Thursday, October 22, 2009

So this is a blog...

Quote for the Day:

"Eh, it's a long story involving my son, a rum cake, and a low counter. Suffice to say, it turns out that, at first, it's... it's endearing to watch them bounce off of the walls, but man... you take your eyes off them for one second... and bam! They got a bucket on their head, and they're plowing right through your brand new flat screen TV." - Dr Cox

I hadn't heard of a "blog" until last year. All of a sudden, everyone was like "ooh, check out my blog", "ooh, did you see XX's blog?", etc. I was pretty keen to not jump on the bandwagon, with a minimal care factor. However, now my darling husband has his own blog re our son and headphones, and I can always use more ways to avoid doing housework, I decided to dip my toe in the bandwagon... (get it?)

So what to write about? I have few veritable interests, besides music, movies, a little bit of photography, and of course my family and friends. So I guess I can write about them. Most importantly, my boys. So I might document our life, plus chuck in a few random reviews while I'm at it. Never reviewed anything before, but with the amount of baby products we have been using, and experimenting with, I think I can think of a few things to say about them...

So about me. I'm 29, have been married to my husband John for about 2 and a bit years, and we have a gorgeous son, Alex, who is almost 10 months old. John and I were in the same year at high school, have been best friends since we were 20, then housemates since we were 23, a couple since we were 24, then married when we were 26.



About John: he's 6 foot, Korean, music lover, headphone addict, "tech-savvy" (i.e. huge nerd), incredibly intelligent yet academically lazy, commercial accountant, CPA studying, lover of fine food, amazing guitar player, basketballer, football mad, Liverpool supporter, smiles all the time, and has impeccable taste in movies.

Me: generally average. I'm a stay-at-home mum. I have 2 & 1/2 degrees - my BA (in psychology), 1/2 an early childhood degree, and my B. Commerce degree. I am an accountant (when working). I love music and play piano. I have a mum & a dad, two big sisters, who I adore, two nieces, one nephew, and another niece or nephew due in early February (I know which, but not allowed to say).

I don't like watching too much TV, but I am a big fan of the TV in general. My current favourites list is Gilmore Girls ("they talk so fast, but they talk from the heart"), Scrubs, Seinfeld, Heroes (just started watching season one, and am so addicted), Buffy (perennial favourite), Futurama... Movies are also a great time waster, but with our little A-man around, I tend to stick more to the 40 minute length options than the 2 hour movies. My current all-time favourite list includes The Royal Tennenbaums, Garden State, The Departed, movies of the Kevin Smith oeuvre, Juno... Need to start watching some new stuff.

So anyway, what's happening at this juncture in our lives...

John is a few days away from his first CPA exam, which I can only assume he hopes will be similar to the review quiz at the end of Go Diego Go, with the amount of study he's done. I cannot wait for him to finish this subject, so we can enjoy doing stuff without feeling guilty about him not studying.

Alex's two front top teeth have cut through! Much less painful than when the bottom two came through. He has been a little cross the last week or so, but hey, who hasn't. He does look super cute with just the bottom two teeth. I'm sure the top two won't take away from the cuteness though.



We're in the midst of seeing if we want to switch to cloth nappies instead of disposables. We're currently spending about $20 a week or so on disposables, which is fairly outrageous. We've so far purchased one MCN (Modern Cloth Nappy) from Ebay, from Hong Kong, and are giving that a trial before we buy any others. Once we've finished our rigorous testing regime, that may be my first review. The cost of MCNs is also a little outrageous ($35 for a nappy!!), but I guess they do work out much cheaper in the long run. Plus we can use them for our next bubba also.

Hmm, what else... I have a five year plan. My lovely friend Jillbert inspired me with her five month plan a few months ago, but I got a little carried away and made a five year plan instead. By December, I was supposed to have lost 7kg, and we were supposed to have made the backyard presentable. Okay, we still have two months, but neither goal is really coming to fruition as yet.

I've been "chubby" for a while now, but I was reasonably happy with my weight before I was pregnant with Alex, but have kind of sadly plateaued at my post-birth weight since Alex was born. Not cool. I have a gym membership I haven't used for a few weeks, but have started trying to go for a 2 km walk every day, and quit the snacking... Somehow I feel I'll need to do something a little more intensive to reach my goal in 2 months though.

Anyway, enough about me. Alex is up from his nap now, so back into Mummy-mode...