Internet Habits

Well my new found enthusiasm for the blog didn't last long...it's already been a week between posts! I think it's because internet time is so precious these days as I can only use the net when Cate is asleep - it's too hard otherwise as she wants to 'help' and that just goes nowhere.

First place I check on line is (99% of the time) Facebook. I am well and truly addicted and check it a minimum of twice a day if I am at home. I love everyone's status updates and I love using it to check out pics - I hate all the games and Farmville and what not.

After Facebook I usually move on to ebay (these days anyway). I have been on the hunt for a Phil and Ted's double pram and finally scored one last night. I have been outbid six times previously so am thrilled to have finally secured a pram. Only thing is that I am yet to hear from the seller and we need to tee up the fact that the pram is coming from Tassie in a few weeks. So hopefully I'll be reporting happy pram details around May 10th or so. Stay tuned.

After e-bay it's usually i-do. It's a wedding forum BUT I don't play in the wedding section, I play in the parenting section and love it there. There's always something to catch up on and now that I have been a part of the forum community for over two years I can safely say I have friends on there that I love chatting with. I was, in fact, inspired to start blogging due to the fact that many i-do girls blog and do it so well.

Other sites I visit regularly include my blogger dashboard to read everybody else's blogs (I'm still reading even when I'm not posting!!) and my ANZ banking site (boring and stressful. I hate money...or the lack of money anyway!). I'm also a fan of PostSecret and I have to check my emails at gmail too.

So that's me. By the time I get through all of that hours can have gone by...and I have to exist in the real world too! So poor blog, you are often neglected and shall quite possibly remain so.

The Great 'Vicks At Naptime' Incident of 2010

This one is for Biddo too because I know how funny she found it when she read about it on facebook. So, the Great 'Vicks At Naptime' Incident of 2010 starts out like this:

Cate has had a sniffle the last few days so I have been rubbing Baby Vicks on her chest at each nappy change. It smells divine and helps clear her blocked nose so I figured it couldn't hurt. WRONG!

Yesterday I changed Cate, rubbed Vicks on her chest and placed the opened container on the edge of her cot. At that moment she sneezed, snot went flying EVERYWHERE and I dived for a face washer to start repairing the damage. The result? A clean, snot free baby BUT an open jar of Baby Vicks remianed on the edge of the cot. You can see where this is going right?!

An hour later Cate went down for her nap. I rushed in to draw the curtains whilst her milk was heating then came back into the darkened room with my baby bundled up and deposited her and the milk in her cot, kissed her and left. No problems. An hour and half later she cried out for me and I walked in to collect her.

I opened the door and....uh oh...what was that overpowering smell? I mean, sure I put Vicks on her chest, but the whole room now smelt like Vicks. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't unpleasant but it was kinda weird....

...until I got to the cot and saw my daughter. OH MY LORD!!!!!! The Baby Vicks jar, now completely empty, rolled around the cot and Cate was COVERED in the stuff. Her hair, face, sleeping bag, bottle, sheets and toy mirror were COATED. Cue hysteria. From mummy of course - Cate thought it was HILARIOUS.

It's been a rather full on 24 hours since where I have bemoaned my forgetfulness endlessly and frantically phoned family and friends for advice as well as trawling the net for solutions. The end result: seven separate shampoos - some in the bath, some in the shower - two further washes in dishwashing liquid AND (the absolute winner) using a dry shampoo in a can. Twice. The end result is a little girl who may never want to have her hair washed again BUT one who has beautiful, clean, Vicks-free hair. Thank God for that!

Back in the game?

Guess what?

One of my besties read my blog. Finally someone I know read it and wrote to me about it and the funny thing is I have gone totally off blogging and haven't been here for weeks. But Biddo may have just inspired me to give it a crack again...her new blog is already cracking and it looks so pretty :)

I told her that I can't get the tone of this blog right. I don't know if I want to be funny, if I want to take the piss, if I want to be all serious and homely and mumsey...my tone seems to change each time I read a blog on my list. The other thing I've been thinking about since I fell pregnant is that I often write in this blog like it's a diary BUT it will never be that because other people (okay not many other people, but others all the same!) read it and you don't go sharing your diary around, do you? If I was truly blogging diary style, my pregnancy would have appeared on this blog in January when I found out. Because it's internet land though it stayed a secret until after the 'safe' mark.

It's also weird because I don't know who's reading it or when...my aunt read this the other day and I nearly died of embarrassment, she must have thought I was so full of myself!

Because I haven't blogged in ages I've removed the link to this blog from my facebook page and my forum page as I thought I was going to let it die. Watching Biddo get into blogging though has reminded me why I was sucked in at the beginning...it's so addictive when you get on a roll. So maybe I'll give it another crack and see how it goes.

Over and out. For now...