CCL Learn Workmates: Confused about Clouds? Read this...

Man I was bogged down in 'what the hell are clouds?' until i found this you tube video . In plain english and some nice basic graphics the video turned the light on for me. How about you?

Lovely warm Autumn weather keeping winter at bay.

What is with people complaining about the warm weather?! It's something that drives me nuts. We get a lovely day where we don't have to rug up, we can enjoy the suns warmth on our skin, then off we go to the shops/work/anywhere and people are wingeing about it. Move further south I say! Leave the warmth to those who appreciate it.

Easter and the School Holidays

I have lovely visions of sleeping in during Easter and the school hols, until my internal filofax reminded me that i had promised to complete some interior painting of ceilings and walls. Not to mention working all through the holidays. But one ray of hope surfaced when my 12 yr old son piped up and said, "By the way Mum, you won't see much of me during the holidays. I'll be visiting all my friends." I had to stop myself from leaping up and punching the air shouting "Yes!" I was thinking of suprising my boy with a kitten, but then visions of a paint covered kitten being licked clean by the dog and the subsequent vet bills stopped that crazy thought....well, at least for the time being........

To my fellow blogging classmates @ CCL Learn

OMG I'm finding MediaWiki frustrating. I created an account, waited for the address confirmation. Days later it arrived. I clicked the link to verify my email address. It verified ok, then asked me to log in. Hahaha, this is where the fun begins. Nope, didn't recognise me. No such account bla bla bla. So I've given up on that one. Pbworks wiki was fun though. I enjoyed adding my favs etc.

Ah the joys of kids....and their technology.

Yesterday morning I woke from a pleasant dream to my son's voice whining, "Geeet uuup!.....Come on!.....You've got to go to wooorrrrk!.......Are you listening to me?!......I'm over here!....I won't tell you again...." After much half-asleep confusion I found his cellphone hidden well under my bed. He had recorded his voice and set it as an alarm, set to go off 10 minutes before my usual alarm.
Ingenious but frustrating. I hate to think what else he'll think to record. Spooky sounds perhaps?

Autumn duties

Well, Autumn is here. Yes, it is! It may be lovely and sunny and warm today but don't be fooled. March ends next week. I remember when the 1st April usually signalled frosts. Lets hope i haven't encouraged them by mentioning it. Anyone else enjoying this late summer? Thank god it is a late summer, as the early bit was horrid.
Chilly mornings have reminded me to do something about getting a new woodburner and ordering wood. With woodburner bought and on the waiting list for the installation, all i needed was wood. A nice lot of oregon and blue gum was dumped on my driveway yesterday after parting with a couple of hundred dollars. It smelt lovely. All dry and sweet. I spent my day off stacking it neatly (in true Libran fashion) inside my shed. It looks fab. A work of art. Too good to touch.
But don't panic. I'm not wishing winter to hurry up! I'm enjoying the sun too much.

To my fellow blogging classmates @ CCL Learn

It seems i need to blog about the social networking module, so here goes. I use facebook daily to keep up with friends, family, old schoolmates, and acquaintences here and abroad but i was not aware of Ning and didn't know much about Twitter. Or maybe i still don't, but i did read about them and have had a nosey. I've set up a Ning group. Check it out here. I can't think what to add to it so i have just put up the Skype meeting as a reminder to us all. See you all on Thurs. I must go play with my skype headphone thingy........

Bat crafts?! Who would have thought it.

To add to my bat theme I've just found the cutest craft website. Don't get me wrong, I'm not at all into craft but this was so cute. I was searching photos of fruit bats on Flickr when I found this one of a crocheted bat! So funny. So of course I got sidetracked to owners website. It's amazing. Check it out here.
I found this module quite fun. Checking out Flickr and what it can do was pretty easy and the world of RSS feeds is mindblowing!

Grrrr

My video bar keeps defaulting to whatever You Tube wants to put on it. It seems to be mostly music videos. It's suppose to have Simon's Cat videos http://www.youtube.com/simonscat
Oh well, check out Simon's Cat yourself sometime. You love it
:)

To my fellow blogging classmates @ CCL Learn

Are you looking for podcasts to add to your blog? I found Podcast NZ at http://www.podcastnz.com check it out for many catagories of podcasts :)

Return to normalcy in the household.

Wow, it's amazing what a night at Nana's can do to an adolescent. He was apparently behaving beautifully until she said he wasn't allowed to do something or other. Then fists were drawn much to the shock of Nana. But this is not a Nana to mess with! I destinctly remember her 'volcano' temper from my youth. Don't mess with the Nana!
So a blasting was given to the young lad about violence, domestic violence, and while she was at it she gave him heaps about treating your mother with disrespect.
So off to school he went the next day, and came home a different boy. The usual well behaved son I'm used to, and thank god for that!
A pleasant evening mall crawl was had together. It was very pleasant. We shared some chinese dumplings and walk arm and arm through the shops, until at one point I lost him. But some 20 minutes testing the squishiness of a couch in Farmers later, he turns up. We had a nice veg-out time on the couch at home watching bad influence programmes such as 2 and a half men, and his idols on Big Bang Theory. Still he can't be too bad if his idols are OCD physics geeks!

Batty news

I'm reminded of The Count from Sesame Street and his fabulous song "Doing the Batty Bat" everytime I think of the word batty. I have added the link to this video just for fun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7yAe2MBIpE
Anyway, getting back to what I'm posting, I have found a page on the bat family Chiroptera on the exellent animal database Grizimek's (pronounced Chimex or something similar) that is available through our library's website for any other bat fans out there. I have attached the link with this post. http://animals.galegroup.com/web/grzimeks/animals/Chiroptera

The stress of adolescents!

What a morning, or week should I say. My 12 year old has started to kick up such a fuss this week. The hormones are obviously kicking in. Grunts, glares, and emphatic NO!'s are now a staple diet. This morning was going fine until I discovered he had packed icecream for lunch in a little plastic flask. It seems I am evil mother from hell not letting him take it to school. Tee hee. Hmmm, I know what I'll be having for afternoon tea :)

Hmmm, having fun finding my way around blogging. I can see I could get addicted to this if only I could think of something to say without grumbling tee hee.