TrashCan: Mood shift noted

Trash Towers Dictionary

a/c - art crap. CK's fond term for the means of assuaging my addictions.

BSD - Been Seen Done. Devised while travelling the Great Ocean Road on CK's first Australian trip. Every lookout point was as fabulous as the previous and we got a little bit magnificenced out so rather than pull in we would shout BSD and keep driving.

Now general usage for when a situation is over or beyond repair.

bob - noun. Princess Curly- Wurly's word meaning all sweets, chocolate and yummy things.

blurry - (pr. to rhyme with hurry) Sth African/Zimbabwean term and my favourite polite swearword. Means kind of like bloody but usuable in mixed company. See 'Feck' & 'Eejit'

eejit - Irish term meaning 'idiot'. Suitable for use in polite company. Used by my Aunt Marion.

feck - Irish term used by my Aunt Marion so it cannot be rude!

ho-ho -(pr. with a short o). Zimbabwean word for bugs.

lani - (sp?) Sthn African word - means posh, expensive, elegant, stylish.

La Villa de Lamaca - (translates from Ital. as The houseof snails. My 'green' house out in the garden with all my a/c (ref: above) stuff in it. Built by CK and Babyman for me. CK lost his fingerprints over it. I cannot actually get in there at the moment!

lubbard - derived from 'beloved'. Devised by my then two y.o. son b/c unlike his sister he could not say 'Mother Beloved'. Usually prefaced by a noun.

OfStEd - Office for Standards in Education. Bossy civil servants who would like to see every child in formal, full-time education from birth.

Q.I. - Quite interesting.

terence - sobriquet applicable to all small children. Originated with one 'borrowed' child who could not pronounce ' terrorist' .

TG - exclamation. Thank God! An interesting choice for the dictionary of a recovering Catholic but is a phrase used by my Irish family and is now deeply fixed in my conversational repetoire. (reference also PG - Please God).

TGTH - The Great Trip Home. Alt. known as 'How I spent Christmas and N.Y 2008.

Monday, 4 July 2011

Mood shift noted

Last night I was sitting quietly on the couch, scrolling through Pinterest and letting slip the occasional giggle. CK looked across at me and "You're starting to get excited about 'The Kitchen' again."

"Huh?" (flick, pin, click, type, pin, click, flick.)

"You are looking at interiors and designs for the new space again. You haven't done that for a few months since things started getting bogged down with planning."

Well I suppose I haven't been but then I hadn't really understood 'Pinterest' until recently either.

I have a board just for kitchen ideas if you wanna look. Just click here .

5 comments:

Moogsmum said...: I knew there was a lot more to Pinterest than pretty pictures - it's a practical planning tool for the discerning kitchen purchaser ;o); 4 July 2011 7:31 pm
wonderwoman said...: i dare not look at pinterest - have enough trouble coping with blogger!

x; 4 July 2011 10:44 pm
Mary said...: I think because you posted something on Facebook about Pinterest I decided to take a look.

And am now addicted.; 4 July 2011 11:51 pm
Andi said...: Having recently done our kitchen, here are my tips for 'must haves':
- storage drawers in the kicker boards. Why waste good storage opportunities?
- soft closing drawers. Love em!! And they are stronger and last longer!! Especially for drawers with heavy stuff like big pots. Or crockery.
- A drawer insert for your spices right next to the stove. Like this one: http://www.ilcaustralia.org/search4.asp?state=SA&page=8&MC=81&MinC=12
- Appliance cupboard with a roller door! Now you see the toaster, mixer, mess, etc. Now you DON'T!!
- At least 1 pull out pantry unit: http://www.thestorageshop.net.au/kitchen_pantry.html. I have one with an additional normal cupboard (double) for all non-fridge food.
- Lots of deep drawers for your pots and, basically, for everything. SO much easier than cupboards.

You can see our kitchen reno here:http://patchandi.blogspot.com/2010/06/patchwork-kitchen-is-finished.html

All questions happily answered in between school holiday kid wrangling and general domestic goddessness.
xx; 5 July 2011 9:11 am
Thimbleanna said...: YAY for Pinterest! And can I just say how much fun I've had seeing what you pin -- you crack me up every night -- thanks for being there for me LOL!; 6 July 2011 5:57 pm