But before the details on that, I need to share with the world that I have found the perfect formula for beating close-to-freezing temperatures. It goes thus: an electric blanket, flannel sheets, a stock-standard polyester-fill quilt and three strategically placed cats. (Mushroom usually positions himself somewhere on my chest to tummy region, ( Read more... )

Anyone who wants to help share the rent on a four bedroom massive house with equally massive storage room underneath until the end of July has until one o'clock this afternoon to let me know. Otherwise I have to get to the estate agents and hand in the two week's notice as there's no way in Hades wolveshoard and I can afford $400 a week on our own.

I have Lupus. Or, at least, I meet seven of the 11 diagnostic criteria for it, and only four are required to make it official. The mouth ulcers and the butterfly rash were the clinchers. Probably also the last 16 months of appetite and weight loss - though that seems to have improved lately (touch wood), even if my capacity appears to have ( Read more... )

You wince in recognition before laughing at this.Further, you also wince at the idea of "reflective essays", while at the same time mentally high-fiving because it's going to be a doddle. (Except the whole referencing thing. I still can't do that right, especially now that this uni expects a totally different method to the one I failed to use in ( Read more... )

Today sucked. Hard. I'm not sure I even remember the last time I woke up while it was still dark in order to go to school. (Shaddup.) And then I stepped on a tack because the cats had once again knocked my board down in the night. And then it transpired that Transinfo are lying bastards and there was no six o'clock bus from just up the road ( Read more... )

SHOPPING LIST:
Bread (butter? vegemite? jam?)
Milk
Cornflakes
Ant baits!!!!!!!!!
Cat food (?special stuff for nursing mother)
Garbage bags
Light bulbs FUCK!
Collar for Jeannie
Juice
Irn Bru
Cigarettes (damn stress of moving! I was down to three a day!)
Kitty litter
Ant-proof cat food bowls (5)
New mattress/bed
Corkboard and pins
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Packing Party is off. Turns out I can't even read my own bloody journal correctly and set out for my physio appointment an hour late. So when that was discovered I just got on the bus and came back to Sin Park, the better to beat myself up. (Kinda literally, I managed to mistime standing up on one of the buses - just as he hit the brakes ... ( Read more... )

But first, the details of that Packing Party I'm sure you're all gagging to come to. My physio appointment is at 1:30 on Wednesday, so if we call the party to start around 2:30 - 3:00. What we'll be doing is watching and helping me with the small stuff - putting books in boxes and clothes in suitcases, followed by my watching you take the boxes ( Read more... )

First, a couple of links that I have to share:

How to properly hug a baby (from ser_kai)

Man creates Spaghetti Monster tribute"
(from linkfrenzy)

And now ( onto the music! (YouTube embed heavy) )