Cookie vortex

You can't tell, but this biscuit has been zapped in the microwave until the precise moment when the chocolate chips are about to melt and the whole thing is about to disintegrate. Ooo, it's good.
I would give you the recipe, but the nice lady with the hair net at the supermarket wouldn't spill it.

Musical chairs

Currently listening to...
Pikelet. (www.myspace.com/ovalyn)

*Sorry, I can't get the links working. I'll figure it out soon enough.*

No longer listening to...
Josh Pyke.
His appearance on a certain show has left me a little dismayed.

I'm pretty sure I forgot to mention...

... I'm having another baby. And fairly soon. As in, September soon.
Check out the cool counter thingy at the bottom of the page. Sinclair the turtle is going to count down the days for me. And it's no coincidence he's a turtle. This pregnancy is stretching on forever.
I've negelcted to say anything because apart from the actual fact of having a baby, there's been nothing to celebrate. I've been crippled with hyperemises (the devil's version of morning sickness) and have spent the last 5 months vomiting up everything and anything, and even nothing. I haven't had the strength to get excited. All strength has been channelled into making sure I land the projectile's in the toilet bowl (and I haven't even been very good at that. Just ask Amba, who has been renamed ''mop boy''.)
But I'm getting better slowly, so am starting to get excited. Now that I'm starting to look preggas instead of just like I've had a really good lunch it's getting harder to ignore the fact there is another little one on the way.
Oh giddy gesus, what the heck have I got myself into?
(and that oh so life like photo is actually what the baby looks like now. Scary. Could get a role as an extra in an alien movie.)

I spent Saturday in Melbourne enjoying the blustery weather, burnt croissants and great Italian bakery treats. Miles and I caught up with two good friends. Despite all of us leading drastically different lives we still get on like the proverbial house on fire.
I do however, seem to feel increasingly alienated from people, and friends, at the moment. Maybe it's the cold weather making me feel a bit fenced off. Probably.
It's happening at uni at the moment too. I just can't seem to connect with anyone in the class. A glaring problem is that I have little to nothing in common with any of them, but usually this wouldn't bother me. I'd trundle along getting as enthusiastic as I could about whatever it was they were all nattering about. But I can't fake it at the moment. I couldn't give a rats backside, and unfortunately my face gives me away. I've taken to burying myself in the work and pretending I'm super busy so I don't have to bother.
On the flip side however, I then get all down and out because no one talks to me much, and I'm not invited to the pub like everyone else, and no one ever notices when I'm missing.
Boy am I whinging today!
Get over yourself mofo.

On a brighter, and more interesting note, here's another mixed tape I made recently for a friend who put in a request.

1. Take what you take - Lily Allen
2. That Time - Regina Spektor
3. This is It - Ryan Adams
4. Science is Golden - The Grates
5. Come on! Feel the Illinoise! - Sufjan Stevens
6. Love I don't have to love - Bright eyes
7. Nothing much happens - Ben Lee
8. Hospital Beds - Cold War kids
9. I've got you and you've got me - New Buffalo
10. Sha Sha - Ben Kweller
11. Crosses - Jose Gonzalez
12 Maybe not - Cat Power
13. Flame Trees - Sarah Blasko
14. Hold me now - The Polyphonic Spree

While I was vacant from blog land Miles hit his first major milestone. Milestone! ha, get it? rah rah rah.

(You might need to open the comic in another window so you can read the oh-so-witty captions.)

Mixed melodies

A friend has been doing a stack of driving and needed more than Neil Diamond to keep her company. I put together this mixed tape for her (sure, it's a CD, but in my eyes it's still technically a mixed tape.)

1. Cigarettes will kill you - Ben Lee
2. Stolen Car - Beth Orton
3. Black and White town - Doves
4. This Fire - Franz Ferdinand
5. 19 20 20 - The Grates
6. Take What You Have - Lily Allen
7. On the Radio - Regina Spektor
8. Hotel Yorba - The White Stripes
9. This is It - Ryan Adams
10. Steady As She Goes - The Raconteurs
11. Come on! Feel the Illinoise! - Sufjan Stevens
12. Hold Me Now - The Polyphonic Spree.

Meet Delilah

Isn't she a dish?
She and three of her friends are my latest project.
It's just me, them and a whole lot of black embroidery cotton.