Pause

I cannot participate in the world today...and perhaps not tomorrow either, and maybe even the next day after that.
Will let you know when I can again.
This Blog is officially on PAUSE for now.

And the winner is...
I for one was quietly thrilled to have Xanadu as the pre-entertainment piece at The Cup today.

New name New home

Today was the first official day for our business in its new home, with its new name.

It is now TOTAL COFFEE and we (and I say we, but is actually not so much "we" as "he") now have a new location as well. Bigger, shinier show room to boot.

But the coffee hasn't changed - its still great coffee. (It always tastes better when Adan makes it - something like sandwiches always taste better when someone else makes them).

Its closer to home (1.4 km) and only 700m from the kids school, which isn't really a benefit - its not like I can make them walk to Daddy's work after school while I nap or read books on my daybed in the dappled afternoon sunlight at home.....but anyway, its nice and close, which I'm sure one day I will deem to be the best thing EVUH!!!

A first

Another Saturday at home with the kids....



OK, well actually if you must know, we went to a Halloween Party. A first for me, and well, I guess for Darth Vader, Sleeping Beauty and Alice the Vampire also.
One of the school families, whose lovely Mum is from Canada, hosts a huge H. Party every couple of years, so as we missed the one 2 years back, APPARENLTY I promised Alice and Darth that the next time they held the party we would go. And go we did. If you are wondering, I went as Elizabeth Swann, complete with Cap'n Jack Sparrow eye-liner. My eyes today feel...well, a bit like Darth's eye must have felt last week....Scrubbing that stuff off from the entire rims of my eyelids last night, and again this morning has not boded well for my eyes and vision in general.
What an amazing pahhhhty Rock Family. You guys put any celebration I have ever held to shame!!!!

Tweaking

No pics today.
Just want to say Tweaking of anything should be left to the professionals.
Think I have fixed the problem with the Post a Comment section of my blog now.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention Damo.
The pink tulips from Queens Park gardens at Carnivale this year are starting to bug me...You?
I think they make it just TOO busy.
Might tweak the blog page official photo again....oh, what did I just say about Tweaking?.... Maybe I shouldn't.
Luke's eye is looking like a normal eyeball again too B.T.W.
And to Cleolinda, the complete and utter stranger who lives in the U.S., who's blog I am an avid reader of...I laughed til I had sparkle tears once again reading your blog about the Chimney man.

Bottom Itchy

It could have been a very ordinary tasting coffee....but I wouldn't know. I mean, just LOOK at the cup. Why canna all coffee establishments serve their coffees in pretty flowery painted cups like this? Its all about aesthetics (esthetics???) don't you think. How could ANYTHING taste bad in this??

This delightful caffiene vessel is served up at a local coffee shop in town, which Luke and Phoebe think is called "Bottom Itchy" (causing routine giggling and guffawing should I even mention going there).  

"Why is it called Bottom Itchy, Mum?" asked Luke Skywalker as I enjoyed my pretty painted Melanie Wilks coffee cup the other day......"Because "Bon Amici" means good friends Lukey." I replied.

After some reflection, he said "I think I'm going to ask Laura (his BFF) to come to Bottom Itchy Mum next time we come here, because she is MY good friend."

Nice, Luke. Nice.

And there we had our first Italian language lesson.....

An eye for an eye

You know, after teaching for a decade then spending the last 7+ years at home with my own 3 kids, I thought I had pretty much seen it all when it comes to bodily injuries on children...WRONG!!!

On the weekend, MacAttack hit Luke Skywalker at point blank range with a blow up pool floaty ring frisbee style (or nunchuck style....) right into his eye, cutting open his eyeball with the plastic edging bit around the outside of the ring. I didn't actually know that an eyeball can bleed -openly...

As this happened Saturday night at Adan's sister's house, where we were all gathered for her eldest daughter's 8th birthday celebrations, I just packed his eye with an ice-pack, dosed him with pain killers and took him home and put him to bed, hovering maybe just a bit obsessively during the night....

Yesterday he was dosed up again, more cold packs, and enforced sunglass wearing ALL DAY.

Took him straight to the doctor this morning, where he had special drops put in to make his eyeball glow in the dark. LITERALLY. In the darkened surgery room, all you could see was this one uranium-esq glowing eyeball. Freaky stuff. Luke was thrilled. It was just like his BEN 10 Omnitrix Alien watch that glows in the dark, AND just like RockFire's eyes that glow that colour ALL THE TIME (RockFire for you uninitiated, is one of the aliens Ben Tennyson turns into on Ben10...get with it people).

A prescription for drops and several jellybeans later and we were off to the pharmacy.

Whilst waiting for the prescription to be filled, there was Medicinal Coffee Shop Visit #2. The therapeutic effects, and healing powers of going to a coffee shop with mum during SCHOOL TIME after visiting the doctor or dentist should not be scoffed at. I swear it speeds up recovery time for ANY ailment. Once milkshake and the world's largest Monte Carlo biscuit was consumed, eye drops collected and then administered, it was back to class.

The Preppie boys were utterly gobsmacked and reeking white envy when they learned of Luke's glow-in-the-dark-RockFire-style eyeball. The bleeding eyeball had a profound effect on his male classmates and all looked at Luke with something akin to hero worship. I even overheard one boy whisper to his mate beside him."Wonder how I can get that?...."

Luke should look quite the part at this Saturday night's Halloween Party the school families have been invited to.