Little Cozy Corner

With Valentine’s Day and Ted’s birthday just over - it’s 2 big occasions out of the way but I still have a couple of major birthdays coming up ie Mum’s and Sis’s. Ever since I was a kid, I used to personally make my own greeting cards to give Mum and Dad for their birthdays as well as for Mother’s and Father’s Day and I must say that it made me feel very proud when Mum would stick it on the wall just above the her writing table. It gave me a personal sense of satisfaction and appreciation from her simple yet meaningful gesture.

I’m not sure what spurned this love of making greeting cards as it never wore off until quite recently. Perhaps it’s due to the lack of time and dead braincells or perhaps I’ve just lost it, but I really miss making personalized greeting cards because it’s well, personalized! When I lost interest in making cards as in starting from scratch, I made sure I had some other greeting cards program installed so that although it’s not THAT personalized, at least I could still have my way with the wordings and part of the designing. And even that has gone out the window since I came to Sydney because Ted and I share the same PC hence, I don’t want to bog down the puter with my heavy graphics since Ted has his modding and relies heavily on the PC. Hate to be the one to break it coz then he will break me after that! *lol*

I really hope that once we settle down in our new place and Ted sets up the new PC which we bought during Christmas, I can then install some of my stuff there or even in here depending on what his plan is and how he wants to go about stuff. At the moment, this PC is a mess and trying to explain it would be a disaster.

All in all, I would really like to get back into the habit of making my own cards again because it was really fun and I personally get nice high from seeing my card being appreciated. Have you made personalized cards for your family or friends? What was their response? And with the response you got, are you encouraged to continue the art?

You know how we all have weird habits….? Well, I’ve just discovered that I have 2 more but they are totally not related at all - thank god! One of them is the fact that I’m fussy with bread. I hate it when my loaf of bread gets out of shape when it gets squashed. In fact, I never pick a load that if out of shape. And when I make a sandwich, the 2 slices must match in the sense that they have to be put together in the order as they were in the bag that they came in. Know what I mean? Now on to the other weird habit….

I just realised that I’m fussy about how my toilet paper rolls. In another words, it has to be rolled ‘out and over’….not ‘in and under’. When Ted first explained it to me, my brain went all blank and I couldn’t imagine it until we made comparisons. At home, we do things my way and at his mum’s place, we do it her way, and we both roll our toilet paper differently. Not surprising that Ted didn’t notice this…hehehe. He also doesn’t notice that if he replaces the toilet roll the way his mum does, I change it when it’s my turn in the loo. If you’re still wondering what the heck, I’m talking about, here are pictures to explain :

My way….

Mother in law’s way…

As you can see, it’s VERY different and it really puts me off when it’s NOT my way. Funny how I’m fussy that way. Does how the toilet paper roll, effect you? Would you go out of the way to correct if it wasn’t going your way? I would if it was in my house but of course, I don’t mess up other people’s turf….I just grin and bear with it. But in actual fact, it almost every time hits my nerve! =P

Now, on to another toilet paper topic. Hehehe…sorry la, just had to bring this up since it was on a morning talk show on telly today. With Christmas around the corner, almost everything has a Christmassy theme about it. From clothes to decor to the more intimate things like TOILET PAPER. That’s right…..to make sure that the whole house is in sync with the festive season, some people go to the extend of getting Christmassy toilet paper as well….

Cute eh?

I think it’s really cute…so cute that if I ever bought these, I wouldn’t use it because it was just TOO cute! But with these patterns I guess it’s not too difficult to use on your nether regions. BUT what if the toilet paper in question had Santas on them…..? Would you still use it? What do you think of them?

I know that toilet paper is toilet paper but when you see Santa on toilet paper and you KNOW you’re going to be using it on places where the sun doesn’t shine…it just seems wrong!! I would personally find it hard to use toilet paper like these….what about you? Does it affect you at all or you just don’t care?

I’m not sure if I stand alone on this matter but I think it’s a little bizarre to me personally. I’ve not been as active as I would like to on FaceBook [FB], what with the loads of poking I get and I have to poke back to show that I am still alive and now with Christmas just around the corner, suddenly you have all these applications piling in and the numbers are growing like mushrooms all over the place!! I can hardly keep up and that’s being totally humble about it.

It was just a couple of days ago someone added me as a friend and for the life of me, I couldn’t recognize the person despite having his photo in his profile. Not wanting to assume who he was since he also knew a couple of blogger whom I also knew - friends we have in common so to speak, I shot him a message to find out who he was. He hasn’t really replied and I couldn’t be bothered to find out what blog he blogs at either. And THAT brings me to the question - do you really know the blogger behind the blog? Or do you just know the blog ie. you know mistyeiz @ mistyeiz.com BUT you don’t know who Yvy is…get my drift?

I do realise that many bloggers out there blog anonymously but sometimes, when you’ve read them long enough, they turn out to be good friends and you meet up. Hence, they are no longer anonymous, at least to you. Others, well….perhaps there is a reason for the anonymity. To be totally honest, there is merely a small handful of bloggers who are still anonymous to me. Most of them I know by name [when I remember] or have at least a face to attach to the name and blog or we’ve actually met up in real life for a drink or 2. And along this same journey, I’ve also made a few good friends as well.

But it’s really funny when I go through my FB and realise that I don’t recognise some faces but when I read their profile, they blog at so and so and I go, ‘OOOooooo…..that’s that blog!’ or ‘Ooooo….now I know what she/he looks like!’. lol It’s really funny but at the same time, really makes me think that it’s really almost impossible to remain anonymous unless you really take the steps to make sure you don’t accidentally link your blog to some public profile or  vice versa.