Ahhh, love. Of course none of it was as easy as that, and Belfast did freak me out. But every moment of hardship, stress, adversity has been more than offset by the wonder of love and life with my gorgeous fella. In spite of all the crap we’ve gone through, and my health problems, I’ve [...]
Back in Australia I chatted online a lot more to Tux, first venting about The Boy and as that wound scabbed over, about much more interesting things. Online communication of personal history/feelings can be easier in a way – it is less threatening, less forced, gives you time to think about wording, and inspires confidences [...]
[Update: have broken this into three parts.] [I’m writing this in bed, propped up against my back rest with my laptop propped on my knees. It is not comfy and I’d really like one of those breakfast tray/tables with foldout legs but buggered if I can find one anywhere in Perth … ] Wishing everybody [...]
Saturday 02 February was our SIXTH Wedding Anniversary. Who’d have thought, huh? I rubbed my mum’s nose in it a bit, as she had been convinced I’d come running home crying from Belfast after about three weeks. Mind you, it did all come as a shock to her. She had NO IDEA that Tux and [...]
I always, always, ALWAYS swore that if I ever got married – an extremely remote possibility given my history of disastrous relationships with total arseholes – I would never change my name. Feminist principles, outmoded concepts of ownership, wives as goods and chattels blah blah blah. So when Tuxedo and I married I stayed, resolutely, [...]
Shopping for Tux’s Birthday If there’s one thing I love more than shopping for gadgets and generally geeking out, it’s shopping and geeking out for someone else. It is Tuxedo’s birthday in over three weeks time but I’m already totally organised – a trifle OCD perhaps but a couple of gifts just may have required [...]
Birthdays and the commemoration of same have always been an oozing necrotic sore spot of my year. Birthdays have been things to dread and treat with fear and wariness; times when existential angst is at a high and depression descends in snarling rabid Rottweiler proportions. Even more so than Christmas, that particular day of note [...]
I have many favourite reads, brilliant writers and guilty pleasures here on the Internets, but an essential and always fascinating visit is to Pharyngula (link in side bar). I have learnt so much from PZ Myers; I adore evolutionary biology and his insights into unusual aspects of development biology are addictive, explained so beautifully, carefully [...]
Tuxedo has had the past week off from work, and has next week off too. The poor guy really needs and deserves the break; his company (he’s an IT Engineer/Project Manager) works him incredibly hard, long hours, plus he’s often on call 24/7. That’s the life of an IT guy (whether male or female), but [...]
May is a significant month for Tuxedo and me. Apart from our wedding anniversary (02-02-02, cool eh), pretty much all other relationship anniversaries fall in May. We met on 26 May 2000, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, while I was on holiday. On 06 May 2001, after innumerable IM conversations, emails, letters, care packages, presents, and [...]
