Hmm...

May. 16th, 2011 03:36 pm
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I have time on my hands. Both babies are asleep (for maybe another 30 minutes). They are finally settling into a predictable routine. And they sleep at night. So it could be a lot worse, but I am feeling selfish and want all my free time back. I feel like drawing for the first time in months and have three unfinished pictures. I'll need to re-read the stories, but I think I know what I'm going to try and do in my down time tomorrow.
*knocks on every available pieces of wood in the vicinity*

Curious...

Aug. 5th, 2010 01:53 pm
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I just created my first ever icon (as opposed to just trimming a photo), however I think I failed, because I can't read the text in it. Despite being the go-to person for the majority of IT stuff, I really seem to fail at some things. So I am going to post this and see if the quality is better in a post. If anyone can be of assistance, or simply wants to point and laugh at my ignorance feel free.

And just because I have a dirty mind and the thought makes me snort ginger beer out my nose: "I'm currently sucking on a gingernut"
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Have a refresher driving lesson on Monday. Just booked into a cake decorating class. Have spoken to the lecturer taking the creative writing paper and have become a little less terrified. Hosting two dinner parties, one on Friday and one on Saturday. Feeling all frantic but strangely calm at the same time. Job interview tomorrow. Helping select new exchange students all day Sunday.

Have got two teenage girls staying tonight, so I will most likely have to act responsible. Um… anyone want to offer me tips or reminders or a list of what not to do?


And now I am starting to understand why I don't have as much time to read/draw/write as I want to...
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I am spending the weekend with 80 teenagers. After six weeks of being sick I am finally feeling not utter crap and I am spending the weekend acting as a chaperone to 80 teenagers. What was I thinking volunteering for this?

Still waiting to hear back about the job application... erm... yeah, applying for another new job.

And today I applied to do a postgraduate Creative Writing course. (Considering I have never studied writing/English past first year University I am not sure what grounds they'll grant me entry - hopefully they really like the piece of writing I submitted. I feel like I am being judged.) (Oh crap, I am being judged.) Overall, feeling quite hysterical and just want to go crawl into bed, pull the blankets over me head and never come out again.

Also - I want to spend a weekend at home. Haven't spent a weekend at home in five weeks. Although last weekend in Australia was lots of fun. I love IKEA. It resonates with my Swedish side.

Right - going to crawl into bed.
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"Please see a curse convenor on arrival" - bwhaha... yeah, that's meant to be course convenor, but I was so tempted to leave it as curse.
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Please tell me I am not the only one that sees a word and thinks it says something else entirely. Only to frown and wonder why the sentance makes no sense and re-read it and realise I've inserted (sometimes multiple) dirty words.

Todays example: Misunderstood = Morning wood

Excitment!

Apr. 15th, 2010 11:19 am
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Finally, after four months, I am getting the needed writing and drawing tools for my "new" laptop which is lacking the software my "old" laptop had. Mleh. Anyway, lunchtime today I will be the proud purchaser of Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Microsoft Office - Small Business! Both of which will probably be redundant in 18 months when I finish saving up for my new computer and buy myself a Mac and will need to re-purchase the software for the different OS and platform. I don't care though, I am just happy I will have the right software. Unfortunately my time in which I can use it is still severely limited. Stupid real life with work and volunteer work and other things... I like my real life, but sometimes I wish there wasn't just so much of it.

 
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Super quick post! Am off to Auckland for the weekend (erm, that’s the biggest city in NZ) to catch up with husbands brother, brother’s wife and their child, as they are visiting for nine days from France (husband’s brother plays professional rugby). Is it a bad thing that I am more excited about staying with our gay friends and going out partying tomorrow night than catching up with family I haven’t seen in six months? (Having just realised the people most likely to read this will only simply enable and encourage me to party… The scenery will be delightful!)

 Also today I became even more appreciative of my family and upbringing. My mum was a seamstress, and used to work in hospitality, and I was introduced to gay men at the age of 14. She had a lot of friends. She also used to make clothes for drag queens and transvestites. (And seeing them in suits at her funeral was weird beyond belief!) My dad, brother and husband have all flatted with gay men. I also have an Indonesian “sister” who lived in my family for a year. She’s Muslim. She’s currently doing research for her PhD on aid distribution after natural disasters (her and her family were affected by the Boxing Day tsunami in 2005). So, I consider myself a very tolerant person. However, sometimes my workmates are jerks. Or maybe it is just this week. But I am sick of hearing gay jokes and religious jokes and now everyone is walking around me on tenter-hooks because I snapped at them and told them they weren’t funny. And considering the gay guy who has the cubicle next to me wasn’t taking offence maybe I overreacted a bit. Hmm… or I am feeling old. Or at least old in comparison to them. So today I am being intolerant towards young, ignorant, immature workmates.

 Well, that sucked. I went from being all excited to complaining about my workmates.

 *goes to find funny fluffy H/D drabble to improve mood*


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It was fun. But my eyes are still feeling very gritty almost a week later. I normally watch three hours of TV a week. House, Bones and Glee (helpfully spaced on Friday, Sunday and Tuesday nights). I am one of those freakish people that didn't have TV when they were a child so I find watching TV quite...boring. So managing it for 17 hours was an achievement. I then had to have Tuesday off work with the worst migraine I have experienced in about a year. But it was worth it.

It was very cool seeing the actors age in the space of a day. It made me really appreciate the fact that they had used the same actors and continue to do so. And watching the acting improving was also a massive relief! Another highlight of the day was the effort all my friends went to, to create food for the day. I will attach photos below under another cut. (Feeling very LJ savvy tonight! I even added some icons!)

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Now, I am curious where everyone is from. So if you don't mind leaving a comment to tell me where abouts in the world you are located I would be most appreciative because I am really nosy, but also lazy (in that I don't want to go onto everyone's profiles and look it up!)

Hope everyone has a good weekend! It's a long weekend here and I am going to make the most of it! Two 30th birthday parties to go to on Saturday night.
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I really really should not be reading or posting to LJ. I got home at 2:30 after the movie marathon. The last 90 minutes of HBP were torture (of the nicest type, but still). It's my favourite Harry Potter film, but I was SO tired. I kept pinching myself to make sure I stayed awake, very glad of the fact that I would be able to sleep in until midday today (because afore mentioned bush walk has been cancelled)...

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We also have had a house guest this weekend - this is the same friend which tried to commit suicide a while back when she was with us, but she is WAY better now, so we're drinking coffee and tidying up the house, breakfasting and chatting and then another friend texts and asks if he can come around, drop off some bakeware he borrowed. I reply sure. He turns up with both his kids (aged 3 and 1). Which is fine and great. I like his kids and I look after them on a regular basis. I pull out the toy box and make us all more coffee. It's now 10am.

Three hours later friend with kids finally leaves, and then house guests parents arrive to pick her up, and then, me standing there in my sweaty pyjamas that the one-year-old has smeared some type of fruit into, grandparents turn up. I haven't had a shower or gotten dressed, I have massive black circles under my eyes, I am yawning so much I am sure my jaw is about to unhinge itself and granny asks: "Did you just get out of bed?" Mleh.

Now, I would really really like to have an afternoon nap, however grandparents were here for 3 hours, and it is now 5pm. I am meant to be having dinner with one friend, and then going out to another thing at 7:30pm. 

Life is great, however sometimes I wish I didn't have such a busy one.
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And it's adding "..." to the end of all the sentences. I know this is wrong (well, maybe not wrong but using it at the end of every third sentence or so is probably overdoing it.)

However, my workmates and friends continuously pull me up on it. That said, I feel that my grammar and spelling are a damn sight better than theirs, so over using the common ellipsis (now I am going to spend the rest of my afternoon wondering what the plural to that is) is not something they should be arguing with me over when they e-mail me "wat u doin 4 lunch?"


I suppose I should just be grateful that they spelt lunch correctly.

I feel old. And cranky. And that I am turning into my very pernickety (and English) father regarding grammar and spelling. Maybe this shouldn’t be so much of a revelation as it is, considering I got the “Eats, Shoots & Leaves” desk calendar three times from various friends last Christmas/Birthday. Maybe they were trying to tell me something.

Anyway, I sense an improvement. I have stopped myself five times from adding unnecessary ellipses. (I had to look the plural up in my dictionary.)

Back to work now... (an ellipsis for the road)

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