On the second day of Christmas....

I completed a 16.72km run (longest yet), solved a Furby Boom crisis when Miss A's Furby decided to take on a male voice with a distinctive English accent, watched most of the Location, Location, Location Australia marathon (it continues tonight), took Miss A to the park, went for a walk which turned into a run due to a incoming storm, and completed numerous laps of the hallway (plus push ups, squats and star jumps) to keep Miss A moving instead of becoming a square eyed computer nerd.

Back to the Furby Boom.  Miss A got a Furby Boom from Santa.  These creatures are quite amazing, especially coupled with the app that Miss A has installed on her/my tablet.

They apparently develop a personality based on how they are treated.  I was a little confused as to why Miss A's decided to take a on English accented male this morning.  It did a little crazy thing and yelled out "I'm changing" and boom there it is!!  So Miss A was in tears begging me to get her Furby back to the cute baby voice - apparently Princess/Cute - original personality.

Thank goodness I'm a librarian and have research skills - actually all I did was a google search on Furby's changing voice and boom there it is!!  Play some calming music and stroke your Furby to get it back to "nice."  Problem solved!

Really I have to wonder, what did we do for entertainment as kids?!?  Now they have these interactive toys that take on personalities!

Moving along... Miss A has been doing a lot of sit down activities since the holidays started - e.g. watching YouTube videos about Minecraft, playing Minecraft on both PC and tablet, and now playing with Furby.  So as I have embarked on a fitness phase (ok I'm not going to think of it as a phase - it is permanent lifestyle change), I needed to set some rules.  After finishing each activity, Miss A has to run up and down the hallway 5 times (up and back count as 1).

As I was watching so much TV, I thought I would join in and up the challenge each time by adding some extra exercises.  We are now doing 5 laps of the hallway, 5 push ups, 5 squats and 5 star jumps).  She is really enjoying it.

So what did you do on the second day of Christmas?

PS.  I have a blog correction to make from my last post: Librarian in the Mirror is now posting as Rach Wray, and Polyxena and Shewgirl are also joining in the fun.

Blog December Post 30/Blog12daysxmas post 6 - Rise of the Guardians

Ok this is a day late and I don't even remember what yesterday's Destiny Card was.  You will get two posts today - one this morning and one this evening - lucky you!

On the 6th day of Christmas.... I took my daughter and a friend and her daughter to the Nambucca Cinema to see Rise of the Guardians.

This is the second time my daughter has been to the cinema.  The movie was very good, however I can't help but think that more and more the kids movies are providing more entertainment for the adults rather than the kids.

My friend and I had moments of laughing out loud where no one else in the cinema was laughing.  It could be down to our sense of humour but I think some of the humour was lost on the kids.  I think some of it was due to the fast pace of the movie, not that the kids didn't get it.

Anyway, the idea behind the movie was a great one.  Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and Sandman (the guy who gives us dreams) are under attack by Pitch Black (the boogey man).  The Moon has appointed Santa, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy and Sandman as Guardians to protect the children's beliefs and imagination.

Jack Frost has been wondering what his role is in life since being appointed Jack Frost by the moon.  He doesn't know what his life was before becoming Jack Frost.  So when he is also appointed a Guardian, he is not sure of his role as the children don't believe in him because they can't see him and they don't know what he does.

I won't spoil the story, other than to say it was lots of fun and I recommend anyone with young children to take them along to see it.

Once home, I went for my walk and purchased some bubbly with plans to listen to some tunes (which some of you may have noticed I posted lyrics and youtube clips on Facebook).

So this is why there was no blog post yesterday, because I was under the influence and couldn't really manage to link thoughts into a blog post - it happens to the best of us and I know that I should've held off till tonight when most others will be having a glass of bubbly but very rarely do I see the New Year in anyway and I hope to be down the beach on New Year's day not nursing a hang over.