February 2010

Home Sweet Home

February 28, 2010

The Aussie and I have been busy, very busy for the last few weeks.  We have been up late most nights and spending all our spare time painting and constructing a new cubby house for our girls.  Lizzie was very specific, she wanted a “pink cubby house”.   And, as always, The Aussie gave his girls [...]

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Here’s Something You Don’t See Everyday

February 25, 2010

Sorting though my Christmas photos, I came across this little gem.  This is one for the “Well…. that’s something you don’t see everyday” file… One day after Christmas, I was walking through my mom’s living room and casually glanced out the window…  This is the image that greeted me out on the lake behind her [...]

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Australia’s Winter Olympic Gold

February 21, 2010

Australian snowboarder Torah Bright has won gold at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie  Oi, Oi, Oi Australia is the only Southern Hemisphere nation to win Gold at a Winter Olympics.  The first Winter Olympic gold for Australia belongs to Steven Bradbury for speed skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.  You [...]

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High Voltage Rock N’ Roll

February 19, 2010

Last night, The Aussie and I went over to Olympic Stadium to see AC/DC perform their first Sydney show.  To say it was “TOTALLY AWESOME” would be an understatement.  The “Thunder from Down Under” lived up to the hype and blew me away — literally as this likely the loudest concert I’ve ever been to. [...]

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Fat Tuesday

February 16, 2010

Today is Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, in Louisiana.  The carnival season starts in Louisiana on January 6 (Epiphany) and culminates at Mardi Gras which falls on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.  It is a time of partying and celebration, and frankly, it is a lot of fun! The good people of Louisiana celebrate by [...]

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A Cold Day In Hell As The New Orleans Saints Win Super Bowl 44

February 8, 2010

They Did It!!!! The New Orleans Saints WON Super Bowl 44!!!! The people in Hell must be felling the chill about now. This has been a Louisiana joke my whole life, but Pierre an Boudreaux really tell the story better than I can… Pierre was very sad.  Poor ol’ Boudreaux done died and went to [...]

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Who Dat? Countdown to Super Bowl 44

February 6, 2010

Living in Australia means missing out on certain things happening back home in Louisiana.  I’ve missed family weddings and funerals, birthdays, holidays and even crawfish boils.  On a grander scale, I have not been to Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest, tailgating at an LSU football game, or even a Cowboy Mouth show since the day I [...]

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Career Limiting Move

February 3, 2010

Well, here goes my PG rating, but seriously people, I just can’t help myself. WARNING: This may not be suitable for work, unless you work for the same bank as the dumbass in this video. Yesterday afternoon while millions of Australians were watching the Channel 7 broadcast of the national news, a rather mundane report [...]

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Drama At The Local Play Centre

February 2, 2010

Today my Mother’s Group met at the Wiggly Play Centre for a change of pace and some fun with the kiddos.  My girls were having a ball with all the other kids in the jumping castle ( or space walk as we would call it in La).  I was standing in front of the entry [...]

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