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Henry Me

With each passing day it seems that Henry is more and more like me…

Mum loves to tell the story of how, on my 5th birthday, she learned a harsh lesson about dealing with young boys. It was my birthday party and I had school friends there but all I wanted to do was stay inside and play with my toys. Apparently she tried and tried to get me to come out and it devolved in to crying birthday boy and distraught mum.

This morning I received an sms from Rae. She had planned to take all the kids out to a play center today but Mr H said he wasn’t feeling well. Rae soon realised what was actually going on – he wanted to stay home and play with his new Lego. A gentle chat and the promise he could come home and play with his new toys and suddenly he was feeling well enough to head out to play.

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For Mum

Here you go mum, you said you wanted to see them blow out their candles.

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5

Our beautiful twins turn five today. Five, I can’t believe how quickly those years have flow.

Happy birthday Mr Henry and Miss Kennedy.

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My Tweets For The Week

  • Two slow cookers doing there thing overnight, I'm going to wake up starving. #
  • Love it when Bella decides to come and keep my company in the office. #
  • Scary, have to brave Sydney's train network to meet up with a client for a dinner meeting next week. #
  • Just have to say I am indescribably proud of my wife for a multitude of reasons, she rocks. #
  • Been queasy all day. Soup in the sun has made me feel a little better. #
  • Dress up day at Kinder. Moo is the only cowgirl in a sea of princesses. Couldn't be more proud. #
  • Achy and tired, wondering if my flu shoot didn't quite work. Off to bed. #
  • Feel human again, must have just been a 24 thing. Now to try and catch up from yesterday. #
  • Just found @visualstudio lightswitch. Think it may be a quick way to get a couple of projects off the ground. Could be good for clients too. #
  • Package I'm tracking has arrived at delivery center, which is just around the corner. Frustrating wait now until Monday. #wanttogopickitup #
  • Freakin' out – a balloon just floated up our drive way to the door. I blame you @raezm -never mess with the dark power that is evil clowns. #
  • Looks like my transfer has begun. Optus signal dropped (mid call!) but new carrier hasn't kicked in yet. #
  • Wondering how long the transfer between carriers will take… #
  • Can make/recieve calls but no SMS/MMS/data service yet. #
  • Oh god, I'm doomed. There's an Officeworks app for my phone https://t.co/fzmASfj3 #
  • Poor Mr Henry is under the weather and curled up in bed so Bert has gone off to read him some books. #
  • Woo Hoo. Transfer to new carrier complete. Have SMS, MMS and data back. #
  • Can't barrack for Hawthorn so go team-who-isn't-Carlton! #
  • Regardless of how the game ends that was the best quarter of football I have seen the Tigers play all year. #gotiges #
  • Ah Tigers. after such a great effort in the first…. #gotiges #
  • Le Sigh. #where #039;dthetigersgo? #
  • Just used TripIt for the first time – amazing. #
  • Three crazy women about to start yelling at the footy. I need a man cave. #
  • Moo seems to have spent the entire weekend singing. Off she goes to Aunty Helly's. #
  • Go to the gym or watch Spinal Tap on Blu-Ray. This decision is much harder than it once would have been. #
  • Totally stumped as to how @theage Melbourne Magazine could only give @astor_theatre 's choc top 3.5/5. I demand a recount. #
  • Just realised it's 30 Years since Spinal Tap released Smell The Glove. #
  • "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever." #
  • Reading some reviews on Google Places. One bloke gave ScienceWorks 0/3 and Costco 3/3. Sigh. #
  • She would lie on my lap 24 hours a day if she could. http://t.co/1Z3gDoAr #
  • Whatever I watch UK property shows with Rae I am always perplexed by the apparent fascination with conservatories. #

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Snap

I have hardly any photos of me with the kids, generally because it’s me behind the camera or phone, so I’m really happy to have this one of Henry and I. I snapped it while we were waiting to pick up Bert the other day, one of the ways we pass the time on cold days waiting in the car. Must do it more often.

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Lessons

Tonight Rae and I were able to have an evening out thanks to Zita sitting the kids. We headed off to Carlton as Rae had scored free tickets to ‘Cabin In The Woods’.

There were a few lessons from the movie.

1. Joss Whedon is very, very clever. The movie was fantastic – funny, witty and scary all in equal measure. It was a great self knowing horror film and I absolutely loved it.

2. Some people should not be allowed to go to the movies. If you are old enough to attend this film you are old enough to know to turn off your freaking phone. For most of the movie one patron a few rows down to the right had her phone on and in a darkened cinema its white screen was doing a fair impersonation of a lighthouse. When I rule the world the world these people will be placed in stocks and told the endings to movies such The Sixth Sense and The Crying Game before they get to see them.

3. The Nova. I haven’t been there in almost ten years and it was looking a little tatty back then. Things haven’t changed and you get the feeling that it could do with a little TLC.

Even though the movie was fantastic the best part was just getting to spend the evening with my beautiful wife. Having dinner, going for a walk, just spending time together. A great way to finish off the weekend.

rae

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My Tweets For The Week

  • Wondering for how much longer I'll have the morning paper delivered. http://t.co/qUw0MJlJ #
  • With @raezm away it's dad's home made hamburgers for dinner, and the win. #
  • Bella has decided that because Rae isn't home she will occupy all of the bed. Impressive trick for such a small cat. #
  • finished The Playground (Kindle Single) by Ray Bradbury http://t.co/Q3bFCPxD #Kindle #
  • Stupid Microsoft, can't you tell that when I type UDPATE I want you to update a record. And yes, it's Microsoft that's the stupid one. #
  • Just felt what I think may have been an earth tremor. Lasted about ten seconds. #
  • Wow – looks like it was right across Melbourne. #
  • Gone as far as Shepparton too #
  • Hmmmm, wondering if that's why Bella has been going crazy tonight. #
  • GeoScience Aus says 5.5, USGS says 5.2 – above parity in earthquakes as well as the dollar. #
  • My Facebook account is temporarily unavailable. My first report of quake damage. #
  • Should be contemplating dinner and pjs. Instead it's time for shorts, tshirt and the gym. #
  • Last night I dreamt I was in Canada watching Ivan Maric do an Auskick clinic. The Mullet knows no boundaries. @Richmond_FC #
  • This weather sorely testing my resolve not to have a clothes dryer. #anybodygotatwodollarcoin #
  • Only those who come from Shepp and surrounds will realise just how cool this is http://t.co/dZrs0OOr #
  • Looking for a client who will pay me to stay in bed reading Stonemouth. #
  • Ballad of Lucy Jordan followed by Novacaine For The Soul. May the gods bless @BBCChrisHawkins #
  • Now screening at Cinema Malloy, Serpico #
  • Wondering if there's any chance the demon children will sleep in tomorrow morning. #
  • Just me and Henry on the couch watching Star Wars. #

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Two For Two

The Age reports today that NME have declared Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart and Pulp’s Common People are the number one and number two greatest tracks of the past 60 years. I’m more than happy with this, although I can hear the cries of rock and roll purists from here, and I’d be just as happy to have them swapped around.

The greatest thing for me though is that I’ve seen both of the songs performed live by the band (or remnants there of) in the past 12 months.

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The Lemon Of Hope

Three years ago mum gave us a belated house warming present – two fruit trees. One lemon and one lime. It’s taken a while and despite the fact I have two brown thumbs we finally have lemons. This years crop numbers three and here is the Lemon Of Hope I mentioned almost two years ago. You can even see the tree on the day it was planted.

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While we’re not at the stage of trying to offload excess lemons on neighbours and friends it’s still very exciting to have grown our own fruit. The lime tree is still struggling along and had a little spurt this year so maybe in three years time our lemons may be joined by the Limes Of Hope.

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Shake

This is more for historical interest but we’ve just had a little earthquake here. According to the USGS it was magnitude 5.2. I was sitting at my desk when my chair started moving from side to side and my desk, that I was leaning on, started to wobble. It lasted about 10 seconds and as I was too confused (who on earth is doing that to my desk?) to really comprehend what it was. Interesting thing is that Bella had been going crazy this evening, wanting to go in and out every couple of minutes. Listening to the radio it seems we weren’t as badly hit as some suburbs, will be interesting to read the paper tomorrow.