Getting organized for spring

Well have combed through KT's hair and removed several little things ... don't know for sure if they are eggs or baby lice or what, but I didn't find anything too enormous.

I am in the process of washing sheets, pillowcases, towels, blankets etc.

Today was a rainy day in the morning ... have really missed the rain and hope there will be plenty more to come, but I was able to get a load of washing out and dried.

We got our electricity meter installed by a fast talking, impossible to understand scotsman. He arrived on our street at 9am and waited in his car until 9.45am to arrive early for a 10 o'clock appointment.

Meanwhile I kept running backwards and forwards from the window to see what he was doing and was he coming in yet and why was someone else  pulled up near him and stopping for a loud chat.  It turns out the lady with him was his supervisor because as soon as he left my house she rang (I recognized the voice) to find out if he had done all that he was supposed to do.

Our hot water is at the right temperature, he gave us 15 CFL light bulbs ... we should be ok for lightbulbs now for the next 5 years or so if you include our long life ones we already have in place and the ones he gave us.

I have used most of our appliances today and done circuits of the monitor to see just how much power each appliance uses!

I guess we knew most of this anyway but it is a great visual reminder of how much electricity is being used.  The main offenders are of course the oven, dishwasher, kettle, iron, airconditioners particularly heating and the washing machine when it is spinning.  I will also have to try the dryer too.  I also discovered that having the rangehood light on at night is not such a great idea as it uses almost as much power as the two CFL kitchen lights combined!  I liked it because it cast a very dim light in the kitchen but I might just have to buy a few more night lights instead!

It was also absolutely freezing today!!

I was pleased that it would mean I should have the pool pretty much to myself.  When I arrived there were only two other people in there and after the initial dip the water was pretty warm.  Getting out was a struggle and the hot showers were heaven!!!

I am still struggling with the butterfly stroke, I have to remember to do head and arms first like going through a hoop on the surface of the water, then follow with my bottom and then my feet, and then do the pushing with the arms under the water.  I watched a "how to" butterfly video on the internet and I could see the head, bottom, feet pattern but I really need to watch the evening squad swimmers again to see it happen for a few lengths of the pool, because in the instruction videos they chop and change camera angles etc and there is an annoying voice over.

I have also tried to adjust my freestyle stroke as Jennie told me so that my elbows don't come up out of the water and instead my arms are doing more of a circular  or elliptical motion-starting out in front, going down through the water, past my hips and then coming up and out as more of an extended arm rotating at the shoulder (rather than a bent elbow) and then coming down (elbow bent in the water a bit in front of me) and then extending forwards and meeting the other hand  way out in front of me.

I am probably repeating myself but every time I get into the water I swim differently.  Better? hopefully but I am not always sure about that!!!

Just published this post and realized I hadn't really said anything remotely related to the title!!! 

I am winding down some of my facebook activities, games,  I think a few of them have run their course and I will only use them sporadically.  I am turning my attention to the house once more and trying to get rid of things I don't need, and taking care of jobs that I have put off.

Uni is on holidays for one month from tomorrow and he will probably like to spend some time on the computer too, so I will use this month to break my time wasting computer habits.

I will of course continue to email and blog and read other blogs etc but I have a lot I want to accomplish over the next month and hopefully I can create a new routine that will continue once Uni is back at work.

I also used our photocopy function for the first time yesterday .... brilliant!!!