Way Back Whenesday: Reading Rainbow

 

 

This show was where I was first introduced to Geordi La Forge. Mind you this clip doesn’t show him in his non-Star Trek glory.
The show promoted reading (and writing) for children. I believe Geordi would read a couple books and some kids would review some others that they had read. Cute little show really.

Peachy Beachy

There once was a girl named Steph Beach
Who one might describe as a peach
The gents she did tempt
No one was exempt
But she only let Dave within reach
~ Kate Lockhart.

Kate wrote a limerick like the one above for all of the attendees of her dinner party on June 15. There was great food and company, some ANTM and good times had by all. Thanks for doing all the arranging and cooking (and writing) Kate.

Quotable Thursday #28

“It’s the friends you can call up  at four am that matter.” – Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992)

Way Back Whenesday: Carmen Sandiego

 

 

Does anyone else remember this show? I used to watch it all the time on TVO. I also played the video game on our home computer – the game came on 12 3 1/2” floppy disks. Now there’s a memory!

How to Tuesday: Switch from French to English - Part II

A little while back I showed you how to switch back to English when you computer automatically changes your keyboard to French. Now I will show you how to stop your computer from doing this completely. As an added bonus, it is super quick and easy to do.

All you have to do is right-click that same keyboard icon down by your clock and then ensure that Auto Adjust is not checked. Tada – you are done.

But don’t worry, you will still be able to manually switch between language options – this just stops your computer from changing randomly on its own.

Blog of Note (June): Bitchy Waiter

The other day I stumbled across a blog entitled The Bitchy Waiter. As you can probably figure out, the blog is the trials and tribulations of being a waiter. The author is quite funny and the stories are the type that we all see/live. Check it out and see if it is for you too.

Optical Illusions

I love optical illusions. There were tons of comments about this being fake, either way the drawings are neat.

Quotable Thursday #27

"Character cannot be developed in peace and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller

Planning

I am an avid planner. Seriously – I will plan just about anything I can, from a vacation to  a tiny trip to the mall, even my daily routines and mundane events get planned. When I was in school I always used the planners they would give out but when I finished school I figured I didn’t need a formal planner anymore. I had an electronic one in the form of an excel spreadsheet (which acted as a secondary planner while I was in university) that I figured could do for my primary planner.

Recently, I realized that I do in fact need a formal, hard copy planner. I have had so many things going on; dinners with friends and family, photography shoots, classes and work events that I have come dangerously close to double-booking myself. I have even forgotten about upcoming civic holidays a couple times. For my planner, I went the way of Chris’ moleskine and purchased one for myself. It is however the pocket-sized weekly notebook version. In other words, it is much smaller than the one I bought for her and is a slightly different style. The days of each week are on the left hand page and there is a lined page on the right for notes. As I don’t have too many events on each individual day, this works out really well for me as it also feeds my list addiction enabling me to create them near the days I will be needing them.

Another handy feature of this version is that I didn’t have to order it from the American website. I purchased it from Amazon and was therefore able to ship it to my house after using my credit card as compared to last time when I had to ship it to Dave’s parent’s condo in Florida and use their American credit card.

Brrr

This past weekend Dave’s parents brought us a ‘new’ freezer. It’s quite big, larger than we actually need, but still fits nicely in our kitchen/dining room. I plan on freezing fresh fruits (like strawberries, etc) and having them in there so that Dave and I can eat delicious food like that without the fear of wasting them. Right now, however, it just has frozen meats and treats in it (Dave’s ice cream sandwiches and my low-calorie, non-fat fruit pops).

Way Back Whenesday: Don't Put it in Your Mouth

I still sing the song from this commercial now and then. Watching it now, it seems a little creepy, but it definitely worked! Anyone else know this song by heart?

It’s Been Quiet

You may have noticed that my blogs have been pretty quiet over the last week or so. That is for a couple of reasons, but primarily because I have been working on some guest posts for Chris’ blog, Always Standing. As she is going on a very long trip this summer (and then sadly moving to Toronto) I have been putting a lot of effort into them and they have been taking the majority of my blogging time. They have all been submitted now and we are only left with the regular delays in my blogging  (eg. work) which I am really getting used to.