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Mock Duck
Heavens above, can this sticky stuff really be love?
Created on 2004-01-15 08:30:15 (#1894908), last updated 2009-07-13
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Basic Info| Birthdate: | 1968-11-09 |
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| Location: | Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom |
| Website: | Draw Anyway |
BioImportant information in the event of my death
Once I was a self-aware young thing who dyed her hair every colour of the rainbow and dressed in jumble sale clothes. I used to say - in that way that young people say, when they think they know everything - that I wouldn't have kids until I had lived a little myself.
Then I spent twenty years or so living, but not what you would call large. Really, I just took that long to understand how the world works a bit.
Like everyone, I thought I was destined to become famous, through acting, or cartooning, or writing, or something. Instead, I ended up editing a website and feeling grateful that the internet was invented, otherwise, how would I ever have found my niche?
I do love words. I do also love the Internet. The advent of social networking - blogging in particular -has been the cherry on the cake of my life; a saviour to my sanity, too. Working life is fine: I am allowed to exercise creativity and explore new technologies. I have several colleagues from many countries of the world. In my daily five to ten minutes of free time, I write for Babygadget, do freelance copywriting for anyone who wants my words, and wonder when the house will ever get cleaned.
And eventually I realised that waiting any longer to have a life would actually put me out of the running to have any baby at all, so in January 2005, I had one - a girl named (for the purposes of this journal) Item. Fortunately in the meantime I had met and married The Boy (a long and disastrous series of laughable relationships was also a factor in late motherhood. The Boy, however, is handsome, funny and kind).
Now I am a set of modern cliches: a full-time working mum, an older mum, and the main breadwinner for the family. The Boy currently stays at home full time and does the playgroup circuit.
Item is - shall we say, a revelation? By virtue of sleeping never, she has probably queered the pitch for any subsequent children. Previously this journal has been largely about house selling, house buying, my job, and living in Brighton in the UK. If toddlers and websites aren't your thing, you could still stick around: I'm sure normal service will be resumed one day.
A note on Friending:
My life is so busy, and simply by keeping a journal since 2004, I've amassed so many friends I can hardly keep up. Please do not be offended if I don't friend you back. It may also be because my entries often relate to quite personal things. A scrape with a troll-type piece of scum made me very cautious and now I do lock my posts. If you live in Brighton, I will probably be paranoid that you know my friends, colleagues or boss, and so I will exercise some care...
Hmm, well, that's more than you need to know about me. Now on with the show.
Google talk a Google Hack by Douwe Osinga
Once I was a self-aware young thing who dyed her hair every colour of the rainbow and dressed in jumble sale clothes. I used to say - in that way that young people say, when they think they know everything - that I wouldn't have kids until I had lived a little myself.
Then I spent twenty years or so living, but not what you would call large. Really, I just took that long to understand how the world works a bit.
Like everyone, I thought I was destined to become famous, through acting, or cartooning, or writing, or something. Instead, I ended up editing a website and feeling grateful that the internet was invented, otherwise, how would I ever have found my niche?
I do love words. I do also love the Internet. The advent of social networking - blogging in particular -has been the cherry on the cake of my life; a saviour to my sanity, too. Working life is fine: I am allowed to exercise creativity and explore new technologies. I have several colleagues from many countries of the world. In my daily five to ten minutes of free time, I write for Babygadget, do freelance copywriting for anyone who wants my words, and wonder when the house will ever get cleaned.
And eventually I realised that waiting any longer to have a life would actually put me out of the running to have any baby at all, so in January 2005, I had one - a girl named (for the purposes of this journal) Item. Fortunately in the meantime I had met and married The Boy (a long and disastrous series of laughable relationships was also a factor in late motherhood. The Boy, however, is handsome, funny and kind).
Now I am a set of modern cliches: a full-time working mum, an older mum, and the main breadwinner for the family. The Boy currently stays at home full time and does the playgroup circuit.
Item is - shall we say, a revelation? By virtue of sleeping never, she has probably queered the pitch for any subsequent children. Previously this journal has been largely about house selling, house buying, my job, and living in Brighton in the UK. If toddlers and websites aren't your thing, you could still stick around: I'm sure normal service will be resumed one day.
A note on Friending:
My life is so busy, and simply by keeping a journal since 2004, I've amassed so many friends I can hardly keep up. Please do not be offended if I don't friend you back. It may also be because my entries often relate to quite personal things. A scrape with a troll-type piece of scum made me very cautious and now I do lock my posts. If you live in Brighton, I will probably be paranoid that you know my friends, colleagues or boss, and so I will exercise some care...
Hmm, well, that's more than you need to know about me. Now on with the show.
Google talk a Google Hack by Douwe Osinga
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