Pistachio Tax!

Random Anon Meme Time!

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:51:36 GMT

You know, for the past month I have spent much of every weekend with a blanket over my head in recovery mode. This month I am going to hopefully avoid alcohol entirely. (Though I might keep half a glass of red with my dinner as that's supposedly a good thing rather than a bad.)

And then I should maybe dig out my Pilates For Dummies dvd again. Bah, excercise. :( The worst part is, you get a bit fit after so much hard work, and then a week or two of doing nothing and you're right back to being completely unfit again. God I hate excercising. "Working out" is boring, mindless, repetitive, embarrassing, sweaty, cold, frustrating, difficult and ultimately unrewarding.

See now cycling, for example - cycling has a point! You are going from point A to point B and it is fun and it feels good, but team sports are awful and vile and workouts are embarrassing and vile and running is boring and vile and... *grumble grumble vile grumble* Oh well. I suppose it is a necessary evil.

And now for a random anon meme. :)
Leave me an anonymous comment pouring your heart out. Say anything. Tell me your stories, your secrets, those things no one ever asks but you wish to tell. Tell me about your love, your hate, your indifference, your joy. Tell me about what's inside of you when you're reading through these entries on your friends list, and tell me why you continue to come back here. Tell me anything. Tell me what you really think of me or yourself. Anything.

IP logging is off. Post anonymously. Speak honestly. Post as many times as you like.

Ooh. Memeage. :)

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:07:12 GMT

I'm probably v. late, but I do love anon memes. :)

Comment with:

1. One secret.
2. One compliment.
3. One non-compliment.
4. One love note, but it does not have to be for me.
5. Lyrics to a song.
6. How old you are.
7. How long we've been friends.
8. And a hint to who you are.

Books!

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:44:55 GMT

I went into town today to innocently do my shopping and found myself going past Chapters. An hour later and I had somehow managed to spend thirty euro on six new books. *facepalm*

On the plus side, yay books!

Um, I may be cutting my flist a bit over the next few days also. This isn't a reflection on anyone in particular, but I feel sort of like I've changed a bit over the last while, changed my ideas of who I am and where I'm going in my life, and when these things happen I always get these urges to "clean house".
I'll only cut people I don't interact much with, but if you're one of these people and you rather like just reading along with my (incredibly exciting) adventures feel free to comment for re-adding. :)

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:27:24 GMT

Amn't dead, but am only skimming flist as have no tiiiime aghaghagh. Will probably be made of fail for the next two months really. :P If anything happens that you want me to see, don't hesitate in commenting randomly on an entry and prodding me that way.

I has an anonymeme!

ANON MEME

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:37:31 GMT

Don't know if I mentioned this before, but I get all my herbs and supplements and all that from iHerb.com. Am re-ordering Saw Palmetto and CLA atm, which is what reminded me.

I find them excellent for quality, price and shipping, so if there's something you take regularly but is expensive in the shops, I'd recommend these guys. My referral code (for which I get brownie points, yay!) is GAL286, which'll get you $5.00 off your first order.

Meme

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:48:03 GMT

Am procrastinating. Again. When September rolls around and I'm panicking about my dissertation I'm sure I'll regret it, but in the meantime - anon-meme!

Leave me an anonymous comment pouring your heart out. Say anything. Tell me your stories, your secrets, those things no one ever asks but you wish to tell. Tell me about your love, your hate, your indifference, your joy. Tell me about what's inside of you when you're reading through these entries on your friends list, and tell me why you continue to come back here. Tell me anything. Tell me what you really think of me or yourself. Anything.

IP logging is off. Post anonymously. Speak honestly. Post as many times as you like.

General rambling

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:00:28 GMT

Due to an unforseen shopping development, I now have two packets of overripe strawberries, and one of grapes. And an aubergine. (Admittedly, that one I actually asked for.) Ah, the joys of shopping at stalls! In Tesco's no-one randomly foists cut-price fruit upon you, and I feel this is a mark against them.

So anyone know a fantastically brilliant recipe for something with strawberries and/or grapes? I'm enjoying cooking. It's fun, especially when you get to eat the result.

In other news, I'm feeling a lot better now than I was a few hours ago. The black mood of yesterday followed me into the first half of today, but seems to have lifted now. *shakes head* I don't even know.
It's strange and kind of frightening when those feelings come on so strongly, and then just quietly go away again. I wish it could be constant, that I could feel one way or another consistently and the mood swings could go away and bother someone else.
Still, on the whole I'm fine, and it's a minor complaint at best. I have good friends and the sun is shining.

I have two things I could do this evening, but I don't know if I'll bother to do either of them:
1:
Kink-thing is on, but I don't really know if I can be bothered, and I'd have to go on my own again, which I don't really feel like doing. To be honest, I think if you go on your own it can be that people assume you're looking for accompaniment - which is fine, if you are - but I'm not. Well, not exactly. Well, I know what I mean. :P

2:
On the other hand, there is a going away party going on on the other side of the city for a friend of a friend, and I could go to that. I'm not sure if I want to, but I could.

Option three, which is staying in and eating pizza, drinking wine and watching films is looking pleasant too. Anyone know what I want to do? Anyone? Asides from looking up strawberry-related cookery on the internet, obviously.

And finally, as it's been at least a month since the last time this went round - an anon-meme!

Leave me an anonymous comment pouring your heart out. Say anything. Tell me your stories, your secrets, those things no one ever asks but you wish to tell. Tell me about your love, your hate, your indifference, your joy. Tell me about what's inside of you when you're reading through these entries on your friends list, and tell me why you continue to come back here. Tell me anything. Tell me what you really think of me or yourself. Anything.

IP logging is off. Post anonymously. Speak honestly. Post as many times as you like.

Love meme

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:19:38 GMT

Stolen from sacred_sarcasm:

Finally, a quiet love meme.

One little compliment can make you feel amazing. So give me a compliment, anything in the entire world, even that my shoelaces are pretty.

Put this in your journal. And once you get some comments, put that entry in a memory or tag and when you are feeling down, just go to that entry and this will remind you how great you are.

Comments are going to be screened so none of you will know if I'm the über-popular kind who gets over 100 comments on this or a total loser who doesn't get any.

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:04:23 GMT

Right. No more caffeine. I've had 2 cups of coffee and am half-way through a gigantic cup of tea.

So what's everyone up to? I'm bored.
*fidgets*

I know! Anon meme! *digs one up from meme-tag*

I've turned on anonymous posting. IP logging is turned off. I want you to post anything that you want in reply to this entry. Anything at all. Tell me a story, a secret, a confession, a fear, a love, an opinion, a critique, something you've never told anyone, or just something you think I might like. Be brazen, be anonymous, be porny, be silly, be anything.

Coming to you from the upper left hand corner of my screen...

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:17:42 GMT

Tell me something about you and your life that I don't already know.

Ask me something that you want to ask me about.
Anon posting is on. :)

I couldn't stay away. I love you too much, internets.

My day today, and a meme

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:51:35 GMT

I had a funny day today. Though the bug that's been brewing for the past few days has landed and was making me feel clammy and sneezy, for some reason I was full of energy. And very determined. About what I don't know, but anyway the impulse was strong.

As soon as I got home from work (around three) I changed and went out again, on the hunt for blackberries and elderberries. There's a streak in me that's always loved plants, always been a bit fascinated, lthough I don't actually know anything very substantial about them. This streak mixes with the pool of hippiness in me, the bit that loves the word "organic", and misses the landscape of the country when I've been away too long. This then flows into that mile wide lake of hypochondria, the almost ghoulish interest in the workings of the human body, the feeling of absurd safety that comes from eating a superfood.

What I'm trying to say here, is that not only did I make one jar of elderberry and blackberry jam, but that I also made elderberry muffins, which I only very slightly burned. I haven't cooked for the pleasure of it for a long, long time. I'd forgotten the feeling of purpose it gives me, and the pleasure of the finished product.

Also, did you know that rosehips are incredilbly good for you? And the rosehips from the dog roses that grow all around here are out now, and apparently these are the best kind. I've eaten my six today, so no scurvy for me.

Mona came around today. Almost the same time as yesterday, and I gave her the rest of the tuna fish. She strolled off soon after, and I'd be telling an untruth if I said I wasn't a little disappointed. I think she makes me miss my old girl. Wish I could get one of my own.

I listened to a lot of electronic music today, mostly Pendulum "In Silico", and Groove Armada. It was nice, wandering around in the sun, picking berries, smelling the cut grass. I think classical music and electronic have the same kind of effect really, not that I listen to a lot of classical music. You're receptive to the mood of the song, but with the lack of lyrics your attention doesn't focus in the same way it would if there are words. Your mind just skims along.

Speaking of skimming along, just before I woke up this morning I had a dream that I and my family took some sort of package tour holiday to America. About fifty other Irish people as well as us all filed into an auditorium that looked like a lecture hall, and I thought we were taking a test until I realised that Mr McCain and Mr Obama were at the top of teh room, and that we had to vote in the election. We filled in our ballots, which looked like my college exam booklets, and then handed them up. They were counted straight away, and by a landslide, Obama had won. Then next I was giving him a hug, and he seemed sad, even in spite of the victory, so I asked him what was wrong. He said, quietly "We need Spiderman". I told him "You are Spiderman", and hugged him again. *shakes head* I'm obviously completely mad.

There's a party on Saturday, going to be a bit of a mad session knowing the girl whose place it is, it's fancy dress, and I'm not sure what to go as. (I love fancy dress, Halloween is my favourite holiday.) I think I might go as an archer. I know I could make a pseudo bow from those ash stems in the garden. Then all I need is some sort of green tunic, and that can be easily procured in a charity shop.

Hope everyone's well, and that this entry made some sort of coherent sense. I feel a bit odd today. Not bad. Just odd. Confused. I'm sure it's the microbes talking.

Leave me an anonymous comment pouring your heart out. Say anything. Tell me your stories, your secrets, those things no one ever asks but you wish to tell. Tell me about your love, your hate, your indifference, your joy. Tell me about what's inside of you when you're reading through these entries on your friends list, and tell me why you continue to come back here. Tell me anything. Tell me what you really think of me or yourself. Anything.

IP logging is off. Post anonymously. Speak honestly. Post as many times as you like.

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:14:52 GMT

I'm awake! I'm just in from the pub!
Hit me with any question you've ever wantd to ask me (or just make one up on the spot) and I'll do my best to form a coherent response.*

*warning: levels of coherence may vary. Anon posting is on.

F-list Cut

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:06:06 GMT

Between one thing and another I've had less and less time to keep up with my friends list, and so I've had a bit of a clear out. If you've been removed rest assured there's no bad blood, I've just removed people I don't talk to very often to try to keep down on numbers.

If you've been snipped and you feel you can't live without my ramblings you can comment here and I'll re-add you. :) Over and out.

News and a Meme

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:04:55 GMT

I had sex last night(had an unexpected!day off today and went to a party)! Me! It was terrible sex, but it was with a very nice boy. It was awful and yet quite fun at the same time. And not awkward the next morning. Whee!
And now for a meme...

What moment of your life would you change if you could? None of this 'I don't regret anything it's all a learning experience' but one thing that bugs you, that you wish you'd done differently. Also, what sexual thing do you want to do that you haven't... and who with? Lastly, tell me honestly something either about me or relating to me that you wish you could tell me non-anonymously... obviously you can do it anonymously. You can answer all, just one, or whatever you want... go!

ETA- oops, forgot to put this off friendslock! Anon away now. :)

HEY GUYS

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:15:33 GMT

Guess what?

I think I have a crush on T-Rex from Dinosaur Comics.

I wish him to be my boyfriend. I don't even mind him being green. And, y'know, a T-Rex.

HOW AWESOME IS THAT?

is a sheep

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:25:50 GMT

I love these things, but they're always a bit scary. :D

Leave me an anonymous comment pouring your heart out. Say anything. Tell me your stories, your secrets, those things no one ever asks but you wish to tell. Tell me about your love, your hate, your indifference, your joy. Tell me about what's inside of you when you're reading through these entries on your friends list, and tell me why you continue to come back here. Tell me anything. Tell me what you really think of me or yourself. Anything.

IP logging is off. Post anonymously. Speak honestly. Post as many times as you like.

Ahh I love the smell of wank in the morning...

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:16:26 GMT

And this is a good one, not so much for the LOL factor (although that's quite present) but because it's about the thorny issue of concrit.

Except not really. It's actually about fic reviews and how basically they shouldn't exist because that's not "nice". *eyebrow raises*

It started off on metafandom the other day and I read with much interest, but now it's made its way onto fandom_wank, and the whole debacle is laid out here in an user-friendly format --> http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1169581.html

I don't know, it's all gone mad. Go! Read! Be boggled!

EDIT: synedochic being awesome about the entire thing over here -->
http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/239518.html#cutid1

You've probably all seen this, but....

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:08:40 GMT

"Where the Hell is Matt?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY

Everyone needs to watch this. Yep, everyone.
*watches again, and again, and again*

Fic Dump: "Garage" and "France"

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:26:46 GMT

Fic dump the second.

Title: Garage
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: James/Jeremy
Warnings: Violence, BDSM, dub-con roleplay, rough sex.

http://community.livejournal.com/topgearslash/1048332.html?thread=23552780#t23552780

Title: France
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: James/Oz
Warnings: Drug use.

http://community.livejournal.com/topgearslash/1044765.html?thread=23365917#t23365917

Fic Dump: "Dust" and "Tests"

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:40:13 GMT

Because I am anal and like to have everything all in the one place, I'm reposting all my stuff here from the Shipping War Challenge of Doom over at topgearslash. Apologies for the spam.

Title: Dust
Rating: R
Pairing: James/Jeremy
Warnings: None.

http://community.livejournal.com/topgearslash/1044765.html?thread=23245853#t23245853

Title: Tests
Rating: R
Pairing: James/Jeremy
Warnings: Angst, accident references, blood.

http://community.livejournal.com/topgearslash/1044765.html?thread=23334173#t23334173

Meme

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:07:23 GMT

Nicked from giddy_london and extreme_queen.

I've turned on anonymous posting. IP logging is turned off. I want you to post anything that you want in reply to this entry. Anything at all. Tell me a story, a secret, a confession, a fear, a love, an opinion, a critique, something you've never told anyone, or just something you think I might like. Be brazen, be anonymous, be porny, be silly, be anything.

Anon Meme Time

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:42:19 GMT

Tell me anything you like; good, bad or ugly.
Voice an unpopular opinion, tell a secret, squee like a flailing fangirl, it's all good and it's all anonymous. What's on your mind?

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:01:55 GMT

The Way We Live

Pass the tambourine, let me bash out praises
to the Lord God of movement, to Absolute
non-friction, flight, and the scarey side:
death by avalanche, birth by failed contraception.
Of chicken tandoori and reggae, loud, from tenements,
commitment,driving fast and unswerving
friendship. Of tee-shirts on pulleys, giros and Bombay,
barmen, dreaming waitresses with many fake-gold
bangles. Of airports, impulse, and waking to uncertainty,
to strip-lights, motorways, or that pantheon --
the mountains. To overdrafts and grafting

and the fit slow pulse of wipers as you're
creeping over Rannoch, while the God of moorland
walks abroad with his entourage of freezing fog,
his bodyguard of snow.
Of endless gloaming in the North, of Asiatic swelter,
to launderettes, anecdotes, passions and exhustion,
Final Demands and dead men, the skeletal grip
of government. To misery and elation; mixed,
the sod and caprice of landlords.
To the way it fits, the way it is, the way it seems
to be: let me bash out praises -- pass the tamourine.

Kathleen Jamie

The Hunting of the Snark

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:12:16 GMT

Was talking to justwolf the other week about Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark", (completely mad and wonderful and my favourite poem of his) and because my 1903 copy is at home I went looking online and look! Look what I found!

The whole thing, with the preface where he talks about portmanteau words and the next "eight fits" complete with original illustrations! Woohoo!

“Just the place for a Snark!” the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting each man on the top of the tide
By a finger entwined in his hair.

Lush, David Mitchell and Crackpot Theories.

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:51:13 GMT

Does anyone have Lush's Babyface? Because after handing in one of my essays today (yay!) I went and bought it, and about an hour ago I was up in the bathroom with stuff all over my face and it was not coming off. Some soap and hot water eventually got it off, but I was a bit unsure if it's supposed to do that. I mean yes it took my makeup off, but... bzuh?

And also! I'm obsessed with Peep Show slash, not that there is any, and I now have a weird David Mitchell kink. I don't know, I really don't. All I can do is to reiterate this point.

SEE? SEE THE RESEMBLANCE? *dons tinhat*

Pistachio Tax!

Random Anon Meme Time!

Ooh. Memeage. :)

Books!

Meme

General rambling

Love meme

Coming to you from the upper left hand corner of my screen...

My day today, and a meme

F-list Cut

News and a Meme

HEY GUYS

*is a sheep*

Ahh I love the smell of wank in the morning...

You've probably all seen this, but....

Fic Dump: "Garage" and "France"

Fic Dump: "Dust" and "Tests"

Meme

Anon Meme Time

The Hunting of the Snark

Lush, David Mitchell and Crackpot Theories.

is a sheep