Well, I made it five days in a row blogging, I'm quite proud of myself, but there was no way I could do it on the weekend too, it takes me at least an hour to blog with photos! Anyway I don't have a whole post to write about, so here are a few of my random thoughts. Also, I've not downloaded my photos recently so I'll post them tomorrow or Friday.
1. It turns out Chicken loves the park. The only thing she's big enough (and not even properly then) to go on is the baby swing, and man does that make her laugh and smile. She also loves watching the other kids, I think we could just sit in the playground watching the kids for a whole afternoon and she still wouldn't get bored!
2. I lost one and a half pounds this week, 680g in normal peoples amounts, which is 12.5 lb total or 5.5kg. And the good new is that I now fit into three pairs of three quarters that I didn't fit a month ago!! Can't wait to do some shopping when I get to Vermont.
3. I am sooooo excited about going to visit Scott and Panda in two weeks, I can't believe its only in two weeks, I've already starting looking at websites for clothes and shoes for Chicken and I!! We're having a week or so in Vermont and then a couple of nights in New York, I love NYC and already have a long list of things to do that we didn't manage last time.
4. I have to bake some biscuits tomorrow morning for a party. My friend is finishing her job as a breastfeeding supporter tomorrow so we are having a farewell lunch and then a little party at our group. I'm sad shes leaving but I'm looking forward to having mussels for lunch!
5. My computer isn't working at the moment so I have to borrow Andrew's which doesn't have a webcam which means no skype or skyping using my iPhone, which is super hard because Chicken wants to grab it all the time, and really who wants to look up a babies nose, not even me!
6. I've joined a reading club online, and I'm really enjoying it so far, its one of the first books (not counting kids books) that I've read since I've had Chicken.
Happy Hump day everyone!
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Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Friday, 8 July 2011
Friday Five - Things about me
I've had a rather big day today, I mean I had to get up at 6:30am! Now I know for working people (and my mum and dad, and my brother) that this is quite late, but for us, well it was quite a challenge. Today I went into my work to see my kid's assembly. Kids you say? Yep I have had for the past eight years, thirty kids. Thirty kids in my class that is! This week's Friday Five is not about my baby, or my brother, or my husband, what I've baked, or my latest scrapbook layouts, or where we've been on holiday but about me - five things about me. Not that those aren't great things to blog about, must remember that for the future.
1. I'm a teacher. For the past four years I've taught seven and eight year olds in a school in London. I love my job because I get to make a difference in their lives (well hopefully). I really love teaching History and Design Technology. Before I taught in London I taught eleven and twelve year olds in New Zealand, quite a different story to the younger ones! I have a funny story about one of my students, lets call him Steve. Steve had a habit of saying what he thought out loud without thinking about he consequences. One day I came to school looking particularly rough, I'd had a cold and was very tired, and I had no make up on. Steve asked me (very innocently) Miss C, why have you got pen marks under your eyes? I raced next door to the mirror to check, and what did I see, just my dark circles! I made sure I was wearing make up the next day!
2. I like old school crime novels. My favourite series is Agatha Christie's Poirot, and I'm also partial to the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters, and the Alphabet series by Sue Grafton. I like these books because while you have to think about 'whodunit' there isn't too much gore or scary things, I'm not a fan of scary things. I also looooove Poirot on TV, there is no better way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Any by Poirot I mean David Suchet, not that Peter Ustinov guy!
3. I spend far too much time on the internet. Now this is probably to be expected, I mean I (try to regularly) write a blog, but there's so much more than that! I read lots of blogs, food blogs, mum blogs, scrapbooking blogs, photography blogs and travel blogs. I also tweet, check three email accounts, read two New Zealand newspapers, spend far far too much time catching up with friendsstalking people on Facebook, and then there's my Cityville game, and people.com. Sad, sad, sad.
3. I quite like the idea of gardening but never really get round to doing much. I'd much rather leave that to Andrew, he used to be a gardener in a former life so is much better qualified, and then I don't have to get dirty! When I do garden however, it seems to be the destructive type. I'm quite good and pulling out things, or cutting things back, but I certainly don't like cleaning up the mess, that's a boys job!
4. I played football/soccer for nine years. From 1994 to 2004 I played soccer in New Zealand. I started off as a goal keeper, and then moved up to right defender and finally ended up as right midfield. During my first two years we lost every single game, talk about character building. During the five years I played in the field I scored two goals, yep only two goals. I'm sure I helped set up a lot and save a few even. When we moved to the UK in 2005 I was sure I'd be able to find a team here, it is the home of football! But no, it wasn't too be, there was no team in my area. Never mind, I'm sure I'll get to play when/if we move back to NZ.
5. I used to live in the Scottish Highlands. In 2005 when we moved to the UK we stayed with friends in Dundee, Scotland for a while. It soon became obvious that while we loved staying with our friends, Dundee wasn't the place for us. Andrew found a job as a gardener on Attadale Estate in Lochcarron and I worked in the best pub in the village, the Strathcarron Hotel. Lochcarron is a teeny tiny village on the west coast of the Highlands, about an hour and a half west of Inverness. This was a very remote place, no broadband, no freeview TV, and not many people, about 1000. We had the best time up there and even used a Highland name for our Chicken, Eilidh.
So there you go, five things about me, happy Friday everyone!
So there you have it
1. I'm a teacher. For the past four years I've taught seven and eight year olds in a school in London. I love my job because I get to make a difference in their lives (well hopefully). I really love teaching History and Design Technology. Before I taught in London I taught eleven and twelve year olds in New Zealand, quite a different story to the younger ones! I have a funny story about one of my students, lets call him Steve. Steve had a habit of saying what he thought out loud without thinking about he consequences. One day I came to school looking particularly rough, I'd had a cold and was very tired, and I had no make up on. Steve asked me (very innocently) Miss C, why have you got pen marks under your eyes? I raced next door to the mirror to check, and what did I see, just my dark circles! I made sure I was wearing make up the next day!
2. I like old school crime novels. My favourite series is Agatha Christie's Poirot, and I'm also partial to the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters, and the Alphabet series by Sue Grafton. I like these books because while you have to think about 'whodunit' there isn't too much gore or scary things, I'm not a fan of scary things. I also looooove Poirot on TV, there is no better way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Any by Poirot I mean David Suchet, not that Peter Ustinov guy!
3. I spend far too much time on the internet. Now this is probably to be expected, I mean I (try to regularly) write a blog, but there's so much more than that! I read lots of blogs, food blogs, mum blogs, scrapbooking blogs, photography blogs and travel blogs. I also tweet, check three email accounts, read two New Zealand newspapers, spend far far too much time catching up with friends
3. I quite like the idea of gardening but never really get round to doing much. I'd much rather leave that to Andrew, he used to be a gardener in a former life so is much better qualified, and then I don't have to get dirty! When I do garden however, it seems to be the destructive type. I'm quite good and pulling out things, or cutting things back, but I certainly don't like cleaning up the mess, that's a boys job!
4. I played football/soccer for nine years. From 1994 to 2004 I played soccer in New Zealand. I started off as a goal keeper, and then moved up to right defender and finally ended up as right midfield. During my first two years we lost every single game, talk about character building. During the five years I played in the field I scored two goals, yep only two goals. I'm sure I helped set up a lot and save a few even. When we moved to the UK in 2005 I was sure I'd be able to find a team here, it is the home of football! But no, it wasn't too be, there was no team in my area. Never mind, I'm sure I'll get to play when/if we move back to NZ.
5. I used to live in the Scottish Highlands. In 2005 when we moved to the UK we stayed with friends in Dundee, Scotland for a while. It soon became obvious that while we loved staying with our friends, Dundee wasn't the place for us. Andrew found a job as a gardener on Attadale Estate in Lochcarron and I worked in the best pub in the village, the Strathcarron Hotel. Lochcarron is a teeny tiny village on the west coast of the Highlands, about an hour and a half west of Inverness. This was a very remote place, no broadband, no freeview TV, and not many people, about 1000. We had the best time up there and even used a Highland name for our Chicken, Eilidh.
So there you go, five things about me, happy Friday everyone!
So there you have it
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