i'm quitting

Move along people, nothing to see here...nothing to see. Just a crazy soon to be nicotine deprived host gave up smoking a little while ago - 8am 31 March to be exact - you can see how long since with the counter at top underneath the poll.

So I am now officially (self control allowing!) a NON-SMOKER.Wish me luck!

Seeing as how there's nothing much to see here, unless you haven't read the last few posts which is a distinct possibility cos at this point there are NO comments, why don't you go and visit my renter, 3T, I promise you won't be disappointed!

Or, you can tell me something. Why do you use the nickname or persona you do when your online? Mine, as you are probably aware, is DEBAMBAM, and the answer to why I use it can be found elsewhere on debambam.com So fill up the comments and share with me the story of how you came to choose the alias you gave yourself in an attempt to keep some anonimity as you explore you way around cyber space.

As for me, I am off to do my good deed for the day (lord knows I need the brownie points after stirring my mother!) and can be found at the school canteen...then later today or possibly over the weekend I have some books to cover for the library...damn I'm a good mummy aren't I? Raffle tickets, class helper, canteen chick, library assistant blah blah blah...

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Tags: QUIT, non-smoking area, nicotione cravings, spilling the beans

why I am the way I am

Me and my mum were just chatting about how much i'll be paying for therapy for Zoe when she gets older because she is so much like me when I was little. I'm here to tell you that the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.....and that WE reflect that which we watched as we were growing up.

I offer this page as suggested reading material.

The fourth comment down, last line. MY OWN MOTHER wants me to lose my intestines. And I very nearly did.

But you know what? It's ok, cos I got all that extra skin to fill the gaps with hey mum!! (you'll have to ask her about it cos i'm not telling!)

Love ya mum, if I wasn't shit stirring you'd be wondering which aliens abducted your daughter.

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Tags: mum, therapy, spilling the beans

revenge will be sweet...

Well it seems as though my wordless wed pic appears to have been a bit of a hit. You guys crack me up you know?? hehehehe I'm just glad you enjoyed it...and hope the nightmares subside real soon!

As you've probably noticed i've redecorated AGAIN...hope you like it, I do. There is also a new poll up there as well which was prompted by this post from THE MULE. I can see this turning into a war of words you know..watchout babe, i'm coming to get you! You can see the results from last weeks one down in the sidebar there, appropriately filed under the heading of 'polls - past results'. Thats clever of me isn't it???

I've also been messing around with some coding for editing my comments, if you take a look at any of the last 3 or so posts, you'll see I have responded to your comments IN your comment. Bit tricky isn't it? For those of you with Blogger blogs, I am writing a post at the moment to explain how I did it. I could simply send you the THREE different sites I had to go to to find ALL the info needed, but it's just too damn confusing..so i'm doing the laymans version for those of us who don't eat, breathe and sleep coding.

On that note, i'm outta here..going to have some noodles for lunch..yummo!

Oh by the way, wanted to ask you all something. Have you ever got up in the morning, thrown the crumpled clothes on the floor beside the bed on as you realise your running about 5 days late to get the kiddies off to schoool, got said kiddies all piled up in car whilst wondering why your pants seems a little snugger than usual on your left side, proceeded to wander through school yard distributing kiddies to correct rooms, gone to get back in the car when you notice a large bump on your rear which upon investigation turns out to be yesterdays undies still in your pants poking out like a damn boil the size of your fist??? No??? Me either....but just thought i'd check! Have a good one people

Oh bugger, nearly forgot - Sorry 3T!! You HAVE to go and check out this weeks renter...she is great. Kind of person I'd love to sit down and have a coffee with actually! Anyway, take some choccies or flowers with you cos they are having some rough times at the moment...tell em I sent you and be sure to have a look at the archives (if you got a spare couple of hours that is!)

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Tags: just stuff, bum fluff, spilling the beans

wordless wednesday V

Extra services now provided by your local telco technician free of charge..
what do think this one is? (highlight line below for my guess)
moneyboxes!!!

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Tags: wordless wednesday, nasty, spilling the beans

where are you all hiding??

Ok, looks as though some of you have gotten lost since the big move to the domain name...either that or your totally dissing me cos you think I now have tickets on myself as a result of my new cyber real estate purchase! My stats are telling me theres about half the visitors, there are only 20 votes on the latest poll and my comments are dwindling and becoming rarer....while I have your attention NOT ONE OF YOU COMMENTED ON MY BIG BLOODY POST!! Whats going on?? You could have just humored me and pretended you gave a shit you know?? Ok...that didn't mean to sound nasty, sorry! I just meant to say, speak up people, if your new here, all comments will be responded either on here or with a reply email and I don't bite unless provoked. If your a regular, and i'm boring your lately, then let me know. Do I need to rant more? Want more of my theories? Want half naked pictures? (Be careful what your wish for!!! See tomorrows post...)

You know i've just read the title of this postand realise how dumb it is. Because if your reading it, then you are obviously here, and if your not, then your the ones i'm talking too....ok, shutting up now.

Well it's been a busy couple of days in the house, we have new phone/isdn/fax liney thingys in the house for the business. Zoe's had freakin NITS and a day home from school yesterday with mummy as the teacher....and we had a picnic of fish and chips (that were delivered!) for tea tonight. Ok so that last one didn't really keep us busy but anyway.....thought you might like to know that we find the simple things in life the best!

Tomorrow is Wordless Wednesday as you know, so watch out....it's going to be a CRACKER of a pic - oh man you are only going to get how funny that is when you see the pic! Ok, i'm off to reply to those of you who HAVE commented recently, thanks for doing so by the way, I love them you know, I really do!

Cheers,
Kelly

Tags: comments, poll, where are you, spilling the beans

internal spell checker?

I've been typing for what seems like FOREVER - I don't mean right now, I just mean in general. I feel like I have been using computers and typewriters for longer than I haven't. Anway I was typing up something the other day when I noticed that I always make the same spelling mistakes...I mean EVERY TIME with some words. Thats not the weird bit. The weird bit is I have deleted it and corrected it as soon as the last letter is typed, like my very own spellchecker. So far I have noticed the following words are consistently typed incorrectly:

An - 90% of the time I write AND instead..especially in comments....
Thier - instead of their
Update: HIME instead of HIM - i've just caught myself doing it three times in about the same number of minutes!

You know what? I can't for the life of me think what the other bloody ones are! I'll be typing something tomorrow and remember or come across one of the words, whats the bet? I'll keep a notepad by the laptop and write it down when I do it....cos I know I will at some stage.

The thing that gets me is, I KNOW how to spell these words, like I said, i'm deleting and correcting before I even hit the space bar ready for the next word. And when writing as opposed to typing, I don't write them wrong. So can someone explain to me WHY it's only when typing? Why certain words too? Is it some mysterious look deep into my psyche? Or is it just my finger muscles messing with me? Is it an internal spell checker that just needs to justify it existence? I dont think it's this last one because if it was I would like to think my brain is smart enough to pick different words all the time to avoid detection....ok this is starting to get weird, so i'm stopping. RIght now. No more theories.

Start taking notice of how you type, do any of you have similar experiences? Or am I just a freak???! Ok, don't answer that last question..nighty night peoples.

P.S Yes i've been a little absent the last couple of days. Yesterday was Zoe day....and today was cleaning day. Oh and RAFFLE TICKET DAY - spent 3 hours doing raffle tickets for the school easter raffle....oh the joys of BABE volunteering HIS time....which of course ends up being mostly mine!

Tags: typing, errors, freak, spilling the beans

feel good friday

It's friday, I'm feelin good..It must be time for FEEL GOOD FRIDAY:

• Firstly, the domain name thing...i'm loving it...but you are probably over it, so i'm going to shut up about it now!
• Secondly, we went to watch Zoe's school assembly today. Nothing makes you feel better than watching your five year old on stage singing about full grown women running around town half dressed and ladies dying in bed!! (see this post for explanation)
• When I got up this morning, babe had been up for two hours and was in the process of stamping 1500 raffle tickets with Zoe's school name. No big deal you might think, except for two things. One, babe NEVER gets up before 9, and I mean never so for him to have been up since 6 was HUGE. Second, its a boring thankless task that as a general rule you would not catch him even thinking about. What made me feel good? He did this because he's Zoe's dad. And that's her school. And someone needed to do it.
• The homemade chip sandwich that is still sitting in my tummy as a glob of saturated fat and bread tasted SO yummo, and yummo always makes me feel good.
  

All in all it's been a great day..we did lots for the school's easter raffle, watched Zoe being adorable and I got to sleep in while babe did a shitty job! Thanks for not waking me baby, after all there was only one stamp :)

So what made you feel good today?

Tags: feel good friday, babe, Zoe, spilling the beans

bugger bugger blogger!

ok guys, in all of the excitement when I was doing that post below...I forgot that once I moved the blog then all the links to the post would change :) sooooo that means that the tag cloud won't work properly until I fix it, and also the links to my fav posts won't either until I fix them..which quite frankly won't be until the weekend i'd say! I'm heading to bed right now and we have a full day planned for tomorrow so until then hang five ok?

Thanks you guys are the greatest.

ok, correction, it looks like for the time being my old posts are still there!! so browse away!!

party time!!

Well folks, today is a celebatory one here at spilling the beans for two reasons. Firstly

debambam.com

is live and active....how quick was that! Less than 24 hours after putting in an order for it, i'm ftp'ing my files...very cool. I'm so bloody excited..my first piece of real estate!!! So go ahead peoples, type that into your addy bar and go take a look...it's the same as that the old address, but i'm no longer a freeloader in a caravan park with a bunch of other people using the same address, not that there is anything wrong with that, but let's face it...this is better! I can upload this blog to it, and in fact have already done so...hehehehe. Will change the banner up the top to link to that one rather than this. So if you have me bookmarked/blogrolled/in your sidebar etc etc....get to changing that addy will ya! New one is http://debambam.com/blog Does anyone know how to do the redirect thing?? If so, please enlighten me!
Secondly, this is my 100th post here at Spilling the Beans. I never thought i'd make it past two weeks let alone nearly 3 months. Looks like I may actually stick this one out hey?

Anyway, I thought I might point to you some of my favorite posts, or posts that i'm particularly fond of. This was an idea from vic over at rosevibe who was one of the first blogs I read when I entered this blogiverse..thanks Vic, it's been great reading your posts.you'll get the hang of that clutch before long, I just know it.. So lets get to it!

1. A mothers musings
   This one would have to still be one of my favs...just because when reading it I realise just how much being a mother is the experience of a lifetime, and one that I wouldn't swap for anything on this earth. It's hard, thankless and demanding, but at the same time has the ability to turn you into a person you never thought possible...Zoe I love you sweetie and I thank you for choosing me for your mummy. It's an honor.
2. Penis Extensions
   What can I say? Readers loved this, I loved telling the world about my theories on men and remote controls and some of the comments are simply classical. I think my fav was Evans...I love rendering a man speechless!
3. Gifted Children....and a witch
   This third one was a toughie, there are a few that I could have picked, but in the end it was the reaction I got from readers that prompted this choice. Few of my posts before or since this one have evoked such a response from you guys! It also emcompasses all the things I wished for this blog to be. It tells of my parenting experiences, it was a vent of anger and frustration, as well as being a little intellectual and articulate. When I set my mind to it I can actually WRITE. I just don't have the time, inclination or imagination to do more of it!

So those are just some of the posts I love, and you guys liked some others aswell, so if your so inclined go take a peek by picking a tag over there in the sidebar and browse to your hearts content! There have been some memorable moments for me since starting this blog, here's a quick rundown:

• Evan making me spit my coffee, on more than one occasion - you owe me a bottle of spray and wipe for my screen and mum needs a new blotter she tells me! She's been reading some of your posts today....
• Being so damn helpless when a friend went through a rough spot...I love this net and the people it puts me in touch with, but hate the physical distance that is actually between us. A hug just isn't the same when you type it is it?
  

You know I could do this all day, but will stop now, afterall it's only a hundred bloody posts right? Not like i've been here for 10 years!! I'm probably more excited about than you are so i'll just shut up before you decide to REMOVE my link rather than alter it......
Have fun kiddies, and you know where you can find me right??? I've give you a clue:

DEBAMBAM.COM

P.s There is a new poll up there, this one is giving me the sh$%s already though...hehehehe

Tags: debambam.com, 100 posts, woohoo, spilling the beans

Top Ten

Top Ten things I would love to hear a pollie say:

1. You know what? We f#$%^ it up, got it wrong.
2. I can't believe you elected me, I wouldn't elect me.
   
3. No we CANNOT keep all of you happy at the same time, SOMEONE is going to miss out.
4. You know I think they are doing a great job at the moment. (From the opposition)
5. I fart in bed and dribble while snoring.
6. I woke up this morning and didn't want to go to work.
7. OMG that has got to be the ugliest baby ever, and you CAN'T make me kiss it.
8. I DID inhale, and ENJOYED it.
   
9. I don't have a clue about that..ask someone else.
10. You've obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a shit.

I tell you I would vote for any pollie who had the guts to say it like it really is and be damned with the consequences. Like the premier of QLD as quoted here;

Mr Beattie said the tragedy boiled down to parental responsibility.

"Railway lines are really dangerous and we need to ensure that parents and everybody take those matters very seriously," he said.
"There needs to be very heavy parental responsibility on these things ... I know that is not a very pleasant thing to say, but someone has got to tell the truth about this."

I wish I was in QLD so I could show my support for a guy who isn't scared of being human and talking straight. Mr Beattie, do us all a favor and jump ship to Federal Politics....

Tags: politicians, truth, top ten, spilling the beans

p.s Poor old Stephanie aint feeling enough love from you guys so clickety click click click you go! Make sure she gets her credits worth ok???