown and thinks that her cat has come back from the dead. Beautifully written with a finely tuned sense of style and wit the occasional clich‚ ("Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal") stands out anomalously this memoir of a nightmarish youth is both compulsively entertaining and tremendously provocative.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Publishers Weekly
"Bookman gave me attention. We would go for long walks and talk about all sorts of things. Like how awful the nuns were in his Catholic school when he was a kid and how you have to roll your lips over your teeth when you give a blowjob," writes Burroughs (Sellevision) about his affair, at age 13, with the 33-year-old son of his mother's psychiatrist. That his mother sent him to live with her shrink (who felt that the affair was good therapy for Burroughs) shows that this is not just another 1980s coming-of-age story. The son of a poet with a "wild mental imbalance" and a professor with a "pitch-black dark side," Burroughs is sent to live with Dr. Finch when his parents separate and his mother comes out as a lesbian. While life in the Finch household is often overwhelming (the doctor talks about masturbating to photos of Golda Meir while his wife rages about his adulterous behavior), Burroughs learns "your life [is] your own and no adult should be allowed to shape it for you." There are wonderful moments of paradoxical humor Burroughs, who accepts his homosexuality as a teen, rejects the squeaky-clean pop icon Anita Bryant because she was "tacky and classless" as well as some horrifying moments, as when one of Finch's daughters has a semi-breakdown and thinks that her cat has come back from the dead. Beautifully written with a finely tuned sense of style and wit the occasional clich‚ ("Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal") stands out anomalously this memoir of a nightmarish youth is both compulsively entertaining and tremendously provocative.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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