I don't seem to be doing well, apparently. I thought I was doing better but apparently not ( Read more... )

A woman from social services came by today.

Apparently my housekeeping sucks.

She did make friends with my rats tho.

HHHRRRmmm. Not even a Haiku and yet what happened today.

*This entry took a while to write and was written from when I first got the news to the weeks after she had gone ( Read more... )

Big thanks to super_nezumi for her support but I am sorry to announce that poor Charlie had to be helped to the Rainbow Bridge at the vet's today ( Read more... )

My poor wee rat Charlie has had a horrible time lately and despite being partially paralysed on his left the vet reckons he is now completely blind too after his stroke. Despite all that he is as happy and busy and keen to go about rattie business as any other rat. I have to help him out with a lot of stuff, like giving him a place to support ( Read more... )

I've been trying a new tactic on the getting fit thing and actively treating myself as a Beginner of Running.  Many years ago, like, a scary number of years ago I thought that in order to "Run" one had to belt around as much and as far as they could until they fell over.  I tried, at that time, to punish myself around the university lake at stupid ( Read more... )

You know how most people feel able to give a few words on facebook or twitter now and then about how things are going with those little everyday things in life - I'm doing this! My kid did that! OMG whatever was I thinking ( Read more... )

I was at university and was about to happily go to my morning lectures.  The radio that morning said that nobody should go anywhere because an armed man was at large in a nearby school and had already shot dead several 5/6 year old children and at least one member of staff. One of our professors lost his young daughter that day, not long after ( Read more... )

I learned of a good friend's death today ( Read more... )

WELL! As if my boyfriend having to leave today wasn't bad enough I also discover that the money I am owed is not even any closer than it was a fortnight ago because no bugger has even bothered to look at the form yet :S The hoop jumping is not even begun either. And, as if that wasn't bad enough, news came today that my first and favourite mmo ( ( Read more... )