+1 I made flapjacks!

-10 The rain, it rains.

+3 I made these delicious things ( Read more... )

Turns out I will do almost anything* rather than deal with the pig story ( Read more... )

There's a ^*%($^* rat in our kitchen again ( Read more... )

Look what I've just found on lulu.com.

Via boingboing, J.K.Rowling's commencement address at Harvard:

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really ( Read more... )

Two complaints, actually ( Read more... )

Okay. Having thought more about what I wrote in my last entry, and the comments thereof, I've decided to make more of an effort to be a good diarist. It occurs to me that maybe one of the reasons I haven't been writing at all is that I've let this journal go stale. Perhaps, if I write more regularly here, I'll be more inclined to write more ( Read more... )

Last month I backed up all my old LiveJournal entries, and skim-read them while I sorted out the formatting. It's a bit of a mess, this journal, isn't it? Reading it all in one go left me wondering what the point of it was. My main reason for starting it was that I didn't want to lose touch with my on-line friends, as we all drifted away from ( Read more... )

This is the fullest of self-pity I've been in YEARS ( Read more... )

Matt turned 30 on Tuesday. I realise now that a lot of my "I'm still young!" attitude was based on him being in his twenties. I am not still young. Hmmm. You know, we'd both be under a lot less pressure if our ages were swapped around.