January 2012
1 post
My Heart Belongs to Apple
Three days ago, my phone took a bath. We’ve all been there – that gut wrenching moment we realise it’s gone. In a flash, or rather more accurately, a splash - my world got a whole lot smaller.
The phone that drowned was an iPhone 4, so I went looking to replace it. Could I bear to go back to a ‘dumb’ phone? Apple had announced the release of their updated version the 4S in November 2011,...
May 2011
1 post
February 2011
1 post
Romance..
At 6.40am I got a call from my absent husband. Was it an early Valentine’s greeting?
No.
He woke me an hour earlier than necessary and told me to go outside. In the freezing cold, misty morning he then directed me to trot down the drive in my PJ’s to leave a note for the bin-men. And if I didn’t I’d have a mountain of garbage to deal with.
Nice.
January 2011
14 posts
I am exhausted. I have spent all week trying to... →
“Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.”
– Eskimo proverb (via underdogvictorious)
Resolutions..
To drink less and fuck more.
That is all.
December 2010
2 posts
Golden Rule for Blogging
Remember, the #1 rule of Blogging is the Golden One.
Offer the kind of post you like to read. Not too much about you. No huge, indigestible hunks of text. Save the negativity for your private journal. Keep it short, sweet, informative and reader-friendly, and pretty soon you’ll have a bunch of friendly readers.
Taken from the...
November 2010
20 posts
Life with the parents..
My husband is going doolally trying to live with my parents. I’m a space cadet, but at least I can be impolite enough to get it off my chest and move on. There’s also an awareness as an adult you don’t have as a child, or even as a teenager. Even at 16 I would never have counted the glasses of wine my mother drank, and wondered… Is she? I don’t remember listening...
@annieatkins's tweet gets into the Times →
theresalighton:
I enjoyed some of these greatly.
Teenage Kicks
I told myself I would have no problem living with my parents. I’m older and wiser - and a parent myself. and I’m smart, right? I can spot those old patterns of behaviour and choose not to repeat them. sure!
Ha. My father just criticised my parenting skills and I promptly dived into Lake Sarcasm. He told me to stop being an asshole and I actually said - wait for it - the creativity...
Rant about my mother: part deux.
I’m a bad daughter.
Came downstairs to find my mother icing a secret birthday cake.
For me.
Tomorrow is my birthday - I’d forgotten.
And no, I can’t bake birthday cake, or any cake for that matter, becuase I don’t like cake, therefore I haven’t learned to make them. Gah. Bad daughter.
*mental note - Learn to bake. Be grateful. Listen to my mother.
Rant about my mother.
Gah. Argh. GRRRR.
I love to cook. It’s one of the things that allows me, as an overachieving, hyperactive woman - to totally unwind. And I’ve been told that I’m not bad. However - I have as yet (despite being married with two children)had the opportunity to cook Christmas dinner, because we spend the season hoiking our offspring between two sets of in-laws.
My mother was...
Tumblesick.
It’s been a crazy week. So, we left Dublin and moved to the country, and we’re staying with my folks for a few weeks until we find a nice house. I’m living out of bags. My mother is driving me crazy - becuase she refuses to let me cook, irons my jeans and is OCD freakishly tidy about everything.
I started a new job today. My maternity leave ended and I’m almost finished...
October 2010
18 posts
“I quit. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be...”
– Anne Rice quits Catholic church on Facebook (via annieatkins)
Day one living with parents again.
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGHH. My mother actually went through the rubbish I just put in the bin, picking out the receipt I just threw away, and pointed out it should have gone in the recycle bin. This woman actually puts her rubbish (tins etc) into the dishwasher before she throws it away. She keeps the toaster at the opposite end of the house, because she doesn’t like the kitchen counters to look...
Things I'm lusting after...
Having lived frugally for the past nine months - (maternity leave = no pay) I’m really, really looking forward to my first paycheck. Things I have wanted/needed for a while but couldn’t afford:
A funky e-reader. Thinking Kindle - any suggestions?
A trip to the dentist.
New jeans, that understand I’ve had two kids, but still want to look like I haven’t.
New boots....
bingoparaphernalia:
The Rolling Stones - Paint...
Watchgreenorblue:
when in doubt: use a box of paper clips as a shaker.
Jeremy Messersmith - A Girl, a Boy, and a Graveyard cover (thank you delacroix <3)
p.s. wait until the end for some good old fashioned rage recording.
Love it. Watching the rain and kissing the kids to this.