To not smell the dampness that had been building over many years, wow such fresh air. My new place may be smaller but I am so much happier here. My health is already improving. I have been back at work since Monday and I have enjoyed walking through the Botanical Gardens on my way to work.
I promise to post pictures in the next week of my new place :-)
- Location:New Home
- Mood:
content
I am still not sure if I will do the same for my blogs. The other fun things I have been doing with my main blog To Write is to Dream... is that I have finally find a template which I am extremely happy about. This template is actually a combination of templates and a unique background image. It was the background image that has made the site work so well thanks to the brilliant photographs Graeme has taken and it looks brilliant.
As I posted before I have added new widgets - like Follow me and a blog roll which work well together, a tagging widgets and another widget that promotes Creative Commons. If you want to see what I have then check out by my main blog and the reflective one Behind Dreaming.
Now lets see if I can get into the swing of making greater use of my LJ. If I have things more personal that I want to say then I will do so directly in LJ as then I can restrict access, which I have not seen as an option in ScribeFire.
- Location:Home and frozen
- Mood:
cheerful
I have spent the last few days finding some fantastic widgets and also delving further into Creative Commons. If you want to know more and have over an hour to spare then you should watch the following
The Commons: Celebrating Accomplishments, Discerning Futures
Ok if ScribeFire successfully posts to my LJ I will be won over :-)
- Location:frozen in summer
- Mood:
excited
Oh I shall not miss this place - well not much about its interior anyway. There is the location which is great and the view that I can see from my lounge room window (well I can see it if I stand on my toes). I will miss those things. There is the wonderful cat that my neighbour has adopted :-) - he now seems to wait for me to arrive home each afternoon and follows me around to my door out the back.
So what will I be happy to see the back of.... There is the mould that seems to have gotten worse - it hovers and seems to be seeping into my pores.
The mice and how they seem to be able to live with an open door policy - even though I have never agreed to that. One mouse in particular started visiting very early on so Mum called it Horace a few days before she tried to get rid of it permanently. Not sure if he came back - but at least he and his other little friends seem to be mostly not coming in or not leaving evidence that they have visited in recent months.
Have I mentioned the mould - I do not want to forget to mention the mould. Someone pointed how much the mould leaves an odour and ever since then it is all I seem to smell.
Having my meter box inside so I can never get the electrical company to do a proper reading - so I hope this means that I will get a 'discount' off my last bill.
Oh and the mould that seems to have helped the carpet rot along the wall of my bedroom. Well I mean I have seen worse and has seems to have improved since the handy person finally figured out where all the leaks were coming from after the 3rd visit. I mean it is really understandable that they missed the hole in the roof that according to them was about the size of an A4 or was it A3 size piece of paper. My ceiling seems to have finally stopped wanting to wash the carpet; stove; kitchen light; bedroom in the doorway; corner of the 3rd room which is about a metre from the meter box (oh imagine the fun that would have caused)....
So if any of you dear friends wonder why I have not tried to share photos of where I currently live please wonder no more...
- Location:home
- Mood:
mischievous - Music:Wish you were here
Yes I am getting a lot out of it but the stress I put myself under over it - wow it is intense...
I was the Toastmaster for tonight's session. I had already postponed it last week because I had gotten myself soo worked up I was in a panic. This week I was much busier but somehow I still fit it in.
I think I give the impression that I do not need that much help giving speeches but that comes from years of hiding the depth of my personal terror that everyone is judging me.
So there you go friends: my big secret. It is not doing speeches that makes me afraid it is screwing up something, anything, so badly that I will make a complete fool of myself. I can not even begin to explain how much the stress grips me - though life is helping me to cope.
Why Toastmasters - it is helping me to find ways to cope with organising myself and others. I think I continue to go because the club I am in has people involved that are wonderful. No harsh judgements, full of support and advice on what we can learn from the experience.
Thanks fellow toastmasters :-)
- Location:Home
- Mood:
melancholy
I now find that I am maintaining 2 blogs full time, was responsible for the experimental work blog, this Live Journal, 2 twitter accounts, 3 delicious accounts, 1 facebook, 1 bebo, and I am whatever other tools I use at work. I have found the only way to seperate my work and personal stuff is to have different accounts for each which is why I have 2 twitter and 3 delicious accounts. Maybe overload is an exageration but I have only been really playing with all this in the last 12 months or so and it does seem like too much at times.
Atleast I get paid to play with different web2 tools so that means I do not feel too guilty about spending time discovering something new for myself.
I can not imagine not using any of these so I guess that is the secret to web2: what tools make your life easier and that you would find difficult to stop using...
- Location:Home
- Mood:
contemplative
Ok so the Twitter feed seems to be a failure. I have tried many ways to get LoudTwitter to work again and have failed. Now I need to think of another idea or maybe I should just start posting again. Or maybe finally sorting out having a proper LJ rather than an experiment.
So what will be next?
- Location:Home
- Mood:
annoyed
- 14:49 This is worth re-posting in my personal account: tinyurl.com/4x6us5 - Publicly funded research should be publicly available... #
- 14:50 I feel like death warmed up - not sure if it is my internal temperature or the one outside - it is lovely to have warm weather... #
- 14:53 Though is it really a surprise to anyone that the publishers in the USA would try to send things backwards and away from Open Access :-( #
- 19:36 Wow the interface of twitter looks fantastic :-) -- have not even looked to far into it, but I am already impressed #
- 22:50 #Poem - With so few words: so pure and stark - I become someone new @ allisonbrown.blogspot.com/2008/09/words.h
tml - Re-posted tweet # - 23:02 When a poem works it feels like I see a glimpse of paradise :-) #
- 23:04 I know in my heart when something I write has the potential of going beyond myself :) #
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