Little Cozy Corner
Apr 30 2013

99.9%

by Sweetest Sin

Finally almost there! lol Poor kids have been waiting so long for the slide to come to be and it has finally been properly installed. The legs have been cemented in so they can now run amok!

FINISHED!

Ever since the slide has been installed, its been tough keeping them in the house! It’s a good thing but also a bad thing coz you so know something is up when all is quiet. They are either digging something up that they shouldnt be or they are just doing something they KNOW they shouldnt be. But what’s new right? That’s just part and parcel about being a kid but as a parent, you cannot help but want to make sure they dont get up to too much mischief.

Thing is, I have set to complete the sand pit and I’m totally dreading it…..I’m not a fan of sand and I can already foresee more sand IN the house then outside and I’m really not looking forward to it. It just goes to show why I dont like the beach either….though funnily, I used to love it when I was younger. We are all a crazy lot, I tells ya!!

That said I’m happy when they are out there coz that just means that its less time being glued to the telly and that can not be anything but good! :)

 

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Apr 26 2013

Talk about mean looking!!!

by Sweetest Sin

When I first saw this thing….I didnt know what to think! It totally freaked me out….all that was going through my head was MEAN and EVIL looking. It was like something out of a horror movie….some space alien spawns or something.

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So tell me, if you saw this being dug up from your garden….what would you think?

Seeing that I am not interested in gardening whatsoever, this grub turned out to be a common pest called the mole cricket grub. After getting over the shock, I thought it was a witchety grub but a quick check confirmed that it wasnt until I posted it on FB and a friend came back and told me what it was.

Apparently Mum has seen them in her garden back home too!! I’m sooooo living under the coconut shell when it comes to gardening. LOL Since this one was dug up, Ted managed to find a few more and someone told me that I should just feed them to the birds coz these pest destroy your plants from underground by eating up the roots.

Thankfully (somewhat anyway), we dont really have any plants at the moment thanks to me. :P I just cannot bring myself to plant anything….better to spend that time sewing. Heh.

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Apr 22 2013

Me and my muffins!

by Sweetest Sin

Ok, this is just an excuse to use up some over ripe bananas….after all, why throw them out right? So wasteful!! Plus the kids and I personally love banana cake/muffins. :) It’s a lot tastier than the premix one too. Heh.

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So here it is, my simply bantai banana with oats and raisin muffin!!

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Got me a tick of approval too. :P

Easy-peasy lemon-squeasy!! If you want the recipe, please dont ask me. lol Anything I bake or cook is mostly a one-off success as I create the recipe as I go along…. :P But the bottom line is for the recipe, it’s just mainly your own banana cake recipe then just add in some raisins and rolled oats. You might want to reduce the sugar but I didnt. :P Whats a muffin if it aint sweet???

Bon appetit!

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Apr 18 2013

Trying to go green….

by Sweetest Sin

Well, not really the green environmental green….but more like my diet! lol :P Believe it or not, it’s taken me approximately 6 years to finally start having salads for lunch. After all, you can take the girl out of Malaysia but you CANNOT take Malaysia out of the girl! (This is somewhat very appropriate to mention seeing how our GE just ended and what a joke it has been.) To me salads are the sort of diet food people take when they are trying to lose weight. You’d NEVER catch me having a salad back home unless its part of the order.

To me lunch = rice (or any sort of carb) with dishes, no such thing as salad or sandwich or wraps for me, thankyou! But something recently changed and I’ve started eating salad for more days of the week. It’s not really an attempt of losing weight though one is hoping that that would be ONE outcome but more like I just feel like eating salad. I used to think that salad just meant leafy veg with tomatoes and cucumber, I was pleasantly surprise by the number of salads there are out there! I feel like such a katak bawah tempurung la!!

Anyway, here are a couple of salads that I’ve been trying out.

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Tuna+garden salad

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Cous cous salad

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Tuna+variety garden salad

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Beans salad with tuna and feta cheese

Notice that the main ingrediant is tuna? Well I LOVE IT!!! Especially the one in olive oil…I wouldnt buy the brine one if I had the option. So I’ve been doing this at least 4-5 lunches a week so hopefully, its done me some good! lol

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Apr 15 2013

Another one for the collection?

by Sweetest Sin

How I miss Ted strumming his guitar (while I am NOT watching tv) coz I’ve alway loved the fact that he can play the guitar and it has always been a plus for me if a man can play a musical instrument. It’s romantic! :P

It’s truly a shame that he doesn’t play often anymore simply because he just has no time to do so. Poor thing seems to be working 24/7 what with his own job AND getting our old place spruced up and nice so that we can rent it out. *sigh* I do miss having him home more often but if its got to be done, its got to be done.

So in order to sort of cheer him up what with his love for guitars and to add to his collection, perhaps a danelectro 12 string might be a pretty good idea. :) I mean, I’m sure the kids would one day like to try their hand at music….so why not the guitar? :)

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Apr 12 2013

My Milky soft Foot

by Sweetest Sin

I hate to admit it but Ted is right – I have hooves. Unlike some people who have rather soft and smooth soles, mine is encrusted with really hard and tough skin even the pumice stone cannot cure! And this is the main reason why I dont go for manicures and pedicures coz both my fingers and toes are ‘rotten’. Too shy!! Those ladies might turn me away!

So when this advert came on – I was totally going to go for it and it was my priority at that point. And this product was :

Milky Foot
It’s pretty much like having a pedicure at home :)

What this product does is basically help remove all the hard skin to leave the bottom of your feet soft. I was determine to get this no matter what….until I saw the price! It was AU32 for just ONE application!!! :( At that moment, I couldnt bear to spend that kind of money so I didnt get it.

But it kept gnawing at me and I couldnt take it anymore so I caved in and got it! lol My justification is that since I dont spend ANY money on make up or any sort of facial fancy stuff, it was ok. :P

After finally being able to get 60 minutes of uninterrupted time, I slipped on these special medicated plastic socks and had my bath. What is suppose to happen is that the skin will automatically peel of between 2-5 weeks. But apparently its only taken a bit over a week and already peeling!! :D

Of course yours truly has been ‘helping’ the peeling process and my feet now REALLY soft!!! :D I am over the moon about it and although not all the skin has peeled off, if I need to buy a second application for the tougher parts of the skin, I will. :D VERY happy with the end result.

Watch out, Ted….you now have competition!!! :P

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Apr 7 2013

Nanna’s DIY Playset

by Sweetest Sin

A big thankyou to Nanna for not only buying this DIY playset for the kids but fixing up too! :) Mum fell in love with a DIY playset and insisted on getting it for the kids as their cummulative birthday presents for 2013. lol :P

DIY Playset courtesy of Nanna
Courtesy of Nanna

We got this from Bunnings and although it was suppose to have instructions included, it did not and it took AGES for Bunnings to locate a copy for us which meant that this playset took awhile before we could start putting it up.

Hard at work

Hard at work
Nanna hard at work – getting the skeleton set up

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Day 1

ME hard at work
Me ‘hard’ at work – I did all the drilling and some of the screwing *Stay focus pls, Ted!*

Playset - Day 2
Day 2

We couldnt do anything on Day 3 coz it was raining all day!

Playset - Day 4, Almost there!
Day 4 – HAPPINESS!!! :D Almost complete and kids already rasmikan the swing and sat on the slide with us holding it.

What’s left at the moment is just attaching the ladder and slide and then adding concrete into the ground to keep the whole thing stable. But while we were making the holes for the concrete to go, Ted hit a water pipe that wasnt suppose to be there as per our house plan so now everything has been stalled. :(

But fear not, the swing is still getting a LOT of play despite this setback!! lol Now we just have to make the holes else where…

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Mar 25 2013

From a pretty boy to a handsome one

by Sweetest Sin

Ever since Brandon’s hair started to grow longer, people always thought I had 3 girls (this is pre-Georgina of course). And even though I dressed him up like a little boy, no one thought he was one. I was more than happy to give him a haircut long before this but Ted kept saying no because he had beautiful hair and I do not doubt that one bit. BUT with his long hair, poor fella is always sweaty and while he may just be a kid, I’m sure it must be so terrible to be sleeping like that. So finally, Mum and I decided once and for all, it had to go.

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My pretty handsome little boy (at home, at the front door, waiting to step out)

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Absolutely stoked coz it was his first bus ride but had no idea what was lying ahead of him. Mind you he didnt want to cut his hair but a bit of bribing solved that. :P And it only cost me $2! lol :P

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He was an absolutely gem!!! Sat quietly all through the hair cut, didnt have a clue what was happening and the lady who was cutting his hair did a might fine job of cutting his hair so quickly!! :)

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My handsome little man after – at home, totally engrossed watching tv. :)

Apaprently, he looks just like me when I was his age and makes it more scary that we both had the same haircut too!! lol :P

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Mar 24 2013

A family get-together

by Sweetest Sin

I cannot believe it but Mum leaves in just 2 weeks!! :( Not too sure how 3 months just zipped passed so fast but it has. So on 24/3, we had a family get-together to celebrate Easter (early) and for everyone to meet up before Mum went home.

The do was at my cousin Jenny’s place at Long Jetty – pity we didnt get to dip ourselves in the water. Maybe next time. :P

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On our way!! The travel DVD player was the best ever Christmas present my brother in law gave us. :D Life saver really!!! lol

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Some rare cam-whoring going on….

We left home at about 10am and at we Jenny’s about 12 noon so apparently we made it in good time. :D Such a good Ted for getting us there and home safely seeing that he had worked all night the night before!! See, God is good….. :) Anyway, the first thing that caught the kids eyes was the pinball machine!

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KR concentrating with all her might

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Arianna’s turn with Freddie and John looking on – not sure how well she did though.

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Aunty Jenny finally gets a cuddle and is showered with loads of smiles. :) Why not when u take centre stage, sweetheart! :P

Then we had a balloon maker sitting around so poor Aunty Vicki got conned into pumping up the model balloons.

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KR has a go at making something

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Arianna hard at work

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She actually made something close to a dog which was surprising once she figured out how the modelling works! Such a clever little Cheeks. :)

We finally left about 4pm coz it took us nearly an HOUR to get the whole tribe strapped up. All in all, it was a pretty good day especially when you get to spend it with family. :)

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Mar 22 2013

Another one to the list…

by Sweetest Sin

When we first got married, buying things for Ted was easy coz we just got married and were starting to get to know more about each other. You learn something new every day, be it a like or dislike…pet peeves and whatnots which is a good sign because it means that you are communicating and communication in any relationship is very important.

During one of our conversations and me attempting to fish out something he liked so I could get it for his birthday, he mentioned shaving brushes and how they dont used to make them like they used to and he mentioned vulfix. So yours truly went on a search and found something! :)

He was over the moon!! And so was I… :D

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