My phone and I have been living under a rock.

I have a Windows phone. For the last couple of years I have been using the Instagram Beta app. It is shit, it is not up to date and for the last month it hasn't even been working properly. Silly old me didn't even know there was an alternative, or bothered to look.

So over the weekend I googled an alternative, and there staring me in the face was an app called 6tag.

It is the most fabulous app for Windows phone Instagram users, that has filters I didn't even know existed! I feel like such a nit wit because I have been using a beta version of Instagram all along.

I am in love. I am up to date and in love.

It does have ads though and you have to pay a small price (like a few dollars) to get rid of the ads and be able to post videos (which I could never do with the beta version).

I love Instagram and I love that I can now use it better. I can't believe the new filters,  I know I already said that. I feel I have walked out of a time warp!

Mum had a huge garage sale over the weekend, my sister and I went and helped her out. Her and Dad like to go to clearance sales and they'd accumulated a lot of stuff. Dad likes to collect stuff. Every six months or so they have a garage sale.

Dad was in hospital the night before after a health scare, so he wasn't at the garage sale and Mum a little bit beside herself and grateful for the help. Dad is AOK, he's had a stent put in yesterday, the same time they were looking around inside him with a tiny camera. Pretty amazing what they can do these days. Ever so grateful of what they can do these days. We get to keep him a little bit longer.

I was a bit scared.

Instagram beta kept crashing on my phone and I didn't get to share my photo of later that day, when I was using my tea pot for one. I have a tea pot for one. It was left over from the sale and Mum let me have it. She 'let' me have a few things, I slipped ten bucks in the cookie tin till while she wasn't looking.

I am also loving my Dutch hoe. There's probably a few inappropriate jokes here, bound to insult a nationality and all women at the same time, so we won't go there.

It's a little hoe with a long handle. I've tested it out already in the garden and it's so cool. I can stand up and scratch weeds from the dirt, no bending down, no gloves, I don't get my hands dirty. Who would have thought I would be so excited about an old weathered broom stick with a rusty attachment at the end of it! I know.

Yesterday my sister and I, and our chainsaw yielding partners went and cut a heap of wood at the back of Mum and Dad's yesterday. It would take a load of Dad's worries when he gets back home, which shouldn't be too long now they worked out what's wrong, and fixed it.

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I love me a good list, and who dropped their guts?!

Are you a list lover?

I like lists. They help me get shit done. 

I love the way I feel when I can cross things off my list. It keeps me on track. It makes me feel good.

I should make more lists.

Except when I get on the computer. Bloody facebook. Bloody distractions.

I have heaps of stuff to share on the blog, mainly stuff I've cooked. Do you think I can sit down at the computer and not faff about on everything else but? The answer to that, is NO by the way. I need to make computer job lists and stick to them. 

Don't be too surprised when I bombard you with stuff to cook next week. As long as I don't get sidetracked and fart on about lists.....

I made a list yesterday.

1.To plant the punnet of Coriander seedlings I bought at Woolies a couple of days ago. Done! After I had to hunt down the contents of the empty punnet I found under the swing set. Izzy had planted the whole thing in a big blob next to her cubby house. 

2. To chop up the gum tree branches that hubby cut AGES ago and just left them sitting there. Doneski! I have one very full green bin.

3. Take the bits of tin away, left over from the chook house extension, to the recycle centre. Done! Again, useless husband. I am not one to hold back on the husband bashing by the way. So frustrating.

4. Clean the back patio. It's been seriously neglected and just shit everywhere. Done!

5. Plant seeds that I saved from last years veggies. Done!! I even have photographic evidence.

I kicked arse yesterday. I am so proud of myself. Now I just need to put clean my car, inside and out on the list. I was a just a bit embarrassed when my Mum got in a couple days ago. Utter pig sty.

Speaking of pigs. I totally made someone spit out their coffee yesterday. Fist pump.

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Do lists make you happy?
What have you been kicking arse at lately? There's got to be something.