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Score!

I got a parcel.  I got a parcel.  I got a parcel!

I love parcels, they make my day all happy and shiny.

Especially when the parcel contains some very gorgeous socks handmade by Jolene over at Misocrafty...and some Skor bars...OMG I can't even begin to stucture a sentence that might tell you how much I love Skor bars.

So I'll just post a pic of the socks and the Skor bars.

Roll on weekend.

posted by: blytheswideshut at June 30, 2006 18:49 | link | comments (1) |

about to commit the ultimate faux pas or something like that....

I have to say it.  I've been wanting to say it for a long time now.

I think Dooce has her head so far up her own arse that she's starting to believe her own hype.

But saying something against Dooce is just inviting death-threat style comments...and the obligatory comments about being jealous or envious or just plain bitchy.

I can be bitchy - I know it.

I could write quite a lot on the minutiae of what it is exactly that gets my hackles up over Dooce - but I don't want to be mean or nasty, I don't think 500 words of anti-Dooce invective is very creative or useful.

I feel better now that I've got that off my chest.

posted by: blytheswideshut at June 30, 2006 01:05 | link | comments (2) |

"I've got to stay home and wash my hair"

Chance that I would ever say that 0%.

I really dislike washing my hair.  Perhaps it's not actually the hair washing that bothers me, it's the thought of having to do it.

In a previous incarnation of my life (hyper stressed, hyper organised, hyper controlled, HYPER!) I washed my hair each morning, rising at 5:30am in order to do so.  Not only did I was my hair, but I dried, straightened, and styled it.  Then I put my 'face' on, then I got dressed, sat down to drink my morning cup of coffee, then I went to work.  45minutes early.  I always liked to be 45minutes early for everything, at a pinch I could narrow it down to 20 minutes early - but no later.  Definately NO less than 20minutes early.

Life is a bit slower these days.  Living in Queensland helps.  Everything is slow up here.

So the hair thing.  I find that now I'm on more of a 'go-slow' type schedule, I can never fit in the after effects of having to wash my hair.  The "washing the hair" shower takes 20 minutes - it's the full service shower.  Then the hair attention after shower.  The whole deal-e-oh takes about 1hour.

I like to be more spontaneous than that.  An hour is a long time for me.

posted by: blytheswideshut at June 28, 2006 14:48 | link | comments |

trying to grow

I have a long to do list at the moment.  To Do lists make me feel anxious and pressured.  I'm not the most focussed person, and I don't (I'd prefer to say can't, but well, you know.) seem to be able to do things just because they're on my list of things to be done.

It can take me weeks to get around to doing the simplest of things, yet I might launch headlong into a complicated, time consuming task at a moment's notice.  There is no rhyme or reason to how or why.

I find it frustrating.

I can see my To Do list from here, and it's making me feel all jittery.  I have trouble prioritising, so it's more likely that all of these things won't get done.  Of course all the time that I'm looking at the list, thinking to myself how wonderful it is that I've got heaps of time on my hands over the next three weeks, there's a little voice inside my head that says "you should be doing your tax.  you should be doing your tax".

So often I'll do all the hard, time consuming stuff - but never get around to finishing off the details.

As a teenager one of my favourite novels was "The Hotel New Hampshire" by John Irving.  The chaotic, interesting, tolerant home life they lived was so alluring and enticing.  I spent many hours reading and re-reading it, absorbing the story, the characters and feeling as though I was there.  Lily locks herself away, advising all that called at her door that she is "Trying to grow", when she is in fact writing her novel.

My laptop is slowly dying at the moment, so it's off to the repair shop for a (hopefully) short visit tomorrow.

posted by: blytheswideshut at June 20, 2006 23:11 | link | comments |

messiness

I so know what Lisa means....

This is my very own messiness...I can't work in neatness, I find it stifling...but my house is neat and tidy....and what I make is neat and tidy...I just need chaos in which to create...


closeup...

posted by: blytheswideshut at June 12, 2006 23:46 | link | comments (2) |

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