Photo Friday: Round

Photo Friday: Round
Originally uploaded by Nannerlady

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Ear Infection, Old Man Vestibular Disease, or Stroke?

These are the possible things that are wrong with Buddy, our 10-yr-old cocker spaniel. I adopted him just over two years ago. At the time he was quite spry and I was positive we would get at least 5 years out of him if not more. He has a “stubborn old man” personality.

Buddy’s had a traumatic few weeks that culminated in a vet visit yesterday, an anti-nausea shot, getting his ears flushed, and antibiotics for the next week.

Breaking Your Child’s Bad Homework Habits: 4 Simple Solutions to Help Your Easily Frustrated Kid

Oh my gosh! Brenda over at ADDMoms has described Joy to a "T". Last week was a hot mess when it came to homework and there was a night or two I had to remind myself that I was the mom and couldn’t throw a temper tantrum in front of my child.

Breaking Your Child’s Bad Homework Habits: 4 Simple Solutions to Help Your Easily Frustrated Kid: "Other kids are not as even-keeled. Their moods are quick to change, their tempers are volatile, and they are easily frustrated. They often complain that their homework is too hard or too boring. If they encounter difficulties before you have a chance to intervene, they have a meltdown. Their low frustration tolerance makes homework a battleground.

If you have an easily frustrated child living under your roof, here are a few simple measures you can try to break the cycle of negativity revolving around homework."

It’s gratifying to know that I am not the only one. Brenda’s tips are awesome and I wish I had seen this before. At our home I fixed part of the problem by moving Joy’s desk downstairs to the living room and letting her have a snack and break after school before doing homework (ok, this was at the back of my mind the whole time and if I was home would have done it but forgot to mention it to her care provider because I was so intent on setting a firm schedule and routine for her). According to reports from the home front, homework time is much more pleasant for the both of them – which means that I can enjoy time after work with my daughter instead of fighting about homework and trying to dream up consequences as to why it’s not done.

I highly recommend you go read ADDMoms. She has a whole series of articles on homework for every  type of personality.

Music Monday: T-Swizzle

My son is constantly showing me new things on YouTube. I think he watches it more than our cable. I missed the 2009 CMT awards and therefore had no clue about T-Swizzle. Why were we talking about T-Swizzle? Because my kids starting singing “Love Story” in the car a few days ago … well over a week ago. We were school shopping. I do love that my kids will randomly start singing together. It gives me insight into what they are both listening to. Though I am sure that Josh will deny ever listening voluntarily to Taylor Swift.

Disqus Integration

If you happen to actually visit my blog and not get it delivered in email or an RSS feeder, you may have noticed a few changes around here. Sometimes even I get tired of the way my blog looks and need to switch it up a bit. Sort of like moving furniture around every 6 months. It’s a good way to clean things up, play around with a new look, and get rid of clutter.

One new thing that I added, that I hope will build up a little community around my corner of the blogosphere, is Disqus, a commenting system. Why do I need a commenting system? Doesn't Blogger have one built in?

Yes, blogger does have built in, but it's less than ideal. There is no way to do threaded comments, and sometimes comments get lost in my email.

I did in fact use the “idiot-proof” installation method and it seems to have imported all of my comments beautifully (this is actually how I became aware that I had missed a few comments!) That step was the one I was most fearful of since I had read that people had lost hundreds of comments. I can go into disqus and reply to all you wonderful commenters. And soon there will be an Android app for it.

So please, comment away! Even if it’s to say that I write rubbish. I can only get better, right?

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I'm explicit

So ... I was getting ready to write a post about how bored I am and running out of topics (darn writer's block) -- when one literally hits me in my face. My blog has been blocked from work. For being a parked domain. Which is isn't. But still ...

I didn't think I was doing that much on it. So, what do you want to read about here?

Wordless Wednesday: Inked

Wordless Wednesday: Inked
Originally uploaded by Nannerlady

After 4 years of talking about it, I finally got a tattoo. It hurt more than I thought it would. But now that the pain is fading I'm starting to think that I will go back and get the really awesome, really colorful, huge canvas piece I want.

It's like having kids. For those of us wired to procreate, there is an (irrational) need to make more.

Down time

Instead of blogging today when I had some downtime and began suffering from writer's block I took @KG_Photography's advice:

1. Looked at various searches as to why @hankito couldn't get his Samsung Galaxy to sync with Picasa. None of my suggestions worked so I'll have to do some in-person troubleshooting since I have an android phone and have had picasa albums on my phone I think since my G1. If not, I have just become so used to having them in the gallery that "it's just the way it is" now. I <3 Android.