On housework
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I’m really not surprised the kids haven’t bee wanting to help with the housework lately.
Firstly I’ve been yelling at them almost constantly. Secondly there’s been this pervasive, pointless obsession with “getting shit done” to the point where my lovely husband would much rather force them to watch a video and “get shit done” as quicky as possible because he’s sick of [everything] and keeps repeating the “getting shit done” mantra when I point out that most of the reason kids probably don’t feel so inclined to help with the housework was precisely because they weren’t allowed to and then al of a sudden were forced to rather than growing into it as part of life and how you live in a family unit.
Rejigging flux
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It’s probably a good thing I’m used to constant flux, it has on occasion driven me mad but I think I need it, considering several attempts to have anything above the most basic of basic routines results in more chaos and me actually going mad. Considering the amount of Stuff going on in my head I’ve decided to relegate logging of the banal crap and reminders to do Stuff to djinn (my iPhone, yes it and both my computers and my car have names and personalities) which seems to have left the part of my brain I’m aware of using more room to do some really weird stuff.
Catchup, Tapfish economics, cartography and Lojban
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[this post got a lot of interesting/amusing comments mostly about people apparently annoyed by my decision to use Lojban as the IAL (international auxiliary language) for AEfter Ragnarok - bit sad to lose them]
Catchup
No posts for a whole year. That might have something to do with being slightly manic with what I calculated was roughly the equivalent of a 24/7/365 on call full time job and two contract/casuals. And I’m only getting paid for one of them, and only if I can find contracts. Sprat and I have gotten down to srs bizness and are now doing design and websites for money, along with the mass plethora of other people doing the same. We’re better than 90% of them ;) I am also still working on AR (formerly referred to as The Comic and then The ComicAnimation, you know, that thing I’ve been plugging at constantly and more or less consistantly for the last 8 years or so). It’s come a long, long way. It’s also because I thought I’d try my hand at this record keeping business. So I (very intermittently) kept records in a Smiggle notebook.
Statues in Kenya
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Today Tiny was spinning a tale about a house a bit bigger than ours with olts of people. Then he starrted talking about golden statues. I asked him where, he said “somewhere else”. I said somewhere could be anywhere, could he be more specific?
He said he thinks Kenya. Then asked me where Kenya was.
Individual learning styles
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Again with the attempt to keep up recording. I have a funky silver Smiggle diary which I’m going to be using for homeschooling notes, and if I remember I’ll transpose them on here and point the relatives at it, as well as anyone else who’s interested in homeschooling or unschooling, just on the offchance :)
Slack, busy
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Yes, I haven’t written for ages. No that’s not likely to change :)
Erm. Got me a notebook to see if I can get any better at this recording thing next year, practising while Tiny is kindy aged. Also still working on ze homeschooling site, though that got pushed back again as my sister and I had a couple of jobs drop into our laps (one decent sized).
High stress
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Been a very bad parent lately. It’s one of those things. We lost one of our cats to a car (nobody cares what you think, you are not and never will be a good enough driver to be speeding along normal roads) and we bought a new house which we will be moving into in 12 months after settlement. My clandestine operation is still in full swing though I’m feeling a tad stressed seeing as I may need to change plans partway through as I have no idea what the money situation is going to be like, specially seeing as the person I need to email me hasn’t yet.
Homeschooling site revisited
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We dropped in to see my uncle and aunty yesterday (myself, my sister and the kids) to say hi and to return my aunty’s cake board that we’d had forever, and my uncle was giving us advice about the block we’re working on buying and then he asked when Tiny started kindy. I said he would be starting next year if he was going, and he made the comment that he thought Tiny might be ready pretty much now.
Good day
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Had playgroup today. It’ws one of those nic days, warm in the sun but not hot, cool in the shade but not freezing. It was particularly nice today as Tiny had great fun playing with his friends, there are four of them including Tiny around the same age (3-5) and for almost the entire time they were playing together, who knows what but pirates and dinosaurs and sticks were involved. The boys went up with one of the mums at some stage and played around the memorial pond and the rest of us were watching from the usual spot and thinking how adorable they were and it all was. I’m wondering if the other mums were thinking the same thing I was, like this was the way it should be with the kids having fun playing together as they were.
"Sky fi"
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Recently JJ had the SciFi channel on Foxtel. I can’t remember now what it was we were watching on the SciFi channel, but Tiny looked at it, then looked at us and said quite confidently “Dat’s sky fi.”
Sky fi.
Most of the words he’s looked at to date have a hard “c” sound and neither of us have ever referred to it with that particular pronounciation. I have occasionally called it “sci fee” as it’s not “science fike-shun”.