20 Day Montage

Its been Twenty days since my last post?? Twenty Days! That's ridiculous! My blogging absence has been noted and I thought I should explain and what better way to explain than with a photo Montage. Also it's quick and actually if I'm being honest its also a bit of a writing cop out but it's the best I've got at the mo until the big shift is done and dusted this weekend...so enjoy!

Wedding No1 of 7!! The messy happy one in the middle is the best man/my husband

A very fun and loud night out with my bbiittchhhes from Dog Watch

This is us at before mentioned Wedding...not so happy about how the light makes my forehead look alien like?!

This is my first ever 'Royal' experience...in amongst all that is Charles and Camilla at the A&P Show

A selfy of us at the wedding...the husband looks like he has a sexual innuendo waiting to pop out

Cup Day Champagne Breakfast...never underestimate the power of scavenging! We ended up with an extra 40 bucks in our kitty from race tickets and cold hard cash that drunk people dropped!

"CAMILLA..HEY CAMILLA I'M OVER HERE!"

STOP!...Nurdle Time!

You may remember a previous blog Slave Labour with a Smile.   Well I have found another miracle App for under 10s on my wanky iphone which has again made my children complete a must do job with a smile and no whinging! and the best bit this one is free.  So being the caring sharing kinda gal I am I figured I should Spread the wisdom and Share the love!

 This little goodie is making the task of Tooth brushing a wee bit of a party twice a day.

It first gives the kid a bit of a lesson in 'double thumbs up' brushing techniques then roks on in to timing two minutes of happy happy tooth brushing.   Its the same song they use on the ads.  Which for an adult could border on freaken annoying but since its for under 10s and its doing some major good for dental health I can put up with it.  Happy Days.

Once the two minutes is done then the kid earns 20 coins, which means they can either save them up or head to the fun shop and buy some funky threads for their little toothpaste blob.  I've never met a kid yet who can resist virtual coins or being able to spend them.

My 7 yr old wanted to brush twice tonight just to get some more coins!  He was bopping along to the sounds whilst foam was pouring out of his mouth.  Success I reckon!

Speed Job Hunting

I mentioned a while back that the Teenager is or should have been job hunting.  She has turned 16 and has a car so needs to start earning some $$ to keep her in the lifestyle she has become accustomed.
We had been subtly leaving the job section of the newspaper on her bed every so often and she had applied for a few online (as you do these days) but she hadn't really put too much effort into the whole thing.
Yesterday it all changed.  Straight after school she had a job interview at Cotton On Kids at Riccarton Mall, which she said went really well and also a notice was put in her schools morning newsletter thingy to say that the local Shopping Centre was putting on a Christmas Casual Job recruitment evening from 6-8pm for any students wanting to register.  They just had to be aged 16 and have a current CV.
I got busy updating and printing out 12 copies of her CV for her to wow prospective employers with.
It was kinda like Speed Dating but for Jobs.  All the stores that needed Student Casual Workers over the holidays set up little interview areas in the food court and the kids just went to any they were keen on had a 5 or 10 minute chat and dropped off their CVs.
She got rid of all her CVs with the likes of 'Cheap Skates', 'Glassons', 'Farmers', 'Cotton On', 'Factorie', 'Typo', 'McDonalds' plus others.  She said they all went really well.  She is quite lucky that she has had a bit of retail/sales experience working the shows and markets so that definitely came in handy last night.
I think it was a really cool idea of the mall to put this kind of evening together for both the employers and the students, its a great way for these kids to try out the whole interview process and for the stores to sort their Christmas staff out all in one go.  Just more reasons why we love this City.
Hopefully she will get 3 or 4 job offers out of this and maybe it will turn into something more permanent if she does well.  If it just ends up being a casual job over the holidays then its just great experience for her CV for the future.  Win Win.

Hallo-Wicked!!!!

 Halloween last night on our street was Epic to say the least.  I'll go as far as to say "Best Halloween night EVER" and all it took was one Canadian chick to pop a couple of fliers in all the letterboxes on her walk home from school and that started it.  It was just the push we all needed to get the creative juices flowing!

 In the morning once the kids had gone to school I said to the Husband "I'll be back soon, just gotta go get some last minute Halloween stuff for tonight"  His words to me were "Don't go crazy!" I just rolled my eyes and sauntered out the gate with wallet in hand making mental notes about face paint more lollies and pumpkin baskets.  As it turned out the Husband ignored his own warning as I knew he would and ended up spray painting whole new spooky street signs.  Instead of the actual Slater St and Guild St, his signs read Slayer St and Ghoul St complete with dripping blood and a scream mask on the lamppost.  It became the spot for all the dressed up kids to stand under and get photos taken all night.

 He also hung stuff in our trees and the teenager made fake blood out of golden syrup and red food colouring which decorated our footpath and with which the husband, now dressed up in the 7yr olds Stegosaurus costume,  made all the little kids dip their lollies in.  Telling them it was teenager blood.  They weren't too keen.

We had loud spooky Halloween music blaring and ended up refilling our big bowls three times to keep up with the demand.

Word spread and we would've had anywhere near 100 dressed up Trick or Treating little freaks wandering up and down our neighbourhood.  From 5 - 7pm it was like we were one of those Xmas lights streets that everyone goes to look at.  Cars were parked all the way along.  Pretty much every house had decorations outside it to encourage the spooks to come on in and get some lollies.

People had dancing skeletons and in one haunted house they had to put there hands in sludgy, squishy stuff for spooky gross feeling fun.  The kids had a blast.
Watching the kids running around in packs I'm not sure it was even the lollies that they cared about, it was the dressing up and seeing other peoples costumes.  They were loving sharing out the lollies and popping into every ones front yards to see decorations that made it the most fun.  It was loud and noisy and awesome to see so many smiling, laughing kids and adults crawling all over our street.