I don't know about you, but sometimes when I've had a very average week, I feel the need to listen to some songs I know will rip out my heart and hand it to me on a plate. Oddly enough, it's extremely cathartic and I usually end up feeling much better afterwards. My choice this afternoon is an old favourite that never fails to touch on many tender ( Read more... )

Did you miss me?

*crickets*

Just so you know, I missed all of you very much. Thank you to the darling girls who sent me text messages - my lack of reply does not mean that I do not love you. It means that I haven't topped up the credit on my pre-paid mobile during the horror that has been the last week of my life ( Read more... )

This will be the last time I write on my computer in the house that's been home for over ten years. As soon as I post this, I'll be logging off and packing up the computer, ready for its journey to the new house in the morning ( Read more... )

I have four brothers, and all of them are fathers now. The one closest to me in age (three year gap) was my childhood confidante and playmate. He and I were 'the littlies', the ones who caught whooping cough together and pooled our money to buy firecrackers for Guy Fawkes night and suffered through being taught by evil nuns at primary school ( Read more... )

We have lived in this house for nine years, and as long as I can remember, we have been smack bang in the middle of a big possum neighbournood. I'm used to possums using our roof as a shortcut from one tree to the next, and possums chattering in the big mango tree in the backyard, and possums playing peeping tom into our living room from the ( Read more... )

Been a bit of a crap week (not just for me but for several buddies) so I am spamming myself (and them, lol!) with youtube vids of Eighties songs that never fail to cheer me up. Feel free to click. *g*

( Gosh has it really been twenty years )

I did two things tonight. I made tacos for dinner tonight - beef and bean tacos to be exact - and I checked out the hotel in the city where we've decided to stay on New Year's Eve so we can watch the amazing fireworks and get a bit tipsy and not have to wait three hours for a taxi home ( Read more... )

Happy, happy, HAPPY birthday to one of the most amazing people I know, ms_artisan. One of my first ever online BFFs (over eight years now, can you believe it?) and someone I want to be just like if I ever decide to grow up.

Hope you had a wonderful birthday, and I hope I get to see you 'for realz' sooner rather than later. *hugs you*

I've just arrived home after a big family dinner to celebrate a few birthdays, and I have to share this card. It's from one of my brothers, who has no idea that cat macros exist, and he is probably still wondering why I laughed so hard at dinner that I was almost crying.


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You know, I remember loving the colour orange when I was a child, but I've just found two old photos and it's just hit me how much I must have loved it. We moved to this particular house when I was six years old, and all six kids got to pick the main colour scheme in their bedrooms (luckily for my twin brothers, they both liked green ( Read more... )