Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
What a brilliant idea…
Message from a hard working Aussie
I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to earn that pay cheque, as I work on a mine site on a Kalgoorlie (WA) construction project, I am required to pass a random urine test, with which I have no problem.
What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don’t have to pass a urine test. Shouldn’t one have to pass a urine test to get a Centerlink Payment because I have to pass one to earn it for them?
Please understand – I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do on the other hand have a problem with helping someone sit on their backsides drinking grog & smoking dope.
Could you imagine how much money the Government would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a Centerlink Payment?
Note: Author Unknown but I would like to shake your hand.
Tags: Centrelink, Government, Tax
New Year, newborn, new stuff
Well it has been awhile since my last post almost a whole month. Wow, that has gone quick! So what is new? A lot of things actually, which I will try and summarise and keep this post short.
- We looked at moving into a new place, but ended up renewing the current lease.
- We quit smoking.
- We found out we are pregnant, and find out if it’s a boy or girl on 03/02/10.
- The girls had their 4th birthday.
- Our Guinea Pigs had 3 babies, but two didn’t make it.
As you can probably tell by the above 5 points, this post could have been quite large but seemed a lot easier to just summarise the lot. 
Tags: Chell, Kids, New Years, Pregnancy
How much Chrisco really costs
So I guess you’ve already seen the ads on television or saw it in the paper, about Chrisco Christmas Hampers in which you pay a certain amount of money each week and at the end of the year everything gets delivered. The question is how much does it really cost?
Tags: Chrisco, christmas, Hamper
Three day weekend
So I had Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday off this week. What better way to spend it than to go camping. Chell and I packed up the car with the tent, sleeping bags, food e.t.c. and off we went. We ended up going to The Boulders at Babinda.
We arrived around 8:30pm and setup the tent, bed and had a cup of coffee. It was so hot sleeping, and I didn’t really fit too well in the tent, I had to lay sort of diagonally to fit properly. The next morning we got up at around 7am and had lovely cold showers, since there was no hot water at the camping grounds!
Vanilla Butter Cake Recipe
Last night I cooked a lovely vanilla butter cake which is delicious so thought I would share the recipe.
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter at room temparature
2 egg whites at room temperature
1 whole egg at room temperature
1 cup of caster sugar
2 cups of self-raising flour
2 teaspoons ofvanilla essence
1/2 cup of milk
Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 170C. Position a rack on the second lowest shelf of the oven.
2. Butter / grease an 8 inch baking pan.
3. Sift the flour into a medium bowl.
4. Beat butter and sugar until fluffy.
5. Add the eggs, one at a time and beat after each addition.
6. Combine milk and vanilla essence in a bowl.
7. Add flour and milk alternately to beaten mixture, beating until combined.
8. Spoon the batter into the prepared pan.
9. Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
10. Cool the cake in the pan for 5 minutes.
11. Remove cake from pan. Let the cake cool completely before icing or frosting.
I hope you enjoy the recipe.
Poor service at Doran’s Diesel Injection
Doran’s Diesel Injection Service in Garbutt, Townsville quoted us $1600 and told us it would take a week to replace a seal in the fuel pump of our Mitsubishi Delica (L400). It ended up costing $2050 and took 14 days to fix! Their reasoning for taking longer and costing more was “there were rusty bolts near the batteries so it took longer”!
They didn’t even have the decency to contact us at all the whole time they had the car to let us know what was going on! The only time they contacted us was a day after we dropped it off to tell us that it was all pulled apart and the fuel pump was definately the problem. They also said if we wanted the aircon fixed it would cost another $2000 just for a compressor alone. So it was all pulled apart after a day but it took another 13 days to put the seal in and put back together?
We contacted them after the car had been there for 9 days to see what was going on and were told that some of their machinery was broken and needed to be fixed before the car could be finished. Another 3 days went by so we contacted them again, this time we were told that one of the guys had been “taken off” working on my car because there were other “more urgent” jobs to be done (Chell has 4 kids and need to work also).
When Chell finally went to pick up the car up the guy was very rude. He said it was a big job and then told her that some bolts near the batteries were rusty so it took longer to fix. So does that mean she paid almost an extra $500 and went without the car for 14 days for him to take out rusty bolts?
Chell is very upset and not happy with their service and will NEVER take the car to them again, and we will NEVER recommend them to anyone. I just thought that I would share our experience with them and hope anyone else that goes to Doran’s Diesel Injection Service doesn’t have the same problems we had.
The thing I find quite out of the ordinary is this following quote from their website.
The team at Doran’s Diesel are renowned, not only for their wealth of experience but for their friendly and patient assistance.
I would love to know where there friendly and patient assistance was.
Tags: Cars, diesel injection, Diesel Mechanic
Parent’s know best when it comes to kids
So there seems that people would like some discussion around the topic that parent’s know best. Simon Tofield has created a YouTube clip (Kids aren’t that smart – Cat). What are your views on this, do parent’s really know best?
Here is a couple more YouTube clips to have a look at.
Tags: advertisement
The Great Moscow Circus
Last night Chell and I took the kids in to see The Great Moscow Circus. The show started at 7:30pm so we decided to leave at 6:45pm to make it to Riverway on time (we live about 5 minutes away).
Tags: circus, clows, moscow, motorbikes