Something, Anything…
I better post something. Anything. If I don’t then I might as well decommission this blog. The problem is that when you’ve taken such a long break from blogging you do feel as if you should have some earth shattering reason for not having posted for a while and I don’t.
So I’m posting something. This. It’s not much but it’ll do for a start.
February 12th, 2008 at 1:50 am
Welcome back! Don’t feel too badly, I’ve only just started posting again after a looong hiatus. Indeed everytime I visited here and didn’t see a post, I didn’t feel so bad about my own blog.
February 12th, 2008 at 7:24 am
this is a comment. it’s not insightful or witty, but as a show of solidarity for your metapost it should do. don’t decommission. seeing your unupdated site is still comforting, in that it indicates you’re out there living your life instead of blogging, whereas should this space go blank, one might come to the conclusion you’re altogether gone…
it boils down to deciding between the guilt of not posting and the guilt of leaving us stranded in cyberspace without you
February 12th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
~~~~ waving lovely to see you tonight and I am a shit friend on bus realised I just should have paid your bus fare… excuse on me being tired and brain not functioning well
butternut squash cut up onions browning
February 13th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Christine - you had an excuse for not posting - you were living it up in London!
Bering - Thank you for the show of support and lovely to hear from you! Living my life? hum, well…that might be a reason if I actually had been. When you consider that for the greater part of the past three months I’ve been sitting right here, there’s really no excuse!
M - No, never a shit friend. I actually had bus fare too but my brain had also stopped working! Lovely to see you last night, have a good day at work today!
February 13th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
you were thinking about the shoes you’d bought ! I should have made you show them to me…
February 13th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
One pair is gold!!! and they have an ankle strap with a button fastening! I’m a sucker for shoes with buttons.. I meant to show them to you because they had a few sizes in that style and greatly reduced too (the only thing better than buying shoes is buying shoes in the sale!). The other pair I don’t think I’ll ever wear but they were such an unusual shape!)
February 14th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
office? I’ll check them out on sat - I need new shoes anyway/
February 19th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Hurrah–you’re back!! Shall I break out the obligatory comment that really isn’t comment??
Although–shoes?? Whee!! I would be such an Imelda if only they all made shoes in my size.
February 19th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Hi Babs! Yes, break out the obligatory no comment comment - they always come in useful!
I can completely sympathise with the problem of finding shoes to fit - I’m a UK size 7-8 and wide fitting (with long toes and high insteps) so something which fits properly is really difficult. You have no idea of the tears I cried in one very upmarket shoe store when I tried on a pair of shoes which had been reduced from £400 to £20 only to find that although they fit perfectly the bloody strap wouldn’t fasten across my foot (or maybe you do!). So I don’t buy shoes that often… Having said that the shoes I buy seem to last quite a while, I’ve still got a few pairs I wore as a teenager and that coupled with the fact that I try to buy two pairs at a time when I can (not the same style though, I’m not that bad!) means that over the years my shoe collection has grown somewhat.
It’s a pity you don’t live in the UK. The last few pairs of shoes I’ve bought have all been from Office as they seem to specialise in pretty unusual affordable (especially in the sale!) wearable styles not that I have anything against super high heels, I love them but tottering along a pavement is so not a good look!.
February 20th, 2008 at 12:16 am
I DO know about the bloody straps!! Gawd it’s the worst. In UK sizes I’d be about 10-10 1/2–so really it’s hard to buy shoes anywhere unless I want to pay a small fortune. I went to the Office site and they don’t even list my size in the conversion chart–bastards!! When I find someplace that has shoes my size, though, I try to stock up. So it’s really NOT an Imelda thing–I’m simply getting them while I can find them.
I don’t go for the high-high heels either–partly because of tottering, and also because even a 3 inch heel turns me into a 6′2 amazonian freak.
I’ll have to be content with The Avenues limited range of shoes *sob*
(Or listen to peoples suggestion that I shop for shoes in a drag queen shop)
February 22nd, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Try Bally, Van Dall and Ecco shoes. They would probably go up to the size you need. Having said that, drag queen shoes are really cool, I’ve got a couple of pairs…
February 24th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
(very) welcome back.
i know exactly what you mean, re the-longer-the-absence, the-higher-the-self-imposed-implication-of-required-quality thang. …bit of a theme on my blog last couple of years…
for once, i’m in quite the opposite position — loads of stuff i want to post, but no (non-obnoxious) net access. i only just now discovered from my email that i have missed much ructions in the world of babs, for example… hi babs! quick checkin on herebe and nb then devoting (racing) the rest of my battery to finding out wotthahayull happened
but HC: again, (very) welcome back.
February 27th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
*waves hello* It’s been hard enough getting up the attic stairs to the computer let alone actually writing anything recently. It usually gets better when things start growing again.
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:07 am
high strappy shoes at river island and new look i noticed today… s’s party went well fantastic food 3 courses including HOME MADE PAVOLOVA! C made little aluminum Swans to take away pieces of my choc almond cake as party favours…
March 14th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Decommission? Doncha dare.
March 14th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Sorry for the huge delay in replying to these comments - nothing personal- I’ve been spending all my time on bloody ilustrator recently trying to finish off my website and my business cards. The only reason the bloody Sistene chapel took longer was because thingy wasn’t trying to fit a photoshop RGB lighting effect into a CMYK illustrator PDF of a business card. But I’ve done it. And I’ve (jboy aka onebadway) has finished my website - well not completely finished because apparently according to mrs jboy who knows about these things it has to be completely rewritten in order to be SEO friendly and theres still loads of the portfolio to go up there - but I’ve done all the hand drawn headers and written the text so far and to be quite honest I’m knackered with it all…
Sal - Absolutely. But there’s also the slight paranoia that you feel -I’ve actually written loads of posts in the ensuing interval but - you can’t just leap in with something personal or heartfelt because it feels a bit weird - as if someone has just asked in passing how you are and you give far to much information for the question. It even has a knock on effect about commenting on other peoples posts too which is really annoying. Plus (and completely my own fault) I was daft enough to put this url on myspace and facebook which means that people (apart from you lot obviously) can read it. I don’t mind too much the family members reading it because they know I love them really (and I’ve deleted the really bad posts) but there are others who have found it and I’m not so happy about them reading it because I don’t know them. My own fault? True. Subconscious desire to have people read it? Probably. Creating self censorship - Definitely. I’m hoping a couple of glasses of wine will get me over this…
Anyway - thank you for the welcome and hope you get broadband soon.
Clodhopper - It does doesn’t it? The terrible thing is that ever since I left home I’ve lived in cities but I’m such a country girl at heart - I have this craving to grow cabbage and potatoes and leeks (and chrysanthemums - the big bronze ones) I’m so jealous of you, you know. What with the chickens and the greenhouse and the allotment. I checked out the prices of an allotment here and it costs nearly £40 a month to rent one and that’s £40 I can’t afford. Sometimes life is bloody unfair. One day though I’m going to live back in the country, right back in the middle of nowhere and have a garden and chickens and a couple of goats ( I like goats) and maybe two or three lurchers and a wolfhound but not geese because they scare the hell out of me.
M- You see C is good at these things isn’t she? I would never have thought of silver swans, but you really didn’t need to point out that you’d made one of your famous chocolate almond cakes which really should have been added to the recent Vatican list of sins. Sorry I missed the party. We are planning on having an unbirthday party for S within the next couple of weeks though. HOnest!
March 14th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Rock - Aaaaaaargh! I forgot to reply to you. I’m sorry! Anyway I won’t really decommission this blog. One it’s been going too long and two it’s pretty much my only social life! I’m just knackered at the moment and feeling as if I don’t have enough time to do all the things I have to do and all the things i want to do and the things I have to do are winning and the things I want to do are all constantly thumping in my brain so I run around like the proverbial chicken trying to fit everything in and failing miserably. Plus (and I never had this before) the more time I spend on doing artwork (especially stuff on the computer) the less I’m able to write…
BTW - I have to say - your last post was absolutely amazing! I thought I’d commented on it but when I checked back later apparently not - I think I chickened out of saying how brilliant a writer I thought you were! (as well an artist)
April 16th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
password is “enter” for that site.
http://whenthereweretigers.wordpress.com/ is the url.
Sorry for the lag but… the snow has been the deepest here I’ve ever seen in my life and shoveling it just about does me in. Everybody gets so depressed by the first of April I’m surprised we aren’t a nation of serial killers. I just moved back to my hometown and the only people I’m close to are Jamaican and they’re no help at all dealing with Canadian winter depression. Actually they’re a big help but Reggae only goes so far.
Hope you’re doing well. I find it difficult sometimes swinging back and forth between visuals and text too. Barely able to function in the real time at the best of times frankly. Your kind comments help. I’m a shoe freak. Can I see yer site?
April 21st, 2008 at 11:45 am
Hi Rock,Thanks for sending through the password - I’m definitely going to check it out. We haven’t had snow here but I can definitely empathise with the effect of the long dark winter on the soul, the dark nights have been playing a dirge on mine. But…the nights are getting lighter (8pm last night and still light) and so (hopefully) is my spirit (and yours too!). Console yourself with the thought that although reggae may only go so far in helping with the winter sleep, it goes a lot further than Scottish Laments which, lets face it, are not designed to cheer and have no taste of the sun in them!
Website is here…www.wideyedesign.com and now follows the disclaimer, in that there are no shoes on it (Although I do mention them) and the work is all corporate stuff…but I do like my headers (even if they do take a while to load!)…obviously I can’t take credit for the pioneer plaque or da vinci’s man but I’m a bit happy with how the satellite turned out…There’s still loads to do (and add) to it and at some point I’ll get round to doing that. For now I’m just glad that the thing is up and running.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
i reckon if you changed your URL’s first “e” to an “i”, you could offer the world’s leading site offering cutting-edge fashion for fat jews.
April 25th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
on a serious note:
a/ nice site/service
b/ i can recommend as a partner, should you find the need to need to offer some serious user-driven UI-driven design (including DIY tech.underpinnings) and/or simple expansion of your own production speed, an old blogmate of mine who is not only sharp as a tack but who (at least in his early days; haven’t looked recently) casually creates sites which are elegant and parsimonious and which very pungently grab viewers by their match to their market. Think: google. Frank O’Connor, who moved to romania to be with his wife, and whose brandname is Seahorse Designs. http://www.seahorse-design.com/neutrino/index.php
He’s in the wrong country to make even a fraction of what he’s worth — he produces better stuff in terms of user-centric/market-centric Design than any other webdesigner i’ve seen, ever. Clean, quick, obvious, sticky. Plus he has a herebe sense of humour and of life, with a distinctly playful twist (old blog). If you’re looking for slavish conformity to webdesigner peer aesthetics, he’s not your man. “skip ’skip intro’” If you’re looking to impress the trousers off your clients’ markets and your clients, sign him up.
April 25th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
hmm. your template hides the links. click on old blog for fresh smile.
http://www.seahorse-design.com/comedic/
June 20th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
TO be fair, it’s a pretty poor post.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:53 am
hotmail not working hence commenting
can I come around sunday? sat getting rather busy I can tell all on sunday - hope you are feeling a bit better.
must start my report
m