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google toolbar: for the spellchecker – seriously, my blog would look like poo without it. (or: my b,og wouldm look liek poo without it, as i originally typed).
a statcounter so you can obsess over your stats & laugh about the search terms that bring people here. "girls party pic blogspot" is my favourite unlikely one today – sorry to disappoint you! (perve.)
some ideas- they don’t have to be good ones!
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )the wisdom of…
mums:
my mum: how is this outfit, as a “look”?
me: well, it’s inside out…
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )sh*t happens
last week (actually i think it was good friday), we found poo in our porch.
dog poo, we thought.
but now, having seen the kids next door (and their naughty, annoying slightly-older cousin from round the corner) urinating & defecating freely in their garden & on the communal path (under parental supervision – why? the house has two toilets!) we’re convinced it was the kids’ idea of fun.
so, we live in pooh-ville.
not that living here has ever been great, or that this is the worst act of vandalism we’ve encountered (that would be the brick through the living-room window) but it is the most – well, shitty.
the worst thing was, we were having a takeaway delivered when i noticed the ‘deposit’ – i tried to be nonchalant and ignore it whilst tipping heavily.
oh, the shame…
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )you can call me speccy four eyes
july 2006
‘cos that’s what i’m gonna be!
yep, i’m joining the realms of glasses-wearers, and can’t stop thinking about my left, slightly rugby ball-shaped eye…
i’d been having pain in and around my eyes for a while, especially after concentrating, and i was worried it might be a weird M.E thing (being a neurological condition, eye and head pains can be par for the course, but would have signified a deterioration for me).
but gut instinct told me an eye test was needed. even so, i was still surprised when, after my test the super-friendly optician started talking about "your prescription" and how i have astigmatism and my right eye has been working harder to make up for the left being a bit slow – shouldn’t she have said "i’m afraid you DO need glasses…" first?!
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )carrie on…
richard and judy had CARRIE! FISHER! on their show yesterday – i nearly died of excitement. (she’d lost weight and was looking very polished and fabulous, which is what i now need to do).
anyway! i looooooooooooooooove C.F, and not because of anything to do with star wars but because of her books, her other films (when harry met sally, hannah and her sisters etc.) her screenwriting, her enormous wit and her interesting life.
she’s handled alcoholism, drug addiction, bipolar disease, having super-famous parents (who do things like marry elizabeth taylor) and being left by her gay husband… with enormous aplomb.
she should be made a dame! (and also, british)- and i don’t even believe in the honours system.
AND! AND! AND! she’s adapting her latest book the best awful as a series for HBO — how great will that be!!! (my guess: VERY VERY great) and then she’s going to work on a new book based in part on her 1970s diaries!
*squeals*
*faints*
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )i love this webiste, becasue…
i can not ever type website or because right first try- ever.
i mostly type very fast and thoughts come pouring out faster than i can spell them. maybe it’s partly because i so rarely look at the keyboard and yet i’m not actually a touch typist. i just (sorry, juts) have some vague idea where the keys are. mainly i think it’s because my brain (brian) has become used to typing (i just mis-typed that as typoing- too true!) those words that way. god bless the spellcheck, without which my reputation would be in tatters.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )me and bridget jones
june 2007
saturday 16th june
hours spent sleeping: 16 (not v.g), crying attacks: too numerous to mention, minor panic attacks also too numerous to mention, apple juices 3, times laughed at bridget jones’s diary: 10 approx (v.g).
12pm wake up. feel exhausted and as if have been injected with terrible sleep-inducing drugs. also miserable. read some of bridget jones’s diary. slink to computer to check emails. have one from dorothy perkins. feel sad. pootle on computer for a bit then go to loo, cry about how bad i feel, hyperventilate, entertain the thought that if i continue to feel like this will end up alone and eaten by alsatians a la bridget’s worst fears.
1.30 am total cow to my poor mum. cry. wonder how i’ll find energy to get through rest of day. panic, cry. re-heat leftovers for lunch and watch the hills and something else i immediately forget the name of.
2.30 read some more bridget in bed.
3.00 text from step-sister re our plans for tomorrow. in wild burst of optimism say i’m sure i’ll be fine. plan to have quick nap, then shower and prepare self for sunday. will be OK.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )buzzzzz!
july 2006
that’s the sound of me being a busy bee! (ha ha ha).
yes, i’m suffering from blogger’s dichotomy: more to blog about, less time to do it in. also, i have bloggy ennui (do you like the way i’m making up blogging illnesses? no? ok then…) and if i have to link to anything, which most of my potential subjects for blogging seem to call for, i will scream VERY LOUDLY. but i will give you some snippets to whet or indeed satiate your appetite…
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )tidings of comfort and beef
beef? why yes, we DID have beef for christmas lunch, and despite my reservations, it was de-LISH-usssss! of course, being spoiled, i wanted turkey too, so i cooked some myself and took it with, to be traditional. (<< very unlike me!) and then i stuffed my face at my auntie and uncle’s.
and then after lunch, to help – i slumped like a gorm. (<< very like me!)
my gramps didn’t want to stay too long so by five PM, we were all home and my ma and i slumped in front of the telly for a gilmore girls series 4 (my mum was waaaaay behind) and will and grace series 8 DVD marathon, broken up by the scd xmas spesh (zoe! LOVED it!) and some more food.
i felt a bit subdued this year, i have to say. i lurve me some christmas and last year, i was full of warmth and love and wine and excitement. this year? it was fine, i got great presents, i love my peeps… but… it was probably the virus and the exhaustion of moving but i was just a bit ‘meh’ about everything. anti-climatic.
but speaking of great presents, some highlights for you:
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