I’m on a roll!
4.Try Zumba at least once – that ones for you Mim.
28. Get car rego.
22. Put my daughters hair in that plait hairstyle that’s in right now.
21. Go to an exhibition opening.
Yesss. Four more things off the list today.
Zumba turned out to be more enjoyable than I thought it would be. My gosh! I haven’t shaken my booty like that in YEARS. That shoulder shimmy move is a bit raunchy too huh? It’s probably a good thing I did it without my husband around or baby #5 might be on it’s way lol.
It really was better than I gave it credit for. The music keeps you going and the girls are so pretty they make you jealous. Well maybe not jealous, whats the word for “Man she looks good, I want her body”. Ok, so it is jealous.
Not to mention it actually seemed to be working up a decent sweat. It was so good I’m planning on incorporating it into my regular routine. I’m glad I bit the bullet and just tried it. 
I got my hands on my daughters hair today. She was whining that I still hadn’t put it in that braided hairstyle so I told her to grab a hairtie and set about plaiting it. You’d think that with my only having one daughter I’d love doing her hair. In actuality, it’s just a chore and I was relieved when she was old enough to tie her own hair up in the morning. It’s fun on occasion, like today but doing it every day gets a bit draining. She’s cute though, she loves looking at her hair in the mirror after she’s had it done. She wore her ‘do’ out this evening and got to put some hairspray in to keep it in place. While we were in my bathroom she asked if she could wear some perfume too…teeheehee. It’s moments like that that make my heart gush and make me so happy to have a little girl. I think I’m already planning her wedding, poor girl. I’ll back off when it’s that time though but for now I can dream.
There was an opening night for The Nature of Artistry exhibition being held at City Gallery. I decided to take my whole tribe along. I was a little worried about having them all there for an opening night that wasn’t mine but people were great about it and said they were actually really glad I was bringing them along to such things. Thats good because I’m likely to bring them everywhere with me. That’s pretty much how I live. There is no babysitter and I like hanging out with my husband so we all head out together. Sometimes it makes people a bit uncomfortable but oh well. I know when not to take them but if I feel it won’t effect whatever’s happening in a negative way, I take them. It was lovely to feel welcomed. Added bonus for the day – I got to wear a dress, make up, heels and one of my Bajidoo Bangles. It makes a nice change to working from home in paint covered clothes.
Once again I’m excited for the weekend, really looking forward to discovering what else I get to cross off the list!
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Two more off the list!
30. Change the music on my ipod.
Who would have thought changing the music on my ipod would be SUCH a mission. It’s pretty straight forward stuff right? Yes, it is. So how come it took me about 12 hours. I know!!!… but explaining the whole ordeal would just be too much of a mission. It involves error messages, slow uploads and dying computers. Let’s just say I started my evening off last night being my happy little self and by the end of it I was not a happy chappy. I ended up just going to bed and in the morning when I woke up, everything I had set up had magically found it’s way onto my ipod. I think I might need to say thank you to my hubby.
8. Write a poem.
I wrote a poem today. Well, I didn’t actually write it so much as typed random words without stopping to think. It took me all of about 30 seconds and when I stopped to look, I’d written two verses. It’s a pretty dark poem. I’m not quite ready to share it in it’s entirety just yet so I’ve put it in an image. I figured I’d turn it into a little piece of art. It features the whole poem but it’s a little hard to read..on purpose. Some things are better left to the imagination. If you by chance manage to read the entire thing though, congratulations. It really encompasses the state I was in at the time of writing it. There’s been something bugging me the past couple of weeks, I don’t think I hid it too well but I think… I HOPE that it’s finally finished with today. If anything, at least it’s given me a chance to create through poetry. I’ll take it.
Don’t worry, I feel much better after getting it all out now Nothing bad has happened tomorrow. Get up and try again.
I finished one painting and have packaged it ready to send back to be part of this years NZAG collaborative project, so half way to completing another thing on my list. It’s done on a small piece of wood.
The big reveal of the collaboration will be done at the Bruce Mason Centre on July 2nd in conjunction with the 2010 Annual Members Exhibition. It will then be auctioned on Trade Me. All proceeds will be donated to the Mental Health Foundation of NZ.
Right now I’m dying for some big, fresh, new canvases. Instead I only have some small fresh ones, some small boards or some larger incomplete pieces I’m absolutely ready to paint over. It’s a dilemma I know a tonne of other artists face regularly. My mind is full of ideas! I think it’s time to clear my walls so I can restore my stock and let progression take place. It’s really hard to move on when surrounded by work. Why is that I wonder?
I’ve got two shows coming up in the next couple of weeks, one in Lumsden and one in Auckland. Opposite ends of the country, yikes! Exciting though. I’ll put up a full list of details so that if you’re in the area, you can stop by.
I’m taking to sketching a lot right now. I’m really feeling the need to unleash some big bold strokes and get messy though. I just feel like I’m editing myself.
I’m usually really good at allocating time for each little thing that needs to get done but a baby really limits how much time you can spend on any one thing. He’s still going through a very clingy stage right now. I’m sure this stage will be over all to soon though and I’ll completely forget I ever had this issue. He’s into EVERYTHING. So the dilemma of keeping my gear out of his way so he doesn’t pull it on himself or eat it is always there. I have a studio up the back of the house but I rarely use it because I like being in the house. So I usually take over whatever space I can lol.
Oh well, I’ve dealt with the issue of keeping little ones away from my gear 3 times before, I’m sure I can do it once more! It’s funny how quickly you forget about these different stages.
Now, after all this talk of painting, I think I see tomorrow being filled with nothing but painting during naptime and playing with a baby.
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12. Try a new recipe.
One more thing crossed off the list. Yay!
It’s ANZAC day here in NZ and Australia. The perfect day to teach the children about the brave soldiers that fought in World War I and then later World War II. As the kids baked we discussed what ANZAC meant, their Great Grandfathers, how Anzac cookies came about and lots more. It was a really great way to spend the day remembering.
We hadn’t made this particular Anzac cookie recipe before and the ginger bread is an actual loaf, once again a new recipe. It’s rather easy on the calories, fat and sugar. I had a piece, not too bad!
It’s also my anniversary today. Seven years ago my hubby and I held a very quiet ceremony. One that has memories locked way in the back of my mind somewhere. It wasn’t the best day of my life, I’ll just leave it at that. I am very happy to have married Andrew though, we make a really great team and I love every day I spend with him. Here’s to living a long, long life so I can wake up next to him just one more day.
Below is a poem I wrote a few years back. My poetry comes from life experiences, I have a lot of them about love
I hope you’ve had a wonderful day.
I have something new in the works, a new Sunday feature so keep watch, it may be here as soon as next week.
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Just so no one freaks out – they don’t have weird lips, they’ve got their mouth guards in.
First game of rugby this season! It was a cold morning. I hate to think just how much colder it’s going to get over the next couple of months. They’re already wearing thermals and my little guy’s got a jumper on underneath his top – which is size 9?! lol. It was just a tad big as you can see.
Nas scored a try and got the crowd cheering with his defensive tactics throughout the whole game and Davis just followed the group around, excited that he got to touch the ball hehe. I had a lot of fun in the 20 minutes I got to spend outside of the car. Boston fell asleep on the drive there so I stayed with him. My daughter had her little buddy there too which kept her occupied. They ended up playing water girls for their brothers. All in all a really fun family morning with smiles all around.
After a hearty lunch to fill up the busy little bodies we put on some music. The kids started dancing in the living room and then started trying to breakdance. I LOVE this. When my hubby and I were dating we spent a lot of time at breakdancing gigs around Auckland. I even dated a a couple of bboys back in the day, so seeing how keen they were to get into breakdancing I figured I’d find some tutorials for them to learn some basic moves. So today we started working on the 6 step, the Baby Freeze and the Monkey Flip. So fun! My daughter did really well with the 6 step, my eldest son mastered the freeze and they’re both pretty good at a very basic monkey flip. My girl actually managed to flip right into a handstand but I missed the shot. She did it again and umm… sprained her wrist. Sorry Mums. She’s fine though and we bandaged it up for support so she could carry on being wreckless. Let kids be kids I say! She was more annoyed by our insistence she wear something for support for the rest of the day than anything else. They were back into their flips straight away. I didn’t get anything on my list done today but I had a tonne of fun messing around with my kids which more than makes up for it. Bring on tomorrow! They’re keen for more.
I got some video footage of it all but I need to figure out how to put all the little clips together into one video first. I’ll upload it when I’ve got it sorted. For now here are some shots:
The baby freeze.
Not to be outdone, Davis showed us his forward roll 
No idea what you call this but the kids balance on their hands with their legs on their eblows.
