Monthly Archives: December 2006

Weather Dull Gray

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Ah, weather. It’s not “cold” but it feels a tad chilly in the house, with the weather the way it is. Currently it’s overcast and usually raining –drippy or steady or pouring (since sometime in the middle of the night.) I’d love to have a fire in the fireplace, not a huge hot one, but a little nice putt putt one (for a little extra warmth, with the major plus being the “emotional warmth” a fire brings, so cheery and bright.)

I wrote above that “I’d love to have a fire” going –but I can’t. I have a few larger pieces of wood in the house, they are ‘seasoned’ but not to my standards of preference, they are hard to burn without a very hot fire going with a ‘ton’ of embers glowing to keep it going. Everything else is outside. Yes, out in the rainy weather. If I had kindling in the house it would be easier to try a fire, but all the kindling is definitely soaked through with no hope of sun to dry it out anytime today. The “logs” are on the side of the house, sort of, probably protected a bit, but overall maybe not much. I’m pretty sure most of them are very wet from this rain today, and since that whole load is from the same place, not seasoned to my preference, mostly all are difficult to burn without really well seasoned things and kindling galore to keep a hot fire going to steam out the water and burn the wood. :rolleyes: All in all, too much to consider doing with rain saturated kindling, and the main wood for burning being what it is already and with the added rain, nixing the whole affair.

The temperature outside is around 60 degrees F. Not cold at all. It just “feels” worse in the house. Sort of drafty chilly, and probably too dry, and no sunshine outside, no blue sky, just gray, gray, gray, dull. It’s the kind of day, this WINTER (yes I can actually consider it Winter now, it is officially since yesterday, Dec. 21. :) ) on which temps outside vary greatly day to day, and with the lesser degree of daylight, dull gray skies are really that, and having to have lights on all day in the house, ugh [yes I am a crazy lover of firelight, candlelight, lamplight. Not electrical light.]

It’s supposed to not rain tomorrow, “they” say. Maybe some sun later on tomorrow too. Sunday and Monday, the actual “holiday” days, it’s supposed to rain again. Bah, Humbug. I want dry wood.

I’ve tried to keep the boys bringing wood upstairs and also stocking it down in the basement, enough for a couple of days or three this month. It’s not been that cold lately, so I slacked off on bugging them to do it (it’s a lot of work to bug them enough to get it done) and now I’m paying the price, no dry wood today.

Our Christmas tree is undressed still. Waiting for the lights. Somehow my good lights are not to be found. So DH went to Home Depot yesterday to get some, and came home with three boxes of “50 light” strands. :( That’s not enough. That’s the only type of white mini lights they had, he said, but he’s not the tree guy, I’ve been the light and tree lady all along, and so I can’t fault his picking of what he did. He’s learning though, and that’s pure pleasure for me. I’m giving this job up and going to make sure others can do it from now on, put on the lights, that is.

Having a lighted, decorated tree in here would be nice too, the lights on it would be electric lights, sure, but they are different from the big bulbs that we use to light rooms, they give a wonderful glow to things, without the “interior house lights” on.

I hope to get these things straightened out today. DH is out getting milk right now. When he gets back perhaps the lights can go on, and more gotten and gotten on, and the boys and he can find some drier wood outside, and hopefully we can have a decorated tree and a fireplace fire on Christmas Eve/Christmas Day. FWIW it would be nice.

FLY Pentop Computer

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At Costco this end of the year holiday season they had/have in their “toy” section the newer Leap Pad thingie called “Fly Pentop Computer” –I was aware of this product since it came on the market, but wasn’t sure about it at first, and then learned it was a Leap Pad product, and then finally delved into the website marketing the actual device, and found it probable to be interesting to our family.

That ‘delving into’ was several months ago.

So what was/is in Costco was the actual device and recharging system, and additional product, in the simplest case to just say, it had a full size Fly Notebook, and the Hello Kitty Scrapbook kit (a Flyware product, that is, “software” for the Fly Pentop Computer.) Obviously being marketed towards girls. Another version was same except for having a Harry Potter Flyware Game instead of Hello Kitty. I don’t recall the former price, but it was upwards, high enough for me to say, too bad. I knew that in the stores, when I had LOOKED at it there sometime in the past, the actual device was sold for $99 without the recharging system.

So what did I behold yesterday as I and the childen fooled around in the back aisles of the store for a bit as hubby was gathering a few things to buy as presents, that he didn’t want us to see, of course, –> there in a new demoted spot on the floor was a small pile of Fly/Hello Kitty and Fly/Harry Potter’s –> with a lower price, much lower –> something about $49 …

Standing there I contemplated, and reflected and thought deeper and deeper than that, then proposed something to my newly 8-year old girl –> to use the birthday money she had just received from her Aunt the other day, and pair it with the other $10 I knew she still had … and see what her Daddy would do about making up the rest of it for her, or just going halfies with her, or something.

So it came to the end and yes, we got it for her. I am thrilled with it myself and wish to have one for my own use. :)

It’s really cool and it will aide my dear daughter to clean up her writing style and use logic to use functions on the device and the basicness of it, it is an audible reminder and audible aide to things written.

Why do I really like it? It makes “interactive pages” and they are created by the user. The user does have content available that is pre-printed. Also “open pages” of Fly Paper that the user puts on what they want. Writing out functions to work with the “pen” is simple, just find the menu item you want to use, and follow the audible directions to make a “Flycon” shorcut to that item, and submenu sorts of thing from “FlyCons” as well as ‘things’ like a calculator, and a little piano keyboard, for the main starters.

I easily made a simple keyboard when sampling how to use it.

Once you make something on a page recognizable to the “Fly Pen”, it works. It works. Again and again. Turn the Fly off and use it another time, in other words. It really is cool.

I am 40 years old and this is my kind of thing. I am geek-like though. I love computers, but love paper still. I have had two different Palm devices and for little me, THIS FLY SORT OF THING replaces the Palm for much use, and takes over where the Palm doesn’t work for me, and really does stuff that is so really, really neat, and useful and well, I don’t have one though. My 8-year-old girl does, not me. :(

My 10-1/2-year-old boy would like one too now. He sees how it is and says “It’s better than my Palm” –he has his Daddy’s old one, a Palm V …

My Palm is a Palm Vx and it sits in my backpack and I do nothing with it. My more resent palm was a new one in the last year, and it lasted just over 6-months, with little useage on my part, the screen got weird orange blob and nothing could be done to fix it. Soonly later the whole screen when “under the orange” ick. I’ve taken it apart and tried this and that fixes people talk of on the Web, but all I did was manage to tear off the speaker wires from the board, with my opening it up and closing it up and later doing more, and later more, and the stress busted that up. And very lately I tried to look at it again, and fooled with it, now it’s totally dead. It was not useable anyhow, being a “visual” thing, with some audio abilities (my main reason for getting it, audio books, Audible.) I did like it better than my Palm Vx, of course, but since the Palm Vx still works fine, the newer Palms I see as cheap crap, yes, that. The “affordable” sort were, and now only one horrid model is on the market. Others are maybe stable, but are ‘out of range’ in pricing.

I loved the color interface, it made it more useful for me, than the monocromatic Palm Vx, so it’s the Vx that won the longer-life race, and it is not very nice, to me, for the lack of color.

The Fly Pentop is the sort of thing that fills in what I thought would be great, but didn’t have, with a Palm of any color or lack thereof.

I am hoping something like this be more adult marketed, there are “digital pens” out there, but they put on your computer digitally what you write on paper. I like the “Paper is interactive” side of the FLY … I love it and must say again, really want one of my own.

I am seeing in my head what my “notebook” would be like, and I could fill it in with color gel pens, make my usual doodles and such, all around my “interactive” stuff.

It’s really easy to figure out for a big person, and a small person needs some help and understanding maybe, but older children would probably do aright from the start with it.

For “right-brain” sorts of people, it’s good practice with the “audibleness” of the FLY (listen and translate to something on a page (directions to make, do, etc.,) “hear” reminders, “hear” the time or date, and so on, and I really think it aides in so many areas of education and life, it’s a really cool thing, but a real tool to use.

My son, whom I said above said he also would like one, said also that he’d love to share his [future FLY ]with me. Nice idea. Don’t know if it’d FLY though. FWIW :LOL:

Shellfishness

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My hubby is home since last evening. It’s now morning, and talking about when I went to bed (I shall not report it, it is quite shocking) and what I had been doing beforehand last night, he got a gleam in his eye and put in a PS2 game that he’s been playing of late … Medal of Honor: Frontline (we get games used, most often, so they aren’t cutting edge new, but some are, not that one though …)

He sat on the hardwood floor for a bit, and had pushed the coffee table way back to give him floor room. He got sick of sitting there fairly soon, and on standing he pushed the table again, turning it sideways, but crooked and as this was happening I half-way queried him to his purpose, and he responded that he was going to get a dinning room chair, but while this was going on the teasing mind was active in me and I said “Daddy’s sellll-fish!” about how he was re-arranging all my furniture to make himself comfy and play his game, not taking the rest of us into account, but I was teasing, it’s true, yet not a big deal, just something to point out the most usual sin in all of us humans.

The funny thing was, the two children sitting on the couch were my two younger and on hearing me they started chanting over and over and over “Daddy’s shellfish, Daddy’s Shellfish” in a sing-songy way.

This was quite hilarious IRL, most particularly since I abhor eating shellfish and won’t tolerate it in my house at all, and won’t let my children eat any of it anywhere else either. FWIW

Gardening 2007

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My hubby is gung-ho to work with me to make a very large garden this (coming soon) year. Hurray!

I was talking about broccoli when this subject was being spoken of between us. I said it would be good to be able to grow our own, as one bag of frozen florets wasn’t enough, and two would barely be enough –for one meal … sooner than later. He said we could grow it, uh, I said kindly, “Do you know how much broccoli we’d have to plant/grow to fruition … in order to not BUY it from the store?”
The thing is, our backyard is plentiful enough in size to accomodate large gardens here and there, or all together. I’ve had fairly large ones in the past, and struggled to do everything and fail time after time. DH sure helps me to get the garden cultivated so that it can be planted … but much past that has been left to me.

It gets SO hot in the summer. Our (back)yard gets blasted with sunshine all day, year round. I think it’s just too much, somehow, for the plants. I’ve mulched; watered correctly, not too much, not too little; fed the plants; sprayed for horn worms; this and that. Put organic material suitable for gardening into the soil before planting too. Withered, or non-producing bell peppers. Tomatoes good sometimes, but not every variety, every year (in fact I haven’t had a decent tomato in three years, I do esteem to recall.) Beans, if planted do alright generally, as long as picked regularly (and when not, ugh the big ugly tough things, I hate pulling them off and then don’t eat them anyway.) I grew corn one early year that we were in this house. It was horrible, mutated looking, frightening. I ripped it out. I have gotten away from corn since then, we don’t use it as a veggy at all. I had a lovely herb garden a couple of years ago. It started out nice, but then just didn’t go well. After the first year it dissapeared, perennials just didn’t come back (they were ones that should definitely have done so.) Grass infiltrated so fast it was impossible to fight it, and I just had a few Thyme plants left. The Thyme flourished that next year, but was surrounded by grass entirely and most of the Thyme dead wood by last year. I got a whiskey barrel and planted some new things in it this past summer, and put the remains of my thyme in too. It’s still going, but so miniscule.

I just have a black thumb nowadays, it seems. I used to have a green thumb, years ago. I do feel/think there is something wrong with the dirt here. I haven’t had it checked out, but surely should, I think of it often enough. I don’t use chemicals in my garden, btw. I do it as naturally as I can, and want to use more “organic” sources for supplements, and I hope I can this next growing season. I want to have a bountiful harvest, and put the effort into it that it needs to flourish. It’s hard work, I know. Hubby wants to share, and that will be a good thing. I want to get the children interested in gardening too, have them help us, and have a little plot of their own, each, as well.

Yeah, I’ve got growing on my mind. It’s far away, but not so very far, in The South.

Brain Type and sporting

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I’ve been going over the book “Your Key to Sports Success”
[ http://braintypes.com/products.htm ]
and find it very interesting and full of good info, and am looking forward to hopefully getting the next book, which is coming out in early 2007 “Get the Most Out of Life: with Your Inborn BrainType” –as soon as it’s available.

I’m INTP
Hubby is ESFP
#1 Boy is INTP
#2 Girl is INFP (most assuredly likely so)
#3 Boy is ENFP (most assuredly likely so)

Brain Typing is not the same as other personality typings, but it is connected. I find that I’ve not looked much lately at MBTI stuff minus the one book for Mothering Styles that I have, but mostly look at Socionics stuff. I really see the connections to any of it with Brain Typing, but most especially Socionics.

The value of the book I first mentioned is great, it’s not just about “sports” but mostly is, but it can be applied to other areas of life. I come to it from a unique perspective: being INTP, I’m not very sports inclined at all. The least so of any “brain type” and this book is aiding to me appreciate the “sports” aspect of other members of my family, and I hope it will allow us all to “do more together” sportingly so in the back yard, understanding what each of us is best at doing, and what we need to work on to make our bodies do things better.

The book goes over tennis and track for INTP’s –those being the likeliest sports for INTP’s –if they are inclined so. I did have interest in track, in 7th grade, and was going to go out for the team in 8th, along with another girl who was also interested, but in 8th grade I couldn’t ’cause we moved in October to another state. That state was Florida, too hot for me, and I fell out of “active” status sportingly wise entirely. It was interesting to me to note the differences, I was going to run track in PA, but in FL I couldn’t run without nearly dying (heating up and getting so very sick every time in PE classes there that we had to “run” outside.)

When I was an adult, newly married, my hubby and I decided we’d like to play tennis, and got a key for the courts at our church (a special $ privelage) –bought rackets and balls and played a time or two together and played doubles a couple of times there with our neighbors. I really enjoyed it, we did it when it wasn’t ‘as hot’ out. I felt I could improve much, but was naturally inclined towards it, not as a vocation, but as a hobby. I hadn’t come into contact with tennis before that.

I do recall actually liking playing ‘handball’ in 8th grade in FL, and in a later grade we played ‘raquetteball’ inside and I really did like that. These were things that I only had access to “in school” and once that part of PE was done, it was over for me.

I did also play soccer in PE in 10th grade, and was praised by the teacher as “a real hustler” (I really moved and stuck with it and ran, ran, ran …) but that was a class and eventually the ‘soccer phase’ was over.

As I got older all along I just didn’t do much, and prefered to “play” only nature-like ways. Walk and run on the beach, go on a canoe trip on the St. Johns river, go tubing on Rainbow river, things that wore me out but were so pleasant.

Once married, for a couple of years, we went to the Smokies for a week and I was able to drag my hubby out onto a trail to hike to a waterfall. It was something I liked doing, hiking, but I hadn’t done much, just enough through the years, and had plenty of time in my childhood in PA climbing up hills and “mountains” behind my house, and running all over nature (like my children have no oppurtinity for where we live.) I like camping, had camped as a child with my family and then in my “college” years I camped with the group at church for that age. So I have wanted to get my hubby out to go camping, hiking, combing the wilds, but I’ve only gotten him into the small hikes, mostly to water falls. He says he will go camping some day, but I don’t know when. He’s gone once in his life and the experience was short and futile and he won’t try again. It was a horrid time, I’m sure it was, I wasn’t around at that time of his life. It was a fluke sort of thing and it’s jaded him. What’s a girl to do? Oh well.

I love hiking and it’s just funny to see me, with so little energy to expend, really loving “outdoorsy” stuff, just not having an ‘outdoorsy’ hubby, but it being my most energy expending ability that is release and great and wonderful.

My hubby was a softball player when I met him. He played on two or three teams at the same time. I went along with it when we first married, and then begged him to cut down, then totally cut it out. It was making me feel left out, and leaving me sitting on a bench three or four nights a week, or staying home alone.

So now hubby is a sales guy and has no time to play on a team. He tried once in the last 9 or less years. It didn’t work out.

ESFP’s are supposed to good at athletics, many varieties of things to choose from. I’ve wanted my hubby to be more active, and I think he’d be happier if he was home more and did sporty things with us. We’ve occasionally had a football to throw around in the yard, but never do they last long, the dog gets them and chews them up, nerf or leather, of course. We’ve not had a football for a long while now and it’s something I want to get. Hubby wants to get a basketball hoop thingie. I don’t mind that idea, I just don’t want to have to do that on the driveway. Anyhow, I’ve done playing around with basketball “Two on Two,” “One on One” sorts of things in college for fun. I really liked that (but I highly dislike organized basketball, collegiate or professional, or children in primary and high school, too.)

My youngest, boy 6, is quite like what the ENFP brain type is described as. Highly energetic, entertaining, cute, acrobatic-like, charming, etc. He’s the most inclined of the children for sports. My dear eldest is a brainiac like me, and needs to really work on things to feel good about doing them [in elementary school the teams in gym class were "picked" by children, two that the teacher picked as "captains" and invariably I was always last picked, or second to last.] –thankfully he doesn’t have to go through that humiliation [homeschooled.]

My girl is a type that has sportability supposedly, but we’ve not worked on anything. She’s an Introvert, so inclined along with us INTP’s in the family to just sit and read and do quiet things. She’s just turned 8, and has years to go to find active physical interests, and I’m not going to be putting them [she as well as her brothers] into pressured situations to perform unless they wish to later, themselves. I do not wish for any of them to try for a ‘career’ in sports (I have every inclination against pro-sports, that’s a sermon for another time, if I am so inclined to air my views then … but I’m not ready for the head bashings I might receive, so I keep them pretty quiet.)

My dear daughter is very artsy inclined, so that’s my main aspiration to encourage her in. She’s reading now, and will be getting into heftier books sooner than later.

My eldest boy is a reader, and loves his Bionicles and such. He seems inclined towards some things, but it’s not clear as to what to pursue with him yet, except for get him to buckle down with “educational work” that I want him to do (like many INTP’s he see’s nothing worth doing, except for reading books, it’s all highly boring and painful therefore –and I’m not giving him garbage like they would give him to do in school … freedom has it’s costs. He doesn’t know how good he has it with me as his mother. :) ) I know that he has the oomph inside his mind to do what he needs to and will supply the outward version of it when the time is ripe.

My youngest boy is very much like I described above, highly energetic, full of life, cheerful and all that, but also very stubborn and still has much growing up to do. He’s daring and a climber and an acrobat. He’s definitely one to keep an eye on and will need shaped physically/mentally –steered towards what he does best and taught to stick with it, and do more.

Hubby want to do things with them, but not what I’ve considered good for them. Like have the eldest on a team of something … he’s not cut out for that, not at his age for his type. Going outside and working together on things is possible and something he desires to do with him, and somehow it just doesn’t happen (a sports inclined daddy with a non-sports inclined son can be trouble.)

Our disorganizational garage is not the place to put equipment, and so anything we have is buried under … whatever it is buried under. We do need to get other things and clear out the garage and get a door in the back of it to the backyard, and get the stuff we have and will buy in the future hung on the walls, ceiling, etc.

We did buy a croquet set this Autumn. Unfortunately it all came in a nice carrying bag, and once we got the mallets put together, they would no longer fit in the bag and so … apparently, I was told this morning by my eldest, the yellow mallet is broken …

I grew up with a croquet set in my family. It was all wooden, lovely mallets and balls, and they all fit into a lovely cart perfectly, great for storage, great for bringing anywhere to setup a game of croquet.

I would love to have a set like that, it’s the right thing for organized or organizationally-challenged folk.

Anyhow, we have a set of books coming to us that we ordered, that will get us doing stuff in the backyard, fun, educational, and fun. I’ll write more about them once we have them and have utilized something about them.

Christmas is coming

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It’s Monday, December 18th. Just a week until Christmas Day.

We finally got our Christmas tree on Saturday night. It’s in the house set up, but I haven’t the lights to put on it. They are “somewhere” and hubby isn’t here to fetch them out for me. I used to love decorating trees for Christmas when I was younger. I still LIKE the look I could make, but find it more tedious and tiresome to do than I can stand the last 5 or so years.

Of course, our house is still in ‘disarray’ due to not yet having the new cabinets and sink and all that for the kitchen. We still have the old ones sitting in different places. It might not be that far away that we’ll get some of the cabinets and things will turn around a bit for ease on my part in the kitchen. It would have been better for this all to have been done before now (this is really tough with me being pregnant too!)

I’m now 13 weeks, going on 14 later this week. Time is starting to fly. It crawled for the first trimester, let me tell you. (It’s the first time ‘time’ has slowed in flow for several years for me, growing up is not all it’s supposedly cut out to be :LOL: )

We ordered things from Vision Forum and are awaiting their arrival by the 23rd. I don’t want to be up wrapping presents late Christmas Eve, or the eve before that. I really like having it all done beforehand, I love shopping completed in November, in fact, but things being as they are, I’m stuck with how they have been. :(

We still need to get something for our youngest. Mr. Super Active doesn’t need anymore toys really, and he’s still too young for much of anything else (just 6-years-old.) I don’t like “going shopping” per se, and really dislike it during the holidays, crowds, crowds, crowds. I don’t look forward to going to Toys R Us or The Disney Store, or where ever. This week is THE week to stay home and bake cookies. I’ll do that for now, since hubby is out of town, but he’ll be here for going out on Wednesday, ugh. Too close to D-Day.

Eragon, good and bad

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We saw Eragon (2006) on opening day, December 15, 2006. It was good, but not the book. Parts of it bothered me, like changing the ending to work differently than the book, and in the beginning having soldiers in the town near where Eragon lived, which is NOT part of the book, their town had been “out of it” not affected by the troubles in the realm up to then. Cousin Roran left home for different reasons in the movie, from the book, yes in the movie it was the “soldier issue” –he was leaving to go “who knows where” in order to avoid “conscription” basically. Also, the thing about the she-elf Arya was all different from the book, in Durza’s grasp in prison, poisoned, and how Eragon learned of her and then eventually saved her. The book and the movie are so different in most ways about it. Then the journey from the prison to the Varden hideout, it was a long journey in the book, and it took two-second in the movie, and it wasn’t that they just flashed forward in time for these fast events, they truly left OUT the journey’s.

The other thing is that things were condensed together and whole sections of the book twisted. What was missing? Character building. Eragon and Brom sparring every night on their jouney. Oh, yeah, the journey is missing. All of it, basically. It’s a movie that could have been longer, and more from the book actually added to have it make sense to everyone. It was 1 hr. 38 min. or so, too short, too fast, too “painful”.

It was good though, it’s hard to say why, except for to say, “Sapphira” was magnificent.

I’d love to see the movie done over, like that’s possible. It could be so much better. It seems to be a flash, flash, quick film, suitable for the hyperactive one that can’t even get into a movie with more than a few ‘down time’ scenes, slower character building scenes, and a complex journey. :rolleyes:

It was something special to see the dragon come to the big screen. We had been waiting awhile to see this film, and to finally see it: and it was too short, too quick, too action oriented, not enough character building, missing characters, changing ideas, towns, and cutting out the journeys, it’s hard to say that it was good, but it was on some level. FWIW

Active Fireplace

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Official activation of our fireplace for the winter of 2006/2007 occurred on Wednesday, December 6, 2006. That’s late for us, usually getting it going in mid-November. It’s not that we didn’t wish for a fire earlier, but we got along without starting one and I have spent a lot of time in “bed” and just didn’t venture to get things gathered up all the way to actually make a fire. (note: it has been quite warm the end of November, and we definitely didn’t need “heat” of any sort then, and only had a little while of cooler temps before that. It’s a recent innovation of the weather to actually be cold at night and chilly in the day overall.)

It’s a joy to have a fire in the fireplace. I love the cheery yellow orange red light, dancing and glowing. It’s been sunny the last few days, and that’s alright, but on the days of overcast darkness the fireplace is the only thing that makes me feel right inside the house, up and about, in the “winter” time.

Oh the sunlight, we have some more of that in the kitchen. We have a new window installed where the sink will be in the future. The old window is still in, and so there is a good amount of morning sunlight that traverses through the kitchen from one window to the next, and daylight galore while the sun is in the east/south. Eventually, sooner than later now, we’ll have that old window removed and a nice sliding door installed. We have it, just needs to be installed (there are plumbing and wiring things to be moved beforehand.) Once that change happens, we’ll have even more light, more than opposite of what we used to have. (Old setup was french double doors on the left, and one 36×36 window on the right, a 20-feet long space with the right side window moreso in the middle of the wall, sort of.) The new window is in the right-hand side of the old french door space, so down on the left, but not all the way down, not in the middle of the wall at all, and the new doors will be down at the end of the right side of the space. So it’s a flip-flop trade, kind of. Early morning light comes in the new window, and later morning light will come in the to-be sliding glass doors.

The “dark cave” feeling in the kitchen is done-for, gone. Irradicating darkness, adding more light soon. Yippee! (of course I’m speaking of daytime here.)