I've recently became aware of RescueTime, an application that tracks the time we spend using different application, or viewing different webpages. I'm really impressed with it, and think it will be good to know exactly how my time is spent while using the computer. Maybe I'll post some times for you.. or maybe I'll keep it to myself, we'll see.
From their blog I found this article about self-discipline and time management. It made some very good points.
November 16, 2007
November 15, 2007
A new blog
Just thought I'd let you all know that I started a new blog today. There are only a couple of posts at the moment, but feel free to have a read, and comment.
November 08, 2007
YouTube and LDS Public Affairs
One of the latest YouTube videos posted by LDSPublicAffairs. I like it, it's simple and effective. What do you think about these videos being added to YouTube? I think it's great, however with the way that YouTube then offers other similar videos, they are not always similar. After watching this very video I quickly clicked through to a few questionable videos opposing the church. I lot of them don't make sense to me as a long time church member, but this could really be bad for an investigator or new member. Just some thoughts..
October 28, 2007
The Golden Compass
I think I already blogged about how excited I am for the film 'The Golden Compass' based on the book by Phillip Pullman. The UK version has a different title - Northern Lights. So, I was quite surprised to read this blog and following that these articles [1][2]. The books didn't quite end as I had suspected, the children did kill 'God' but this 'God' wasn't Heavenly Father in my eyes anyway. I had no idea that people would be opposed to these books, and especially people who hadn't read them. I need to re-read over the last book to really remember what happened, maybe I would have preferred it if a Christian had written it, but I am still really excited to watch the movie and would recommend the books to anyone.
October 21, 2007
Ha ha!
We went out for a walk at the downs yesterday. It was chilly, but lovely to be able to just walk in the fresh air together. Cara loves being outside - we all enjoyed ourselves very much. Daddy snapped this one as we were both laughing.
September 17, 2007
My Birthday
For my birthday this year we went on a steam train. I had mentioned to Andrew that it would be quite fun to go on a train ride with Cara, but I hadn't even thought of a steam train. It was great!
Cara really enjoyed the day, which made it even more enjoyable for me and Andrew. We finished the day with dinner and Cara was getting lots of attention in return for her beautiful smiles.
Thank you Andrew for making my birthday a 'Day of Fun'.
Cara really enjoyed the day, which made it even more enjoyable for me and Andrew. We finished the day with dinner and Cara was getting lots of attention in return for her beautiful smiles.
Thank you Andrew for making my birthday a 'Day of Fun'.
St Ives
Can't believe I haven't blogged about our holiday to St Ives yet. This probably isn't the best photo.. but it is of the sand thing we built one day.
It was great to have some time away, just to relax and enjoy each others company. Andrew, Cara and I joined Andrew's family. We were able to celebrate Hannah's 21st birthday while away, and wish her the best as she is now in the mission field serving in Dublin, Ireland. She will be such a great missionary.
We stayed in a cottage just 2 minutes walk from Porthmoer Beach, which was always great for body boarding. Cara enjoyed lots of attention from Grandparents, Aunt and Uncles, and Andrew and I were able to enjoy time alone together - Thank you Munzer family! we loved our holiday with you.
It was great to have some time away, just to relax and enjoy each others company. Andrew, Cara and I joined Andrew's family. We were able to celebrate Hannah's 21st birthday while away, and wish her the best as she is now in the mission field serving in Dublin, Ireland. She will be such a great missionary.
We stayed in a cottage just 2 minutes walk from Porthmoer Beach, which was always great for body boarding. Cara enjoyed lots of attention from Grandparents, Aunt and Uncles, and Andrew and I were able to enjoy time alone together - Thank you Munzer family! we loved our holiday with you.
September 06, 2007
I just made a John Travolta film Quiz .
He has been in so many great movies.. and some really silly ones..
Which is your favourite?
I can't choose.. Grease, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble and Hairspray is pretty good too.. I have to confess to watching all 3 Look Who's Talking movies recently, and they were actually very entertaining.
PS I do like John Travolta, but I love Andrew - he's the best!
August 17, 2007
Our amazing brains!
Seriously - our brains are amazing! Weird how by being so amazing we actually see things not always in there true sense.. hmm.. what can we learn from knowing this?
August 15, 2007
I am so excited to see this film!
The Golden Compass aka Northern Lights.. this will be the first film I've seen, where I've read the book first. I am so excited! It's such a good story.
August 05, 2007
I won a competition!
I just added my comments about Tagging to the LibraryThing discussion board, and now they are sending me a book. It wasn't because what I said was great.. I was picked at random.. but it's still cool. I wanted a tagging picture to go with my blog and found somewhere that I could make a tag cloud of my blog.
See top of my blog.
Here is a copy of my post:
Tags are amazing! For me the sights that make the best use of Tags are these...
Flickr - the first tagging site I ever used. An archive of all my photos. If I want to find a photo of my cute neice, I just type in her name and they all come up. Also, a huge mass of others photos. I would always be able to find a photo from someone to go along with whatever I decided to blog about - great!
Facebook - So, I loved Flickr already for photo tagging, but then along came Facebook - where you tagged someone in a photo, and then they would know, and there friends would know. It's great! So, a friend uploads a photo, with me in it, tags me and everyone else.. I get notified, look at the photo and see that some friends I haven't seen in ages are also tagged - from there I can contact them, find out how they are doing etc. Even people who I don't know may upload a funny photo, or video or post a note about a person that I do know.. more insight into my friends lives. Amazing.
BoardGameGeek - so this is my newest venture. I am a board game geek - I have just bought my 100th board game, and you know what? I don't get to play them very often, it's really hard to decide what to play.. depends on your mood, who's playing an how many people want to play.. It takes ages to find a suitable game... but when you can tag your games.. you can search for a game with particular tags.. say, 'short' and '3-player'.
OK.. so my final one may not be classed as tags.. but surely a search engine really just searches via words which are tags....?? Do you agree?
Tags.. what an amazing invention.. I'm still trying to get used to using them effectively in G-Mail, Blogger and LibraryThing actually. In LibraryThing I use others tags.. but don't really put tags on my own books to use.
See top of my blog.
Here is a copy of my post:
Tags are amazing! For me the sights that make the best use of Tags are these...
Flickr - the first tagging site I ever used. An archive of all my photos. If I want to find a photo of my cute neice, I just type in her name and they all come up. Also, a huge mass of others photos. I would always be able to find a photo from someone to go along with whatever I decided to blog about - great!
Facebook - So, I loved Flickr already for photo tagging, but then along came Facebook - where you tagged someone in a photo, and then they would know, and there friends would know. It's great! So, a friend uploads a photo, with me in it, tags me and everyone else.. I get notified, look at the photo and see that some friends I haven't seen in ages are also tagged - from there I can contact them, find out how they are doing etc. Even people who I don't know may upload a funny photo, or video or post a note about a person that I do know.. more insight into my friends lives. Amazing.
BoardGameGeek - so this is my newest venture. I am a board game geek - I have just bought my 100th board game, and you know what? I don't get to play them very often, it's really hard to decide what to play.. depends on your mood, who's playing an how many people want to play.. It takes ages to find a suitable game... but when you can tag your games.. you can search for a game with particular tags.. say, 'short' and '3-player'.
OK.. so my final one may not be classed as tags.. but surely a search engine really just searches via words which are tags....?? Do you agree?
Tags.. what an amazing invention.. I'm still trying to get used to using them effectively in G-Mail, Blogger and LibraryThing actually. In LibraryThing I use others tags.. but don't really put tags on my own books to use.
August 04, 2007
Being a Mummy
I didn't know whether to blog about this or not.. but I decided I would.
Sometimes, I find being a full-time Mum really hard.
It's funny, because I think I'm a strong, abled person, and Cara is a beautiful, amazing, sleepy girl. So, really, I should find being a Mum easier than most.
A lot of the time I do think that my being a Mum is easy. I get to stay at home, be with my beautiful baby girl, go out for walks, watch films, shop... there are lots of perks - especially with only one, especially good little girl, but amazingly, sometimes it's still hard. I think hardest, funnily - when I sit down and relax, or try to. I think for me it's the constancy, I'm always listening out for Cara, in case she needs me. There's never been anything so constantly on my mind, maybe there should have been....
I read this blog today, it's what inspired me to write about my feelings.
I love Cara! She's going to change my life for the better! Thank you, Cara! and Thank you Andrew!
Sometimes, I find being a full-time Mum really hard.
It's funny, because I think I'm a strong, abled person, and Cara is a beautiful, amazing, sleepy girl. So, really, I should find being a Mum easier than most.
A lot of the time I do think that my being a Mum is easy. I get to stay at home, be with my beautiful baby girl, go out for walks, watch films, shop... there are lots of perks - especially with only one, especially good little girl, but amazingly, sometimes it's still hard. I think hardest, funnily - when I sit down and relax, or try to. I think for me it's the constancy, I'm always listening out for Cara, in case she needs me. There's never been anything so constantly on my mind, maybe there should have been....
I read this blog today, it's what inspired me to write about my feelings.
I love Cara! She's going to change my life for the better! Thank you, Cara! and Thank you Andrew!
July 31, 2007
Selling stuff on ebay
July 30, 2007
July 23, 2007
July 02, 2007
A game of Chess
For our Family Home Evening activity this week, Andrew and I played a game of Chess. It was a really fun game! Chess is so good - there is so much to think about.I've been playing a few games of Chess over the internet, a move at a time. It was nice to play a whole game in one go. Steve and Alan recently beat me online, and tonight Andrew beat me too... I'm off to read some books on Chess strategy.
June 14, 2007
Helen Strikes!
We went bowling for Alex Tovey's birthday. I like this photo Andrew took of me.. I did get a couple of strikes, but I'm still better at Wii bowling than the real thing. Andrew beat everybody, both lanes - so well done Andrew!
May 25, 2007
Spinning Fast
We went to the park with Linda and her girls. It was quite a good park, lots of different things to play on, for all age groups. My favourite was the gerbil wheel, especially when Andrew had a go, and fell off...! and also these little spinny things. I was going so fast, I felt really sick. Can't wait until Cara is old enough to enjoy all the wonderful fun you can have at the park.
May 22, 2007
Running With Angels
Bristol Stake RS once again hosted a 'Running with Angels'. It was a 5km run/walk for all the women in the Stake (young and old). We raised money for Breast Cancer Research UK, and also raised the bar in our own fitness.
I am so unfit! I ran as much of it as I could, and I really felt it that night and following day. I didn't do a lot of excercise while I was pregnant, and I haven't done a whole lot since. Next year, I'll hopefully be able to run the whole waya again. It was a great event.
I am so unfit! I ran as much of it as I could, and I really felt it that night and following day. I didn't do a lot of excercise while I was pregnant, and I haven't done a whole lot since. Next year, I'll hopefully be able to run the whole waya again. It was a great event.
May 11, 2007
Mary, Martha and Me
Southmead Ward has a RS book club, and on Wednesday I borrowed this book. Tonight I finished it. It was a really good read. Made me think. She writes in a way that is easy to read and understand, but thought provoking, and is backed up by scripture references and quotes from the apostles and prophets.I need to 'do' more for the right reasons, and learn to study the Gospel even amongst a busy life. Even if that life is full of good things, God is the most important. All good follows a devotion to Christ.
I would definately recommend this book.
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