Here is the latest desktop for this month of May
Sunday, May 05, 2013
Desktop for May
Still practising with my scrap book programme.
Here is the latest desktop for this month of May
Here is the latest desktop for this month of May
Thursday, May 02, 2013
It's Coming
Yes, once again Gallo Organico aka 'Rinda' is holding her annual Summertime Photography Scavanger Hunt.
She gives you a list of 21 items to photograph between June 1 and Sept 21.
You can look for them all in a week, a month or take the whole time.
Some people try and complete the list whilst on an overseas trip, others just dawdle away the time at home and do 1 or 2 items a week.
The boys and I, well in fact the whole family, had such fun doing this last year, the boys talk about it often and always ask if we will do it again this year.
Well here it is, starting June 1 when Rinda will publish the list the scavenger hunt will be on for 2013.
You want to join too?? Well go on over to Rinda's Place and follow her blog and then you won't miss the big start day. If not watch this space as I will definitely have the list up at the start of June.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Friend Makin Monday
I know I haven't been around much lately!
There is no excuse, just life and sometimes some things just aren't important and get slipped by without you realising, unfortunately blogging has become one of those areas, I do love catching up with everyone and commenting but I just can't be bothered to actually write a post. Weird really when I have so many things happening that I want to write about but just feel blah about doing it, so I don't.
Hopefully soon I will maybe blog a post about something we have done and it will get me back in the mood...who knows, but anyway, I am still here, watching over all of you just not putting myself out there much.
However I did like Kenlie's questions on this weeks Friend Makin Monday so here are my answers.
If you want to answer these on your blog then copy them into a post and then link up at Kenlie's here and go see what others are talking about.
1. Share something that you enjoy doing when you’re alone. Listening to music really loud and singing to it
2. What do you plan to eat next? Not sure, it is about 9pm so really shouldn't eat anything before I go to bed, so could be breakfast tomorrow morning or I may get an attack of the munchies and have to find a biscuit before going to bed!
3. When did you first travel on a plane? Where did you go? I got on a plane 2 days before my 7th birthday (1977) and flew to Kuwait, yes that Kuwait, in the Middle East. Why were we going there I can hear you ask? We were moving there to live!
4. Do you currently have a crush on someone? If so, share a few of the reasons why. Always. Always someone, maybe an actor etc but nothing serious.
5. List one thing that disgusts you that probably wouldn’t bother someone else. Coffee.
6. If you could buy a new car tomorrow (and money was no object) what would you buy? I am not sure. I keep seeing an ad for a 'Dodge' that looks interestign but I have no idea which one. Not really that into cars.
7. Who was the first person who broke your heart? I can't remember but I am sure someone has at some stage in my life.
8. If you could spend the night with a celebrity tonight, who would it be? Doris Day, I am sure she would have a lot to say.
9 Are you a morning person or a night person? I am definitely not a morning person but I am not fond of a late night either! So seem to have become a day person only, although a night person is probably closer.
10. What’s your favorite board game? Seem to like card games more than board games.
11. Can you play an instrument? If so, what do you play? Clarinet, although I haven't played since I left school at 16. However I do still have my clarinet, it is in the roof and I know I can still play it if I got it out which I really should do sometime.
12. What is the last thing you ate? Some Jelly Belly Beans.
13. Do you wear a watch? I use to, then it broke and I realised that where I work there are clocks in every corner of my work place so I stopped wearing it. I have now found that when out it is quite easy to find out the time without asking anyone, so haven't worn a watch for well over 10 years.
14. Do you go to church? No, however I went every Sunday when at school and I do miss church but since moving to New Zealand 15 years ago it is not something I ahve done. However the boys have started asking and so we have visited the church round the corner once at the end of last year.
15. Do you ever wish on stars? Yes.
16. Have you ever been on a motorcycle? Yes.
17. What is the last thing you purchased? A sandwiich and drink at lunchtime today.
18. How big is your bed? Super King
19. What size shoe do you wear? Size 8.
20. What are you looking forward to most in the coming week? That we have absolutely nothing to do this weekend!
Enjoy your week
There is no excuse, just life and sometimes some things just aren't important and get slipped by without you realising, unfortunately blogging has become one of those areas, I do love catching up with everyone and commenting but I just can't be bothered to actually write a post. Weird really when I have so many things happening that I want to write about but just feel blah about doing it, so I don't.
Hopefully soon I will maybe blog a post about something we have done and it will get me back in the mood...who knows, but anyway, I am still here, watching over all of you just not putting myself out there much.
However I did like Kenlie's questions on this weeks Friend Makin Monday so here are my answers.
If you want to answer these on your blog then copy them into a post and then link up at Kenlie's here and go see what others are talking about.
Twenty Questions
2. What do you plan to eat next? Not sure, it is about 9pm so really shouldn't eat anything before I go to bed, so could be breakfast tomorrow morning or I may get an attack of the munchies and have to find a biscuit before going to bed!
3. When did you first travel on a plane? Where did you go? I got on a plane 2 days before my 7th birthday (1977) and flew to Kuwait, yes that Kuwait, in the Middle East. Why were we going there I can hear you ask? We were moving there to live!
4. Do you currently have a crush on someone? If so, share a few of the reasons why. Always. Always someone, maybe an actor etc but nothing serious.
5. List one thing that disgusts you that probably wouldn’t bother someone else. Coffee.
6. If you could buy a new car tomorrow (and money was no object) what would you buy? I am not sure. I keep seeing an ad for a 'Dodge' that looks interestign but I have no idea which one. Not really that into cars.
7. Who was the first person who broke your heart? I can't remember but I am sure someone has at some stage in my life.
8. If you could spend the night with a celebrity tonight, who would it be? Doris Day, I am sure she would have a lot to say.
9 Are you a morning person or a night person? I am definitely not a morning person but I am not fond of a late night either! So seem to have become a day person only, although a night person is probably closer.
10. What’s your favorite board game? Seem to like card games more than board games.
11. Can you play an instrument? If so, what do you play? Clarinet, although I haven't played since I left school at 16. However I do still have my clarinet, it is in the roof and I know I can still play it if I got it out which I really should do sometime.
12. What is the last thing you ate? Some Jelly Belly Beans.
13. Do you wear a watch? I use to, then it broke and I realised that where I work there are clocks in every corner of my work place so I stopped wearing it. I have now found that when out it is quite easy to find out the time without asking anyone, so haven't worn a watch for well over 10 years.
14. Do you go to church? No, however I went every Sunday when at school and I do miss church but since moving to New Zealand 15 years ago it is not something I ahve done. However the boys have started asking and so we have visited the church round the corner once at the end of last year.
15. Do you ever wish on stars? Yes.
16. Have you ever been on a motorcycle? Yes.
17. What is the last thing you purchased? A sandwiich and drink at lunchtime today.
18. How big is your bed? Super King
19. What size shoe do you wear? Size 8.
20. What are you looking forward to most in the coming week? That we have absolutely nothing to do this weekend!
Enjoy your week
Monday, April 01, 2013
Happy Easter
Hope you have not had too much chocolate this holiday time?
Were you lucky with the weather? We had overcast but hot and humid temps, can't believe actually that our fine weather has lasted this long this year, ok I do realise that some have had snow this Easter. Yea for you, I do remember having snow one Easter when I lived in England.
Seems in this family we have been very lucky with the bunny, we seem to have bunnies running around all over the place!
Ok, we had 1 lot of chocolate that wasn't a bunny but this one was great as it came with money for ice creams.
And just in case we didn't have enough chocolate, then we had a box of mini chocs to see us through!
This is all that is left of one of Alex's bunnies, it came with a little Kinder Surprise to inside, so he was determined to get the toy out, this of course entailed him having to eat the bunny!
Happy Easter to you all.
Monday, March 25, 2013
Love My Blog
I do love my blog, well I may not be showing it at present as I am AWOL more than I am present but hey who is counting or checking?
Anyway, why I love my blog?
I am currently going through my picture storage programme on the computer. This programme allows me to store my pictures in date order, I can tag the picture with when it was taken and also who is in the picture.
This means when I have a folder for 'Ben May 2006', I can click on this folder and it will show me all pictures that have Ben in it taken in May 2006.
Ok this means some of the pictures have multiple tags if all of us are in the picture but it makes scrap booking much easier when looking for pictures of people around the same time frame.
However, when we changed programmes we had some pictures that had the wrong date on them, we remember having a period of time when the camera was saying the wrong date and we couldn't get it to change to the correct one, I think this might have been just before we replaced it.
This means that we have pictures of Alex that say they were taken on Jan 6, 2005.
No worries there you may say....apart from the fact Alex was not born until June 2005! So looks really weird when viewing in date order to suddenly have Jan 2005 come up with Alex walking along the street in a picture and him as a newborn in the next one!
This is where the "I love my blog" part comes in....I noticed that some of the pictures I was trying to redate had had the name altered, thus meaning I must have labelled them to upload to the blog, so I skipped back through the archives and there are the pictures in a blog post at the correct date.
So my life has just been made easier, as it is easy to relabel pictures when the proof is right in front of you on the computer screen.
Man I love my blog sometimes!
Anyway, why I love my blog?
I am currently going through my picture storage programme on the computer. This programme allows me to store my pictures in date order, I can tag the picture with when it was taken and also who is in the picture.
This means when I have a folder for 'Ben May 2006', I can click on this folder and it will show me all pictures that have Ben in it taken in May 2006.
Ok this means some of the pictures have multiple tags if all of us are in the picture but it makes scrap booking much easier when looking for pictures of people around the same time frame.
However, when we changed programmes we had some pictures that had the wrong date on them, we remember having a period of time when the camera was saying the wrong date and we couldn't get it to change to the correct one, I think this might have been just before we replaced it.
This means that we have pictures of Alex that say they were taken on Jan 6, 2005.
No worries there you may say....apart from the fact Alex was not born until June 2005! So looks really weird when viewing in date order to suddenly have Jan 2005 come up with Alex walking along the street in a picture and him as a newborn in the next one!
This is where the "I love my blog" part comes in....I noticed that some of the pictures I was trying to redate had had the name altered, thus meaning I must have labelled them to upload to the blog, so I skipped back through the archives and there are the pictures in a blog post at the correct date.
So my life has just been made easier, as it is easy to relabel pictures when the proof is right in front of you on the computer screen.
Man I love my blog sometimes!
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Finally...
After 6 weeks of nothing, and most of New Zealand declaring 'drought' status we have
and I don't think there is anyone in New Zealand who is currently complaining or getting annoyed at this change in weather!
We have been very lucky to have had some gorgeous days these last 6 weeks and some lovely temperatures, we have just sadly been missing some wet stuff to help everything stay green and well supplied.
We may not get much, and we definitely do not want it too quickly but the little that we are getting is having a small effect and filling water tanks a little and giving some of the ground a welcoming splash.
Now where did I put that umbrella??
RAIN
and I don't think there is anyone in New Zealand who is currently complaining or getting annoyed at this change in weather!
We have been very lucky to have had some gorgeous days these last 6 weeks and some lovely temperatures, we have just sadly been missing some wet stuff to help everything stay green and well supplied.
We may not get much, and we definitely do not want it too quickly but the little that we are getting is having a small effect and filling water tanks a little and giving some of the ground a welcoming splash.
Now where did I put that umbrella??
Thursday, March 07, 2013
Everyday......
Life goes on.....
everyday and on each and every one of those days I think about blogging and what I can write and then the day slips on by and I have sadly got nowhere near the computer!
Ok I lie a little, I have got real close to the computer but there has been so much else to achieve that blogging has not been on the agenda! Even my Face Book posts have dwindled done to bare essentials.
Work takes over
my life at present, even though 1 of my days during the week has now become a volunteer day, suddenly I am now out of the house 5 days a week.
Last year it was 4 and man do I miss that 1 day! Please come back day, all is forgiven, I will use you wisely....well to an extent I am using you wisely now so maybe I shouldn't complain so!
My 2 jobs
are calling me daily and I am finally, after 3 weeks (reason why I have not been around!) I have managed to get into some sort of pattern working at 2 different jobs, however as they are both based at the hopsital I am finding that there is a little cross over in the roles, mainly from one direction rather than both.
2 days a week I am a nurse in a fixed department. I have to be there at a set time, I finish at a set time and people rely on me to be there. We work as a team and I am scheduled to be in a certain place on the days I am rostered, I have 3 days that I am available to them and they get to choose which 2 days of the 3 they want me to work.
My 2nd role is as a tutor to the student nurses on clinical placement at the hospital. I have 5 wards that I cover and when I have a student on placement on one of my wards then it is my responsibility to meet with these students weekly to ensure they are getting everything out of their time in the clinical setting.
They do work shifts so getting to meet with them can sometimes be a small problem. I have 1 set day a week when I am free to go and find them and I have 1 other day a week that changes depending on which day my other role has chosen to give me off.
This is where the challenge can enter life as at present I have 7 students to see each week and even though I have Mondays, they are not always rostered to work on a Monday so then I have to fit all 7 1 hour meetings into 1 day!
Believe me
this does not work sometimes, (due to their rosters) and so there are times when I will finish my nurse role at 5pm and then switch hats to my tutor role and go and find a student who is working a late shift and meet with them then.
All meetings are pre planned with the student weekly according to their roster but sometimes it takes a little juggling on my part, especially if they are on night shift!!
So the first rotation of students is just coming to an end next week, I will have been through the complete cycle once and I will have a greater understanding of what is required from each meeting and how they can be fine tuned. Which given the fact that at some stage for a 2 week period when there is a cross over of rotations of students going out on placement I will end up with 12 to see in 1 week.
But despite everything
I am loving my life so far this year. It is keeping me on my toes, it is offering challenges daily and I am excited to be going to work, which given the last 5 months of last year is something I am grateful for.
everyday and on each and every one of those days I think about blogging and what I can write and then the day slips on by and I have sadly got nowhere near the computer!
Ok I lie a little, I have got real close to the computer but there has been so much else to achieve that blogging has not been on the agenda! Even my Face Book posts have dwindled done to bare essentials.
Work takes over
my life at present, even though 1 of my days during the week has now become a volunteer day, suddenly I am now out of the house 5 days a week.
Last year it was 4 and man do I miss that 1 day! Please come back day, all is forgiven, I will use you wisely....well to an extent I am using you wisely now so maybe I shouldn't complain so!
My 2 jobs
are calling me daily and I am finally, after 3 weeks (reason why I have not been around!) I have managed to get into some sort of pattern working at 2 different jobs, however as they are both based at the hopsital I am finding that there is a little cross over in the roles, mainly from one direction rather than both.
2 days a week I am a nurse in a fixed department. I have to be there at a set time, I finish at a set time and people rely on me to be there. We work as a team and I am scheduled to be in a certain place on the days I am rostered, I have 3 days that I am available to them and they get to choose which 2 days of the 3 they want me to work.
My 2nd role is as a tutor to the student nurses on clinical placement at the hospital. I have 5 wards that I cover and when I have a student on placement on one of my wards then it is my responsibility to meet with these students weekly to ensure they are getting everything out of their time in the clinical setting.
They do work shifts so getting to meet with them can sometimes be a small problem. I have 1 set day a week when I am free to go and find them and I have 1 other day a week that changes depending on which day my other role has chosen to give me off.
This is where the challenge can enter life as at present I have 7 students to see each week and even though I have Mondays, they are not always rostered to work on a Monday so then I have to fit all 7 1 hour meetings into 1 day!
Believe me
this does not work sometimes, (due to their rosters) and so there are times when I will finish my nurse role at 5pm and then switch hats to my tutor role and go and find a student who is working a late shift and meet with them then.
All meetings are pre planned with the student weekly according to their roster but sometimes it takes a little juggling on my part, especially if they are on night shift!!
So the first rotation of students is just coming to an end next week, I will have been through the complete cycle once and I will have a greater understanding of what is required from each meeting and how they can be fine tuned. Which given the fact that at some stage for a 2 week period when there is a cross over of rotations of students going out on placement I will end up with 12 to see in 1 week.
But despite everything
I am loving my life so far this year. It is keeping me on my toes, it is offering challenges daily and I am excited to be going to work, which given the last 5 months of last year is something I am grateful for.
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