I WON, I WON, I'm the Winner ...

Hey anyone there ??? ...

I WON ...

remember I posted about the competition

for ... A NEW BLOG TEMPLATE ...

it could have been you

all I did was stroll round blog land, followed some links and there it was,
courtesy of the gorgeous Agi @ Grumpy Cow.

Told you I was blessed didn't I ???

Unconscious Mutterings 283

I say ... and you think ... ?

1. Loneliness :: figment

2. Traffic :: chaos

3. Chaos :: traffic

4. Burp :: better

5. 500 :: this week

6. Movie :: expensive

7. Coma :: so sad

8. Bark :: woof

9. Stare :: ogle

10. Angelina :: fibres

read what the mutterer's ar Mutterings here

GRUMPY COW = FREE CUSTOM BLOG TEMPLATE ...

Ohhh Nooooo ... Gadzooks I'm up lurking ... could I be too late ??????????

The gorgeous Agi at Grumpy Cow is offering a free, yes free ... CUSTOM BLOG TEMPLATE ... and it'll be drawn on this day, June 29 ... yikes am I too late?

I'm in a rush as part of the deal is to link back ... as you well know one of us needs a long awaited makeover and this dear blog's an easier task ... stay tuned, I'll post the result as soon as I hear!

Please check Grumpy Cow here

Photo Hunt ... BRIGHT

This week's Photo Hunt topic is BRIGHT ...

My day's always bright watching the antics of Miss Blossom ... I'll ask her are the antics of the oustide world making her day bright ... <^..^>

See more Bright's here

Friday Feast One Hundred & Ninety Five ...

Appetizer:
What is the weather like today where you live?
Sun shining, cold wind, clear sky ... beautiful.

Soup:
On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being highest, how career-minded are you?
I'm up on the scale ... retired yet pondering ...

Salad:
What type of window coverings do you have in your home? Blinds, curtains, shutters, etc.?
Heavy backed curtains, keeps the heat &/or cold out when they're drawn.

Main Course:
Name something that instantly cheers you up.
Good news!

Dessert:
How many times do you hit the snooze button on a typical morning?
Never ... no need to

Check what other Feasters are serving up

Write on Wednesday.

Up late, lurking the net, I've stumbled upon an beautifully presented writers site and suddenly my pen is poised, my muse is stirring, I'd like to join.

What's the attraction I ponder, the newness, the presentation, the honesty of the inspiring moderator ... I expect it's all of the above? The combination of a positive, genuine feeling plus good old fashioned "if it feels good do it" intuition beckons me from the screen ... tempting me to join.

On writing Becca asks "How about you? Have you found your line yet? Do you think you have one? How do you go about expressing it?"

Yes Becca ... I discovered my line long ago; life experience, the believeable combined with the unbelieveable, expressed with truth and wit oozes on hand written pages from a bulging, dusty, rusty, filing cabinet.

Times right to fling open those creaky drawers ... to commit, times right to take Becca's lead, start anew, start writing at another place ... for now I'm conjuring up a name for a blog where pounding the keyboard, will bring tall tales but true, of tradition, learned behaviour, honest fun, wierd wit, a smidge of crassness, some cynicism, possibly the need for a tissue might occur, then you'll know as I do, how blessed I am.

Please visit Becca's Writing on Wednesday here

Three Word Wednesday #92

This weeks words inspired Haiku #2 ...

wanna see spontaneous
spread that rumour
then you'll feel your world shake

be delighted with more Three Words here

Manic Monday #122

Are you a talker or a listener? Is it ever possible to really be both?
I'm a talker and a good listener. Of course it's possible to be both - just ask me ... what did you say????

Do you think God has a sense of humor?
Who?

Do you believe in love at first sight? Have you ever experienced it?
I'm a believer ... my last experience was with Miss Blossom May, nortie tortie, diva extraordinaire <^..^>

read what other Manic Mondayer's have to say here

Unconscious Mutterings #282 ...

I say ... and you think ... ?

1. Goodbye :: HuRu

2. Cage :: Trapped

3. Buddy :: Mate

4. Magic words :: Ab - ra - ca - dab - ra

5. Library :: Books

6. Fall in love :: Awwww

7. Tense :: Camels

8. Work! :: Hard

9. Empty :: Full

10. Heat wave :: Tropics

Manic Monday #121 ...

If your personality had to be summed up as a sandwich, what kind of sandwich would you be?
My fave sandwich is turkey, cranberry, grated carrot and beetroot on wheat/gluten free bread ... this has been number one for me for so long, people know I love this and sometimes I groan with happiness ... this is my luscious, happy, better than sex sanger!


If you knew that someone was dying, but they didn’t know, would you tell them the truth or deceive them about it?
This would totally depend on who it was, how close we were and the impact or enormity of the consequences of telling.


Do you dress the same when you are depressed as you do when you are very happy?
Every day is a wonderful day, a joy to be alive, depression's left my list ... I wear something that suits the happenings of the time!

Read what others are saying

Nice Matters Award from Ul - Typing Away.

“Nice Matters Award is for those bloggers who are nice people; good blog friends and those who inspire good feelings and inspiration. Also for those who are a positive influence on our blogging world.”

Back on March 28, which just happened to be the exact same day that darned woman ran into me, the lovely Ul left me a Nice Matters Award ...

Thank YOU for being so kind Ul.

Sunday Scribblings - #115 - Guide

Sunday Scribblings prompt this week is 'Guide'.

I've never understood or written poetry until I recently attempted writing Haiku's ... now the following has appeared, from whence it came is a mystery?

Has my muse transformed ... am I withdrawing from pain medication?

GUIDE.

A smell
a cooling warmth
knowing someone is close
knowing you're blessed

Escaping
surviving
laughing when unscathed
smiling a knowing smile

Sensing
A man wearing a hat
a boy in Quaker garb
the aroma of an old ladies cologne

Being saved
for something special
the guides that surround me
quelling aloneness ...
guiding me to safety ... till my work here is done!

(c)Redness

Read more Sunday Scribblings here

Photo Hunt - Emotion

Emotion ...

the joy this gift bought

beauty intended for Moi

that made others smile too!

see other's here

UNCONSCIOUS MUTTERINGS - 281

I say ... and you think ... ?

1. Purchase :: retail therapy

2. Squeaky clean :: hair

3. Blended :: smooth

4. Wednesday :: over the hump

5. Function :: works

6. Look down :: your nose

7. July? :: Cancer birthdays

8. Raspberry :: delish

9. Assertive :: positive

10. Cracker :: that fat pommy bloke on TV

Enjoy more Mutterings here

Friday's Feast One Hundred & Ninety Three ...

Appetizer
Do you consider yourself to be an optimist or a pessimist?
Optimist ... or is that a possimist?

Soup
What is your favorite color of ink to write with?
Blue.

Salad
How often do you get a manicure or pedicure? Do you do them yourself or go to a salon and pay for them?
I'm a D I Y'er.

Main Course
Have you ever won anything online? If so, what was it?
Accolades, great comments, talk with like minded people via blogs & meme's that's online winning!

Dessert
In which room in your house do you keep your home computer?
The living room.

read more feasts here

Wordless Wednesday

This was the view, for six weeks from my hospital bed ... the inspiration to get out of there!

See more Wordless posts here

3WW XC

3WW
dizzy
change
key

My first try at an Haiku.

my mind's been going dizzy
trying to pen a haiku
change and key that's it for me

definition of haiku - A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables.


Read more 3WW here

Ten Things That Annoy You ...

Ten on Tuesday suggested to name Ten Things That Annoy You About Work ...
seeing as how I have the perfect job with not a skerrick of anything annoying I've named ...

Ten Things That Annoy Me About People ...

1. People who talk loudly on a mobile phone.

2. People who do the above in a public place.

3. People who don't get over it.

4. People who don't get it.

5. People who make it all about them.

6. People who don't listen.

7. People who whinge.

8. People who are cruel

9. People who are hypocrits.

10. People who don't fathom how content I am!

See what annoys others here

Manic Monday #120 ...

Manic Monday #120

1. What is your ideal age?

39 with lot's of late nights ...will people realise I'm making it up when Im 120?

2. What is your best excuse for being late?

Usually I'm never late ... if I was I'd be honest, why confuse things?

3. If you had to give yourself a nickname what would it be?

Got it already 'REDNESS'

read more here

Unconscious Mutterings # 280

1. Rambling :: Rose.

2. Magnetic :: Island.

3. Again! :: never

4. Acoustic :: sound

5. Mahogany :: MJ's tresses

6. Promises :: don't make them if you can't keep them!

7. Ill fitting :: tight or loose ... purge - sell, give away, alter ...

8. Sublime :: ridiculous

9. Poop :: not here please!

10. Disoriented :: where am I?

Check out more Mutterings here

Good Companies - bad online names, URL spellings ...

Ypou know those people who name their kids but never write down the initials of the chosen name or put the two names together, on paper, before subjecting their child to years of ridicule and bullying?

The following highlights the stupidity of people ...unless they did it on purpose that is ...

All of these are legitimate companies that didn't spend enough time considering how their online names might appear ... and be misread.

These are not made up.

Click on the link and check them out yourself!

* "Who Represents" which agent represents which celeb ... http://www.whorepresents.com/

* Looking for a pen? http://www.penisland.net/

* Need a therapist? http://www.therapistfinder.com/

* Need IP computer software http://www.ipanywhere.com/

* Designers at Speed of Art http://www.speedofart.com/

If you know of anymore then please add them to the comments box.

Sunday Seven episode 144 ...

Name your favorite shows of the 2007-2008 TV season.

Here in Australia they are ...

1. Underbelly.

2. Collectors.

3. Spooks.

4. American Idol.

5. Brothers & Sisters.

6. Any Gordon Ramsay show.

7. The Amazing Race.

Read more choices here

Photo Scavenger Hunt ... BAD HAIR

Cost $180 = bad hair

After leaving the salon hair never looked this good = bad hair

Spent an extra $30 on product recommended by the colourist = bad hair

Colour washed out in three weeks = bad hair

Solution - No more scrimped savings spent at the Pierre Haddad Salon.

Photo Friday - TOOLS

Tools ... old needlework tools for sewing, embellishing, assemblage, using, collecting, adoring!

Friday's Feast # 192

Appetizer
When you drink soda/pop/coke, do you prefer to drink it from the bottle, a can, or after pouring it into a cup?
I don't drink the rubbish - if I did it only would be from the bottle.

Soup
What television show are you willing to stay up late to watch?
Any televised major sporting event where Australia is competing.

Salad
Name one person, place, or thing you think of as brilliant.
I only know brilliant people!

Main Course
Would you be willing to work 4 10-hour days instead of 5 8-hour days in order to save gas?
I don't drive ... are you insinuating I have gas?

Dessert
If you were a superhero, what would you call yourself? 'REDERIFFIC'

Salivate over more feasts here

Three Word Wednesday #89

Deny
Smile
Uncomfortable

Her smile could be construed as uncomfortable, to deny the Manic Monday entry might be her salvation ... Haaaaa ... but ... how would she cope with that coif ... of course ... deny, smile, uncomfortable ... Thanks Bone ?

Check more 3WW's here

Ten on Tuesday - 10 Ways the World Has Changed Since You’ve Been in School

1. Greater population, more wars, more crime, more violence, more opportunity, more of everything ...

2. Bread is sliced, instead of wrapped in white tissue.

3. Technology ... it's an almost paperless society ...

4. You can't send a kid to the shop, or play outside with the hose.

5. Space travel is accepted.

6. Kids of today get too much of everything e.g. schoolies week - a condoned excuse for sex, drugs etc ... parents think their kids won't be involved - c'mon Mum & Dad, wake up!

7. Travel and eating out is a normal way of life.

8. Anything goes ...

9. Respect is a word of the past.

10. People live longer ... halleluljah ;)

Who's Your Sex and the City Match ...

Who's Your Sex and the City Match?

My Result: Miranda

Pessimistic? You? No way! You might come off that way occasionally but you can't fool us. Under that hard shell lives a soft heart and someone who would do just about anything for friends (and family, sure, but mostly friends). With strong opinions and the rare ability say what's on your mind, you are truly one of a kind.

When things get tough, you're usually the one your friends turn to for inspiration and support — and a little tough love to boot. But you're also one of the most independent people around. Not one for superficial relationships, you might not win the prize for having the most friends, but the ones you do have are real — and just what you need.

What are you?
http://web.tickle.com/jumpto?test=sexandthecityogt&c=50652

Manic Monday 119 ...

Manic Monday ... crikey where did these come from ????

You have accomplished a difficult task and hear someone else taking the credit. How do you deal with the situation?
While I had the cheat up against a brick wall, with my hands around their throat, I would convince them, as I threatened to throttle them, it was in their best interest to 'fess up!!

If you had to marry someone that you presently know unromantically, and spend the rest of your life as their spouse, who would you choose?
If I had to ... only if I really had to (I know him from watching him on the 'Apprentice' & 'Celebrity Apprentice') ... it would have to be Donald Trump ... who else would be able to ease the pain or lighten the load?

If you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are living now?
Is this before or after being hitched to the Donald?

Read more replies here

Unconscious Mutterings #279

1. Gossipping :: dangerous

2. Misplaced :: st. anthony

3. Spaceship :: Mmmm

4. Ignore :: easy

5. Bodily :: functions

6. Tweezers :: plucking

7. Goodnight :: sweet dreams

8. Curls :: angelic

9. Faucet :: tap

10. Right? :: Left?

Check more Mutterings here

Photo Scavenger Hunt - SELF ...

~ Rene & Redness ~

~Me and MiMi, my Maternal Grandma ~ I see her in my reflection ~