What I've been doing for money lately

I've been taking a bit of a break from waitressing lately, which has been made possible by a company called Kotive. They have an app for creating something called "Taskflows", which help people to automate tasks in their companies, communities, or day-to-day lives.

What I've been doing for them (and being paid for, of course!) is creating taskflow templates for people to use and adjust to suit their own needs. After that, I write up a post about the taskflow to show to potential new clients all over the world. So far one of the taskflows I've created is for automating the procurement process in a small company. There are more to come - I'll add more links in here as soon as they've been published on Kotive's blog.

Something else I've been doing for them is starring in webinar-style videos that explain how to use their app.

You can check it out on Kotive's blog, along with a written-out explanation that goes hand-in-hand with the video, or you can just watch it here on my blog.

Anyway, that's all for now, folks! I really just wanted to share this video, so I had to write up a whole blog post to justify it. :P

Oh, and apparently my foetus is now the size of a playing die.

Bye now!

There's no use crying over spilt butter!

This is a very short post about the fact that I'm pregnant. (The title doesn't refer to this fact, by the way. I'm not upset about it. :P Rather, I'm fairly excited, if not a little nervous.)

Most of you probably know this already, because I've mentioned it on Facebook. I'm about six weeks along, and will probably be due right at the end of December, which is awfully convenient for all of the family members who will already be in the area because of the holidays!

So far I've had aches and pains as things start to get stretchy in my belly. I've had morning sickness (YUCK!! What a waste of a pear), excessive loo-trips and some minor emotional adjustments.

Were they happier than these
people who eat lard? I must know!

Emotional adjustments? What do you mean, Caroline? Are you bursting into tears while watching a butter commercial like your mother did when she was pregnant with you? (I know, that's a pretty common one, it's difficult to stay emotionally stable when you see REALLY happy people in a butter commercial. Was I allowed to share that funny story? If not, sorry Grandma!)

Well, no... My emotional moment was as follows:

I was reading an article in a Your Pregnancy magazine (which Janine bought for me, thanks Ouma!) about milk banks. In this article, they spoke about how premature babies often don't make it because they don't have access to breast milk, which would have given them a much better fighting chance. SO, there are women all over who donate their excess breast milk to these preemie babies. Here's the emotional bit: Some of these women had miscarriages, or their babies died, so they donate all of the milk they produce to the wee little premature babies. That is HARD CORE SAD STUFF right there, and wonderful at the same time.

My sister, Kathryn, would have bawled her eyes out over something like that. I know, she told me. And she's not even emotionally compromised.

How did I, the pregnant lady with crazy hormones flowing through her body, react to this heartbreaking article? I'll tell you.

I almost got teary.

Yup. I know. What a wimp!

Anyway, that's all for now, folks! Watch this space for the possibility of more blog posts, most likely filled with information about babies and stuff.