Jan
27
A very good friend of mine once said that she was going to get the words “there is only one of me” tattooed on her forehead. I have to confess in the last few weeks I’ve been tempted to do that myself. Since before Christmas I’ve been working on a very high profile project at work, which has kept me exceeding busy, and I have found myself uttering those six words with alarming frequency…
Jan
24
Those of you who read my blog regularly may already know this, but for the benefit of those who don’t, this is not my only blog. I also maintain an audio blog which you can find over at audioboo.fm. One of the many things I love about audioboo is being part of a small, close-knit community, interacting with each other.
Today one of my audioboo friends, the inimitable NickHollowayVox, made a throwaway comment in his audioboo about how he felt a little naughty when taking his ASDA bags for life into his local Lidl. And it got me thinking about my use of bags for life. And I have a little confession to make…
Jan
23
Two weeks ago I joined in with my first Meal Planning Monday, as part of my New Year’s resolution to eat more healthily. That week went really well – we stuck to my meal plan, and I was very pleased that it all worked out. A special mention must be given to the Beef and Guinness stew from the My Daddy Cooks book – the geekdaddy told me it was the best stew I have ever made!
Last week things went horribly wrong. I never quite caught up with myself, mostly due to coping with the outbreak of nits and very busy time at work, so my meal planning consisted of buying some random meat and vegetables in a frantic dash around Aldi and figuring out what to do with them on the fly. We managed better than I expected, but it was a bit hit and miss.
This week I’m back in control again, and I managed to find time over the weekend to produce a meal plan for the week AND do the shopping for it. Read on to find out more…
Jan
22
I make a deliberate attempt to not blog about blogging. It feels very insular and a little bit self-indulgent. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say about blogging, far from it – I did actually register a blogging-related domain name a few months back, with grand plans to start a separate blog all about blogging, but that hasn’t come to anything (yet!). It’s just that I don’t feel it’s necessarily of a lot of interest to my core readers. This week, however, I am going to be a little bit self-indulgent. The lovely Kate, who lives over at the Kate Takes 5 blog hosts a regular weekly “listography” linky, and this week her theme is “top 5 tips for bloggers“. I have read through quite a few of the contributions that she has had so far, and there are some great tips out there. I still don’t think of myself as a particularly established blogger, but I am getting to the stage where I feel I have some useful stuff to give back to the community, and so I would like to share with you my top five tips for bloggers.
Jan
19
The geekdaughter really suffers from what I call the “boy who cried wolf” syndrome. She’s taken to claiming illness as a direct result of something happens that she doesn’t like. So far example if I ask her to tidy up her toys, her immediate reaction is to claim tummy ache, or that her foot hurts, or some other symptom. Consequently I must confess that I don’t take her very seriously whenever she claims any kind of illness.
A couple of weeks before Christmas we had the email from nursery to say there’d been an outbreak of nits. I looked at her head at the time and didn’t spot anything, so decided we must have got away with it. Then the week before Christmas she spent a day with my mother making Christmas cards, and my Mum emailed me to say she’d been scratching her head and complaining that it itched, and that I should check her out. When I got home I asked the geekdaughter about this, and she said her head was now fine and her foot itched. So I put this down to her usual behaviour, and left it. I think I may have rather flippantly said to my Mum that we were visiting the hairdresser at the weekend, so if she did have nits the hairdresser could find them…
Jan
15
Silent Sunday. One photo, taken in the last week. No words.
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Jan
13
In my capacity as an XBox Live Ambassador I’ve been testing out a selection of the new features available in XBox Live, to discover that the XBox really is more than games. I’ve watched movies and TV shows, and this week our assignment is to watch YouTube videos. It’s a hard life isn’t it? Read on to find out how we got on, and for details of a special discount code which will get you three months of XBox Live Gold membership half price!
Jan
12
Ah, the irony. Yesterday I was regaling you with amusing stories of how we’ve diffused arguments with humour. Today I have to tell a very different story. I was driving to work yesterday morning, catching up with some of my audio blog listening when my car stereo sound faded out. I was puzzled for a couple of seconds, and then my phone started ringing. This should indicate how infrequently I receive calls on my mobile, particularly in the car, because it catches me by surprise every time. When I’d got over the surprise, I answered the call and was surprised all over again to hear the geekdaddy’s voice, sounding extremely stressed.
“It won’t go to nursery”…
Jan
11
We’re going through quite a challenging time with the geekdaughter at the moment. There’s the waking up and crying in the middle of the night, which could either be for a probably valid reason (“my knee hurts”) or for a reason that makes me really exasperated (“I don’t want to be alone!”). And then there’s the arguing back. She has really started pushing the limits and answering back, and it’s getting very waring. Well, apart from the times when it’s funny…
Jan
09
I used to be very good at meal planning. I would produce the weeks plan, do the shopping, do the cooking, and feed my family.
Then I went back to work last May, and it all came crashing down around my ears. Suddenly having to shoehorn 28 hours of work into each week meant some things had to go by the wayside, and the first thing to go was the meal planning. We started eating more ready meals, junk and takeaways, and unsurprisingly all the weight that I had worked so hard to lose started creeping back. Hence one of my New Year resolutions for this year is to address my weight issues. I’ve got more blog posts brewing about this, as it’s a big subject, but one of the things I need to get back to doing is meal planning.
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