Everydaystranger

It’s been interesting this past week.
One week ago I walked into the office and was told to not even bother taking off my coat, I had to fly off to a customer meeting. This was interesting as I had left for holiday as between projects, so clearly here I was with project. [...]

I have been thinking a great deal about something, and so I’m posting it up on a Sunday night (dammit!), even though as I recently discovered from a well-written site (that saw me race out and buy The Little House, because I remembered it from my childhood) that there are rules about blogging that includes [...]

We’re now in Hervey Bay, close to Brisbane. We drove down from Airlie Beach today – it was a long drive and, as it happens, a dangerous one. There are many signs warning to stop and rest often, and we saw the result of it today – three cars in front of us [...]

We are having a blinding time.
The flights weren’t great, but they weren’t nearly as bad as expected. Nora chose to watch the same episode of Dora the Explorer on the TV screen about 750 billion times.

Nick watched it for 5.6 seconds, and then we got to entertain him.

But Singapore Airlines were the [...]

Well my bags are packed.
(Actually, they’re only halfway there. I am reasonably sure there is a bed under all that shit we need to pack.)
I’m ready to go.
(See the above refrain.)
I’m standing here outside your door.
(I’m really not, that’s kinda’ stalker-y and weird.)
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye.
(Because if you’re anything [...]

The BBC recently had a link to something (relax, this one is not a rant) – a book called We Feel Fine. Alastair came home from work and mentioned it to me, would it be my kind of thing?
It would indeed.
So much so that I have a copy already, sent to me by the [...]

Right. I don’t usually tackle topics of controversy on this site, simply because I did it once and it all went very pear-shaped courtesy of a right-wing hackjob who calls herself a journalist blogger deciding to ignore what was decent and simply direct her animals readers to my site and proffer threats the likes [...]

We leave in exactly one week for a 24 hour flight to Australia. I’m already trembling with fear about it (no really – did I mention that Nick has temper tantrums the size of Mexico City?) so hints and travelling tips welcome. I’ve prepared them each a brand new rucksack filled with wrapped [...]

We’ve told a few people (and our families) that we are getting married.
Because we are.
We have it booked up and everything.
Alastair and I have historically slightly differed on the wedding front – he wanted a great big bash with everyone piling into a hotel in a location somewhere for a weekend, all of our family, [...]

I really, really want to thank those who emailed me with similar stories and encouragement about my temper-tantrum son. From the bottom of my exhausted heart, I thank you. And consider this me passing round the virtual tequila.
I travelled up to London on Tuesday night, in the dark nightshade of the train and [...]

I love my children.
I love, love, love them.
But I am struggling.
I know that I am not alone. I know Statia is struggling. A link she linked to recently clearly is as well.
Nick has taken to temper tantrums that are colossal. He can be such a joy, as seen here with [...]

On the radio this morning they were talking about a new theory in relationships. Because, you know, relationships are new and no one knows how to manage these newfangled things. They had a “relationship expert” on – this immediately is suspect to me as unless you’ve been in a convent all your life, [...]

A few weeks ago I had to make a run to the shops, as we were low on, oh, everything. I had picked the twins up from the nursery and they told me that Nora had been running a slight temperature and seemed quiet. I gave her a cuddle and a promise that [...]

Alternatively titled: A Post Brought To You Courtesy of Films of the 80’s
Yesterday I left work early for an appointment. I was offered a stunning haute couture gown to wear, complete with ties up the back that conveniently let my ass hang out for all to see. It was offset by a thick [...]

I have been busy with the new job. I click through the office in high heels and skirts, skirts several sizes smaller than I was wearing as the weight I dropped appears to be (apart from 1.5 kg) lost for good. I’m not sad. I like being several sizes smaller, actually. [...]

Saturday morning at 9 am I had a visit to the gynaecologist specialist.
Nine o’clock in the bloody morning. On a Saturday. If a man is going to be flashing some lights up my cooch on a Saturday morning he’d better be calling me darling and pouring me mimosas on a bed [...]

* aka How to Create an En Suite
For the first time in my entire life, I have an en suite.
En suite is a term over here for a bathroom attached to the bedroom. I’m thinking that’s called a walk-in bathroom in the US, but I wouldn’t know because I never had one (insert sob [...]

It’s now over a week since I started my new job. I’ve made it into the office approximately 3 times – today is not one of those times. The snow that killed us before Christmas and then at New Year has hit again, and this morning it took me an hour to drive [...]

Right, a few things:
1) Felicity asked how big the proposal billboard really is. Since Felicity is very nice indeed and she sent me info about an Elf-Along they had in Boston over Christmas, then Felicity gets her wish.

This is Nora sitting in front of it on Christmas Day.
Nick was too mesmerized by the lights [...]

I started my new job on Tuesday. It was a day full of induction that got called short due to the impending horrible weather. I don’t know if you’ve been following the nightmare weather we’ve been having here in England (and if you haven’t, then why haven’t you?) but we’ve had a bit [...]