Posts Tagged ‘list’
Exceptions To The Rule
We’ve been making a Woodfire Pizza Oven at home over the last few weeks. In one weekend, after so many weeks of waiting, we basically put it all together and started the first fire and batch of pizzas!
Dad was putting the render on the outside, and showing Luke how to do it so he could help. The rule was “Only push the render up, don’t drag it down the pizza oven”. So that’s what Luke did. Later, towards the end I noticed Dad putting the render on sideways. I didn’t say anything, but I thought to myself, “there are (almost) always exceptions to the rules”. I know that for me, there are the odd exceptions when comic sans IS an okay font to use (I know it’s hard to belive…!), or that in cooking, sometimes odd flavours work, and that in craft, sometimes colour combinations that shouldn’t work, do. We can’t be too stuck in the rut, or 100% sure that the ‘rule’ is right.
Now that pizza oven is up and running we’ve used it quite a few times. It’s lovely to sit outside and enjoy some company, and relax. Perfect on these hotter nights! Here are some snaps of the building process:
Oh, and this also means that I can cross something off my list of things that needs to be finished!
1. Making the Christmas pressents for everyone <- very important!
2. Finish making Christmas quilt <- also quite important!
3. Finish bathroom
4. Finish woodfire pizza oven
5. Clean study
6. Edit photos for Pete and Rhys, and edit Video from Hayden’s 18th.
Those last two stare and me, hating me, but I WILL get them done. Eventually. :-S
The slideshow below goes through some of the stages of making the oven. Not sure if you’ll be able to view it in your reader, so if you can’t just click through and view in your browser!
Tags: creation, dad, exceptions, list, oven, pizza, rules, todo
23 by 23
When I read Amy and Carly‘s posts on 23 by 23 (23 things to do before you’re 23) I thought to myself, “Yes, Talia, you should totally do that when you turn… oh, wait, you’re already 22!!! You have less then a year to do a 23 by 23 now!”. Of course, one could always do a 24 by 24, and maybe next year I will, but then I have to remember to do that by near my birthday…
So here’s my 23 by 23. Some I will cross of already- but only things I’ve achieved since my birthday. 
7 months!
Yesterday I needed a bit of a reminder...!
1. Finish my scrapbook from our Jan/Feb travels.
2. Secure the Hutchinson job at work.
3. Be a good blog commentor and comment on at least every 3 or so blog posts I read.
4. Buy Powderfinger’s new album
5. Persue graphic design and photography lessons/online courses
6. Take an enormously large bank loan for our investment
7. Find the perfect cupcake recipe
8. Have a handmade christmas
9. Start saving my $$ again (in the piggy bank- loose coins)
10. Loose 5+ kg
11. Make a header for this blog!! (have been meaning to do this ever since I put this theme on!!)
12. Read through 2 more books of the bible
13. Get my reader to 0
14. Drink 2 bottles of water a day
15. Start Luke’s scrapbook
16. Make plans for another holiday
17. Track my Weight Watchers points every day!
18. Finish editing Pete’s mime photos!
19. Make some pants for summer
20. Finish my christmas wall hanging
21. Finish my paining I started the other week, and paint another
22. Scotch Gard the car seats!
23. Keep Shabbat better.
Tags: 23, accomplish, finish, gifts, god, list, things, todo, weight, Work
7 Reasons I love my iPhone
For the last 10 or so days I have been without my iPhone. It was doing this weird thing where people couldn’t hear me unless I had them on loudspeaker, and even then, I was quiet. So I bit the bullet and sent it in for repair. A good friend of mine, Aaron, works at a phone shop, and so he was looking after it all for me, and gave me his old phone to borrow. It’s apparently a really good phone, but for me, just wasn’t my iPhone.
Yesterday I got a BRAND NEW iPhone given to me from Apple to replace my old one. Having it back was just brilliant, and here’s the reasons why:
1. Clarity. Because the iPhone is basically just a screen, the screen is big. Oh how easy it is SEE what I’m doing! The date is easy, the set out of it all is neat, and it’s easy to see missed calls, received calls etc. And things are LABLED, not just little symbols I don’t know about…
2. Backups. When I plugged my new iPhone in, iTunes opened and it said to me something along the lines of ‘this is a brand new iPhone, and you’ve been syncing a different one normally. Did you just want to put everything from TSRC (old phone) onto this one?’
Errr… YES! This is perfect! I didn’t do a backup or anything on that computer before I took it in!
Not only did it remember all my apps and the SETTINGS in my apps, but it returned to me my entire chat and call history!
3. Easy. It’s easy to touch and flick and select and move. The other phone I was using had a touch screen which I had to use a stylus to use, and even then, because the screen was small, and it wasn’t all that sensitive, it was hard and annoying. I love that my iPhone is simple to slide my finger across, and that it is the perfect sensitivity.
4. Typing. I know some people don’t like typing on the iPhone, and I admit, when I first started, I was one of them. BUT, after typing on a tiny little qwerty keyboard on this other phone, I LOVE the iPhone, particularly the self-correct features. It doesn’t matter that your finger touches other letters, because it will work out what you meant to type when you finish the word, and change it.
5. Apps. I was seriously a bad twitterer while I didn’t have my iPhone (I use Tweetie). Not to mention a bad girl at church with no bible (I use the Olive Tree Bible Reader), and forgetful with out my todo list (I use Awesome Note Pro)!
6. Syncing. I mentioned before about the backups, but being able to sync your phone, so that the information in my calenders are the same, address book is the same, and easily adding photos and music is just one of the reason I love this phone.
7. Logical. I find the iPhone logical. It’s logical that you can order your apps the way you want them, that you can call voicemail by pressing a button instead of going into contacts, that you can put it on silent by flicking a switch on the side, and that you can lock it with one click on the top also.
