On Wednesday morning, we found out that my mother-in-law has pancreatic cancer that has metastasized in the bone.  In other words, FUCK.  Whilst they understand that it is bad and terminal, Rich and his sister are still been blithely “optimistic” about how long they have until they hear otherwise (her next appointment is on Wednesday when we should ( Read more... )

So, it is my first day back in the office after two weeks off looking after Audrey.  Kids are hard frickin' work, don't ya know.  Didn't go anywhere or do anything, but it is also kind of nice just to not be at a computer the whole time.  The last few days were really hot, so I've been running around in a bikini and joining in in water fights with ( Read more... )

I had hoped to maybe update before I went to bed, but I spent too much time catching up on everything else that my chronic sleep deprivation is taking its toll and I don't know how coherent I can actually be.  Today was a really hard day, with Audrey waking up at 4:45am and things not getting better from there.  She starts daycare in July, and next ( Read more... )

The month of non-stop public holidays is over. So, once again, I am going to endeavour to be more on the ball regarding updating.  I need to develop some strategies or something.  Part of the problem is, of course, that it has been such a busy year, and there are actually lots of things to talk about, that I just get so caught up in "where do I ( Read more... )

The tiles underneath are what we ordered. The tile on top is what they delivered. Spot the difference.


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I keep meaning to do a proper update. There always ends up being so many things I want to talk about, and then I get distracted or busy, and then it all seems like old news. This last week at work was insanely busy, so I just needed some time to recuperate this weekend. One more week, and then my MIL arrives. Fun times ( Read more... )

I quite often sit cross-legged at my computer at work, but of course that means sometimes my foot goes to sleep. Which it did yesterday. Which I didn't realize until I jumped up suddenly, and totally was unable to support any weight on my foot, which meant it bent up underneath me in a rather awkward way, leaving me to hop back to my desk until I ( Read more... )

In more gender stereotype swapping in this marriage, my husband just accused me of being a lesbian because I was "doing my own plumbing." Now while taking apart the bathroom sink pipes might look like plumbing, it's really just advanced cleaning, which means of course it is something he'd never think of, even though the water was quite clearly ( Read more... )

We're supposed to get a blizzard tonight/tomorrow, which is a pretty rare event in my life. With almost no cash and no plan, I went to the Turkish grocer to get food supplies for the weekend tonight rather than doing our normal shop tomorrow. I think I've got about a euro left in my wallet. I'm making sure the cats get a good chance to run ( Read more... )

2009 was a shit year. I'm not a superstitious person, but I swear 2009 was cursed. Cleanse me now in the fire of fireworks. This will be a better year ( Read more... )