Yuhoo! Im back! After a ‘mini’ hiatus, I’ve decided to finally make time for my poor blog and post an entry.
I initially wanted to be ‘off’ only for a week or so until my family has gotten over the summer cold, but with work and other commitments I seemed to have over looked my blog and concentrated on the more ‘important’ stuff instead.
Lots to tell, lots to write about, but first things first. Just some of the things I’ve been doing since the last post:-
- Web Design projects. Recently, I have been inundated with clients so obviously that’s my first priority. A few projects are finished and a couple I’ve decided to start on.
- Keeping the kids occupied – it’s the summer holidays, and yes, we have not made any plans again this year. So I’ve been stuck at home with 3 kids trying to prevent them to say ‘I’m bored’ 100 times a day! For the past few weeks they have driving me crazy. I also spent the weekend at my brothers, which was cut short due to unexpected illness (again!).
We ended up driving home a day early with the kids throwing up at the back of the car for added effect! Does anyone know how to take that vomit smell out of your car? It’s been quite pungent for the last two weeks. 
- Helping my husband develop an Android FarmVille Crop Timer App - well, as you know, I’m FarmVille‘s number one bitch, so begged hubby to develop an app to time my crops. Talk about obsession… yeah, yeah, I know I’m sad. But might as well make the use of our geeky knowledge to share with the world.
The app has been released. Will follow on with more details on here very soon!
- Reviews! – I know I should be grateful to be given the opportunity and getting paid for it, but I’ve been asked to do a few reviews which I’m pondering about, I don’t really want to my blog to be mostly reviews (even though they’re the things I like). I don’t know… something to think about. How do you feel about writing reviews? Does it shadow the main content of your blog and prevents you from talking about the things that you really want to talk about?
So the’re you go folks. That’s my month in a nutshell, nothing exciting as usual. But, one thing for sure… it’s nice to be back! 
You would expect better from a 30 (something) year old woman wouldn’t you? But I’m ashamed. Ashamed to admit this woman has an online addiction. No, not poker, WoW, or anything else worth being addicted to. Yes, I put my hand up and I stand up with my head hung low.
My kids got me into it last year when they started raving about ‘this great game’ and that I really need to play it because they needed more neighbours. So wanting to ‘help’ my children and being a good mum and all, I decided that being a ‘neighbour’ wouldn’t hurt. I’ve never been in to on-line games and I’m never going to go on it anyway so, what’s the worse that can happen?
It started with ‘Mom, can you send me a tree please!’ OK, no problem, I’ll send you a tree.
‘Mom can you send me a sheep!’ OK but that say it’s locked until I’m on level ‘blah’.
‘Well, just play a little so you can get to level ‘blah’ and send me the sheep.’
You see it started that way, and then I found myself really getting in to the planting and harvesting. Oh look! I have 5 neighbours… hmm I need more so I can get that ribbon I’ve always wanted! I really want that olive tree… need to play more!…and more…. and more…. and more.
Then it became a competition. So and so friend was only a level 5 yesterday, now she’s level 6. Plant, harvest, fertilize. Must beat the biatch!
So there you go, that’s how my addiction started. After 5 months of sneaking a few minutes/hours in between house work/kids/husband, I knew I had a problem. I final straw was when I began seeing the farm fields as ‘My Farmville’ and when I started to say to the kids, ‘I’ll find your P.E kit later, my melons need harvesting first!’
It took a lot from me to give up Farmville, I was clean for 6 months. I stopped logging on, friends and gift request were deleted. Until now… apparently they have ‘new things’ and it’s a lot better than last time. I’m on level 15.
DAMN YOU FARMVILLE!!!
‘It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.’
~Barbara Kingsolver
New week, new start. Im rather excited about some good news, and I would like to share!
After attending an interview two weeks ago to do a 2 year F/T Degree in Web Design, I’m pleased to say that I my application has been successful. Yay! 
So, it looks like that I will start my life as a student again on September. But, lots to sort out before then and the hard work is still to come.
I’m not looking forward to adding a new description to my ‘job’ title. Mom, wife and full-time student, hrrmmmm. It’s possible… anything IS possible.
There is a huge difference between a career and a job, and a job is not what I want. I see so many people that complain about how their job sucks and I really don’t want to fall in to that rut. So… yes… I’m very excited and scared at the same time!
At the moment, I’m trying to sort out Sam’s nursery place and of course the financial side of everything, so much to cram in, and I only have a few weeks left! 
Anyway, no joy with the nursery yet, left a message and hopefully they’ll get back to me. But for now I’m going to have my lunch…(Spag Bol on toast, I know it’s rather ‘road-kill’ish’) but I promise it’s NOM.
…and listen to Miss Faith, I 
this at the moment… (and, I soooo want to raid her wardrobe!!)
You know what, many people ask me this question. When I first started I was a little embarrassed to find out that friends and family had been reading my blog. But I guess that’s a contradiction in my part, my blog is open for all and even though back then I had a slight reservation on who actually read my rants, there was also a slight feeling of gratification that my views and thoughts were shared amongst people I know. The same goes for my other readers who can probably relate to my posts.
So why do I blog? I saw this post on ‘It’s a Mummys Life’ and I thought what a great idea! An entry to explain to all my readers why the heck do I choose to air my views out there for all to see. I guess it’s no different than social networking, but a more detailed insight to my personal life.
Firstly, blogging keeps me sane! I have so much thoughts, ideas, stories to share that it frustrates the hell out of me. As a little girl, I’ve always loved writing a diary and when I got older, my thoughts made more sense and it’s been a great outlet to be able to ‘write’ it down and to find people who shared the same experiences and stories that I have.
I have children! I’m married! They drive me insane! This is the only way I can rant and rave without interruptions.
I enjoy reading back what I’ve posted during the years, some entries make me cringe and some make me smile. They also make me appreciate the people I have in my life and memories that I have experienced during the years.
So for the FIVE words that sums up my blogging philosophy and what motivates me to do what I do : HUMOUR, FAMILY, INSPIRATION, SARCASM and SANITY.
I’m going to leave this open to anyone who wants to do it and of course here are the important rules:
1. Thank the blogger who awarded it to you.
2. Sum up your blogging philosophy, motivation, and experience using five words.
3. Pass it on to some other blogs which you feel have real substance
I would like to pass it on to the following bloggers with substance:
(don’t forget to add this little badge next to your post!)
