My mother has cancer. It is secondary bone cancer following the breast cancer that she had beaten eighteen years ago. She is having chemo and we will have to wait and see if that is effective. I hope that it will be ( Read more... )

Good news: I love my new hair colour. I have a reverse ombre thing going, with my natural black to my jaw and then it brightens to very red. Very very red! Love it!

London Film and Comic Con is less than two days away. I have planned my outfit, planned my bag supplies, plotted my schedule, charged my camera battery, bought a spare camera battery and charged that too. I have lost at least 8lbs (hopefully more this week too) and I am waiting for my hair dye to develop ( Read more... )

I've been reading fanfic for a lot of years, ad I mean a LOT of years! I have moved from one fandom to another, sometimes because of my interests and sometimes because I followed a favourite author in. I love fanfic so very much ( Read more... )

So I mentioned how scared I was that my hard work would not be enough but it was all okay, I lost 5lbs in one week! And I did it by being sensible and healthy. No fad diets, nothing harsh and bad for long-term habits. Just smaller portions, less fat and sugar and a little more walking. I am so smug that I mught explode. 5lbs!!!

This time last year I was sitting in a hospital watching my daddy die. I miss him and it hurts that I am still having trouble crying about it. I have been more likely to have a panic attack than sob. Grief is such a weird thing ( Read more... )

Last year I finally admitteed that i am asexual. I resisted for a long time, I blamed myself for not being 'normal' and I faked it as hard as I could without actually having sex I didn't want. I finally realised that while it is ok to lie to others about personal stuff that is none of their business I should not lie to myself about this. I am ( Read more... )