I have only just noticed on Facebook that an old BG work colleague I'm very fond of is pregnant. She's been posting about it almost constantly throughout her pregnancy, and has four weeks to go. :/ I felt a bit of an idiot posting on her wall going "Oh, you're pregnant, congrats!" eight months after the fact, but I hadn't seen any of her previous ( Read more... )

I was looking at the the pictures of the devastation in Queensland today; places I've lived in and worked in have been evacuated, and the BBC are attempting to persuade me that the road myself and Teh Australian drove along exactly a year ago is not only utterly impassible, full of snakes, bull sharks and crocodiles. It's all a bit scary. I hope ( Read more... )

It's ten years this year since I graduated from university. Fahk. As such, it's probably weird that I don't mark the change of the year at New Year's Eve; my new year starts after Warpcon, as January was always so busy for me in college that there was no point doing things like new year's resolutions until after the con was over. So I haven't made ( Read more... )

Been on a bit of an epic trip around regional (read: rural) Victoria and New South Wales since I last posted. Came back from Sydney and caught up with miss_madb before heading down to Geelong for what ended up being a thoroughly wonderful Christmas with Teh Australian's Dutch and Irish families (Dutch on Christmas Eve, Irish for Christmas Day). I'd been ( Read more... )

I'm not sure what temperature it got to here in Sydney today; fluffworld said it was supposed to hit 40C. Which is quite a lot, although not the highest I've been in; according to the digital temperature gauge on the lifeguard's hut at the Dead Sea, it was 49C while we were there ( Read more... )

Last weekend, I finally managed to make it to one of those freeform events ubiquitous_cat is always recommending to me; specifically, Curious Consequences, a LARP convention held somewhere in Dorset, and I had a *fantastic* time. Everyone was welcoming and fun (and I've made a load of new friends - special shout-outs to fractalgeek for the lift to London, and castorlion for the TWH ( Read more... )

Nothing makes one's cellulite quite so immediately apparent as accidentally snogging an eighteen-year-old. Fact. For the record, I am cellulite-ridden. Apparently, coffee is one of the worst things you can consume in cellulite-generation-terms. I'd like to say I wish someone had told me that in my late teens, but it wouldn't've stopped me ( Read more... )

No, really. I am a muppet of muppeticious proportions. :/

Anyone have a good recipe for flapjacks?

This is very, very long, but you're under no obligation to read it all - it's mostly for my own benefit, as my memory is shocking. There are links to photos, which is nice if you haven't already seen them on Facebook.

( What I did on my holidays )

I've mostly been getting drunk and posting inappropriate things on teh internetz. I've also been: attending a Polish Medieval Fair; planning a Syria/Jordan/Lebanon/Israel trip to see Teh Australian in July; playing in a Vampire LARP where I didn't want to kill anyone; FINISHING TWH!; listening to too much Jonathan Coulton; reclaiming my super; ( Read more... )