Our second Aussie Farmers Direct Fruit and Vege box arrives tomorrow. Hurrah!

From the (approx) 11kg of fruit and veges delivered last week, all we have left is:

• 1 orange
• 2 apples (1 red, 1 green)
• 1/2 a pumpkin
• 1 ear of corn.

That's it!

We've eaten everything else! (and it was all yummy too!)

I wonder what will be in tomorrows box?

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Today we went and purchased the ex-display model dishwasher that we saw last weekend.

The super-nice dinner set I brought at Freedom fits in it (it didn't fit in our old dishwasher) so Ross is happy about that. It's also a lot more energy and water efficient than our previous one, in fact, it's one of the most energy and water efficient dishwashers on the market.

Ross' brother is coming to install it tomorrow. Hurrah!

I also hired an elliptical trainer.I've got to get my ass into gear and try to loose some weight.

It arrives on Wednesday, so wish me luck!

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"Mum, I like these ones."

"Oh yeah, they are a good colour."

"Yeah, and they are, like, thigh-highs."

"Put them back."

"Why?"

"Because they are thigh-highs."

"But they are cool!"

"And you are, like, 12."

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Today Ross and I went dishwasher shopping. Our dishwasher has been playing up for a while now, and during the week finally ran it's last cycle. It's last cycle lasted the whole damn night! I kept waking up during the night and thinking "Is the dishwasher still going?" But then falling back to sleep without much more of a thought. When I got up the next morning to go to work, the dishwasher was STILL running.

Now it's full of water and it won't drain out. Blurgh!

Dishwasher shopping was interesting... the dishwashers with any sort of feature at all $200 - 500 out of our target price range (of course). But I think we have come to a decision. It's between an Miele and a Asko, two top of the line brands.

I'm leaning toward the Miele because it has the better features, however, Miele don't 'do' an extended warranty. So Ross is leaning toward the Asko. Also, with the Asko there is a display model that does fit within our budget.

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The James Reyne/Mark Seymour Concert was fabulous. I had a blast!

When I woke up the next morning.... I couldn't breathe... Weird! I'd felt fine the night before.

I had a doctors appointment the following day (to track my blood pressure) so I took the day off work and headed to the doctors Monday night, she said I had a cold which had set off my (long dormant) asthma.

Blurgh!

I sold one necklace at the Bead and Gem show, which is an OK outcome, it means I at least broke even. And they gave out a whole bunch of my business cards. Which is great. And my new website will be up any day now.

Hurrah!

In other kinda cool news, TK's school has started a program with 'Aussie Farmers Direct' where you pay $35 a week and they deliver a box of farm fresh fruit and veges to your door.

You don't get to choose what is in the box, but they post a list of what you'll get that week on their website, so you can plan ahead of what you might need to buy at the store.

The idea is that if family's have a stock of fresh fruit and veges on hand they are more likely to eat a wider variety of veges, and that children will choose healthy snacking options (fruit).

They will also deliver milk, fresh fruit juice, eggs and bread, so it sounds like a really good option so far.

I'm going to trial it for a month and see how we go, but so far we are pretty happy with the idea!

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About 3 months ago I brought tickets to see James Reyne & Mark Seymour in concert (at a really small venue).

I've loved James Reyne for a really long time. For those of you who have no idea who James Reyne is, he is probably most well known for being lead singer "Australian Crawl" or for the songs "Reckless", "the Boys light up" and "Errol"

Mark Seymour was the lead singer of "Hunters and Collectors", most famous for their songs, "Throw your arms around me" (which has been covered many, many, times) and "Do you see what I see?"

Ahhhh.... the 80's.

I'll be bobbing around like a loon tonight.

I can't wait.

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... taken by my friend Carrie, who rocks.

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... waiting... I'm still waiting to find out how I went at the Bead and Gem show. My work fit in nicely with the other work on show, in fact, my work looked great.

And there was no other work there like mine.

I was really pleased.

I know that they gave out all of my business cards, and that I got some really nice feedback, including the possibility of a magazine doing an article about the designers on show. *hurrah*

However, I don't know as yet what, if anything sold.

*tapping fingers*

There are two more Bead and Gem shows coming up, one in Sydney and one in Brisbane and I'm considering applying for both shows to get the extra publicity.

So. Yeah.

Good stuff.