Pleasant Distraction

Same mandatory lectures every year, blah blah blah, basically have them memorised.

So thanks, Ben - can I call you Ben? - you magnificent, strangely mesmerising creature.

Sting!

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-Sting-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Back On The (Real Food) Wagon

All the vitamins and minerals! Infusing my body!

The Wormhole

And the archive goes back two years and I'M STILL CLICKING!

And How Did She Die? Malnutrition? Seriously?

Jam tomorrow, jam yesterday, but never ever jam today...

Australia Malaise

Flags, songs, social tension whatever; I'm just going to play with this baby.

And stop 'Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-ing' at me, it's not my fault you made such an adorable baby!

Nostalgia Time

The memory of the trees behind the screen was ridiculously strong.
Same trees, same joyful excitement :-)

Neil Gaiman!

NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIL GAAAAAAAAAAAAAIMAAAAAAAAAAAN!

He signed my book and I managed to compliment him without turning into a babbling fool and yep, if the world ended now I'd be pretty relaxed about the whole deal.

I have seen Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman speaking live and everything else in my life is just going to be filler*.



*Yes, I'm talking to you theoretical-boyfriend/husband/whatever and theoretical-future-children-and-grandchildren etc.
FILLER!

Conspiracy Blehrists

OMIGODSHUTUPIDON'TCARE!

If you spent less time worrying about what people might be thinking you're thinking and more time just getting on with shit you would be a lot happier and could STOP BRINGING ME DOWN!

Bloody office bullshit.

Sleeping Positions

More accurately 'falling asleep positions', goodness knows what I do when I'm actually asleep.

First Impressions

The only comment the new boss made was "You eat breakfast here? Good, me too." so phew!
She seems a good sort, straightforward and personable so hopefully this is going to go well.

The Danger Of Invisible Situations

AM I AN ACCESSORY NOW!?
I CAN'T GO TO JAIL! I'M TOO PRETTY!

The Drag

So much shit to sort through to make sure you don't throw out the occasional gem.
And the stuff you don't want to throw out you REALLY don't want to throw out so you HAVE to do it.

Out Of Control

I just... It...

HOW MANY LEVELS DOWN DO THESE GO!?

WHERE THE HELL IS ANYTHING!?

AAAARRRGH! 0_0

Courtesy In The Workplace

To be clear I don't often call my close friends dick-ass but whenever I'm feeling jaunty and cheerful in a particularly make-people-want-to-punch me fashion, I often greet them using jammed together nonsense insults.
I'm just classy that way.

Poor Timing

I didn't fall asleep so technically this still counts as a win, even if it was a sweaty exhausting win.

I knew it was going to be warm but it was 5pm, I wasn't expecting the sun to still be quite so enthusiastic by that time!

Misstep

Step Four was supposed to be yoga but... zzzzzzzz...

Sugar Honey Ice Tea!

Drop tuna!
Catch tuna against leg!
Prevent 80% of tuna from falling on the floor.
Scrape 5% of tuna off pants to join the rest of the lost tuna on the floor.
Let the cats have at it.

Metalhead Perks

Yep, I went to see Sabaton tonight and apart from the excellent music, well...

When the guys behind me headbanged the ends of their hair flipped over me and brushed the top of my head and fanned me.
The blonde guy in front of me with the tattoos and the muscles and the surfer hair? He spent a good part of the night bouncing up and down and wiggling about and giving me what amounted to a free lap dance.
Metal gigs, you don't know what you're missing out on, laydeez.

Probably this isn't everyone's experience of mosh pits.
I must just have been in the handsome, nice-smelling, well-behaved part of the crowd.

Perspective

I own three handbags, one of which was a gift.
I am not very good at swapping bags for different events or days and just want everything to match and if possible to just use the same bag all the damn time.

Auspicious

There's stuff we haven't used for years that we kept 'just in case' or stuff we knew we were going to get rid off but hadn't yet and now the mood is upon us we are binning stuff like crazy. It's been amazing.

Warm Weather Activities

Neither one of them wants to get into the shower but whenever they're the one outside the shower they want to be with the other dog and sit outside giving you the sad eyes.

Complete Novice

There is a time in life when most people experiment with make-up and learn how it works.
At that time in my life I was reading, I missed the boat entirely.

Child Rearing Skillz

His parents are metalheads so when he's being cheeky about opening his mouth for the spoon his mother tells him off in a Nathan Explosion voice which make him giggle and in goes the spoon.
I decided to join in.
He'd forgotten I was there and flipped out.
I laughed so hard I almost asphyxiated.
Because I'm a bastard.

Whirlwind Of Efficiency

When we don't know where to put something or if we know where we need to take it but put it aside for 'later' because we've gotten a bit lazy we store things in the rumpus room.
'Later' has arrived.

So Close

Going back to work is going to be awkward and confusing.

Survival Instincts: Low

It's stupid how long it can take me to work out that I'm hungry sometimes.
Then I have to work out what day it was based on what I've been doing and try and remember if food has featured at all.
As all days run together on the holidays, this can take some time...

Furniture Upgrade

When I do something grown up like buy a house or at least move into a place that isn't up a narrow and slightly worryingly old wooden staircase I'll start buying furniture that matches and that isn't yoinked.
Until then, yoink!

We're Adults!

Look, if they didn't want you to put baby shorts onto babies' heads they shouldn't make them baby-head sized!

Good Day

I love my girls, so very much.

Back To The Shire

Martin Freeman is just so adorable. You want to pick him up and tuck him in your pocket and carry him around with you just to listen to him protest adorably at the indignity.