I haven't had a headache since I got the new lenses. Nor have my eyes felt dry, tired and scratchy. I hadn't realised I had become used to the latter. This is all kinds of awesome. I can put up with feeling dizzy from turning my head too fast and not being able to skim book titles in passing at the library and having to actually look at the ( Read more... )

I've been quoting bits of Curse of Chalion to myself this week, so I decided it was time for a reread. I think it's only the second or third time this year. I don't read it nearly as much as I did the first couple of years, which I think was once a month or more.

Dragonbreath by Ursula Vernon arrived in the latest lot of new books. It's quite ( Read more... )

For all that I managed to rouse myself around noon today, I have been amazingly productive in the kitchen this afternoon. I have made:

1. Chai tea with a russian caravan base;
   
2. Sesame seed coffee cake;
   
3. Asian flavoured meatballs for dinner;
   
4. Salad and noodles for the rest of dinner; and
   
5. Kaffir lime pie (including sweet shortcrust pastry from scratch).

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I've been accused of being obsessive about books before. I suppose I can see how things can be construed that way and sometimes I even care. However, when it comes to purchasing the correct, hard-to-find edition of a fairly common book over trademe and that book is in the best condition of the three of them and it completes two sets (trilogy and ( Read more... )

I've been accused of being obsessive about books before. I suppose I can see how things can be construed that way and sometimes I even care. However, when it comes to purchasing the correct, hard-to-find edition of a fairly common book over trademe and that book is in the best condition of the three of them and it completes two sets (trilogy and ( Read more... )

I went shopping with maudlinrose yesterday and between us we got a number of things that we actually needed and some things that we didn't need but wanted regardless. I got some high heels as a thing I didn't actually need (they're really pretty though) and jessikast's birthday present as something that I did ( Read more... )

I should write more here, but I'm tired and can't be bothered. I saw the doctor on Monday, and I'm to try and get to bed earlier, as it may alleviate my constant tiredness. In other words, be in bed before midnight. I'm trying for 11pm ( Read more... )

*wails* Turning off my desk lamp so the light doesn't hurt my eyes means that reading my handwritten essay is a lot harder, and thus strains my eyes. So now I'm getting another headache, I can't take more painkillers 'cause I took some about an hour or two ago, and I have a page and a half more to copy out, and I'm not sure how much more to write ( Read more... )