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From my Petit Pois.

-H.

Dear World -
The following things are annoying me greatly. Please to fix.
1) For each time I have to hear “You know PMS comes monthly, you just have to deal with it” I’m going to kick you in the nuts. While you’re writhing around the ground, vomiting blood and begging to die, I’m going [...]

Dear Dream Job,
I hate you. FOAD.
//Helen
Ooooh, um…no. Too harsh. Not to mention unprofessional. That’s not just burning the bridges, that’s pissing on the flaming ashes of the bridges. Clearly need to find more of those tablets…
Dear Dream Job,
I gave you my everything and all you did was kick my ass. [...]

I reckon it’s been a while since I mommy blogged, so here goes.
Nick and Nora are hurtling towards being 13 months old. For the most part they are happy easy-going babies, but when Nick teethes (like he is now) you debate contacting the Changelings and asking for your child back. You can load [...]

Right, so I’m now done with interviews and waiting to hear the results. You’d think I’d be patient about it, that I’d be all zen, but I’m really not. I want to know. I want to know now. It’s like a huge shift in my future and I want the answers [...]

Some days, when you stick up for yourself and spend the day trying to tell people that if they just give you a chance that you can prove that you can do it, you find that the day ends just the way you want a Friday afternoon to end.
I spent 8 hours interviewing today, being [...]

I’ve always been a sucker for men in books.
(Admit it – you thought I was going to say “tights” there, didn’t you?)
I think because I have always been a voracious reader – and when I mean voracious, I mean don’t stand between me and the bookshelf because someone will lose an arm – I take [...]

Walking through Waterloo yesterday, my breathe in a puff before me, the platforms crowded with people, I felt ok. I hadn’t been there in months. I haven’t been a person for months.
I pulled my coat tighter around me and walked into the station, feeling like I wasn’t an imposter, feeling like maybe I [...]

Right so…
Hey, how about them joints?
Have been doing a lot of research and tomorrow am booking an appointment to do some testing to see if I have That Other Kind of EDS, because I do have some symptoms of that as well. The really bad kind. What I have is just bad, there [...]

Yesterday I went to the specialist expecting to have a steroid shot in my wrist (potentially both of them).
I left with altogether different results.
My right wrist has been killing me for ages now – set off by pregnancy, exacerbated by housework, babies, and typing, I regularly hold my wrist between my arm and my chest [...]

Yesterday I took a few hours off of everything – work, life, emails, the lot – and went to the grocery store. It’s not like I needed a lot, I just needed to get out. Some mornings the walls are just as confining as my mind can be, and if it’s double jails [...]

Just a quickie (because satisfaction should always be guaranteed):
I’ve been mailed this morning to say I was nominated for 2 blogger choice awards. The voting ends tomorrow so no one can work the procrastination like I do, but I’m pleased to be included, and so should you find some time today and want to [...]

Yesterday kind of rocked.
And it didn’t.
It started off badly – I got into yet another email bust-up with one of the people on my projects. I lost my temper in my living room and spent an inordinate amount of time shouting at my laptop screen, which wasn’t as rewarding as you’d think it might [...]

Dear Bob at Agents ‘R Us -
Among your aggregate list of authors you represent you clearly have a dearth of new talent! So look no further! I’m the person that you are looking for – charming, determined, and…
No. That’s not really me. I don’t know who that person is but she [...]

I understand that yesterday was Yom Kippur, the Jewish holiday with the theme of atonement and repentance. I am not Jewish, but not being one thing or another has never stopped me from borrowing. I owe an apology – for being slow (or for not doing at all) at responding to emails. [...]

Something I haven’t blogged about lately (but which isn’t going to stop me now) is work.
I watched an episode of Dr. Who last night, and I’m going to borrow something from the episode in order to explain what’s going on. Bear with me. No Daleks are included in this metaphor.
In this episode there [...]

You’re underwater.
You can’t remember if you jumped or were pushed. It doesn’t really matter, anyway. All you know is that you’re here.
It was cold at first. A slight shock as the water weaved its way into the lining of your clothing, slid inside your shirt to be next to your skin, divided [...]

Nick and Nora’s birthday was a great success.
The day before they had their booster injections and were weighed and measured. Nick is now 9.92 kilos (21.8 pounds) and 80cm long. He’s now in the 50th percentile, which is a huge change for us. Nora comes in at 10 kilos (22 pounds) and [...]

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Thank you for the best year of my life so far.
Love always,
Mummy

On Saturday morning it started.
Now the kid’s flying across the room.
It humors me greatly that when he’s ready to do something he commits 100%. I foresee problems in the teen years, but for now his tenacity about things (pulling out naso-gastric tubes, sucking his thumb, and crawling) charms me greatly.
-H.
PS-comments back open. We’re [...]