should all blogs have a theme song?
if i take a moment to list off some theme songs that jump into my mind these are them. shall we all spend some moments reminiscing about the excellence of these catchy tunes.
macgyver (worthy of a fairly lengthy pause and a sigh of happiness please...)
mission impossible
mash
happy days
lois and clark
neighbours
what would you add?
BUT - as much as i LOVE macgyver and mission impossible - i just am not really so sure that either really fit in with my life and this blog.
so a theme for my blog. so far all i've come up with is something shortish (i'm short. my sentences are short. i don't use capital letters.). maybe i will see what my first ten posts happen to be about and decide then. good idea.
as an aside - this reminds me of the time in university when i was meant to be doing a geography lab but instead i had just discovered some little quiz site that you answered questions to and it told you what "flavour" you were in life.
i got peppermint...
Tuesday 27 August 2013
Monday 26 August 2013
going dairy-free
i never, ever, thought i would one day make a conscious, well-thought out decision to go dairy-free.
there are two reasons for this.
1: i love milk.
2: i love cheese.
i could write lengthy paragraphs explaining and expressing my passion for both milk and cheese. i could. but i will try to keep it short. i like short sentences and short thoughts after all. i doubt i have gone a day in my life without milk. this is easy to predict because i haven't gone a day in my (solid-eating) life without cereal and let's be honest - cereal just doesn't taste the same without milk. once when i was living aboard i *ran out* of milk and had to have cornflakes with water. it wasn't an enjoyable moment for me. i went out and bought milk immediately afterwards. as for cheese - well, it's my staple. it's my go-to snack. in fact, i don't snack on anything really except for cheese.
*i didn't run out - i would NEVER run out of milk - my flatmate drank it*
anyway - today is day one of going dairy-free.
i'm not doing it for me. i'm doing it for my son.
there are two reasons for this.
1: i love milk.
2: i love cheese.
i could write lengthy paragraphs explaining and expressing my passion for both milk and cheese. i could. but i will try to keep it short. i like short sentences and short thoughts after all. i doubt i have gone a day in my life without milk. this is easy to predict because i haven't gone a day in my (solid-eating) life without cereal and let's be honest - cereal just doesn't taste the same without milk. once when i was living aboard i *ran out* of milk and had to have cornflakes with water. it wasn't an enjoyable moment for me. i went out and bought milk immediately afterwards. as for cheese - well, it's my staple. it's my go-to snack. in fact, i don't snack on anything really except for cheese.
*i didn't run out - i would NEVER run out of milk - my flatmate drank it*
anyway - today is day one of going dairy-free.
i'm not doing it for me. i'm doing it for my son.
Sunday 25 August 2013
thinking forward
it all began ten years ago to this very day (which was totally unplanned and therefore a rather amusing serendipitous surprise)
blogging that is.
me blogging at least. i have no idea when other people officially started to blog. probably long before that i imagine.
anyway, ten years ago in 2003 i was about to embark on a journey to europe and because it was pre-facebook days, i thought this might be a handy way to keep in touch with people back home. a chance to write some stories about where life was taking me.
i had a bunch of people that left comments. nowadays you get a little tab that tells you who (supposedly) likes you and who (supposedly) is viewing your page. this was pre-that. but people could leave comments to say they read and they cared and they were watching. and they did. though these seem to have long disappeared into cyber-space when i glance back.
anyway - to cut a long story short, you can find that very first post, written on the 25th august 2003 here the adventures of bex if you feel like walking down my memory lane. or if you have something really important to do and need a good procrastination tool.
i kept it up. blogging that is. off and on. it was pretty easy when i was in europe but gradually dwindled as the years passed by.
but then one day i had this thought that maybe i should try again. actually i had this thought a bunch of times as my most recent (recent is not actually recent though) posts mention. the problem is that to sign into my blog i needed to use my old email account that used my maiden name. now if you are anything like me, you will have a bunch of tabs open in firefox and one of those tabs will be your email account. and how incredibly frustrating it is to have to keep signing in and out every time i wanted to write a new post.
hence here we are. farewelling one set of adventures and beginning some new ones.
let's see where it takes us.
blogging that is.
me blogging at least. i have no idea when other people officially started to blog. probably long before that i imagine.
anyway, ten years ago in 2003 i was about to embark on a journey to europe and because it was pre-facebook days, i thought this might be a handy way to keep in touch with people back home. a chance to write some stories about where life was taking me.
i had a bunch of people that left comments. nowadays you get a little tab that tells you who (supposedly) likes you and who (supposedly) is viewing your page. this was pre-that. but people could leave comments to say they read and they cared and they were watching. and they did. though these seem to have long disappeared into cyber-space when i glance back.
anyway - to cut a long story short, you can find that very first post, written on the 25th august 2003 here the adventures of bex if you feel like walking down my memory lane. or if you have something really important to do and need a good procrastination tool.
i kept it up. blogging that is. off and on. it was pretty easy when i was in europe but gradually dwindled as the years passed by.
but then one day i had this thought that maybe i should try again. actually i had this thought a bunch of times as my most recent (recent is not actually recent though) posts mention. the problem is that to sign into my blog i needed to use my old email account that used my maiden name. now if you are anything like me, you will have a bunch of tabs open in firefox and one of those tabs will be your email account. and how incredibly frustrating it is to have to keep signing in and out every time i wanted to write a new post.
hence here we are. farewelling one set of adventures and beginning some new ones.
let's see where it takes us.
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