'there are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles.' ~author unknown

Friday, July 20, 2012

...cupcakes to die for...


...mmm saw some of my students eating one of these amazing looking cupcakes,
and have now discovered but a mere 20 meters from my office building the
 lady cupcake shop, set in a shop not more than 8 sq metros are the most 
amazing cupcakes,

so naturally i have made it my personal mission to try them all, 
over a period of a few visits of course, but not too many. so far i have 
forced myself through the red velvet, black velvet, banana caramel, black forrest 
peppermint aero caramel, and will be putting in a solid effort to get through 
the apple pie, death by decadent chocolate (with a hidden lint ball inside)
to name but a few, it's hard work but i'm no quitter...




...i looooove porcelain...


...so, after NEARLY DYING (please note the very rare use of caps, for dramatic effect),
i decided that i really want to start doing things that make me happy again.
one tends to get so blaze about doing things for yourself as there is never 'enough time', god can someone hit the violins, i'm living the fucking stereotype,
anyway, i digress, so i decided to start a ceramics class with some friends, note how i call it 'ceramics' because  a 'pottery' class sounds so housewifey.
so here is my first experimentation with porcelain, a bit of a bitch to work with, but just love the droopy elephant foot look, and just wait till you see it with a tea light candle.
i wanna become a full time porcelain thingy maker...

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

...catch up...



...pregnant, big hot uncomfortable, huge, tired, gynae gynae gynae, christmas, due date, still fucking pregnant, new year, monday, tuesday, wednesday, fucking GET OUT, thursday, sex sex sex, friday, curry chillies tabasco, weekend, run jump bounce, cry,

monday 4am, contraction 10 min contraction, wait, yip labour, hospital, eek pain, wtf - placenta tore, rush scream panic, cry maybe die, unconscious, cut slice pop stitch,

awake, here's your baby, nope that's not my baby, jp who's baby?, yip ours, oh!?!, pain cry, therapy, breast feeding, bleeding, crying, formula

back to hospital, cry panic, unconscious, poke prod scrape, wake up, pain, wanna see kids, no babies/kids in surgery wards, fuck you world, home, happy, baby, milk shit burp sleep, repeat repeat repeat, so you're caught up!...

Monday, September 26, 2011

...the art of peeing...


...so my last gynae appointment was a real laugh, for anyone who has
had a baby you'll know that every gynae appointment, which happens
4 weekly, you start off by having to weeeee in a tiny plastic container
with a little lid.

well during your first few visits this is challenging enough as you can
check the ever-elusive 'flow' and catch the weeeee by shifting the tiny
container to catch your golden bounty. i applaud you if you can do this
without getting weeeee all over your hands!

then, after washing your hands and your precious little sample, and drying
it off ever so carefully, you get to carry this and hand over a luke warm
container of weeeee to the poor person who has to test it.

now...bring on the 3rd trimester, gynae appointment as scheduled, although
you're past the open your legs and say aaaaah, internal scans, and you've
progressed to the ice cold goop on your belly, external scan, you still like to
give yourself a number one with the your husbands face razor (haha) just in
case emergency strikes and your gynae has to go internal.

however, your vaJJ is no longer clearly visible, if you're lucky, you can shift
your belly everso slightly to the side and mmmmmaybe catch a glimpse of her,
so shaving is now left to your husband. no jp, it doesn't have to be a work of art,
just tidy it up and keep it looking respectable!!!

now bring on the actual appointment, smile, greet, collect your teeeeny tiny
plastic container, and here we go, shit, i can hear it but i can't see a damn thing,
so you shuffling that container around frantically attempting to catch eratic
ever-moving weeeee, you know you're on the mark when the pitch of the splash
changes, but just as you're about to celebrate the flow whips into another direction
and f@&*^%k you're back to square one.

so after 5 min in the loo, and a bout of hysterical laughter, i emerge, somewhat
triumphant, with a teaspoonful of weeeee in my little container! whoop whooop!...

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

...it's aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

...girl! so after weeks of not being able to buy pink or blue, just grey and bleeegh beige,
and what feels like an eternity of feeling like shit, i finally know for 100% sure
(confirmed by the second appointment, definately 3 little stripes) that we are having
another little girl. aaaah for the boy i'll never have but yay for my new little girl.

after much deliberation, (well jp thinks so, actually i'd chosen the name when i fell pregnant
with siena already, in the event that i had another girl) we have decided on the name mila.

siena however has decided on the name peaches, and turns a deaf ear to anything else,
she refers to her baby sister as peaches, and that's that!!! any mention of mila and she's
like huh, who? so mila 'peaches' arpesella will come into the world sometime between
new years eve (terrible timing i know) and the 3rd of jan 2012.

i am determined not to have her in 2011, but we'll see how that turns out for me! i have
visions of the world celebrating either christmas or new years and me lying in a
hospital bed with miserable nurses, trying to appear chirpy and in the christmas spirit,
flitting around me while my family celebrates our usual chaotic christmas 'experience'
without me. it's a crazy day of 8 grandkids playing/fighting/screaming, trying to
coordinate food for them and that the moms, dads and grandparents eat together.
did i mention all the kids are under 4 and a half!, it's freaking crazy but it's christmas,
and i love it!

so here's to keeping my legs closed, and having a crazy busy christmas day, and especially
to my 'almost didn't have you' second child...
how wonderful life is, now that you're in the world ~mommy...

...my siena's beautiful eyes...



...maybe i have my 'in absolute love with my child' goggles on 
but i think that siena has theeeeeee most beautiful brown eyes that i've ever seen.
so much so that i couldn't help doing an acrylic on canvas for above my bed...