Halleluja!! March 7, 2007

Fearless Driver – Stress-less Parallel Parking

If I ever had to go for another licence test, I can at least practice my parallel parking! Heaven help us.

When I got my licence I was in my first year of varsity (went to school younger than my peers) and I had to go in a borrowed car that I drove for the first time that day. (The advantage in not getting your own car early in life, is that you learn to drive virtually anything.) I was so nervous that my leg was shaking every time I had to step on the clutch. Great was my surprise when at the end of the test the inspector said, okay here’s your licence, just stay off the roads. Did I mention that I flirted outrageously? I doubt that’ll work again – you’re only 18 once.

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Exclusive Books’ Children’s Festival March 7, 2007

For the whole of March Exclusive Books are having events focusing specifically on children. Check online for in-store events, they are also offering 20% off on ALL children’s books bought online (yay!).

Something I’m going to strive towards. March 7, 2007

One of the blogs I subscribe to is the Happiness Project and I’ve picked up a lot of useful tips from the author. One is : If it’s only going to take a minute, do it. This has helped me in keeping the house relatively tidy, because to my surprise I have found that a minute is actually quite long and a lot can be done in it. I am an arch procrastinator and I will put off a lot because it will take longer to do than the time I think I have available right then. I’ve been a convert to the One Minute Principle since an experiment with leftover food. I hate looking for the lids of tupperware containers which mysteriously always seem to go missing, so as a consequence I quite often end up throwing food away the next morning because I couldn’t bring myself to face the tupperware cupboard. A few months ago I faced the inevitable, I rummaged through the cupboard, found a container and a possible matching lid, decanted food into the container, discovered the lid didn’t match, went back to the cupboard, found another possible match, put it on the container and put the container into the fridge. To my horror I discovered that all this took less than a minute!

Every Saturday she gives quotes to help in the eternal quest to be a happier person and I liked this week’s quote:

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. –Anthony Trollope.

A spasmodic Hercules, that’s exactly what I am.

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