The landlord is finally selling the house I share with my mother and I have to find my own place.
I'm really, really scared.

I love being able to dress for the cold. Went out today with Reverend Dad and the Stepmother and bought a new autumn wardrobe - for under £15, since it was all from the local charity shops ( Read more... )

I am actually starting a proper blog, to rant and discuss and do interesting things with. How long this will last remains to be seen, but I would love it if Y'all would check it out.

Hypothetical Woman and the Rise of Dr. X. Ample is also the first online place in years where I haven't referred to myself as Phyrbyrd. Leave a comment

I am so glad to see my own bed again. I gave it fresh linens to show it how happy I was to see it.

Nooo, of COURSE I haven't been sleeping in a sleeping bag for four days and spending the last seven hours travelling, why do you ask?

So my grandfather just got taken into care, and me and my mother are down in Devon to see that my grandmother is alright ( Read more... )

This morning I was woken by the doorbell - it was the postman, bringing a parcel for me, containing a book which I had wanted for a long time: 'English as She is Spoke: Being a comprehensive phrasebook of the English language, written by men to whom English was entirely unknown ( Read more... )

The Colour of Magic by Terry PratchettYeah, I know, it's a Pratchett book. This was the first Pratchett book I read, cuz, you know, it comes first, and I didn't touch the Discworld series again for years until someone gave me Equal Rites for my fourteenth birthday and got me hooked. The Colour of Magic has all the uncertain bits of an author who ( Read more... )

Two seizures in the same twenty-four hours. I'm exhausted and my head hurts, but I'm not actually hurt and I should be OK in another day or so.

I like my parcels for my friends to get where they're going. naamah-darling says it better than me.

http://naamah-darling.livejournal.com/410499.html

Read, and post it everywhere.

Hello people, I've finally accumilated enough links that I can do another linkslot! Some of these you will have seen before. Some of these I may have stolen from people on my flist here - if that is the case, please bear with me and don't kill me, please.
Anyway.

First off, the random book exchange site that started it all - to the best of my ( Read more... )