August 2008

Going to be a bit busy over the next few days

August 30, 2008

This past week has been very busy with a few functions and goings-on that I haven’t yet mentioned here, and this weekend is going to be busiest of all. I have a feeling this’ll be my last chance of checking in here before my session at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival. I’d love to meet you if [...]

Heartbeat: Australian Style OR What to do when your daughter borrows a puppet theatre

August 28, 2008

‘Twas toy library day and we borrowed a sizeable puppet theatre and ten puppets of differing sexes and occupations. Keira demanded a proper show. I tried, but quickly gave up. She was bored. I was bored. I couldn’t think up of a ‘nice’ story to tell. Bad news for someone who tries to do this sort of thing [...]

Award Day

August 27, 2008

Relish nominated me for this ‘I Love Your Blog’ award. Awesome, yes? I think so. The rules of the award are: 1. The winner can put the logo on his/her blog. {Done} 2. Link the person you received your award from. {Sure!} 3. Nominate 7 other blogs. {Okay} 4. Put links of those blogs on [...]

What goes down must come up again

August 26, 2008

Two weeks ago, when I was on the Gastroenteritis Diet, I lost 2 kgs (5-ish pounds). To celebrate, when I could finally eat again, I rewarded myself with ice-cream. A fair bit of it. Today, my jeans fit just as they did before I got sick. {I’m sure I could’ve written that better – in [...]

The Olympics are over, and I am sad

August 25, 2008

I’m so pleased the Olympics went off relatively smoothly, because I was afraid they wouldn’t. As I watched these games it occurred to me just how little I remember of Athens in 2004. Those games passed in the understandable blur that any occasion would pass when you have a four month old baby and you’re a [...]

He won’t want this dragged out in twenty years. But I suppose it will be.

August 23, 2008

Every now and then I ponder the limits I consciously place upon what I will and will not discuss here. I don’t do this very often because, frankly, there isn’t much I won’t talk about. If I’m asked a question, I’ll answer it. If I have something to share, I share it. That’s just the [...]

Darling, grab a black plastic bag. It’s time to chuck out the porn

August 21, 2008

So this was the post where in this place right here you would normally be seeing a massive pile of food magazines all fanned out nice and arty because this post was supposed to be about our food porn collection and not our actual porn collection because, boy, if you know how expensive that stuff is [...]

Some event updates

August 20, 2008

The program for the blogging workshop comes out today and is open for enrollment. ****** Bloggers or techno-lovers out there mightn’t be aware that all of Federation Square is the biggest free Wi-Fi site in Australia. So if you’re planning on coming to my talk at the Melbourne Wrtiers’ Festival, hey, why not lug along [...]

Anthony Stewart Head as Frank-N-Furter

August 19, 2008

Whenever I mention the subject of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, my sister becomes stubborn and frankly philistine about it because she point-blank refuses to watch. Her excuses are varied, and even admitted to giving “That one with all the singing” a try, but she just doesn’t ‘get it’. So I offer to show her single [...]