Sunday Session 43

Yeah today is Sunday Session day, what is that you ask? Sunday Session is where the sweet lovely Thea posts some songs that have memories for her or just great to listen to. To join in there is no rules the only one is that when you post your songs you link your post up with her blog.


My two fav songs this week are This first one is cause a lot of my twitter friends have been doing their places up.



and yes I think I may have posted this one before but I wanted to post it again as Spicks & Specks will no longer be on Australian TV after 7 wonderful years gracing our screens & I do love this part so much. (I love all of the Spicks & Specks but some parts are better)

Sunday Session 26

Sunday Session is here again with the lovely Thea if you love music, you should join up. The idea is to post an oldie and newbie on your blog (alhtough you can post just oldies, like I do or just newbies) then link up with Thea's blog by either hiting her name in this blog or hitting the Sunday Session button on the side of this blog. Now on to my picks.

My first pic of the week is a lovely song about a magical horse (I always wanted to own a horse but have never rode one as yet but it's on my bucket list.) The song of course is called Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphey.



The second song is from Kenny Rogers I have always loved his songs this one is Coward Of The County.

Sunday Session 25

First up let me say sorry for not joining in the Sunday Session for the last two weeks but I have been busy with my Uni studies, now here it is Sunday once again and that means its time for Thea's Sunday Session where you post two of your favourite songs and link it up to her blog.

My first pick for this Sunday come about cause I was chatting to a dear friend called maidinaustralia  (who on a side note has a awesome blog of her own) on Twitter, about what Alcholic drinks I haven't tasted as yet and one of them I haven't tasted is a Pina Colada which reminded me of this favourite song of mine. 



Now I don't know about copyright laws so I wont post the next song but will give you a link to it, It's a parody of another song & its wonderfully done by Stephen Colbert and The Saturday Night Live gang. Please press here if you want to go listen to it

Sunday Session 22

For the last two Sundays I have missed playing Thea's Sunday Session due to the fact I've had the flu but I'm back this week with heaps of songs to post to join in this week and for the two posts I've missed over the other two weeks.

The idea is you put a oldie & newbie song up on your blog then link to Thea's blog and some of us are also now linking to Natasha's  blog as well, so don't forget to check out her blog as well, you can link to both. 

My first pick for this week is Just Can't Get Enough by Depeche Mode 

The next one is not so much a song but a nice piece of music called Apache from the Shadows, there is nothing like sitting with a group of friends over a drink and just listening to some music without any lyrics to it Do you agree?




Another great piece of music without lyrics I love listening to is Classical Gas by Mason Williams watch the flim clip & let me know what you think about the surprise around the 45 second mark. 




The next song I love and fell in love with it more when I heard the Great Dame Judi Dench sing it not only is she a great actress but she has a wonderful voice The song is called Send In The Clowns I play this song everytime Hubby & I are foolish in our thoughts to each other at times.



Now if you can hang on I got two more songs left to post the next one is Roy Orbison's Candy Man



The other Candy Song I love is the one from the Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory movie and is called The Candy Man



Well hope you enjoyed all my music this week and that I've given you all enough music to cover me being away for the last two weeks.

When does 2011 start for you?

Here it is the 4th of January 2011 and the New Year is only really starting for me this year as this is when people head back to work and you can make them calls to companies,Dr's,Dentists, and other places that close down over the New Year period. This is the time I start hunting around for a appt diary for this year as most places sell them at half price now compared to full price before the New Year.

This year is already shaping up to be a busy one with me aiming to lose a kilo a week till I'm down to 55 or 60 kilos, for those of you interested in following my weight lose you can follow it here . Also I'm planning on doing some sort of study via correspondence course before Easter rolls around so will be spending this week and maybe next week checking out if I need to enrol now or if I can enrol closer to Easter.

Also hoping to meet up quiet a number of times with some twitter friends who live in and around the South East Queensland area, all of my twitter friends have been a great source of new friendship for me and have made me feel very wlecome online but my next hurdle comes in metting a group of them. I've meet one twitter friend one to one and that was lovely but when it comes to a group even if  know the people I get worried and scared if I haven't meet them in real lift. I'm not going to put people's names on here but all my friends know who you are (I hope you do) 


I'm looking forward to what the new year is going to bring me even though I know some of what it's going to bring me the rest of it will be surprises even if it means hitting a rough patch here and there I look forward to them cause its through rough patches that part of me learns to grow stronger. 

What about you, when does 2011 start for you? What are you persoanlly looking forward to this year for you and/or your family?

 

Communication Shutdown for Social Networks

Today in Australia is the 1st of November there is a Global Funrasier called Communication Shutdown to raise awareness and money for different forms of Autism. There is a fair amount of debate going on about if this campaign is a good thing or not. 

Having no one in the family that has a form or Autism and only having meet a friend (via Twitter) whose son suffers with one of the forms of Autism I'm all for the Shutdown (at the moment) the reason why I have no idea what anyone with Autism really goes through.

I know they find it hard to communicate and that's why some people with Autism effecting their familes say that this Communcation Shutdown is wrong that Autism people need that line of communcation.

Knowing Autism people find it hard to communicate would give me a small sense of what it must be like not to be able to communicate by having this shutdown. The reason I'm not doing it this year is I want to gather all the facts so that I can make my mind up next year if this campaign is done again.

Yes I know I'm not the perfect person to write this blog but I would love to hear the Postive and Negative about why you thing this shut down is good or not. 

Short or Long posts are welcome on this subject all I ask is you keep in mind that every one has their own thoughts and feelings so no name calling or fighting or your post will not be published. A healthy clean debate is welcome but a fighting one is not.

The webiste for the Communcation Shutdown is here I'm not sure how long the website will be up for it may only be up till Australia's 3rd of November (since other countries are not on the 1st November yet) or it could be up longer.

Sunday Session 2

There is a new crazy going through the blog world and that is "Sunday Session" which was created by the lovely Thea who on Sundays pop's two of her favourite songs onto her blog an oldie but a goldie plus a newbie fresh off the charts.


Then other bloggers can link up to her blog by doing the same thing, usually mine are all oldies cause I don't like a lot of the newbies that are on the charts at the moment. My picks for this week are,

The first one is Ghost Riders in the sky sung by Johnny Cash, although his not the original singer a guy named Burl Ives and has been covered by more then 50 performers over the time, but Johnny Cash is the only who gets close to the way Burl Ives sounds.




The 2nd song I have my husband to thank for introducing me to this group. AC/DC has had two lead singers the 1st one was Bon Scott from 1977 to 1980 when he passed away. The next lead singer from 1980 to the present is Brain Johnson, who is the one that sings the below song of You Shook Me All Night Long. Both singers are wonderful though all AC/DC songs want to make you get you feet tapping and body swinging.



What are you Sunday Session songs lets us know by linking up and sharing with us.

Messy or Clean Desk

Today I thought I would share with my readers my desk that I sit at to do all my pc work.No matter how much I try to keep it clean it just seems to have a calling to have stuff come to it.

The desk sits right beside our lounge so of course my lovely husband chooses to use the desk as a table to hold his things like the green beer stubbie holder, his mobile, watch & log bog for the car (all the stuff you can see between the pc screen & the pc speaker near the date of the pic).

Sitting on top of our all in one printer (beside the red pen/pencil holder) is all our diary's, paper work, shopping dockets (to see if our fly buy points have been added to our account) then you have my mobile phone near our netphone (what some isp companies call VOIP)

In between our all in one printer & the red cup pen/pencil holder is all the bills that need to be paid soon.

I would love a big corner desk & eventually we are going to get one but as you can see there is a spot near the desk where we keep some of our pc cd's & that black thing is one of surround sound speakers for the surround sound we have for the loungeroom.

Now that I have shared my blogging/twitter/computer space what is yours like? Would like to see some of my readers spaces.