Discworldathon

Quick note to let you all know that I've finished the 12th Discworld book. Well... I'm not sure what number Discworld book it is since my ordering when kablooey. But it's the 12th one I've read.

I'm gonna go back to reading the others in order now.

10 Days of Haikus

It's been a very busy weekend (see follow up post) and I haven't had a chance to blog, but I HAVE written the final three haikus.

Sunday...

Time for a day trip.
Never been to Liverpool.
I'm going shopping.

Monday...

A busy weekend
Results in a great big smile
and two aching legs.

Today...

Ten haikus written.
Some of them are halfway good.
At least I'm writing.

So there you go. I've written ten haikus. It feels good to be writing (creatively) again, even if most of it is rubbish. I'm going to try and keep it up. And of course I'll be subjecting y'all to the madness. (Insert evil laugh here).

10 Days of Haikus

I'm a wee bit drunk
Drunk as a very small skunk
And all out of words

10 Days of Haikus

Here is today's haiku. Can you guess what I've been up to?

So much paperwork,
Leering at me from my desk.
It makes my brain hurt.

10 Days of Haikus

Written at 2am this morning, just as I was getting to sleep:

I'm sorry readers
I forgot to blog today
Here, have some cookies

10 Days of Haikus

In keeping with the theme of the last couple of days, today's haiku is miserable:

I'm trying so hard
To keep myself together
I think I'm failing.

As you may have noticed, I'm not doing so well depression-wise at the moment. I'm trying my hardest to come through it, but most of the time I don't think I'm strong enough.

Labels Reboot

I have too many blog labels. Some of them are now redundant. So I'm rebooting them. I'm only going to use a few blog labels from now on.

If you follow one of the older labels, you'll be able to find all the new posts for them under the following headings:

FAMILY & FRIENDS
- family
- friends
- lovelife
- pets
DEPRESSION & HEALTH
- depression
- health
- weightwatchers
STITCHING & COOKING
- baking
- etsy
- HaR
- HSKS
- patterns
- stitchwork
- twt
YEARLY CHALLENGES
- 2012 fantabulous things
- discworldathon
- new things
- one day one sentence
- photography
- project 200
- purpleocity
- year of the circuses
WRITING
- 30 day meme
- writer's inklings
OTHER
- edumacation
- geek out
- interwebs
- lists
- Maine
- random ramblings
- videos
- wow

Dear Mr Sandman...

I'm very used to having weird dreams. I'm okay with that. I'd rather have the downright odd dreams than the horrible nightmares. And the dating/sex dreams are definitely better than the horrible nightmares AND the odd dreams.

However, I have a bone to pick with you about your choice of Man. If I can't dream about Jensen Ackles or Ashton Kutcher, or Dr Who, I'm okay with dreaming about a Man I've actually met before. I'm even okay with dreaming about one of my Exes. But why, why, why, why, WHY?!! do I have to dream about the worst one? The one who was a huge mistake, and is now completely and utterly ugly and unattractive and unappealing?

Having said that, thank you for letting me dream about him as he was when I knew him. The first night was vaguely Memory-Lane-ish. The second night was a bit weird. The third night was getting odd. The fourth night was downright disturbing. I do have many other Exes that you could choose from. Much better looking and delicious and interesting ones. Some of whom I actually still give a crap about. If you could see your way clear to making tonight's dream about one of them, I'd be very appreciative.

Yours,

Colette (aged 29 and a half)

10 Days of Haikus

Another emo one:

I close my eyes and
Leave this lost and lonely land
For one where I smile.

10 Days of Haikus

Today's haiku is a little less lighthearted than yesterday. Sorry. I'm feeling down.

Alone and lonely.
Desperate to be loved.
Destined for sadness.

10 Days of Haikus

So I'm trying to blog at least once everyday. Aside from making the bloga little more interesting to read, and also because I'm trying to give myself more of a routine. I have checklists of certain things I want to make sure I do every day.

Usually I have an update for Project 200 or the Discworldathon, or some other randomness to blog about. For days that I don't, I have a list of blog memes/challenges and things. This is the first one.

10 Days of Haikus.

A haiku is a Japanese form of poetry characterised most famously by its structure of 3 lines and 17 vowels. The first line has 5 vowels, the second line has 7 vowels and the third line has 5 vowels. They're short and succinct, but that does NOT make them easy to write. I'm going to attempt to write one a day for the next 10 days.

An extra challenge is that I haven't actually written any poetry in years. I've had writers' block for a good 5 years at least. So wish me luck.

Here's haiku number one:

Sweet potato pie
A crazy mess to create
Delicious to taste

Discworldathon

I've finished another one. I would have finished a second one in the bath yesterday but I ran out of hot water and was getting cold.

So that's 11 of 39 books read, and £95.75 raised

Project 200 - 125/75

Teeny tiny little monkey...


125 down
75 to go

Also... I've done another Hogwarts bookscarf thingy. Still need to do Gryffindor for it to count as a complete Project though.