The previous post was in no way a request for more projects. Just because lying on a couch awaiting my baby is completely strange and unnatural to me does not mean that I need a brand new jam-packed To Do List to keep me occupied in the mean time!

*is GESTATING*

That is all.

(though you are all very cute in your concern at my potential boredom)

When it comes to to do lists, I'm no girliejones - I do keep one constant, but it tends to be a touch less organised than hers ( Read more... )

Today, having hit my word count and conquered the mighty BAS (bleh tax, bleh) and done at least one more thing from my List O Doom, home with a sick child (eyes child suspiciously, for a given value of 'sick', anyway) I spent the afternoon decadently reading The Wiscon Chronicles, a series of books from Aqueduct Press containing much of the wit, ( Read more... )

Today was a good day ( Read more... )

(Evelyn Waugh to Nancy Mitford, 1944 ( Read more... )

When you're nearly 8 months pregnant, everything is multi-tasking ( Read more... )

I spent today at the Tasmanian Quilt Show, shopping (with remarkable restraint, really) and admiring pretty things with a gang of my best girls. It's always nice to see your own quilt on display (even if mine suffered from embarrassing hanging sleeve fail and flopped a bit at the top) but even more exciting to see so many other projects that ( Read more... )

Laini Taylor, one of my favourite artists, is about three weeks more pregnant than I am (yes there ARE degrees of pregnancy!) and recently wrote a lovely post about how people treat pregnant women and their bodies, and particularly the boggling things they think are okay to say to someone who is pregnant.The comments are lovely, celebrating Laini ( Read more... )

The sheer shock of working for a living outside the house for a fortnight (not even every day, don't think this is remotely impressive, people) has driven me to the couch with a laptop. Every part of me is exhausted. Especially the part that spent 10 minutes negotiating with the chemist over the fact that they had bizarrely put the specific bio- ( Read more... )

I actually love being pregnant. There are people in my life (you know who you are, godiyeva who look at me in bewilderment when I say such a thing, but it's true. I loved it when I have having Raeli (aka Button) and I am enjoying it just as much with Little Kick. Yes, there are tiresome parts, like indigestion and back ache and being kicked repeatedly ( Read more... )