This week's post is brought to you by the image of me dancing across the living room to 'They Might Be Giant's (Flood), in order to kiss Ben on the nose.

The media thing worked well last week, so here's something sort-of similar. My week was a lot more social and a lot less media-full, though.

So:

Media of the week
~ BOOK: The Queen of Air and Darkness ( Read more... )

Up and about at dark o'hundred, thanks to a determined 'low battery' chirp from one of our smoke detectors. You know, up until this point I thought they were hard-wired into the house as part of the alarm system. Apparently not. Gah ( Read more... )

I just went outside to throw the crusts from the old loaf of bread out to the birds, and standing on the deck and looking out over our back yard was immensely peaceful ( Read more... )

I haven't updated in fricken' ages. Shame on me!

I was planning to write a post early last week and call it 'Kinky and the Bandit'. I'd spend the week prior housesitting for alasatyr while he threw himself down snowy mountains. Every day I'd go to work, come home and eat dinner and spend a few hours with Ben, and then amble two suburbs over to the ( Read more... )

Right now I am very, very, very angry at lumbering (pun #1) carpenters who don't call, don't show up when they're supposed to, reschedule and then cancel and generally FUCK me around.

So, I'd finally nailled (pun #2) Alvin the local carpenter down to a time to come and finish repairing our front door - you know, the one that was damaged seven ( Read more... )

Good: My new speakers arrived today! Being able to listen to music again is making me very happy. And they're pretty decent speakers too. Brand I've never heard of, but black and silver. Very pretty.

Bad: I ordered them back in February, and have been chasing them ever since. Bad FirstIn, very bad! Shan't be using you again ( Read more... )

The power's been off in most of Auckland for most of the day - everything flickered and crashed at work about half an hour after I arrived this morning, leaving me glowing gently in the emergency backup lights, looking at a blank computer screen. Given there wasn't a damn thing I could do (oh woes, I'd done all my filing last week, so couldn't ( Read more... )

Grarg! I've been doing all the crappy office jobs that I procrastinate about until I can't avoid them any more - updating the quality folders; filing three months worth of paperwork ... I hate doing this stuff. But, when the internet keeps going down, and ICQ won't come out to play, and then IT support are using my PC to install (anti-virus) ( Read more... )

Finally, I got off my lazy bum and rang my insurance company (AMI) to give them my new residential address, so that my contents were insured on the right property. And they declined me, much to my surprise. Bugger arse crap! Apparently I a) live with too many people, and b) live in a house with not enough security (read: no burglar alarm). I am ( Read more... )

I am immersed in realities. Stories that wind around me, pulling me in, intoxicating me with their scent and taste. Futures that never were, dreams that float away in the dawn, tales that keep the fires burning ( Read more... )