Free Rice

If you're like me and desperately *NEED* another internet distraction, you might like to visit free rice . Somebody from the Simple Savings forums was sharing this the other day so some of you may have already seen it.

Basically, you have to guess the meanings of words and for each answer you get correct they donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger.

The website does come with it's own warning though.....

"WARNING: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, job performance..." LOL.

And for those of you who are competitive (unlike me lol), I had a play for about half an hour the other night and reached level 41 (can't remember how many grains of rice it ended up being). Naturally I have to have another go and see if I can better that!

So if you'd like some help with procrastinating.... that will help someone else at the same time..... AND help improve your own vocabulary, give it a go.

Oh, and don't forget to let us know in the comments section how you did (and how many grains of rice you donate).

Right Brain vs Left Brain

This was shared on the forums at the simple living network . It's an interesting test to see whether you are left or right brained. I have no idea as to the authenticity of this. I am *lightening* after all. :-) My gullability ratings haven't improved all that much in the past 20 years.

But, accurate or not, it has still created a lot of fun. The idea is to see whether this dancer is turning in a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction. That's supposed to give you an indication of whether you are "left brained" or "right brained".

So far it has caused much debate in our family. I can only get it to turn in a clockwise direction. No matter what I have tried, I can't see anything else. I got DS to have a try, thinking that he would be "right brained" (being so good at maths and all) and would therefore see it turning anti-clockwise (which is supposed to be the most common direction seen). He started off seeing it turning clockwise and then found it would randomly change directions as he watched.

Well, DH got home and we all crowded around the computer monitor. He also found it would change the direction in which it was turning as he watched. Of course he, in all his wisdom, kept insisting DS was wrong if he claimed it was going in a different direction to what DH thought it was going in. *sigh*. Took me a good few times of telling him it wasn't *wrong* it was just their brains viewing it differently. Perhaps I needed a piece of 2x4 to whop him up the side of the head. Of course how he sees the world is how everyone should!!!!

So, DH and DS can both see it changing directions. I can still only see it turning clockwise. How about you? Let us know what you see when you view her. :-)

Just Cos I Wanna.....

I coloured my hair this morning just cos I wanna..... :-) I picked up a packet of hair colour for $1 on the Coles bargain shelf last week. It's one of those that wash out in 6-8 washes. Loooooonnnnnnggggg time since I've used one of those. In fact, it took me back to my teenage years when it was about all I could afford in the way of hair colour on my $3 a week allowance. LOL. And they were more than $1 even back then!

As I was standing in the bathroom adding chemical goop (yeah must research more natural forms of colouring) to my hair, I was thinking about the contrast between me as a teenager and me as a mother. As a teenager it seems to be quite "normal" to do things simply because we "wanna". As a mother it's easy to go to the other extreme and not do ANYTHING simply cos we "wanna".

So, is it okay to do things simply because you feel like it. Or is that considered selfish? I guess I was of the opinion that it was selfish. Not consciously. I just thought it was the right thing to put myself last. WRONG!!! In putting myself last, I ended up in a state that made me of no use to anyone.

It comes down to a matter of balance doesn't it? We can't really all go back to our teenage years of all fun and no responsibility (not that I was ever *really* one of those). But does that really mean we can't have ANY fun? Nah!!!! I just forgot how for a little while.

So I'm feeling really proud of myself today for doing something that really had no purpose and took up time that I really *could* have spent doing something else. Instead I chose to do something "just cos I wanna". :-)

I've decided it's time to relive my adolescence (is that called a mid life crisis? lol). Not all of it, just the fun bits. After all, my definition of maturity even back then was "knowing when it's appropriate to be immature". :-) We don't have enough FUN anymore. It's time to have FUN!!!!! Are ya with me?????

A Bit of Fun

This website was posted by someone on the Simple Living Network. It's good for a laugh and a bit of fun:

http://www.therightfoot.net/mystuff/whatever/swf/bubblewrap.swf

I thought DH might get a bit of a laugh out of it so I showed it to him last night. Turns out the laugh was on me as I couldn't get him off my computer. LOL. My computer is the one connected to the internet at the moment. We'd had a rather stressful day with the kids yesterday between one thing and another. I think he found it to be quite a good stress release. :-)

Go on - have some fun. You know you want to. :-)