My Beautiful Rubylish

Christmas Antics

NO sleeps til Christmas

Because Christmas is here HOORAY HOORAY
(but don't worry Rosemary I added this post yesterday!)

1 sleep til Christmas

and my webolution journey shares with you
.....Our fabulous Christmas Breakfast and a mini break from blogging
(Rosemary told me I am NOT allowed to blog on Christmas Day!!)

2 Sleeps til Christmas

and my webolution journey shares with you
...My Christmas presents all ready for giving

3 sleeps til Christmas

and my webolution journey shares with you
.....Our Library Manager acting silly!

4 sleeps til Christmas

and my webolution journey shares with me
...some sunshine?! HOPEFULLY!!

5 sleeps til Christmas

and my webolution journey shares with you
.....a Chocolatey day out on the Town with great company

6 sleeps til Christmas

and my webolution journey brings to me
...a night out being serenaded by Kylie!

7 sleeps til Christmas

and my webolution journey shares with you
.....home made mince pies (perhaps just a photo) as they were all eaten by my Daddy

8 sleeps til Christmas

and my webolution journey brings to me
....a bit of peace and quiet thanks to a foxtel upgrade for Tommy!

9 sleeps til Christmas

and my webolution journey brings to you
..... a rested Jo after a day home with the family

10 sleeps til Christmas

and our webolution journey brings to us
.....a half time ceremony (aka par-teee)

11 sleeps til Christmas

and my webolution journey brings to me
.....a morning blogging in my PJs with a cup of tea

12 sleeps til Christmas

and my webolution journey shares with you
.....a photo of our Christmas Tree

Trigger Happy in the Library

Shhhhhh

Youtube

It is way past my bed time but I am trying to upload a vid onto the blog. Bloody Buggery KD & her webolution...I need some sleep!!

Mrs Muscles

Well the local gym has finally opened and I'm in my third week: 45mins cardio, 4 days a week.

Amazingly I'm not dead yet! (phew) and I actually don't mind it when I get into the gym. It is the 10 mins between the alarm and getting there that is really hard work.

I am hoping that I will soon be feeling trim and tip top, although so far the only change is feeling tired....and very hungry!

ALSO really hope I become Mrs Muscles, not a full on body builder with orange skin and muscles on muscles all over the place. I'd just like to have cool looking muscles like Michelle the Trainer on Biggest Loser.

It would be cool to be able to flex my muscles at Ruby, Tom & Archie!!

Fishy Fun?!

How many people can you squeeze into a public library?
Not many when it is the smallest library in Wiltshire and possibly in the world.
http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/search/3850439.How_many_people_can_you_fit_in_a_library_/

The new Swindon Library

A bit fishy
http://www.swindonweb.com/index.asp?m=2&s=625&ss=628&c=4233&g=340&gi=9055

Christmas Pudding Yummy Yummy

Not quite as catchy as the Wiggles Fruit Salad Yummy Yummy but I don't have a coloured skivvy. Had a busy weekend as in addition to the Party we had our annual Christmas pudding session at my Mum & Dad's place.
This year we had special guests Auntie Ray, from Qld and my cousin, Nic from the UK.
It was a great afternoon even though the wine did not flow as freely as usual!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

Library staff were sniffing & rubbing each other and moustaches were getting into the most unusual places!

No we have not gone totally shameless in our self promotion and made a library porno!

It was all in the spirit of our Christmas Party where the theme this year was tactile/sensory.

We had a wonderful night at the Mambourin Sensory Gardens Cafe. Our chosen music was a little loud for the venue but otherwise a good time was had by all.

Roll on the Christmas Breakfast!

LAST CLUE before Tuesday's announcement

I'm sure I will need to get my photo taken ICK!!

clue FOUR

It is work related..............

clue THREE

It involves travel but not anywhere far or for long.

Clue TWO point five

An extra half clue for those who thought clue two was dodgy!!
It involves money, not a fortune but a fair bit.

clue TWO

It does not involve wrestling in chocolate.

No matter how FUN that may look & sound!!

clue ONE

It is not an engagement, wedding or other family related celebration.

A CHANCE TO GUESS MY SECRET

Shall I give clues???? I think interesting clues and a little puzzle to de-code makes secrets much more fun. SCOOBY DOOBY DOO clues it is

I've got a little secret

I've got a secret, I've had it for about 7 weeks, I'm terrible at keeping secrets...it is burning me up inside....in 5 more sleeps I can release my secret out into the world. What will people say????

No more sleeps...then home

Well my stay in Auckland is coming to a close, the conference has been brilliant. Everyone LOVED Pam's mask last night at the ball!! I am totally tired out as I have not been sleeping well but it was definitely worth the trip. I have made some good contacts and have some good ideas. I can't wait to hear the theme for Christchurch next year, which they are announcing later this afternoon. Promise I will post some pics when I get back down under!!

New Zealand (AKA The Bermuda Triangle)

Who would have thought that the short trip to NZ would have put me in technological hell? Since arriving my blackberry has been in SOS only which means I can't phone, text or email.
What is a girl usually surgically attached to her phone to do in such a situation? Go shopping!! (and rack large amounts on the hotel bill phoning Tom in the evening)
It is going well so far, the group is much smaller than ALIA and many seem to know each other, which feels a bit intimidating but those I have spoken to have been lovely. I have chatted to people who are dropping names for me to refer to if/when I come back. Have arranged for a tour at the Auckland City Library tonight after the sessions.
Very tired!! the two hour difference has really mucked me about. I could not sleep last night but and exhausted this morning and the room was so cold for the first session that I almost nodded off! It is lunchtime now so I am just heading down to grab a bite and then perhaps a lap around the block in the sun to wake me up for the afternoon sessions.

Happy Birthday Ruby

Well my little Rubylish has turned the big 1! and what a party!!

An a 8hr BBQ in glorious sunshine, how will we top that in years to come?

Rich put together a swing set, which amazingly stayed in one piece the whole day despite the kids all trying to go the wrong way up the slide!! Ruby had a short snooze part way through the day but otherwise wandered around happily from guest to guest. She wasn't that fussed with the cake or the presents but did enjoy eating lots of grapes and strawberries!! (glad we left before nappy changing time!!)

IN THE NAME OF WORK ETHICS....what the?!

Librarian arrested in co-workers slaying
AMSAN ANTONIO — A 62-year-old librarian was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of a fellow librarian at a community college here.
Alan Godin, an adjunct librarian, allegedly walked into the library at Northeast Lakeview College on Monday afternoon and shot Devin Zimmerman, 37, to death, said school president Eric Reno.
Godin allegedly shot Zimmerman and then sat down and waited for police.
The men were co-workers, Zimmerman staffing the library during the day and Godin at night. There had apparently been some previous dispute about "work ethic," said Dan Pew, the acting chief of the Live Oak Police Department, which was assisting in the investigation.
Godin had worked part-time at the library since 2003. Zimmerman started working at the school last fall.
The campus, one of five Alamo Community Colleges around the city, has about 4,100 students.
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Information from: San Antonio Express-News: http://www.mysanantonio.com/

Working hard for NO money!

So Tom better treat me right!!
The grass arrived and I managed to successfully turn a pile of turf and a patch of dirt into a lovely lawn. Took a few hours but Mum arrived half way through so I had an excuse to stop for a cold drink and a chat. I'm pretty pleased with it, hopefully it wont die off in the next few weeks!!

Breast Cancer Fundraiser Breakfast

A group of us headed off to Flemington Racecourse this morning at what felt like THE CRACK OF DAWN for a fundraiser breakfast. What a wonderful morning! Breakfast was delish, we got show bags of goodies, heard inspirational stories of survival as well as heartbreaking stories of loss. We laughed, we cried (fortunately mostly laughed) and Mandy Mac even won one of the raffle prizes. A great way to start the working day and a great cause!!

See a few quick snaps below: we got some ideas from the cast of Priscilla for possible "fishy" new uniforms and controlled ourselves not to start a bidding war when they raffled off the Firemen!!

4 more sleeps

Only 4 more sleeps until my little Rubylish turns one!!

Again Again Again?

Sunday 10.30am and I'm back again (in my PJs). The Webolution Worm has obviously been planted in the water at the library. I can't stay off this computer. For today's trick I have just added the 17 people who have started the webolution to my web updates so it lets me know when their blogs were last updated without me having to look at each one, pretty cool.

Bloody Webolution

It is frick'n 2.30am!! I am way to old to be sitting up on the pooter until this late! The webolution had got me in a Wavitational Pull...........HELP

ERGR GRASS

I WAS RIGHT! I was receiving subliminal messages while at Supergrass last week. The shop ordered the wrong grass for us. When we got there the staff hunted for our grass only to find the girl had ordered the wrong sort. We were all geared up to lay it today and now have to wait. On the plus side they are delivering it free but i'd still have rathered collect it today than have to do it one night next week!!

The mysterious moving blog

Have just created a new blog in Blogspot to replace the one in Wordpress.
I am not a happy lady, blogspot have cruddy templates but you can add more fun stuff "widgets" etc. Wordpress templates are much nicer but you have to upgrade ($$) to get access to fun stuff. Will ask KD to help me find other templates I can pinch form elsewhere!!

The Hello Morning @ The Espy

Went to The Espy to watch Matt tonight. The band were supposed to start at 9pm but were on "Matt time" so didn't get started until 10pm!! This wasn't their fault apparently the whole thing was running an hour behind. They had to rush through a shorter set in just 30mins but were great. They even had people up dancing...although not sure if that was the music or just a few St Kilda weirdos!!

Supergrass @ The Forum

Last night we saw Supergrass at The Forum (another of Tom’s selections) I LOVE the venue, it has a false sky ala the Hall at Hogwarts and the look & layout always reminds me of Brixton Academy in London but I have to admit I was a bit bored! I only recognised about 4 songs, my feet hurt, a girl whacked me in the guts and from my view the sign read either ERGR or GRASS most of the night. I hope that was not subliminial messages about our planned grass laying on the weekend.

The Futureheads @ The Corner

We were at The Corner in Richmond last night to see the futureheads. This was one of Tom’s choices but I actually enjoyed myself more than I thought! They were quirky, chatting & joking between songs. The only let down was someone stood near us letting stinky farts out into the darkness!! (ICK)

The Living End @ Queensbridge Hotel

On Thursday night I went to see The Living End at The Queensbridge Hotel. I know, I have seen them about 10 times but geez I love ‘em. The venue was slightly dodgy but as usual the band were great PLUS as it was near Crown I got ice-cream on the way back to the car!! (even though it was 11.30pm!) YAY