life
Christmas time, mistletoe and wine, and slightly different this year
Friday, 24 December 2010 @ 12:14am
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The lovely Ursula (also known as SulaMoon) over at deviantART gave me and another friend of hers pearwood a dragon for Christmas.
I think it’s agonisingly cute. Ursula is an amazing artist.
Border protection
Monday, 26 April 2010 @ 11:46am
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A couple of weeks or so ago we received a mailout from Senator Judith Adams, Liberal Senator for Western Australia, Deputy Opposition Whip in the Senate. There is one thing I hate above all else, and that is fearmongering. I am all for intelligent discussion and debate and being exposed to the many facets of a situation so that one can make an informed decision as to which side of the fence they are going to sit on so to speak. I have a rabid hatred of SHOUTING TO MAKE YOUR POINT AND BEING RIGHT BECAUSE YOU SAY IT LOUDER THAN EVERYONE ELSE and abuse of emotive language to drum up a reaction.
On housework
Thursday, 22 April 2010 @ 2:47pm
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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
Sunday, 11 April 2010 @ 12:03pm
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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.
Slack, busy
Saturday, 6 December 2008 @ 9:44am
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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
Monday, 12 May 2008 @ 10:45pm
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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
Wednesday, 16 April 2008 @ 3:13pm
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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.
"Sky fi"
Thursday, 28 February 2008 @ 6:43pm
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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”.
The Toddler Bed
Monday, 11 February 2008 @ 12:13am
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I am starting to think that maybe I should just get my act together, get the website that I’m intending to build for the kids up and running and either throw this thing in or get an rss feed up and running or something, considering how much I remember to update.
Tiny's observations
Friday, 14 December 2007 @ 11:22am
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I’ve actually been posting more stuff on the baby board and forgetting about here, or intending to copy/paste here and not doing it. Maybe if I remember I’ll carry some stuff over. I should also start tagging entries, I still haven’t been able to find this entry I wanted to find for someone.