Shine shoes
Hem pants
Package for A’s books Done - now to wrap & send Done!
Box for Meghan’s things Done OMG, at last! Now to fill rest of box & send
New headphones Mum offered me near-new ones.
Spare set of summer sheets
New Moon (organise tickets)
Freeze gym membership
Change mobile phone company... but who to?

So, *coughs* Anyone want to come with me to see 2012 on tight-arse Tuesday? Say, Carousel 7:15 session?

Legal ceremonies for same-sex couples

The ACT Legislative Assembly has passed a Greens bill allowing same-sex couples to recognise their relationships with a legal ceremony...The bill will become law in about two weeks.

Also: ABC poll
Should the Federal Government overturn the ACT same-sex legal ceremony bill?
Yes 28%
No 72%
764 votes counted

*happy little smile*

Okay, as the mirror to my Johari Window, I offer my Nohari Window. Again, be as anon or as known as you wish, it's all about learning what messages I'm actually putting out into the world.

How it works: I've chosen six terms from a grid to describe myself. You can go here to choose six terms you'd use to describe me, identifying yourself or not, as you wish. Then we see how much my self-perception matches what I'm putting out there in the world. *grins*

I know it's way short notice, but anyone want my ticket? ($80 bucks, generously does not include costs of 'handling' or petrol costs for you to pick it up *grins wryly*)

I impulse bought, but the thought of staying home is far more appealing for various reasons, and Ticketmaster, naturally enough, appears to be glad to accept impulse purchases, but not impulse refunds.

Okay, I'm trying to print a single A3 page in Publisher. I've selected the A3 Portrait (29.7 x 42cm) option, typed in my text which appeared to be all on one page and just fine, but when I go to print preview it displays as spread over four sheets. wtf? Any ideas?

In sum:
Selecting A4 Portrait gets a display of one sheet in Print Preview, but A3 displays 4 sheets, and insists on printing four, and setting margins only understood to itself. Help?

(Note: I can't use Word, alas, because of font issues -- I grabbed a font from the internet that watermarks in Word, but not in Publisher or Photoshop, thankfully)

Excellent points made about the original trial here.

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
- Dr Howard Thurman

I will design and knit at least one pair of socks, and enter them in the 2010 Royal Show.

"I wouldn't have the first idea how to wield a frog sexually!"

My mood's been all over the place today: anxiety, bad self-talk and resurgence of the reflux, and it's all happening with a whole day buffering between me and Monday. On the other hand, I drove out to a hospital I had no idea was down the road, had a blood test and stopped by the shops for a paper and processed protein, all utterly painless and without too much forethought (this is worth noting). There was also discussion and love with samvara, though, which helped. And there are baby things!

Rescued baby duckling! and Baby Mongoose! Seriously, watch that video. If you don't spend it going "D'awwww!" you have no soul, cos I said so. :P

Given the fabulous discussions last night on homebirth etc, I figured this was a good time to repost this:

I found this wandering through flists' of flists:



Vid by sdwolfpup that put a stupidly happy smile on my face. Excellent, excellent use of still images.

In the order iTunes sorted them:
( Ani DiFranco, Broken Social Scene, Dixie Chicks, Mountain Goats )

Dear Kamikaze remix person,

I don't know if you'll ever see this, but on the off-chance, I figured I'd write and say 'hi, I realise in retrospect I haven't so much given you a fic to remix as an idea to play with'. Or at least, I hope that's how you're viewing it... To that end, have fun with it! Or write something deeply angsty. Hey, that's fun, right? *coughs*

Take it wherever your muses decide to run away with it. Which is sort of the idea of remix, but sometimes it helps to hear that. *grins*