Everydaystranger

2006 was an eventful year in many, many ways.
Let’s review.
January-January arrived like the plodding mule that it is. Anti-climatic, grey, and everyday. Work was still hell, the commute was still long, but I did get to see my brother and sister, both of whom I continue to love unreservedly. I’m stealing G-Man the [...]

To: The kindly perusers of this online weblog
From: Helen Adelaide
Subject: The appropriate contexts
Please accept, with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for
an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non
addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter/summer solstice
holiday, practised with the most enjoyable traditions of religious
persuasion or secular practices of your choice with respect for [...]

Lately we’ve had a lot of thick heavy fog outside-said fog is fantastic and cozy, but it may impede the arrival of Melissa and Jeff today, as a third of flights in and out of Heathrow are cancelled from the fog. The temperatures have plummeted, so much so that the radiators are all on [...]

I settle in to the tall stool and park my heavy briefcase on the stool next to me. I am wearing too many layers of clothes, I am hotter than hell. I walked too quickly over Waterloo Bridge to avoid the cold, and as a result I feel heat down my back. [...]

Our trip to York was long and onerous, but we made it up to Harrogate in the end, turning up late Friday night.
We had a big Mexican meal (mmmmmm….Mexican. In….York. The Homer-isms fall down there.) Then we headed back to the room for a snooze.
Saturday dawned and we decided to make our [...]

So this weekend is the first weekend Gorby will try out his new kennel. Unfortunately, he gets a stint in the kennel while we’re away for New Year’s, and this weekend we’re off to Yorkshire so this is a good trial. I hate that he’s in a kennel, but I have checked it [...]

I get on the train at half past 7, having spent an hour trying to figure out what the fuck to wear-I have a series of meetings which will undoubtedly piss me off and in which I must appear in charge, but not too girlish. It

My very favorite Christmas song has long been I’ll Be Home for Christmas. Because I was kind of raised by television, I want to say the first time I heard it was not, as you might have suspected, on my beloved John Denver and the Muppets Christmas CD, but I’m pretty sure the first [...]

Kermit the Frog (god bless the little fucker) once said: It’s not easy being green.
And, seriously-I hold Muppet values to be close to godliness here. Where there is no God, there is Fozzie Bear. I’m just saying.
Anyway, Angus and I are both extremely keen on recycling, the environment, crunchy-granola goodness, and [...]

Remember Burl Ives? Burl Ives? Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? You have to know that one-Yukon Cornelius? The Island of Misfit Toys? I’m cuuuuuuuuuuute! Hermy, the first ever gay elf? That Burl Ives?
Yeah.
The reason I mention him is there’s a new film out called Stranger Than Fiction, which I [...]

You know, there are a lot of things that you take for granted, and when you realize they’re gone, then you’re pretty pissed off.
I’m not talking Ali McGraw-like love or anything like that. Love is grand, but slightly bigger than not realizing you have it one day. If you were that unobservant to [...]

Wednesday was a long day.
I woke in the dark to get showered and dressed. I left in the dark to get to the train station to catch a hideously early train into London. The weather was perfectly miserable-driving rain, gale force winds, and everything-regardless of umbrellas, rain jackets, hats-got soaked. The ticket [...]

There are packs of sparkly Christmas cards on my desk. We have a Christmas card list brewing-they are mostly his friends and family. My list is small because my coterie is very small. I’ve left a lot of people behind, or they’ve left me. Regardless, the list is small and grows [...]

A Santa Claus line.
Not a line as in: “Can I take your picture, because I want to show Santa Claus want I want for Christmas” line.
He gave me a Santa Claus line.
Christmas is more or less here. I’ve been struggling a lot with mood swings for the past month, I seem to be going [...]

26 December 2006
We’re Off
We’re off tomorrow to go skiing in Canada for a long while, and we cashed in a load of Aidan’s air miles so we’ll be flying business out there, and first on the way back (which is possibly more exciting to me than you can imagine. I’m immature, I’m ok with [...]

Jumpy today, so abbreviated again. I had an idea for a post but then work cut in and I got fucked off and I took it out on a tree and the day has sapped me of my will to live, so it’ll cool until Monday. Enjoy my synapses with me?
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I saw Casino Royale. [...]