Happy birthday to me! :)
I had the best birthday this year!I had my friends over on Saturday, and all the food I'd planned turned out delicious! It did take me about 5 hours to prepare everything, but that's also because once...
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Sven and I lay in bed last night, trying to sleep, but finding ourselves talking about my dad's health. As I've mentioned before, my dad has been diagnosed with a non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma which has...
View ArticleCelebrity Dream
I had a dream about Chris Evans this morning. It actually woke me up, which sucked enormously.We were at some kind of party or other social setting, and the dream sort of started with me telling the...
View ArticleOh, nothing special. How're you?
I don't really have anything in particular on my mind, but my flist was completely dead, which kind of provoked me, so I decided to put *something* out there...I am getting immense pleasure out of my...
View ArticleMental shopping
I am trying very hard to resist the urge to buy another kitchen machine. I've been using my food processor's whisk attachment for baking, but it's not an ideal long-term solution, because the bowl is...
View ArticleThe joys of driving
Yesterday was not a good day for traffic, I feel. I was stuck on the motorway, and ended up being 20 minutes late for work, because someone in a POS car decided that the passing lane was clearly where...
View ArticleForesight and hindsight
I'm having a lot of deja vu's these days. Really specific, yet random moments, that don't make much sense until I have the context of the situation. So I know I dreamed them, a few weeks, months in...
View ArticleDarling little old lady
Darling little old lady. Why are you going to the grocery store on a Friday afternoon? You’ve had every other day this week, even today, to do your shopping while the rest of us are at work. Why would...
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A list of grievances
I'm posting this now because I'm mostly over it. Mostly, and only because certain things are no longer a factor, and other things will cease to be a factor within the foreseeable future. dutchxfan,...
View ArticleMac&Cheese
Do you guys realize how ridiculously easy it is to make macaroni and cheese from scratch? I just tried, and it took me maybe 5 minutes. I am shocked that people bother to buy that packaged yellow...
View ArticleFandom done wrong
My gorgeous cousin, Sanne, who insisted on doing my makeup for my wedding, and who looks model-gorgeous herself, and has a really glamorous job, and who basically does all the things I only dreamed of,...
View Article"What makes night within us may leave stars" - Victor Hugo
My BFF/hubbie lost his mom, Hetty, to cancer early this morning. She was diagnosed with lung cancer in September last year. In March, it turned out that it had spread to her brain, and she didn't want...
View ArticleLess of a hater.
So. I think I'm pretty much all raged out. It's all quiet inside. I have no more rage to give at present.I still think the same things are absolute bullshit, and I would dare anyone responsible for...
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An orgy of colors
I planted things. And they're blooming! Here, have some pretty flowers:
View ArticleStupidly absurd
The people who enter my office are absurd. Twice in one day, I've had to explain to people that I am not actually a plumber, and as such, I am incapable of answering their super specific questions...
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A randomly selected update
So, I found a bug in my pants this morning.I rolled out of bed (much too late, as per usual), got half-dressed in a tank top and a pair of jeans while stumbling to the bathroom and sat myself down on...
View ArticleAunt Bess' Barbecue Ribs
Did you know that you're supposed to cook your barbecue sauce? I sure as I hell didn't! I just stirred some stuff together and figured it would cook with the meat on the grill.I decided to actually...
View ArticleThings you can't say
I was in dire need of some emergency therapy yesterday, and my first thought was to reach out to my closest, far-away, friends. So thank you again, lovelies, for your kind words and support. And for...
View ArticleParty dream
I had the craziest dream the other night. It sort of happened in reverse, because it started out with all my friends being mad at me, and I had no idea why. And then they started telling me about all...
View ArticleDominique Christina - "The Period Poem"
I'm just gonna share this here. Because this is some powerful stuff. The intro is slightly long. but stay with it, please."Herein begins an anatomy lesson infused with feminist politics because I hate...
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