Hello. I did hope to bring you another update on the Christmas cactus, which is now looking most impressive, but it always seems to be obscured by drying dishes whenever I think to take its picture... and by the time I've dried them and put them away, it's dark or I've forgotten ( Read more... )

I'm a bit grouchy today because I stayed up really late last night obsessively reading the blog of an evangelical Christian right-wing anti-abortionist with mysogynist tendencies and homophobic and Islamophobic leanings. Yeah, I don't know why either. I obviously just like mentally poisoning myself. I won't go into how I ended up in this position, ( Read more... )

I feel a bit gluey this morning, a bit frayed, a bit delayed. This is because I accidentally slept in till 10, and kept having weird dreams. I moved house at least twice, fell in love with a blond boy called Jeremy at a party, who mysteriously disappeared (I miss Jeremy), kept finding myself outside in my pyjamas, acquired a sister. My dad was ( Read more... )

Project Sort My Life Out 2009 is going to be harder than I thought. Maybe I should have gone for something a little less vague.

I love this Ask MetFilter thread about involuntary verbal/physical reactions to embarrassing memories: Compelled to Blurt...It's absolutely fascinating, kind of comforting, and some of the responses are really funny. I ( Read more... )

In retrospect, I think yesterday went downhill when I put the telly on to wrap my presents in front of... only I didn't wrap any presents, I slouched under a blanket watching Catherine Cookson's A Dinner of Herbs on UKTV History. Thank god my dad phoned to complain at me, or I might have watched Bugsy Malone as well ( Read more... )

Hello, I'm back from rainy Cheltenham with a headache. If you're ever in that neck of the woods, and you're keen on wine and/or sausages, I recommend this place. I had 'The Winchcombe', a delicious combination of pig, cider, and mustard. My friend C had their vegetarian sausage, and she said that it was (to paraphrase), like, totally awesome too ( Read more... )

Why I Re-Read, a post by Jo Walton. I love this, because it perfectly describes why I re-read, too.

lobelia321 and I had a conversation where I said vampires should be tormented because fictional characters should be tormented, not particularly because they were vampires, and then she wrote me a ficlet about a very, very happy vampire called Flopsy, and ( Read more... )

Have you ever wished to make a formal complaint about something but not known where in blue blazes to send it? Ever thought, "Hmm, whinging about packaging and traffic in my LJ is all find and dandy, but why isn't there somewhere more... formal?" Well, lazlet and I have, and we decided we'd absolutely had it, we'd had it up the back teeth, with not ( Read more... )

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1. Walking miles and miles and miles omg to the post office depot place to pick up a blue glass bottle I bought off eBay in a moment of extreme randomosity. Whatever, I'll go after work one day next week. No, honestly, I will. Mm.

2. Taking over the world. Again, next week.

There's nothing else I won't do today. Nothing!

REC: Takin' Over the ( Read more... )