Chocolate Makes It Better

• Blogging Therapy

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  I've been busy lately. So damn busy. Not so busy as to not have any time at all to dedicate to blogging. Just busy enough to be under pressure and stress so that when it comes time to actually sit down and write a post, there's not much left in [...]
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  Posted: July 22, 2007, 7:48pm EDT
  

• To My Daughters

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  With two bright smiles as warming and therapeutic as the sun, I never thought I could love someone as much as I love the both of you. You’re both so unique, like a butterfly coming from it’s cocoon, you are growing and spreading your wings, bringing with it a joy [...]
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  Posted: June 04, 2007, 6:14pm EDT
  

• Blogs�interesting. Very bloody interesting.

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  It’s really interesting, since I’ve started BloggerView, I have opened up my mind to reading all sorts of different blogs. I appreciate people have an opinion and going to someone’s blog is like listening to their conversation sitting on the bus or waiting in line at the bank.You get to [...]
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  Posted: April 30, 2007, 7:28am EDT
  

• BloggerView - Official Launch Starts Tonight

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  Wow, have I been one busy little munchkin!!! For the past few weeks Wifey and I have been working feverishly on a brand new project www.bloggerview.netThis would explain the lack of posts here at Chocolate Makes It Better….but you know, I’m a kind of all or nothing guy. Multitasking is [...]
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  Posted: April 19, 2007, 6:24am EDT
  

• Jessanna Officially Walking

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  It’s official. Jessanna is now walking. She has taken her time but now she is up and about with more confidence and gusto than ever before.We were always hesitant to say she was walking because she used to hold onto a firm cupboard, lounge chair or table and then, with [...]
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  Posted: March 29, 2007, 12:47am EDT
  

• In Search of Character and Calling

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  Every now and then a book makes it way into your hands that has a profound effect on your perspective of life. It makes you think about your being and the reason for it. The things you have done and the things you want to do.This morning I started reading [...]
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  Posted: March 20, 2007, 3:07am EDT
  

• Tatts Out - Show Your Tattoos Peole!

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  Tattoos,Body Art, Skin Ink -I had a jibe at Mr Big Dubya earlier this week about a post where he told us that he had a few Tattoos and jokingly (kind of) I said that he should have posted photo's! He took me up on the challenge and put the' [...]
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  Posted: February 22, 2007, 5:20pm EST
  

• Doing Up Buttons

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  Sometimes we take things for granted. Sometimes we don't even think about the things we do. Getting a glass of water, blowing our nose or even going to the toilet all seem like pretty mundane and autopilot things to do, but it's not until you see your children learning these [...]
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  Posted: February 19, 2007, 9:56pm EST
  

• Why Won't you Just Sleep!!

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  We want our bedroom back. For the past 13months our bedroom has been infested with all manner of baby apparel. Cot's, change tables, nappies, nappy sacks, and of course, the child that goes along with all this. Along with all this guff is the (mostly) nightly ritual of Jessanna waking' [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2007, 9:16pm EST
  

• Valentines Day 2007

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  This morning was Valentines day and for once I didn’t forget!I surprised Wifey with a nice card and a book. Funnily enough she got me a nice card and a book too! Like they say, great minds think alike.The book she got me was called Forgotten Voices by Max Arthur. [...]
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  Posted: February 13, 2007, 10:44pm EST
  

• Could That Be Any Cuter?

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  I have a little helper. Her name is Kayla-bear and she is 2 and a half years old. She loves to help. In the kitchen, cleaning up toys, feeding her little sister, she just loves helping.This morning Kayla-bear asked for her usual 'jam on toast'. [...]
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  Posted: February 12, 2007, 5:29pm EST
  

• The wonders of Wiki's

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  You just have to love a website that anyone can edit hey? Check out the first line of this entry in Wikipedia. [...]
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  Posted: February 12, 2007, 12:12am EST
  

• A Weighty Debate

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  Good friend Metrodad wrote this post about going on the low carbs diet. I know how he feels. For the last two weeks Wifey and I have been doing the same thing.The first day on the diet.....um......i mean 'change of eating habits' we ate nothing but meat and eggs. Fuck [...]
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  Posted: February 11, 2007, 5:23pm EST
  

• Awake at 4.30am

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  It's about 5 am in the morning and my daughter has decided that it's been playtime for the last 45 mins. I don't mind playtime. I'm cool with it. Toys, music, fun and laughter. But at 4.30 in the morning????Jessanna had a couple of immunisation needles the other day so [...]
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  Posted: February 09, 2007, 2:12pm EST
  

• The Wonders of Being One

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  This weekend was Jessanna’s first birthday. How quickly she is growing up. For both the girls we have had a first birthday party. I love having loads of kids around, playing games and giving our girls their special day.This weekend was no different. The party was on Sunday so all [...]
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  Posted: January 31, 2007, 12:00am EST
  

• It's great getting out of the house isn't it?

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  I go so crazy stuck in our house sometimes. Do you ever get so busy during the week that you leave all the boring domestic crap till the weekend?Weekends are supposed to be fun. Filled with smiling faces, happy road trips where children behave and fuel is cheap. Lunches that [...]
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  Posted: January 22, 2007, 9:07pm EST
  

• pot in pot refrigeration methods saves lives and increases education in Africa

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  I Love Shit Like This. I found this today. A very clever invention that uses clay pots as a refrigeration facility that does not require power. How fuckin cool is that?Basically the idea is that you put one smaller pot inside a larger pot and pack the area between the [...]
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  Posted: January 18, 2007, 10:23pm EST
  

• Protect me From the Dinosour Daddy

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  A while ago we went on holidays and went to underwater world up the coast. Seeing all the fish and other sea animals was a real treat for Kayla-Bear and her sister. At the end of the day as we made our way out the exit, they had a dinosour [...]
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  Posted: January 09, 2007, 4:57am EST
  

• If it Sounds Like a Duck

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  I have discovered how damn easy it is to take video footage on my mobile and upload it to YouTube. I did this yesterday when we found a Possum in our office.This morning I managed to get this footage of Jessanna quacking like a duck. I remember Kayla-Bear used to [...]
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  Posted: January 04, 2007, 10:35pm EST
  

• Creative mp3 player

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  This post is a little experiment. the ads on my blog have been really crappy lately so I want to see how much copy about things like, laptops, or even perhaps audio digital players you have to add in to make the crappy hurricane ads stop showing (which i might [...]
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  Posted: January 04, 2007, 5:18am EST
  

• Happy New Year

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  Fuck it's 2007! Can you beleive it. This year I plan to blog alot more. I want to blog more about the shit i'm interested in like web stuff, search and obviously my kids. I suppose I thought about why I started this blog in the first place. To keep [...]
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  Posted: January 03, 2007, 5:13am EST
  

• Finally, I Have My Bike Back - checking out mountain bike trails around my house

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  For the past year or so I have had a kiddie seat attached to the back of my mountain bike. This has led to many an occasion where Kayla-Bear and I have strapped on our helmets (mine a cool jet black one and hers a bright red wiggles helmet) and [...]
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  Posted: December 12, 2006, 10:25pm EST
  

• Spewing blood, coma�s and death.

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  I have had a strange couple of days. The news of my Mates Dad vomiting ridiculous amounts of blood on his bathroom floor and then slipping and knocking himself out which subsequently induced him into a coma which resulted in his death has been somewhat playing on my mind for [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2006, 5:35am EST
  

• My two and a half year old daughter has worked out Santa doesn�t exist

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  Well not quite. Wifey was in the shopping centre the other day and she decided to take Kayla Bear past Santa. Back-story – Kayla bear thinks Santa is “a little bit scary”. Not a lot scary, just a little bit. Quite often we will see Santa in the shopping centre [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2006, 9:16pm EST
  

• Swimming.

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  This weekend we went swimming again. For the past few weekends we have been taking the girls to a pool just down the road from us. It’s a great little place. Really really kid friendly and lots of slides, bubble pools and squirting things. Heaps of families can be found [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2006, 10:38pm EST