Day 127 - bumpy

If i didnt know better, id be wondering if Suzie is desperately trying to get me to run out of ideas and put a photo of me up!! Bumpy... i guess thats what every woman can hope for at best after having had 3 babies! but no you are all lucky enough for me to have found a suitable victim in the form of some Mr Kiplings minicakes! I am not a great fan of these overly sweet things, but the kids and dh love them.. so here are some bumpy cakes.

Day 126 - rough

Thats how ive been feeling for a couple of days now... i dont know whether its the fall out from physiotherapy (she DID warn me that id be incredibly sore) or "something" else.. i guess time will tell! I was not willing to chance any of my camera lenses with photos of me, so i pondered this quite some time, when i realised that id been walking around with "rough" in my hands most of the afternoon. So, out came the shiny new iphone with shiny new macro lens and this is what i got:

Day 125 - smooth

Day 124 - Beautiful

I am seriously starting to embrace the fact that i must be different! every time suzie says "an easy one today" it turns out to be HARD.. and every time it supposedly is a "tricky word" it just clicks into place for me. beautiful is another one of those a million and two possible choices words! 124 days into the challenge and i still cannot make decisions! its been tipping down ALL day, i have been running around like a headless chicken (where does that saying come from? headless chickens surely dont run very far or fast for that matter? maybe twitch a little before their head catches up with the fact that it has lost its body, but running without a head?), ferrying the kids from one appointment to another, while picking up or dropping off one or the other two... to find that the town center was evacuated due to a major bomb threat. Needless to say, the photos of the beautiful things i took didnt turn out too beautiful.. so i am going to use an older photo that i didnt even take. Still, it takes my breath away... and many people have since commented on "how beautiful she is"... and i truly am stunned whenever i look at this photo! how did that little "scrap of humanity" (as an elderly lady unasked for described my beautiful baby girl) into a stunning young lady... where did all that time go? hard to believe that she is "only" twelve when you look at this shot of her!

Day 123 - Futuristic

This word gave me a lot of food for thought... again, the obvious interpretation went straight to electronics and how those have changed our lives over the last 20 or 30 years. Thinking back to the first computer language i learnt (Pascal for any other retros out there) and the size of the main computer in our uni, and then looking at my tablet pc, laptop, iphones, ipods, the kids gizmos and gadgets, it boggles my mind how we now take for granted to have a library of books, a telephone directory on the go, an entire map collection for wherever we are, more music than anyone could listen to in an enitire year in our pockets at all times. I caught one of the very early episodes of Star Trek (remember the original one.. with Captain T Kirk, Mr Spock and Dr McCoy??) and i nearly fell about laughing when they whipped out their "communicators", which looked suspiciously like an early 1990s flip phone :D ... now if only we could find a way to "beam" people and maybe have a replicator or two in every kitchen, my life will be made! For my word today i snapped a pic of dh's new motherboard, well obviously its not FOR dh, but his pc, as that looked pretty futuristic! To think that this small bit of plastic with some soldering on will be the brain and central nervous system for something that can calculate the most complex equation, let us instantly communicate with someone on the other side of the world and do a million other things is just amazing.

Day 122 - grungy

I am still playing catchup... lots is happening here, in fact so much, it is starting to scare me! Im glad we have the long weekend to look forward to so i can recharge a little bit! But before then we have still 2 days packed with appointments and lots of running around and trying to be in three places at once. Grungy was an easy word for me, i do grungy extremely well :) in all interpretations of the word! I like the grungy gravelly indie sounds, i usually look rather grungy in my comfort clothes, the house is in a despicable grungy state most of the time because i never get round to finishing all the 1000 things i need to be doing. I took my first photo with my shiny new iphone4... of my most comfortable, worn in, grungy trainers!

April - a recap

Day 121 - Dessert

Ok, it is official.. i have the best husband in the world! He was quite naughty really as he had told me that he had only bought me "something little" for our wedding anniversary, i suppose technically he IS right, it is little.. but expensive! I am the most spoilt wife in the world, and now a proud owner of an iphone 4S!!! with a set of lenses to match and a snuggly case i have now officially joined the kewl kids club again! You would have thought id been snapping photos all day long with my new toy, but i have to disappoint you all... i was kind of overwhelmed by the whole thing and just speechless.. so im resorting back to our great dinner on Saturday and give you all a selection of the desserts we sampled!

Day 120 - lights

I found this word quite hard, as we already had a light prompt and i have given you all a tour around our lights back on day 56, next thought was "candles" as we have loads of those dotted around the house too, but that rang a bell as well and sure enough, that was way back in January! So i had to resort to my next favourite light in the house: my lightbox also called my happy rays. It is funny how the camera lens captured the green/yellow, as to the human eye, the lamp is white and constant. It wasnt until i looked at the photo, that i noticed the bars and flickering.

Day 119 - Handmade

I am playing catch up again... but i did take my photos! And i have a very valid reason for being late... it was our wedding anniversary on Saturday (today) and we spend a nice together. In the evening we went out for a nice meal at a new local restaurant that serves meals from 10 countries, we had gone in there with the intention of sampling EVERY dish there was, but we both gave up after our third plate as we were feeling overstuffed and quite sick by then. We both agreed that it wasnt the most romantic of places (so it suited me just fine, but dh had hoped for a candle lit affair), but it certainly made for it with the choices of foods and desserts available. There were lots and lots of cooks behind the stations, preparing the food for you right there and then. So, for my handmade, i chose to take photos of the dishes just made for us!