k, ignore everything you’ve ever read or seen about how spending Christmas alone is a terrible thing. It’s not – in fact, it’s been a very pleasant experience. Of course, it probably helps that I’ve never really thought of Christmas as that big a deal anyway. Yes, I have a lot of fun decorating the…
DD has been down again, or at least, the ability for some of us to log in properly has been, so these two entries are ones I wrote over the last couple of days but haven’t been able to post until now (so the “yesterday”s are several days ago now – I’ve added in the…
Harvestbird and I and a mini-Harvestbird had a shopping trip to the Warehouse this morning (with bonus cake at Make Cafe and playground time afterwards), so while we were there I found some lights for the tree (with some difficulty – the usual problem of a million varieties of lights and none of them actually…
The good news is, I finished the machine sewing part of the minecraft face mats. Work in progress – mats at various stages of completion. Machine sewing finally done! Of course, that means the bad news is I’m up to the hand-sewing part. Which is the slow and difficult bit (well, it is if you’re…
hich means I can finally reveal the secret project I mentioned ages ago. In fact, it was two secret projects. Or possibly just two iterations of the same secret project. When browsing the internets looking for patterns to feed my new paper-piecing obsession, I came across a lovely chicken pattern that was just crying out…
seem to have drastically expanded my social circles all of a sudden, joining two new groups in the space of just a couple of weeks. For a start, I’m now officially a Christchurch Blogger. I’m even on their list of blogs! And there’s like an official-type button I’m supposed to put on my diary somewhere…
I had a very enjoyable and most productive day today. Most of the morning was spent, as has become my Saturday morning tradition, with housework. And yes, I count that as part of the enjoyableness – I’ve got it down to a routine where I put on some loud music and get to work, and…
Got a surprise on the way home last night – I was walking across the campus when l heard someone call my name. The person talking to me looked familiar, but I couldn’t quite place him. But then, I met a lot of people while I was doing union work, so I’m used to people…
The last couple of weeks have been very long ones, full of drama and a total emotional roller-coaster. But perseverance paid off, and on Wednesday, 6 months and 2 days after H left, he signed the separation agreement, and I am finally completely legally and financially free of him. It’s cost me a lot, both…
When even your mother is telling you it’s about time you updated your blog, it’s probably about time you updated your blog… Not that I’ve got anything in particular to update it with. It’s that boring part of winter where nothing in particular happens, and the days are grey and dreary, and spring seems an…