I MISS LJ. I miss LJ being alive and full of excitement. Tumblr is so not my thing. Aside from the amusing viral reblogs, I only really enjoy it when I'm talking to people I talk to here anyway ( Read more... )

So this is what my laptop looks like now. YES.


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Flist, it is about twenty months since I first suggested a game of Monopoly to stave off my just-turned-ten-year-old cousin's boredom. Now she's not far off twelve and I have CREATED A MONSTER. A blood-thirsty, ultra-competitive property developing, fans-her-wads-of-money-in-yo-face monsterBut on the plus side, it is fun and makes me want to read/ ( Read more... )

Yesterday I babysat my cousin all day and we played three games of Monopoly and one game of Scrabble and I WON THEM AAAAALLL. Then I got a tattoo shit yeah (I'll post pictures tomorrow when I can figure out how to twist the camera in the right direction.) Then today was my mum's birthday so I am sliiiightly squiffy on champagne and we watched ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my last day of minding my cousin! Monopoly draw, as her mum came before we could finish the game. (I would have won.) Also saw The Sorcerer's Apprentice, which was BETTER THAN I HAD EXPECTED. Oh Nicolas Cage I can't help but love your two-maybe-three expressions <3 Also, the main character (hint: he was the sorcerer's apprentice) was ( Read more... )

TODAY, my friends, I thoroughly beat my cousin at monopoly twice. After the first trouncing she demanded a rematch, in which I squashed her (if it is possible) even more thoroughly than the first game. AH HAPPY TIMES. (It was over five straight hours of monopolising, if you're wondering. Good grief ( Read more... )

A SUCCESSFUL DAY OF CHILDMINDING. I kicked my cousin's bony eleven-year-old butt at Monopoly and I liked it. It's kind of becoming a tradition between the two of us now, me calmly and pleasantly bankrupting a child. Then I taught her how to tie her shoelaces FUCK YEAH I AM A RESPONSIBLE ADULT-Y FIGURE IN HER LIFE. But oh my god internet, she has a ( Read more... )

HELLO INTERNET. And, uh... goodbye internet. I have been busy busy busy and the rest of this week is only going to be busier. Quick rundown: FRIDAY, minded my younger cousin whilst my aunt was moving house (again), 1-10pm, introduced her to cat videos and cat yodelling on youtube - SUCCESS! SATURDAY, went to London with my mum, visited John Soane's ( Read more... )

GOODBYE, SWEET INTERNET. My cousin is coming in fifteen minutes. She'll be leaving ten and a half hours later. (Probably later, because my aunt, I say with all affection, is not very punctual.)

If I die, please remember me fondly.

GUYS, IT'S SO AMAZING. My cousin is discovering the internet. She keeps trying to outsmart me by asking if I've heard of THE BADGER SONG or the freaking LLAMA SONG and whenever I laugh and shake my head and go 'oh dude, I memorised the words to that when I was fourteen' she gets SO CONFUSED THAT I'VE KNOWN THESE THINGS ALREADY ( Read more... )