Everydaystranger

I am having one of those days. You wake up and realize-it’s one of those days. One of those days where you feel your hair is on fire and your skin is too tight. Where your shorts aren’t sitting right and lemonade just isn’t quenching. Where I’m angry at orange for [...]

Gorby and Edward Scissorhands would’ve been great mates.

He hates the sawdust from the planer (and no, before you call PETA on me, he was nowhere near the planer, and never would be. Our little man, who has 1,000 toys and whose nose we religiously sunblock near power tools? Never.)
He also thriftily takes care [...]

My mobile always has to have specialized ring tones. Has to. The handset I’m currently using doesn’t because it’s a trial handset, but I get a new phone next week to dick around with, so I’ll be putting special tones on it.
And at Christmas I’m one of those people that you love to [...]

Our house has been going through DIY lately.
The study is ongoing. It’s been painted and now hand-built bookshelves are going up to accommodate our many books. Angus and I had the bright idea to build bookshelves on either side of the massive brick fireplace, so we went to a reclamation yard and bought [...]

Julian grabbed Margot and looked deeply into her eyes.
“How could you jump ship and swim through shark infested waters?”
Margot looked up at Julian through limpid pools of blue. “My darling! I thought you were dead! I decided to fling myself into the saltwater crystalline waters to take me to my watery grave [...]

When I was a little girl airplanes were a regular part of my life. With an Air Force pilot for a father I was guaranteed to have a life full of airplanes, everything from the model arplanes placed throughout the house to the pilot paraphernalia that came with having a pilot in the house-there [...]

Bounce flash rules Hosted on Zooomr
Sorry, just trying to get my new Zoomr account working (thanks CalTech Girl!) I like the idea of Zoomr better than Flickr-you don’t have to be a member to comment, which appeals. It’s a bit rusty though and I can’t work out some of the trackbacks. Plus [...]

The heat continues, and my motivation at work has completely sapped. This week has bee particularly stressful and hectic, and amongst the needles and pills comes the need to break off and spend some me time.
Today I’m going to bunk off work and paint the kitchen. It’s going green. I’m calling it [...]

I lifted the hair off the back of my neck, just to try to get some air to move back there. Long hair is great, but a curtain of long hair is just not a good idea right now. Streams of sweat trickled down the back of my legs. My shirt was [...]

Last night my friend Lloyd and I went to see Superman in a dark and air conditioned movie theater. Lloyd is my movie date, as Angus is not so much a film buff and, more to the point, he hates sci-fi, special effects kinds of films. If he does films, he likes them [...]

As we progress, the time I head into the London office of my nice Couch Man becomes more and more valuable. It takes a chunk out of the day-if my appointment is at 10 then I have to leave the house by 7:45, and I won’t be home again until 12:45 or so. [...]

At our barbecue two weeks ago one of our friends said an interesting thing. Per-a Swedish ex-colleague to both Angus and I (at different points in our saga known as Working for Company X) and his family attended our shindig. Drinking a large pint of beer and standing casually against the kitchen counter, [...]

My iPod is a very precious thing.
Very precious.
When my previous iPod gave up the final whir of life there was no question in my mind that I needed another one post haste. Music calms the savage beast and I, for the duration of my NBC-life, have forever been a savage.
There are some songs that [...]

Dear Gorby,
In the past few months you have become so much.
You have become a defender of the house. You bark at the milkman. You bark at the paperboy (and, in fact, when you see him you attack the wheels on his bicycle. Paperboy? Not a fan of the Gorby.) You bark at [...]

The best quote I ever read was by the actress Maura Tierney. It has become my favorite quote of all times, one of those simple things that has none of the inspiration or power that Churchill or Benny Franklin would add, and none of the twee shit you’d expect from Dave Berry or George [...]

Lately, my head has been a bit fuzzy. I’ve lost my thoughts again, even though I have my voice back. I never lost my every day speaking voice, my “I’d like a non-fat grande mocha” voice, my “Return travelcard to London, please” voice. That voice I’ve always had. What I had lost [...]

Yesterday was National Indulgence Day. I know this-it was on my calendar. I’d specifically marked it in Outlook, and if you know one thing about me know this-I’d use Outlook to tell me when to tie my fucking shoes if I could, I am that dependent on Outlook. Moses may have had [...]

I had a phone call onthe 4th of July from someone who works with a consulting company we sometimes work with. It was a woman that I’d been exchanging emails with about work things, and had I not heard her voice I’d have never guessed she was an American so there you have it- [...]

Our Saturday Independence Day loomed large-we’d spent over £250 on food alone (and had a bust-up as I’d bought an entire pig’s worth of spare ribs. Actually make that two pigs. I felt many spare ribs were the way to go, he felt two enormous beef joints were the way to go, and [...]

It’s not often I feel homesick-after all, I’ve been away from the States for many years now. But today is often one of those days I feel a little twinge, I miss just a little of where I am from. It’s just another day here (a day where Angus’ newly arrived son Jeff [...]