8th wedding anniversary

On this day, eight years ago, I was in Canada and getting married. Well, actually, at the time it is in Canada at this very moment, I was probably not even up yet, but let's not be picky. For those who know my age... Yes, that's right, I was barely legal when I got married. Everyone said it wouldn't last, and that we'd be divorcing within two years - if we made it that long - but here we are, eight years later, still married, and happy to be celebrating our anniversary together!

I still remember how he proposed, and I still remember how we came to set the date for our wedding, and I also still remember the events of the day itself. Today, I'm going to share some of the details with you.

For the benifit of anyone who doesn't know, I met Kelly online. After we'd been having an online relationship for a while - and talking on the phone quite a lot too - he obviously decided he wanted to be with me in a more permanent capacity, because he came online one day, and we had a conversation that went something like this:

Kelly: Will you marry me?
Me: Huh?
Kelly: Will you marry me?
Me: I haven't even met you in person yet!
Kelly: OK, but if you still feel the same about me when you do, will you?
Me: Sure, why not!

He then told me he had to ask my Dad's permission, so I got Dad's permission to give Kelly his e-mail address, Dad went on MSN (yeah, that's where the proposal took place, lol) and I went off to get a drink. Next thing I know Dad's calling me, so I go to him, and we have a conversation something like this:

Dad: He wants to marry you
Me: Apparently
Dad: He wants my permission
Me: Yeah, I know
Dad: Should I give it? Do you want to marry him?
Me: Might as well
Dad: Well, shall I give my permission, then you can decide when you meet him?
Me: Sure, why not!

Dad then told Kelly that as long as I wanted to, it was fine with him.

That Christmas I spent in Canada with him, and the following April I went there for what ended up being about six months (was meant to have been a permanent thing, but that's another story). I'd been there a few weeks when I decided that we might as well go ahead with the whole getting married thing (I had my reasons for doing it quickly, but I wont go in to them on here). So, Kelly comes home from work one day and...

Me: So, you still want to marry me?
Kelly: Yes
Me: OK, well we can start sorting it out later then
Kelly: OK, but I need a nap first!

(He worked nights, slept a couple of hours when he came home, spent the middle part of the day with me, had another short nap, then went back to work... So as to spend time in the day with me, but still not be too tired at work at night).

When he got up from his nap, we looked up what we needed to sort out, and figured we'd sort it right away, and it would depend how long things took to when it would happen.

As it turned out, the following day we went and got our marriage lisence and rings. It was a Friday. The following Wednesday we picked up Kelly's ring (mine we already had, since we could take it with us right away, but Kelly's had needed to be resized) and on the Thursday we got married. We had just two witnesses... Kelly's Mother, Jenifer, and her sister, Susan... And got married several stories up in the apartment/flat of someone who we'd found on the list given to us when we got our marriage lisence. We got married in our every day clothes - since neither of us are keen on "dressing up" (yep, even if it's our own wedding, lol) - and afterwards we went to a food court where Jen, Sue and I had McDonalds, and Kelly had tacos.

My parents couldn't get over to Canada quickly enough to attend, and Kelly's sister, Sherry, was meant to have been there with little Devin, but we weren't sure how long it would take, and we didn't want to pull Tamara out of school for the day, so Sherry didn't come in case she couldn't make it home in time for when Tamara came home (since she was too young to be home alone at that point, because she was only nine).

Definately not a traditional proposal and wedding, eh? ;)

I scared Kelly on the day. I didn't mean to, but I still did. Remember how I said the flat/apartment was several floors up? Well, there was a small balcony, and we were told we could go out on it and look at the view if we wanted. I did want to. Only, I guess I was leaning over the railings a bit too much for Kelly's liking, because he was convinced I was going to fall. I didn't though - obviously - although, I wish I'd taken my camera out there with me and taken a photo of that view!

Anyway, that was eight years ago... Hard to believe, but it was! Well, actually, the proposal part happened about 8 and a half years ago, but you get the point, I'm sure!

I don't know if he'll read this, since sometimes he reads my blog, other times he doesn't, but... Happy anniversary to my wonderful hubby. I hope we have many more years together!

Furkid thoughts: Gwydion's photo session

Hi humans, this is Gwydion.

Well, I decided to agree to a photo session with my human, so here are the resulting photos:

First, here I am on the floor in the living room. Mami puts me down on the floor to try and persuade me to walk about a bit, but I almost never do. I do take a few steps from time to time, but that's about it. I hear some guinea pigs run all over the place - and Kero tried to show me how to do it by nudging me from behind - but that's not for me. I don't do exercise, and the world is too big for me to feel safe running around loose in it! But, Mami still puts me on the floor, and here are the photos of me taken while I was down on the floor (with Kero nearby trying to persuade me to run about and get some exercise... Though you can't see him in the photos).




Mami put me on the chair in the living room and asked me to pose for a photo, so I figured I might as well. Besides, there wasn't far I could go (especially with my reluctance to do anything even remotely like exercise). Anyway, here's the photo:



And here I am looking right at the camera:



Ah, now this is more my style... Cuddle time with Mami!



Hope you all enjoyed the photos. And, thank you Iggy human for sorting them out for me!

Squeak soon,
Gwydion

Happy birthday Deanna

It's Deanna's birthday today, so I wanted to take a moment to wish her a very happy birthday, and to say that I hope today is a wonderful day for her, filled with all the people and things she loves most! Happy birthday, Deanna... May today be filled with happy moments that will become happy memories!

Furkid thoughts: what I did on Monday (FD)

Hi there humans, this is Kero here!

On Monday morning Mami told me I was going for a car ride with Mamgu. I was confused, but happy... I like car rides! Anyway, Dadi got in the car too, but he got out in the town place, which really upset me, because I didn't like the idea of leaving him behind. So I howled, and howled, and howled!

When we got out of the car I was a bit confused about what was going on still, but then I figured out where we were and tried to get away. Mamgu was taking me to the groomer!

Don't get me wrong, I love the attention I get from the groomer, and I love the attention I get when I'm nice and clean and humans are admiring me. But I hate being at the groomer, because my humans leave me there, and I have to go in a cage! Eventually Mamgu came to get me - after I had been groomed - and I was so excited - and worried she'd go away again without me - that I set all the other dogs in the building off howling and barking. I didn't care though, because Mamgu had come back for me!

After I got home I had these photos taken:



(Thanks to my pal Iggy for sorting these so quickly for me).

Once my photos had been taken I had my dinner, then I settled down with a rawhide shoe for a good chewing session. Which I was just getting started with when Mami suggested she took me walkies... I expect you wont be surprised to hear that I just dropped the shoe and raced over to her - barking excitedly, of course - to make sure she went through with it. I figured the shoe could wait until after walkies!

OK, that's all I have to say for today. Well, except to let anyone interested know that there will be a post from Gwydion some time very soon... Perhaps in a couple of days?

Licks and sniffs,
Kero

Labeling project - complete

Yes, that's right... I've FINALLY finished labeling all those posts! I actually only finished doing it just a few minutes ago. Now, perhaps, I can concentrate on other projects? Thing is, I started getting obsessed with getting the labels on the posts, and then I wasn't doing much else. Actually, that's how come I haven't been reading people's blogs the past couple of days... Well, that and the fact that most of Tuesday and Wednesday I was out (more on that another day). As I said though, I'm done with the post labeling now - just got to label posts as I write them from now on - so I can catch up on blogs, and - hopefully - actually make some decent progress on the list of knitting projects that are waiting to be done. Starting with the scarf I still haven't finished... Oh, guess what? The post I wrote last Thursday - the one Blogger swallowed up - showed up in draft today. But for some strange reason it showed up with Tuesday's date on it (but I know for a fact I definately published it last week, because I'd replied to a comment on it from Nikki before all the Blogger issues). I have no idea where it came from, it just showed up earlier - well, actually only about 10 minutes ago - with Tuesday's date as the date on it, in draft form, without any of the comments that I know for a fact were on it before it vanished. How strange!

Happy birthday Lainie

It's Lainie's birthday today. Lainie isn't around on the blogs much these days, but I want to wish her a very happy birthday anyway. So... Happy birthday, Lainie! Hope it's a wonderful one!

Happy birthday Eleri

It's Eleri's birthday today (Eleri who used to live upstairs). I don't think she reads my blog, though I know she knows it exists, but, anyway... I figured I'd take a few moments to wish her a, "happy birthday," either way.

Happy birthday Rachel

Today is my sister-in-law, Rachel's birthday. Well, I guess she's technically my "ex" Sister-In-Law now that her and Carl are splitting up, but still... I still consider her my sister-in-law. Anyway, I don't know if she reads my blog these days - she doesn't even really post on her own blog - but... Happy birthday Rachel! Hope today is a wonderful one for you!

Babies, pets and projects (FD)

My Mam had Emma-Jane for the day yesterday, and she also had Jo (a family friend we've known for years) visiting with her 2 week old grandaughter, Tyler. So - knowing how much I love babies - she brought them all for a quick visit. I had a long cuddle of baby Tyler, but Emma wasn't in a cuddling mood. I'm not sure if it was the fact she'd had her nap disturbed so was still tired, the fact Tyler was around and she was a bit jealous, or the fact that the last time my Mam brought her to my place Mam snuck out for a smoke when Emma was busy, and Emma was worried it would happen again. It could also have been the fact kelly was in the room, because she's developed a bit of an issue with getting upset when men are around. It could also have been a combination of all those things. Whatever the reason though, Emma-Jane wanted cuddles from nobody but "Nana Ka" yesterday. They only came for a quick visit, but I did enjoy my baby cuddling time... Even though I was a bit disappointed that Emma wasn't interested in a cuddle. Mind you, Emma's getting older now, so she's going to start not wanting as much cuddle time anyway. Many of the snacks I have are officially toddler snacks, so I told Mam she could grab one for Emma, and Emma cheered up a bit once she was sat in her carseat eating it. She loves her food that one. LOL! Actually, if Emma had her way she'd have had two snacks, since she took the snack off my Mam then held out her other hand as if to say, "and what about a snack for this hand?" LOL! Anyway, after they left Kero got a bit cuddly. I think he was saying, "I'm your baby still, aren't I?" In other words, I think my little furbaby got a bit jealous seeing me making such a fuss over the human babies. So, I gave him some cuddles and ear rubs, and after that he was happy enough to curl up on the sofa for a nap. *** Our weather wont make up its mind what it wants to be like - one minute it's lovely outside, the next it's raining or there's a hail storm - it's annoying. Actually, I wouldn't mind so much, only it means attempting to plan my walks with Kero between rain showers, which isn't the easiest thing to do, and rarely works as planned. *** I had to re label several posts that I'd labeled on Thursday, because of what happened with Blogger, but I'm quickly getting through the stack of posts on my dashboard. I'd be done by now if I wasn't so picky... I think I mentioned that before? Well, - and I think I said this before too - if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it right! No sense in doing something if you don't plan on doing it properly! Once I'm done, maybe I'll actually be able to concentrate more on working on my knitting projects? I've hardly done anything with them since starting with the post labeling thing, so Louise's scarf is still waiting to be finished, Emma-Jane's doll blankets have yet to even be started, and the rest of the stuff on the list hasn't even had much thought directed at it. I will get the stuff done though... I will... Honest! Hey, at least I can't say I'm bored! ;) OK, so I better get back to doing the posts so I can get to doing the knitting projects. I hope you're having a great weekend... Stay safe! P.S. I'll come around and check blogs later.

Scooby-Doo!

"The Mystery Inc. gang have gone their separate ways and have been apart for two years, until they each receive an invitation to Spooky Island. Not knowing that the others have also been invited, they show up and discover an amusement park that affects young visitors in very strange ways. Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby soon realize that they cannot solve this mystery without help from each other."

(Above taken from here).

Another excellent Scooby-Doo movie; really funny in parts too!

Doorstep debates

Another thing was mentioned in the post that vanished from Thursday. That thing was my various discussions with Jahovah's Witnesses (sorry, but I don't know if I spelled that right, and can't be bothered to look it up and check at the moment).

Now, I want to stress here that I have no issues wit people having their own different beliefs. I don't personally believe in God, but I have several friends who do, and that's fine. But, if you knock on my door and start challenging my beliefs and telling me I should believe what you believe, then I'm going to start challenging your beliefs too. It's nothing personal, but I'm going to do it. The best way to avoid this is to avoid getting me in a debate about religeon. Simple as that! However, Jahovah's Witnesses insist on knocking on my door and attempting to convert me.

Another thing you need to know here is that most of my friends are online, so I don't see many people. My main non-family visitors are the people who deliver my post. The thing is though - despite the fact I don't go in for all those big social gatherings and all that - I love to talk.

Can you see where I'm going with this? You got it! They knock on my door, I decide to talk to them - unless I'm busy when they call - and they start to challenge my beliefs, so I throw back challenges of my own. This leads to conversations like this:

JW: "So you believe in evolution, and the big bang theory?"
Me: "Yes, I do."
JW: "Then you believe there was some kind of energy that created the universe?"
Me: "Yes, some sort of energy - perhaps chemical, perhaps not, though I'm more enclined to accept the "it was a chemical reaction" theory for the creation of the universe."
JW: "Then where did this chemical energy come from?"
Me: "I'm not a scientist, how do I know?"
JW: "Do you accept it could possibly be God?"
Me: "OK, let's just say - for the sake of argument - that it is God. Then answer this... Where did God come from?"
JW:" Excuse me?"
Me: "Well, what you're saying is, nothing can just exist, it has to have a source, correct?"
JW: "Yes."
Me: "So, what source created God?"

They couldn't answer that question.

Another interesting - to me - conversation was this one:

JW: "Do you believe that someone tends the plants and flowers in nature?"
Me: "Humans tend to do things like that."
JW: "And what about the places people don't tend to?"
Me: "They look after themselves, that's why they're called "wild" areas."
JW: "But let's just say that someone has some kind of grand design and makes them that way on purpose..."
Me: "Oh, you mean fairies?"
JW: "Fairies aren't real."
Me: "How can you be sure?"
JW: "There's no proof they exist."
Me: "There's no proof God exists either, but you believe in him. If you can believe in God, why can't I believe in fairies?"
JW: "Because they aren't real."
Me: "They could be."
JW: "But the bible is proof of God existing, there's no evidence of fairies."
Me: "Actually, there are far more books with fairies in them than there are books about God."
JW: "But the bible is the word of God."
Me: "As dictated to man, right?"
JW: "Yes."
Me: "So how can you be sure fairies didn't show themselves to the people who first wrote the books about them? I mean the idea has to have come from somewhere, right?"

Anyway, when I get bored of them I just make an excuse to end our conversation. A common statement that works well is, "Did I mention I'm a Pagan?" They really don't like that one. I think it's because of the common false belief that Pagans are Satan worshipers. Sorry to disappoint you people, but since I don't believe Satan exists, how can I worship him?

Anyway, as I said, people are entitled to their own beliefs, but you come knocking on my door and challenging my beliefs, and this is what you get!

P.S. I saw a couple more of them today, Nikki, and I asked them about the windows thing... They said it's not all of their churches, it's just that some places do that because they've had a lot of issues with people breaking their windows, and are fed up of it. Apparently the church near here has plenty of windows (they offered to take me and show me).

Posting again about yesterday, with an update

I'm not sure what exactly was up with Blogger, but whatever the issue is it seems to have reset blogs - well, mine and Kelly's at least, I don't know about other blogs - back to how they were... I think yesterday (Thursday) morning. Including removing comments left after that time, and posts published after that time. The birthday post I wrote for my friend, Pam, was back in draft (where I'd had it for a couple of weeks) so I was able to put it back up again, but the post I did yesterday evening about my day... Poof! It's disappeared to wherever it is that posts and comments disappear to sometimes. *Sigh*

So, to recap...

Yesterday was a bad day for me. It started off OK, then I broke my watch strap, jammed my little finger in the parts of my cane while folding it after walking Kero, and after that my laptop wouldn't accept the power supply, so - since the battery was dead - wouldn't work. We downloaded a demo version of Jaws so I could use it on Kelly's PC, and I was thinking I'd put in my authorization disk if it worked OK, but - and this part wasn't in yesterday's post - I thought afterwards that probably wouldn't work anyway, since mine is Jaws 8.0, and the version it gave Kelly to use for his Windows 7 is Jaws 12.5 (or something like that). This meant I was stuck using Jaws in demo mode, meaning it only lasts 40 minutes before the entire PC has to be restarted if you want to use Jaws any more. Annoying, but better than no internet access.

I did discover how to make my phone talk online, but that's not an ideal option since it costs to go online on my phone, because it prefers to access the network internet rather than any local wireless connections (shame, since if it would access my home wireless connection it would be free to use it online that way). Plus, signal isn't always great around here for my mobile, and it seems to need a good signal to stay connected.

But, it all worked out well in the end, because...

Dad came for a visit today, and my greeting to him was, "my laptop's dead. Well, actually I think it's the power supply, since it worked until the battery died, only I didn't know the battery was in use until I got the message about it being low. I tried all the different sockets around, but it wont work." So, Dad had a look, and was pretty sure I was right. He told us where to go to look on a site for a computer parts shop he knows that's not too far away, and when we saw one that would work with my laptop was available, he offered to take me and fetch it. I agreed, and we went.

It worked. My laptop works again. I'm using it now! Yay! :)

It cost £30 ($60) for the new power cord (because it comes with several adaptors, since it's designed to work with almost any laptop, netbook or notebook) instead of what it would have cost for a new laptop, which could be anything from £200 for a new laptop, and - since it would have to have Windows 7 - £700 for Jaws too, so £900 (roughly $1800) or more to get set up with a new laptop. Yes, I think £30 was a much nicer price!

Plus, at least we could just about afford £30.

Fingers crossed that this new power cord keeps doing the trick, and it's some time before a new laptop is needed!

Happy birthday Pam

Today is my friend Pam's birthday. Sometimes she reads my blog, sometimes she doesn't. But whether she sees this or not doesn't really matter... Either way, I want to wish her a very happy birthday! So... Happy birthday, Pam!

Computers and dentists

I just wanted to say sorry for not being around the blogs over the past couple of days. I've been busy sorting out the labels/topics on my old posts so that they're just how I want them, and it's taking up a lot of time. Actually, it's sort of my own fault it's taking up so much time, since it's because I want them to be just how I want them - if you know what I mean - and it means a bit more fussing about with them than it would otherwise. Well, if I'm going to do it, I'm doing it right! ;)

Anyway...

I'm lucky my laptop is working, since I dropped it the other day (not the first time, and probably wont be the last). It landed on my big toe though. Yes. Whole weight of the laptop - corner first - on the one toe. It was quite painful, actually! Kelly said I had quite a bruise on the spot it landed, and we think I might have bruised right through to the bone. That was almost a week ago now though, and the laptop is still working, and the toe isn't hurting nearly as much any more. So, it all worked out OK in the end, I guess.

All of us - Mam, Kelly, Dad and I - had dentist appointments on Friday. Neither Mam or I need to go back, but Kelly and Dad do. They're going back on May 24th. Wayne had Kero for us when we all had to go, but when Kelly and Dad go back I'll be able to stay home with him. I almost never need anything done at the dentist, so I can't say it's a big shock to me that I don't have to go back. I've - so far - been quite lucky with my teeth. Let's just hope it stays that way, you think? I mean, I do have the slight issue of my wisdom teeth deciding to grow in further back than they should due to there not being much space for them, but the dentist says as long as they're not bugging me then it's not an issue. And they're not bugging me, so... *shrugs*

Anyway, I'll get to your blogs - and your comments on mine - soon... Honest!

Free Willy movies

I've seen "Free Willy," "Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home" and "Free Willy 3: The Rescue" before (a good couple of years back... When they were new out, I think). But what caused me to write this post was "Free Willy: Escape From Pirate's Cove" which I watched recently. I'm not sure if you know, but the star of this one is the late Steve Irwin's little girl, Bindi.

Anyway, between the fact I had enjoyed the other three Free Willy movies, and the fact Bindi Irwin was in it (I always enjoyed watching her Father's shows) I knew I "had to" watch the movie. I'm glad I did... It was fantastic!

Mine and Kero's weigh-ins (FD)

I weighed today, then I got off the scales, picked up Kero, and got back on them to get his weight by subtracting my weight from the new total (it's the easiest way to weigh him, since he wont sit on the scales by himself for me - no matter what I do to try and persuade him to do so). Anyway, you may - or may not - remember that when I weighed him about a month ago he weighed 2 stone 3lbs 12oz (31lbs 12oz) and today he weighed 2 stone 2lbs 8oz (30lbs 8oz). That means he's lost 1lb 4oz in about a month. So, yeah, I guess he is losing a bit of weight while I'm trying to lose some.

As for me? Well, I didn't do so well. I put on 2lbs 8oz this week. *Sigh*

I'm having a bad time with food at the moment. I'm trying to find an eating plan that works for me, but I'm not having much luck, then I'm eating all the wrong things. I was trying to find the posts from when I saw the dietitian before in hopes they'd offer some tips (that's what started me on labeling the posts). Well, I found them, but they didn't help. They did tell me that I'd been told small meals with small snacks in between are best (and apparently did that and lost some weight with it) but I was hoping for some example menus I could work with. I did find some dinner menus, but I'd hoped I'd done at least one full day menu to work from, if that makes sense. The thing is, it's not so much the foods I want - since I was eating meat at the time - it's the portions and meal spacing, if you know what I mean. The thing is, I know what I "should" be eating food wise, but I'm trying to find an eating routine where I'm not ending up over hungry before it's meal time, and therefore not so quick to grab anything that can be being eaten quickly rather than taking the extra bit of time needed for sorting out something healthier.

Yeah, I'm still stuck in the, "I know what I need to do, but I haven't quite figured out how to do it," phase of weight loss. I need to figure it out soon though, or I'll end up putting all that weight I lost back on, and I really, really don't want that!

As it is I felt bad while reading my old posts from when I was losing weight before, because... Well, let's just say I've got a bit to go to even get down to what I was when I started trying to lose weight last time, let alone getting down to where I'd managed to get my weight down to before. I tried not to let myself feel bad about it, and tried to tell myself I'll get back down there. Sometimes it's not so easy to just tell yourself those things and believe it though, is it? I will get there though.

Eventually!

Happy birthday Elizabeth

Today is Elizabeth's birthday, so I thought I would post a, "happy birthday," on here for her. I have no idea if she reads my blog, but I'll post it anyway. So... Happy birthday, Elizabeth!

Ammerican/Canadian Mothers' Day 2011

Happy Mothers' Day to every Mum, Mummy, Mam, Mami, Mammy, Mama, Mom, Mommy, Moma and Mother who is celebrating this day! I hope you were made to feel special by your child(ren)!

Furkid thoughts: I'm worth more than two dogs!

Hi humans, it's Kero here!

When we've been out for walkies lately, I've seen a lot of my friends who live around here. Like Cara the Labrador x Spaniel, Robbie the Jack Russel, and Bella the Long-Haired Chihuahua. Not to mention some local dogs I don't actually know the names of. Anyway, guess what? Bella has some little puppies staying with her right now. They're King Charles Spaniels, and they're only 14 weeks old. Jade and Jody - which is what they are called - are staying with Bella while they learn how to be good girls on the lead. Doesn't look like they'll be leaving any time soon if that's the case! Seriously... They were climbing over each other, pulling the human, chewing each other's ears, etc. Definately not good walkies behaviour! Actually, the ears thing isn't good behaviour in general! My Mami thought they were really cute though, and wanted to take them home with us. I wasn't so keen. They were nice to meet, but something tells me they'd be a lot of trouble to have around, and I bet they'd chew my toys! Yeah, I'm glad they're staying with Bella and not with us!

I was pleased to hear though that when the human offered Mami to swap me for them, Mami said, "no way," right away. Mami says the human was only joking, but it was still good to know that Mami loves me more than two dogs! Especially since humans usually go nuts for puppies. I knew I was special, but I didn't know I was so special Mami wouldn't even swap me for two dogs! I'm sure you wont be surprised to hear I had a bounce in my step and a wag in my tail all the rest of the day after that!

Will post again soon.

Licks and sniffs,
Kero

Emma, not Spongebob

I thought this was cute - and funny too - and wanted to share it, but forgot to post it when I was doing my posts about my time with Mam and Emma-Jane the other day. Anyway...

Mam, Emma-Jane and I were in the car, and Mam said something she didn't actually want Emma repeating, but - of course - the baby repeated it. So, Mam and I got to talking about how she was "picking things up like a sponge."

"We'll have to call her Spongebob Squarepants," said my Mam, jokingly.

No sooner had Mam said that than Emma defiantly announced, "I Memma!!"

OK, so she hasn't figured out the spacing in the words properly yet, but... She knows who she is, and it isn't Spongebob! LOL!

Spoons and bowls

After getting the penguin plate and bowl not long ago, I decided to look and see if there was a matching cup. No luck finding one as yet, but I did find some spoons to go with the set. So, of course, I had to get a couple... Especially since they only cost 60p (around $1.80) each. I put them the way they are so you could see the front and back of the spoon. Figured it was easier - since I had two - than needing to do a couple of photos for them. Anyway, here they are:



The penguin stuff is really cool, but I wanted some microwave safe plastic stuff too. Well, I found some Disney bowls, so I got one to see if it was any good. I've had it a couple of months now, and used it several times. It does the job well, so I decided to get a couple more to go with it. Especially since they are only £1 (about $2) each. Here are a few photos I got of all three bowls:







The blue Winnie The Pooh one is the one I've had for a couple of months, and used several times. The other Winnie The Pooh one, and the Lightning McQueen one are the new ones. I would have liked to get a couple more, but didn't want to over-do it with what I was spending. I mean, I could only justify getting them because plastic stuff is safer with me (I easily break other stuff, because I knock it against stuff a lot, knock it off stuff a lot, etc). It's quite annoying, actually, and I'm sick of buying new bowls. These ones arre made to be able to withstand toddlers though, so "hopefully" they should be able to cope with me knocking them against and off things.