In June, after a journey of 18.5 years by one count and 22 months by another, my husband got his Irish citizenship. The ceremony was in Dublin, and we went down a day early to have a celebratory dinner and not risk missing the ceremony by counting on the trains on the day of. :) It was actually VERY EMOTIONAL and we both cried all over everything, by which I mean, I sniffled gently while he wiped away a few manly tears, of course. The ceremony itself was really quite…
A few weeks ago my husband, who is suffering from tendonitis in his achilles, went to have his feet scanned and better insoles found and stuff, and thought it was interesting enough that I should do the same. Especially because I have stupidly wide feet, although as it turns out, they’re apparently only wide, not STUPIDLY wide. That’s something, I guess? Except they remain too wide for most women’s shoes, so, y’know, oh well. Anyway, so I went in and did this thing and it was in fact interesting. I,…
I’ve been reading the A Girl and her Fed webcomic the past week or so, which has the usual effect of making me want to do a little webcomic of my own. It in particular, though, has made me vaguely think perhaps I’m not, IDK, weird enough to pull off what I want to do. Like, ok. Girl. Fed. Cyborg conspiracies. Gotcha. I could probably get that far on my own. Ghost of Benjamin Franklin? Look, I’m sorry, I wouldn’ta thought of that. Hyper-sapient koala? NOPE. ‘Fraid not. Checking out…
Recent Reads: The Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventures, by Clara Benson – a pretty satisfying period-piece murder mystery series I picked the first book up as a free book on Kobo, and it did its job: I have now read the entire series, and have another book by the same author in another series to start. Our Hero, Freddy Pilkington-Soames, is not as half-witted as his name suggests he might be, but he’s not a serious young man, particularly in the first book in this series, A CASE OF BLACKMAIL IN BELGRAVIA,…
Thing One: I have this mild fascination with watching makeup reels and tiktoks. What I find particularly mind-blowing are the “side by side comparison of 2 makeup styles” ones in which they say things like “heavy makeup vs light makeup” and then on the ‘light makeup’ side of their face they put on more makeup than I have ever worn at once in my life. I would genuinely love for somebody skilled at conturing makeup to do a full face on me once. It’d just be really interesting. But I…