It must be the altenator

I met up with my friend Kay on Friday evening after work. Just to catch up, have a couple of glasses of cider and to have dinner.

This is nearly as cute as my friends mini. Only her mini has a sunroof

Since she had to work on Saturday we were very sensible and didn't stay out long.

We hopped in her little mini only for her to realize that she had forgotten her car's lights on and by now the battery had run dead.

There was nothing but a click when she turned the key.

Right, so the only thing to do was to get a taxi to her house & then pick up her husbands car & then she would drop me off at my house.

Cool.

Yesterday I rang her and said I would go with her into town to go & pick up her mini. I was feeling fairly confident that I would be able to use our jumper cables & jump start her car.

We got to the mini open the back (cause that's where the battery is)... & you thought I didn't know what I was doing.

Right, so next we had to open the hood of her car.

Problem

We could not find the "!!$£$%^*  lever to open the hood of her car.

Eventually she called her husband (who is in Portugal on army manoeuvres). What are you doing? You are going to blow up both cars! etc etc etc. Clearly Jay did not have as much confidence in my skills as I did.

Well she put down the phone and he was still sending instructions via text telling us what not to do and to phone Himself to come and do it when the car was running.

Voila done & dusted! So much for needing instructions

On the way home she had to stop for gas. No problem, we drove to the garage closest to her house to give the mini's battery as much time as possible to re-charge.

She hopped back into the car and

click

nothing but a click

and no this time using the jumper cables did not work either.

Eventually we pushed (ok I steered & she pushed) the mini out of the way and it's still there. So much for us having fixed the problem all by ourselves.

Obviously we decided that it must be the alternator cause we did everything right & we know it all.

Did you know that this is what an altenator looks like? I didn't ... anyway you don't need to know that, that's what husbands are for :)

Pinterest Friday

Go on admit it you've spent quite some time today just oogling things on Pinterest.

I have & I've been doing it while I should be working on newsletters and market updates but since we are being honest. Pinterest is just so much more interesting!

So this is what I've seen & liked and coveted dreamed about this week:

The perfect fall drink!

I love this dress!

What's not like?

Red shoe pop! So cool!

Just this week Tiger told me that he thinks we need a slide i/o the stairs

I'm wearing mine right now!

I don't think there is a woman alive who would not love a walk in like this ... plus the clothes & shoes to fill it

aaah!

What did you see this week that you just need in your life?

You'll never guess what I found....

I have been working from home for the past 2½ days. Thanks to Belgacom (our telephone provider) & the people who had to come & service our boiler.

Don’t get me wrong I loved that fact that I didn’t have to put on anything other than a track suit and my Uggs (I had to take the kids to school and run into the bakery which is why I couldn’t go in my pj’s) but, working from home has its drawbacks.

For instance, I happen to tidy the lounge and found inside the couch the following items:

·          4 single socks (I’ve been on the verge of throwing the other 4 single socks away because I could not find their friends)

·          2 teaspoons

·          1 pairing knife

·          5 coloring pencils

·          8 dvd’s (but not in their boxes)

You would imagine that I would freak out about the knife. Well I did, a little. The socks is an ongoing battle especially when the kids come and ask me for socks all the time and all I have to give them are lots of single socks.

BUT

DVD’s not put back in their boxes is a pet peeve which drives me up the wall and down again. Honestly, I have lost track of all the times I’ve asked nicely and explained why they need to go back in their boxes and threatened to throw away all of their dvd’s and WII games for this very reason.

Let me tell you, I totally lost it! Well rather I kept it all together until the kids came home from school and then I lost it. For good measure I even included how I was sick and tired of picking up pieces of toys or books or shoes demolished by the dogs because certain children, who shall remain nameless, are too lazy to put them away.

O and then I included a host of other things that they do on a daily basis which I end up shouting about on a daily basis.

As a result Cat came to me and told me that she or they had a suggestion. That instead of me giving away all of their dvd’s and games that I should consider a TV/DVD/Wii ban for a week.

And every other time they neglected to put the dvd’s away.

Last night when they came home from school they both put their coat’s away (instead of dropping them on the floor). They both put their shoes away. They both picked up their toys … the dog’s had nothing to chew during the night.

I was so happy it’s sad!

Now if only they can keep it up and might work from home again … who knows what I’ll find then…

On this day....

Today my baby is

I really can't believe it!

But he'll always be my baby even when he thinks he's too big to be my baby.

Happy Birthday Tiger boy!

Random Rambling .... no other title will work?

Today's post is a bit random. But it is what it is.

First off I'm So Frustrated! and happy at the same time.... Why? Because I got my 1st comment -- Thanks Sheena The frustration is that I can't seem to reply to her comment???

Therefore, if I was able to reply to your much appreciated comment it would be:

'Yeah several, if I had to count them in my head quickly I would say we had about 8. 4 of them were great for climbing.'

I'm totally chuffed that someone out there read my blog!

Moving along...

I've been getting home late the last couple of days which means that we have been eating take-out for dinner. The kids of course love it! I'm also so far behind with the house work it's not even funny anymore. Thank goodness no-one just drops by your house for an impromptu visit here in Belgium. But this just means that it'll all have to be done on the weekend.

The cake - Tiger is very worried that I'll forget to make his birthday cake. He reminds me about 10 times a day that I have to make sure I make it.

He's asked me to make the same cake as last year .... a rocket cake. Only because he wants a black cake again. I think I'm going to make a black cake but I'll put a monster on it, just to be different. I'm sure he'll love it!

2 On Tuesday

This is my first time linking into a Link party... figers crossed it works!

So today is 2 on Tuesday over on My chihuahua bites and the question is what were your two favorite childhood toys.

I would have to say:

Number one goes to:
Our Avocado trees.  We had a huge garden full of avo trees and all the kids in our street used to come & play at our house. We spent hours climbing and swinging and building forts in & around these trees.

Number two would be:

My bicycle.  The scars I have on my knees are a constant reminder of the time we spent riding & falling off our bikes.  Races down the driveway and up & down the street.

I had a blue bike similar to this, without the basket.

Aah those were good times!

How Not to spend your weekend

This weekend we had the most amazing Indian summer weather. No jokes! It was hotter than what it was for the entire July & August. It was lovely!

What did I do this weekend?

Did I sit out in the sun sipping wine, chatting with my girlfriends?

Did I lie out in the sun getting a bit of colour on my all too pale skin?

No I stood inside my kitchen doing the ironing! And let me tell you it sucked!

But it had to be done cause the pile of clean laundry was bigger than the pile of dirty laundry (cause let's face it, it's much easier throwing it in the washer & dryer than what it is to iron). And by doing the washing I at least feel like I'm doing something about the state of our house.

Not only do I feel like I'm fighting a losing battle against the never ending laundry basket there is the constant dust & spiders! Honestly it's like like living on the set of Arachnophobia. Ok not as deadly but honestly we have spiders everywhere.

It's not quite this bad but yes we do find spiders in the bath or basin or shower or kitchen or....

The lawn desperately needs to be mowed, again, before the rain sets in only I'm not sure when Himself is going to get around to doing it. Between his meetings & me working full time mowing the lawn is not so high on our list of priorities even if it's high on our list of Things that have to be done.

I have to book Tiger's birthday party this week. The poor kids, it's his birthday on Friday and I still have not managed to get to the bowling alley. We really need to buy that second car.

Right, one more week without the internet at home.... hope we'll survive. Hope you'll survive the rest of this week.