Heidi's Hideaway (now with added class!)
Posted in Everyday, Miscellanea on Sep 8th, 2009
I am a messy person. While my desk is reasonably organized and my books are obsessively tidy, the rest of my world can get untidy to the extreme. One might not think so from photos like this, taken when we lived in our little flat in Manchester:
The thing that one must realize, however, [...]
Posted in Everyday, Miscellanea, Size acceptance on Aug 17th, 2009
My brain is percolating several entries, after my brain, which has been hiding under a rock for a couple of weeks and only emerging to do classwork, has finally realized that it can be AWAKE!! again and actually deal with real life.
I’ve frequently heard people tell me that they never remember their dreams. [...]
Posted in Burkina Faso, Miscellanea, Size acceptance on Jul 10th, 2009
I clearly picked the wrong country to live in. I should move right back to Burkina Faso!
Amusingly enough, they’re not wrong about the way that many African men find large women attractive. I’ve lived in several different places where there were large numbers of African immigrants. The only time I get hit [...]
Posted in Miscellanea on Dec 22nd, 2008
Okay, in my last too-long; did-not-read post, I wandered off track. This is what I meant to say…and this time, I’m not cutting it.
The issue of God is a complicated one for me, and there’s a lot of history I might go into at some point, but the conclusion that I’ve most firmly drawn in [...]
Posted in Miscellanea on Dec 5th, 2008
Graham picked a name off one of those gift trees yesterday – you know the kind, put up by charitable organizations with the names of children, their ages, and the gifts that they most want for Christmas. Graham chose a little boy named L, who is two, and who wants some wooden cut-and-play food, and [...]
Posted in Miscellanea on Dec 2nd, 2008
From Beth.
Posting 5 odd things about myself:
1. Wool (and that includes those scratchy wool blankets) gives me chills. I don’t wear it and don’t touch it, ever. If polar fleece gets that scratchiness to it I can’t touch it either, and that includes gritting my teeth and shuddering while cuddling Ciaran if he’s wearing fleece [...]
Posted in Big Bad Mummy, Miscellanea on Oct 28th, 2008
I keep trying to write what should be a really good post but it just won’t come out the way that it’s supposed to. Great material, great thoughts…and I’m just not getting it onto paper. Or onto the screen, if we wish to be pedantic.
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For Thanksgiving, I’m sending my toddler off for four [...]
Posted in Miscellanea on Oct 19th, 2008
Most of yesterday was spent in a foul mood for no apparent reason. I suspect it was the effect of my oh-so-delightful Mirena, as I’m far more prone to hormonal fits with it in than I was previously, although not hemorrhaging blood is a definite bonus.
In any case, I managed to drag myself [...]
Posted in Miscellanea on Oct 17th, 2008
Just about anyone who’s ever gone on a paid-diet (and by this I mean Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, etc.) knows that part of the fun? of dieting is that you get to think up foods to eat that ALMOST taste like yummy food, but not quite. Witness “delicious” options like, oh, spaghetti sauce on [...]
Posted in Miscellanea on Oct 16th, 2008
Re-posted from the INFJ listserv:
After the recent teetering-on-the-edge-of-total-economic-and-financial
meltdown couple of weeks, it seems economic systems and their workings have
pushed their way into the need-to-know-category. Well, we can now simplify
this all by explaining 21 economic models with cows. It is remarkable how
much sense it all makes from this real world perspective!
SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one [...]
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