Personal reflections, life updates, and thoughtful posts from Nightwolf’s Den, sharing stories, insights, and moments that don’t fit neatly elsewhere.
(thanks to Tweet Smarter & All Twitter for this one)
I joined Twitter 898 days ago (25 November 2008)
My first follower was @BookofMe
My first Tweet was “has just joined twitter” at 12:04 AM Nov 25th 2008
So When did you join Twitter? Who was your first follower? And what was your first Tweet?
As you know, if you’ve been a long time follower of my blog, I’ve been trying to follow Flylady numerous times and I always seem to fail. I do ok for a week or two then just get disheartened and give up. I was doing some blog surfing recently and found a link to HabitHacker and thought I’d check it out. Sounds ok. Sounds like something I could do.
The first step in habit hacking your ‘nest’ is to “Polish your place” (or choose a spot & clean it). It can be any place – your sink (ala FlyLady) or your bedside table or anything. Just somewhere you will keep clean everyday.
I chose my main bench in the kitchen. It’s a dumping ground. We make cuppa’s here. I prepare food here. I, for some reason known only to a small part of my brain, sort mail here. Lately it’s been shocking. Cue the Before photo
Well one week in and I am still managing to keep this bench tidy. I’m finding it so easy to give it a quick wipe over and to put things away when I’ve finished with them and to give it a spray and wipe after breakfast and before I go to bed.
See?
Do you follow a system to keep your home organised? What do you love about it?
Not me. Unless it’s watching hubby do it but that rarely happens. So anything to make my life a little easier is always a good thing.
Since Miss K arrived and more so since she started eating solids (and isn’t that fun) I’ve been doing at least one load a day and sometime that also includes a load of washing to soak – you know the usual stains that don’t just come out in the wash. So when I was given the opportunity to try Biozet Attack Ecosmart washing liquid I thought ‘Why not?’
I’m a huge believer in using laundry liquid since Miss K came along. I find it easier to use and it doesn’t leave a powdery residue even if I used the suggested dose. Also I wash with warm water. Yeah I know washing with cold water is better but until we can afford to redo all the plumbing in the bathroom & laundry – warm water it is.
Anywho back to the laundry liquid. One of my biggest gripes with laundry liquid is you always seem to use a fair bit. For example, the current brand I use suggests 1 1/2 to 2 caps per full load. I use one & it seems to wash fine. With Biozet Attack Ecosmart you only need one 19ml ‘shot’ per wash. And you know what? That tiny amount cleans a full load of washing. And my white towels actually seem to come out whiter. I also noted that it gets out stains that my other liquids haven’t. Pretty cool.
It is smaller than other liquids but gives about the same amount of washes. And the bottle is refillable. And it is about the same price as the current liquid I use.
So would I buy it again? Yup for sure.
Disclaimer – I was provided a full bottle of Biozet Attack Ecosmart and refill for the purpose of review. All opinions above are my own.
(The idea & questions for my round up come from Katie the Scrapbook Lady.)
What books and/or magazines did I read this month? I haven’t read anything this month
What movies, television shows, plays, etc. did I watch this month?
TV – Bones, Holmes Inspection, Glee, Time Team, Raw, Smackdown, AFL, Camelot, Doctor Who
What fun things did I do with my family and/or friends? played on our new Xbox 360
What gifts did I give and/or receive?
Gave – xbox game & RPG book to hubby
What special or unusual purchases did I make? Xbox 360 & Kinect & games
What illnesses or health concerns did I have? Got a head cold
What were my accomplishments this month? finished the projects for Mouse, Paper, Scissors
What were my disappointments this month? Family illness
How did I do on my goals for the month? (Or any current short or long term goals) still journaling everyday. Managed to get some scrapbooking done. Still taking a photo-a-day of Miss K
Anything else noteworthy to include? Mum feeling much better. Miss K still sleeping in her bed.
Tasks to do
Goals for May
Journal every day. Note to self – Print out LYM 2011 logbook pages for May
Do some scrapping & art journaling
Exercise at least 3 times a week.
Try and keep the house a bit cleaner
image courtesy of The Royal Wedding
Tonight (Australian time) many world wide will be watching Prince William & Kate Middleton get married in ‘the wedding of the year’. I am one of the few who won’t be watching. I’ve got nothing against weddings and nothing against the Royals (I loved Diana & Charles’ wedding) but there is AFL on and this house tends to go a bit AFL made over winter… well hubby does anyways. So I will be over at Three Little Princesses taking part in the Royal Wedding Pyjama Party and finishing off the pressies I’m making for Mother’s Day.
Since the world has gone a little mad for weddings, today I thought I’d share the story of my wedding day. warning there are a few images
I can’t find the photo but I spent all morning of my wedding day going between Mum & Dad’s couch & the toilet. I had been sick for the past three months with gastro. Yup I planned my entire wedding while I had gastro & was working. Anyways, after a quick trip to the doctors and a shot to quell the queasiness I was off to the hairdresser with my best friend & bridesmaid to get our hair done then out to the gorgeous Historic property of Brickendon to get prepared.
This gorgeous cottage was where we got our makeup done and did some pre-wedding photos with our amazing photographer Philip Kuruvita. I He’s not intrusive & the photos and our wedding album are gorgeous!!
We wrote most of the ceremony ourselves and included quite a few pagan bits and pieces in (but not enough to offend any of my Christian rellies) and lit 5 candles (2 for those who couldn’t be with us, namely those who had passed on, 2 family candles and 1 unity candle symbolising the joining of 2 families lit from the family candles)
That’s my bff & bridemaid. I owe her so much. Thanks Lisa, you have no idea how much u mean to me 
Our reception was held in the barn at Brickendon and was a lovely buffet meal, not that I ate much as I was starting to feel a bit ill again.
We cut our cake (a yummy mud cake cooked by Mum and decorated by a friend)
and of course there were speeches (& lots of tears) and signing our engagement photos which had been framed (another Kuruvita shoot)
oh and we had a crockenbush for desert (I ate some of that, yum)
and lots of pressies.
After which we took off for our first night as a married couple, staying in this gorgeous little cottage.
then off to Queensland for a week for our honeymoon. So that’s our wedding story. I can’t believe it’ll have been 5 years in November.
Doctor Who fans worldwide were saddened to hear about the sudden passing of Elisabeth Sladen (better know as the companion to the Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith) this morning. She first appeared in 1973 alongside the Third Doctor Jon Pertwee and appeared with other Doctors including David Tennant.
BBC has put up a page for Sladen and I’m sure many other Who related sites will also do their tributes.
Farewell Lis, the Whovian Universe will miss you.
So I spent the day Wednesday baking biscuits, cause, well, I can. And I felt like baking. After we’d been grocery shopping. As you do.
So fast forward to batch 3 (choc chip cookies) and I turn around to see Miss K playing with some of the groceries I hadn’t got around to putting away. Not a real problem. Nothing she can get into and do any harm with. Or so I thought. Fast forward 5 minutes and I hear a soft giggle and the sounds of something being done. Turn round to this
Miss K ‘washing’ her hair. With Dettol body wash. As you do. She’d worked out how to unscrew the lid & had poured the body wash onto the picnic rug (a play toy from earlier in the afternoon) and was rubbing her hands into the suds & then rubbing her hair *sigh* so off to the shower to rinse her off while hubby put the remaining body wash away. Lesson learnt.
Will b back later with some food pics. Just had to blog this so I can scrapbook it later.
If you printed my entire Twitter timeline….. it would cover 22297 A4 pages, that would use 445.9 ml of ink! That’s nearly 37 ink cartridges! All the printed pages together would weigh 111.5 kg (That’s equivalent to the weight of about 16 red foxes!) Laid side-by-side, the paper would cover around 1,390.67 square metres! (That’s enough paper to cover a tennis court 7 times!) Stacked on top of each other, it’d be around 2.23 metres tall! That would take about 14 hours and 41 minutes to print using a single inkjet printer! During that time, around 229,854 babies are born worldwide
Find out about your Twitter timeline at The Print Effect
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A three-year-old went with his dad to see a litter of kittens. On returning home, he breathlessly informed his mother there were two boy kittens and two girl kittens. “How did you know?” his mother asked. “Daddy picked them up and looked underneath,” he replied. “I think it’s printed on the bottom.”
(found on BabyBuds Blog)
Not mine but a site that is new to me – Our Treasured Baby Lots of cute baby goodness & the cutest photos.
They are currently doing a bit of a give away. Check out this post to see how you can go into the draw to win Becky Higgins Project Life.
Let me just start this post by saying I LOVE CHEESE. Ok now that’s out of the way. I was provided three packets of Bega Stringers to try (along with an awesome cooler bag, some Bega caps & some rather funky Stringers pens) and then post about.
I was a little hesitant to try Bega Stringers as the last time I ate Bega cheese I wasn’t really impressed (that said it was at a BBQ, in the middle of summer) but I was curious after seeing the ads on telly, thinking it might be a great and easy way for Miss K to eat more cheese and an easy way to get more calcium. Cutting slices of cheese of a block ends up with cheese everywhere (couch, floor, hair, toybox etc). Bega Stringers are those individually wrapped cheese sticks that can be pulled apart into ‘strings’. They are made from 100 per cent natural mozzarella cheese and have no artificial flavours (always a plus).
So when the box arrived, we opened it up and decide to try the Bega Stringers Original (at 7.45 in the morning lol). Well they were a huge hit (with both mum & bub LOL) I seriously want to know how they make it string like that. awesome stuff. I love the Original Stringers & the Swiss Stringers, Miss K loves all of them. So they seem to be a hit & I’m sure they’ll end up in the trolley during future grocery trips.
Miss K had a ball playing with the box all our goodies arrived in, pulling out the hats, playing with the hats and then wandering over for some more cheese (did I mention I’m kinda addicted to these things now lol) and being me, I captured it on video (ignore the kitchen & messy lounge room lol).
We ate the packet of Original Stringers in two days and there is now one lonely Stringer left in the fridge. And of course being the good scrapbooking mum I am I made sure I took a heap of pictures 
All in all, Bega Stringers were a hit in our household and I think they are a yummy snack to have on hand. And they are giving Miss K some extra calcium. And I learnt a few useful hits while surfing the Bega site (like spraying your grater with a little oil to stop cheese sticking – well, why hadn’t I thought of that lol) and things like It takes 10 litres of milk to make just 1kg of cheese! and a Turophile is someone who love cheese.
You can read more about Stringers (& other Bega products) on their website
