The tracked tags on my tumblr are currently as follows:
brony
bujold
doctor who
ds9
leverage
lois mcmaster bujold
miles vorkosigan
my little pony
ows
This has to mean something. But what?
What the Flying Heck?
I’m new to drawing on a tablet device and my art skills are not the best.
That’s why I chose to fingerpaint some ponies as humans and share the results with you.
Each humanised pony took about two hours for me to get right. And I still hate what happened with the hands and feet. I suck at both.
By the time I was done focussing on the important part, I was all fgsfds when it came to
Read more »Happy new year!
Here on the east coast of Australia, it’s been 2012 for five hours and forty-five minutes. So far, it’s all going fine.
I slept through new years’ for the first time since I was a little one and I’m wondering if it’s because I’m old.
Though I was woken up by the sound of the neighbourhood’s illegal fireworks going off, and Chaos’ screaming when it was all over.
Read more »Ow.
I’m going to have to work on leash-training the hound at home. Lord knows I lack the capability when out on our morning constitutional.
I left the check chain at home this morning. It wasn’t working to stop him tugging, and it was just hurting him.
Just the ordinary leash on his harness hurt my wrist from the near-constant pulling, but then I don’t matter.
I’m just a human.
Still, walking every day will
Read more »This is it.
The 14th post in my queue.
This means I can officially take a break from seeking blog material and go write some independent fiction.
Or, as I sometimes put it, I’m going to commit some literature.
Expect the next few blogs to be me honking on about my latest Work In Progress.
Unless something spectacularly heinous pops up concerning OWS and the corpratocracy’s slow collapse into malevolent dictatorship.
Or I get a funny idea.
Read more »I am Desperately Out of Shape
So I thought this morning, “I have to go to the chemists’. I’ll kill two birds with one stone and take the dog for a walk at the same time.”
Bad. Idea.
1) It was stinking hot
2) We both needed a drink by the halfway point
3) I forgot to bring water and drink containers
4) The best I could do for a hitching post was snagging the leash around an awning upright
5) Despite the
Minties and Fanta.
I’ve been asked about this, before. Primarily, I have been asked, “what the hell is a Mintie?”
Minties must be unique to Australia.
They’re a brand-name individually-wrapped sweet put out by Allans’ lollies. They look like a very small fire lighter cube and taste like an explosion of mint. Chewing them is like trying to bite through a half-frozen sausage. Don’t try it if you have temporary fillings.
Fanta is everywhere. Get the
Read more »The Bad Barrista - Caramel Mochachino
Any self-respecting barrista would be running away from this.
This is NOT how trained professionals would do it. This is how I do it.
Tools:
Method of boiling water.
1 handy heat source for same.
Large cup.
teaspoon.
Ingredients:
1 stick pre-prepared Mocha mix
1 stick pre-prepared caramel hot chocolate mix
1-2 tsp sugar
Water.
Method:
Start boiling water.
Open sticks and tip contents into cup.
Add sugar.
Blend dry ingredients with spoon.
Once water is boiled, half-fill cup with hot water.
So I Might Have Poisoned Some People...
Not on the scale of ratsak for sugar. No. It was round-up. On weeds.
How can that poison people, you ask.
These were weeds on the fence that we’re fixing up so the dog can’t get through. Hubby told me to go spritz the weeds along the fence line, so I did. Fast forward a few minutes and Hubby and Brother-in-law have now decided to go whipper-snip the back fence and pull all the weeds out.
The last
Read more »F*king Cashmas Carols
I usually refer to the Great Christmas Shopping Push from October to December as “Cashmas”. It isn’t the slightest bit about celebrating the holiday season, it’s about getting your money.
Buy a tree. Buy decorations. Spend a fortune on rellos you hardly ever see because it’s that time of year and you have to show them you care and why not use that credit card until it smokes?
Yeah. How about fuck off?
I
Read more »Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
Someone, somewhere, theorised that we spend half our lives waiting for something to happen.
Be that in a queue or in waiting rooms, or sitting around and waiting for someone in power to get the thumb out of their divot and get things done.
I, currently, have wasted half my day waiting for the men of the house to get their hairy arses into gear so we can finally finish fixing that fucking fence. They apparently spent all night programming - at
Read more »A Quarter to 2AM
Monday 28th of November.
That’s when I sat down to write this. Give or take a few minutes.
Someone rang our phone and hung up. Twice. Long about midnight.
As a means of waking me up, it’s very effective.
Once I’m awake, no matter what, I can’t get back to sleep.
It doesn’t matter how tired I am. It doesn’t matter what time it is. It doesn’t matter
Read more »Due to Circumstances Beyond My Control...
I had to spend my “me money” on groceries.
You might not think this is such a big freakin’ deal. You’re entitled to your opinions. Hell, you’re entitled to tl;dr everything I write. Just like I’m entitled to write what I want, when I want.
And, right now, I want to vent some spleen.
I don’t spend a lot on myself for several reasons: 1) I’m hella fussy.
Read more »Hubby's Shoe Adventure
Hubby had the quasi-ignorant opinion that I could find the perfect shoe if I knew where to look.
Let me outlay the criteria for you:
Comfortable.
Flat heel.
Decent tread.
Hard-wearing.
Leather sole.
Size 9-10.
Sandal.
Yeah, I have big feet. And no, I can’t go to drag shops for shoes because (a) I don’t know where any are and (b) I suspect they’d be full of 9-inch heel FMB’s. I can not wear
Read more »My Continuing Adventures in Frugal Freedom Finding
Keep in mind that I’m rounding out prices and, for everyone’s protection, I am obscuring the shops’ names. Clever readers will be able to figure it out in no time at all, I am certain.
As I write this, I have recently returned from a mat-hunt. Anyone who’s played WoW and does not want to spend a fortune at the Auction House knows what that’s about. You go out grinding for materials, or
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