I heart Return to Oz

Has anyone seen Return to Oz?

I scored it from JB about a year ago quite cheap. I loved Return to Oz as a kid and when I watched it again as an adult I loved it just as much. The movie has Faruza Balk as Dorothy and is set in the future of Oz when the Emerald city has come to ruins and a witch with interchangeable heads is the new ruler after the Scarecrow has been imprisioned.

What has got me thinking about this movie is one of my favourite fabrics. A Japanese Wizard of Oz fabric. I love this fabric!

Useless blogger = me...or Pizza Day.

At least I started a blog, but I havent really maintained a blog! I'm a USELESS BLOGGER!

SO the second part of that poor title, Pizza DAY!

I met up with one of my best girls, Tanya, to go to my other best girls, Jo, work, Pizza Miltonio. The pizza here is the best! A small pizza would quite happily feed 2, but if you are a little greedy with your food-thats me- eat a small yourself!

These pizzas are brimming with toppings and are great value. $6.50 for a lunch Pizza weekdays, And 2 Large for $19.95 pick up.

Pizza Miltonio is in the Centro Complex at Milton Brisbane.

My New Friends of the Bug Kind

I was bringing in my washing this afternoon and spotted a large praying mantis. She was very cute and very interested in my camera and was very pleased when I put her into our bottlebrush tree.

I also spied a large grasshopper who took the liberty of jumping on me and making me scream, so I then put him into the bouganvillea.

Using Public Transport ~Hints and Tips!

As a non-driver I use public transport to get around a lot of the time and there are certainly things you pick up when using public tranny often.

My first post about public tranny is going to focus on Taxi's. My sister caught a taxi home yesterday afternoon and the driver "forgot" to turn the metre on! She has actually caught a taxi home with him before and he has done the same thing. He then charged her about $2-3 more than it actually costs to get home!

Tip One... Check that the metre is on. If it isnt tell the driver or tell him to pull over and let you out. Dont let him or her drive you home as then they will know where you live! make sure you make a complaint about this.

Tip Two... Direct the driver if you know where to go. They will try to take you the longest route and the one with more traffic lights. If you direct the driver they cant take you a route you dont like. If the driver keeps making mistakes tell him to pull over and get out. Again make sure you make a complaint.

Tip Three... make sure the driver isnt The Bone Collector!

Tip Four... Trust your instincts, if the driver looks off dont get in, just pretend you dont need a cab and give it to the old lady behind you. Check the papers the following day for missing old ladies.

Tip Five... Some drivers are really nice and honest and drop off so many people in your family they take you home without you even telling them anything more than your street name! If you catch a cab home from the same rank, same time, same day its likely the same set of drivers are on and you will recognise one you like who wont try to jip you, wont drive you home the long way, & wont kill you and dispose of the body under old railway tracks.

Any more tips on taxis, leave me a comment!

Self-Serve

My sister came home complaining about how hard to use those new self-serve checkouts are. I have been using them most visits to the local Coles and find it quite easy after having the lady stand there and guide me through it the first time I used them.

last time I was at Coles I didnt want to use them though...In fact I am now having a kind of ethical aversion to them.

These are my reasons

1. Isnt the point of Aldi being cheaper that Coles etc does things for you...eg pack your bag, check you out. When Aldi first started this was the idea-no choice, pack your own stuff and they dont supply a bag. So these days Coles are about to make you pay for a bag, make you check yourself out, and they are removing half of their products too so we have to buy that You'll Love Coles shit.

2. No human interaction. I am already loner enough, take away my shopping interactions and I may as well start talking to myself in the shops!

3. Will Coles kids lose their jobs? Even though most check out operators are as useless as a fart in the breeze they still are doing a job that so far needs doing.

4. Those machines screw up and leave customers swearing at them and acting like little children having a tanty at the checkout. I dont really like swearing or adults acting like pathetic little weiners when something wont work and having a go at the service person trying to help.

So despite the convienience and the time saved (I am way more efficient than the real check out peoples) I choose to now avoid using the self service checkouts. And Coles will have me complaining at them if the 12 items of less checkouts are left unmanned (as they were when I was last there).

Aldi Finds

My partner started the Aldi obsession. He is constantly at Aldi checking out the current special buys and buying most of his groceries there, the catalogues are always in his car and he is always report different purchases to me.

I think their sausages are the best, other than that I dont really go there enough to keep on top of what the real bargains are; the special buys that dont sell that aldi mark down.

To know these I have to rely on what Andrew is telling me..."there are so many of X left, and they are $20 off" etc.

My first purchase at Aldi was a Rowing Machine, and boy do I love it. When I had a back injury and couldnt use it I was really down...

I didnt buy anything at Aldi for ages after that, then recently I need a postal and pigeon scale and Andrew suggest their nutrition scales...They work a treat (as long as they are on a level surface!), they are p to 5kg too, so my post and pigeon (he needs weighing once a week) are all taken care of.

My latest buy is the cat scratching post that I bought as a Bird climbing thingy! it was just $20 compared to about $50-$80 in the pet stores. The birds so far are afraid of it but they will get used to it, probably need to hang a stack of treats off of it!

So Much Time, So Little To Do! Strike that, reverse it!

I imagine at this time of the year almost all of us are having this same dilemma- So much to do and so little time. October is here, its nearly Christmas and I'm having all these great ideas for new things to make but just not getting anywhere as there are the normal things to keep on top of and designing takes a hell of a long time.

My current plan is to tackle 1 or 2 things at a time, and write all ideas down! They may seem quite dodgy ideas in a month or 2 anyway!

Meanwhile I did make an awesome 2 headed chicken, see the picture with this post and the etsy listing.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31846396