Just for FUN & As for an Askhole, WELL..

I'm sure we all know one of those...  LOL 

Oh yes I am ....  lol 

In Vietnam still, MISSING my boys and family AND

the dogs & being back at home in New Zealand... lol   
A couple of pictures and a short video below too... 

My time flies way too fast,  she is the cutest wee thing though,  Sophia Rose below who is almost 2 already! :) 

A dogs life in New Zealand, although it is
cold there now, Monty & Python lazing in 
the sun lucky wee things,  I bet they miss
us too, or do they? They do not look too
worried about us .. I must say! 
AND the video below  is what we have to go
through just to get to the supermarket  
(not kidding) however we are usually in a 
taxi thankfully ... ha ha .  

Plus a picture below of our apartment
building in Vietnam the Phuc Yen,  
taken from a couple of streets away around
the corner (and a rare quiet street, at that )  


 Awww, cute or what?
Sophia Rose, a real 
Daddys' little girl too!

She speaks like a four year old , very clever wee thing and  she loves her Grammy! lol 

 I will never complain about a traffic jam EVER again back 
in New Zealand...   I swear !     
Now, if only online traffic to my websites looked like that.. ~ NICE!  :) 

Funny story - Sort of, NOT...

Still in Vietnam, trying to learn some more of the language, 
getting a bit better at it. However READING it is a whole
other story ... lol  especially while at the supermarkets.

OMG,  we thought we would try some new things,
(food wise that is) lol & so we found a different supermarket
 just for a change of scenery more or less...  WELL...

Got back to the apartment (we have no oven) so we got some
microwavable stuff for a change, without thinking or reading ..
I heated up the bowls of food...  Kev' got wonton soup , which
back in NZ he actually loves , so that was easy enough...

Mine looked like a sweet n sour pork from the picture ..
but alas,  it tasted like chicken ....  weird, I thought at the time..
ANYHOO .. turned out when I translated the writing on
the label , it was FROG freakin' PORRIDGE.. 
 Ewwwwww...

I know the french love frogs legs, it grossed me out, as I had pet frogs
when I was a kid, so needless to say, I could not eat it at all !













And here I was worried about ever eating dog here .. 
(by accident of course) or cat or worse... AND
even worse being a dog lover too, so have been super careful..
not sure anyone here ever does that now days either , hoping not!

ANYWAY ...

I learnt a valuable lesson though ,  BUY FRESH PRODUCE,
(so you can see what you are getting and or cooking yourself)
and use the gas cooker,  healthier no doubt anyway..  LOL  ..

Hopefully no frog lovers will be hurt reading this post ... 

Happy 4th of July to our American Friends.

Wishing everyone in the USA a 

Very Happy Independence Day Weekend! 

Independence day brings forth new hope

to make your tomorrows even better! 

(and that should apply every single day :)

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. 

Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

~ Helen Keller

Hush-Hush now- until the 14th of July 2015

  The COUNTDOWN is ON!  

Official word that the 14th of July is the big day we have been waiting for! 

A couple of good quotes I like....

“Your life changes the moment you make a new, 

congruent, and committed decision.”

~ Anthony Robbins 

“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something 

to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.”

~ Joseph Addison 

Oh so true ...  :) 

To use FREE blogs or Paid? That is the question!

I know some people think FREE BLOGs are unprofessional ,
and that is ok, everyone has an opinion on that , no doubt !

 I have actually tried & used most paid versions out there over
the years, and also spent years doing SEO on paid sites, learning
all the tricks , blah, blah... blah, only to have it all wiped out overnight
sometimes, ( literally)  EVEN on the Paid ONES... so there you go!
Admittedly you either love wordpress OR google & both are great....

But ,  guess what is still online and still found when searching old work,
sometimes stuff you wish you had forgotten all about... LOL
(before we know, what we know now!)  always the FREE Blogs are found,
 go figure!   So why would you not use them?

Good question.. anyway,  things have gotten much easier these days..
useful software, drop & drag, point & click,  copy & paste etc ...
 it is a techie phobe's dream now days , but sometimes we just like ,
what we like using .. and GOOGLE does seem to rule the world , just a little...
 LOL so hey !  ....

I have been updating this one, I only started it not that long ago, 
(after losing yet another years work on another site) ..   
so excuse the look of it on occasion... (& it is always a work in progress.)

Obviously if I had a brick & mortar business I would  not be here,
and I would have a website for that too,  however most of what I do
right now is 100% online, so having a base with everything all in one place
is good value and makes perfect sense to me.


EVERYTHING on here is 100% legit  from my OWN experiences,  and  just
remember everyone is different, some might  love something, you might not!

So feel free to contact me if you have any
questions about what you find here! 

Cheers ,  Dianne in NZ however .... 
Dianne in Vietnam (at the moment)  :)