No more FaceBook

September 27, 2011 By

Earlier today I deactivated my Facebook account.  It’s sucking out too much of my time, and I’m finding that I’m overwhelmed with knowing exactly what EVERYONE is doing at every moment of each day.

Sure, it’s been fun, and there are some things that I’m missing already – like being able to ask for links to recipes.  But I’ve had several more hours to get things done today, instead of being lost in the Facebook haze.  It’s a good thing!

Maybe in time I’ll turn it back on, do a huge friend cull and maybe use it again.  But for now, I need to concentrate on my own study, Dian’s homeschooling, being a single parent for the next six months (hubby is being deployed overseas again) and all the other roles that I have.

It’s time for me.

Do you want the water or the cup?

June 14, 2011 By

I found this gem of a story at Single Mom, Rich Mom:

A group of working adults got together to visit their University lecturer. The lecturer was happy to see them.  Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

The Lecturer just smiled and went to the kitchen to get an assortment of cups – some porcelain, some in plastic, some in glass, some plain looking and some looked rather expensive and exquisite.

The Lecturer offered his former students the cups to get drinks for themselves.

When all the students had a cup in hand with water, the Lecturer spoke:

“If you noticed, all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal that you only want the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you wanted was water, not the cup, but we unconsciously went for the better cups.”

“Just like in life, if Life is Water, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold or maintain Life, but the quality of Life doesn’t change.”

“If we only concentrate on the cup, we won’t have time to enjoy or taste the water in it.

First try at Bento

June 5, 2011 By
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ShareI have an online friend, Obsi, who makes the most amazing Bento meals and blogs about it.  After seeing her creations for several months we decided to have a try.  The pictures are pretty bad, the only camera we could find was the video camera and stills on it aren’t that great.  So apologies for [...]

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Lavender and Lemon Cake

May 30, 2011 By
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ShareI’m not dead!  Really!  I’ve just been MIA for the last six months.  I’m back in the land of the living again, so this blog should liven up a bit.  And over time I’ll post about what’s been happening up to now. I’m on a bit of a baking kick at the moment.  I’ve always [...]

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Rainbow Rice Salad

December 30, 2010 By
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ShareWe had lunch at my brother’s place on Monday and he – as usual – served us an amazing meal.  One of the dishes was a rice and bean salad that he’d adapted from another recipe.  Dian tried it just to be polite and loved it.  So we asked what was in it and made [...]

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“How to Play Bass” video – an experiment in Backlinking

November 12, 2010 By

ShareOk, this is just a quickie post. My friend Paul is doing an experiment on getting video’s ranked on Google.  You can read all about it Here And if you like playing bass guitar, then you really need to check out his video’s on how to play bass regardless of the challenge. 

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