My Home Wellingtontown: shoes

Sunday, November 23, 2008

scrappysue's day: as told by her shoes

not feeling much inspiration for the ole' blog right now. feeling rather overwhelmed that it's almost december and, although i usually have finished my christmas shoppping by october, i can't even think about right now.

this is probably for two reasons: one - the gala took up a LOT of my time during the past couple of months, and two: my sister isn't talking to me coz we aren't going to be here for christmas. loooooooooooooong story, and probably a familiar one to many!

anyhoo - i got my inspiration for this post from my CRAFTY DIVA bloggy pal nikki over at whimsy love.

i usually turn my computer on first thing and check my email while the girls are eating their breakfast

on this day i had an appt up the coast and miss 19 wanted to come with me (probably because i said i would buy her lunch afterwards!)

the weather cooled down in the afternoon, so i put on some sox and warmer shoes to go up to miss 12's school to collect her billet for the week

when the hubs got home, we relaxed on the sofa with a wine

then after dinner, i caught on some oprah before heading to bed

(i think i need new slippers...)

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Free money, cupckes and new shoes

bought these today -sooooooo comfy. on sale (which makes them instantly more comfy than if i had paid full price). shoppers code: rule 3.78-imadethisup.

In my quest to save the planet one shopping bag at a time, i usually reject these...

but miss 18 insisted she would ‘re-use’ (and therefore recycle) so i relented.

it IS kinda funky.

didn’t draw this (but sort of pleased i can be responsible for some of her creative DNA).

miss 18 started a Bachelor of Design degree this week at Massey University. One of her first assignments is to capture the culture of Cuba Street. it's one of those cool pedestrian only areas in town where you can watch the world go by, and it's home to all kinds of weird and wonderful folks.

her degree will take 4 years at a cost of $4400 every year (plus books'n'stuff). as a generation x-er, she is able to make use of a national student loan scheme, whereby the government pays her course fees directly. this is perfect for today's teenager: invisible money that doesn't have to be paid until - well, not today so who cares?

this wasn’t the case ‘back in the day (last century and beyond) when i was a polytechnic student. In ‘those’ days, the government paid YOU! i was paid the princely sum of $16 per week, $4 of which my mother held out her hand for in return for room and board. she was of course trying to teach me the value of money. At the time i did not appreciate this valuable lesson. I simply thought my mother was the meanest mum in the whole wide world. No wait, that’s me!!! I know, i think there might be more than one ‘mean mummy’ in the universe.

Anyway, the kids of today, they just don’t appreciate the value of money! And you try to tell the young people of today that - and they won’t believe you! (name that movie)

Paying back invisible money is BORING.

Here’s something that’s not boring. Watching your 10-year-old make cupcakes. Well, watching her make half a pint of runny purple icing. I actually think the cupcakes were an after-thought.