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so that's apricot chicken roulade with baked oranges for pudding, then?
It's 2:45 a.m. Sunday morning, when I specifically derided myself for not getting up early enough *yesterday*. My hypocrisy is stunning. But all of this boiling down to a left-of-centre day where everything was OFF by 2 hours (give or take) and I pondered how happy am I playing at 50's housewife and realized, thanks to rageprufrock's "Homemaking", ( Read more... ) -
it's always the end of hols that cause the madness
In a selfish worry, I'm freaking out a little that I don't know how to talk to my best friend right now. She's grieving for a mutual friend who died suddenly (she was much closer to her than I was). A couple of nightmares and I've come through relatively unscathed but it eats at her every day. I try to say the right things, but I don't know how to ( Read more... ) -
New Years Nonsense :)
In 2011, ( Read more... ) -
Fuck Yeah Comic Book Secrets
- When they crucified Skin, I cried on the inside for all the other X-People who will never get to live a life away from the X.
- When they de-powered Jubilee on M-Day, part of my childhood died a little death. I am still horrified at the lack of respect, growth, or consideration for her character.
- Sometimes when I get freaked out, I think "What Would ( Read more... )
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weary world rejoices
I am pleased with the wild and whirling wedding plans and my new clothes. I feel guilty that I should be so content when my friend is mourning his wife.
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Review: "Evernight" by Claudia Gray (MAJOR SPOILERS)
My fiancee's younger sister has generously loaned us a large selection of teen vampire fiction and we have decided to give it all a shot. Despite my unholy dislike of Twilight I have started my journey with Claudia Gray's "Evernight".
The first half of the book bothered me greatly. Overlooking the mostly mediocre writing, I was highly disturbed by ( Read more... ) -
yay for me
Being engaged is nice. It's like warm spiced milk or a particularly nice vintage that burns all the way down and leaves that glowy feeling in your chest (imagine my surprise at 21 to find out some alcohol feels exactly the same way they describe it in literature). -
brama di Oxford
my hands ache for lack of your warm stone/ancient eyes/and my feet that/click, swish, shuffle/down your cool alleys ( Read more... ) -
because i am lucky like that
Of course it is pouring heavily the day I need to walk to the salon to get my haircut. WTF, weather. I hate you. -
teenage dream
Sipping on a mug of Tetley tea, the latest Katy Perry in my headphones, re-reading 16 Years After the Catastrophe.
good morning.
(go read some jan. mcneville)