Tantrums

June 13, 2008

Over the last six months or so The Little Mermaid (just turned 3) has been practicing her tantrums. She has almost perfected throwing herself on the floor while screaming and crying that she has been treated terribly unjustly. Sometimes she pretends she can’t walk and just collapses into a whiny heap. At home, this is […]

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Punctuality – where do you fit in?

June 12, 2008

Punctuality is important to me. I am an eternally early person. I am early for everything. I get stressed and cranky and yell at the kids if I’m running late. I like to have everything organised and ready to go so we can leave in plenty of time for where we have to be. This […]

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Sewing projects

June 11, 2008

I’ve finally finished sewing two little for Cinderella and The Little Mermaid. It was very simple sewing and each skirt only took around an hour to make. Me being me, I made one and then went on to do something else while the other one languished in it’s cut out state on the sewing table […]

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Everyone can learn to be organised

June 10, 2008

Do you think people are born organised or that everyone can learn to be organised? Last week in GTD Times there was a post discussing research showing that intelligence is not a fixed attribute (Expandable Intelligence: the Effort Effect and Learning How to be Organized | GTD Times). Rather it is something that can be […]

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Homemade Yoghurt

June 9, 2008

Today I am making homemade yoghurt. It’s something I started thinking about a few weeks ago to try to help reduce our grocery bill. I have been spending around $15/week on bought yoghurt and we would use more if we had it. I thought about an EasiYo system. But with the the price of the […]

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Make ironing fun

June 8, 2008

Make ironing fun. It’s one of my life ambitions. There must be something that can cheer up this mundane, repetitive, boring, tedious, necessary activity. I don’t watch TV when I’m ironing because the infomercials on morning TV (when I’m typically trying to get it done) drive me batty. Could they be any more fake and […]

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