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A Question Of Identity

My Biggest Boy has decided he is interested in photography. He’s taken different types of photos to see what he can do, and we’ve talked about the importance of “seeing” what is there. I think he’s got a good eye 🙂
One of the photos he’s taken is a portrait of me.

I suppose any portrait of me would have to include books…

Neither of my boys have been at school for a fair while now, so I am no longer a homeschool mum.
We’ve moved in the last five months, and I am still not able to work.
Life moves on, and life events change us and our sense of identity. I’m happy with myself, but feel a bit like a drifter through time. That’s OK. I still think I’m moving forward! It’s just that there’s probably less time ahead of me than behind.

I like my portrait.
It may not physically be the most flattering, but it’s a snapshot of who I am, and a glimpse into my Biggest Boy’s possible future. That’s a lot for one image to convey.

Speaking of portraits – here’s one of a visitor outside my Mum’s place.

Cousin Itt – Australian version 😆

So – back to identity…where do I belong now?
Here’s a musical suggestion… 😀

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on July 7, 2023 at 11:54 pm Comments (2)
Tags: Leigh Nash, The Hound + The Fox

Stronger Than Fear

Seems it’s been a while since I was here last.
I’ve probably got things to say – just haven’t formulated them in my head yet!
It’s late, here.
Should I be in bed?
Yes.
Should I be reminding myself of the truth below?
Also yes! 🙂

Now, time to sleep, and breathe for another day.
I hope the air is pure and invigorating in your life!
❤

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on May 25, 2023 at 1:05 am Comments (2)
Tags: Ellie Holcomb

Thinking Of Thankfulness

Mothers’ Day again!
My sweet boys are a lot older than the kids in this video, but I’m still thankful every day to be their Mum.
They’re still the funny, weird, wonderful beans they always were.
❤

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on May 14, 2023 at 12:05 am Leave a Comment
Tags: JJ Heller, Mothers' Day

Like Nobody Else

Just a fun little interlude for you 🙂
This was done sometime during quarantine, presumably to help cheer people up (also as a fundraiser to help musicians who were unable to make a living without live performances).
I haven’t listened to a lot of Voiceplay, but this one turns up on my YouTube suggestions every so often. It’s a collaboration with a lot of different people (and includes a cameo by my favourite bass…)

Singing can be beneficial for your health – even if you don’t think you’re any good at it! Your voice, and the way you relate to music, is unique to you.
Apart from that, it’s just fun 😀
So pick a song. Any song.
And just sing!

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Music

on May 13, 2023 at 10:18 pm Leave a Comment
Tags: Tim Foust, VoicePlay

Back Online!

We’re back to our “proper” internet connection – yay!
It’s been somewhere over a month since all this started, but hopefully we’ll be ok now. Still not sure what’s been going on with the connection…
We were given a temporary modem (and then another one), so that’s kept us going. I’ve never used so much phone data before – even had a 2GB warning! The modems worked, but are not too good – there have been some things we haven’t been able to do in the last month. I’ve had to be careful with watching catch up TV as well – that seems to use a lot.

It’s been nice to have the rain the last two days. This house seems built to enhance cosiness in wet weather 🙂
I’ve been watching the new episodes of Midsomer Murders, and indulging in catching up with other random shows – we can’t seem to get free to air TV here, so even with internet back on, there’s nothing for Fetch to record…

I’ve also been watching a lot of YouTube. Home Free just did this song – it came out last weekend.

I love all their songs, but this is one I remember from childhood.
This was the first song on the first cassette tape that I bought with my own pocket money, way back sometime in the 70s. It was a “Country Greatest Hits” type album – I think it also had Dolly Parton singing “I Will Always Love You”.
…a bit of nostalgia to herald in the colder, wetter days!

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on April 27, 2023 at 7:56 pm Leave a Comment
Tags: Brooke Eden, Home Free

Hallelujah!

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on April 9, 2023 at 12:49 am Leave a Comment
Tags: Easter Sunday

Looking Towards The Victory

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on April 7, 2023 at 12:47 am Leave a Comment
Tags: Easter, Good Friday

Feeling…

Not sure, really.
Packing’s been going well, aiming to get it all to the new house tomorrow.
I keep thinking that I’ll start to feel sad about leaving here – it was a good place for us when we moved in – but I’m not feeling much of anything at the moment.
I do still feel at home in the new place, though. It’s got its bizarre qualities (the real estate agent said something along the lines of it being difficult to figure it out – there’s always something new/strange 😆 ). Apparently the rooms downstairs that we’re using for lounge room and an office/studio are listed as bedrooms (they both have “ensuites”, although one doesn’t have a door and the other one has a see through glass door…) Not sure what that makes the bedrooms upstairs! We’ve had a lot of trouble with keys – all, except one, on the bunch we were given don’t seem to work on anything. Fortunately that one opens multiple doors…there are also multiple padlocks on things that don’t have any keys at all. It might be confusing for a while!

Anyway – nearly there!
Getting back to “feeling(s)”…here’s a song I’ve been listening to the last couple of days. Most people will probably recognise the song. I don’t know much about The Bass Gang (except Peter, who has a reaction channel on YouTube that I watch sometimes.) Tim Foust (taking the lead here) is from Home Free, and one of the bassiest basses out there 😀
For a bass heavy song, it’s quite high in places…
What’s been funnier for me has been watching some of the reactors I watch reacting blind to the song – they were sent the clip with no information as to the song or guest artist.
Such fun!

Well, I’ll be moving on now – got to get some sleep (sometime).
Enjoy! 🙂

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on February 24, 2023 at 9:42 pm Comments (2)
Tags: Home Free, The Bass Gang, Tim Foust

The Behemoth Stirs…

Slowly. And frustratingly. At least, though, it got to a vaguely helpful stage.

Don’t mind me – I’ve just had another tussle with Centrelink. A form that was submitted in plenty of time, then sat there not being dealt with, until the reason it was meant to be submitted started causing problems. I left it as long as I could – no-one really wants to phone them – but I had to sort it out. Over an hour waiting, to be told by the person answering that the system was working slowly because of the thousands of people wanting stuff done, and did I think I should be able to go ahead of everyone else?
We Had Words.
Mostly to do with the fact that if they give me a date to submit something, and I do it by that date, then I shouldn’t have to deal with the fallout when they don’t do their jobs. Also that the thousands of other people are not my responsibility, and why should I be hearing about them?
If you think about it, other organisations don’t generally do this…if I put money into my bank account to pay a bill, I don’t expect them to not put it through because they have so many other accounts to deal with as well 😆 Also – if Centrelink provided systems that do what they’re supposed to do, perhaps they wouldn’t have so many people clogging up the system trying to fix what shouldn’t be broken. Just a thought.
I was told on that call that my form was now submitted. It…wasn’t. No record of it, so I had to go in to the counter to hand it over face to face. At every stage they asked me why I didn’t use the online “service”. 😆

Oh well.
It’s done now.

Another slow moving part of our lives has been trying to find a new place to rent. There have been a lot of viewing cancellations and disappointments at not being chosen for places we liked. We looked at a place this morning, and have put in an application. It’s a bit weird (the room that would be our bedroom has a spa bath in the corner), but maybe weird suits us at this stage of our lives…

Anyway, we’ll find out soon enough.
Yesterday I was feeling a bit blue. Music tends to cheer me up!

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on February 9, 2023 at 9:41 pm Comments (2)
Tags: Home Free

On The Way To The Stars

Another house we really wanted, but it went to someone else…
discouraging, but we have a couple of others to possibly have a look at.
This year seems to have been galloping on so far. We’re past the middle of January and it still seems vaguely “after Christmas”. We can’t know what this year will bring, but it seems it will bring it a bit more quickly than we might be anticipating 😆

I bought myself some virtual challenges as a Christmas/New Year present to myself, and a couple of weeks ago also received the medal for my 2022 challenge.

Front…

Back – the moon comes off, and you can wear it as a pendant.
“Per aspera ad astra” means “through adversity to the stars”.

It opens up as well, and above the medal is the back of the pendant.

I have had a few good weeks this year – I’ve even managed to get to an in person church service every Sunday this year! I feel like my joyous gallivanting has caught up with me a bit 😆 I’ve noticed that when I do too much, I can come down with a flu like thing (sore muscles/joints, cough, feeling like a balloon is swelling behind my face), which is where I’ve been this week. We stocked up with covid tests before the free ones were stopped, so I’ve done a few of those lately (covid test says “no”!).
We did manage to get out last week for a cuppa at the cafe, and a talk about the year ahead. Nice cake as well…