Well the new format is okay I guess but my profile photo looks "squishy" so I will have to look for a new one.

Haven't been here much as I have been busy but I will try and catch a few other blogs later.

So final season of ER is coming up "sniffles" but it is time. Hope some actors come back for finale.

Dexter season 3 is a go and I am so pumped ..can't wait (Yes I am spoiled so i know you know what about you know who and the infamous chocolate pudding scenes)

90210 is back and everyone has anorexia and Brenda needs a dentist(Well Shannen does).

And no I can't see Russia from my back door.

Cheers Mel

Suzpsycho's book quiz

BOLD = I read these, Underlined= I loved them, ....Italics =Books I would like to read (Suzy's choices as I was too lazy to change these ones and like I have time to read books at the moment!)

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I can think of a lot more books I have read ..but this is the list given.

Another stupid quiz and my answers

1. How many handbags do you own (3)

2. How many different color lipsticks do you have (5)

3. How many pairs of shoes do you own (10)

4. How many parfums do you have (3)

5. How many bra's do you own (

6. How many jars or tubes of beauty products do you have (6)

7. How many nailpolishes do you have (4)

8. How many pairs of earrings do you have (12)

9. How many magazines do you buy a week (2)

10. How many little black dresses do you have (2)

I lied ..it's not a quiz I just wondered if I spend enough time spoiling myself because when I list the things that make me feel womanly..they don't equate to much .. I think I definately need more shoes other than that I think I can manage with what I've got.

What about everyone else?

( Seems I've been moderated for question 5 ..but it is less than 10)

I have had plans drawn up for a new modern kitchen....this kitchen is nearly dead.

Nothing much works and while it may have been a dream kitchen for someone in the 80's era...I'm afraid it is all over for me.

Stay tuned as nothing ever goes to plan does it....

Okay so now I have all six movies

Several master replica light sabers and a heap of star wars merchandise courtesy of EBAY.

Now I have found a website where I can purchase custom designed t-shirts..I pick the style of shirt and the color and then a design and presto it is ordered! of course the styles and colors are limited but with heaps of designs and to choose from that makes for a lot of possible combinations.

I fancy myself in a pink t-shirt with Princess Leia on it !

May the force be with you!

Mission to photograph Sienna failed.

I am soooooooooooooo tired that I fell asleep on the couch and by the time I woke up Sienna was ready for a feed.

You do not under any circumstances make her wait for a feed or she lets out the mother of all screams. ...she is nicknamed the Milk nazi. NO peace for you!

As most of you know I have been blessed with a new baby girl and she is six weeks old.

I don't get much sleep and as a consequence I am a little moody so my hubby has called me the "Witchay Woman" and I have given Sienna the pet name of "Little Bitzy" because all her little bits and pieces are so small ..(fingers toes etc.)

So now she is spending more time awake at night we are having little adventures....

We sneak into her sisters room and rearrange things on her desk, we have mini dance parties by the light of the television and practice miles and miles of smiles.

Tonight I have a secret mission planned..we are going to sneak into everyones room and Sienna is going to have her photo taken with each person while they remain asleep....I will load the photos onto the computer later and print them off and put them on the fridge and see who spots them first.

Fans of last season's Australian idol will no doubt remember the trumpet playing boy from the navy who came third Carl Riseley and how popular he became towards the end.

Well the wait is over his album is out this week and it is called "The Rise" and it features his fantastic version of the song from Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory...Pure Imagination

I didn't really have much else to say ....but I am at level 7 99% ..won't be long......!

Hah! now I am level 8 whoo hoo!

Just a quick update to let you know that I have had the baby and all is well.

Sienna Kristen arrived a week earlier than planned and is now a leap year baby!

Sienna was born at 10.52am on the 29th Feb 2008 weighing 4.05kg (8lbs15oz) via c-section.

She is adored by her sisters Keely and Ella and when I get a chance I will post a picture.

After having 2 natural births I am finding the recovery a little harder after a c-section so this is really the last baby for me..not doing that again

Hi everyone ..just thought I would pop back here and see what is happening.

I see a lot of new faces and some old favourites too.

I am still pregnant and have less than a month to go...I have carpal tunnel which makes it hard to type for a long period and gestational diabetes which is two things I didn't have with my last pregnancies.

I am still ranting because ER has been taken off our programme schedule AGAIN..which all us Aussie fans predicted would happen ...so GRRRR to the tv station programmers.:evil

I haven't checked up on NCIS yet to see what is happening yet but we are still seeing Kate in the current Re runs! (dying to find out if Tony is really in love with jeanne or faked it undercover)

I am sort of liking Brothers and Sisters and may keep an interest in that show too.

The new australian series of The Biggest Loser has commenced and I so dislike JJ(I hate fish too) and he should be eliminated tonight but I have a feeling someone will do a deal with the devil and sacrifice Rachel instead.

The Australian version of So You think you can dance is HOT and I like the Aboriginal guy ..but he needs to step it up in the confidence department if he is to continue.

Anyhow I will try and pop in here more regularly and say to everyone..see ya

Mel

I can't tell you how frustrated I am at the moment..but it seems that ER has disappeared from my program schedules again.

My head is spinning like in the excorcist and pretty soon I will be spewing as well.

Why the heck has it been taken off? after all the crap in Australian magazines about how Stamos has "saved " the show?

And now it's GONE ..ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH we only had a handful of Season 13 and POOf it vanishes...heads will roll

Best things ever.....(besides kids,marriage and husbands etc)

Best childhood memory: Having christmas dinner down the beach and playing cricket with the whole family in the 70's.

Best high school memory: Getting caught kissing the Russian exchange student.

2nd best school memory: Being voted school house captain and passing year 12.

Best friends: Megan, Debbie,Gillian and Helen.

Best holiday: Gold coast theme parks and Port Douglas.

Best dessert invention : Missisippi mudcake muffins with hazlenut spread instead of frosting and served with vanilla icecream with golden syrup.

Best concert: Robbie Williams 2006

Best girls weekend away: 8 girls going to see Robbie Williams concert and taking in the sights of Sydney.

Best song to make love to :Unchained melody

Best piece of clothing ever owned:Levi 501's

Best advice ever: Be who you want to be.

Best humanitarian thing I have done: Volunteering to help at a camp for disabled children and realising how lucky I am.

Best visit to the Emergency room: Injury to knee after falling off the top of Piano at a piano bar .

Best time of the day: When my head hits the pillow.

Feel free to have a go too.

Mel

Last night we had a spectacular view of a red moon!

In some parts of the world I think people witnessed an eclipse but in Queensland, Australia we had our own spectacular view.

After sunset the moon came up as normal and then about 7pm it started to get a shadow on it and by 8.30-9pm we had a blood orange moon it was really pretty and my frigging camera wouldn't work and I attempted to use my new phone to take a photo but I couldn't work the zoom so it just looks blurry.

Once in a lifetime opportunity and i couldn't get a damn photo!!! Grrrrrrr.

It doesn't matter ..it just would have been nice.

I had a scan today andit showed that I am officially 12weeks and 4 days.

It still amazes me that the sonographer can see everything and describes it in detail...to the naked eye I still have trouble making out what I am looking at.

No ER on television tonight as there is a special program on and ER returns next week (Boo Hoo).

TV week magazine featured an ER 2- page spread with Gippetto (Stamos) hogging most of the page.

There was a small piece discussing Abby's nervous return to work from maternity leave and Luka's dreadful day in court......oh the season 13 dramas still to unfold on my unsuspecting Aussie fans who have not had the privledge of spoilers.

Oh well .

Well I haven't Blogged for a while so with this weeks nasty wet n wild weather I thought I would catch up!

Still suffering bouts of morning sickness or all day nausea as I prefer to call it...but it does seem to have eased up a little.

The weather has been wild and we had 100km per hour winds yesterday and the rain has been like squalls on and off for days.

Trees and palm fronds litter our yard and the awning ripped of our bedroom window which was a little scary.

A plane trying to land at the airport was struck by lightning and the passengers claimed it sounded like a bomb going off.

We are supposed to be protected by Fraser Island and most storms pass us by ..but not this time.

An Indonesian Navy training vessel was washed ashore down the coast and the locals had to look after them until Navy and Immigration could get assistance to to them.

Some of our dams have had good catchments and the drought has eased a little in some areas.....sounds strange to say it but we still need more rain.

I had a birthday this week and recieved very nice presents although my new samsung pink phone with video still has me baffled...I'm too lazy to read the instructions at the moment so it just sit in my handbag for a while.

I have a Trans Nuchal scan booked on monday ..this is to check for risks such as Downs syndrome....after that I hope to be a little more relaxed..the kids keep touching my tummy and talking to the bump..they are keen for a brother this time....I am not going to find out the sex as I don't want to focus on that aspect so we will all have a surprise.

I guess that is all for the moment...and a big hello to all the new people who have started tracking me.

Mel

Oh yay I am so excited that Season 13 starts here next week !

Monday night at 9.30pm is a new timeslot but I don't care!

I have already watched season 13 ..courtesy of my friend who sent me DVD's to watch ..but I still want to watch it again so I am fully pumped when Season 14 starts in US soon!

Well all good patriotic Australian's will be staying up late tonight and not just to watch Rove in America (Talk show host from Oz touring USA) but to see our very own Cadel Evans try and win the Tour de France!

No Australian rider has ever won so it is a sporting achievement we would all like to see in our lifetime. I admit I am only jumping on the bandwagon because there is a chance he could win..I haven't really followed the race from the beginning..I just like celebrating Aussie's winning so good luck to him ...Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi !!!!!!!

Solve the riddle and learn the secret .....

30 days usuallyhas September April ,June and November

Mum's birthday was the 14th June but start from the beginning

count backwards to go forwards use plus not minus

oh my god I'm on the Titanic!!!!!!!

No not really ...but I just spent 6 weeks in a leaky boat.

Okay the topic has been locked on the boards so I'll post here.

I just saw an advertisement for "ER returning soon"

unfortunately it didn't show any scenes from season 13 only a sugar sweet (Yuck )photo of Stamos with a tagline like "He is hot and he is joining ER ..soon"

my guess these types of promos pop up about a month before the show premieres.

Fingers crossed!

Ps ..that's not my secret...clues will come(Soon)