This morning we were playing with the train set. The entire living room floor was covered in an intricate maze of multicoloured track, bumps, bridges and switches.Then TB changes his mind.Mummy, you tidy this up and I'll carrying on playing with this (pointing to something else).That kid's got cheek!
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This week I've been training to be a first aider. I can bandage wounds, wounds with embedded objects, burst veins, head injuries and burns, I can even deal with a person whose intestines are hanging out, if this should ever happen in our non-eventful office! Yup, I can ...
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Yesterday morning, as I was leaving for work, TB came out of the kitchen carrying two crushed eggs in his hands."Mummy, I was just making eggs" he said.He'd removed a box of 18 eggs from the fridge, taken out half of them, and they were lying in a mess of ...
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And so, to the unnamed person in hiding that thought it would be a smart idea to load the entire database onto disk and send it off with a courier, why? Why did you really have to be so stupid? Of course it's almost expected from the government really. ...
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Yesterday was a challenge.
I went to the doctors to get some more meds and took the opportunity to explain exactly how much I was struggling with my eating at the moment.
I guess I was expecting the doctor to come up with some idea I'd not thought of yet, some ...
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Why do bus drivers stop so far away from the bus stop because they won't wait for the traffic to move on, and then refuse to stop at the actual stop. Even when they have a half empty bus. I'm sure there must be some kind considerate bus ...
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And the thunder just clapped so loud the floor shook!
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And as for today's update, I'm talking to Y's aunt (a doctor), discussing the intricate details of gastric banding/balling/bypassing, breast reduction and liposuction. I live in hope.
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Sushi, shoes, coffee, late arrivals, 15 fabric shops, christmas shopping. Searching for a road that doesn't exist, nasty hovel, day spent in casualty. 44 dresses, getting soaked in freezing pouring rain, TB choosing cheese and garlic and mushrooms and king kong (tomato ketchup) for his pizza topping, Shrek 3.And, to ...
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...the magazines.It's only November, but as far as any magazine I pick up is concerned, I should be obsessing about what to eat (for the next three Christmasses). And/or, if I'm not obsessing about what to eat, I should be obsessing about what dress to wear, or style of ...
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