oops I did it again!

did I mention the ゛great pumpkin pie debarcle゛? A few months ago J bought a tin of pumpkin mush（!?) that you use to make pumpkin pie、 and asked me to make it up. Having never made it before、 I followed the recipe precisely, except I added GARLIC instead of GINGER （yuck!) Well this time he bought a pack of cornbread mix, all I had to do was add 3 ingredients, an egg、milk& oil, easy, right? hmmmm, so I forgot to add the oil! Realised just as the oven beeps to tell me the cornbread is ready! oops. actually the bread seemed ok in spite of the missing ingredient. Bit sweet though、 more like a cake than bread. I wonder if thats what its supposed to be like or if the oil will make it more savoury?

still in front of the tv!

well、 I actually did get off the couch to take R for a walk when realised rain had stopped. Even dropped by supermarket to get some veges for K`s din-dins (somehow a caramel swiss roll cake also sneaked home with me!、 so I did it justice with a cup of coffee for afternoon tea).
they are doing that thing on tv where they show a 1-&-a-half hour preview of a 2hour tv show that starts in less than 2hours time (rolls eyes). And its repeats of stuff I`ve already seen a few weeks ago.guess I can watch something else tonight now! Can`t see me moving off this couch for the rest of the day/night now.

lazy sunday

It`s raining.K is down for a nap, J is at work, R is playing quietly with a stuffed toy in the shape of a bone, and I am on the sofa with a doona and a cuppa, ignoring the boxes around me for a while!

chained to the kitchen sink

and loving it、 well、 loving the fact that thd benches are made for people over 2foot! I am surprised to find that I can actually stand straight after 3years of washing up@backbreaking benches & sinks.
Yesterday was the last day of moving、 and the old apartment is now sparkling clean、 thanks to wonderful PIL`s who lent us their elbow grease (I wonder if it comes at a high price??).but seriously their help was amazing and much appreciated、 although if I had have known they were doing it、 I woulda got in to clean the balcony、windows、bathroom、kitchen first!
K was down for an amazing 3hour nap today. I had to keep peeping to check she was breathing!(she nomally only has an hour nap).hope she sleeps well tonight (I count the night from when I go to bed、 usually at midnight or after)

sitting on the sofa

another day of moving over、 yay! but there is still heaps of stuff to move. we have too much rubbish & I know it`s my fault as I`m aself-confessed hoarder. But you just never know when you will need that seemingly useless piece of ribbon or paper bag (yes I am also a bag lady!)
anyway、 we are back into it tomorrow、 which will hopefully be the last day of moving. for now、 I am just happy that I have somewhere to sit and relax with my refreshing vanilla icypole after a hot bath.

back for a bit of blogging therapy

I realise it is wordless wednesday, but I have too many words in my head not to write them down, mostly because I have been AWOL for the last week or so, as we ended up moving into our new apartment on Thurs (after a phone call from J on his way home from work on Wed night, 10pm saying "we're moving tomorrow"!!) We still have sh*tloads of stuff at the "old" place so I am back here tonight to do a bit of a clean up (well, actually, the phone line gets cut off tomorrow, so this is my last internet chance for a while, until we get the new one set up. And I have a dentist appointment for tomorrow morning at 10am, and figured it would be easier to stay here (dentist is about a 3 min walk away) than try to get K ready to leave the house before midday!

On another note, *man* talk about confusing trying to cancel our current internet connection. We are on B-flets, through biglobe, (I think). So I thought all I had to do was cancel the Biglobe account....but I can't sign on to biglobe. so I ring them. Seems that I have already been cut off for some reason from the internet, not sure why, (although I now think it may be related to when I cancelled my visa card, from which the Biglobe virus buster payments were coming out of)? Anyway, uummm, so how am I still using the net? because I have a b-flets router that is still usable, apparently - makes no sense to me!! So I cancel Biglobe, but she is raving on the other end of the phone about something, I actually had to say to her, "look, I do not understand what you are saying" Seems that even though I cancel Biglobe, I still have to contact NTT to contact B-flets. It makes NO SENSE to me. I was gonna try to apply for yahoo internet connection for our new apartment, but don't know if the phone we have is analog or ISP or something, and the owner of our phone line is J's dead grandfather, so I don't know his name to write it in the part where they ask for the name of the person who owns the telephone line!! aaaarrrggh.
Maybe this sort of thing makes sense to some people. but I still dont even undestand what the difference between ADSL and Hikari or B-flets is! And I did a science degree at uni - THAT came in handy, now didn't it.

Right, I could rant on about move-related things for hours, but as I still have a lot of stuff to move, I should probably continue packing. And now that K is asleep I should do it.(she dropped off in like 10mins tonight! I feel a bad premonition for the rest of the night though now - she might wake up in 1hour thinking she was just going off for a nap!!)

lost in tokyo

tokyo station、 that is! Yesterday I went in to Tokyo station to meet up with a friend from primary school`s mum & 2 sisters、 who are visiting Japan for a week. I can`t even remember the last time I went to Tokyo station、 its not somewhere I ever need to go to! I`m glad I gave myself plenty of time before I was suppposed to meet them、 coz I reckon I wandered up & back & around for a good 20mins before I ゛saw the light゛ and made it outside! Having k in the stroller means things take longer too- its hard enough trying to find the right exit at a station u don`t know、 but searching for a lift is even more fun (not) especially when u realise there IS NO lift & u have to lug k in pram up & then usually BACK DOWN the stairs! Good exercise、 I guess - you should see my abs!lol!

going off!

damn its going off again!

going off!

I made a trip back to old apartment today to skyre my folks & tell them we had moved as dint have time to email them before the move、(I rang them but they werent home)、
and to pick up some stuff we left behind. I came in by train、 and was 2stations away on my way home when I had a shocking thought: ゛did I lock the door when I left?゛ aaaarrgh! so back I went to double check(and of course it was!!!)
so I am finally on my way home now by train、 when I hear a ringing as I wait for the train、 figure it must be some sort of signal or something. Get on the train & Ican still hear it、 it even seems to be gettimg louder、 especially when I take my backpack off....
yep、 the alarm clock in my backpack was the culprit. Talk about going off、 literally o(^o^)o

in the bedroom

I haven`t been around much this last week, as we got the o.k. on the apartment 3 mins from train station on Sunday evening. And moved yesterday & today! Am writing this on my mobile from our new bedroom!!! it is very exciting for someone coming from a one room apartment to have a whole room just for a bed!(*'-^)-☆ K has a whole room for herself too、 she was so happy running around the 6tatami mats like a chicken with its head cut offσ(^◇^;)。。。
is all fun