Daily Happiness

[wickedcherub]

1. I went to Mother's Group today. I discovered everyone there is of walking distance from my house! Hopefully we can all be friends because it would be nice just to be able to pop over after the formal meetings are over. Most of the women there have grown up in this area though, and we really don't have much in common, but everyone seems very nice, so fingers crossed!

Seems unwanted advice from strangers comes in RL too. One of the women there was bottle feeding her son in public and a girl walked past and told her 'BREAST IS BEST'. WTF. Like yes, we actively choose what's not best for our children! FFS. Having said that, I'm quite happy I've been able to breastfeed for this long after wanting to give it up so often.

2. I have been addicted to the Entanglement game that's linked in my Google Chrome browser. http://entanglement.gopherwoodstudios.com/ it's easy to play using one hand while breastfeeding :) My highest score so far is only 167 though.

3. A person came up on the 'people you may know' column of my Facebook. We don't have any mutual friends but I recognised her profile picture of her kid because she's my best friend's cousin. (Yes, creepy, but the kid is so cute and my best frend keeps sending me photos) My best friend isn't on Facebook so I don't know how she came up! I'm glad she did, as I really like her but she's moved to Canberra.

This girl is a clean freak and not into rock music at all, but one time we were desperate for someone to use up our spare ticket to Placebo so we dragged her along, lined up at 10am, so we could be at the front of the mosh pit. She had other people's sweat all over her, was crushed and exhausted and she hated the music and she hasn't quite forgiven us :)

That's pretty much it. Today has been pretty shit in all other areas, except that Adam's picked up on it and has given me glomp hugs every time he sees me.

Comments

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Aaaaah, that game is really addictive! D:

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

what's your highest score? I have yet to actually formulate any sort of strategy though.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

I've only played three games, but so far my best is 179.

[melbournian.livejournal.com]

I've played two games and scored 258 on my second game. I don't intend to play any more games. I'll outline my strategy.

Rotate the tile only in one direction, doing a full rotation. Eliminate any options that lead to a dead end (end the game).

Count the dead end line segments for each option. If two dead ends close off count it as zero, if it creates a new dead end with no adjacent tiles count it as one, and for each other unfinished dead end affected by the tile count its length. Add up the total for each option and typically go for the lowest number.

When working towards one of the six initial corners or any other corners created bias more openings for these positions.

Tend to create openings that lead across tiles as you don't always get loops (rarely any decision left by this stage).

Ultimately it comes down to chance as even with a strong strategy you don't know what tile you'll get.

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

See, I thought about that, but at the moment I am just clicking :p It's not really a game I want to think about.

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

It astounds me what people think is appropriate to say to strangers.

I hope it works out that you get some mom friends close by.

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

I mean, it's one thing to ask an Internet forum of strangers for advice, but she was just minding her own business.

[bluedano.livejournal.com]

I probably would have responded to "Breast is best!" with "Your ass looks fat in those jeans! Oh, I'm sorry, I thought we were blurting out rude comments."

Okay no, I wouldn't have, I would have sat there with my mouth open catching flies because I was so in shock that someone would be that rude without the internet to hide behind.

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

Haha she had so many comebacks for it, but by then the girl had walked away. The shock of it rendered her speechless for the moment.

[sarahlouise.livejournal.com]

Most of my friends who did mothers group just seemed to find one or two people they really liked at it and broke off from the rest of the group. They always seem to be havens of !!drama!! otherwise! Hopefully yours turns out to be a good one :)

It boggles my mind that people think that giving that type of advice is ANY of their business.

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

Well no, they're mostly bogans. Last week they were discussing what was better the Langy (Langwarrin) Pub vs the Baxter Tavern.

*sigh*

[sarahlouise.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. That's...probably not something I would have an opinion on either.

:(

They never seem to work that well. My friend was in one where all the other mums were mid 30s, well off stay at home mums and who whispered behind her back about my friend because she had her first child at 21 and they assumed she was like, I don't know, in some shotgun marriage. Kind of the opposite extreme to yours. I've not heard many success stories.

[hiyami.livejournal.com]

My best friend isn't on Facebook so I don't know how she came up!

If you sign in on Facebook with a webmail like Yahoo mail, Facebook is able to look at your email address book and match it with emails of members... without asking you any authorization ever.
So depending on parameters on your email account (if it adds everyone ever included in a group mail to your address book like Gmail), or what you use, and their agreements with FB, it may suggest very RANDOM people.

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

Ah that explains it. I think I emailled her once. Thanks Hiyami!

[(Anonymous)]

Damn you that game is fun and addictive. I just got 223 and used all the spaces :D (I am more proud that I used all the spaces lol, I am so OCD)

Hope your mother's group is good - my friend's got a 2 year old and still regularly sees what she refers to as her "boobie group" as they all get on so well :)

[seshat1.livejournal.com]

What, I'm not sure why I wasn't logged in, but that was me!

[frozen-doll.livejournal.com]

I really wish people wouldn't assume that they know what's best for YOUR baby lol! So many people think they can just tell someone else that they know what's best. It's so bizarre...well, I find it bizarre that people can actually but into someone elses life (uninvited) and offer an opinion (that is probably wrong anyway).
People amaze me!

On another note, kudos for finding a one handed game you can play whilst breastfeeding! I had a friend whose child was a VERY slow feeder and it would take SOOOOOO long. She should have thought of playing a game :)