Smug. 13, December 2007
Posted by babychaos in Art, General Wittering, Life and living, Light Fluff, Play, Pregnancy Issues.Tags: fun, General Wittering, irrelevent facts, life, Music, pregnancy, things you never knew
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The official results are in. We have a 1 in 9942 chance of having a baby with Spina Bifida or Downs Syndrome. The BC household is relieved to the point of smugness.
This week, I have mostly been indoctrinating my future child’s musical taste with: Sham 69 - Questions and Answers is high on my favourites list, possibly even a desert island disk.
I have been to three Christmas Dinners this week and am feeling appropriately lardy.
It is perfectly possible to perform Egyptian Dance moves to British Punk although what the neighbours think when they see me cameling across the kitchen to “Hurry Up Harry” I’m not sure.
I have had two name art commissions, including one out of the blue from a complete stranger, for real paid money! Hoorah.
On the off side… it’s cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey and we will be sans heating and hot water next week while our new boiler is fitted at this incredibly opportune time!
Freezing the Balls off a Brass Monkey is actually a nautical term. A brass monkey held stacks of cannonballs, if it was exceptionally cold, the brass monkey and the balls contracted at different rates when they froze meaning the balls could tumble off… allegedly. Two thousand million people will add a comment to tell me I am wrong right…. now.
Despite the daunting thought of enduring it with no heating, the cold is very beautiful, white hoar frost on everything, bright sun and blue sky, the kind of heart lifting winter day seldom seen here in East Anglia. A splendid departure from dreech and subacqueous.
Ok, shall I let you into a secret. My home town is featured on an album cover. Look at the Division Bell, by Pink Floyd. See those buildings in between the two facey things with the great big eff-off cathedral sticking up? Well… down behind that big building… that’s where I live.
That closes the random musings for today.
I thank you for your time!
More timewasting quizzes… 14, November 2007
Posted by babychaos in General Wittering, Light Fluff, Play, Who am I?.Tags: general chit chat, General Wittering, life, quizzes, time wasting, wittering on
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Quizzes that make me feel like I’m special. Mmm mmm! I love ‘em. Here are the results of my latest visit to blogthings to do the smashing quiz “How rare is your personality.”
As you can see, my personality is as freakishly oddball as my blood group. Hmm… I suspect you wouldn’t have needed a quiz to tell me that, though, would you? Right?
Your Personality is Very Rare (ESTP) |
 Your personality type is dominant, driven, poised, and self-aware.Only about 5% of all people have your personality, including 3% of all women and 6% of all menYou are Extroverted, Sensing, Thinking, and Perceiving. |
Oh. I’ve just done something vile, I blew my nose a couple of minutes ago and I’ve just blown it again but mistakenly, on the other side of the hanky. Mmm… nasty.
Hello again… 11, November 2007
Posted by babychaos in General Wittering, Grumpy Old Bag, Life and living, writing.Tags: General Wittering, holidays, Life and living, writing
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Well, tanned and suitably refreshed - except for one night when I was convinced I was dying (that “pins and needles in your hands and feet” they talk about you getting when you’re pregnant is a lot more than just that… it’s like the last 10 seconds before you pass out with a general anaesthetic, only again, and again, and again, and again…). Anyway… where was I?
Oh yes, Portugal was sunny, warm and satisfyingly full of fresh fish - hours old most of the time - and suitably gloopy eggy puddings. I have been trawling the net for recipes for their egg custard tarts and almond tort both of which are like having angels tiptoeing across your tongue! Mmm…
Came home yesterday and reacquainted myself with my hatred of people who go “ooooh” and “aaaaah” at fireworks like brain-dead sheep. I think the main cause of my ire is that it always seems a bit phoney, like they’re doing it for effect rather than because they want to. Then again, I’m the kind of person who hates it when you’re in the audience at a show, some music comes on and everyone starts to clap along. I feel completely phoney doing that, too.
Maybe I’m just an uptight, undemonstrative, anal retentive stereotype of a Brit. Yeh. That must be it. But then I refer you to this post, here… which, to me, shows exactly why that kind of attitude works!
On the writing front, the Snowflake Method has proved excellent. I’ve only done step 1 and half of step 2 out of 10 (don’t laugh) BUT I have worked out how the first book ends… hoorah!
I’ve also discovered I must have crossed wires with my usual printer but in what appears to be a very good way. I explained I wanted to print up to 4 cards and asked how much it would cost for one so I could work out how much 4 would cost. What they didn’t tell me was that to print 2 only costs £50 more than printing one… so I’ll have to ask them for a quote for all four (wahoo!). It’s Sunday now, so I can’t ring them to check until tomorrow. More on that story… Later.
I should have two in a couple of weeks but if it works out, I’ll have four.
