Some Matrix Quotes

Morpheus: "There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."

Morpheus: "I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it."

NEO: "There is no spoon."

Agent Smith: "I'd like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species, and I realised that humans are not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. Instead you multiply, and multiply, until every resource is consumed. The only way for you to survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern... a virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer on this planet, you are a plague, and we... are the cure."

Morpheus: "Don't think you are, know you are"

Morpheus: "You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind."

Sign above the Oracles kitchen door - Know Thyself

Saturday & Sunday, 28st & 29nd November, 2009

Guess who scored lots of Zanda cuddles this weekend? :P

Alex surprised me by turning up just after 8 Saturday morning and the very first thing he did was to give me huge cuddles :D It was wonderful to see him so soon after last weekend.

After catching up for a while we caught a bus to Unanderra, first port of call was the Lifeline Bookshop to see what they had for us today. I managed to find 3 books that took my fancy, first was Mad Cows by Kathy Lette, March by Geraldine Brooks and Labryinth by Kate Mosse. Alex unfortunately didn't find any books he was after.

Next we went to Lots of Bubbles aquarium shop to pick up some fishy foods I was after. Alex and I checked out all their fish but none screamed out "take me home!", which I gotta tell you is pretty unusual...

Frustratingly, the bus had arrived a couple of minutes earlier than the scheduled time so we had to sit in the heat and wait another hour for the next one. Doubly frustrating was the fact that there was track work on the train line this weekend so we couldn't even catch a train home. Regardless, we sat, chatted and drank some nice cold drinks that Alex went and got for us. When Alex started playing a game on my phone I went to check out a dress shop and found a pretty skirt and matching top. Lucky me! Books AND clothes all in one day!

Home again and all we wanted to do was escape the heat and relax - Alex picked the Matrix trilogy for us to watch. I hadn't seen those movies for a while so was happy to watch them again and munch on the Skittles Alex had brought down with him :P

Sunday was much cooler thank goodness, since Alex was in full relax mode he voted we watch more dvds. No idea what it is with my kids and wanting to watch dvds all the time! Anyhow, after I got some chores out of the way we watched Shrek 3, The Patriot and Oceans 11. Alex was deliberately trying to shake things up by picking 3 totally different movies! LOL

Alex also gave me a demonstration of his 100 out of 100 presentation he did for a TAFE class this week. I am so impressed the way his marks have improved this semester! It is wonderful that he is seeing results from studying and keeping on top of assignments and classwork! Great job Honey!

It was sad to see Alex go and sadder to find out that I won't get to see him next fortnight, he has a get together with some friends that Saturday night, but I am glad he is getting to go to it. It was wonderful to get loads of hugs and the girls were happy about all the pats and love they got too! :D

Alex leaves and Josh arrives back home. It is difficult switching over from missing one to being happy about seeing the other back safe and sound, and listening to all he got up to. Since Josh and his dad had gotten Josh's pushie fixed, we went out for a walk/ride down by the lake. It helped the change over of being Zanda's mummy back to Josh's mummy a little more.

I also started the Kate Mosse book tonight. So far I am really enjoying the descriptive way it is written and the intriguing storyline.

Friday, 27th November 2009

Looking forward to Zanda cuddles tomorrow!!!

Didn't get much sleep last night, only 4 hours then nothing till an hour before the alarm went off. The kitten was acting very sooky and very cuddly all night which suited me perfectly. She misses her Tash so badly. So do I. Since I couldn't get into either of my two books I decided to watch a movie - since I brought some Heath Ledger movies lately I picked Brokeback Mountain. What a non event this movie was. As slow as it was it didn't even manage to put me sleep - maybe I was too traumatised seeing Heath Ledger and that guy together, in *that* way. lol

This morning I took off shopping real early to beat the crowds and the heat. When I walked in the door Ruth was calling, so got to chat with her for a while. Unloaded groceries and then got stuck into rearranging some tanks and cleaning them out... busy busy busy

Fell asleep for a little while before Josh got home, soon after that Mick came around to pick up some fish... When I was saying goodbye to him I saw a neighbour watering her plants so went and chatted to her for a while. Got to chat with The Shane on msn and listen to some music with him which was great. He tackle hugged me when I came online which was pretty hilarious! I got told not to be gone for so long next time lol It's always nice to be missed.

Shane wrapped up our music tonight with one of my absolute favourite songs - Good Charlotte's, Dance Floor Anthem!!!

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Joshua had the brilliant idea of going for a walk/skate tonight as it was still so hot - while Josh was getting ready I quickly made us a picnic dinner and we had that down at the park before going to get ice creams.

The view from our picnic table was spectacular -

Action shot of The Josh skating -

Thursday, 19 November 2009

What a busy, busy day.

This morning I felt like I was going to have to drag myself through the day, between needing alot more sleep and my hands/wrists flaring up with arthritis, I was ready to go back to bed but thankfully I picked up some after hangin' with the Ruth.

I worked on removing some more of the silastic from a tank, till about 11am when Ruth came over. My friend Ruth had found a 2 foot tank on ebay that she was interested in and this morning the auction was ending, so I was showing her the ins and outs of bidding on ebay. To her utter surprise she won the tank! ;) Go Ruth!

After a yummy lunch of egg and lettuce sandwiches, supplied by Ruth, we took off to search for the gravel needed for the new tank but alas 3 stores didn't have it. Though I did manage to score some fish I have been after for a while! :P

By the time I got home Josh was already on the doorstep waiting, so we went inside for afternoon tea. Then he took off to his room to play his PS3 game while I went to the library to pick up the Kathy Lette books.

I borrowed Kathy Lette's - How to Kill Your Husband (and Other Household Hints), Mad Cows and Victoria Hislop's - The Return. I am looking forward to reading them all. Meanwhile I have one story left to go in the short story book.

Josh was fantastic in helping me with housework after dinner and since he has no school tomorrow we snuck off late to go watch 10 Things I Hate About You. We both totally love that movie :)

Wednesday, 18th November, 2009

Last night when I went to bed I was in the mood for reading a book but not in the mood for committing to anything major. That's where I find a book of short stories fits the bill! This book was sitting on my "to read" pile so I thought why not?

It is a collection of stories by 10 Australian authors and is part of a Books Alive promotion.

So far I have read 4 of the 10. The story Hate at First Sight by Kathy Lette is my favourite so far. Tonight I checked my local libraries online catalogue and shall go pick up some of her books tomorrow, I was that impressed with it.

Some quotes from the story that I found hilarious were -

* I've been on so many blind dates, I should be given a free dog.

* Now, if you'll excuse me. I have a husband to hunt.

* I've done everything but wear Fosters-flavoured lip gloss.

Our libraries book group day was today - my friend Ruth came for the first time :D - and as usual I had alot of fun with the ladies. They were teasing me so much because I totally hated our last book and was quite animated in telling them so. LOL The women are all alot older than myself but I love that they are all at the stage of life where everyone's opinion is respected and that they are past pretending to be anything they aren't. Basically they are there to interact, be social, listen, laugh and share views. I totally love my bookgroup days!!!

This months book is - The Island by Victoria Hislop.

After bookgroup we had organised that we would all be going down to the local bowling club for lunch. We had a blast! We chatted, shared stories, supported each other and laughed till some of us cried :P

Since Josh was due to leave school while I was still at the club, I messaged him and he swung by so we could walk home together. The rest of the day has been nice and relaxed, I couldn't resist grabbing my book and sneaking off to read some more :)

A movie that was recommended to me today was Julie and Julia.

Apparently it is based on the early culinary career of Julia Childs and crosses over to Julie Powell who aspires to cook all the recipes from Julia's book in a year and blogs about it. The movie was adapted from two books and sounds really interesting.

Wednesday, 11th November, 2009

Woke up this morning feeling very tired and very sore. I desperately need more sleep lol and the arthritis is making sure I haven't forgotten about it. So today has been a very quiet day. Chatted to Scott for a little while, got some computer stuff done that I have been wanting to do, and then decided to go lie in bed and watch a dvd.

My girlfriend, Deanne lent me some dvds when I went to see her last, so I chose Fried Green Tomatoes. I had never watched it before. I enjoyed it but ended up blubbering through the ending lol. Just as it was finishing my kitten, Pixel, snuggled up for a cuddle, then purred like a V8 till we both fell asleep.

When Josh came home from school he organised bagels with cream cheese. Yummy! Then we went to go relax by watching more Alias episodes (season 4).

Ruth rang to organise pick up time for tomorrow morning - we are off to our favourite aquarium shop and to have a cuppa. I am so looking forward to it :D

Our 17 year old siamese cat, Tash, is sick again. As if the arthritis and dementure wasn't enough, he is showing symptoms of the cat flu for the 2nd time in a month. I rang and spoke to our wonderful vet, Belinda, to organise more medications for him. It doesn't look promising. Even though his blood tests a few months ago showed no problems with his internal organs, it looks like something else more sinister is going on. With the weight loss that has been starting and the fact that his immune system isn't working as well as it should be, Belinda wonders whether he has a tumour somewhere. With medications, eye cream three/four times a day, Tash is a mess - he runs away to hide often in case I am going to do something else to him. I can't blame him. So now he is also going to take the anti anxiety medication that the other two cats are on.

Good grief - three cats with severe medical problems. Sometimes I feel like I am going to go crazy.

Tonight while talking to my son, Josh, about it I said to him though this may sound selfish and I surely don't mean it that way - I don't think I can do this with Tash. I don't want the remaining time we have with him to be him feeling so sick and to be always running away from us.

Needless to say Josh and I went for a walk up the road to drown our sadness in chocolate, ice cream and ice blocks.

This is a pic of Tash, who is a lilac siamese -