farken ace » February 5, 2008

Feeds

7516 items (7301 unread) in 33 feeds

Comments (2555 unread)

• Comments for the twinkle in my eye (617 unread)
• Comments for A Directionless Story (139 unread)
• Comments for Bonanza Jellybean (28 unread)
• Comments for Daniel Nate (14 unread)
• Comments for Joanna's Ramblings (525 unread)
• Comments for Sarah G (32 unread)
• Comments for Scratchings (11 unread)
• Comments for Just Nicky (246 unread)
• Comments for Mark O'Meara: the blog (825 unread)
• Comments for Finn Henry (73 unread)
• Comments for Leila Rose (45 unread)

Entries (4746 unread)

• About a Boy (216 unread)
• Bonanza Jellybean (11 unread)
• Contorted Conditions (84 unread)
• Daniel Nate (11 unread)
• David (290 unread)
• Helen (10 unread)
• Joanna's Ramblings (816 unread)
• Kristen (134 unread)
• Sarah G (40 unread)
• Shannon (123 unread)
• Suburban Hen Goes Beta (308 unread)
• The Twinkle (179 unread)
• Tim (19 unread)
• Waif World (17 unread)
• Just Nicky (296 unread)
• Mark O'Meara: the blog (1192 unread)
• Finn Henry (119 unread)
• Leila Rose (77 unread)
• Twitter / jojoeffe (412 unread)
• Twitter / puppydeluxe (259 unread)
• Twitter / FionaBM (40 unread)
• Housejunk (93 unread)

(13 unread)

• February 05, 2008
• 15:16

  Comment on Hard drive by Fiona

   » ‎ Comments for Joanna's Ramblings

  You have inspired me, Joanna. On the weekend I sat down and copied 30 CDs of photos/videos (my sole copy, bad girl!) onto a new Maxtor external drive, then doubled up again onto another portable drive. Now I have 3 copies.

  Of course they all still sitting in one spot on my desk. Tonight the piggy-backed power-board will probably catch fire or something and incinerate the lot.

• 10:12

  Narcolepsy

   » ‎ Joanna's Ramblings
  04-02-08_1553_a Originally uploaded by jojof Having a hard time being awake at the moment. An early night last night didn’t make much difference. I finally decided to crawl out of bed around 11ish, figuring that 12 hours of sleep was probably enough.

• 9:10

  wednesdays with the other mum (om), or mo (mother, other) for those who are studying classification theory

   » ‎ Kristen

  we’ve shuffled our schedules again, and now wednesdays are my day at home with drew. which means drew only has one day of childcare now. one day with the grandparents. two days with eilis. one day with me. some mornings i wake up and have no idea where i’m supposed to be, or what’s going on. 

  drew has just gone down for her second sleep of the day and i am worried that i’ve strayed so far from the official routine that we’re never going to get it back and the afternoon is going to spiral into chaos, covered in baby snot.

  i’m still not very good with negotiating the everyday stuff with drew. i need to plan out everything. getting a coffee from the local cafe this morning required a deliberately thought-through game-plan workshopped with eilis, including some tips from her on wrangling the baby stroller, and then a bit of worrying that once the stroller was in the tiny cafe i was never going to get out. we would be trapped and have to eke out a subsistence on long blacks, babycinos and caramel slice. (that wouldn’t be so bad, really.) but i managed it in the end.

  i hope i get better at this stuff.

  i also went for my first run this morning, as per my list of things to do this year. my ultimate goal is to be able to run for 30 minutes without stopping. this morning i walked for 1.2km and then tried to run back, but I couldn’t manage it. I had to make do with running and then walking and then running. I’m a little disappointed with myself that I let myself get so unfit - really, 1.2kms is just to the end of the street.

  Next week Drew and I are going to trying swimming lessons at the pool in Yarraville. We were due to start today but she is a little under-the-weather, with teething and a cold, poor kid, so we’re holding off until next week. I’ve already started working on my swimming game-plan …

  2 Comments

  • At February 6, 2008, nicky wrote:

    I'd never spent a whole day alone with Finn until I was retrenched when he was just over 2. That's nearly 2 years ago and I'm still getting the hang of the whole day with the kid(s) thing.

    Swimming lessons are fun. Leila started last week but we may not make it this week because she's got a cold. You'll love it when you get to go with Drew.

  • At February 6, 2008, Fiona wrote:

    I just think you are all very clever for even having a routine. It only took me 3 years to learn that little lesson.

    Off topic a little, but I like the 50 Things Page!

• 7:38

  Comment on Shrove Tuesday by Adelaide

   » ‎ Comments for Joanna's Ramblings

  RUM will always settle the queasy - after all, have you ever seen a seasick pirate?

• 7:30

  Comment on 10 months by Basia

   » ‎ Comments for Leila Rose

  Made me cry…

• 5:05

  John Hughes ER

   » ‎ Mark O'Meara: the blog
  
  
  ER - Carter by telefilmcult
  

  We bought a couple of seasons of ER on disc since it is something that Nicky likes to watch. I certainly recognise that it is a really good show but it also brings we down, especially watching the episodes in quick succession. Life for the patients and doctors seems to be full of suffering and hurt. This is punctuated by moments of hope and humour which only make me feel the suffering and hurt all the more.

  However last night we watched an different type of episode which was clearly modelled on The Breakfast Club. It followed the “people locked in a room coming to realisations about others and themselves” formula to the letter but still managed to be interested in what went on. And no-one died which I liked.

  I did have to leave the room when Dr Carter started quoting Hamlet but then there is a spot in every ER episode where I have to leave anyway so that was no bother.

  Lesson for the day - as a viewer I like a bit of relief and the odd curly episode.

• 4:56

  Dip

   » ‎ Mark O'Meara: the blog
  
  
  I weigh 89 Kilos by amacedo
  

  I have mostly tried to be good and have stayed away from many snacks, chocolates and soft drinks. I haven’t managed this all the time and perhaps that is why my weight sat at a pretty stable 92.

  Then this morning I stood on the scales as I do, from time to time, to torment myself. I was down to 89.5. While this is no massive victory and I expect they won’t be holding the front page tomorrow it was still nice to see an eight at the front.

  Lesson for the day - it’s nice to get an encouraging result every now and then.

• 4:48

  Comment on Shrove Tuesday by Mark O'Meara

   » ‎ Comments for Joanna's Ramblings

  On reading this I was determined to male pancakes for breakfast. Sadly we are down to one egg and I would have felt a little selfish making them only for myself.

• 4:42

  Comment on push pineapple, shake the tree by SaraS-P

   » ‎ Comments for the twinkle in my eye

  She does the last one well!

  My niece has that blue scooter toy, too. If the Twinkle is anything like her, she’ll be zipping all around the place once she gets some more motor coordination! Her latest joy is putting things inside the little red basket in the front.

• 1:28

  Comment on push pineapple, shake the tree by mrsbluemont

   » ‎ Comments for the twinkle in my eye

  those outfits! the wagon! the guitar! i am so in love with her.

• February 04, 2008
• 22:00

  Believe

   » ‎ Mark O'Meara: the blog
  
  
  Sunday by MarkOMeara
  

  Download

• 20:39

  Shrove Tuesday

   » ‎ Joanna's Ramblings
  Banana pancakes. Originally uploaded by cardhouse Today was apparently Shrove Tuesday. I asked “isn’t that the day where you finish up the good stuff and start fasting for Lent?”. We all had a moment of quiet contemplation for the fasting bit, then “yeah right”. However it meant pancakes. I wasn’t sure if Pam was coming over, and [...]
• 20:31

  Hard drive

   » ‎ Joanna's Ramblings
  Hard drive details Originally uploaded by shadphotos Today the hard drive lived up to its name. I spent a couple of hours running a chkdsk on it after it started to kill music files. I have a sneaking suspicion that it’s starting to fail, the bad sectors (which cause the stupid “cyclic redundancy error” to [...]