Finally, after battling a stomach bug for the last 2 weeks, that wasn't responding to over the counter medication I went along to see the doctor yesterday. He thinks it may be just a stomach bug and has prescribed antibiotics, if after a week the tummy is still not behaving he will get me to have a ultrasound and if something is found will organised for me to have a camera tablet(!!) swallowed and see if this discovers where the problem is.

I have been unwell the last couple of days,

not too impressed as I am rarely sick.

On Saturday I went down to Sydney to visit my daughter, Natalie, she is due to have her first baby in 6 weeks time. It wasn't until on the morning I hopped on the net to check the rail timetable that I found out that there would be trackwork, so I was going to have to catch a rail bus to Sydney from my local railway station.

What fun!

It had been years since I last caught a bus, as I, like most people am always running to and fro by car. So it was lovely to 'rock up' to the station, purchase a train ticket and wander over to the other side of the station to hail the rail bus which had journeyed down from Newcastle. I was able to get a seat behind the bus driver.

I put on the seat belt and away we went.

By the time we got to Gosford the bus was full and we 'hopped' up to the F3 freeway. I don't know how many times I have driven down the freeway to Sydney but driving at 110kmph my whole focus had been on the traffic around me. Now I could sit back and watch the world go by especially as we crossed the Mooney Mooney bridge which is perched above the Mooney Mooney river 75 metres below. Yikes.

I arrived in Hornsby to be met by my daughter and after cruising the shops and having some morning tea we headed off to her house to preview all the things she had been given so far by friends/family. Lots of things - a cot, prams, clothes, nappies, cuddle rugs galore.

Natalie will be having her baby shower next Sunday and will be having about 30 family/friends bearing gifts. While we were shopping we went through a list of what she needed and so far she pretty much has everything, which is making it a bit hard for me to choose what to get her, as I'm not one to buy baby needs until just before baby is due. So in 3 weeks, when she starts maternity leave we will get together again and shop for last minute items.

Chat Roulette Funny Piano Improve

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KEN LEVINE is an Emmy winning writer/director/producer.

This is the latest from his blog-

Every year, English teachers from across the US can submit their collections of actual similes and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusementof teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners:

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a thigh Master.

More here -

http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2010/03/really-rotten-ritin.html

He is also on Twitter

U.S. TV Guide Mega Buzz

on the departure of Goren And Eames

from LO:Criminal Intent

It comes at the 55th second of the video.

The announcer gets some info wrong Saffron replaces

Wheeler and will be Jeff Goldblum's new CI partner..

Autumn! Here we come ...

A time of balmy warm days and cool nights.

No humidity (Hopefully)

Less rain. (We've had lots this summer).

Less mowing of the jungle in the backyard.

Less frequent lightning and thunderstorms..

The JATWC has issued a tsunami alert, declaring a "potential tsunami threat" for Queensland, NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/6864047/get-out-of-water-tsunami-experts-warn/.

Beaches along the eastern seaboard of Australia were closed today because of the Earthquake in Chile and the resulting Tsanami that was thought may have some impact on the local beaches.

So while I was running errands today,

I went along to The Entrance Beach to take some photos.

The Entrance Beach

The Entrance Surf Club

Stairway to the beach

Beach closed due to Tsanami warning

as a result of Chile earthquake.

Lifesavers sitting around feeling bored, the beach is usually crowded on a Sunday morning. Lots of stickybeaks driving down to the Central Coast beaches but all they are seeing is flat surf - low tide.

My dogs have started to yap as there is some local thunder, we have had quite a few thunder/lightning storms this summer and the dogs and cat have become very jittery.

Friday has come around again.

Tomorrow, Saturday, I have to be up early to have my car serviced as its only 8 months old there going to do the deed while I wait. yay.

I am trying to update my 30yo kitchen on a budget. I picked up a kitchen planner charts from Bunnings the other week and between painting the pantry which is staying where it is and moving little piece of squares around on the chart. I hope to get an idea of how the finished kitchen will look.

This project is going to take some time as paying off my car doesn't leave me much moolah left over for a 'dream kitchen' but I am going to persevere and hopefully I end up with something I will have fun cooking in.

I dropped into Ikea with my daughter a couple of months ago and liked their freestanding kitchen benches and cabinets but only because I like to move furniture around a room when I get bored with a layout, not sure if it would work with a kitchen. Ikea have a house planner you can download from their site so will have a bit of fun.

One thing I know I will be getting rid of will be the cooktop and separate wall oven such a waste of space and I think it will be easier to replace a free standing stove (in fact I know it does, because if I had only needed to replace a stove this kitchen would be already updated.) To get rid of the cooktop I'm having to remove the cabinet it resides in and the wall oven removal leaves a dirty great empty space in its pantry-size cabinet.

Decision, decisions.........................

Update: I just went onto ebay and saw a free standing kitchen ..yuk.. back to the drawing board.

This morning, Saturday,

I bathed the dogs,

Bailey and Kahlua,

clipped their fur

and filed their nails.

This afternoon

I mowed the lawns,

pruned the shrubs

and finally

washed the car.

I'm done.

I found this image

on a site but lost the site name when my post on Saturday fluffed up, it came via a Twitter link.

Persistence pays off.

Yay..went back over my viewing history on Sunday found the site.

Desigg.com which has some awesome wallpapers

desigg.com/funny-animation-wallpapers

Finally back in business. I haven't been able to post for the last few days -- as the posting box was on a loop and wouldn't let me type. You see I updated the new editor as per instructions -

How to enable the new editor

To enable the new editor, first navigate to your blog's Settings | Basic tab. Near the bottom of the page you will see a field called Select Post Editor, and from there you simply need to select Updated Editor and save your settings. That's it!"

Sorry Not Quite - I went back to Setting, Basic and changed back to old editor and wallah (!) the posting box stopped looping and I'm back. Yahoo.

I know I'm a little late but here are some photos of

Australia Day at The Entrance on the 26 January, 2010.

A Little Music on a Summer's day

Family groups enjoying the sunshine.

This fellow in his Oz Day shorts actually
 had corks swinging from his hat. LOL.

How Bizarre.

Twitter Chatter

NASA - International Space Station tracking

Lots of folks asking where we are, what we see right now.

Go here to find us -

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html

Roll your mouse over the Space Station on map 

and it will show you who is currently aboard SS.
This is FUN
This NASA site enables you to see the ISS 
as it zooms across the sky.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/index.html

International Space Station flight sightings for Sydney
from 30 January through to Sat Feb 13 are located here -
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/view.cgi?country=Australia&region=New_South_Wales&city=Sydney.

Trivia: On a clear day/night it should be see-able! ...lol
or you may need a telescope for a clearer view.