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5/31/2009 The computer went nutts AGAIN...
Logged on here lastnight to do my usual 'lost in spaces' rounds around my network when suddenly computer went slooooow, i immediatly went to that dam C:drive and there it was back in the red AGAIN
 Amused i wasn't!..The strange thing is that since i did the downloads in my previouse blog on this issue, i have not downloadfed anything..not been sat here to download anything!
Thankfully there is a site out there that runs a test on your computer and lets you know (FOR FREE) the results...
So with the help of someone who knows more about computers than moi i ran that test.
Result 1-
 Set to work defragging the system or more that dam C:drive, updated drivers and went through above list
RESULT 2-  The C:drive after the defrag...
 With the list worked through and the C:drive back in the blue, i wanted to know what was causing the problem, The above programme has all that information right there....
 Question i have now if anyone out there can help me is Where is the place to go to get a good disk drive from, or more what would be the best to get for my computer?...(internet related sites, i live in the middle of nowhere to special) My memory i already maxed out so cannot upgrade that has far as i am aware... can anyone also tell me how to delete or find the button to disable the IE password saving.
Thank you :-)
My computer specs- The above programme even gives you that information too, great eh...
 Computer is running more smoothly this morning, although for how long...*shrugs shoulders and grabs a brew* 5/30/2009 UnitRD 1(MATERIALS) TEST PAPER M3Answer both questions-
1)- Collect brochures, samples and illustrations of as many woods as possible. Place them into softwood and hardwood categorys, and examine in detail ONE softwood and ONE hardwood.
Submit a list of all the caracteristics of these two examples under ALL the following severn headings:
a) Appearence- (colour and graining patterns)
b) Suitable uses
c) Workability
d) Likely defects, eg-knots..
e) Availability and sources of origin
f) Fire resistancy qualities or, if the grading is poor,methods used to improve them.
g) Appropriate textile fabrics that will go well with each one (need to use your own imagination here)- Concept boards, see photos under Interior design 1st year!
The above is to help add to information files continually. The questions should be answered fully and the information set out in clear, logical format.Technical specifications are needed. The answers should show evidence of detailed research and a bibliography/list of resources should be included.
The answer could be supplemented with illustrations or samples, together with a simple concept board explorering the possibilities of some of the chosen timbers.
2)- From your own expierence and research give your detailed views on the responsibilities of a modern interior designer in terms of the need to concider ecological issues such has the conservation of non renewable resources. ESSAY - Approx 1,000 words required.
This should be answered in full. and oversimplified answers must be avoided. Answers which merely re-write the text in the unit are unacceptable and will be returned UNMARKED!
In your answer you should FULLY discuss the enviromental responsibilities of a designer and look at the full implications of each statement.
TUTOR'S TASK - To look for a well argued answer , not a point of view with which he/she necessarily agrees!
A bibliography should be included and this answer should be as detailed and thorough as possible. Magazine illustrations or photographes should be accuratly trimmed and neatly mounted and presented.
Unit RD1 (materials, wood) TEST PAPER M3 work can be found in- Photos under the heading-Professional Interior Design Course 1st year. 5/27/2009 Some state of confusion...Back in January there was a great deal of net related family issues going on..Facebook related to be exact,.. was to do with my folks, who back then (even though divorced) was with each other, the whole internet insecurities came up for weeks. End result was of which those insecurities got brought onto live space via notes, and comments...and via blogs.
I spent weeks tumbling into 6 -8weeks, near every hour on the phone with my mum trying to explain to her the whole 'facebook mechanicals and applications'..I ended up blogging about it! During this time, i TOTALLY forgot about coursework, payments or anything coursework related, i mean family come first right..
Back in April i recieved an email from the payment administrator, basically saying that has i had fallen behind with payments i was now going against 'clause 12' in the contract i signed, and would be charged interest. With mum having the stroke back in March i called up and explained why no payments...'real world had just gotten in the way' which it had! I stopped submitting work has i felt that i would be taking libertys knowing that i was in arrears.
The administrator dealing with the payments said that has of april 11th i was £225.00 in arrears and in another week that would be £300.00, for the past near month i have been trying to catch up on arrears, starting the 1st june i have a more deffinate payment arrangement in place..(The bank automatically takes money each week from my account to pay the monthly fees). Sorted!..So i calls back the payment administrator to inform them, asking them if i should keep hold of this coursework i have here ready to be submitted for marking untill all arrears are paid off...or send it in regardless. Was told to get in touch with my tutor...so i did.
And his reply was this...
 Brighton office would be the office that told me to get in touch with my tutor! ..
 I got back in touch with the above office before going to do the shopping this morning, explained to the lady the above email, and asked her what should i do, Simple question eh?...
Seems that has i paid a months course fees in February, they used that months fee to pay January's fees, and has i had a deffinate means of guaranteeing future payments then i should not of stopped submitting coursework, unless THEY told me too.!..and here's me thinking i would of been taking the peeve grand style!!!!
So now i am left with 2 units of work that need submitting for marking...BEFORE janary!
and
About 6 months behind on all units...
So i am sat wondering how i can possibly catch up with 6 months of work that i should never of stopped submitting!
 AND JUST TO TOP THAT OFF I LOG INTO MY MESSENGER TO THOSE DAM ADD TO MESSENGER FROM LIVE SPACE REQUESTS AGAIN,
 ...They stopped...why they starting again, my email is still blocked to all isn't it? It isn't right to log into messenger in the middle of the day to that such invite...Haa i give in!!!  Fun n Games with many downloads...Following on from below blog,...
Realizing that i would NEVER sleep with my C:drive in the red, i spend hours sat right here in front of this computer till i had it all sorted!
DOWNLOADS-
1)- Ashampoo
2)- FinitySoft memory manager
3)- HDD health
4)- Malwarebytes
5)- Registry Mechanic
6)- Auslogics (Defrag) <--- Entertaining to watch i found! :-)
In the end i just left my computer on letting the defrag do what it needed to do and went to bed
Sooo happy when i woke up, plugged myself straight back into this computer before grabbing my brew, seeing to the girls or anything!
Results of downloading and running the above software did the trick..
 .... Could of shouted 'YEEESSsss' from the rooftops so happy to see that line at blue!..i went to restart my computer so all above software i had ran could fit itself amongst my system and get to work HOPEFULLY keeping that C:drive has it is above, I restarted with 7 updates to install, so whilst they was installing, i went to sort out the 'real world' that was screaming at me...and check my mail (blog coming up on that later).Once updates had installed i checked to make sure that the score base was has was lastnight, that the indexing hadn't been turned off. Anti-virus all working and firewall still running.
I noticed that the new update had installed Service Pack 2...
 ...Now i have no idea if the software installed throughout the night has improved my computer to 'speed of light' touch what you want and it is there within seconds or the Service pack 2 which has made my system way way faster...Either way am happy to see that my computer has this new feel to it am so hoping it stays this way.Rightio off to call my tutor!!
Fun n Games under the Control Panel...Some network friends did blogs on backing up your files, i
read the first blog thinking 'phew, least the 'crash' was nothing sinister', she
had backed up, and so was able to just roll back so to speak to previouse back
up.
Other persons blog was where to actually find the back up in
control panel!..i had seen it maybe twice, but like most things on this
computer, my attitude is one of ' if it isn't design related, it's of no real
interest to me'
This persons blog had me at my control panel, where a page of
...settings for this and that was, (i usually leave the whole settings stuff to
my bro when he comes over)..but has the person had given directions, i just had
to follow them, so i did..starting from the top!
I remembered my bro saying something about drivers comes
under 'computer' within the start menu, so i clicked it, this is what popped up
in front of me..
 ... Now
to say that my computer went 'nuts' a few weeks ago, to the point i had to do a
complete reboot from disk, How on this crazy planet does a drive become so
full??...only explanation i can come up with is, Vista is one big memory eating
programme in itself, add 15+different design programmes and plug-ins for those
programmes, and it leaves not much space left on your C:drive.Not sure what i clicked to get me here, but..somehow i got to
a page with a score base on it, yellow/red exclamation mark was there and it
said i needed to refresh...naff that one i just clicked the update score button
and left it..
I came back to this...
 Now i don't know about you but i usually stay well clear of
anything that says the words ADVANCED in front of it or PERFORMANCE(design
related being an exception)...well i clicked on the button right there that
says performance (you see it? at the bottom), on the next screen right at the
bottom is the words ADVANCED TOOLS, click on this brings you to another page
with some stuff and right at the bottom of here, is a button that says GENERATE
A SYSTEM HEALTH REPORT...i clicked on it, WOW i thought, this may solve why my
comp since the (gaurantee ran out ) keeps crashing every few months, this is
what i got back...
 ... end result is it says-C: has less than
15% free or less than 5120MB disk space. So i have set to work things like disk
cleaner, defrag, and junk cleaner, I do not understand the way the reliability
and performance monitor works, to me it reads like sopmething from NASA, so best
leave that well alone.Hopfully when i finished cleaning out my c:drive i can go back
to what i set out to do and that is back up my files... Might has well stick the
kettle on, whilst all this is sorting out!
5/26/2009 Just another day out with solitaire...This morning when i looked out the window, the sun was shining which is always a nice sight to see, trees blowing from side to side wasn't such a nice sight. Cannot moan though at least we had the sun. I did the usual 'mum' thing with the girls,..made them brekkie, washed up and plugged myself in here whilst they got showered.
Rota for today went- ''Let's go into the village, have ice-cream and take Solitaire with us'' <---That last bit was at one point debatable, but i gave in!
So with all ready and sucide on the agenda off we went....
Solitaire wasn't too bad walking up the road towards our local shop, she seemed happy enough to just sniff every inch of every wall..fence..and tree we passed. The cars that passed her didn't bother her, and she didn't even look up at the dog across the road barking, i started to wonder if maybe the suicide act of the other day had vanished has quick as it appeared.
The girls let me sort out what i needed to sort in the shop, and off we went down the hill towards town.
All continued to go on a pretty good note, solitaire came 'here' when i said, 'waited' when little one lagged behind and even stopped and layed down whilst we admired the flowers alongside the hedges. The cars didn't bother her, she seemed quite happy to chew on the daisys and dandelions whilst we chatted about the flowers..
We carried on...
By this time there was a big black cloud i noticed over the hillside, so i kind of changed the girls rota into, 'shall we just go to the field, you can play on the park, and if the man in his hut is open we will have ice-cream there' the girls was happy to go the park, has i am running this hrough with the girls, paying no attention to the dog, up she jumps at te passing bus..luckly i had both hoops of the choker around my finger, so the lead was shorter.
I have to sort this 'reflex suicide attempt' out, before it becomes some local news headline...!
We managed to get to the field, stopping off at toilets and then onto the park across,..Another one of Solitaires issues.. She HATES the girls running away from her, and has i found out today WILL pull me no matter what to get to them!
Girls all safe in the park, i got myself a brew, and sat down on the grass with Solitaire
 I never got to drink that brew, the crazy mutt decided that if she couldn't go and literally sit ontop of the park to be with the girls then she was, at every open chance she could (having hot drink in my hand being one of those chances) going to try and drag me across the field.
I had at this point 2 choices..
1)- Cut the girls park time down immediatly, get the ice-creams and head off back home
or
2)- Teach the crazy mutt that she 'sits' and she 'waits'...
First option would of been so much easyier, and less painful on the shoulder..but i percievered, kept saying 'no' and pulling her back, FINALLY maybe after 30-40 times of me doing it, over and over, she got the idea, either that or she was has worn out with trying has i was with repeating myself... and she laid down.
Another of Solitaires issues is, has well as her HATEING the girls running away from her, she also HATES them running towards her, to the point where she jumps up at them, grabs their shoe ...and pulls untill whichever one of the grls it is falls over,...and then she just stands and lets out a growl untill i shout 'ENOUGH' at her !
 (This started way back when she was around 11 weeks old, the girls bedroom is downstairs, when one of them was getting out of bed, no matter what time it was in the night Solitaire would stand at the top of the stairs bark and growl to the point where her fur on her back would go up, it isn't has bad today, but does stil happen, it stopped being so bad when i started to raise my voice with the 'ENOUGH')
Now it has gone to being outside!
With Soltaire calmed down with an ice-cream and the girls ice-creams bought and eaten, that big black cloud that was oer the hillside and gone in another direction, i remembered that i was running low on aert materias so whilst i was around the village i may has well go the art shop and stock up on paper, card and all things arty before home...
Little one wanted to take one last photo before we did...Of me looking totally worn out!
 5/25/2009 WL Permissions-Broke down into 'real' meaning...These permissions drive some more crazier than others, I did alittle experiment yesterday, I wanted to know what reaction i would recieve if i started playing around with my permissions here on live space. It involved taking 4 friends from my messenger, and closing my 'real world life' here on spaces off to them..1)- I stopped them viewing my photos!.2)- closed my blog!3) Closed my network off to 'just me' and made it known on my notes!4) Stopped my updates!
When they got back from their pub/club crawls, i got a mixture of responses pop up via messenger when i logged in. Person 1- He couldn't view my photos, of which he sat wondering why, I unblocked, my dad's logos which showed on his updates but apparently when he clicked to view there was just a message , no photos!...not sure why has i had unblocked him. Person 2- Knew what i had done!..Got the opposite reaction from her, one of 'why could i read your day this morning but now cannot' ...The conversation went onto be one that was leading to 'oh, so you have fallen out with me to the point where you do not want me to read what you have been doing'... I had to explain before i lost a friend, Person 3- Now here is where the trust falls flat!..You know a person, you trust that person has though they are part of your family, they know ALL about you and your family, but close your network off to that person, and you get a reaction you really do not expect...The trust barrier is snapped in half!, to the point where the person believes that i have joined the other half of the net with their pornographic images, ..inviting men 'behind that persons back' when i am usually so open with who i invite to him, ''why would i do that?'' was the question..yes, why,.. answer is i wouldn't!! ..and i unblocked my network. Person 4- I didn't get a reaction from this person till the hour before i wrote this blog.. I stopped any updates, then this morning, opened them back up to this person. Doing this must not be an immediate thing to happen has i have been logged into messenger for hours, chatting away to this person, with nothing said in way of updates, untill all of a sudden a message springs back of 'oh, you are over on spaces too'...actually no i wasn't. The person had recieved my updates from lastnight, and what i posted at around 0830 had popped up on his 'what's new' tab on his messenger...Never stayed around to see if he had sussed what i had done, no doubt he will off has the effects of lastnights drink intake wears off. I realized that with the WL permission settings comes, miss-trust, communication break down, and a new 'fear' ..if that is the right word of ' why is she closing me off'..and a question left of why would anyone want to 'pick n mix' their permissions from one person to another? EXAMPLE- I add a friend i met online to my network, that person recieves my updates, knows who i added 2 mins ago, knows where i left my last comment and on who's blog/notes, can view all my photos, read my blogs ...Then, i stop some if not all of what i allowed that person to once quite openly view,... put yourself in their place. Wouldn't it make you sit the otherside of your computer ..wondering? maybe asking the question of why? ..giving you the sense of alittle insecurity, asking the question of why could i view all but now i cannot? Another way of seeing the permissions is that they can be used in so many ways, and to so manys advantages, you can be has open has you like with has many people has you want or run on 'stealth mode' to say 10 people in your network. How? Simple Profile detailsChoose whether to make your last name public. Permissions <---TBH, who would give their last name publicly available anyway?
Choose who can see your e-mail address, mobile number, and more. Permissions <---- (This is the one that had me baffled a week ago and appreciate all who helped me sort this out,), Has why would your email adress be 'openly' viewable to anyone over the net?, It never used to have a 'permission' that we had to set ourselves before!..
Unless of course, like half the net you didn't care who has added you to messenger, you are only here for some 'net fun' anyway...and can close and reopen your account with new email address when you get fed up with current messenger contact list or spaces network!
Choose who can see your profile picture. This is different than your Messenger picture. Permissions <--- This is useful to know when your contacts over on messenger are giving you the 'not been in all day' line, but then by magic their messenger photo has changed 7 times throughout because their 'messenger photo' updates on spaces says so !
Choose who can see your age, occupation, interests, and more. Permissions <---Anybody can be anybody they want over the internet anyway, why have a permission?, the people who know you in the 'real world' already know this information about you eh. It comes down to 'common sense' the same has all you tell to people over a net connection .
Choose who can see the people in your network. (Your network includes your Messenger contacts, but no one can see them or other people in your network that you haven't explicitly added to your profile.) Permissions <---This one is just one of the ones i will put under 'fun' one,..i can put this permission to 'just me' add anyone i want, then unblock and make available to all once again.. Great for settng off a row with the b/friend.hubby..g/friend that you suspect MAY be messing around with others over a net connection,
You tell them you been VERY busy doing housework ect, they believe that, you sit there chukkling has you unblock your network to him, imagine the blood boiling has they log into spaces to suddenly find that infact for the past 5 days you have been adding anyone and everyone to your network. Can really play on those insecurities in a person with this one! ..Wonder how it would settle in any divorce court??!..'She blocked me from seeing her network, when she decided to unblock me i found she had been adding men and 'obviouse jumped to conclusion' answer, of playing around online' lol,... proofing that one could actually be difficult!
Anyways-
Your stuffChoose who can see the photos in each of your albums. Permissions <---This is one permission i was very happy to see, (could hug the person who invented this one) I have children, i post photos of my children onto my livespace, before the permissions those photos was viewable to anyone, including the 'ones who should be locked up'.. today they are viewable to family to download to their computer the photos they want, and people on my network to view if they want to. Invitations and Communication preferencesChoose who can post and view notes on your profile. Permissions <---Another one that can be added to that 'fun' list,.. You can post openly on my notes but no one on my network contacts or my messenger contacts can see it!...Question here again has to be, why? why would anybody want to be so secretive about a person dropping by with a note on their profile?...Unless of course, it could let your partner/other half into the know of where you REALLY was last weekend and what you was REALLY doing, with whom' via the person you was with literally dropping by your notes.. The person dropping by not realizing that only you can view it, untill he/she stays on your page and signs out..the note then disappearing untill you log back in!
Choose who can see your space (including your blog). Permissions <--- This one is another one you can be has secretive has you like with whoever you like..again question left is why? Why, if you write a blog would you then pick and choose who you want to view it?, ..The twist in this one is-
EXAMPLE- I have 2 friends on my network, one can openly view my blog, the other cannot, i write a blog and post it,... it shows up on the friend who can view my blogs updates and so that friend drops by with comments, the friend who cannot view my blog gets an update that this friend (who is also on their network) has posted on my blog...only when that friend,... you know, the one who cannot view my blog, goes to click on the link on my friends comment, that person gets 'blank'.. END RESULT!- Net row via Guestbook/mail box/email/chinese whispers though network errupts, WHY CAN ONE FRIEND BUT NOT ANOTHER !!! (the whole school playground squabbles reborn via livespace) ..
AND FOR WHAT?...For the permissions given to or taken away via one person to another over live space!, I would prefar to be open with all, or has open has a person can be without telling the net everything in detail. For people out there to drop by when they want, and see what i have been doing with my day over in the 'real world', without them having to become a 'part of my network' to be able to do this. So people out there can 'see' the 'real' me without me playing on insecurities that this net can and does bring to a person via 'picking n mixing' with permissions.
Crazy crazy world is this net world!
5/24/2009 Saturday..Did we see the sun or what...After spending Friday night awoke, i strangely had managed to get more done around the house then i do during the day.. Mopped floors, cleaned bathroom, kitchen.. you know the usual stuff us women have to do. And got around all live space network, wishing them a happy weekend' in a night.
These Beechams capsules are getting clear of that head cold nicely and i am 'starting' to feel more like myself again!...Although i think the girls would prefer the 'too ill to be bothered' mum back...
Around 0530ish i stood looking out of my lounge window, listening to the birds wake the morning and the sun slowly coming out from behind the field, low mist was sinking to the ground has it appeared..(will have to get a photo of it,) the girls put an abrupt stop to the beauty of it all via stamping upstairs shouting 'morning Solitaire, ..and the dog barking has they did, no morning mummy, just a 'what we having for brekkie, and are we going out today' hmm!
With all that out of the way, i 'bribed' yes i know bribery done by mums is noway allowed, but ...it WAS needed,
Those 3 boxes of plants needed to be planted, so i 'bribed' the girls into watching cartoons whilst i went and did some planting and afterwards we would go out..
I had decided yesterday that planting the flowers in the front garden is pointless has the crazy dog just eats them. My front garden, not much to say about it really, i lost interest in it, simple has that, the backgarden is where the privacy is, and where i spend any time in. I used to look after the front, but when the cats came from near and far just to crap everywhere, then you lose interest, all i did was run the mower over it when needed.
Today was maybe a new look to the front garden.
It had a proper mowing... (the neighbours that where outside must of thought something was wrong with me).. i raked the grass from the borders that where hidden...and from around the palm tree, i re-did the border.
Solitaire looked none too pleased about the whole expierence,
The girls where soon on hand with the water, has i planted ..they watered..
A friend and her new hubby was doing the rounds, catching up with friends on the street that they left behind for the bigger house in the village they needed, was nice to see them again, only get to see them vaguly nowadays, in passing during the school runs, what was even better was the lovely invitation to pop over their new place, for catch up, and meal/snacks/drinks this evening..after the gardening!
Of which the otherside of the front garden didn't take that long to do...
All plants planted i stood back to admire our work, middle one had taken to the sweeping brush and sweeped out the mowed grass from the paths and neighbours slabbed area.
I decided that something wasn't right...all this work given a few weeks would become weeding inbetween those new flowers has well as mowing the grass,...(Me, make more work for myself then is needed, not bloody likely) !!!
So out comes the bag and half of wood chippings left over from the back garden and down it goes around the new flowers,
 Sorted!With the front garden now sorted, we all got showered, changed and made our way into the village to spend the evening with friends for 1700, Turned out to be a lovely evening, loads turned up, the sun stayed out till well after 2100, Was nice to catch up with what they have been doing since they got married back in April, and meet up with other friends too, infact was nice to get away from home and relax with good company. The night ended around 2330 and we was driven back to our house, where the look of the days hard work was noted by the friend and another invite to go out with friends for wednesday afternoon.
Was planning on turning in for the day has soon as i had the girls off to bed 2 of which was asleep minute their heads touched their pillows, little one, had other plans!... She is now ill, not sure if eating Greek pate by the spoonful is what has done her or too much sun, either way i cannot go to bed untill she is more settled...
Have a lovely sunday ya'll
5/23/2009 Probably be sat here... all night....!Went out to enjoy the sun this afternoon, more a case of 'get out in it whilst it is here' ..took the ball with me for solitaire, my brew and course the smokes, and went through the whole' leave' or is that 'LEAVE' again...and again. Will get there one day, soon i am hoping!
Going to get the girls from school soon came around, thought has the sun was out and the girls had tidyied up their room that a nice walk with solitaire to start off the school half term was a good idea, i would run it passed the girls when they eventually emerged from the school doors.. i say eventually has the school day is supposed to end at 1515..only something must be wrong with the clocks inside the school, like 10-15 minutes wrong!
Walk up to school went well today, not sure if leaving solitaire at home this morning made her think why, ?! (if dogs do think that way) but she was good, never took a slight interest in any car, sat at the kerbs has i went to say 'sit' ..waited..and looked up for me to say 'come on', ..so today she has fur left on her paws!...
The girls came out of school 5 minutes after the school day ends, the end of the week and the start of the school holidays must of had some effect on the clocks, cannot moan though..ran the 'walk' past the girls, who was more than up for it, so long has i bought sweets, and juice..and 'if i had enough money' fish & chips!
Decided to stop off at the local shop has opposed to walking into town and grabbing sweets, local shop has somewhere to chain solitaire too, for some reason beyond me there is not many places in town apart from the lamppost. *note to council...Find funding for more places around the town for people to chain their dogs safely too*
Has i turned around to walk into local shop, i side glanced to the floor, was that flowers, flowers that where good enough to actually buy...8 times out of 10 flowers in local shop are half dead before you buy them, must of been my lucky day, ...walk went into a cloud of dust has i armed the girls up with tray after tray of still some life in them flowers.
Didn't realize that i had bought enough to set my own tiny garden center up....3 boxes full of them, oops!
Now had given myself a problem!....How to get a bag of sweets and juice, plus 3 boxes of flowers, a3 girls and a dog back home in one piece
 Luckily 2 of the girls didn't mind helping with a box each, little one the sweets and juice, and me carrying the bg box and solitaire. problem solved
 Girls where soon to remind me about the walk..of which i thought up a 'we can do it tomorrow' excuse and they happily said 'okay' too.
Arrives home, we all puts all boxes on the floor (never realized flowers in a box could make your arms ache so much) anyhow i shoves the kettle on, decided that has the girls had been real helpful in helping me (it would of taken only one of them to say no, for the whole of the above to go completely wrong and end in tears, the whole thing then ending in more of a struggle than it already was)..that i would let them have a little picnic in the back garden.
Whilst kettle was boiling i stood admiring the new patio and wondering where best to plant the flowers, grass is growing nicely in the new grassed area, the otherside, hmmm, needs some dam good weed killer down on it, be no grass at all but hey oh, i moved the girls climbing frame onto the old patio instead of it being on the 'grass' and filled in the 3 trenches that solitaire dug a month or so ago.
Then resorted into mowing the weeds to be able to get a clearer image of where i wanted to put the flowers in the borders, whilst trying not to mow the dogs paws in the process (she thinks a mower that is on is too play with).
Job done!...A garden that looked like a garden again ...Dam shocking! Washed hands before doing the girls eagerly awaited for picnic I then did the worse thing possible....i sat down!!!!
and with sitting down..in the sun ...comes the feeling of 'done enough am tired now'
Girls eat their little picnic, i come indoors and next thing i know it's 2115ish, the girls have cleared up the plates from the picnic, put rubbish in the bins, got Solitaire in, little one is asleep with me, middle one asleep on sofa..and older one is playing with my Landscaping software on the computer.....
Flowers are STILL in the boxes!!... the walk planned for tomorrow is looking very doubtful. and due to the amount of sleep earlier i will probably not see my bed tonight....!
 5/21/2009 Solitaire problem...Problem..
Issue..
Suicide on the horizon ...??
This has been going on..and off for around past week maybe a week and a half, i perceived with it, it doesn't happen EVERY time i take her on a walk, she is fine when with just me... sometimes totally fine when with the girls.
PROBLEM- CARS..VANS...MOTORBIKES
When a puppy, on that 1st time into town with Solitaire, she jumped up at a passing car..nothing else just jumped up at it..it didn't happen again, so thought it was just a puppy one off , she didn't know what a car looked like thing,
I take Solitaire with me on the school runs, twice a day it's a fair walk up there, and a hill (she knows the route so well now, i can txt and just keep walking )
For some reason the jumping up at cars..vans..motorbikes has turned into ANYTHING WITH WHEELS AND SPEED!
I am at a point where, walking home with the girls talking to them about their day at school, and the dog just takes off,...no warning of this, no bark, growl, nothing for me to watch out for!.. Imagine Mary Poppins, only minus the umbrella, and that be the image..flying..under something with speed. Luckily i have a chocker on her, think that was the only thing that stopped her, that and little one was right next to me so distracted her from her moving target..
Don't feel like taking Solitaire to the school to pick the girls up tomorrow, think it's an accident waiting to happen to me one/all the girls,..or someone elses child, unless i can find some solution on how to stop this...
IDEAS GIVEN-
clicker = click then give treat each time Solitaire doesn't jump up at fast moving target, ...RESULT = fat dog!
Harness = Well if Solitaire pulled all the time i would of bought one already, The ONLY time she pulls are when the girls are in front of her,
Still have to tell the girls in the morning that Solitaire will not be there when they come out of school, they won't be pleased. ( Had to blog this when in safe knowledge they tucked up in their beds has 2 out of the 3 can read and would never of got in bed otherwise)...
but what else can i do?
Really do not understand why Solitaire does this, she sits, gives paw, she knows what i want before i say it or the girls say it on those two, 'find ' is there too.. the 'leave' and 'down' are coming along. Why so obedient with commands but yet so 'on one' with moving targets, ??
 5/20/2009 Dartmouth Marine Band....Very sad day it is today, we living here have known this day was soon to come, where (we) those from neighbouring villages would have to bid our farewells...All outside our frontdoors are talking about these guys right down to the postman.
Some in the village, those of us who live right on BRNC's doorstep, will miss the lovely music that filled the air from the band each time they did a practice or was on the parade square. They brought many years of enjoyment to listen to, both in practices and in the towns bandstand, right through to the many parades through the town....bringing many a smile to a persons face in the pub, and in the street.
The marine band doing one last practice -
  Those of us that know the guys personally,-
' All wish you all the best for the future, thanks for giving us so many years of music, which will be missed by young and old alike. More so by us, who are right on the doorstep!. I can see clearly now....:-DFollowing on from my blog titled 'ok, what is going on here'...part of that blog was sorted, and closed, and STILL IS,
However, the bottom sentence of 'how did YOU guys get to be added onto my network' wasn't...it was STILL a mystery!, Many a private message/email throughout the day didn't come to much.
See, up untill the windows live updates linking all to all, the ONLY people on my network and could view my space was the ones i had personally added, either via my messenger, (and given them the permission to view my space) ...or knew my username to google when it suited them...mostly those who are too addicted to facebook to come over to spaces, but was on my messenger contact list.
I CAN DEFFO SEE MORE CLEARLY NOW... THANKFULLY!!!
You are all quite welcome to throw the 'yoooouu numpty' line at me, it be cool, has that is EXACTLLY how i is feeling,...this has niggled me for the past near 2 days and all of my own doing..!
It ALL started with the below gentleman!!!, Don't need to explain it is right here for you to see for yourselves...i clicked on the clubhouse picture in his spaces, way back in august 2008, when i fell upon his profile via a google search, thought 'haaa bugger it, it's something to join, i thought that this clubhouse thing looked interesting and may be of some use'.... not actualy realizing what i was joining, i got nothing back in the form of correspondance and has such just forgot about it totally, untill something someone posted on my blog earlier made me thing right back to back then,.... and the below... I am so grateful to the below gentleman in keeping his space open to all the net to view,... has without him doing that i would not have ever known ANY of you lovely friendly people i have on my network today!!!
I CAN NOW SLEEP SOUNDLY AND AWAKE WITH NO NIGGLING FEELINGS WHAT SO EVER
ENOUGH IS DEFFO ENOUGH.....!!!
I DID THE very STUPID THING AND LOGGED INTO LIVE MESSENGER...NO 'ADD TO MESSENGER' POP UPS, (STRANGE, BUT TRUE)!...SO I COULD GET ON AND CHAT WITH MY DAD
UNTILL THIS!!!...
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 .... I do not remember adding this person to my messenger...She is in my network...STUPID ME, why would a person do this??.... i only added one comment to one of her blogs and wished her a good day. WTF IS UP WITH THE WOMEN???!!!
ANYONE KNOW HOW I CAN STOP THIS...ALSO STOP PEOPLE POSTING ON MY NOTES SENDING ME A REMINDER VIA HOTMAIL
I PRACTICALLY LIVE ON HERE WHY THE HELL I NEED A REMINDER????!!!!!....
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DAYS WHEN I CHOOSE WHO I WANTED TO ADD TO MY MESSENGER GONE???...IS THERE A WAY TO HIDE MY EMAIL ADDRESS HERE ON SPACES AWAY FROM EVERYONE, WITHOUT HAVING TO MAKE MY PROFILE SO NON INVOID EVEN A STEAMROLLER COULDN'T GET THROUGH IT??
AM SICK OF JUST ANYONE BEING ABLE TO ADD TO THEIR CONTACTS AT THEIR OWN PLEASURE!!!
5/19/2009 OK! WHAT IS GOING ON..ANYONE please??Will not point the mouse at anyone profile, the person
reading this will know themselves that i am talking about them, i have just sat
for about 45 minutes pondering over a private message i received!
Just to clear a few things up first!
When i first got this computer with all this wide knowledge freely
available back in 2003/2004, msn was around...just i think!.
I didn't much bother with 'seeing' what was out there in so much has
'internet dating' why? i was pregnant, just found myself (not intentionally ) a
single mum of a 2 year old and a nearly 3 year old ..one of the first forums i
joined was 'forumjunkies' a bunch of lovely people who soon became has good
friends has my school mates/college mates/work mates, and gave me the first step
into the cyberspace world...sadly they shipped out, shel had her uni, and the
chat box on the forum stopped being fun friendly banter and more spam, so i
stopped logging in ...'forumjunkies' moved.
Not knowing what to do, i decided to venture further
into this world wide web, see what was out there, i still had these lovely
people on my messenger, so it was cool :-)
Feb 2004, i had little one 3 half months
before anyone expected her, came home around may/june time and I found my way to
facebook, where slowly but surely the more that had the net i found those past
school mates...
Facebook became an addiction! a BIG BIG one...way BIGGER than livespace is
today, this place is addictive but i WILL NOT allow it to get to the BIG
addiction phase facebook got me into.!!
Anyways!...from there it was me, myself and the 3
girls, (has is today)...i soon was knocked into the year 2006, ...yes having
babies to see to 24/7, not only takes your sanity away over the years, even
spent on the net in-between feed times, nappy changing, and what little sleep
you may get, those years go fast.
So onto 2006, where i decided 'hey you know i
may be a mum but what happened to me??... the girl who used to party, the girl
who used to 'go see friends' (a lot i sadly left behind) the girl who had a dam
life!!!
I hit the dating sites.....Few months later due to personal family stuff i
had no choice but to leave the net for near 18months, hitting the court rooms
across the corners of Devon with my family...Some of those past friends i am
JUST getting back in touch with since back then, (hence why i 'panick a little'
if i cannot log onto messenger to chat with them and so take out 500 free texts
bundle not realizing we have this thing called web IM')
DOHHH i am!!Still trying to get on the quest of 'getting my life
back' the court action had died down to more than 6 month return for 'court
appearance' i had noted a few things during that year in and out of
a courtroom,...
1 being- You CAN be a single mum and get to be where
you want to be in life!!!
So 2007, court appearances being thrown every 6
months for hearings instead of the usual few weeks to appear in court, i went
back onto the net, but this time looking at the net differently!
With ambition!!
I took out that Interior Design Course, ok, cost me and the girls...but i
did it, on the mission to prove 'single mums CAN do it'..
I continued with the dating sites, added a few from there to my what was
MSN messenger... Never clicked with me why some would chat one day and blank me
the next, i put it down to i have the girls and it is way way too much for one
guy to commit himself to!!...i looked at the dating has 'leave the guys alone
and concentrate on that career i so want and bringing the girls up the best
possible way i can'...so i set up a new profile, back on facebook!!
Added a few people..and this is where my look on the
net changed!
One of the people i added suddenly talked to me has
though i was right in front of him...he chatted for hours to me has though he
had known me all his life, knew EXACTLLY what i was going through and the more i
got that impression the more of 'the real world' i told him about.. (that guy is
today a real world friend has of 2008, the day i met him was the day i found
out he DID know EXACTLLY what i was going through, he himself was there, and i
have the up-most respect for that man...he drove from london-Devon, slept on my
sofa for few hours, played with the girls whilst chatting to me, then drove all
the way back to london again )...however one question he asked was, what about
you?!..There is nothing out there about you has a person....This is where i
found spaces and spaces blogs on and off in 2007 became part of my life when i
wanted to rant or just say how my day had been leaving the 'real world' has far
out of it has possible!
Life going into 2008 was pretty much the same
has above...Carryed on with Facebook, carryed on with blogging here and there on
Spaces, carried on with the dating sites, Which became my downfall, when i met
and got into a 'relationship' with a RAF guy, despite that downfall, and bro no
3 and his g/f coming to have the girls literally for near a week so i could do
nothing but coursework... i passed the Diploma in Interior Design!...since then it has been me, myself and the 3 girls + one mad mutt!
Am going to type no more about ' the real world',
because frankly it is LATE this blog is already a dam essay and if you want to
know what has been going on in my life since july 2008, (or 2007) the links are
there for ANYONE to click on if they so wish to read!!!
Getting back to my reason for this
blog!!!
I commented many times on a persons blog throughout the day, and
yesterday....too me this person is just that, a person blogging about something
that today is a part of all our lives that use spaces... i was just posting on
that persons blog my opinion, my personal experiences over the years, right down
to asking that person for help!
NOTHING MORE !!!
I went to my inbox here on spaces to a message from a person i had replied
to within that persons blog tonight, the message didn't say alot, the person was
clearer on what i meant once i explained which was good. What got me thinking
and what made me write this blog is this....
' your problem is that you are POPULAR '
 I have sat pondering on what in this crazy world could
this person be meaning by that??...me popular huh? actually i am your normal
everyday girl, blogs about 'her real world' some crazy some not, am just a girl
that what you see is deffinatly what you get, if i am wrong i will appologize
to anyone, but if right has near 100% right has i can be i WILL stand by what i
type and send !...
The above then got me thinking!...POPULAR...how can i
be, and what gives this person that assumption?? (i cannot mail that person to
ask personally due to the communication setting not allowing me
to!!!
INFACT-
Where did ALL you WL people i have over the months (since the updates) grown
to love (is that the right word) so dearly, to the point where when i say 'take
care' i mean it...when i wish you a lovely weekend, i mean it... you guys have
become part of my life, seaparate from my messenger where my life away from the
'real world' is usually, untill i knew you guys only messenger contacts i
allowed could view my space...Now i have a space of friends too :-)
Question is- How did you get to be here
in the first place?... i know you added me to your network but you guys just
seemed to appear from nowhere...am i missing the boat here or
something...???
 
5/15/2009 Stroke Awerness Event....Err Yesterday!Following from below blog on the aspect of 'my mum'..was going to add this too the mum updates on mums stroke blog but haaa bugger it, a new (hopfully) fresh look on this stroke for my mum so a new blog on mums stroke progress needed i thought!
Yesterday, being my not usual day to go visit mum (fridays/sat and mondays if mum needs me are) i went a day earlier to take..or rather MAKE SURE mum went to this Stroke Awerness Event. Had permission from the schools headteacher to take the girls along,
My thinking being that- I was 31 when mum had her stroke, totally clueless to the fact that a stroke is NOT just something that happens with old age, people that smoke, drink or live a unattractive livestyle...
Totally unaware of the signs or what to do..
I wanted the girls to be in the know NOW not when/if it's too late!
I was expecting the place to be just a women who would be there to answer any questions, it wasn't, it was set out into different stalls/tables for each part of the help a Stroke victim either gets automatically, or can apply for.
First stall we went to had a lovely lady sat there, she helped with getting stroke victims back out there, into the communitie via socialising!...If left down to mum she would of just picked up a few leaflets from each table and kept walking. I made sure i struke up the conversation for mum to continue..!
Turns out that this lady was already aware of mum, she was meant to come to the hospital and set up things into some kind of motion before mum went from the hospital to rehibilitation, but mum had 'just disappeared' from her file!... Strangely enough that happened round the time she was transfared from one hospital to the one closer to mums home, missing out the rehibilitaion programme altogether.
END RESULT FROM TABLE 1- Mum was given a card with number on to call,...i told the women 'mum will not call you, shes stubborn, and if left to mum will still be sat in front of her tv this time next week and you will be awaitin her call STILL'...i was given a card, and change of plan was made on the spot...
The lady is going to call mum next week, and a 'representative' will go to mums flat once a week, twice a week and take mum to these socialising groups, for the 1st 3 months.
SUCCESS!- Mum will be out for an hour and half to three hours per week at these socialising groups, if mum feels uneasy at tese groups she can have a family member go with her for first few meetings!
By the time we was moving onto table 2 the girls had found theor own entertainment in the form of balloons, and seeing who could pick it up first useing a grabber from the physio table..they was happy so i carryed on with mum!
Another 2 ladys was at the next table, they was dealing with care asspects.
Thankfully they was very understanding about mum and why she said the things she does, acts the way she acts, and the reason mum had cancelled her care two days ago.
They where already aware this had happened!
I asked her to explain how the care works, how can mum carry on with the carers, and what can mum do if care was to stop by other means other than mum herself doing it..
END RESULT FROM TABLE 2- Mum doesnt have to pay for ANY carers!...if only mum had waited till next wednesday she would of opened her flat door to a women who was there to sort out a means tested form, has mum has her savings under £23,000 then she may only have to pay for top up of a few quid, or nothing at all.
SUCCESS- Mums care is to be reinstated has soon has carers rota is shuffled about to allow it!
Table 3 was the physio, by this time the girls where entertaining themselves with what looked like a kitchen roll cardboard tube with some blue tape rolled round it, little did i know till later that that tape was 'sticky' not sticky like glue, or doublesided tape, but had some 'magic' sticky stuff applyied to the blue tape so if things where dropped then people with bad backs or who could not bend down far enough could pick it up...
SUCCESS- Mum chatted with the physio she was given a tube to put on spoon ect handles to help with her grip, told how the physio is 'forced' on her to do has a means to helping her get back to as near normal life has she can.
Table 4 was the speech & language lady, i mentioned to the lady about mums speech going slurred, sometimes for long periods, sometimes a few minutes, how mums spelling had gone worse than it was before the stroke. Turns out this lady did mums speech assesment a few weeks ago, mum passed it.
SUCCESS- The lady is going to keep a check on mums speech.
We didn't bother with the few other tables, they was taking blood pressure, sugar levels ect, would of had mine done but left it with the girls being with me, although might has well of had it done, has middle one seemed fasinated by people being pricked in the finger, didn't bother the girls one bit!
The girls turned their attention eventually, away from the blood and to the boards with information on strokes, and pictures that where child aknowledging the girls loved them, we must of spent about 20mins-half hour reading the info, middle one and older one reading it to little one has she pointed to the different coloured parts in the brain in the picture that functioned the parts of her body and how a stroke victims brain and body movement is affected depending on what part of the brain is damaged...,
The pains in mums head, arms and legs that she has been having are her nerves that have been effected, it feels like the pain if you touch a live wire in your house .... over time, maybe years mums pains will go has those nerves effected by her stroke die or attatch back.
Mission accomplished!!!...
The girls and myself today are in the know on a stroke and the after effects and what to expect more than we was yesterday, mum when i left her yesterday evening seemed alot happyier, and took her tablets without me saying a word!
And just to top yesterday off nicely. I came home to a disk,... no envelope has the crazy mutt had demolished all things in paper form, BUT i have my Down & Dirty tips and tricks big,big THANK YOU,
5/14/2009 Missed you guys, strange has that most deffo is... Never thought i could actually MISS people sat otherside of their computers, Those i know, well sure i miss them, both over a net connection and in the real world, (more so when i cannot text to keep in touch) but peeps out there 'lost in livespace'.... who i have never met off here. ... i missed you guys too. crazy eh??Well i can explain where i been or rather why i have not been sat right here enjoying the daily 'live fix'... FRIDAY- Wishes you all a great weekend! Had LOTS of design stuff/coursework to catch up on, and LOTS of washing (and ironing) to also catch up on...So off i goes to 'catch up' with it all, expecting it to take me ALL weekend to do! LATE LATE FRIDAY EVENING- Shock! computer starts running slow...very slow! So i runs crapcleaner through it,....SORTED!...switches the computer off and goes to bed i was knackered. Oh hell yeah, sorted it sure was!!!! SATURDAY-Switches on the computer to ALL files been deleted!...only shortcuts left. ALL programes non excistent, just blank ....gone! Tryed to reinstall all but nope dam computer didn't want to play THAT game, instead it wanted to play the one of 'recover me from scratch' !... (dad don't stress!!, i saved the design for you onto disk,..didn't save anything else but your design is safe so long has mad mutt don't chew the disk! Going to stick it back on photoshop and ....mail it to you soon has done, hopfully by morning ) Sooo, Saturday was a LONG drawn out day, full of '' insert recovery disk' and wait for updates once done.....nearly 8hours later, yay i has my puter back, i thought. only something wasn't right!...something was going VEEERY slow still, Bro will sort it i thought...! SATURDAY/SUNDAY MORNING- problem still not sorted, the why a mystery, i mean how hard can it be to boot from disk, shove in few recovery disks, wait to load and update to brand spanking new Cdrive??? Ha! but when some numpty does the recovery whilst still connected to the internet then it is going to pick up first 'crap slow' net connection it can find, has some NUMPTY hasn't installed service provider so how the hell can the computer be connected to the net from that brand spanking new Cdrive!!! SUNDAY- Came and went in a somewhat deja vu state!... 'recovery' updates (taking only 2 hours this try) and yup minus the net being conected! MONDAY AND TUESDAY- Hmmm! spend those two days taking girls school....readding software! Picking girls up from school.....re-adding software inbetween seeing to them!...playing with mad mutt whilst taking one disk out to insert next. TODAY!!... Today i came away from this computer, was TOTALLY sick of seeing the dam thing! Bro no 1 came over and layed down the other 3 paving slabs. ...(Photos to follow...)!! Has before he left me a mountain of mud to shovel 'somewhere'... i decided not to ask him where to this time ! Mum has decided yesterday that has her doctor gives her the impression that she doesnt want to know, then mum has taken the attitude that she doesnt either....! Has of this morning she has stopped ALL her care as she says she cannot afford it (£104 per week) so now she is quite literally on her own, ...Dad and bro no 1 went up today to make sure mum ate something and took her pills, has she has been told the same has i did on friday, 'if she doesn't then she will have a stroke' Am going to have a word when i go to this event tomorrow, feel like i for one now has no idea if mum has been ok in the night or in the evenings has there is now no carers popping by.Am not sure why mum does these things, when she knows she is not 100% back to herself! Blimey is that the time...better be taking myself to my bed, accompynied by sleeping little one that seems to of at some point whilst i been doing this blog, sneaked in and got cosy in my bed with Solitaire cuddled up to her.... SO HATE DOGS ON BEDS AND SOFAS!!!!! GRRrrrr ....and now my blog is not publishing it's entry properly ..i give in ! 5/7/2009 Down & Dirty...... NOOOooo NOT that sort of down and dirty lol.. But now you dropped by maybe you on the otherside of the crazy world (mainly the states) could help me please? The most demanded Photoshop seminar tours in history is returning...and not to the UK  Photoshop cs4 to be exact, is kicking off in Washington DC on May 8, do you live around the DC area?!...maybe you have a friend into the whole photoshop stuff who has a ticket but has found himself/herself...ill, good excuse for you to go out for a few hours (ok, the whole day) and learn something you may not be into now but have an interest in, Any of you from the otherside of my world going? or can get a ticket to go? If so could you PLEASE not forget moi,... I want to know those coolest and most popular Photoshop effects around, and those tips and tricks ect.. Mine somehow go wrong! Heres the link if you want to know more photoshop cs4 down and dirty or if you know someone who is going get those tips and tricks from them, passing them this a way of course. Photoshop® CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks with Scott Kelby or Corey Barker This tour consists of five amazing classes in Photoshop special |
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