Wow best news ever!

Children actually BENEFIT from living in a messy house.

“An important reason to have a messier home is just plain physical health,” David H. Freeman, co-author of A Perfect Mess, told the magazine. “It’s counterintuitive, but the more we know about asthma, germs and the immune system, the more we understand that part of being safe is being exposed to germs and building up a tolerance to them at a young age.”

There’s more. There are cognitive benefits to playing (or even working) in a messy home. Freeman explains that when you’re in a messy space, you “get to see a lot of things in one place, which can bring about random stimulation. That’s a big part of creativity.”

He advises parents to back off the notion of having children put away one toy before playing with another. “Children and adults have more ideas when they have a lot of things in front of them. They are less restricted.”

Woohoo! Turns out I’ve actually been a great parent all along lol.

This bit of great news was found at: http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/features_momsatwork/2009/01/messy-homes-are.html

Add comment January 13th, 2009 unsteadyocean

Planets aligning

The older I get the more it seems to me that groups of events just seem to happen together, For example out of the blue you might have three separate clients contact you all in one week, or you might get two separate stray cats turn up. Whatever it is, sometimes it seems like the planets are aligned in a way that encourages certain things to happen.

In my case it is the time of the “weird males who must follow me around and talk crap” time of year. It began with the friendly young Indian man who offered to carry my shopping across the bridge with the many stairs. Very nice. Until he proceeded to follow me home saying things like “can I please be your friend” “God has bought us together” “Can I come over right now”.

Next was the old man on the bike complaining of a toothache but he turned out to be ok. I was just still jumpy from the Indian man incident.

Next was the slightly socially awkward step brother of one of Kasey’s friends who was supposed to just drop her off but instead ended up staying and talking to me for about two hours until his parents called and told him to go home. The moment he left there was a knock at the door. It was no surprise that it was yet another person, a neighbor this time who wanted to have yet another endless discussion about the Body Corporate of our units and how everything shall be my fault if I don’t turn up at the next meeting blah blah.

This, all in the space of a week. I’m hoping the planets are now moving on and it’s time for something else. Like maybe the time of “making lots of money on Ebay” phase of the moon. Or even “meeting a nice non-crazy man” phase. Any astrologers out there?

1 comment November 6th, 2008 unsteadyocean

Bendigo and other things

We’ve had an eventful couple of weeks and being a quiet Saturday morning I thought I would do some blogging. So get ready for the internet equivalent of my “I’m back from holidays” slideshow! Just kidding. Well sort of.

We went to Bendigo last week, it was my first trip away without another adult so it was something new to feel good about. It was a really nice experience and kind of a bonding time with my daughter which always helps.

We stayed at the Tea House Motor Inn which was nice, complete with comfy beds and a swimming pool outside. The beds were so comfy actually that I dosed off every time I lay down on it so I had to stay off them altogether till night time.

Here are a few highlights of the trip:

This is the Vertical Slide at the Discovery Science and Technology Centre.

My photos didn’t do The Golden Dragon Museum enough justice.

The place inspired Kasey to draw this friendly looking dragon.

The only bad part of our trip was ordering food from a local restaurant, Clogs:

As well as what you see in the picture we had another side order of fries (I already ate most the salad before I took the picture). Anyway how much would you expect to pay for this? $25? Maybe $30? IT COST ME $48!!!!!!!! I nearly fell over when the guy told me the total. That really put a dent into the trip money and next time I think we will either order from somewhere we are familiar with or go out to eat.

2 comments November 1st, 2008 unsteadyocean

Latest update

I’m removing all the sponsored posts from this site and just doing some general maintenance to clean up this blog. I hope to do a lot more posting here about what is going on and keep this as a proper personal blog that people will actually want to read (well maybe).

1 comment October 21st, 2008 unsteadyocean

No more Google page rank

Noooooo Google why do you hate me… I went from PR 4 to 0 in a few weeks lol I guess that is what I get for doing so many PPP posts. *sigh* It was good while it lasted, time to move onto making money with affiliate programs or something.

Add comment September 4th, 2008 unsteadyocean

Intruder!!

Recently I set up a wireless network at home so my new eeePC could share the internet connection from upstairs. So the other day as I opened up “Network Magic” the networking software and noticed there was a PC connected using Windows Vista which I don’t have. As I looked at the history I noticed he had been getting free internet off me for over a week. So I tried changing some settings but with no effect. Reading up on the subject though I discovered the problem (changing the default password on the reouter lol) So the moral of the story is: Always change the default password on your router unless you would like to offer your neighbours free internet

Add comment August 29th, 2008 unsteadyocean

Back to work on other sites too

I’ve finished writing a bit of content for my new site so today it’s back to work on my other sites too. I need to make more money from my main site since at the moment Adsense is all I have going there pretty much and some low converting affiliate programs. I really need to step up my game as I have some slightly more difficult times coming up where I may not have as much time to work.

Add comment August 22nd, 2008 unsteadyocean

New site launch

I have been busy lately working on a new blog: The Work From Home Blog. So if you get the chance please pay me a visit over there and help me launch the site

Add comment August 11th, 2008 unsteadyocean

Write rhymes with writerhymes.com

Ever been stuck for finding what rhymes with another word? Then head over to writerhymes.com where all you have to do is hold down the “alt” key and click on a word of your choice to find what rhymes with it. Great for Valentine’s poems, birthday cards, scrapbooks etc.

Add comment August 7th, 2008 unsteadyocean

Decorating inspiration

How cute is this? I think this would be especially great for places with a high ceiling. It would add a bit of natural colour and interest and it looks fairly easy to put together. Reminds me of some christmas decoration I made a couple of years ago made of branches hanging down like in the picture but spray painted silver and with xmas decorations on them instead of birds.
Found at Design*Sponge which is a blog I like quiet a bit.

Add comment July 29th, 2008 unsteadyocean