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Love my gut-suckers! I'm with you trill keeps a handle on the wobbles!
Bummer about the quiz Trill, those rules sound a bit harsh. What percentage is it worth? The word quiz sounds like a small % compared to test assignment or exam??? Maybe?
We're a long way off night TT. She was a full, full nappy every morning. On the upside Sas goes without a nappy at home now. Not when we are out as there isn't much time between her saying and her going!
Have you recovered from the wedding G? Did you get a cramp???
Lounging back in a nice hotel tucking into the turn down chocs. Girls tucked ip in bed with me and I'm watching hey hey. Nit a bad Sat night. Lol
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JM I hope this means you are feeling a bit better...I haven't checked your other thread for an update. :hug:
Trill, bummer about the mark...agree that's a tricky marking system. Being a quiz though it should be a smaller percentage of your final mark? Our shop isn't too bad, there's a fantastic (clean) parent's room just outside the supermarket so it's pretty easy to leave your trolley & hoof out when you need to in a hurry. Which was handy when I was having my chemo-incontinence episodes :redface:.
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hi girls!
just a quickie as the ocean beckons...(yes, i have to rub it in a little bit...ahhh beach holidays are AWESOME! even if you have to drive 1000kms with a newborn and a toddler lol).
sherie: i am sorry about the mark. BUT it is only one mark in the bigger process iykwim. i remember that in one tutorial we got 2 assesments back....one i got a 94% and the other i got a 47% lol. sometimes you just cant pick 'em.
Arte: we are sooo not night TT. but i am still on a high of the daytime TT lol.
G: how did the wedding go? were the gutbusters ok, or did they just get in the way of dessert??? gosh, i would want lots of room to eat at a wedding hahahaha! but i am a greedy guts lol.
JM: i am hoping that the ocean will clear the boob thrush...apparently it can happen...and pigs might fly lol. ah well, i can live in hope!
AFM: well we are having an awesome time! have been looking out for whales but no luck (there was a whale festval yesterday and all). but lots of dolphins and lots of beach and lots of surf! having heaps of fun fun fun! marta has been sleeping and smiling the whole time and leila cannot believe that there can be so much water around lol. altough she was horrified that the salt stings her cuts lol.
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The quiz was worth 20% of the overall mark. The first two assignments (an individual and then a group response) are worth 60% and I already got a D for the individual and I'm pretty sure we will get at least that with the group one. The second assignment was a lesson plan and it was worth 20% too and I am pretty confident that I will get a good mark for that too. I'm not feeling as bummed today about it - whatever will be will be and all that. I think it was more the fact that we were allowed two goes and could copy the questions so we had a week to revise and study and I still didn't get a brilliant mark.
Oooohhhh JM! Chocolates and a motel room. I did that too when I went to Canberra - brought some yummy chocolates and ate them while sitting on the bed watching TV. So does that mean you are on your way here or here already?
Cass, A hates the beach, I think it is because the sand moves under his feet when he's in the water.
MD, I have gotten in the habit of asking him if he needs to go before we go in, but if we do get caught out, at least I can do the same and leave the trolley near the checkouts, and then go outside - best bit about having a boy is that I can just find the nearest tree LOL otherwise the nearest toilets to the supermarket are across the road in the the park.
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Trill, by D I am assuming distinction and not a fail D? You should be alright then. I agree about the boys being handy when it comes to emergency toilet stops. I am not sure what happens with girls - the girl bits aren't as user friendly for roadside peeing.
MD, are rhododendron's not around over there? I thought they were a universal type plant? So far he can name the rhodies, Magnolias and Kowhai trees, which is about the limit of my knowledge on the topic anyway. I am wondering if a sudden interest in gardening is a red flag for the approach of middle age?
I have never heard of Te Puna but I wouldn't expect anything from our local library. It is mainly a wireless hotspot for tourists with laptops and then there are about 10 shelves of outdated books. I have a sci-fi/fantasy collection bigger than the libraries lol. My uni is very good though, about 1/3 of the students are extramural and they are very fast if you request an article. There is also a massive online database of a bazillion journals etc from the mid 70's forward.
And I actually laughed out loud about the bumhole prolapse!
Cass, sound lovely! I am so excited about beach weather. Not likely to see any whales or dolphins around here but it is still fun.
What do girl mums call the girl bits? I find vagina too....technical? for kids but I don't want something too babyish like weewee kwim?
If anyone is looking for a bit of a laugh, read the Brazilian thread in the Boo Hoo room.
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Yeah, D is distinction and not D for dunce LOL. We somehow got into the habit when E was little to call it a mare-mare and I have no idea why it was called that, but when she got a bit older it was vagina. I sorta agree that it's a bit technical but other than 'vuh-jay-jay' as favoured by Oprah :rofl: there isn't really much else you can call it LOL
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hmmm maybe we will have to bite the bullet and go with vagina...
BTW I forgot to say WooHoo Sas! She is waaaay young for TT! That is very clever. And it must be nice for you JM, not having to deal with dirty nappies when you are feeling like arse.
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Lulu is my sisters favorite alternative
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yeah lulu is interesting lol!
we use good ol' vagina around here. although the occasional 'wee wee' does crop up.
*off to read about brazilians...*
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What do you mean that vagina is too technical? Like the word itself ? I don't quite understand. We just call it a vagina, Lu sometimes says Gina but other than that it's just a vagina here! I figure it's just another word. :dunno:
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I don't know, it just sounds so grown-up for little kids? Do you know what I mean? I am sure it is just my hang-up, they would just accept it if I used it....o.k, vagina it is!
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If your anything like a few of my friends your reluctance is probably caused by your parents inability to use the correct word, so I say break the cycle!! :) it's not a bad word or a naughty word, it is what it is. Go on say it vagina, vagina, vaaaaaagina!
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I get what you mean Arte. When I was little - 7-8 yrs old, mum was always one to use proper names for body parts BUT she had to start encouraging me to use 'mary' because some of the other mums thought I was too 'forward' and I had apparently corrected one girl at school when she called it a mary and I must have told her no, it's a vagina :rofl: I don't remember it but Mum told me I did it and I guess she got a phone call from the other Mum and then word got around that I was a 'forward' child LOL, just because I knew what the bloody thing was called. I thought it hilarious years later though when we are all nearly finished high school and I was the only girl who hadn't started using hers yet ;) I felt like saying to their mums 'so who's forward now?' :lol:
Oh and I got the expected D result for our group task, so I'm feeling a lot better about my overall grade now.
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Mary!? Lulu!? Perhaps I should just pick a random girls name and go with it lol. Trill, I can't believe someones mum would call your mum to complain that you called a body part by the correct name! Crazyness! And lol - that would have been satisfying to say to the other mums. Well done on your D. What are the grade cut-offs? We use the letter grade system here.
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How about virginia? That's kinda phonetically related :lol:...
I've never heard a lulu called a mary before. Trill I thought your story of The Vagina Incident was hilarious...and thought provoking. It seems to imply that teaching our daughters about their bodies early helps them in the self-respect stakes later on...?
My problem with using the word vagina is - it's technically not the correct word for most DD-related usage...you're usually referring to their vulva. But teaching vulva is just way OTT. Until they get a bit older. I'm saving up choice morsels for the no-details spared birds and bees 303 session DD1's gonna get sometime over the next year or so :lol:.
Cass all that ocean and fresh air must be doing you good. :)
Arte - we have rhododendrons but they are mostly small shrubby things, the big ones only grow in cool moist areas. And NO WAY are you approaching middle age. I believe I am the oldest person in this thread... and despite my menopausal-threat I am no where near middle age...AND I've loved gardening all along. So there.
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Haha MD, that's what my mum says. But I figure it's more correct than hoo ha or the likes.
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Arte, we get given a numeric score, but our grades are all letters. P is 50 - 64%, Credit 65 - 74%, Distinction is 75-84% and High Distinction is 85-100%. I always thought it odd though that the HD range is so big, you'd think it would only be the top 10%.
LOL MD, true about vulva. There is plenty of time to 'go there' I reckon so vagina will suffice for now. And Mum had the same conversation with a parent about my sister when she was a similar age. Only this time it was 'lesbian' and she'd called one of her friend's Mum a lesbian because she had a friend she was uber close to and she'd overhead Mum joke that they must be lesbians. The funniest thing about that was the Mum actually said something about it to my sister and said 'Do you even know what a lesbian is?" and my sister told her exactly what it was :rofl: I did think that was probably a bit OTT, but these days kids kinda need to know all this stuff because they are exposed to it more than what our generation ever was as kids. I just tell them not to tell anyone else because their parents might not want them to know yet. Fingers crossed that works for a while LOL. Otherwise I'LL be the one getting phone calls.
