1st January, 2010 - Posted by mombie - No Comments
I had thought that 2008 was a difficult year. Then I met 2009. Now THAT was a difficult year. Sure I had many marvellous moments, and I had lots of fun,so that was good. And I learned a lot of great stuff, and met some great people. So in many ways 2009 brought good things, but » Read More
22nd October, 2009 - Posted by mombie - No Comments
For the last 262 days, I have written at least 1 page of fiction each day. That would be really impressive if it was all part of the same work, but, alas, about 90% is unrelated little vignettes, snippets of someone’s thoughts, pieces of their lives, utterly unconnected. I wish I could make an art project out » Read More
20th October, 2009 - Posted by mombie - No Comments
I started Taekwondo (hereafter TKD) in September (the same week as AAMP’s big arts festival, the first days of school – it was all new all the time and totally overwhelming) and I’m enjoying it even as it is driving me crazy. I had anticipated it being tougher on my body, but I’m finding that I » Read More
28th September, 2009 - Posted by mombie - 1 Comment
In November of 2001, The Boy arrived 7 weeks early, a few days after we moved in to our new house, while we were still housesitting for my inlaws. I spent a week in the hospital after he was born, and came home to our new house, leaving him in the NICU for another week. » Read More
26th June, 2009 - Posted by mombie - 2 Comments
This is the first day of The Boy’s summer vacation, so by all rights things should be hectic – no schedule, two kids instead of one, and so on but this has been a lovely morning so far. Sure, the kids are entertaining themselves with a computer game, so that’s something, but my peaceful morning has » Read More
23rd June, 2009 - Posted by mombie - No Comments
When I started this blog I called myself the mombie because I was seriously sleep-deprived (as in less than two hours sleep at a time for YEARS). Obviously things have changed since then, and both of the kids sleep much better now (upwards of 10 hours most nights – I never thought the day » Read More
10th June, 2009 - Posted by mombie - No Comments
So I was going to a physiotherapist in late 2007 because my back was messed up and he was very research-y, had a lot of papers published and the like, so he had a much more extensive questionnaire than other providers of that sort seem to. Once he looked at my answers he mentioned something about me » Read More
3rd June, 2009 - Posted by mombie - No Comments
Have you ever heard of Muscle Man? What? You haven’t? Do you live under a rock? I kid, of course. Muscle Man* is TLG’s fictional superhero. We’ve been hearing about him for at least a year now. Not only is he huge, red and strong (he can lift TWO houses!) but he can do whatever he » Read More
8th May, 2009 - Posted by mombie - 7 Comments
I had this great plan for posting my second annual Mother’s Day Meme on Mother’s Day (which would be quite sensible), alas my cold had other plans and I spend the entire weekend lying in bed bemoaning my fate. Hopefully it is not too unfashionable to post this a day late (you know how I » Read More
6th May, 2009 - Posted by mombie - 1 Comment
Instead of placing it on the counter properly, I inexplicably laid it right on the edge and it dropped to the floor and the handle broke off. I’m proud to say that I didn’t curse or freak out, which I might do some days. Instead, I just said ‘Oh, no!’ and bent to pick it up. I’m » Read More
