A fuller post will be posted later

The last few weeks have been chaos with more chaos and extra chaos. Actually it's getting on for months now

We had family drama then family socialising then more drama from the socialising topped with more socialising and relatives all over the place and you're not allowed to kill any of them

We had the work drama ( Read more... )

 Beloved has bought me all the expansion packs for Civilisation 5.

I don't know whether to declare eternal love and a promise to accommodate any and all kinky requests forever (once I've finished playing) or to curse him out for destroying my time when he KNOWS i'm busy, damn it.

Can I do both?

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Must resist.... muuuuuuuuuuuust resist the ( Read more... )

After a couple of weeks of doing nothing but poke obsessively at Fangs (due to current bad mooseness I’m on all hands-on-deck mode in a classic obsessive need to DO ALL THE THINGS) and poke obsessively at work and occasionally poke obsessively at various other projects (which also somewhat explains my not entire presence here or on twitter which ( Read more... )

 Beloved bought me a baking recipe book by Paul Hollywood (a master baker and becoming celebrity chef baker)

This is how he terms it.

I think of it more him buying a list of things he wants to eat and expects me to make. He resents this interpretation of events.

And yesterday he found a recipe for a kind of Brioche (French faffy bread of faffiness ( Read more... )

 Firefox has been giving me all kinds of grief lately, fighting with Flashplayer, eating computer performance and generally being a nuisance.

I applied my usual tech support methods. I swore at it. I frenziedly clicked the mouse. I swore at it some more. I restarted the computer. I swore at it some more. I turned off the computer and went and read ( Read more... )

Being under the weather I couldn’t face cooking - odd I’m not nauseous or not hungry, but I am hellaciously exhausted.

Which is a problem - because there’s WANTING to eat, yet not being able to cook and facing… Beloved’s offer to cook instead.

There follows the sudden moment when I desperately try to think of what is in the freezer - surely ( Read more... )

So Beloved has, after a pause to try and lull me into a false sense of security, launched his counter strike.

Oh it was subtly done I will give him that.

I’m there working away on Vital Worky Type Stuff when Beloved saunters in

Beloved: Dragon Age 3’s supposed to be released this year

Sparky: I know, already looking forward to it

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So Beloved and I are having a brief little tussle.

We have a doorstop in our kitchen. And I hate it.

Firstly, you have to understand I like my barriers. I hate open plan. I like my walls. I like closed doors. I like curtains drawn. I like a house to be made of lots of little boxes that can be nicely sealed away from the outside world. And a ( Read more... )

Now that was surprisingly not awful.

It was bad, don’t get me wrong, but it wasn’t the long drawn out hell of relatives I want to kill with a flamethrower  but can’t because there’s so many of them and it’d cause a severe fire hazard.

Part of it is simply that our vast huge family is breaking up. As the oldest generation shuffles off their ( Read more... )

Beloved: *smells cooking* ooh what's for dinner?

Sparky: Chicken.

Beloved: Again?

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I admire his courage.