Dishes.

Doing other people's dishes is very kind.
Doing the dishes for a busy mum is even kinder.

Oh and while I'm thinking about it so is passing on clothes that you or your kids no longer wear. 

Man, I might just be awesome!

Frank Beale has the right idea!

Inspired...

Latest Obsession

I quite often get a bit too enthralled (obsessed perhaps?) in books.  One of my favs is Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.  I love books.  I love reading them and I love owning them.  I love knowing that there is a great story just waiting for me to read over and over again.  Angela's Ashes is one of the many books that I read every year.  Today I finished another of McCourt's books ''Tis'.  And now I am obsessed with the following things:

• Owning Teacher Man.  I have only read this once.
• Finding photos of Frank's first wife Mike (Alberta) Small.  Help!!!!  Google is not being kind.
• Reading all of the McCourt brother's books.
• Diving in Bali with Malachy McCourt (http://www.divecenterbali.com/instructors/instructors.htm).  This is the son of Frank's brother.
• Visiting Ireland. 
• Reading more!  
• Perhaps teaching more.  And being a nicer teacher.  Oh and making a better effort to teach my own kids!
• And just to go a little AWOL...Freaking Celebrity Apprentice!  What a load of addictive bullshit!! Ha!  

There may be a few things there to add to my list of dreams :)

Frank McCourt as a youngster.  He makes me want to dream and act 'bigger'.

 

 

A bunch of fools.   These people make me feel pretty ok about myself :-P

3 Days of Kindness, been and gone

1) Made DH a big cooked brekkie and took a couple of tweens formal dress shopping.
2) Bought my mama a couple of pairs of shoes for xmas.  This was extra kind as I was really nice and didn't drag her around the shops I like and instead went where she likes :)
3) Let someone borrow one of my fav books (I'm just about to go drop it off).

Once again I think I need to up the kindness stakes.  But hey, at least I'm trying! :)

Hope you are all being kind.  Especially to yourselves!

Kind to ME!

I'm going to be kind to me today.  So far I've treated myself to a coffee and a haircut.  I have cider chilling in the fridge for a bevy and a chat with a bestie. 

Kindness to others today was in the form of Christmas pressies (making and buying).  I love Christmas :)

:(

This really upsets me.  This happened right in the heart of the community I live in.  It makes me think I need to step up my acts of kindness and do something bigger.  What though?

Today's act was miniscule.  I dropped in on a friend for a surprise visit.  I took her coffee.  I took my kids out for lunch too.  I wish I was better at being kind!

Latest update on this story is that it is all bollocks.  The guy was telling a wee porkie.  I'm glad that none of it happened and hope that he is happy now.  Life must have gotten to the wee dude on the day.  How lovely of the lady to stop and help though.  And how awesome to be in a town where someone not being helped is front page news :)

Kind. Day Six (I think).

Scored my sister's kids a bed.  All it cost me was a Powerade and a game of pool.  Score! 
I really wanted to keep it for myself but she has four kids and three beds.  I have two kids and two beds.  Math won.

PS.  How is this for an awesome chain on kindness:
Neighbours giveaway bed.  Another neighbour helps me push it to my place.  I give the helpful bed-pusher a thank-you pressie.  My sis gets a bed.  I wonder what happened next????




PPS. Oh and OMG I have a head full of blogging ideas!  Watch this space.  My brain is in spill mode!

PPPS.  And because I obviously have an aversion to pulling the camera out, fighting the kids for a turn, plugging it into the computer (let the excuses roll), here is a pic of Dr David Hamilton (the dude behind the kindness):

Kind. Again.

The thing about reporting back about being is kind is that it seems a little fake.  The 21 things I blog about here are things that are 'extra' to the other kind things that I would do every day.  Hopefully the habit of doing a little bit extra every day will become a habit.  I'm sounding a little bit like I think I'm pretty awesome here.  But in reality I think the majority of us are all pretty kind.  I know I'm very kind to a select bunch of people and probably in predictable ways.  The things here are that little bit extra.  So far they are pretty small and not the big fireworks type of kindness I'd like to be telling you about.  I hope I get better at being kind soon!

Today's little extras:  giving my mum a little mini-facial and making her lunch, buying something for the foodbank bin at the supermarket. 

Kind. Day Four.

Still being kind here.  And by kind I mean above and beyond the usual day to day stuff that you should do anyway. 

So today's little extras include making magic fairy memories with my own little fairy (hiding little fairy treats around, playing fairy games etc).  I also fed some hungry kids some brekkie.  Volunteered to donate some stuff and do a few jobs.  Oh and acted extremely kind to some people that have been extremely unkind to me!  The fairy part was my favourite act of kindness. 

We love Flower Fairies.

Still Kind

Day three of being/doing kind.  I don't even know if that is grammatically correct?!

Today I:

• Called my nana :)
• Took my kids to church for the first time ever.  This was an act of kindness in that I was finally accepting one of many, many, many invitations to go from a lot of wonderful, giving people.
• Listened without giving opinion!  

You know what all of those things above seem a bit selfish.  They were all things that were just as awesome for me as the were for the recipient, maybe even more so!  Kindness really does rock!

I dropped my perfect cake on the bench :(  but....saved it with tonnes of coloured icing.  It was very gorish  but a hit with the small people :)  We called it a rainbow cake. 

Today's kind deed = buying a wee boy a balloon.  Balloons rock!

And as I have promised (myself) here are some original photos.

'Rainbow' cake

Kindness is spreading.  Sand and rock cake :)

Being Kind

I am going to blog 21 days of kindness.


I've just read this.  And if being kind just to make others happy wasn't a good enough reason to go that extra mile, I now have a selfish reason too.  Being kind is good for you-and me :)

Performing acts of kindness have been proven to provide the good-doer with a helpers high!  I'm really looking forward to it.


I'm starting right now.

Act of kindness number one: I am baking a cake for a friend that flies into town tomorrow.  I missed her son's first birthday as they live a plane ride away.  I think a bit of birthday cake and a play at the beach will be fabulous fun for us all.

Waiting

This is kind of living up to my goals of the last post (no photo but meh, I don't care, lol).  I'm sitting here waiting for my big girl to Skype me.  She is on her first big girl sleep over!  I'm so excited for her.  Missing her loads too.  He little sis is missing her even more.  I am sooooo glad that they have each other and hope that they are always the best of mates (hey even besties have beef sometimes!). 

I <3 my baby girls! 

More food and no pictures

Predictable! Man am I boring or what?!  No need to answer.
So anyway, whole foods is hard!  I think because we live in a world that isn't whole foods.  I don't een know if that makes sense.
I'm going back on the Weight Watchers wagon and am staying there until goal weight (55 kilo).  I am going to make a huge effort to live off the food that mother nature has provided me with but am not going to have any 'not allowed' foods.  Having no-no's seems to make me rebel a tincy (HUGE) bit.  
Oh and this is not a weight loss blog.  It just seems to be something really on mind lately.  Maybe it is the sunny weather and the threat of having to wear less clothing!

I am making a wee goal of making the next post way more interesting.  My OWN photo and not about boring old 'woe is me, I eat all the time' me!

Food is thy saviour???

So anyway, my latest obsession is trying to balance my food and exercise so that I am fit and healthy (and not fat-I am so sick of being a chubba!).  This week I am trying to rid my body of all the crap I have slowly been sneaking into my diet.  eg. chips, bikkies and all those other nasty little chemical filled tasty tidbits that taste not that great but sucker you in to wanting more and then before you know it you actually love the taste.  Food is a drug? 
I am working on getting back to living on what the world has provided me with.  I love the theory that nature has grown and pre-packaged everything that we people creatures need to survive.  I am fucking with my food a little by heating some veg and drinking cups of green tea, and dandelion tea.  This week I am all fruit, veg and tea.  Next week I'll be adding whole grains and seeds.  I'm gonna keep to the same exercise routine.  I'll let you know how it goes :)

Clever lady over here :)

P.S I am grateful about heaps lately.  I should say it more.  I am grateful for challenges and the way they make you stronger.  I am grateful that stages come and go.  I am grateful that love seems to be able to heal and be healed.  I am grateful for family as always.  I am grateful that friends are patient. 
Life is good! The world is getting better.  Let's all be happy!!!

Food is thy ENEMY

Fuck you cake and cheese.  You too bread and chips.  And mostly fuck you beer and all your deliciousness and fun making. 

I AM GOING TO BE THIN!  I AM!!!




P.S Thanks to these guys for the bad food porn (as in bad food, and bad porn) http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/details.cfm?imageid=2400. 


Night y'all.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Apparently said by C.S Lewis.  According to the hoardes of people that like to quote stuff on the net anyway.  There is actually no evidence of this that I can find, and just saying but....If you are quoting someone shouldn't you be able to at least partially cite it?  Or am I an even bigger geek than I thought?  Not that it matters anyhow. I am totally off track.

Anyway...I have decided I got a little scared off blogging because it is so concrete.  It puts my scatter brain into a format that can prove that I am totally erratic and fickle (quite probably not a very good quality to have!).  But anyway, that just leads me to another favourite quote which totally sums up my life lately HATERS GONNA HATE (guess what?  UNCITED!):P

Peace
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