Well the new year is going as expected. I spent a totally TIRED NYE, fagged out and lying getting mosquito bites in a park, 30 degrees still at midnight, miles from home, too tired to even lean over to give my friends a kiss on the cheek. Happy new whatsit, we mumbled at each other tiredly. Then I spent an hour on the tram getting home, but that ( Read more... )

Well I hope Christmas for thems what did it was good for all. Mine was lovely -- perfectly relaxed, pleasant (I am blessed with an agreeable and non-cantankerous family) and satisfying. And Boxing Day, being one of the most lovely days of the year, was spent sitting in the sunshine, reading two Quarterly Essays and helping my mother do the weeding ( Read more... )

Happy merry thingamie, everyone!! Even if it's not your thingamie day tomorrow, I hope it's a muy merry one. Merriness to all!

Now go forth and eat lots.

*tinsel*

Sigh. Christmas makes me weary. Weariness makes me cranky. Crankiness makes me bored. I have just come home from a dinner with friends where I got weary, cranky and bored. Thank god it only cost me 30 bucks ( Read more... )

I think we can safely say that I have almost totally dropped the bundle with LJ these past months. I just don't know what's happened, except oh, I do: TOO MUCH REAL LIFE. Including lots of things I unfortunately can't share here, or are too trivial or too big to begin explaining (though all is well, I assure you ( Read more... )

This entry started out ( Read more... )

Happy *discreet burp* post-Christmas, everyone. I had a good one, with la famille, and many unattractive salads that I made which turned out to be delicious. Also, I got some good present, and my dad nearly wept with joy over the onion-chopping machine I bought him ( Read more... )

Goodness wow, suddenly it's not the beginning of December and too early to send Christmas cards, for fear of making people think I am an over-organised nit; suddenly it's the END of December and dramatically LATE to send Christmas cards, thus making me look like a disorganised nit, and it's CHRISTMAS EVE and EVERYTHING on tv tonight featured ( Read more... )

Oooh Christmas cards have started arriving from you lovely people! I shan't name names, but THANK YOU VERY MERRY MUCH!

We don't talk about how I have a stack of unblemished, virginal, unwritten-in cards next to my desk. No, that's not for speaking of.

Am listening to the Cure's first album, Three Imaginary Boys. Nineteen seventy-nine. I was ( Read more... )