The second issue of Jot has hit the stands (or airwaves). It's a rather amazing jampacked edition of 160 pages. I am loving Kim's uber talented Design Team.
Did I mention it's free?????
Here is a peak at my section
Head over here to download your copy.
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Thank you to everyone who responded to my request to have a say about healthy lifestyle for my Queensland plan post :)
I have submitted a response based on your comments and thrown some of my own in about Education too ;)
I love how social media allows people to collaborate in such a way. It will be interesting to hear the results.
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With a blink August finished!
I love my iphone so much. I rarely take my camera out these days. Without fail I try to take a photo a day - just something that captures what is going on. Its a great reminder.
This month we have had a big focus on family and work.
My amazing Ma turned 80. My sister came for a flying visit - just one night for a few hours. I worked an insane number of hours and made myself sick ( no lectures please ) It's QCS time and I have also had the opportunity to do some freelance work in an area that I love so much so I have taken that on and quickly had to cut it back, the brain doesn't do what It used to sadly. Still I think I'll find a new a balance with it.
We took a trip to bangalore markets and had an amazing day out at the ekka. The girls became patrol leaders, won science awards, participated in a bake a book contest and I found out I have more surgery looming.
Busy days but happy days. I hope you are all well :)
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As I went to flick off the TV last Sunday night this movie caught my eye. 500 days of Summer. I hadn't heard of it at all and when I mentioned at school how much I enjoyed it I had my senior girls rolling their eyes and telling me they couldn't believe that I hadn't heard of it. I thought I might share it here too just in case any of you my lovely blog readers have been living under the same rock as me. It came out in 2009.
It's sweet and whimsical and I found myself holding my breath for the next scene to start and wondering where it was going to end up. I do love Zooey and Joseph.
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Plot --- > After it looks as if she's left his life for good this time, Tom Hansen reflects back on the just over one year that he knew Summer Finn. Despite being physically average in almost every respect, Summer had always attracted the attention of men, Tom included. For Tom, it was love at first sight when she walked into the greeting card company where he worked, she the new administrative assistant. Soon, Tom knew that Summer was the woman with whom he wanted to spend the rest of his life. Although Summer did not believe in relationships or boyfriends - in her assertion, real life will always ultimately get in the way.
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For those readers who always ask about suitability - I wouldn't my two watch this one as the themes are too adult but for teenagers it is most likely fine. You can read up over here on the Kids in Mind site.
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My Ma turned 80 last weekend. 80 can you imagine? She was born in 1933.
A few facts from her birth year
1933 was the worst year of the depression with unemployment peaking at 25.2% with ( 1 in 4 people unemployed ). Adolf Hitler became the chancellor of Germany and opened the first concentration camp at Dachau.
We often chat about how much has changed in her lifetime. She is very sprightly and her mind is sharp. The only health worry I ever really have for her is that she will slip over and break some bones. She is very tiny.
We had a lovely breakfast out and Richard organised all of the family to pool together to surprise her with a cruise. She and Pa are heading off in November. She is beyond excited as they live very frugally on the pension. She told us she going to dress up and pretend to be a lady. We have to laugh because she is always immaculately dressed and is the most elegant lady I know.
Not sure how we are going to celebrate her 90th!
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I was on the lookout for something new to make for lunches this week and wanted to use some yummy new organic muesli that we had found in a slice but when we googled muesli slice we kept coming up with slices that were like muesli bars. Not really what I wanted. So we made our own.
It's deliciously moist and more like a cake than a muesli bar which is exactly what we wanted.
Melt the butter and honey together in the microwave.
Mix all the dry ingredients together
Add the honey and melted butter. Add the eggs.
Press into a slice tin and bake for 20 minutes until golden.
Leave to cool before slicing. I'm sure you can change your muesli to be whatever you like but these are the brands we like :)
Have you got any new yummy ideas for lunch boxes - this is the time of year my inspiration goes out the door....
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I am not a huge fan of writing so sorry I haven't been here I have been busy so I almost didn't write this post. Because I really don't have anything to add other than LIKE EVERYONE I have been insanely busy.
One dear friend has been texting me most days saying Hello hello are you there ? and I keep replying CRAZY to which she asks does this mean you have gone crazy or you are crazy busy LOL. She's now switched it to hello are you still crazy?
Anyone who works in schools knows term three is not a whole lot of fun. If you follow my instagram or we are friends on facebook you may have noticed all the work photos and late nights. That is where I have been mostly. I have however been trying to document some of that. After taking a year off from work I refelcted that my whole history of work did not exist anywhere in my memory keeping. Not in photos and not even much mention here on my blog. It's tricky to do I admit because you can't post photos of students or staff or tell any details to any stories when you work in schools. But I have been consciously trying to document some of it - the late nights - the reams of data, data data (EQ is data mad right now) - and a project that had me working round the clock just fell over becasue we have gone into caretaker mode with the election date now set agggh so disappointing. Never mind. Lately I have been head deep in QCS prep for the seniors - marking and checking tweaking their programs. It's time consuming and then I fall in a big heap.
via pinterest.comIn the past I would be all stressy about the stuff that I'm not doing. That internal never ending to do list. Now I'm trying to let it all go. I'm still only back 4 days a week but fitting my 5 day a week job into those 4 days. I'm thinking I'll continue like that next year too. I like the idea of having a day off.
My personal creative side has fallen by the wayside as I have navigated the work schedule and all our home renos too. I think I have come out the other side now. Yesterday I spent a few hours updating my project life album and working on some photos for friends. I have missed my blog and your lovely comments and emails so I'm finding a new balance and already I feel better for it.
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sponsored by Nuffnang
I have lived in Queensland for more than 35 years and I love it. I can't imagine living anywhere else. Have you heard about the Queensland plan? It's our chance to have a say on the future of Queensland.
The plan is designed to go beyond politics and personal priorities and to be a genuine reflection of our collective aspirations and priorities for the future. 400 delegates from Queensland came together from across the state to shape the questions that we have now have a chance to answer in order to create a 30-year vision for the state.
I am thrilled to have the opportunity to invite you my lovely readers to share your love and passions about living in Queensland too. I will be completing the survey and sharing my blog readers thoughts as a collective.Here's a little video that shares the idea
As you would know I am particularity passionate about living a healthy life. So I am keen to get some responses from you all to answer the section around healthy lifestyle.
Healthy Lifestyle: How do we empower and educate individuals, communities and institutions to embrace responsibility for an active and healthy lifestyle?
I would love to know your thoughts.
Here is the link to the Queensland Plan if you want to read up more.
Leave your comments here and I will collate and share the responses :)
I'm excited to read what you have to say!
This blog topic was commissioned by the Queensland Government to raise awareness of The Queensland Plan. Content and ideas are entirely the author’s own.
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I stumbled acorss this new series purley by accident and I am so glad I did. It's called the Bletchley Circle and is set in 1952. It's a mini series drama. These four ladies used to be codebreakers for during the war and have since returned to their normal lives. However a series of murders in their area show a pattern which leads them to start investigating themselves.
You can still see the first episode on Iview ( I think it's there for another week ) and then it shows on the ABC on friday night 9.20pm.
I'm loving it can't wait for the next episode!
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Half way through the last week of school and I'm melting down - so much happening all at once. Richard has been in Melbourne for the last few days for work and the girls have been head down in assignment work and of course we have renos happening - some parts not so smoothly!
So for tonight I knew I needed to be able to come home to a yummy meal that required not much work.
I threw this in the crockpot this morning
Leave to cook all day.
Blend it up and serve with some crusty sour dough bread that I grabbed from the bakery on the way home.
So good and plenty left over for lunches tomorrow - win win :)
Two more days till holidays !
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