its got a catchy tune and a great video clip!

Kids cost a lot of money - cheerleading is an awesome sport, and the kids really love it which makes it worth it !

I still like to hang onto my privacy

Nobody really reads my blog except the odd time when they see it posted on twitter and of course Ness :)

I really should have thought this through - the subjects sometimes sucked, hence why i changed it.

I dont have many pics of me, im usually the one behind the camera.

Heres a picture of me from just over a year ago, right before i had surgery (see, im playing dead!)

And of course heres a semi recent pic of me now. Now I have brown hair again (well, almost!). I regained 20kg after surgery due to inactivity and eating junk. I'm now working on getting fit and getting back into cycling

Despite being well known on the web, having a lot of blogs about the place, im still a very secretive person. My private life is my own, and  i like it that way. A lot of people have no idea about who I am, where I come from or really much at all about me.

People make up their own minds and put you into a slot of what they think you are or should be. I thought it was time to perhaps put some of me out there. My private life is still my own, and you will notice I have changed some of the challenges slightly to keep it that way.

I did the challenge because my good friend Vanessa suggested it, and I wanted to put some of me out there. I am using a separate blog to my usual one so that it doesn't auto-feed into my facebook. 

I'm very much a 'say what you think' person. Often I'm seen with my foot in my mouth.

My friends are fucking awesome. If i did not like them, i wouldn't be friends with them. Its that simple.

Despite me often putting my foot in my moith, I feel i'm particularly great at reading body language or subtle things that, so i generally know what others think of me, however i rarely react or let on.

Often I pickup on what somebody thinks of me, realize we won't get along, so don't bother trying. I have better things to do with my life than trying to fit into other peoples ideas or perceptions or wasting time trying to befriend somebody who isn't interested.

I also generally pickup on people who are lieing or bullocks, however again, i rarely react, or even care. People usually have their reasons for what they do or say, and I've long since learned that some people were raised to be polite and friendly to your face even if they really want to say otherwise.

I've long held the opinion that what a person means is more important than what they say. People say they do or are things a lot of the time, but don't follow that up with actions, and yet I have met many people who continuously break things, or do damage to various things whilst trying their best to help a person out.

To me, the person who was trying to help in the first place had their heart in the right place. I think thats more important than anyone with flash words. This is one of the reasons I'm not to fussed that sometimes i say things and they come out wrong. Those that matter usually realize what i mean.

So in short, my friends are amazing people, with their heart in the right place. They may not be perfect, but they have a moral code they live by. They go out of their way to help others, and they go above and beyond.

I have no time for people only interested in making a buck, fame (internet fame or otherwise) at other peoples expenses.

Not a lot! I pride myself on small or no bags! The tiny ones I do take, i can *really* pack!

My usual bag is a small 2 zip hand bag made of tan leather. It fits my bank cards, phone and has a few hair ties, Antihistamines, spare ritalin and no-doz for my son, coffee cards, reciepts and thats it. Often I will just take my bank card and Phone in my pocket, i really dislike bags!

When we went to Fiji, i noticed my small bag habit had rubbed off on kids. Our checked in lugage was about the same size as most peoples carry on. I took only what was necessary, togs, towel, 2 pants, 2 tops, PJs, Netbook and camera. In fact, when we came back i was easily able to put my clothes into everyone elses bags, and bring back a suitcase full of wooden trinkets we got at the market, and I really only wore a short, togs and wrap most of the time anyway!

Despite only having small bags, i adore bags! I have a bad habit and a closet full of bags i have only ever used once (all small of course!) :D

I changed this one. I have nothing I want to overly say to my parents, and if i did i most certainly wouldn't be posting it on a website that they may stumble over some day, i would say it to their faces.

So, i chose to tell you a few funny tails and things I did as a child that I find amusing 

Before 5 years old

I was a tom boy, and used to hang out with all the guys on the street. I never understood why guys could have no shirt on and I wasn't allowed. I would sneak out of the house topless as often as I could without being caught. It never occured to me to take my top off after leaving the house *doh*! 

I used to pick up snails, peel the skin off and eat them, I only recall doing this once but apparently it was a regular thing. The thought of it makes me shudder now!! :O

I used to pick my nose and eat it, i thought it was a fine and dandy thing to do. I recall my father once asking me "Why do you pick your nose and eat it? does it taste good or something?" and I replied "Oh, they taste great! Look, I have a slimey one, did you want to try it?" Whilst holding out a massively huge slimey booger on my finger - Thats one habit I'm glad i out grew! I still recall my fathers horrified face.

5-10 Years old

I went to a Catholic school and caught a bus every morning and evening, it was a good 30 minute ride away. I recall from very young going into the dairy next door to the school and stealing things, putting them into my bag. Nobody ever suspected me because i was really innocent and young looking. I only did it because i was jealous of everyone else having really awesome lunches and morning teas. Occasionally I recall stealing money from mums purse to buy lunch.

There was a large group of friends, and 2 leaders. The group of friends would alternately be friends with either one of the leaders or the other. Looking back on that now, we were the cool crowd, and the 'leader' who was left out without friends for a week until we changed our mind must have had a pretty bad time.

10-14 Years Old

At about 10 years old i moved to a local school, where i went from being fairly friendly with everyone to the class reject and picked on. I Eventually found a friend (Kylie) who was a new girl, we used to jump off a 1 & 2 story climbing frame with a huge plastic sheet. We swore it slowed our fall down! We imagined that we would one day fly away!

I'm still friends with Kylie now, even though she moved away to Christchurch about a year later when her fathers job moved.

Hmmm, i'm going to take this one literally ... because i generally dont have any major cravings otherwise.

I Crave food, I'm always finding myself hungry no matter what i eat. Its a mental craving rather than a physical craving half the time, and the other half its just physical. Its made loosing weight and keeping it off a major mission for me. I constantly battle it and its probably one of the hardest things in my life really.

Everyone thinks im so perfect and amazing because i lost 80kg, well i don't feel that way. I feel like a fraud, sure i lost the weight, but i put 20kg back on due to lazyness, and i struggle just as much as anyone else to keep it off and re-loose it.

My biggest craving is to not have to struggle with this. I would *love* to be one of those people who are just never hungry and don't seem to eat much. I would love to be always slim.

I have even thought seriously about having surgery because i know this would solve the problem.

Hmm, Good question.

I guess, because I can do whatever i want to do, and be whatever i want to be. I don't mean like everyone else who 'knows' that but never applies it, i mean as in i have already completely and radically changed my life, multiple times.

I used to be a solo parent, overweight, high school drop out.

I went from being High school drop out and 25 and not having a clue, to being paid over 100k per year doing IT, within a year. It was a wake up call for me, I decided i didn't want to be who i was and go down the road i was on. By doing that, i realized that i really *could* do anything i wanted. 

It's made me stop and think about what i wanted from life and how i was going to get it. I learnt to stop making excuses why i shouldn't do things, and started making excuses why i SHOULD do things. I married my husband Paul 3-4 years later, and have continued in IT.

I went on to loose 80kg of weight, and donating a kidney to my brother. Was it hard? sure! Was I scared? Totally! But i did it anyway. I'm not going to let fear or other people control my life, its mine, and i know where I want it to go, and how fast.

Current Goals

For now, my life is great. I have a great job that ends at the end of the day, and i get to spend a lot of quality time with my kids. My children are one of the most important things in my life, and this is why they are not on the internet much. My goal is for them to enjoy their childhood, and achieve everything they can do. Currently I'm spending about 1,500 a term on cheerleading, plus a crapload of man hours. We're not rich, its a struggle to pay that, but to me, its worth it seeing their happy faces!

As a child we rarely travelled, i recall always being broke, despite having a house in the nice suburbs. Having children young as a teenager didnt really help me any, and so the first time i went overseas was when i won a trip for 2 to Fiji.

We begged, borrowed, and sold things to be able to take the children with us, and it was totally worth it!  We loved it. The one thing that struck me most was how happy everyone was in Fiji. 

They were not rich, they were not in flash houses, most lived in a one or two room house with no windows, but they were really happy people. Nobody was as friendly as those in Fiji! It really struck home for us all, material things may help you feel better for a time, but they dont bring true happyness

Funnily enough, i spent more time enjoying my time there, and didn't get any super great photos other than on the last day.

So, instead ill post a picture of my second most happy making thing , my new super king sized bed!

I've never had a new bed before, only second hand well used ones.... ok, so this one isnt brand new either, but its most definitely newer than any other ive had!