Friday! And what a wonderful week it was! It feels like ages since I've been able to say that ( Read more... )

I kept getting invites for Pinterest, which I kept ignoring - the last thing I needed/wanted was another website which would suck me into the vortex of time and space, stealing precious hours of free time ( Read more... )

You know that moment when a relationship ends, and you're finally finished healing and ready to move on?
I used to mark that moment by getting a new tattoo.
Now I just make stuff.

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My friends Monica and Phil met Catherine and Wills today. Am so deeply jealous. I want to meet Kate! Monica and Phil donated loads of money to the Inner-City-Arts program to build the Rosenthal Theatre, which is where they were today. Rosenthal being Monica and Phils last name. This is how you get to meet the Duchess in America. Cash money ( Read more... )

It's been a week of funerals round here. Sad. My uncle was a singer, thus at the burial site, the undertaker announced that it had been requested by my dearly departed uncle, that all in attendance sing, Dean Martin's You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You. We collectively looked around, shrugged, and got to it. As we sang, the undertaker tried hard ( Read more... )

Am I really the only one looking forward to watching the wedding of Wills and Kate?

I was glued to the television for the weddings of Charles and Diana and Princess Caroline and Philippe Junot. I love me a good old-fashioned royal wedding!

So much has happened in the two months I've been away! And believe me, it was all terrible ( Read more... )

Watching Black Swan felt like reading in the backseat of a car. My advice: Be sure to take your Dramamine.
I hates me a film that causes motion sickness.

Yesterday morning on the bus ride into work, I was chatting with an elderly nun who was sitting beside me. At the end, she asked me if this is going to be my first Thanksgiving here in this country.

Speechless.

Man, I’ve been busy ( Read more... )