Subject Choices

Tonight Ali and I sat down and went through his choices of subjects for next year. We have been working towards this for a few weeks now investigating different career options and which subjects will give him the most options. They have to take English, Maths and Science and then they have a choice of 3 other subjects for 5th form. His current choices are French and Graphics. He has not enjoyed French since we shifted - something to do with the teacher, so has decided to drop that subject, pick up Economics and continue with Graphics. The way he is leaning at the moment he is looking at two career paths in marketing and/or sales, and these two subjects seem to keep the most doors open for him. His third option is PE. Can't believe that isn't a standard part of the curriculum still.

His next task for the evening was to sell his choice of subjects to Andy and prove that he had done the research to back his decision. Very scary to think that Ali will be in the 5th form next year. Really starts making me wonder where on earth all those years have gone, especially those ones with the annoying toddler that I never thought would finish.

Digital is Cool

 Woohoo, my first ever digital layout! I enrolled in an online course that Jessica Sprague is doing. Her instructions and videos are so clear that anyone can learn to create these layouts, really enjoying what she is showing us. I am also slowly starting to learn a whole heap more about Photoshop Elements and what it can do. Amazing piece of software.

Nick went for a sleepover at his mates place on Saturday - I don't think they slept a wink all night. When I went to pick him up he was only in the car about 2minutes before he fell asleep. We also had Tommy's rugby prizegiving which was a heck of a lot bigger than I was expecting. Turned out to be the whole of the junior boys division with about 200people there and the bar open and all. My first experience with rugby club prizegivings.

Bookworms.

I have become a right bookworm again just lately. I was lent a copy of The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons. Wow, that lady can really write a good book. I have been sitting up reading before I head to bed at night and several nights this week time has run away with me and before I know it, midnight is here. I finished the book this morning and can't wait to get into the next books in the series. I picked up a copy of Tully also by Paullina the other day, but I think I want to save that for a bit.

Lucky for me I have a couple of scrapping magazines to read instead.

Final game of rugby

for Tommy was this morning in the pouring rain. Unfortunately he has been suffering with a cold for the last few days and his throat was too sore to go this morning. Not sure if it really was because it hasn't been sore for the rest of the day but I sure didn't want to stand in the rain so I didn't query him too much on that one. Oh well, I am sure he will still enjoy prizegiving next Sunday just as much.

We have managed to find another caravan to replace the one that was stolen and signed up for that during the week. It is off getting an awning made now ready to take up residence at the Lake in the next school holidays. Really can't believe that it is almost time for summer again - mind you with the weather lately I am definitely ready for summer.

I think we need to change the water filters in the house, it takes forever to have a shower lately as the water trickles out of the shower head. Strange that they need replacing already our filters at the old place were replaced annually. I suppose we only filtered our kitchen water though.

Gee don't I lead an exciting life - 10.30 on a Saturday night and I am blabbering on about water filters!! Man, I need some excitement.

I have a job!

Woohoo! I reckon this has to be my dream job - a bit of admin work, updating and uploading products to a website, parttime hours - 9.30 to 2.30 Monday to Thursday, great people to work and the icing on the cake is the wonderful products I get to work with. Yep I started work today at Scrapbook Studio in Mt Wellington. I enjoyed my day so much and couldn't believe it when it was time to come home. Very excited about going again tomorrow.

Very cool site this. Came across it tonight as I was surfing blogs and decided I had to have one of these.

Scrapping up a Storm.

 Wow, I think my scrapping drought has been broken and I have creating like crazy. Lots of challenges have certainly helped this creative burst. This first layout is created for the No 8 Wired blog and their current dare to create a layout that celebrates a real Kiwi saying.


 Next layout is one I created for a challenge at SBO which was set during the cybercrop held last Friday night. I really did enjoy that crop and that seems to have sparked my scrapping burst. This challenge was to scrap a layout about a name.

 

The final layout comes from another SBO challenge to scrap a layout in a different size that you haven't done before. I decided to try the currently popular 6x12 size and am very pleased I did. Loving that size and it is great when you have only pic that needs to go on a page.

Lots more to tell but my scrapping desk is calling my name and I gotta go :-)