End of a chapter.. or a short closing of the book rather

So I did my short transition and wrote my email out to say see yas I'm off to another place to all my Senior Execs and Managers. I got emo when I was writing it. The responses included I will miss you, to WHAT! You don't like us anymore! :( to NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Bummer for us...

Went downstairs to have drinks - I didn't know that they were doing this for me. Anyway positive spin on an emo day. Got free red rock deli chips and sparkling. :) Guess what else! I only had to wait 5minutes for my train. WOOHOO.

Cat People

It appears that like does attract like. I seem to have a lot of friends who are cat people. This is my cat Mao Mao .. or was my cat. He disappeared on the 8th of November 2008 and I never saw him again. We had posters everywhere and nobody ever saw him.

Positive note - he would have eaten one of my boys by now.

Project Positivity

There is a recurring sentence I hear a lot in the social media outlets that I have been nestled in. It is "I am so sick of the negativity in my timeline/facebook updates". Surrounded by negativity myself and doubting my own capabilities with all this negativity, I decided that I needed to get this sorted in the new year. I embarked on what I called Project Positivity. I spoke about Project Positivity to everyone that would listen. I wanted it to spread..I wanted people around me to be positive reinforcements.

I started this because I read something on a forum. I cannot remember the term now as it was a few months ago and my brain is a sieve on non-work things. It was a tad like "The Secret" and no I am not an Oprah fan! The thread had heaps of posts on this exercise working for them. You had to visualise what you wanted and lots of these women (I hang out at female dominated forums) had received what they had visualised and believed that they would get it.

It got me thinking that I have always been self sabotaging. So I changed my attitude (a little) and stopped telling myself that I couldn't do this or that. I started to push myself forward and tried to change my attitude and demanded more from myself and stopped (tried) talking myself down. So it has worked for me so far and I want to spread it further. My aim is to turn this into a daily (mmmmmm more frequent perhaps) snippets on turning things around to the positive. Look let's face it there are days where nothing goes right for you. But let's all look at kitteh pics and icanhascheezburger and it gets better.

My Vogue Forum KK

I was walking around - killing time in transit - and looking at cosmetic and skincare. As usual, I bought nothing as I had everything. Anyway, this is one girl that goes to Sephora and does NOT buy anything. Who does that?! Sephora!

So I remembered my Vogue Forum Kris Kringle sender. She sent me a bronzer and I promised that I will let her know how I go with her lovely gifts. But I am a failure... and didn't. The truth is I do not have much time for posting blogs, vogue forums or any forums anymore. I am trying to stay off the computer during my home time with the family. So I decided to dedicate this post to her...

To my Vogue KK, I wanted to let you know that I thought of you when I was combing the aisles of Sephora and at the airport. I wanted to buy you something to say thanks! I have eaten the yummy chutneys and jams, actually Mick ate more of it than me. Plus I have been using the bronzer. It is hard to get used to being BROWN and having brown powder on myself. It felt weird lol... maybe I truly do not belong to VF. I have not baked anything from the book yet but I will. The reason is I have been banned from doing desserts as I do not eat them and make everyone else eat it. They are complaining that I am a feeder.

If my Vogue KK can contact me, I really want to send you something to say thanks!

My boys!

I have not blogged about this.. Heck I have not blogged much since forever. I participated in the Vogue forum Secret KK this year. This is the first time I have participated and I am not sure what prompted me to enter. Anyway, I hope that my KK liked what she received. She wanted an umbrella loves nail polish. Voila, Epi Nail polish and a handbag sized umbrella with butterfly prints.

Anyway in my mail, I received a lovely package from Tasmania! I had a dessert cookbook, bronzer and a little food pack with chutneys etc. In the letter - doh I forgot to even include one - was an explanation of each gift. In the letter, the voguette said that she hoped to see more posts... and pictures of the boys. And it occured to me that I have no written much or posted his picture. He is the most gorgeous little thing ever. He really has the face that lights up when he smiles and this smiles is through his eyes. Just look at the boys together.

Sometimes it had been incredibly hard having them so close together especially when D had not even started walking yet. But when I see them hug each other, I just melt and think how wonderful it is to have the two of them so close.

Heart Attack on a Tray

You know that feeling of, omg I must have some heart attack on a plate?

That yummy, too rich and I can only eat one small square of that? So where do you turn to? American recipes collections of course!!

Who is more American than Pioneer Woman Cooks by Ree. Her rich and fancy Mac n Cheese is to die for. Not to be confused with that blue box of Kraft stuff, this thing packs the punch.

Before using her recipe, I had not heard of adding egg yolks to a white sauce. I can pack pasta away like you won't believe but not this fancy mac n cheese! A little square was all that I could take. There was so much cheese in it, caramelised onions and crispy bacon. As Ree would say I will weep now. Dig into it as did Pork Chop (D). D's fav is pasta and man did he lap it up.

Creative Odyssey My Love for Sewing Books

I have this crazy thing of buying and browsing sewing books.

And I must admit that I am ashamed to say that I have not made used of them. I have bought and sold an Amy Butler book... wahhhh... and I have in my hot little hands this one which I think is a gem. I just took a picture live from my bed, with blogger screen behind the book. This is because I sleep next to the book. It is a constant reminder that I have done NOTHING with it.

I have no valid excuses either, I have not one but TWO sewing machines. I think my friend has used my Janome more than I have. :( And I have owned my brand new Janome for about 19 months now.

This book is brilliant because it uses One Yard of fabric in all the projects. Of course it only has clothes for little girls and luck would have it that I would have two boys and there is nothing in there for them. In my cupboard is a box of fabric just mocking me as well. So on this creative odyssey, I have decided to make it a mission to do at least one project from this book.

Something small that does not require much in terms of haberdashery. Otherwise it would result in yet another reason to procrastinate. Also the excuse of I have two babies under the age of 2 might be a more valid excuse. Watch this space and I shall return!!

On another note, it is possible to go on holiday with 2 under 2. It was both wonderful and horrific at the same time. Never again until they are at least 6!!