pauvre monsieur kitty

if you liked kitty wigs you'll *love* international cat hats, check out the ninja balaclava too.



y'know people used to respect cats till the internet came along, it's not really surprising they're so grumpy these days.

i have a headache

the kind of splitting headache that affects your eyesight. and there's no real reason for it. i took painkillers with codeine and it had no effect. currently drinking loads of water and hoping for the best.

i also fell asleep on the train (as i do most mornings - gives me and extra 30min sleep most days :)) but this time when i woke up i really couldn't remember for a minute if i was going to work, or going home. think i am spent too much time on trains and not enough time sleeping recently. good job i am going on holiday next week.

i wish blogger linked up with live journal, i dream of a non segregated bloggiverse....

this morning i saw this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/apr/09/uk.ecolodges
and now i want to go live in the trees again. watching people swarm in and out of train stations is like watching ants. i want to live in one of those curved roof lodges pictured - somehow they remind me of olden times gypsy caravans, and i've always dreamed of owning one of those too :)

Also a totally pointless, but kind of amusing article on cloth shopping bag snobbery.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/03/ethicalliving.plasticbags
i know this to be true, my moorsbag and lovingly made patchwork bag from nerdbunny definitely have higher status against the shop ones. or is it just that they're prettier? the article makes me want a bookshop bag too. how silly. :D

**ADDED**
My garden is famous! king_prawn posted a photo of my garden in the snow on an american website. strange but true.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/04/the-view-from-8.html

comicky goodness

I have been making some very cool phone pockets recently, and as soon as i'm at my own computer i will post a photo or two. in the meantime have some comics to make you smile.
i got directed to freak angels today from another comic feed, and will be going back to read the rest once i've posted this :)

new gorgeous comic, Freak Angels. read this now!
Post-apocalyptic goth types with superpowers
http://www.freakangels.com/?p=23

Boy on a stick and Slither
the cutest political philosophers you've ever seen
http://boasas.com

Bunny
Surreal, cute, funny,
http://www.frozenreality.co.uk/comic/bunny/index.php

Little Gamers
Cute Cute Cute! geek humour, with added ninjas, whats not to love?
http://littlegamers.com

April Fools

As usual on april 1st, i forgot. and got a bit confused by certain reported stories. then woke up and went looking for the best of the april fool's articles.

The Guardian got me til i spotted the author's name. because let's face it, this is actually just the sort of thing you would expect after last week's madness.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/apr/01/7

The Metro reported BMW waging war on dogs who pee on their cars
(quoting one Lola Forpi - read it and weep anagram lovers)
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=130296&in_page_id=34

The Sun take the Apr 1 classic UFO story and bring it up to date with a Google earth twist:
http://thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article985644.ece

Speaking of Google, they really upped the ante by creating a whole site and inviting us all to join them on mars ("the open source planet").
http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html

That's all for now, as i guess i should really get *some* work done this morning.

If thats not enough for you, here's an article listing some of the best April Fool's jokes from previous years.
http://www.metro.co.uk/home/article.html?in_article_id=130213&in_page_id=1

**ADDED**: Penguin related BBC April Fools. hurrah!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qDl1aH9l4

Happy Spring!

Well, being diabetic and non-christian, easter means little more to me than an excuse for a couple of extra days off work, and confirmation that it is nearly spring. It was also the vernal equinox this week- and with the shops full of bunnies and yellow gingham its hard not to feel spring-y, even when outside is sleet and hailstorms!

i am going to visit the family later today, and in the absence of easter eggs i decided at the last minute to make some easter egg shaped cookies! aren't they cute :D

i was going to decorate them with icing and sprinkles, but the spirals came out so well i decided no to.

aisde from that, work has been keeping me very busy recently, and i've been doing clothes alterations: good for me - not so fascinating for blogland.

i'm coming on nicely with the sampler blanket and have 11 or so large unique blocks, and have even taken to making up some patterns of my own which have come out pretty well. i'll have to blog these soon.

Happy Easter / Spring / Bank holiday weekend all!

x

cakes, cards and buttons!

We had a wonderful birthday tea party last night for my bestest crochet buddy (with added wine and scrabble) and i finally got to put my cupcake obsession to good cause to make birthday cupcakes. Yum. :)


finally got to play with making button push pins today, which i'd been dying to try since reading this.
i think they came out great!


Also tonight spent some time making some pretty butterflies for birthday cards, and sewing a little rustic felt chick as i'm getting excited about the vernal equinox (not to mention two bank holidays!)

i have had so many cakes and cookies this weekend i feel like a kid after a birthday party (which i suppose i sort of am), hence not being asleep despite it approaching 1am. apparently we are due a big storm tonight, so i am hoping i don't wake up to find my basement flat flooding!

so i've been feeling low again of late. mostly i think this is to do with being off st johns wort for a few days when i ran out, combined with the joys of PMT this week.

even if thats all it is, i still feel rubbish. i feel sad and angry, and philosophical in that irritating way depressed people have of knowing without a shadow of a doubt, that all human endeavour is ultimately pointless, and the only way to cope is to surrender and live like nothing matters. how depressing. lol. i am sure it will pass by next week.

when i feel down, one of the places i seek solace and little moments of light is in craft & stationery shops. sadly at the moment, these comfort zones keep letting me down! the other day, having stood waiting to pay for some buttons in a fabric shop for 10 minutes, the girl behind the counter - having already admitted she didn't know who was next - told me to go to the back of the queue that had formed behind me. naturally i walked out, leaving the one little bit of hapiness behind unpaid for. and today, i got two little things picked out in paperchase, when we were all herded out into the street on a fire alarm.

so shopping has let me down. its a sad state of affairs indeed.

• i do have four panels for a new blanket tho.
• and a great book which is keeping me absorbed on the train (my dirty little book of stolen time by liz jensen).
• and carbs. someone bought Krispy Kreme donuts into the office today. good news indeed for a girl who forgot her breakfast.
• i am taking monday and tuesday next week off. at least one of them i have
  to work from home, but at least it means no trains, and no london.
  
• i have a massage booked for saturday afternoon. oh boy, do i owe myself that one.