Toilet Roll Hanger

I like to do crafty type of things like sew and just make stuff for the fun of it

I was talking to a sorta friend in the game i play World of Warcraft and somehow we got onto the subject of how annoying it is going to the toilet to find no toilet paper.

I rarely have that problem as when i moved to where i live now i made a toilet roll hanger which takes 5 rolls, the thing is i made it for myself so just used glue to hold it together as i wasent to worried about what other people thought of it

Anyhow when i was talking to this friend he was saying how he often has to check that he has toilet paper in the toilet before he goes to use the toilet, i suggested he go buy ones i have seen that are ceramic oval shaped that has a lid on it. Being a male he felt a little silly going and buying one so i said to him if he wanted i would make him one and it would be my prototype so i can see what needs to be fixed when i make some more as this time i would be sewing it not using glue.

I sent it to him this week and he got it yesterday, he thanked me for it and said it looked great so of course i was happy that someone liked what i made lol

I said he could have it for free but he wanted to pay me for it, so we made an agreement and yesterday he bought me a pet in World of Warcraft which i think is pretty cute.

I got the pattern from a website called Mad Quilter and if anyone else wants to make one its a great pattern to use.

This is a photo of the toilet roll....................This is the one i made
holder from Mad Quilter website

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Looking after game animals

Remember how years ago when you went on a trip you had to find someone to look after your pet for you?

Well these days it seems you have to find someone to look after your game pets as well.

A friend of mine often goes away and she uses facebook, on her account she plays many games that have animals that need to be feed like Happy Pets, Petville, Fishville just to name a few, so every day i log into her account go to a list of games she has asked me to look after (seven of them) and feed them daily.

When did playing a game become a chore you need to do?
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Why we Cross our Fingers for good luck

Again my mind was in overdrive and thinking of simple things we do each day

• Why do we cross our fingers to wish someone luck,
• Why do people pretend to spit on the end of their fingers to signify they are using pretend pen/pencil
• Why cant we tickle ourselves

So today i decided to find out why we cross our fingers to wish someone luck and this is what i found.

Crossing the first two fingers is a good luck sign recognised around the world. It is, however, not so common in Buddhist and Muslim cultures, suggesting that the symbol's origin is Christian and was imported to Asian countries

There is no reliable evidence to support this, but one theory goes that during the various times when Christianity was illegal, the crossing of fingers was a secret sign for Christians to recognise each other.

Yet whilst the Sign of the Cross has evolved into a good luck symbol and retained its Christian meaning, Fingers Crossed has lost any Christian connection.

This change of emphasis may have begun during the so-called 'Hundred Years War' between France and England (1337-1457). An archer would cross his first and second fingers, pray or wish for luck, and then draw back his longbow string with those same fingers.

Another theory suggests that the sign pre-dates Christianity, when it was believed that benign spirits dwelt at the intersecting point of the cross, as in the Solar Cross. In Europe, the sign was made by two people; the first to make the wish and the second to support it. Linking their fingers firmly would squeeze and energize the spirits into beneficial action.

In China, crossing the index and middle fingers is the sign for the number ten, which happens to coincide with the Chinese and Japanese written character for ten. (The origin of this character is usually, yet erroneously, explained as two lines crossing to symbolise the four main directions, which in turn expressed the concept of completeness and by association all the fingers, i.e. ten. However, this seems a confused version of its actual origin. It derives from a depiction of a sewing needle with thread passing through the eye, and was used as a substitute for the more complex character , meaning 'hands together', i.e. ten fingers.)

The Roman numeral for ten (decem) is X, so one might expect that when deaf people communicate in sign language, crossed fingers spell the value ten or the alphabet letter X. But that is not the case. Deaf people sign ten with two actions (to mimic a '1' and a '0') and the letter X is signed with a curved index finger.

Crossed fingers in Swedish sign (Svenska Handalfabetet) do spell the letter 'X' but in other alphabets, the sign spells the letter R in English, Я (ya) in Russian (Cyrillic), (ra) in Japanese (hiragana), and the first half of (ss) in Korean (Hangul).

So after reading all this i still dont know exactly why we cross our fingers but it was interesting to find out this much.

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Back at Work

After 2 weeks of not working for my eye i am back at work, maybe that explains why i havent written anything in my blog for a week, back to boring work with nothing really to stimulate me.

Oh for the past 2 weeks i have been eating healthy food, sure its good to eat healthy and it is pretty tasty but it costs more and takes longer for it to be prepared. I am used to fatty food now and then, in the past 2 weeks i have eaten fatty food twice cause it was easier to get. I will see on Monday when i weigh myself if i have lost any weight at all, fingers crossed i do
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