Everydaystranger

Dear Heart,
We’ve been through a lot, you and I. Almost 35 years of choices, experiences, wisdom, failure, and dreams. You’ve been beating every day, every second, and carrying my wishes throughout every beat. You’ve been strong, you’ve let me down, and you have hurt. I’ve hurt you. I know I [...]

Wow, this whole post is going to be hitting so many corporate firewalls you’ll be able to hear the sound of the bricks being laid as they get blocked. But believe it or not, this is not meant to be a tittilating post. Not meant to be, but then there are people on [...]

I’m not very good at meeting people. No really. I’m not good at meeting people and I’m very not good at making friends. People write and leave comments that they are coming to London, and I freeze up. Oh God. You want to meet me. Oh God. Once [...]

Today is the 27th of January.
An ordinary day, like other ordinary days. You get up, you make a cup of coffee. You shower, you dread the office. You go about your daily routine with comfort and a sense of ambiguity.
The 27th of January is Jennifer’s birthday (hi Jenn!)
The 27th of January is [...]

Two weeks ago we went to a family birthday party for one of Angus’ nieces (one the babies’ cousins). It was the usual crowd there – Angus’ mum and stepdad, both of his brother’s and their wives and kids, and a handful of family friends. Additionally, the birthday girl’s uncle was there.
The uncle, [...]

Tam: Hey Pon! Is it safe to come out, man?
Pon: Looks like the coast is clear, mate. There’s no sign of The Menstruator anywhere! It’s party time!
Tam: Hurry, let’s get out of here before the Mooncup catches up with us!

Pon: Ohmigod, it’s gaining on us! Run! Run!
Tam: It’s using [...]

Me: Will you just arrive already?
Period: I think I can get at least another day of PMS enjoyment out of this.
Me: No really. I’m good. We can rock this red tidal wave anytime you’d like.
Period: You don’t like the sore boobs?
Me: They’re fun and all, but not a huge joy whenever I roll [...]

A while ago the completely amazing Sarah introduced me to You Are Beautiful.
It’s not a pyramid scheme.
It’s not to promote anything.
You just get to leave reminders for people that they are beautiful.
That’s it. Nothing more.
I contributed a small donation a while back, and I got the stickers (I felt it was fair, since they [...]

I know there are people who read here who are going through fertility treatment, have been through losses, or who do not have children even though it’s one of the single most desired for pieces of their lives, and I do not in any way, shape or form want to hurt you, so if that [...]

Hmmm…commenters don’t like my presence in Finland, I think (I liked my last two posts, but you never know).
Will be back on home turf on Monday, where hopefully you all come back. I’m sensitive. I notice things.
*Sobs quietly*
Kidding. In the meantime, tonight my team and I are having a drink-up. We [...]

On the plane to Helsinki I sat there, watching Michael McIntyre (who makes me nearly wet myself with laughter) on DVD, shoes off, bottle of airplane-sized wine in hand, chilling out. I was grateful I wasn’t sat with my colleagues as they were working but I was most definitely not. I realized I [...]

Darkness.
Light, blue behind my eyelids.
Darkness.
A flash of yellow, low pressure sodium streetlights turning everything slightly red.
There is the sound of grit beneath the tires, water spreading from the tread. I inhale, and from the backseat is chatter. I hear it in waves as I see the lights run under my eyes, pockets of [...]

Right, so once again I find out a day late and a dollar short that it’s De-Lurking Week. But I would hereby like to offer you the chance to de-lurk! De-lurk I say! This is the one time of year I get to know who visits here and I’m going to milk [...]

On my current project I

The Gig has, as one of its core values, that we as a company have to give back to the community, and even has a volunteer organization as part of the company to ensure we can get plugged in to local activities. We also get two days paid leave to attend to volunteer actions, [...]

I’m over being sick.
Over over over over over.
I spent the entire two weeks over the holidays sick as the proverbial canine. First the stomach flu. Then influensa (like 8 million others in the UK). Now the stomach flu feels like it’s creeping back on again (and Angus got hit with it again [...]

I’m not keen on doing monthly updates because, really, that’s been done. Also I feel like it’s a lot of pressure to keep up with, and my life has rather enough pressure. But even though I don’t write about the monthly updates, it doesn’t mean I don’t mark them. The babies are [...]

The Saturday before Christmas my stepmom was here and basically ordered us out of the house, in the way only a loving stepmom can pull off. Angus and I hadn’t been out as just the two of us in forever, and she was throwing us out of the house and insisting that we go [...]