.... random rants and rambles. no agenda. yet.

Seriously?!

LOVE it.

Posted by j at 6:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

I haven't fallen down a drain. I haven't been sucked into Facebook Hell (in fact, I have taken a week off Facebook to allow my brain time to flex itself - it is enjoying its holiday so much it doesn't want to go back). I have simply been filling my PGDip portfolio and emptying the house of too many items that need to be Freecycled - or eBayed! guess who's a brand new seller?! gulp! - because WE DON'T NEED THEM, and we probably never did.

So if you are looking for entertainment, see below:

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go and get some wheels from the loft. Don't ask!

Posted by j at 8:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Overheard in our house just now:

C: I need to go and rescue the cake from the oven...

Me: The cat's in the oven?!

Posted by j at 2:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

I have invented a new phrase (or at least, I think I have - you never know)... Over Freecycling. This happens when Freecycling gets out of hand.

This happened to us last week when C asked me, "Do we want rainbow coloured curtains and a matching kids' duvet cover?" Usually when C asks me if we want any number of random items on Freecycle, I say "NO" and carry on doing whatever I was doing, but I've got a thing for rainbow stuff, and The Boy has too. So this time, I said yes, thinking they might come in handy at some point.

To cut a long story shorter, C arranged to meet the Rainbow Curtain Lady in the village that evening. However, it wasn't until we were out walking the dog, that we realised that C had forgotten all about it until the last minute, so we'd have to go on foot to meet her rather than taking the car. Ah, more enviromentally friendly and all that. Cool.

Um, no. This is us, remember?

Upon arriving at the meeting place, Rainbow Curtain Lady looked worried. "Don't you have a car?" she said.

"It's OK. We can put the curtains in the pram!" C replied.

THEN we realised they came in two very big bin bags, so we'd have to take The Boy out of his pram and put the bin bags in it instead, along with the bonus Jungle Book suitcase that the Rainbow Curtain Lady made C take too, because C is far too polite to say no, and because the snake on the suitcase lights up when you press the bear's nose, or something.

So we thanked Nice Rainbow Curtain Lady, then UP THE HILL we trudged with our pram laden with huge, heavy bin bags, a bonus suitcase, a dog and a baby. Did I mention that I also needed a wee? Irrelevant, but true.

And then, upon arriving home, we found that the rainbow curtains were not rainbow curtains after all. They were primary colour curtains. Very nice, BUT NOT RAINBOW!

So C took them away again the next day.

But did we keep the bonus Jungle Book suitcase? Of course!

So, that is Over Freecycling - bag lady prams are optional, though.

Mind you, my memory is even worse than C's - this morning I was about to start writing an essay, when I opened a file, thinking it was notes, to find that I had ALREADY WRITTEN IT before The Boy was born, and completely forgotten all about it. The joy!

In other news, Eclipse is doing. our. heads. in. Does anyone have any internet service provider recommendations? Or just tell me what you use and if it's any good? I'd be grateful for any comments in the comment box,(please)!

Posted by j at 4:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Oh, no. My head is largely preoccupied by the above cuteness that demands to be played with and changed and jiggled to sleep.

And when I'm not doing that I'm busy FINISHING my PGDip portfolio that I have delayed for, oh, about a year or more. It is not going to go away, and strangely enough, The Boy is quite a good motivator because a) he has another mum who can also do jiggling and b) the sooner I HAND IT IN ALREADY, the sooner I can co-jiggle.

Oh, and I'm also on Twitter quite a lot, talking nonsense. Just so you know. It's much better than F@cebook.

Posted by j at 5:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (6)