Aunty Shabby

Pictures of me

I promised Alby Mangroves (I don't think this is her real name) from Life in General that I would post yesterday, specifically about my hand knited scarves. I lied. But in my defence, at the time of making the promise I intended to, stuff just happened to prevent me. My right leg happened.

Well, without boring you with all the details, I have a foot condition called plantar fasciitis (look it up if you don't believe me), which is actually rather common, but not always diagnosed, and at times, causes me problems. Foot pain and it affects my gait, so at times I walk funny (apparently) and have pain in my legs or hips. Don't laugh, it's not nice to make fun of the disabled. 

Anyway, on Monday afternoon whilst walking to the train station after work, my right knee started hurting and continued all night, to the point where I had to take 2 panadeine forte to stop the pain and be able to sleep. Luckily I had one of my regular massages booked for Tuesday (remedial, I WISH it was relaxation) as the pain had spread to my calf and shin, and she worked on it. It hurt like a bitch though and I spent most of the day with my leg up and very cranky. In no mood to blog. I am at work today and whilst it is a bit better, I have been limping around and look and feel stupid.

SOOOO - back to the blog. Nothing about my scarves today alas, but I did rather fancy doing my own flickr mosiac, as recommended by the lovely Alby, so here it is. (Yes, I did it in my lunch time, so am not wasting time or God forbid, blogging in work time!)

I followed the rules as I know them -

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.

b. Using only the first page, pick an image.

c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's Mosaic Maker

 

The questions are:

 

1. What is your first name?

2. What is your favorite food?

3. What high school did you go to?

4. What is your favorite color?

5. Who is your celebrity crush?

6. Favorite drink?

7. Dream vacation?

8. Favorite dessert?

9. What you want to be when you grow up?

10. What do you love most in life?

11. One Word to describe you.

12. Your flickr name

 

ENJOY! Can you figure them all out??!! Why don't you have a go at your own!

 

I'll be back on the weekend...

Scrabble on a Saturday night

Is this what I have been reduced to?? It appears so. I put it down to a hellish and busy week at work (try month or actually year, so far), a late-ish night with perhaps a tad too much champagne, followed by an early morning and a lazy day.

The offending scrabble board was actually a birthday present for Mr S (we did already have one, so now have two - what complete nerds), but if you look closely, you will see that the tiles are wooden and it is a copy of the "classic scrabble" set, which if you are old and dull enough to remember, was all wood. Mr S was in fact rather disappointed, when we purchased our first scrabble set several years ago, to find that it was all plastic. I still remember him complaining about how you could still get the original wooden sets in North America (he is not a born and bred Aussie like my good self). I think he has secretly blamed the light, plastic tiles and shiny board for his lack of inspiration and luck whilst playing and the fact that I usually always beat him. I just tell him that I wasn't top of English at my school for nothing.

Anyway, when I saw the wooden sets, I knew we had to have one! On closer inspection they are a bit crappy and for some reason the tiles had been stuck together with some tape, making them all sticky. They do feel a bit nicer than the plastic tiles though and have a bit more weight to them. In case you were wondering about the photo - this is not just a cool pic for a blog post; we have this weird habit of always taking a picture of the board after a scrabble game. It is always interesting to look at, to see the words we made. I also have a bit of a theory that the words we make are not completely random and in some way maybe reflect what we are thinking or feeling. Too weird?! I also think these photos would actually make a really cool exhibition one day. Maybe a project for the future...

Oh, yes I did win (by about 40 points, thank-you very much), but as you can see it wasn't a particularly intellectual game, with lots of easy and small words! I told you it had been a long week. Whilst he seems happy with his new board, I told Mr S that we will have to keep looking for an original set - either at a garage sale or maybe on eBay. If you have one that you can bear to part with, please let me know!