Well, thanks to the whole "strikethrough" mess, I got to have bad dreams all night about fundies hunting me down. The fact that this came in the form of me being pursued through a Merchant Ivory tea party by a vicar on a wobbly bicycle (FadeUp Benny Hill music) makes me suspect that my subconscious isn't taking me seriously.

How can I get it

They're marching again, you know. Those who believe that they best know how to run your life; that the freedom to say and do what you choose is too dangerous a thing for you to handle, poor weak foolish creature that you are.

Doesn't it make you feel safe, knowing that these people have volunteered themselves for doing your thinking for you? And of ( Read more... )

A white T shirt, a tomato sandwich - can you guess how the story continues? Argh! I now have a huge stain down the front of my shirt - cold water doesn't seem to have shifted it much - and I'm due on the public desk later. Curses! I've turned it round so that the stain is at the back and I'll just have to hope it doesn't look too odd ( Read more... )

Cowboy has just texted to say he must buy a sports uniform now that he's back in college. He was in the basketball and volleyball teams at school, so I reckon he's going to have a great time!

**Perverted pr0ny thoughts of my beloved in his new uniform**

A bit groggy at work this morning. Late to bed - well, late to sleep anyway - because my upstairs neighbours were doing DIY until 11pm. Sounds like they were taking up wooden flooring - hammering on something wooden anyway. Still, it could be worse - they could be sharing their music.

Of course this meant that instead of doing my nemobbics this ( Read more... )

Since I came back from the market with a huge bag of mushrooms, I thought I'd make my favourite dish with them - stewed with black eyed beans. I had a lot of stuff to do on Saturday, so I just threw it all in the slow cooker, and it came out beyooootiful.

So I just wanted to share:

Soak a half-pint coffee mugful of black eyed beans/ peas in water ( Read more... )

Yesterday's nemobbics were interrupted by a wardrobe malfunction. Those shorts have been permanently demoted to paint-rag status (I ripped one seam open so I wouldn't forget.) Thank heavens I still have the front windows papered over!

I've been to see the optician - good news, my prescription hasn't changed; I only need new glasses because these ( Read more... )

I've booked tomorrow (Thursday) off so that I can go to the opticians. My current specs are so massively scratched that I'm permanently seeing the world in soft focus. I just hope they have some decent, boring, cheap frames and don't try to palm me off with the current horrible fashions which all remind me of those cardboard 3D specs re-done in ( Read more... )

A little bit sub-optimal this morning. I stayed up late last night so that I could phone Cowboy early in the morning (y'know, that timezone thing) before he went off to College on his first day. He was really excited. He's been bubbling with happiness about how nice his college is, and how good his teachers are, and it sounds like he's made some ( Read more... )

I was going to choose recipes, shop for the ingredients and prepare light, tasty and nutritious meals in the evening. The reality this morning was me stumbling round the kitchen half awake chopping random veggies and throwing them in the crockpot - or at least in that general direction. I should be coming home to some sort of warming chickpea and ( Read more... )