Blah blah Blah blah Blah blah Blah blah-di Blah blah-blah…..!! The sounds of the kid’s babble at 6.00pm sounds like the above, a symphony of abrasive taunts to my ears, and I ignore it successfully – usually. Adam: Are you listening to them? Karen: I listen to this all day. Can’t I tune out now…
At 4.12am this morning it officially became my birthday. I am 29.
While there are undoubtedly nice parts of the day for me (Presents! Phone calls! Greeting Cards! Mobile Texts! Facebook Messages!), I must admit that the day of my birth has historically been a blue one for me. Not for any morbid reason (no-one has died), but because it’s the day of the year I have held up my accomplishments of the passing year to the bright light of an x-ray screen and found in the print some sort of blight or province of weakness.
Update: Keira has a bad Urinary Tract Infection. She is on a 10 day course of antibiotics and then must go have an ultrasound. Naturally, as I have gone and googled “Urinary Tract Infection”, I have found all sorts of nasty possibilities and outcomes that have made me wish I didn’t do so much research…
I have a secret. I love a good t-shirt. This is my latest one, a true bargain as I bought it for $1 at my local charity shop. [$1 is too much some of you may say!] The oh-how-so-terribly-disaffected-youthishness about the shirt aside, it’s actually excellent material, cut long like I like them, and fits…
…but don’t worry, not too much. My appointment with the ENT went for four minutes and 21 seconds (give or take a second). Diagnosis: I have a little bit of Meniere’s. Apparently, in one of my big attacks of the past, it did slightly affect the hearing in my left ear, but nothing drastic at all….
I bought this jumble of circuits off Zazz the other week. (Zazz being one of Adam’s most beloved websites of all time). As I’ve said here before, I do wish to pick up playing the piano one day; but buying a piano in this small house we live in would mean jettisoning one of our children…
It goes, I think, in some part, to my being a GenY-er girl, that I’ve never really before now taken much more than a passing interest in our elections. I’ve gone in the past because it was compulsory and voted according to the last television advertisement I remembered seeing. I’m not especially proud of my…
Here’s the link to my original Christmas Card Challenge Let me say, its been a great success so far. I’ve written out over 30 cards! They’re going to such countries as the United States, Canada, England and South Africa – not to mention many to our own fair isle. But a week or so ago,…
“Mummy! Mummy” I become groggily awake, and look at the clock. 6.38am. Okay, that’s a fair enough time to get up. “Mummy! Mummy!” “KEIRA – I’m coming. Give me a ‘sec.” I throw a robe on, and stumble out into the hallway, where I meet a similarly groggy child, rubbing her eyes. “Mummy! Mummy!” The…
