so yesterday was pretty lame. i had a tonne of work to do between 9am and 2pm, and then a review that sucked, despite there being nothing really wrong with my progress. it sucked because the lady who did it complained that i hadn't sent her a spreadsheet by the deadline she had set on friday. i explained to her why i couldn't meet that deadline. my ( Read more... )

we completed the rearranging and cleaning today! we also did two loads of washing, with the new (old) washing machine. we haven't had a washing machine in almost six months, and have been lugging clothes down to the laundrette and back again in order to keep ourselves at a socially acceptable level of hygiene. so all round, this weekend served to ( Read more... )

in an attempt to reorganise our house and lives, peter and i purchased a good amount of ikea furniture. we have a new billy, a coffee table, and a second hand 5x5 expedit with new two new red cupboards, two new white cupboards, and a red set of drawers ( Read more... )

well, i went back to work for two days, but now i'm free again thanks to a complex office mix-up, which goes something like this ( Read more... )

so today is pete's first day at work, after quite a while not working. the combination of bad economic times and him being on a contract with the last company he worked for meant that he was left high and dry last year, when the company lost the project that he was employed to be working on ( Read more... )

so, i'm wrapped up in a doona on the couch, wearing a hoody with fluffy lining, just finished the left over bolognese, and am watching the replay of the mens hockey grand final (i've already seen the outcome). being sick would be really good if it weren't for the part where you feel sick ( Read more... )

after complaining about the humidity, the rain came. this would have been fine if the ominous clouds hadn't started rolling in just as i was climbing a ladder to the roof in order to clean the gutters. the combination of the fact that there were clouds and that i was sure i could hoist myself up onto the roof, but not as sure i would be able to get ( Read more... )

i am still sick ( Read more... )

the website for the telegraph in the uk has a section called "world" which has different world news categories. these categories are:

usa, europe, asia, china, middle east, africa and indian ocean, australia and the pacific, and of course the obvious last category...

barack obama.

which i believe is nestled somewhere in the heartlands of russia

my friend jackie came over today to do some gardening. it always surprises me how nice our place looks after we've fought back the jungle and cleared some space. our courtyard looks so nice now. we also went to a craft market, where i bought a plate with a little black devilish looking creature on it, and it says "poisoned food" in japanese. ( Read more... )