Conversation snippet between me and NN:
Me: I smell fart!
NN: I don’t, nose too close to your own ass??
Ahhh, friends - what would I do without them!
This pretty much sums up this Monday for me!
Conversation to stop all conversations!
July 14th, 2008
Hosting, Tweaking and Living in Sin!
July 11th, 2008
Wow! The last two weeks have been a flurry of activity! I decided to make the move from wordpress-hosting to self-hosting and I felt all adult and stuff. The decision to move was akin to moving out of my parents’ house - home cooked meals vs self-cooked meals and possibly dying of food poisoning. Laundry service (aka maid) vs doing your own damn laundry and possibly shrinking all my clothes. Paying for my own stuff and possibly going broke (you mean I am actually going to have to pay for all this stuff now?!) - so many considerations to take into account! In the end I came to the same conclusion about self-hosting (sounds so much like self-medicating) as I did with moving out - it was time to grow up! Nothing like a good few months, surviving on salty crackers in a ground floor hell hole of a flat infested with roaches to make a woman out of you!
Taking frugal living to a whole new level!
June 18th, 2008
I have been sick, which means lying in bed, catching up on months of unwatched soapies in between bouts of fever gripped shivering sessions. One of these lucid, post-panado, relatively shiver-free sessions coincided with a re-run of Oprah.
Hello! My name is …
June 13th, 2008
I was reading through my blog, doing some cleaning up, checking that posts were categorized, tagged, waxed and shined when I realized that I didn’t really introduce myself in this blog, I just signed up, set it up and followed an overwhelming urge to put into words what I was feeling at that moment in time.
Mah Peeps!
June 6th, 2008
This week has been pretty emotional so I am going to lighten the mood a little and talk about the characters I have introduced into my blog. When I started this blog, I knew that I would have to mention the people in my life as they play a significant role in my daily life and the way I view the world. Naturally, after bringing up the possibility of becoming a character in my blog, the first reaction was “You better not use my name!!”. So I decided to come up with humorous apt nick names for these wonderful people. I am sure you have been wondering what the abbreviations I have used stand for, so here is a quick guide.
Forced Reflection
June 5th, 2008
Yesterday, NN’s father passed away.
I was there when she got the news and I cannot begin to express the anguish and pain I witnessed on her face. Her world had been ripped apart and there was nothing anyone could do to make it better.
Home Decor II: The DIY Tv Stand!
June 3rd, 2008
As I mentioned in an earlier post, we had purchased a D.I.Y TV stand which needed to be assembled when we got home from our very successful shopping trip. My sister (henceforth known as FF), who is staying with us for a while, was chomping at the bit to play handyman. The engineer in her couldn’t resist the challenge. TD appointed himself the overseer and I appointed myself head designer.
Monday mornings!
June 2nd, 2008
Monday mornings should be banned.
In fact Mondays should be removed from the working week. They should become part of the weekend. There is nothing worse than waking up on a Sunday morning and knowing that in less than 48 hours you are going to be back at work…on a Monday morning!
New GMail skin!
May 30th, 2008
I came across this post by
Friendships
May 30th, 2008
Eighteen months ago, a sweet, quiet shy girl (henceforth known as NN) joined our team at work. We sat at the same desk for weeks and never really said anything to each other except at lunchtime. At lunchtime, which we both tended to have in front of our computers, we had a moment of communication only to find out what the other was having for lunch. After which, we both went back to our respective worlds of work..and silence.
