SPEAK now ... it's gonna be a good NIGHT

just a few days ago i had made a comment that if taylor ever came back to australia i would get tickets. i didnt actually think she would come back for a year or so but i was a little surprised when i was checking my emails from ticketek and saw the alert for taylor's speak now tour so of course ... just a few minutes later two tickets were bought and ready for me to pick up.

i used to be one of the people who has quite harsh over taylor's live singing ability ... but then i actually bought her albums and listened to the lyrics of all her songs. speak now is brilliant ... you can really feel the emotion in each song and it is if you are of have experienced it yourself.

friday march 2 2012 ... it will be a good night :)

HAPPY birthday to my food intolerant CO-WORKER

there has been a little bit of change in my office at work. my previous co worker sharon transferred out down south to be closer to home and after a few weeks i had a new office roomie ... ashleigh.

we got on well from the start and its been great, especially since i can now have days off woo hoo!!

this thursday was ash's 21st birthday and as it is tradition at work we usually bake a cake and have a little morning tea ... but there is a little problem with that ... ash is allergic to all things relating to food. well thats a little bit of a stretch but she can not have wheat, gluten, sugar, yeast, apples, pears, bananas, chocolate, anything dairy and the list goes on and on and on.

so i had an idea ... buy balloons!! everybody loves balloons and lucky for me on the way back from taking theron to school we have a party supply store en route.

happy birthday ash!

HOW i learn the articles of FAITH

okay ... so i admit i do have a reasonable good memory ... even better then reasonable when it comes to anything to do with celebrity / hollywood news or meaningless trivia ... but when it comes to the Articles of Faith i just dont seem to retain it. But i found this idea of sugardoodle.net and it is amazing!

all you do is enlarge a 'word art' number ... print it out ... write the first letter of each word within the number and then laminate. it has totally helped me relearn and retain the Articles of Faith ... which is extremely important considering they are so fundamental!

what are the Articles of Faith? click here to find out more!

"WELL that was stupid ... haha NOMINATION!!"

at the start of the WABL season, lewis had a brainwave of an idea ... each week the team would nominate someone to be "Suit B***h" of the week

nominations have varied from whoever made the stupidest comment, constant uniform violations, wearing football socks instead of basketball socks, or the most harsh type of nomination ... the 'injured' nomination.

the hideous jacket was found for 50c at the local op shop and it reminds me of a male version of the 'Travelling Pants' ... the jacket really did fit everyone in the team from the three 'shorties' of the team - theron, brody and luke to the 'biggies' - cameron, jordan and jay.

well when i say fits, that doesnt mean that it didnt look huge on the 'shorties' or that it means that the sleeves didnt come up to the elbows of the 'biggies' ... but that was the best part of it!

THE awkard moment when the cat thinks he is HUMAN ...

this is schmoo ...
this is schmoo eating at the dinner table ...
this is the awkard moment when the cat thinks he is human ...

PROJECT life with becky HIGGINS

oh how i love my scrapbooking. and becky higgins is the queen of scrapbooking ... and it makes it easier because she is also a member so her ideas for family home evening and primary age kids are so user friendly!

but project life is her business right now and i have wanted to do it for months but the products have all been sold out ... until now! if you dont know what project life is ... well watch the video, becky explains it better than i will :)

so all i can say ... my pre order is in and im now waiting for it to be shipped! woo hoo!

MY constant REMINDER

this is my iphone background.

to most people it looks like nothing special, just some random wall.

to basketball people they will recognize it's wanneroo wolves.

to my family they will know that it's our 1st of 2 basketball homes ... where we feel closest to dad and where we feel welcomed.

to me ... its a reminder. a reminder of my dad, a reminder of the love and honour the wolfpack has for my dad, a reminder of the tribute weekend when the wolfpack men and women played in honour of dad, a reminder of the one minute silence they had for my dad ... a reminder that the men won by 34 points over the magic for my dad.

everytime i look at my iphone (which let's face it is quite often) i remember all these things and most important i remember my dad and love him even more than i did a minute ago.

CENSUS TIME!!

i LOVE the census ... well in reality i LOVE forms!! as soon as i see a form needing to be filled out my heart literally skips a beat. i dont care whether the form is mine or someone else's i will fill it out for them. nothing really seems more fun in my warped mindset then sitting there and filling out the little boxes, ticking the little boxes and then the feeling of accomplishment when i sign it and sent it in.

i never said that i was normal ... and im alright with that :)

FIRST pinker in a cast EVER

yeah ... i think we have all established that 2011 is not a good year for the pinker family. with only 8 weeks until WABL grand finals and 2 months until state tryouts theron has fractured his ankle and damaged his tendons ... not good.

it happened during his normal monday night game at joondalup ... he went up for a layup, landed on the opposition's foot, heard a snap, tried to walk it off and crumpled to the ground. we didnt think it was too bad but we did go to hospital and lucky we did because out theron comes in a cast and with an appointment with the facture specialist for the next day :(

the good thing to come out of the whole night ... theron is cared about. we had not only his teammates run over to him but his WABL teammates who were playing on the next court came running over during their game to see if he was okay.

our goal now ... lets just pray for a miracle ready for WABL grand finals!!

ONE of the hardest days YET

today was the day that we all were looking forward to ... with a heavy heart and bucketloads of nerves.

it was the last NITP camp of the year ... and the first that we have gone to without dad. the first camp without dad was just a few weeks after the funeral and we just couldnt do it. this camp theron was running with the squad and i was going to coach ... something i havent done in years and not at this level ... this was state level ... come on now people ... state level ... i can barely follow the plays that the wolves play ... as you can probably tell i was stressing.

in the end ... the day was fantastic. theron had a little hiccup about lunch time and i had a little attack just before the drills started but we were there in honour of dad and everything he had laid the foundation for this ... for theron and i to continue his work ...

LADY antebellum ... just a kiss official video ... AWESOME

i absolutely love lady antebellum. hillary and charles individually have very strong voices and together they just seem to complement each other so well and with dave he seems to just harmonize the two of them together, not to mention dave is a kickass guitarist and pianist. 

not a day goes by that i dont listen to at least one lady a song ... whether im feeling sad, angry at the world, jumping for joy, laughing my head off or just sitting and watching the world pass by ... lady a has a song for each moment and the lyrics are meaning something. 

top 5 lady a songs (at the moment)

1) home is where the heart is (lady antebellum)

2) just a kiss (own the night)

3) last night last (need you now)

4) american honey (need you now)

5) love don't live here (lady antebellum)

bring on sept 13 ... 'own the night' is released and i have more lady a songs to choose from :)

MY third HOME ...

its true ... i spend just as much at this desk as i do at home or at any basketball court in perth. i am truly blessed with my job, my bosses has been amazing over the past few months and i love my job. there i said it, i love my job. i love the paperwork, the endless stationery supply, the fact i can listen to my music all day, the problems that pop up, the solutions i can work out, the improvement on my ability to work with numbers) and most of all the fact that it has the tendency to challenge me every day.

i dont mind admitting i love my job ... although not as much as my bed and any basketball court :)