It’s been a sad week

On Thursday I had news from a former work colleague.  It was news that I had known would come sooner rather than later, but it was still a shock.

I promise it’s true!

In my job I get to see lots of names.  First names, middle names, surnames.  You name it, I see it.  Not long after I first started in the job I saw the name of Randy Prado which would so be my stage name if I were a male porn star.
I’ve seen a few people [...]

Advice on building a new house. By Joders

This post has been inspired in part by a comment that Afers made a few days ago about me owning my own home. 
“…..seems like a stressful, yet satisfying feeling at the same time”, said Afers.  That’s a really good way of describing things now that the house is built and I’m living in it and [...]

In the Jungle with Joders

In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight…..
Ok, so I’m not talking about trekking through a South American jungle or the concrete jungle or the blackboard jungle for that matter (both of which would be far more dangerous than an actual real live jungle).  In fact the title of this post has very little [...]

Inane Bletherings (3, I think)

It’s weird when you share your name with someone you work with.  I don’t mean christian name.  That’s not unusual with a first name like mine.  At my old job there was 5 of us, that I can remember.  Hell, I used to joke that my first name was so common that every second girl at [...]

I have an announcement (the Whorelando Bloom edition)

For the last couple of months I’ve been keeping myself and some others amused with some phiction based on the exploits (exploitation?) of Whorelando Bloom.
In light of recent events (ie Fauxmance – the NY edition) I have made the decision to discontinue the Whorelando series.
I am torn between two schools of thought.  (1)  Believing in the showmance and [...]

Breaking Up is Hard to Do – Chapter 7

 16 July 2008 – West Manhattan
In her condominium in Chelsea, the dingo sits at her PC.  She is holding the mouse in her hand, studying it closely.  She puts the mouse down and begins bashing loudly on the keyboard.
Dingo:  Mhuuuuum!
Dingomum:  Dahling, knot sew lowd!  Ur brutha hadd a layte nite at werk.
Dingo:  (rolling her eyes)  Whee [...]

Life Wasn’t Meant to be Easy….. Ha

Today I finally bit the bullet.  I bundled up the gifts I bought for my mum for Mothers Day and I marched back to the store and returned them.  For 2 weeks they sat, unwrapped, on the spare bed in one of the spare bedrooms.  Then my sister put them into the wardrobe so that I [...]

Bloody Hell!

Tonight my sister confessed that she wants to keep my baby (that’s Tia btw).  She thinks she’s a beautiful dog (true), with a beautiful personality (also true) and she’s gotten used to having Tia around.  Bloody Hell.
If I decide to let my sister keep Tia, it means that I’m gonna get another baby puppy.  Which [...]

Angry but emotionless

Is is possible to feel empty, hollow and emotionless yet still be pissed off?  Anger is an emotion right?  So how can I feel emotionless and be angry at the same time?
Everything is pissing me off right now.  A few weeks ago I said that I was feeling strangely satisfied with my lot in life.  [...]