feeling better

Feeling better today!

Uni was home last night and cooked dinner, played with Kt and we all went for a walk with the dog.

Tonight he will be here too and tomorrow night although he will be working but we will be going to Kt's school fancy dress ball in the evening where the kids will be performing some songs. They will have a sausage sizzle etc to raise money on the night so that means dinner will be covered!

I will only have to cook Thurs and Fri night and then half of next week.

It is really hot today and was hot yesterday too.

I have started folding my clothes at the clothes line when they are dry. I used to just sort them into 2 baskets (1 ironing basket and one folding basket) as I took them off the line, but am finding that I can just get all the undies off the line and fold them into the basket, then the same for all the singlets etc.

When I take the folding basket upstairs I just have to put the things away (a much quicker job than sorting them, folding them and putting them away).

I think this is a good way of doing it because it means we spend longer out in the backyard keeping the dog company (and allowing KT to climb and play). I also think I will bring the baby down to enjoy the outdoors while I do this next year.

I finished all my ironing last night Phew!

The computer room is slowly and steadily being cleared at the same time as I sell and get rid of things on my farmville game (which I am still addicted to but trying to extract myself from). It feels like these farm games parallel my life at the moment.

eg. When I was getting the garden sorted I was right into planting crops and flowers in the farm games etc. Now I am very much into removal of clutter in the home and I am also doing the same in the farms (selling whatever I possibly can to make space)!!!.



Kt has been drawing pictures of the baby in my tummy. The first one was a big purple oval shape with a pink love heart on top (this happened a couple of days after I heard the heartbeat for the first time


Today she did one with a big pink oval with lots of pink love hearts inside and all around the outside were orange kisses!

I also got a kiss and a cuddle this morning when I left her at school instead of being pushed away.

Yes! feeling great :-D!!!

Manic Thursday

I had a really manic day on Thursday.

This week has been my first child free week since the school holidays and I have been driven to work hard on all the things I have not had time to do.

I painted heaps of the fence, cleared a path for myself along the fence line (through the undergrowth and the tree branches).

I hadn't made any attempt to clean up the house and it had been driving me crazy so I just went through each room and tried to tackle something that needed doing (and preferably something that had been needing attention for some time).

This plan of attack worked well because there was no pressure to tidy everything in every room (which would be way too much to ask), but it did mean that there was a noticeable improvement in each room.

I think I remember reading about this house cleaning tip on one of the helpful websites I visit ... it was something along the lines of set a timer for x amount of time and just tidy for that amount of time only ... so my plan was a variation on this theme.

Apart from clearing some space on the floor in the lounge room, I also went through and got rid of a lot of older artworks. My art box is full to overflowing and I had 6 months worth of paintings piled up in there.

Our big bins had just been emptied so I got rid of a fair bit of stuff (while still being very sentimental and keeping about three quarters of the original stack).

I won't clear out any more artworks until I have photographed them ... and of course until next fortnight after our bin pickup ... I have to leave some room for our other waste.

I also started to tackle the reorganization of all of our digital photos so I can back them up onto DVD disk in date order and keep them safe.

Now that we have a fully functional computer I can do that and have been reunited with all the old videos I have taken over the past 6 years but have not been able to view on my previous computer due to a malfunction with the quick time application.

I am surprised to see how much changes in 6 years ... and equally surprised to find that I have taken (and kept) approximately 6000 photos in that time.... an average of 1000 per year!!!!

I have been playing with Kodak Easy share, Picasa 3 and Windows Photo Gallery/Pictures to try and decide which is the best way to sort and store and process my photos. There are pros and cons for each ... some have overlapping features and I am trying to learn them all in depth and record information about them so that I don't forget what I have discovered. In the space of only a few days I have learnt quite a lot.

I am also very happy that I did some study in word, excel etc (this study is yet to be completed) as I am much more familiar with tricks and strategies to get things done. The kind of things that work in many different applications ... like Control A = select all, control v, control x, control c and also selecting multiple things with Control click etc.

I am very tired though, as each day I have been getting up early and going to bed later and later as the week progresses.

Finished the day with a massive headache ... but feeling very accomplished!!!