Monday Giggles

Hello! I hope you had a lovely weekend. Here's today's funny, enjoy!

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LSNED - Day 16

I've been watching more science videos (because I'm a closet geek, plus it's a good way to pass the time whilst breastfeeding!) and so today I learnt that you can blow out a candle but relight it by lighting the smoke! Check out the video below, it's very cool!

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Thankful Thursdays & LSNED Day 15

The Blue Mountains is a World Heritage area, rich in natural bushland and history. I love the laidback atmosphere where you can sometimes feel isolated, but also part of the community if you want. Then of course there is the gorgeous natural landscapes. Although extremely prone to bushfires, the area is still lovely to live in and explore. Then there is the Three Sisters (in the photo above and perhaps one day I'll tell you the story behind these three rock formations) - possibly the most famous landmark of the area. I'm thankful for the fact that I live in such a beautiful part of Australia.

What are you thankful for today?

Today's lesson is more of a previously learned lesson that was confirmed. We've had the feeling that Jasmine has been fussy and unsettled (especially during the afternoons) due to the fact that she's been missing daddy now that he's back at work. Well, perhaps today (and the past weekend) had confirmed that as she has hasn't had her afternoon fussy period and has been reasonably content. I think only time can fix this one particular issue. And possibly a very healthy dose of patience!!!



(Sorry if this post today sounds disjointed and/or not completely comprehensible. Lack of sleep and a currently grumpy Jasmine has frazzled me a bit and my brain doesn't seem to be working. I know it's silly, but I'm kind of stressed out that I didn't get this post up on Thursday - as it's just gone midnight now. Really it shouldn't matter in the scheme of things, and no doubt I'll (hopefully) forget all about it tomorrow, after the post is up anyway!)

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LSNED - Day 11, 12, 13 & 14!

It's been a few crazy days around here, so I have four days of LSNED lessons to catch up on! Here goes:

Day 11 - I learned today that you spend 40 minutes a day blind! In my case that would probably be more if you count the minutes when I'm not wearing my glasses. LOL It's called "Saccadic masking" - our brain creating a "mask" or illusion so that we don't get motion blur from when our eyes are moving around. This is also called the "stopped-clock illusion", when the first second on a clock after you turn to look at it appears to take longer than all the other seconds. Check out the video here.

Useless trivia or cool scientific fact?!? LOL

Day 12 - I learned that with the current routine I'm in (feed bubby, put bubby to sleep, eat something, sit down to rest for a teeny bit, bubby wakes, change nappy - repeat sequence), some days there just really isn't that much to learn. :/

Day 13 - I've been reading through SmartphOWNED, Memestache and Taste of Awesome and consequently I've learned a whole bunch of new slang words (in addition to being thoroughly entertained). Not that I'd use them in normal conversation, but they're interesting to know!

Day 14 - I learned that you can buy awesome things like Lego cameras, Star Wars ice trays or these Mood Mugs, as opposed to "what-on-earth?!?" items like Mantyhose (pantyhose for guys?!?), bacon flavoured toothpaste, or a toilet mug! What will they think of next?!?! LOL

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Monday Giggles

Hello! I hope you are doing well on this Monday, 12 September (already!!).

Enjoy today's funny!

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10 Awesome Things About the Winter Magic Festival

Last year I shared with you a post about a local event called the Winter Magic Festival (see here). Unfortunately I missed the festival this year as I had to attend an ante-natal class, so that was quite disappointing. However, I've created a very simple scrapbook layout outlining ten awesome things about the festival:

Credits: Background pp from In The Groove by Shabby Shoppe; Fonts - Kingthings Petrock, Wendy Medium.
This layout was also created as part of the My Album of Awesome Big Picture Class.

You can click to enlarge, however, here are the ten awesome things:

1. The Grand Parade
   
2. The exciting festival atmosphere
   
3. The amazing and varied market stalls
   
4. The diverse and delicious food stalls
   
5. The entertaining street performers
   
6. The infectious Samba music and dancing
   
7. The interesting costumes
   
8. The huge crowds
   
9. The colourfulness of everything!
   
10. The awesome fireworks ending an absolutely awesome day!
    

Hopefully I'll be able to make it to next year's festival and show you lots more awesome pictures! :D

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LSNED - Day 10

We finally used up all the Huggies Newborn size nappies yesterday and started using some Aldi Infant ones as there is a bit of a gap with the Huggies ones from Newborn (up to 5kg) to Crawler (6-11kg) size (plus they're a bit cheaper than Huggies!). The Aldi ones have nothing printed on them whatsoever and I realised today that I miss seeing the wetness indicator strip on the Huggies nappies (I also miss the really cute Pooh Bear graphics, but that's another story altogether. LOL). And that brings me to today's lesson: I found out that the wetness indicator strip only appears on the Newborn nappies and none of the other sizes. Darn - that's a good invention as it means I don't have to go rooting around in her nappy to see how wet it is! LOL

Finding out all these small things about baby products is quite amusing. Never in my life would I have imagined making such a fuss over a nappy "wetness indicator". LOL

Have you learned anything amusing lately or is there something in your life that you find amusing right now?

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