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Jun 16 2008

Monday’s Child: Rare Edition

Tag: Galleries — cerebralmum @ 7:42 pm

Yes, a rare photo of Cas AND his Mum.

We went to see The Medieval Imagination exhibition at the State Library a little while ago with a couple of friends; Brett from Airminded, and HG, who wrote that beautiful guest post for me. That meant there was somebody other than me to hold the camera and that is, I think, one of the best presents you can give a single parent.

In other news…

I haven’t been very well, hence my long absence.

I haven’t been very well, hence 1st semester uni was really screwed up. I’ll do better next time.

A girlfriend gave me her old car. Hooray for being able to grocery shopping with ease! (And see friends at the State Library). The car is sadly purple but my friend still rocks, obviously.

We’ve received some parcels for WinterWarm, which is also great, and I’ll be working on some blog posts for that this week.

There is a couple of other (possible) good news items but I don’t want to jinx them so… we’ll see.

And my Mum will be visiting soon which means I will get to have a sleep in for the first time in a year.

I’ll also be able to get to see my doctor, with Mum babysitting and me in my shiny, purple car. So hopefully health won’t be an issue for much longer.

Hugs to everyone I’ve abandoned and I will be trying to catch up with you all soon.

xx

Monday’s Child: The world’s worst haircut…

Tag: Galleries — cerebralmum @ 7:04 pm

World's worst haircut. Caspar. 1 year old.

Hello. My name is Caspar. You probably know that already because my Mum writes about me a lot.

Anyway, I now have the worst haircut in the history of the universe. Except perhaps for the early 1900s, which is the era I now look like I was born in even though I’m totally a 21st century boy.

You see, my mother has been trying to cut my hair for 2 months, but I’ve resorted to the most devastating tactics to avoid this. She finds it difficult to get near me with scissors when I’m screaming and struggling. The screaming she could live with, but when I move around like a shark in a net, the scissors just seem far too risky. Today, however, she was determined.

She put me in the bath seat. She gave me an entire bag of chocolates to play with. I still didn’t cave and it required about 20 minutes of randomly snipping whatever hair she could get a hold of before the chocolate bliss finally set in and I stayed still.

She tried to tidy it up as best she could while I complained about the hair falling in my bag of chocolate, but this is what I’m left with. She’s a bit annoyed because she really likes my hair and is quite a good hairdresser normally. But I guess I only have myself to blame.

By the way, she’s still alive and will return to tell you all about O-Week and what she’s been up to soon.

Love Caspar.

ps: My belly button is really funny.

Monday’s Child: Caspar loves plants…

Tag: Galleries — cerebralmum @ 11:26 pm

Monday’s Child: Why he doesn’t care whose birthday it is…

Tag: Galleries — cerebralmum @ 10:35 pm

WinterWarm: A sneak preview…

Tag: Galleries — cerebralmum @ 8:16 pm

I’ve done a fair bit of work on the site design and only have a few things left to tweak. I found a theme I absolutely adore but the layout is fairly image based so I had to do a lot of editing in Fireworks to change the colours.

But, boy, do I love the colours now! So here is a sneak preview…

WinterWarm Header

(Note: I’ve compressed the image so it looks a little blurry here, but at least I’ve saved you some time on page load.)

The base theme had no header image so it took some work to build that in, although the hardest part was finding the right image to begin with and then blending it so that it would work full width while the content itself was fixed width.

I also incorporated a more website-style menu, rather than the usual blog-like list of pages beecause the blog isn’t the most important feature of the site: Making sure people have access to all the information they need to help us out is. I couldn’t take a screen shot with the hover effect - because I had to use my mouse to get the screen shot, but on hover the menu item changes to a lilac background, also with the little arrow indent.

Like I said, the CSS is a little image based but I haven’t created something like this before so I’m quite pleased. The 3 pictures there will change. I’ve just used stock images while working on the layout. Unfortunately my mother’s external hard drive got stolen so I don’t have access to all her photographs from Afghanistan.

It was a horrible loss for her after a decade of working overseas and travelling to exotic places and meeting so many wonderful people. Unfortunately her laptop only has thumbnails so everything is gone. It’s a good reminder to backup, I guess. But what an awful reminder!

I also switched the theme to left sidebar instead of right, again, so it appears more as a website than a blog, and I removed the top navigation bar all together.

I’ll probably write more about it the base theme later - and bore you all to tears - but I just wanted to show you a little bit of what I’ve been doing while abandoning this blog to hurried, un-proofread posts.

And when I finally have some free time? Boy, is this blog’s design in for a major overhaul!

Monday’s Child: Sleepovers and shopping…

Tag: Galleries, Uncategorized — cerebralmum @ 9:47 pm

I had a girlfriend over for the weekend, which rocked, and we went out to Direct Factory Outlets shopping, as girls do. I got a lovely dress as a very early birthday present.

Yup. That’s the end of this post. I’ve got to get everything sorted for enrolment tomorrow. It will probably be about a 5 hour round trip and enrolment will take around 3. I’m taking Cas, so it will require some organising to be up and out of here when we need to be.

But it’s Monday, anyway. You’re only here so you can look upon the most amazing person in the history of the universe, right? Oh, that’s my friend with him. She’s pretty cool too.

C & C at the Shopping Centre