Take a packet of flour, three litres of water, detergent, cooking oil, and the three grossest yellowy-green-alien-snot colours you can find... NHAHAHAHA. Goo everywhere, bright slimy goo, the consistency of cake batter - or one of the more plasticky loose custards, perhaps.

Add seven - count'em - seven kids who don't do co-operative or sustained ( Read more... )

I love my job.

Rain. Floods. Kids' Christmas Party.

Excited? The little buggers start talking about Santa and The Jumping Castle in March. It's THE event of the year. So 100 kids, their Mums and Dads and siblings, inside after yet another rainy day of heightened expectation - fairy bread and yet another Shrek DVD just isn't going to cut it ( Read more... )

Arthritis sucks.

Flat tyre from 1" hawthorn cutting thorns sucks.

Hospital idea of communication sucks.

Mum got to pre-r/t appointment and told they thought she should have chemo. Direct opposite of what she's been told up to this point. She's chosen not to. R/T delayed again, starts tomorrow. We hope ( Read more... )

Remember my little fella who wasn't drawing recognisable anything before Christmas who suddenly started doing basic faces? He's on self-portraits in mixed media now...


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Got flu. Very glad week is over ( Read more... )

Spoke to BF, finally! all well, baby still not named, Mum had a bad day with the blues today, but fingers crossed things will start to look up. Hopefully she can stay in an extra day (they want to shove her off home tomorrow, but she's just not up to it, emotionally, yet).

Preschool Graduation tomorrow... ( bit teary - losing Mr Born An Accountant and two other favourites )

Just pulled an 11-hour shift - kids' Christmas party. Which is always great fun as long as I can avoid nibbles duty (which I did this year, yay!).

( hugs from alumni made my day, RAH continues to suck, tooooooo many parties )

Not a bad one ( Read more... )

...giving a group of bored preschoolers a dead PC and a screwdriver. Nhahaha :)

Doubled the meds; rode to work - fine. Took the reliever despite no symptoms in order to pre-empt any problems at lunchtime, and rode around the village - fine. Then cleaned a little at lunchtime after sitting with the resters - all fine ( Read more... )