As the jingle bells recede into the night…

Hello! Firstly, thank you to Mental Nurse for giving me the “Leonard Cohen Award for Best Mood Disorder Blog”! I am honoured, humble and horny. So yes, thank you very much.  It’s always nice to be appreciated.
I did not die in an aerial inferno and am now back in London.  Sighing shopkeepers are packing away [...]

Happy Christmas

This is me and Predator.  He’s enjoying a mince pie.
Rob and I had our own Christmas last night, full of tasty food and giggling.  It was, being us, slightly farcical- the DVDs I bought him decided to be temperamental and only played in black and white and we spent hours on a game only to [...]

Christmas Cheer

I hate this blog sometimes!
I’m off to a Christmas party in a minute, but, before I go, here’s the wonderful Blackadder’s Christmas Carol to tickle you with some Christmas spirit.

Ssssssssssssh. I had a nervous breakdown.

I am amazingly cold.  Genuinely shivering.  I hate having crap heating.  I am having kittens over the forthcoming electric bill.  
I also realise that these days I often don’t post about how I’m currently doing, well, not in any detail.  It’s just because winter makes me reflective.  And regardless of what you might think given [...]

Quick! Before it runs off!

Carry on with my previous post, I am enjoying your comments!
I seem to be in a great mood today!  And I just had a dance to, “Oh, What a Glorious Thing!” by Akira the Don.  Then followed it up with, “Absolute Beginners” by David Bowie.  Ba-ba-ba-woooooooooooom.  And I listened to, “Under Pressure” and nearly fell [...]

I had this dream in which I was repeatedly slapping someone called Christina in the face- what does it all mean?

(Christina has responded- see comments for what she says)
I’m, ahem, mildly critical of New Age-y pseudoscience.  It depresses me that “experts” like Gillian McKeith find their way onto our TV screens and peddle their non-science to the masses.  And today something came to my attention that I found hilarious.  But first…
It might have slipped your [...]

Two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl

I really have very little to say for myself at the moment.  It is Brendan’s first anniversary tomorrow. 

Facepalm

The past few days have reminded me why I don’t drink. 
 

Gosh! A “Sixteen Things About Me”meme!

Anyone else feel that we’re approaching end times?
Here’s a cartoon to cheer you up!

I didn’t draw this, but I’ve been laughing at it for about half an hour.
Today, in rampant productivity news, I’ve finished my Christmas shopping by getting Rob his Christmas present (tickets for Blur in July.  Nope, not a surprise).  And I finally [...]

BDD: I hate my brain

What follows is a sad rant about body dysmorphic disorder and my ridiculous brain, and is one of those fly by night posts that will probably be deleted.  

Teetotaller eats dirt

I keep falling over.  
I’m not drunk.  Alas, that avenue of pleasure has been closed off on me.  It’s medication.  I fell onto one of the cats earlier.  The noise he made was extraordinary; a combination between a squeak and a yelp.
This is why I’m very glad I don’t meet the world in the morning. [...]

Privilege

Here is a little interview of Rob on PopArt.  Hurrah for Rob!
I’m drowning in e-mail right now so if I haven’t responded to yours, bear with me.  My brain is also not working very well at the moment, and I have a lot on my mind, so it’s taken a bit of a back seat.
I’ve [...]

I was so typical a child of my age, that in my perversity, and for that perversity’s sake, I turned the good things of my life to evil, and the evil things of my life to good.

Edited:  Hurrah, it’s 9am on a Sunday and I have just woken up after going for a “nap” yesterday.
No mix tape or comedy this weekend, and I haven’t slept so I have been reading various things for six hours, taking photos and writing, in a bid to occupy my mind, which is racing a bit. [...]

Oh I hate to say goodbye

Appointment

More naval gazing. I really don’t feel like writing today but I’m noting this down as I tend to forget things otherwise due to my appalling memory.  It’s taken me about two hours to write this as my head is up my arse. It’s for my benefit so it’s going under a “Read More”.

Whoops!

I just called a shop assistant, “Mummy”. Firstly, yes, I am a twenty year old woman who refers to her mother as, “mummy”.
I said, “Thanks, mummy” when she gave me my change. I have no idea why, my mind was elsewhere.
If only she thought she’d misheard! But no, she said, “I’m not your mother!”
If only [...]

Testing the Theory of, “Do I really have a mental illness?”

Hello to new visitors!  The Radio 4 post about blogging is here.

It is so cold.  All over the internet people are boasting that it’s snowing.  Spare a thought of us in the rainy urban flatlands whose freezing isn’t softened by the joy of snow.  I have a pair of fingerless gloves on that my sister [...]

So!

I decided to write a new post for this, as the previous post was getting ridiculously lengthy and was about something entirely different. Thank you for your comments on that post!

So, that’s my voice then. I was crazily apprehensive due to my tendency to ramble (and I’d just woken up and was still feeling drugged [...]

Radio 4, siblings and housing woes

A reminder that I will be on BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind tonight at 9pm, repeated tomorrow at 4.30pm and you can listen again here after the broadcast.  You’ll also hear Mandy, as we were interviewed together (though apart, she was in Luton.  It was like talking to a hallucination.  Maybe it was [...]

After psychosis: an article I wrote for BBC Ouch

Edit:  If you have e-mailed me today using the “Contact Me” page, it hasn’t reached me, I’d made a mistake yesterday editing the post and the email address was wrong.  Sorry!  It’s fixed now.
Quick post, since I am taking my sister on a touristy jaunt around the capital in a sec…
BBC Ouch is the BBC’s [...]