292: Fill In The Blanks Friday

Joining with Lauren from The Little Things We Do

1. One thing I plan on doing to relax this weekend is erm I have no idea! I’m in London tomorrow at CNMAC12, got lunch with a friend then a possible pub trip in the evening then catch the train home. On Sunday I’m on kid’s work, then there’s contact time, then hopefully some chill out time before coming back to work on Monday. Hopefully there’s some relaxing in there.

2. A big pet peeve of mine is bad spelling? Is that an okay one? I emailed a company yesterday and was like “btw good website but you’ve got a typo”. Wasn’t sure if they’d take it a good way but thankfully they did lol. On the other hand it didn’t work so well when I corrected a distributors spelling – if you want to return the product please spell your returns reason correctly or I will question what you mean.

3. I am really loving my woolie hat? I wore it yesterday pretty much from coming out of the dentist to going to bed. I think it was comforting while I was feeling sorry for myself post-wisdom tooth removal. Then again today my cheeks keep feeling really flushed especially my right cheek (tooth was upper right)

4. The rain is a bit of a downer, but kind of nice when you’re all wrapped up inside watching the rain fall outside the window.

5. My favourite girly indulgence is nail varnish – I don’t really do make up. I might put a little bit on if I’m going out somewhere but that’s about it.

6. A song I always get stuck in my head is at the moment it seems to be Kid’s Worship songs like God Can Do Anything or Gonna Jump Up and Down.

7. The best cure for stress is hugs. Lots of them. Especially unexpected ones – like Our Sidekick will come into the kitchen while I’m doing chores and be like “Can I have/give you a hug?” YES PLEASE! I love hugs!

291: #WednesdayWonderings v.2

We live in a world where we have a bunch of information at our fingertips – we unlock our phones and Google to our hearts content, but what about all those random questions, why was I looking and what did I find out.

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Back to The Future II – would you believe that although I know the basic idea of the Back To The Future films I’ve not see seen any of them all the way through. On Saturday Back to The Future II was on TV so I ended up googling it to see what rating it was and whether Our Sidekick could watch it or not.

How to crochet two pieces together – I’ve been crocheting lots recently but the biggest problem is that I don’t know how to crochet the bits together. I looked it up but I think I’m definitely going to need a needle to get it done.

Vietnam War – One of the films we watched on Saturday is set in the 1970s while America was at war with Vietnam (I guess around the same time as M*A*S*H* was set). I was looking for the finishing date of the war as the film was set to early to be the end of the war but I wasn’t 100%.

Soft Contact Lenses Invented – Same film as above. One of the characters decides to wear contacts instead of glasses but she was wearing soft lenses like I used to have and I thought they were a reasonably recent invention and so she wouldn’t have been wearing that style of lenses in the 1970s. Although she wouldn’t have necessarily had soft lenses like mine she might have had predecessor to them.

Turner and Hooch Our Sidekick and I were working our way through a pile of DVDs that we’ve been lent by my FIL. Turner and Hooch is one of these films – again knew the rough idea but hadn’t seen it. While watching the film it struck me how the vet looks a bit like a younger version of Captain Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager but alas it’s not her. Oh well. I really liked the film though. Probably not Tom Hanks at his best but it was still good and I enjoyed it.

Hexagon Crochet Meet me at Mikes It seems like a random combination of words but it works. I was looking for how to crochet a hexagon and found this pattern on a blog called “Meet Me At Mikes“. The pattern is really easy to understand and follow – and the pictures are really clear and make sense.

Morton Hunted UK Hunted is a TV show here that has replaced Spooks in a way. The area the house is in really looks like the Lakes so I was trying to google it and find out where it was – in the end it turns out it’s in Scotland but it still looks amazing.

TED Ruby Wax On the computer in the Living Room that records all our TV there is a clever app on there that has TED presentations on it. I’ve watched some amazing inspiring ones and some really random ones. Ruby Wax’s TED talk was so good! It was about Mental Health and did have a serious point to it but it was made the audience laugh. Watch it here. (I love the idea of speaking at TED – I wonder how I’d go about doing that!)

290: Today’s Adventures

I’ve been thinking again – I know dangerous. About stuff. Well bits and pieces. You could say the Life, the Universe and Everything. (H2G2 rocks) Then again if I could think about that much then my head would explode. I’m experimenting with short bitesize posts instead of my usual long streaming posts. Do you prefer short posts or long posts? Do you prefer ones with pictures or just text, text, text?

JD is coming for tea today, we normally go to the cinema but as I’m on Sidekick duty we’ve organised to have a bit of a movie night at home which is a bit rare. The Sidekick doesn’t know that she’s coming and so that will be a bit of a surprise for him, he thinks the world of her so I hope he likes the surprise lol.

I have tomorrow off work for our exciting Panel Meeting. The way I’m seeing it is like a job interview. Now normally you have that meeting/interview and then they decide if a child can be placed with you. But with Our Sidekick already living with us it’s like having a job interview a year into the job to tell you whether you can keep your job or not. The rest of the day will be a chores day I think – well in theory if I manage to be that motivated!

289: Dear Monday

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Joining with Megan from Happy Day.

Dear Monday, I am pretty sure that every week you somehow sneak in that bit faster than the weekend before.

Dear Kids Work, I think teaching Kids Work is a bit like riding a bike. I’ve helped with bits of Kids Work since moving to RP but this weekend was the first time I’ve properly planned and lead it. I worked with DS which was fun. We had two Kid’s Worship songs, one was from my iPod which not all the children knew but joined in at least a little bit. One of the other leaders then asked for a second song that the kids might know a bit better so I borrowed a guitar from the cupboard and played one of the songs we do in the worship band. It wasn’t actually as hard as I thought it would be although with my music being on the floor I had to keep looking down for the next chord!

Dear Little One, your grandma was explaining to you about communion and how we do it in our church and why we do it. You came out with something really cool. “I know that Jesus is in my heart and if I hurt my knee and I ask him to fix it then Jesus just runs down there and fixes it. If my head hurts then he runs up there and fixes it”. Well there you go. You’re awesome Little One. Us adults sometimes dress things up in big words and complicated ideas but you’d got it in a way that you knew. Thank you for sharing it with your Grandma who then shared it with me and some of the others at church.

Dear Bicycle, the reason why I’ve been using Our Sidekick’s bike and not you is that you’re too heavy – it takes me more effort to get you moving than to pedal anywhere. I’d like to replace you – I know the one I’d like I just need to save up the money and decide where I can get it from – also do I want a basket or paniers? In my dream world I’d like one like you see in Amsterdam but I think one of those would be too heavy but it’s somewhere to start anyway. I rode Our Sidekick’s bike to the shop and his pedal is having a moment – I’m going to have to take the spanner to it.

286: Fill In The Blanks Friday

 Fill In The Blanks Friday - 12th October

Joining with Lauren from The Little Things We Do

1.  My favourite flower is I don’t have one favourite I think it’s a close draw between Gerberas and Daisies – then again they are both so similar that it might not really make a difference.  

2.  You should never talk about at the moment seems to be about chores and being tired but that is just our house lol. I agree with Lauren that politics is something not to talk about. We have a coalition here in the UK as there wasn’t enough of a majority for one party to win on their own or something like that. All I can say is that our three main political parties (Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem) need their heads smacking together because all they do is whinge about what the others have done rather than telling me how they can make this country better for the “Average Joe” like me.

3.  My favourite discovery as of late is well it could be Chipotle – I went for dinner there on Monday and although it was a little bit on the spicy side it was really yummy so I’m sure I could manage it again.

4. This fall you will probably find me wearing  jeans, a jumper and layers. Today for example grey long sleeved top with a tartan/checked shirt over the top.

5. I wish I were  sleeping or with friends – I’m having one of those days where staying in bed or having a big hug from a friend might have fixed at least how I felt about the day. Then again tomorrow is Saturday – I’m trying to decide whether to have a peaceful protest and stay in bed for the whole day.

6. My favourite TV show currently is   well it was probably Hart of Dixie but Season 1 just finished here in the UK. I’ve been watching Who Do You Think You Are every week apart from last week when they did William Roache’s genealogy. It just didn’t really interest me, whereas they’ve had Celia Imrie, Alex Kingston and Gregg Wallace on this season amongst other people.

7.  This weekend I want to sleep, eat, be merry but the first and second might be the only ones that do actually happen so I’ll have to find some other way to be merry – maybe massive DVD night with Our Sidekick.