Monthly Archives: June 2008

Blogging

And the winner is…

Congratulations to Colin who won my little 1000 posts = 1000 ec competition.

The Draw

This is Holphin and Hugamuga who helped me with the draw. Yes it says Colin on that over flashed bit of paper.

And thank you to all of you for your lovely comments.
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Have a great Saturday!

(Feline and Trish – I drew your names first but of course you don’t have entrecard – how ’bout I buy you a glass of wine when next we meet? Or in fact meet.)

Groover, Introspection, Relationships

Which side of the bed do you sleep on?

Yes I'm in bed... so?

In all the years we’ve been together Groover and I have always claimed the same sides of the bed… that is – he always sleeps on the left side, I get the right. Or the other way around depending on which end of the bed you’re on.

It doesn’t matter where we are. In our bed at home, on holiday, camping, it just feels wrong on the other side.

Even when he is away I still claim my side of the bed.

Until last night.

You see our bed is getting on and the mattress is noticeably sinking where we usually lie. Two grooves.

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I know as soon as he returns I’ll sink back into the burrow of my side and it will feel normal again, but for now it kind of feels like I’m on holiday. Racily spreading out my wings and daring to claim the middle ground.

How about you? Do you have “a side” that you have to sleep on?

Lets look at the bed from the end of the bed – are you on the right? Or on the left?

I wonder if anyone has done a study on whether men prefer the right and women prefer the left because thinking about it… my parents are the same… dad on the left, mum on the right.

I wonder if it’s the opposite in the Northern Hemisphere?

House

Locked out and I had my key!

So I came home after work yesterday and couldn’t open the front door. I could hear the tumblers shift but I could not open the door. I tried over and over. I had a new key so I thought it might have been inexpertly cut… but no. On trying both Hugamuga and Dippity’s keys I was forced to the conclusion that it was the lock itself that wasn’t working.

I went round the back to get in through the back.

Now the back door is rarely opened. And after years of heat and water (neglect) the wood has rotted somewhat.

On top of that as we don’t use this door we tend to use it as a wall and stuff gets piled up against it.

So when I finally got the stiff lock open I found I had to push against some wine boxes, a pair of sandshoes and two packets of heat beads for the barbie.

“Er… Mum… you’ve munted the door…” says Hugamuga as I triumphantly march to the front door and fling it open.

the broken door

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1201 – Hi what seems to be the problem?
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!!!!!!!!

As Dippity says: “Think of it as a repair AND lesson on how to do it next time…”

The door will be a bigger problem. For now, the drinks fridge is keeping us safe.

PS: If you’re into Entrecard, make sure you enter my 1000th post=1000ec competition. I’ll be announcing the winner soon. 🙂

Books

Devil’s Food by Kerry Greenwood

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This is the second Corinna Chapman novel of Kerry Greenwood’s that I’ve read. And, like the first, Earthly Delights, I was once again amused by this unlikely heroine. An overweight baker in downtown Melbourne.

She’s a feisty chick this Corinna, not afraid to wear a corset nor have friends that perhaps the more conservative of us might shun. She’s also good natured, loyal, passionate and a damn fine cook and you can’t help but like her.

There are lots of local references in this series, some of which I wondered if overseas readers might miss. I’m sure I missed a lot of the Melbourne ones. She mentions “the current prime minister” and “John Howard“, a man fast fading into history.
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I wonder how these books will stand the test of time?

Luckily for me, I live in the here and now and in this cold weather – made even colder by the current gas crisis – snuggling down under two duvets in my flannelette – I can think of nothing better than some light detective fiction and a cup of tea. Black, no sugar, English Breakfast by preference.

Blogging, Wordpress

A thousand pieces of my life

What does a life look like broken up into a thousand pieces?

Much like this blog I suspect. 🙂

I began writing online in 2002. I couldn’t design my own websites at work – everything was template driven – and I’d been on webmonkey and learned html so I wanted to see if I could do it.

The first thing to do was come up with a sexy domain name. It was going to be a family website so I wanted something that represented us without using our real names. I started playing with the meanings of our names and ended up with redsultana.

This is what redsultana.com looked like back then:

My original site

It wasn’t until 2004 when I met James that I started using a blogging platform – Blogger.

Here’s one of my favourite posts from August 2004 – my first month using “proper” blogware. We’d seen this Hong Kong politician on the telly and we still quote her today. I wonder where she is now?

In 2005 we took some time off and spent part of that time in Italy. Oh Italy! It was fantastic. I want to live there.

Italy

In 2006 I turned 40. That still sounds old to me. 40 might be the new 30 but I still needed to get glasses.

The Coven

And Groover won a trip to Ireland to watch the Wallabies get thrashed by the Irish at Landsdowne Road.

The Wallabies at Landsdowne Road

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In 2007, I moved my blog to WordPress and opened up to the blogging world. I’ve met some great people both online and off. And I’ve enjoyed sharing my photos and observations and endless book reviews with you. Your comments so often make me laugh! (As does this photo of my two at Ennuin Station.)

Ennuin Easter 2007

And so we come to 2008. Where I met even more bloggers through Aussie Bloggers – even face to face.

streetlight

Will I stop blogging? I can’t see it myself. I enjoy the daily discipline of putting my thoughts in some kind of order – what would I do with all those things that rush about my head at night if I had no one to tell them to?

So thank you. Thank you for being part of my life through this blog – from the beginning or from today – it’s lovely to have you drop in. And you know how I feel about the drop in!

To celebrate this milestone I’ve saved up 1000 entrecard credits which I’d like to share with you. Simply say hi in comments to be in the running and I’ll draw someone’s name out of the hat. It might be yours.

For those of you who don’t have a blog – say hi anyway. 🙂

To the next 1000 and beyond!

*chinks glass*

Damn it… really must watch that binge drinking…

Current Affairs, Health

No post today – too busy binge drinking

Reeling from the shock of being labelled a binge drinker this morning (yes I occasionally share a bottle of wine with my husband) – I find myself unable to post.

Cheers

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Books

Hanna’s Daughers by Margaret Fredriksson

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Hanna's DaughtersThis is the first book selected for the Blogger’s Book Club I’ve joined. (if you’re interested in joining just say!)

This book is set in Scandinavia – in Sweden in fact – right on the border of Norway. I haven’t read much Scandinavian fiction before so was interested immediately – also because my friend James is planning a journey to that very part of the world.

It’s the saga of three women – Hanna – who lives at the turn of last century in a remote town near Norway, Joanna – her daughter (who in the present is dying in a nursing home) and Anna the grand-daughter – who is piecing their stories together.

I didn’t think I was going to like this book at all. The opening sequence of Anna stressing out about her mum in a nursing home left me cold. But the story of Hanna kept me turning the pages and then I wanted to finish it.
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The cover reads as if Anna is finding out the history of her forebears but the text doesn’t read like that and it spoils it a bit as you are constantly fighting against the logic of it all. After all it’s not like she can ask her mother anything – she’s not speaking – and Hanna is long gone… Once you let go of that logic it draws you in.

The writing is sparse. It’s hard to tell if that’s a function of the translation. I didn’t mind it but it didn’t feel warm or engaging.

Overall I felt it was an interesting book, but it left me a little cold. A bit like Scandinavia I suspect! Well, in winter anyway…

Extracurricular

How to replace your Singstar microphones

Groover and The Poshi with Dippity getting in the picture

We are Singstar addicts. I’m not proud of it. It’s just a fact.

We love it, and it has become the family game of choice. The kids have worked out the exact drone you need to not actually sing but still win the game. Groover and I prefer the “sing your heart out approach”.

Funny to watch. To hear? Not so much.

But it came to pass that one of the microphones broke. A wire loose I suspect. Whatever. It wasn’t any fun to play when one of the mics wasn’t recording your singing properly.

So we decided to buy a replacement microphone.

Dead air is the term radio people use to describe the sound on the wireless when NOTHING is going to air.

Dead air is the term I’m using now to describe Sony’s response when we asked where we could get a replacement microphone. That’s right. If your microphone breaks – Sony expect you to buy another full game. $109.

So we decided to try and use the microphones from an old kareoke game we had. Problem. The input jack of the kareoke mic is 6 cm and the input of the little dongle thing from Singstar is 3.5 cm.
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No worries, I thought, we’ll just go to Dick Smiths and get an adapter. Problem. Sony has cunningly made the hole just a little bit smaller than the adapter… and all the microphones for sale have this larger input jack.

I didn’t give up. No corporate giant is going to get the better of me! I went to my local guitar shop – Just Music – and they managed to find me a skinny 3.5 cm plug on a cord and a female-to-female plug which allowed me not only to fit my old mic to Singstar but also gave me a couple of metres extra cord so I could sing from my favourite couch on my lardy arse.

Totally love that.

So if your Singstar mic breaks – you can use any other microphone. Just pop down to your local guitar shop, take your Singstar USB dongle thingy with you so you can fit the new bits, and you can be singing as sweetly as me.

For a grand total of $17.

Singstar components

See the red plug? That’s the Singstar microphone plug. The trick is to find a skinny plug to fit into the Singstar dongle. You also need an adapter to fit a bigger plug – the one most other microphones use.

Singstar replacement microphone

Our new set-up to replace our broken Singstar microphone.

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Blogging

Milestones or millstones

This is the 995th post for this blog. That’s quite a lot isn’t it? Which means that in just five more posts I’m going to hit a magical 1000 posts.

And that is a milestone.

Milestone

But is it also a millstone?

I feel as if I should do something to mark the occasion. Some sort of celebration or mention but I’m at a loss as what to do, and the mild stress this is causing is hanging over me as I watch the post numbers tick by.

I missed all the earlier anniversaries because, well, really I wasn’t paying that much attention.

So what to do? What have you done?
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It feels a bit like my 40th birthday party. I took so long to work out what I wanted to do (hoping all the while Groover would throw me a surprise party) that I ended up just going down the pub with a few mates – which was nice but not very organised!

I feel we should celebrate these little milestones in our lives but to be honest sometimes my life feels so busy I can’t find the space to do it.

All of which is blame, excuse and denial!

I’ll come up with something so make sure you come back!

Creative Commons License photo credit: John Spooner