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Happy 25th birthday, Dragon Ball.

December 17th, 2004:

"Just browsing some pictures of the Cliffs of Moher distracting myself while planning out my finances and how I'm going to manage the dig in Austria, AND Ecuador. I'd give it all up for a mindless trip to Ireland, really. Something to think about."

Ha. This would be more humorous if all the entries around it didn't document probably the worst time in my life. 04/05 was a bad time.

Was torturing myself reading old entries. Two things: I was a whiner (or really depressed, however you'd like to look at it), and boy was I an emo teenager. Oh, and the amount of "like"s in my entries from early days, ouch. I used to really pour out my frustration/pain into my LJ as a way of relieving stress.


I'm also wowing at some of the LJ friends I've had for years and years that I didn't realize.

It's feckin' freezin'. I need Cormac to make a fire. Man make fire ugg ugg. I can do it, sometimes, I just always make a crappy one.

I'm in shock. So Cormac went to dinner with some of the guys and won't be home for a while. Me all day with the girls today. Jane was pretty easy (although I nearly lost my cool today when Jane went into the kitchen and pushed her stool up to the sugar bowl to eat sugar... again... weufheihruihrugeiujg). We (I) made a christmas bear plushie! It's so cute, I want to make some more to put on the tree. I'll take some pictures and post them up. I can't find the camera upload cord or I'd have some pictures of the girls to post.

So. Jane had a bath, laid in bed with Harper and read books for an hour, and she floated to sleep (slowly) while I walked around upstairs. We're working on that whole, we don't have to sit there rubbing and shhhing the whole time to get to sleep. She's stayed pretty well asleep (I did go up but she went back to sleep by the time I got up there), here's to hoping she stays asleep tonight. I'll cut her slack because the room has been cold and she is also itchy. We're all itchy at night at the moment. Dry dry dry. My lips are cracked horrible in the corners. Now, Harper was wide awake most of the time, she even sat and watched me do the washing up (she's smiling LOADS now, its killing me with cuteness) so I think she is kind of crashing now. She really does sleep, a lot. I think she had a bit of a growth spurt the last couple days because I couldn't even lay her down. Now she's been out in the moses basket for, an hour or two.

Been eating healthily. I'm down about 5 lbs which is making me happy. I feel bits kind of going back to where they belong. I'm in love with oatmeal at the moment. Oatmeal and maple syrup. I've made a horrible mistake of buying fresh broccoli and getting used to it-- now I hate frozen. Had some fresh today. Problem is it doesn't last long. Anyone have tips on keep it fresh? Put it in the fridge? I like the frozen because I always have it there. I've got frozen carrots, too, and they are horrible. But carrots go off in like 20 seconds here for some reason. Maybe I just suck at food storage.

Mom is here in two weeks.

I have a sad Christmas wants list. I'm such a homebody.
Kitchenaid beaterblade, grinder and a pouring shield
Some select cookbooks and books. Oo Harry Potter dvd.
Slow cooker? Would be awesome. Pans that never wear out would be great.
Silicon mat. One for rolling out dough and baking on. A big ass one.
Knitting yarn.
A carpet for the living room. Partylite candles. Homey things.
A 10 hour massage.

Jane is done. She's getting sidewalk chalk, a pair of peppa pig slippers and wellies (used on ebay), a vtech microphone thing (used on ebay), a monkey hand puppet (so cute, and cheap, from lidl), a pair of doctor's stethoscope and syringe (like, 2sterling on ebay), and the big thing, a plastic fantastic doll house. Wanted to get a really nice wooden one, but they are ridiculously expensive and she's just not old enough to appreciate it yet. She will play with this one. Few stocking stuffers (thinking some handmade stuff, bath stuff and treats) and that's that (we're doing "the stocking is from Santa" as a compromise on the Santa debate, so I'll think this one out). Cormac is done, but I'm not spilling it here.
Hazel gave me the great idea (and I'll probably rob it from her) of buying a new book/Christmas book to read each Christmas on Christmas Eve. I think that's lovely. I am probably going to get the traditional Night Before Christmas to start with. Unless someone has a good suggestion?

We totally rented Lost Season 5. 10 euro for the week. Wasn't going to spend a fortune to buy it and we want to be able to watch Season 6 on TV as it comes. You should see how pathetically excited this has made us.

Is anybody getting delayed comment notification emails? I'm getting emails just now from comments that were posted yesterday.

Also, Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow kicks ass.

Ha! Cute. If I tried dancing like that in heels I'd fall on my face, let alone while wearing my baby.

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It's like something clicked and she went "oh, THAT'S how legos work". It's amazing.

I have difficulty breathing. Have had it a few days, mostly at night, thought it was the change in weather and having the heaters on (always gets me, the dry air)... along with sneezing and stuffy nose. Now Jane has a runny nose. So, of course, I'm all freaked out over swine flu. I has asthma, so... yeah I called and made an appointment for the vax on Wednesday. I'll skip on Jane. I'll get the vax; she's still nursing, so she's got a bit of protection anyways. I hate the idea of it, but I'm like, in the group of people most likely to die... which is sitting less and less kindly with me as I get paranoid about my current coughing situation. No other obvious flu symptoms and well, I'm the kind of person who gets some sort of chesty thing several times a year. I'm exhausted, but like, I've gotten so little quality sleep the last few nights its not like that's a symptom of anything.
It occurs to me like my mental issues I should also be regularly taking my asthma medication. Of course, I don't have the money to go the GP regularly and we can't (or that is, we haven't and doesn't look like we will apply) get the medical card. Bah.

She did sleep a bit better last night. She came in with us around 4:30. Meh. Slept another half hour after Cormac left because of milkies, thank god. All Harper does is eat and sleep. It's wonderful.

I think I'm going to sew a load of Christmas presents this year. I have a few things bookmarked from looking over the holiday suggestions on sewmamasew. I wanted to knit more gifts, but I think that'll be next year. I'm too slow a knitter and have too little time to do it this year. Next year I can plan ahead and start in the summer or something!

I love how in Bruce's Tekken 6 Scenario Campagin level you and Arisa can just randomly fall THROUGH THE FUCKING FLOOR and die.

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