Just a quickie

Jsut thought I will just type something from Sainsburys cafe since I was here alone eating breakfast and just waiting to drink my tea. Was looking at the range of accersoires worn with shorts Sandal trainers trainer socks normal socks Those plastic shoes boots the list goes on.! Must admit I prefer either trainers with trainer socks or sandals knee length socks just doesn’t do it for me

How Sweet!

Found this on someone’s profile..if anyone wants me let me know

“Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot,
Who calls you back when you hang up,
Who will stay awake just to make sure your safe asleep.
Wait for the boy who kisses you on your forehead,
Who wants to show you off to the world no matter what your appearance,
Who makes you smile in your darkest hour
Who makes you feel like theres no one else in the world but you 2
Who holds your hand in front of his friends,
Wait for the one who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares about you
And how lucky he is to have you.
Wait for the one who turns to his friends and says,
‘…He’s The One’ and Smiles”

Computer Commands

I was sat in Starbucks at lunchtime, reading Photoshop Creative Magazine, issue number 48. Well I wasn’t actually reading it, I was flicking through looking at the various articles and entering their content into my Evernote program ready for future referencing. The first thing I actually did read was the editorial, which commented what it would be like if life in general came with the computer shortcuts and commands that we are all so familiar with. This got me thinking of the possibilities.

Initially the article commented about the undo command. Ofcourse we could all se the great use of this. How many times have we actually thought I wish I could undo that comment, or that decision. Also all those times that we have said yes and we should have said no. How many times do we hear ourselves saying in our heads,

“Why on earth did I agree to do this!”

Then I got thinking what other wonderful commands I could use in everyday life. Certainly copy and paster would be excellent. Imagine all those mundane boring tasks that we have to endure. Cleaning the toilet, copy and paste, sweeping the floor, copy and paste, even doing the ironing..copy and, well you get the idea.

Turning the computer off also gave me food for thought. Restart, how great would that be, getting half way through the day and thinking, I don’t like how this has gone so far, Restart! Shut down is a command I would probably like to use on others rather than myself. Those people who drone endlessly on, when they could have said what they wanted to say in a few minutes or even seconds, just as they were getting going….-shutdown- … bliss! And I must say I would love…no that’s not the right word…welcome! the command Sleep! The number of times I have laid awake for endless hours, longing for the command -sleep-

There is probably loads more commands that you could have and if you think of any then please do add them in the comment box below

Anyway another day over and I am going to take this awful cold to bed now and try to sleep…Have fun!

Teaching?

You might know this already but my chosen profession is a teacher. Yes I know what you are thinking. It will probably have something to do with to do with working only nine to three and having long holidays and spending the day talking to children.

I’ve just watched a TV programme which was called, I think, Playing the role? or taking on the role. It was a great programme. It was based on the actress Denise Welch who plays a role in Waterloo Road, taking on the role of an English teacher in a secondary school. Many times you see programmes like this, the person is shielded from the reality of the job. But I was really pleased that the producers exposed poor Denise to the full extend of the teacher’s job. Not just the teaching but the meetings and the inspections and the criticisms.

I was impressed how well Denise coped with the children and the job. The way she interacted with the children was admirable, she related so well with all the children, especially the special needs group.

At the end of the experience I think she had a really good understanding of what is involved in the teaching profession. Perhaps the programme will have given people an insight into the teaching profession for better or worse.

Anyway, that’s all. Have fun!

Did my test!

What’s happening to the weather recently? I know it must be a sad day when I have nothing to actually blog about apart from the weather, but it does seem to be really weird at the moment. It seems to be going from lovely and sunny to dark black clouds and really heavy showers, I have no idea whether to wear a coat or not! Oh the decisions I have to make.,/p>

Did my final BSL exam tonight. Everyone is asking me how it went, and I really don’t know. When I did 102, I thought it had gone really well and I ended up just getting 24/40. So this time I am just going to wait and see what I get. If I fail then I’ll retake it and continue. Going to a deaf BBQ in June and then after that I am hoping to start level 2. Not sure what is involved in this. but I just want to continue so I don’t lose what I have already learnt. Plus really looking forward to my bezzy and a friend learning. That will make having practice a lot easier.

Just watched a Nerimon vid on Youtube. Really interesting how he copes with spam mail. I must admit I tend to just ignore and delete, not keen on actually entering into a conversation with these people.

Only three more days left of this half term, don’t really know where the time has gone. Got a course and badminton tomorrow, PPA on Thursday then Friday is the last day for the week. Going to get loads done over the holiday though, both for work and my blog page. Determined to start some changes for it, its been too long looking undesigned.
Anyway, enough waffle, time for bath and bed. Have fun!

Just a quickie

Just got in from line dancing. Boy it was warm tonight, I really don’t think the air con was working at all. Must have lost a couple of pounds at least!

Was pleased that I managed to complete Chill factor again, think I have finally got it implanted into my mind. Now I think I want to learn It Hurts, mainly because I like the song. I’ve missed the main teaching of it so I will have to learn it from Youtube I think!

Big night tomorrow night…no I haven’t got a hot date! It’s my final BSL exam. BSL 103. Once I have managed to pass the exam, then I will have attained the dizzy heights of BSL Level 1!!! Hooray!

Really enjoyed the course and I really hope I manage to pass. If I don’t then I will retake it and continue. After level 1 ofcourse there is level 2. Keen to get on with that as soon as possible. I really only sign on a Tuesday night and I need to keep practising or I know I’ll lose it all.
Off to bed now, just thought I would quickly get something down so I didn’t miss another day.

Have fun!

Oops I missed a day!

I know, I know, I missed a day of blogging, good job it wasn’t BEDA, I would have failed miserably.
Just had a quick look at the eurovision song contest on television. Must admit I don’t really watch it at all, but I was interested to see how we were doing since we had Andrew creating the song!. Don’t think we will be coming first to be honest, I figure maybe 11th? I’ll look in the morning. Apparently Jade got too close to the violinist and got her mic hit! No doubt tomorrow it will be all over YouTube.
Still posting to all three blogging sites, although I really want to get my own hosted wordpress site sorted. Its just getting the inspiration for the design. Then I will probably have to re-watch the training videos on CSS-Tricks, so that I can remember how to do it.
Anyway, just a short one tonight, off to bed now…have fun!

What I have going on

Sometimes it’s a good idea to stop and take stock of what is happening in your life and reassess things. Its a bit like reviewing everything and starting again, or like a spring clean, cleaning out what you are not using starting new things. Although it’s often a pain it can be very satisfying to clear things up.

I am currently working on my net presence, both what I use and what I am using things for. The trouble is I tend to like to have a stab at anything new that I see, hence it is often a good time to review what I am actually using and what I do need. Anything really without a purpose should go.

I like using Twitter, that is literally my this is what I am doing at the moment, blog. I often reply to people, but really its not a real lot of content, just the spur of the moment things that I am doing.

Tumblr I am trying to develop into a bit more than the twitter but not as much as my wordpress blog. Quick blasts of information, photos, etc. This isn’t working this well at the moment, but I am trying. The other thing I use Tumblr for is linking YouTube videos and nothing else. Perhaps I should leave this one and make my twitter my micro blog.

My WordPress blog is the place I put my daily waffle blog. Total crap at times, but something I enjoy writing This I hope to move to my own blog on my domain, I have managed to download and install the wordpress program, but this is yet to be styled, so it looks quite crap at the moment.

My dailybooth account is fun, and I like the idea of taking a picture every day, hopefully I will manage to get a year’s worth. My only worry about this is that I wear the same clothes twice!

Anyway, I will hopefully be able to sort out what I am using and what I am not in the future, and hopefully keep everything regular and have a purpose for each.

Have fun!

Not much on

Today is one of those days that I have just sat staring at the computer screen for a long, long time waiting for inspiration for a blog post today. But its not coming. So rather than right nothing and head off to bed, I decided to right some waffle and then head off to bed.

In order to make it slightly different, I thought I would sum up the day into bullet points, kind of efficient don’t you think. So here goes;

• Just watched The Apprentice, pleased that Howard is still there, thought Mona should go
• Brother beat me at badminton 3 games to 1…never mind, revenge is sweet
• Impressed that I have remembered how to do bullet points with HTML code
• Tomorrow is Thursday…get to meet my bezzy after work
• Hopefully the housing trust fixed the hole in the roof today, but can’t be bothered to go and have a look, dark now in any case
• Going to look at www.dan-gates.com and see what I think

Enough waffle for today. Have fun!

Phone call from the future

As I was driving to work this morning, I heard this advert on the radio talking about education and how you can stay in full time education and get a vocational course etc. The advert itself didn’t really interest me, but what got me thinking was the how the advert was portrayed. It is composed essentially of a person receiving a phone call from the future from themselves, detailing what they should do and giving them advice. Although the main advice is about education I do like the comment “your legs are too short for skinny jeans” and “he’s rubbish!”

Got me thinking about getting or leaving a phone call for either my past self or from the future. I was wondering what I would like to know or what I wouldn’t like to know. Both might fill me with both excitement or dread.

I suppose the first thing that anyone would want to know is whether or not they were alive, and that would certainly be on my list. I would like to know if I was happy, that would be important for me, and also one piece of information if I had made a bad decision.

I don’t think I would want to know about the lottery or who won the world cup, or even whether or not I was going to be rich. Just being alive, being happy and advice over any bad decisions I had made.

Similarly I though what would I phone to myself in the past. For the sake of this blog I would think I was in my teens somewhere.

What advice would I send back?

Firstly I would say, don’t be influenced by your friends or teachers at school about A, Levels. I always wished I had gone out into the wide world at an earlier time. Secondly, that computers were not a passing phase and to get more involved in them while you can. And finally to have confidence in myself, and to be who I am.

These might seem a bit cryptic, but I think it would be good advice for myself when I was younger. Ofcourse, I don’t regret decision I have made, and realistically if I hadn’t made those decisions, I might not have been sat here typing this today, knowing who and what I do now. But it might have been nice to know that everything would turn out alright.
Have fun!