The crazed ravings of Splinter (Tony Castley)
Just bits of information about my life
To my darling husband,
Yet another year has passed, one of many. Sometimes it feels we have been married forever, at other times its hard to believe its been 17 years. As usual our anniversary has been lost in a sea of birthdays and preparations for xmas, but you must know that this day is incredibly special for me ….. because its today that I got to tell the world that I loved my best friend.
Happy Anniversary sweetheart.
Well, its Saturday night and the neighbours are having a party.
Nothing unusual you say … and normally I would agree with you. This street is a great street …. a combination of young families with babies, a large extended arabic immigrant family, a couple of christian asians, some guy with a horse trailer we never see, an extremely weathly buddist family and normal old us. On the whole a quiet and peacful bunch. However the arabic family next door are prone to some very loud and well populated celebrations.
And tonight … they are having an engagement party. So along with the incredible volume of people talking and singing, you have this fabulous modern middle eastern music …. accompanied by the occassional arabic yodelling (what on earth is that actually called?). And thankfully tonite the dog has decided it does not mean the world is ending, so I don’t have to lock him in.
I hate to say it but compared with your average Aussie BBQ, full of the sounds of dunk the stubbie, drunken fights and late night renditions of “Kaysan” …. its a lovely background noise.
Well work has rung and asked me to take 3 days out of my holidays to work on a new bid. So I am leaving tonight (Sunday) and will be back Tuesday night. I will then have to spend some of thursday working on finalising the detail of the bid.
It is nice that this group believes that they cannot do this without me, and they have stated that my work location will only get this work IF I lead the development team. However I don’t appreciate that they expect me to drop everything for them every time. As a friend of mine said I have to learn to say NO. 🙂
One good thing, I am planning to use this to negotiate for a promotion out of this. Wish me luck.:razz:
Well with the end of school year happening hear, I have been very busy doing parental things.
Swimming carnivals, String Concerts, Choir recitals and school parades all fun stuff that I normally don’t get time to be involved in.
Along with that I have been taking photo’s with reckless abandon (see the sidebar).
Well I am going on about 2 weeks leave starting… Thursday. It was that or sit at work doing nothing or travel away from home again.
So leave it is. Planning a few things while off, photography, kids events, new style for site, etc.
So keep your eye’s open for changes 
Ok so I took on the challenge to write a novel in a month. Well it is now 4 days in, and I have a staggering….. 500 words!!
At this rate I will have 3,750 words by the end of the month! Wait.. that is not enough, by about 46,000 words short.
Time to pick up the pace, stop playing computer games, ignore my visitors and saying NO to my boss when he say’s “Do you want to fly interstate for a daytrip, you will only be working 15 hours or so!”.
Wish me luck.
Now I know I shouldn’t subscribe to the classic blond stereotype. And I have enough intelligent and sensible blond friends, to know that not all blonds are dumb. But really, my neighbour should be shot for adding to the blond stupid name.
Picture this. Blond is 35 weeks pregnant (plus carrying a fairly young hernia scar). Blond see’s 300L fridge on the footpath. Blond waits until husband is in bed, and then moves said fridge into garage while hubby is sleeping.
Now am I the only one who’s see’s the folly in this? 😆
Well …. thats the last of it.
Today I delivered my stroller to my cousin for her gorgeous baby daughter. Yesterday I had the garage sale, sold all the baby toys and nappies. Then I bundled up what was left and delivered it to the Salvos. I have kept a few things …… the rocker, the high chair that attaches to the table (cause they are handy when babysitting), the cradle (an heirloom). The pram still hasn’t sold, but I will be putting it in the paper next week.
*sigh* ….. I have no baby stuff left in the house. No baby seat or booster seat in the garage. No toys or duplo. All the soft toys are gone. Even Elmo. Feel just a little lost and empty.
😥
Other than being really windows based, as OSX and BeOS and Unix don’t care about file extensions, I decided to give this Quiz a run.
Ali at CaffeEcletic has a pointer to an online handwritting analysis site. I love this stuff, used to do a little when I was younger.
Well as you could guess here is what it say’s about me.
For a graphologist, the spacing on the page reflects the writer’s attitude toward their own world and relationship to things in his or her own space. If the inputted data was correct Tony has left some white space on the left side of the paper. Tony fills up the rest of the page in a normal fashion moving the entire writing rightward as he moves down the page. If this is true, then Tony has a healthy relationship to the past and is ready to move on. The right side of the page represents the future and Tony is ready and willing to get started living now and planning for the future. Tony is leaving the past behind and moving on to what he perceives as an exciting and enticing future.
Something is incomplete in Tony’s life. He feels frustration relating to his physical needs and desires. Somewhere in his life there is some disappointment, non-fulfillment, and interruption. This is very likely to relate to Tony’s sexual needs.
Tony is sarcastic. This is a defense mechanism designed to protect his ego when he feels hurt. He pokes people harder than he gets poked. These sarcastic remarks can be very funny. They can also be harsh, bitter, and caustic at the same time.
Tony is a practical person whose goals are planned, practical, and down to earth. This is typical of people with normal healthy self-esteem. He needs to visualize the end of a project before he starts. he finds joy in anticipation and planning. Notice that I said he plans everything he is going to do, that doesn’t necessarily mean things go as planned. Tony basically feels good about himself. He has a positive self-esteem which contributes to his success. He feels he has the ability to achieve anything he sets his mind to. However, he sets his goals using practicality– not too “out of reach”. He has enough self-confidence to leave a bad situation, yet, he will not take great risks, as they relate to his goals. A good esteem is one key to a happy life. Although there is room for improvement in the confidence catagery, his self-perception is better than average.
In reference to Tony’s mental abilities, he has a very investigating and creating mind. He investigates projects rapidly because he is curious about many things. He gets involved in many projects that seem good at the beginning, but he soon must slow down and look at all the angles. He probably gets too many things going at once. When Tony slows down, then he becomes more creative than before. Since it takes time to be creative, he must slow down to do it. He then decides what projects he has time to finish. Thus he finishes at a slower pace than when he started the project. He has the best of two kinds of minds. One is the quick investigating mind. The other is the creative mind. His mind thinks quick and rapidly in the investigative mode. He can learn quicker, investigate more, and think faster. Tony can then switch into his low gear. When he is in the slower mode, he can be creative, remember longer and stack facts in a logical manner. He is more logical this way and can climb mental mountains with a much better grip.
Diplomacy is one of Tony’s best attributes. He has the ability to say what others want to hear. He can have tact with others. He has the ability to state things in such a way as to not offend someone else. Tony can disagree without being disagreeable.
Tony will be candid and direct when expressing his opinion. He will tell them what he thinks if they ask for it, whether they like it or not. So, if they don’t really want his opinion, don’t ask for it!
Tony will demand respect and will expect others to treat him with honor and dignity. Tony believes in his ideas and will expect other people to also respect them. He has a lot of pride.
Tony is moderately outgoing. His emotions are stirred by sympathy and heart rendering stories. In fact, he can be kind, friendly, affectionate and considerate of others. He has the ability to put himself into the other person’s shoes. Tony will be somewhat moody, with highs and lows. Sometimes he will be happy, the next day he might be sad. He has the unique ability to get along equally well with what psychology calls introverts and extroverts. This is because he is in between. Psychology calls Tony an ambivert. He understands the needs of both types. Although they get along, he will not tolerate anyone that is too “far out.” He doesn’t sway too far one way or the other. When convincing him to buy a product or an idea, a heart rendering story could mean a great deal to him. He puts himself in the same situation as the person in the story, yet he will not buy anything that seems overly impractical or illogical. Tony is an expressive person. He outwardly shows his emotions. He may even show traces of tears when hearing a sad story. Tony is a “middle-of-the-roader,” politically as well as logically. He weighs both sides of an issue, sits on the fence, and then will decide when he finally has to. He basically doesn’t relate to any far out ideas and usually won’t go to the extreme on any issue.
People that write their letters in an average height and average size are moderate in their ability to interact socially. According to the data input, Tony doesn’t write too large or too small, indicating a balanced ability to be social and interact with others.
Hubby had a blah day today …… and decided to solve it with slightly more than half a bottle of wine tonite. Now witnessing this is always a reminder of why he usually doesn’t drink.
He has a low body weight, and a fast metabolism. This means that the alcohol hits his system fast. Within a hour of starting drinking, he is moderately incoherant and having to concentrate on not running into the furniture. 2 hours? …. and he is explaining to me why he isn’t as think as I drunk he is. Overall the effect is milding amusing and ever so slightly annoying. See, being a big girl …. it takes a considerable amount of alcohol to get the same effect.
And worse of all, thanks to a fast metabolism … he will have processed all the alcohol before bed, and therefore won’t have a hangover ….. which stinks! 😡
Ok via whoever it was that brought me here will have to take me home (aka Bartspace) I found out about the National Novel Writing Month. Now it seems to be challange for all budding writers to complete a novel in one month. That’s right 50,000 words in 30 days!
Now it seems like Darren is doing it again and I wish him all the best.
I am toying with the idea of doing it myself, which would be amazing to see me motivated to to anything :grin:. I will let you know.
Fish and visitors go off after 3 days. This is a favourite saying of a friend. And frankly …… I have had it with fish.
I haven’t had a week to myself (or with hubby) …. for months now. I am run off my feet with work and school, and when I get home, I seem to have a never ending stream of relatives using my home for a motel. More frustrating, hubby is forced to treat our home like a motel. His travel interstate means that the poor man is bombarded with concentrated wife troubles, coupled with the knowledge that all things ….. ahem 😳 … personal …. have been seriously disrupted. Roll on school holidays ……. maybe my visitor will go visit someone else. We can only hope.
This is my darling son’s latest favourite statement. This last week or so, everything I receive, in one way or another …. is as a direct result of being special.
two kisses goodnight …… because I am special
big hugs at school drop off …… because I am a special
special picture from school ……. because I am special
It makes you feel all warm and toasty ….. “I love you mum …. cause your special”.
Ok tonight is a blue moon ! This is a very rare event and one that should be marked in some way, here in Australia we decided to call an election. Yay! 😕
Last month the America’s had a blue moon on the 31st of July. Well now it is our turn. Due to the confusion of timezones Australia did not get a blue moon last month, but that full moon became the first for us in August. Now approx 29.5 days later we have had our 2nd full moon.
Now I just got a piece of creative spam as a comment so I thought I would share (the content, not the links).
“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.”
not J.R.R Tolkien
