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Making : A poncho from some alpaca yarn I got from Bendigo Woollen Mills on my roadtrip with Kate from Foxs Lane.
Cooking : Apple and Cinnamon tea cake, Raspberry Jam cake, Jammy Pecan and Oat Biscuits from Wholefood for Children, Spinach Alfredo Pizza, cheese quesadillas.
Drinking : Tea. Always tea. Although I did make a salted caramel syrup for coffee and have indulged quite often.
Reading: Everything. I’m almost finished On Writing by Stephen King, have made a little headaway in The Complete Buddhism for Mothers, by Sarah Napthali, I am reading for a second time The Way of The Happy Woman, by Sara Avant Storer (the winter bit), I’ve been trying to read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams before I go to sleep (I’m trying to do that “fiction before bed thing”) and I got stuck into Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon on the plane over the weekend. Oh, and I finished A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf on the first plane.
Wanting: To sleep.
Looking: At new suburbs.
Playing: Very briefly at the park when there’s not gale-force Antarctic winds.
Wasting: Time.
Sewing: I’ve sewed 0 things since I started taking stock last year.
Wishing: For more time.
Enjoying: The stages my kids are at. Hilarious.
Waiting: Spring. It will come. It’s getting lighter earlier in the morning now… gives me hope.
Liking: Beer for breakfast.
Wondering: How much I’m literally capable of, and how much I can give to others to do.
Loving: Hot husband.
Hoping: I’m not screwing my kids up too much.
Marvelling: That Smalls is nearly two.
Needing: A different way of thinking. I can’t change anything if I keep looking at it the same way I always have.
Smelling: A bunch of candles I bought from Golden Skull. They are insane! I love them.
Wearing: Black leggings, Lord of the Fries hoodie, striped socks, cons, and my Uberkate ID cuff.
Following: Alex_and_Ernest on Instagram. It’s my cousin’s new jewellery venture and it makes me wish I was young and tanned and had the required amount of sleep each night.
Noticing: I look at the weather forecast a lot.
Knowing: You can always do better.
Thinking: About family. I’ve caught up with a few long-lost relatives lately and it’s pretty cool.
Feeling: sofuckingtired
Bookmarking: Bread in 5 minutes a day, Sichuan Tofu in “fish” Fragrant Sauce, Homemade Muesli Bars, and a reminder to get Hillary Clinton’s new book.
Opening: Accounts at online stores.
Giggling: This unintentionally funny human. And “fucking magnets, how do they work?”
Listening: Back to Magna Carta Holy Grail, lots of Against Me!, always with the news podcasts, the ’90s station on Spotify, the Hip Hop station on Spotify and Taylor Swift when the mood hits me. Which, let’s face it, is pretty rare.
What have you been up to?
missfoxslane says
July 22, 2014 at 10:59 amHahahahahaha I just read loving and hoping really quickly and they merged into one loving my hot husband screwing too much…sorry. xx
Veggie Mama says
July 22, 2014 at 2:50 pmIf only I wasn’t sofuckingtired x
The Plumbette says
July 22, 2014 at 11:53 amI’m tired too. So much so my eyes widened a bit when when I saw “hot husband” and “screwing” and realised they were two different sentences and not on the same line!!
Veggie Mama says
July 22, 2014 at 2:50 pm😉
Lisa says
July 22, 2014 at 3:23 pmI read “On Writing” last weekend and I loved it. Great advice for the new fiction writer. Have you seen Word Crimes from Weird Al yet? Very funny for the grammar nerds.
Also liked Knowing: You can always do better
Very True.
Veggie Mama says
July 23, 2014 at 11:28 amoh yes, Weird Al is one of my heroes. Finally, someone understands the necessity of the Oxford Comma!
Reannon @shewhorambles says
July 22, 2014 at 4:03 pmDude! How many flipping books can you read?! Hell I can’t get through one at the moment! Every time I start reading I fall asleep.
And is Smalls keeping you up again? I thought things were better? What is with these non sleeping kids of ours?
Veggie Mama says
July 23, 2014 at 11:28 amShe got sick and then went back to getting up all night. If I don’t read, I die.
Reannon @shewhorambles says
July 23, 2014 at 12:50 pmOh man poor smalls but poor you too…..
Elizabeth@thebackyardlemontree says
July 22, 2014 at 6:02 pmThat’s one impressive list. I like the sound of Stephen King’s On Writing. I read my first Stephen King novel about a year ago and realised how many of his novels have characters who are writers. He’s very good on the creative process of writing. Hope the tofu in fish fragrant sauce converts you to a tofu eating veggie mama.
Veggie Mama says
July 23, 2014 at 11:27 amI started reading his books when I was 8. He’s as much a part of me as I am!
I don’t mind tofu, as long as it doesn’t taste like ass.
Tammy Warner-Wilson says
July 23, 2014 at 1:16 amBuddhism for Mothers is one of the few parenting books I’ve read, and I loved it! On Writing by Stephen King has been on my reading list forever – are you enjoying it? xx
Veggie Mama says
July 23, 2014 at 11:27 amA million times, yes.
Tina Lacy says
July 23, 2014 at 6:19 pmI don’t have a blog but I like doing this things so i thought I would do it here 🙂
Making : A knitted scarf out of merino and possum wool, so soft! .
Cooking : oat and chocolate chuck cookies, blueberry and lemon muffins, yoyos, shortbread and Albert cake
Drinking : Milky Milo its nearly bedtime
Reading: Nothing my concentration is that of a nat at the moment but have a stack of books for when it returns
Wanting: To to feel like me again.
Looking: at the cats reclining in front of the the fire.
Playing: stupid facebook games to distract myself from my mind
Wasting: My energy catastrophising everything possible to men
Sewing: Last time i sewed something was in year nine textiles and that involved stitching the arm of my polar to the back of it did not end well!
Wishing: That there was a magical cure for metal illness
Enjoying: To be honest not much
Waiting: For for this numb feeling to end
Liking: Having the fire going
Wondering: How much medication actually does.
Loving: My husband hes my rock.
Hoping: That one day I will have my life back
Marveling: That my power bill wasn’t nearly as high as I expected
Needing: More baking Powder
Smelling: My lavender scented pillow case its meant to calm and relax me .
Wearing:My $9 k mart nightie bargain!
Following: No on I don’t stalk!
Noticing: That the daffodils are trying to flower don’t they know its still winter
Knowing: That dying is not the answer even though it feels like a damn good idea at times
Thinking: That I really need to try the new hundreds and thousand biscuit chocolate
Feeling: exhausted, sad, numb anxious and broken
Bookmarking: Healthy Recipes I need to lose weight
Opening: nothing at present.
Giggling: I don’t remember the last time I giggled
Listening:To some boring programme on TV fair go maybe, really need to turn it off and go to bed………..
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Veggie Mama says
July 23, 2014 at 7:22 pmoh you’re always welcome to do it here! I find people’s answers fascinating. And possum wool – I never even knew you could do that?!!!
(PS I’m told medication does a lot xx)
Tina Lacy says
July 24, 2014 at 9:06 amI always wonder how they get it off the possums, maybe they have possum farms and shave them…….