want

After reading about these two shops on a friend's blog, I so want to go there and get some Japanese cuteness for myself.
Daiso
Tokuya

Right now

I haven't been blogging much, as have a few things going on, and not really good ones, somewhat unsettling things. Combined with the fact that the internet is basically shickered for the rest of our billing cycle, I haven't been reading blogs much lately, as nothing really loads, especially the photos.
So I'll blog again when everything settles down a bit, at least Hubert and all the animals are well.

In the meantime, I've started knitting as stress release, and just finished reading a memoir by Madonna's brother, which, although he's actually gracious about everything, confirms my suspicion that she's a self-obsessed egotistical monster. Anyway, the knitting - on Friday I was left to my own devices while the fella was at the nautropath, and so I ended up in the wool shop, buying this pattern, and the wool in a musk pink shade to get started:


Not that the photo is very clear, but it's just a basic stocking stitch top...supposed to be easy. That fact didn't stop me from having to pull out everything I'd done yesterday, as I'd messed up the decreases, doing them every 4th row instead of 12th (yes looking at the directions for the wrong size.) I guess it remains to be seen if I'll finish this one (no?) but in the meantime it's keeping me busy. And I need that at the moment.

Okay

...so this made me laugh this morning.

This blog is very funny if you're fond of roller derby.

Love

Just stumbled upon this tattoo, thanks to this girl.
Love it.

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Can anyone help?

Ingrid's Haven is a non-profit cat shelter in Victoria, an hour's drive from Melbourne. Many cats and kittens areavailable for adoption ... all from death row at the pound, rescued and cared for by Ingrid until new loving homes can be found. All Haven cats and kittens are desexed, vaccinated, microchipped, wormed and flea treated. Ingrid does not accept surrenders from individuals. Ingrid's Haven is a no-kill shelter.
Ingrid needs your help right now, as she says:
"The Haven is facing some difficult times as we have been given notice on our rental property.Our landlord wants to move back in after 10 years but this has put us in an awkward position to find somewhere else to live with the cats, horses and dogs before Christmas. What will happen is yet unclear but the Haven cats are safe, I will do anything in my power to continue my shelter but I am a bit shell shocked at the moment as we are not in a poistion to buy a property but will have to find somewhere again to rent.

I urge everyone to spread the word that I need as many cats as possible to find homes before the big move as this will make it easier for all but the same rules as always apply, everlasting safe homes and the cost for the cats will remain as I still need to pay for their vet care, past and present."

If anyone can afford to donate a few dollars their way, it would be greatly appreciated.

Letters

Soldiers Writing Letters Home, originally uploaded by Smithsonian Institution.

Rereading some old posts today on here, I came across this one. It's still true.

Then whilst idly blog surfing, I found this post. Read it, it's awesome.

Then I found this project.

Facebook Snail Mail: Noel Maguigad, originally uploaded by spudart.

And so, thought I, if nothing else, I'll write some postcards, and as people have suggested, try and do this on a Friday. So that they have some Monday morning mail joy.

(Snail) Mail, originally uploaded by martinstelbrink.

Want a postcard from me? Drop me your addy at drewzel@rocketmail.com.

In the meantime, I'll try and fire some cards out to people in the universe, just so they get something tactile and pretty.

Letter Writing Can Be Fun!, originally uploaded by Emerald2810.

Tea (of course)

So further to this post, I still haven't got my cupcake tattoo, although I have decided on a design...just need to find the right place on the body to put it, and find the money to pay for it. (None of that spare at the moment.)
The other thing I want, as mentioned here, is a teapot tattoo.
A quick google for teapot tattoo gave me these examples:

A black and white one

This lovely teapot.

And this one.

None of these are actually what I'm after, but I just liked them. So my search continues...

Some happy things

...to balance out that last post, I do have some happy things from the past week:

~ "spring" cleaning the loungroom and rearranging the furniture. Hubert reckons the energy is better here now. I might even try and take a farty photo or two when the afternoon sun comes in:



~ playing with a favourite friend and having dog lurve.

[Spike and Leroy @ Holly's place]

~ a good movie

['Eat Pray Love' photos copyright big arsed movie studios or whoever]

~ borrowing lots of CDs that I want to hear from the library, including Grinderman, Washington and Funkadelic.

~ cupcakes and BBQ noms

[made by me, om nom nom]

~ the sunny weather.

...and you worry

This morning I had bad dreams. Silly really, the situation had no resemblance to my life, and I'm not sure it actually meant anything at all. But you wake up and want to cry.
And you can't shake that feeling off. I've been veging on the couch, reading blogs, looking at Facebook, and trying not to cry. And he's brought me tea, toast, potato salad, and now a cupcake. Played with the dog and been silly. I've laughed at his jokes, while tears run out of my eyes. I can't stop them.
And I worry. That I'm too hard to live with. That'll he'll get sick of it. That he'll say (just like the last one did) "I don't like living with a sad sack."
So I try and hold it in.
And I worry.

Sunny days

Nothing much to say today apart from how much I'm enjoying the current Spring weather. I like lots of warm sunshine and even a stormy night.
And here's a picture I found on Tumblr, just beause I like it.

Highway to Hell

Highway to Hell, originally uploaded by egenerica.

I nodded off during the Grand Final yesterday (boo! Collingwood!) but I sure didn't snooze during the Derby. I've given up taking (read- attempting to take) photos during a bout, so I'll just borrow one from Flickr.