This past week has been... exhausting. I meant to do cool stuff yesterday afternoon on my Day Off, but after working out, doing some cleaning, and doing the monthly 'big' shop (I get paid once a month and shop for pantry and freezer stores then), I mostly lounged around in manner of Pre-Raphaelite Heroine or similar ( Read more... )

Basically, the icon of circles signifies where I've been the past not-quite-a-fortnight -- chasing around in circles, never exiting the maze. But I have had to take today off because I am trying not to succumb to the sinus infection that's brewing. (POLLEN IS THE DEVIL ( Read more... )

Oh Lord. I'm supposed to have time off this week, but ha! Not so much. Every new email is like a carrier of some work-disease, spreading at a horrifying rate. Ah well ( Read more... )

Oof.

Let us pass over the allergies from hell, and focus on good things:

*my tree guys came Friday and cleaned up one section of the backyard, including trimming a cherry laurel that now looks like total awesomeness and cutting back a hell-holly that was trying to kill me every time I walked by. Whee!
*Naomie Harris got an OBE and looked like a ( Read more... )

So that week happened ( Read more... )

This week's joys:

*the new entry in Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series, The Hanging Tree*Thomas Nightingale in that series. Posh,(seemingly) middle-aged, beautifully mannered English wizard who favours well-cut suits and drives a Jag whilst he deploys his enormous power in the service of good... No, I don't have a type, why do you ask? ( ( Read more... )

I have been absolutely terrible at keeping my bullet-journal, largely because work has been overwhelmingly busy. (This state of affairs should ease... [looks at calendar]...in February. For one week only.] But I am thinking of joy:

*dancing in the evening to the Balmorhea album Stranger, dreamy mostly-instrumental music.
*Lucifer*Deanna Raybourn's ( Read more... )

I haven't been Livejournaling in the past few days but I've been semi-idiosyncratically bullet-journaling. (However, I've chosen the wrong gel pen for this project, as it inevitably weeps on my fingers ( Read more... )

35 Things for the 35th post this year:

1) Bathroom renovation has begun and continues, albeit slightly slowly.
2) Master Danger is READY FOR IT TO BE OVER, bless him.
3) And I am looking very much forward to the new space and new vibe.
4) Here's an interesting thing I'd never known -- medicine cabinets used to have a small slot for throwing used ( Read more... )

Sunday, and work is staring me in the face in manner of unpleasant stray dog, menacing and far too close. But we persevere ( Read more... )