Posted in ramblings, reiki, tagged alternative, complimentary, exercise, eyes, forgiveness, glasses, gym, MD, Radical Forgiveness, weight, wholistic on January 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ok…not much time before bedtime, but I really want to post at least something today.
Today accomplished a lot. I :-
Went to the optometrist, had my eyes tested and picked out new specs. My script has improved – strange!
Had my car inspected, went to the MVA (aka Motor Vehicle Association) and got new tags (aka plates) [...]
Posted in S Person, tagged cleanse, detox, flu on January 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Since Thursday morning, I’ve been put through the flu wringer. Hot and cold sweats, achy ears and head, many boxes of tissues…the whole deal. After nearly 2 days of almost solid sleep, vitamins, flu meds and chicken soup provided by my sweet honey, I am recovering nicely.
The flu always makes me feel like [...]
Posted in donate, tagged animal rescue, breast cancer, child health, donate, free rice, hungar, literacy, rainforests on January 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am just discovering that there are web sites out there, that just with a click, you can donate. No, not your own money per se, but your muscle and clicking power.
One such example (which I found by blog hopping to 2 Witches Blog), which is a lot of fun too, is Free Rice. [...]
Posted in photo hunter, photography, tagged grandmother, photography, photohunter, vera bell on January 26, 2008 | 13 Comments »
This is the first time I’m participating in Photo Hunt. LOVE the concept . Thanks tnchick!
The theme this week is “Old Fashioned” and so I decided to post a photo of my maternal grandmother, Vera Bell, who passed on over 25 years ago. I love how they did formal portraits [...]
Posted in ramblings, tagged cold, flu, sick on January 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m coming down with something .
Clogged and achy sinus’, running nose, headache, sore ears….probably just a head cold, hopefully not the flu. Fast going through a box of tissues.
In the meantime someone sent me this link to WhoisSick.org. What a novel concept! Their blog describes the site as:
whoissick provides local [...]
Posted in photography, snow, winter, tagged photography, snow, winter on January 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Someone sent me this image via email with the obligatory attached chain letter regarding guardian angels, friends and of course not breaking the chain. Whilst the chain letter irritates me beyond belief, I like the image, so I thought I’d post it here (bar the yukky chain letter).
Some people’s talent amazes me!
Posted in blogging, tech, tagged blogging, web safety on January 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Today I had a nasty shock.
The illustrious Mr David W. Boles of Urban Semiotic fame, did, in 3 minutes flat, undercover my identity on the web. I know he found out at a minimum, my email address, cell phone number, employer, work phone number, that I am selling my townhouse and the address of it. [...]
Posted in ramblings, work, tagged Ajax, PHP, work on January 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
As a follow up to my post from last week, my honey got the job he really wanted! The one he fought for. Yay!
He starts Feb 4th at the higher salary, with his 100% paid benefits kicking in immediately.
He had initially offered to work out his probational period at $10K less, with the idea that [...]
Posted in photography, snow, winter, tagged fall, photos, snow, winter on January 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
When taking pictures during the snow fall this past week, I realized I was taking the exact same picture that I had taken during the fall this year. So that gave me the idea to create a series of 4 pictures over the course of the year, to show the seasonal changes. So [...]
Posted in blog_challenge, blogging, poetry, ramblings, tagged blogging on January 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Following on from yesterday’s Scrabble Cheat post, Lorelle’s latest post, Recovering from a Traffic Spike, really made me think about this whole topic. She writes very humorously and cleverly about Traffic Spikes, liking them to drug highs. She then writes about the coping strategies thereof. One of which is to simply write for your readers [...]
Posted in photography, poetry, snow, winter, tagged snow, winter on January 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Posted in online games, ramblings, tagged online games, scrabble on January 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Seems “Scrabble Cheat” is bringing people to my blog from this post, via search engines. How funny is that! Blog stats really are cool, aren’t they?
Posted in ramblings, tax, tech, work, tagged Ajax, irs, PHP, tax, web design, work on January 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So, two pieces of very good news from the ‘ol household….
Tax Returns and Refund
I finally mailed off my 2004 tax returns yesterday! Yes, I know they are really, really late, but you know what they say, better late than never. Why my tax returns were so late is a very long, boring story [...]
Posted in ramblings, snow, winter, tagged bunnies, snow, winter on January 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s snowing!
I should be working, but here I am, sitting in my living room, with my laptop on my lap, blanket wrapped snugly around me, writing this post and watching the snow fall. And it’s beginning to stick now. Yay!
It is magical and beautiful!
I grew up in a warm southern hemisphere climate and [...]
Posted in ramblings, wisdom, tagged wisdom on January 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes I impress myself and come up with eloquent pearls of wisdom. And then I look at what I have written and wonder where the heck it came from. One such example is from a comment I left on this post.
Create for the pure joy of creation, create from your [...]
Posted in sa, tagged south africa on January 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
… is crazy and very sad right now. This is an awesome account of the current craziness.
I worry about my friends and family left behind.
Posted in ramblings, tagged sleep on January 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
….not!
Today there is no alertness from yesterday morning. I feel just headachey, groggy and grumpy
Well, yes… I guess it doesn’t help that I stayed up till 1am having VERY NICE loving (and that is a severe understatement!) and that I had fitful sleep thereafter sleeping next to the man I love. We are [...]
Posted in ramblings, reiki, tech, tagged blogging, reiki, tech on January 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today I learned that:
My blog is depressing (thanks Steph! ). Unfortunately I generally only want to write when I am feeling down. I am also most expressive during that time. During the good times, I am too busy living to write. This is something I want to change though.
There is such a thing as [...]
Posted in blog_challenge, online games, tagged blogging, online gaming, scrabble, tech on January 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
This week’s blog challenge from Lorelle on WordPress……
Intelligent Online Toys and Play Things.
Blog a listing of your favorite online toys and play things that aren’t “games”.
Well, that got me thinking…..I sink A LOT of time online. What the heck do I do? And how much of it is fun?
I would say that [...]
Posted in tech, tagged web site design on January 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Web Site Design is my new profession.
This is after 10 years in the IT industry as a Natural Adabas programmer, analyst, project manager, tester, client support and team leader. Natural Adabas and its compatable technologies (JCL, MVS, MQ, XML, Cobol etc) have been good to me. She allowed me to move from South Africa to [...]
Posted in kids, tagged kids, myth, santa on January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday my 6 year old step-daughter asks me if I’d noticed in her Brownie Carol singing outing (which happened a month or so ago), that there were kids who said they didn’t believe in Santa. Of course I feigned shock and said “No!” and innocently asked ” Well, what did you say?”. “Of [...]
Posted in tech, tagged tech, uni on January 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Update – The person in question got written permission from the university where he copied it from. So we are ok. Really glad I stopped to check before publishing though!
I am the (new) webmaster for a university, which shall remain nameless (new in terms of for the university and new in terms of [...]
Posted in online games, ramblings, tagged facebook, online gaming, scrabble on January 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A few more of my time-sinkers are Facebook and Scrabulous. My vocabulary and pattern recognition is so poor though, I’m getting beaten to smithereens. I have to look up so many words. But it is paying off. I know so many new words now, it’s incredible. Did you know that [...]
Posted in poetry, tagged poetry on January 5, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Today, I am angry. Very angry.
It is red, blood red. It is raw. It is gaping with incoherance.
It festers inside. It oozes out. Sneakily. Wherever it can. Through the unsuspecting.
It’s colour now no longer the truth of blood red, but the slyness of greenish-yellow.
It shrivels up the life.
How [...]
Posted in ramblings, tech, tagged ramblings, tech on January 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
…to import 2 year’s worth of content from LiveJournal or not….hmmmmm…
Update – loose all the security??? Oh no, we cannot have that at all! My LiveJournal content will stay on LiveJournal. There are things on that blog that my family can never, never see. Sorry folks .
Posted in tech, tagged tech on January 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ok, if I’m going to get serious about blogging, I guess I need to get more techy and get a rss reader. I decided on Google Reader. So far it seems fine. If anyone knows of any major issues with it or of a significantly better reader, please shout. Thanks!
Posted in ramblings, tagged ramblings on January 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yep, indeed they are. If it’s not surfing or webkinz or facebook scrabble or blackjack or poker or eating or sex….it’s blogging. My husband would much prefer it only to be sex
I’ve been very busy figuring out WordPress and I can already see it’s going to be addictive if I’m not careful. [...]
Posted in ramblings, tagged ramblings on January 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well….this is my first post here at WordPress. Nothing much to say right now, other than to explain the name of my blog.
Natz G.
No, it is not a play on Ali G.
It is my long held nickname – Natz – and the initial of my new last name . See, I was recently [...]
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