Another year older, but not necessarily another year wiser. I just keep chugging along ( Read more... )

Finding the motivation to write here has been a challenge in recent weeks. It's the usual factors at play - fatigue, reading, television, travel - and too few spare hours in a day. I've also been doing a lot of hard thinking about whether I should keep this journal going, or at least to lock it up, if I do. I recently found the very addictive GOMI ( Read more... )

Just two days more to Christmas. For some reason I've been much more organised this year - all the gifts have been bought and wrapped, the Christmas and Boxing Day menus have been planned, the gifts of chocolate and wine given to our neighbours and the concierge, and as I type this the Christmas cake is fresh out of the oven, cooling and ready to ( Read more... )

It's the final stretch to the end of 2015! The kids have enjoyed starting on their advent calendars... because they are filled with chocolate. I can't be bothered with the Lego and Playmobil advent calendars this year because they never get played with and it's just a waste of money and plastic. Last year's Playmobil one is quite festive looking ( Read more... )

I am loving, loving, LOVING how both kids are in school for at least part of the day. Bao stopped crying at drop-off at the end of last week, and has been cheerfully talking about school and (according to her teacher) running amok in the playground, so I think all is well. The mornings are still a mad rush with two children to ferry to two ( Read more... )

My birthday last Friday passed uneventfully but not unpleasantly. As I had hoped, the kids and I were over the worst of the flu bug; unfortunately, J was the next one down and spent most of the day asleep or using up copious amounts of tissues. While I was feeling better, the strong antibiotics my doctor had prescribed were giving me wonky side ( Read more... )

Back to school short notes:

1. Winter term began last Monday and The Bun went back to school joyfully, although not as joyfully as I was feeling. He was really starting to climb up the walls towards the end of the holiday break and driving me up the wall. We only have four short weeks of school before the half-term break, which is odd, but it ( Read more... )

It's only the fourth day of 2015, but J and I have already been busy. We've been cooking and feasting, sledding on the last of the powder in Saint-Cergue, vegging out on old movies (well mostly me), fighting and sulking (me), having angry make-up sex, drinking whiskey into the wee hours of the morning (J), fighting more, and then coming right back ( Read more... )

It's J's birthday today, the last of his third decade. How quick time flies - one of our first dates together was to celebrate his twenty-third birthday, in a Greek restaurant in Vancouver. Twenty-three! The mind boggles. We were so young, back then ( Read more... )

Gotta keep writing about our Singapore trip, otherwise it will just fall into a backlog of inertia and never get written. Posterity, people. Posterity.


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