* omg, there are A MILLION BUGS in my study, and they all like the back of my shirt, apparently.

* i've been renovating the chook pen - lots of post-hole digging and putting up masses of wire and excavating debris. i'll post a pic when i'm done, i'm feeling quite proud of it.

* books -

A Game of Thrones - George RR Martin: wow, after initially ( Read more... )

* VOMIT - so i've spent the day here with four puking children. lovely. and my life, such as it is, is complete ( Read more... )

* i have had a head cold, and a blocked milk duct, but now i am getting my groove back.

(phone call to my friend in the ABA -

ME: hey, i need to talk to C about boobs.

FRIEND'S HUSBAND (over sounds of screeching children in b'ground): what's that? you need to talk to her about food?

ME: no, i need to talk to her about boobs - y'know, boobs? ( Read more... )

* it's been entertaining, reading everyone's comments on the US DNC and the Palin issue. personally i think it's a hoot! she's so obviously the wrong person - what a laugh! my husband thinks that if the Dems were running anyone but Obama, it wouldn't even be a contest - maybe that's one of the reasons why they chose him, because they figured ( Read more... )

spring is coming! it's so exciting to be seeing my fruit trees coming into bud (i have to fertilise with organic 4-in-1, and mulch all of them and put wire guards around 2, to stop rabbits and kangaroos from ring-barking them), and we might even get some fruit this year. fruit trees are a long term investment, like asparagus. you plant one year ( Read more... )

so yay olympics, but why oh why do we have simultaneous coverage of the same events on two separate channels? and i really need to go rent some DVDs, because non-stop sport is only entertaining for a limited time period. every show i watch has been erased from the tv schedule, except for Dr Who, the one dimly glowing light in a week filled with ( Read more... )

man, the weeks, they get busier and busier until by december they'rea ll starting to blur together. here's the End Of Week clear-out:

* my new icon = total awesomeness. thanks to my sis, for the picporn.

* onelittlesleep has gone away for the weekend. have a good time honey! don't get sprayed by skunks, or y'know, whatever! in other news, she has decided ( Read more... )

dude. have to stop using the word 'dude'. can't stop. dude ( Read more... )

ah, today was a good day. we've all been on holidays for a week, and today for the first time i felt like we were all thawing. i just wish we had a month instead of a fortnight. *sigh*

( today i shovelled horse manure onto my gardens )

so - the Update of Gloom? not so much. but the Update of Ongoing Tiresomeness? well certainly yes. because we are all still ill. would somebody please tell me how the fuck you get rid of this goddamn flu virus that's going round all over the place? because i am totally OVER IT. i have sore-throat-and-runny-nose thing again (4th time? 5th ( Read more... )