Yup, time for the Biannual Blogathon Bash. I really enjoyed myself last time and got a fair bit done so I’m going to give it a go again next weekend.

What is the Blogathon?
”You know all those items on your Blogging To Do list? Those things you’ve been meaning to get to but haven’t had a chance? Now’s your chance to get a large amount of them done!” It’s a chance to spend time, over a weekend, to do some (or all) of the things on your to do list. Read the About the Blogothon page for more info.

My to do list from January & the update. I’m currently working on my to do list for this time around.

Will you be joining in? Would love to see some more Aussie faces

Did you know the last time I did a foodie post was in April? No? Neither did I til I went looking for something else on me blog :/

Lately we’ve been trying to cut down on food waste and trying to spend less on our grocery bill. Actually I’ve been trying to do thing a bit more naturally and live a more ‘down to earth’ life. Mainly thanks to reading the book Down to Earth & the $120 Food Challenge (I met Sandra last year at DPCON12 and she is lovely). I’ll be blogging bits and pieces of our journey as we go.

Anywho, that’s not totally the point of this post Leftovers from roast. We nearly all have them. We nearly all have no real idea what to do with them. This week I thought I’d look at some ideas for leftover chicken.

Most times when we have leftover chicken roast the next nigh we do fried rice with chicken. Then there’s chicken pizza (on BBQ sauce if your me, tomato base for hubby), chicken shredded into a salad, chicken noodle soup (heck most chicken soups), chicken shepherd’s pie and lately chicken pasta bake.

I whipped up this pasta bake the other night and it’s so simple and delish I thought I’d share it with you

Nightwolf’s Chicken Pasta Bake
(amounts will vary depending on how much you want to put in)

• leftover roast chicken
• carrot, diced
• frozen peas
• frozen corn
• red onion, diced (or any type of onion)
• pasta (your choice, I used small shells just cause that’s what I grabbed first)
• cheese sauce
• grated cheese

Shred your chicken and put it in a casserole dish. Cook onion til soft. Add onion and other veg to the casserole dish.
Cook pasta to desired doneness. Drain. Add to casserole dish. Give everything a stir. Sprinkle with a little grated cheese (just cause I felt like it).

Make your cheese sauce (or use a bottled one, your choice). Pour into casserole dish. Stir through. Cover in grated cheese. Put in a preheated oven, about 180°C. Cook until cheese is golden and bubbly. About 25-30 minutes. Serve.

I’d love to hear what you do with leftover chicken roast, if you have any leftovers

Wow June already. Where have the last five months gone?

I’m pretty happy to say I’ve actually caught up with my 2013 album. AND I’ve managed to photograph it all. All I need to do now is upload it and add the slideshow to my Project Life page.

Making a change to my monthly posts. No linky any more. If you want to share your pages – link me up in the comments.

AC Digitals now have the full Rain edition. If you got Rain as part of the Digi Files you’ll need to get Bi-fold cards, Filler cards and Title cards from memory to complete the set.

Project Life is now available in Australia too! CraftHouse (from New Zealand) have opened CraftHouse Australia. Other stores are stocking PL now too so ask your local scrap shop if they will be stocking it. Becky Higgins has a list of online stores stocking PL and it looks like Spotlight will be stocking PL too. So lots of options now

I got my first Polly Scraps Project Life kit this month (after my first one went missing in the mail *sad face*)

You can’t see the 6×6 papers but this kit is so worth the money. Lots of gorgeous goodies.

Now onto my pages for May (ooh actual photos of pages – need to work out a good way of photographing my layouts)

Will be back later in the month to share with you all the start of my wedding album which I’ve decided to do Project Life style.

(Handing my blog over to the lovely Fiona today to share with you a little of what it’s like to live with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). May is BPD Awareness Month. Help eliminate the stigma and raise awareness of this serious condition by educating yourself and others.)

It’s harder if you care.

It causes me to drive you away. Please. I’m not worth it. Not worth your affection. All I’m going to do it hurt you and frankly fuck up your life, so get out now while you still can.

Fatal Attraction. Mad Love. Girl, Interrupted. Prozac Nation. 

Choose your film. 

Girls with BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) are messed up, and are going to screw up your life.

At least that’s the media’s angle.

We’re way more likely to screw up our own.

What did this mean for me?

30 years old. My partner is my high school sweetheart. I’m a Speech Pathologist. I  just got my masters in Inclusive education. I work with kids with disabilities in a specialist autism school. 

And yet, I’m suicidal.

Regularly self harming. Cutting and drinking.

Sleeping around. Lies. 

Trying to get my partner to break it off. Desperately. 

And yet he won’t. He still loves me. Sees the good in me. Wants to help me.

We set boundaries.  Well, he sets them , I agree. 

And  then break them.

He doesn’t know I’ve resumed my Bulimic behaviours. Enough to get a dual diagnosis.

That there’s more than he ever knew. 

I ran away.

It was all I knew how to do.

I needed an out. 

He broke it off. And he took me to hospital. 

And got me help.

They diagnose Borderline Personality Disorder.

1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behaviour covered in (5).
2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation. This is called “splitting.”
3. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.
4. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating). Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behaviour covered in (5).
5. Recurrent suicidal behaviour, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behaviour. 
6. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days). 
7. Chronic feelings of emptiness. 
8. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights). 
9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms.

I fit this well.

Impulsive. Suicidal. Self harming. Bulimia. Not knowing who I am.

I have a long history of needing to be perfect. To not upset others. To be what someone else wants me to be. No matter what that is.

I play to the role. I can be whoever you want me to be, I just wish I knew who I wanted to be.

Not sustainable in the long run.

Today I am in twice weekly therapy through the centre for psychotherapy in Newcastle. Not all health systems have such a service, but you should look.

We’re working on me accepting me as a valid person.  As having feelings, and THAT IS OKAY. Knowing where they come from. And knowing how I respond. In an aim to respond less extremely next time.

Accepting. And growing.

Technically I’m a functional adult.

I work. I study. I date. I’m a great friend and family member.

I just still melt down occasionally.  All too much…

Borderline Personality Disorder can be managed. We can learn to accept and love ourselves.

It just takes time

And patience.

From me

And you.

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Read more about BPD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder

http://www.sane.org/information/factsheets-podcasts/160-borderline-personality-disorder

http://www.spectrumbpd.com.au/pages/about-borderline-personality-disorder-bpd.php

I *heart* me some Drunk Kitchen. Google it hehe (Thanks to the lovely Fiona for first sharing it with me). See there I go getting distracted with music again. Where were we? Ah yes the kitchen. This is what we got when we bought the house

Now I don’t know about you but wood paneling in a kitchen, really isn’t my thing. It’s a total pain in the real to clean. That lovely stove in the corner – broken so our first step was a new stove. Then we decided the island thing was blocking a lot of light so it went. Then Miss K came along and it really wasn’t suitable so new kitchen was to be had. And didn’t we take great delight in helping rip out the cupboards & wood paneling. And our new kitchen slowly took shape over a couple of days (plus the time later to get tiling done and new flooring)

And I got a new glass hotplate and wall oven *squee* and our dishwasher got put in.

(I’ll edit this post later with a picture of the kitchen when it’s clean – at the moment it’s a tad messy)

Love my kitchen now.

It’s the June Photo a Day list from Fat Mum Slim. I’m looking forward to it. And I can’t believe I’ve managed to keep up with 5 month of photos (so far). I’m hoping to make it to the end of the year.

Do you do a Photo a Day? How are you going? You can follow all my daily photos on Instagram or on my ShutterCal

My three worst traits….

1. Jealous. I can get really jealous, really easy.
2. Bad tempered. I simmer on things then snap. Not a good thing.
3. I can work too hard. When I’m coding web sites I tend to get lost in code and ignore everything else. This only happens after Miss K has gone to bed now so ignoring everything tends to b hubby (who does the same when he’s programing) and the clock meaning late nights and early mornings.

Going with some quotes for this prompt

Thanks to Pinterest for these images