I'm in that weird moment between books - I finished one book (600 Hours of Edward) and haven't really started a new one, or rather, I have started the first chapters of several books and I can't decide what I'm in the mood for. It's a little unnerving ( Read more... )

It has been TEN years since I've had this journal. I missed the actual anniversary in January, of course, but that doesn't matter. That's a decade of my life documented on here - it's a little unbelievable ( Read more... )

I will be starting my new job in about 2 weeks and so I have decreed that it is time for a wardrobe refresher. I looked up trends for spring 2013... which only made me want to scratch my eyes out. What is it with fashion lately and why do I hate almost all of it ( Read more... )

Over 20 centimeters of new snow has fallen overnight and the world has gone from that mixture of grey-brown-green to fluffy white. Yes, it is a bitch to walk when no one has cleared the sidewalks and you trod through knee-deep snow. But. Everything suddenly seems so much cleaner, quieter, gentler. More beautiful. Except for the roads, which turn ( Read more... )

I clearly can't do sensualI bought a new perfume today, because I am so bored with the one I had brought here with me and I've been wanting a new fragrance for a while now. Remember how I raved about Idylle Duet by Guerlain a few weeks ago and claimed that it was a love at first sniff? Well, on second sniff, I still liked it, but my mind wasn't as ( Read more... )

Last night I had a dream in which I had just married my brother? (I blame this on the book I recently read, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, in which the story-tellers grandparents’ are a sister and brother.) Then it wasn’t my brother, but a random French girl I didn’t even know. The day after our wedding the girl called me on the phone, saying two ( Read more... )

There are things I should be doing, like making the necessary formatting edits to my thesis (which is getting published), or finding out how to get from Heathrow to Euston Square station (I think), or finishing the last piece of the painting/collage/thing I have been working on, but instead I am listening to music and fangirling a certain singer ( Read more... )

Say hello to probably the largest ice rink in Dublin at the moment, the one at Smithfield:


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NOVEMBER FAVORITES
Food: Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream; basmati rice; cottage cheese
Drink: freshly squeezed orange juice (we get this at work :P)
Beauty: Lush Sandstone soap - I bought it today and it's lovely; Pantene Pro V Nature Fusion Moisture Balance Shampoo (For Touchable Softness) - I love the slightly citrusy scent
Fashion: comfortable shoes, ( Read more... )

I jumped a double (off ice) for the first time today. Several of them. They were toeloops, though, and you know how much these suck on the ice for me, so I'll stick to doing them on the floor for the moment. ;) However, I was excited! They weren't even under-rotated. Maybe I am going to make it to doubles on the ice one day ( Read more... )