The Reclaimation

Welcome to my second attempt at this blog... seeing as I lost interest in it (many years ago) after about 10 posts. So, I hereby reclaim my blog. This time, there is no specific focus. Just going to write about my life and stuff that interests me. PS. Thanks to FreeloadingPhill for the inspiration.


Here goes... what's happening with me at the moment:


Bun in the oven

I'm pregnant, for the second time. Expecting my next "bundle of joy" in September. I was really 'morning sick' (from morn till night) until about 5 days ago. Then it just suddenly stopped. Same happened last time, except not till I reached the 14 week mark. This time, it stopped around 9 weeks. Yippee! (Still utterly exhausted though).

Me (and my tree) in the oven

I nearly died in the recent heatwave: three days in a row of horrid, awful, unfathomably hot weather: 43, 44 and 45 degrees respectively. (OK I exaggerate a bit on the 'nearly died' part, but I did nearly collapse when waiting for a tram home from work on Friday in 45 degree heat - pregnancy and heat waves do not mix).
The tree in my back yard died in the heatwave. It was planted in March and had been growing so well... then a few days ago, I watched as its leaves turned from green to brown over a few hours.

Cake in the oven

I've just had a birthday, so even though I've just aged another day in the past 24 hours, I feel like I have got a whole year older, *sigh*
Still, it was one of the best birthdays I have had in a long time. StompyDad's birthday is two days before mine and usually I have to share the occasion with him, but this year he is overseas so I got to have my birthday all to myself. Deepspice, BallFiend and I had crepes for brunch with Gran and GrandPaul, then BBQ for dinner at DesignerSis and Wigward's along with CutLuce and DesignerMonkey for some excellent company. I even got a birthday cake, store-bought courtesy of my sister though - not from her oven. (It is still way too hot for baking! Though I suppose some poor sucker somewhere had to bake it.) Unfortunately it was too windy to light the candles, but it was good regardless.
The only disappointment was the distinct lack of presents. I love getting presents! I received a necklace from Deepspice, and a book from my StompyDad. Hopefully something else might be forthcoming... my sisters did hint.

What is a Swamp...

When I think of a swamp, I think of a muddy space in the middle of nowhere... dark and forbidding (sort of like this). The sort of place you have to walk through to visit the haunted house in a Kthulhu story or to venture through during a fanasty adventure. So, a swamp is a place that is not very inviting and (unfortunately) in modern times is likely to be a dumping ground for junk and rubbish.

But a swamp is ecologically significant... it's a place where organic matter breaks down and re-enters the cycle as nutrients for other organisms. A swamp is home to all sorts of creatures that lead separate but intertwined existences; mutually co-dependant. It is an important place where new things (ideas) can be generated, on the foundations created by the old things (ideas) breaking down.

So this is my swamp, on the Web... where I can explore subjects (topics) as they take my fancy. Now, just have to wait and see what emerges from my swamp!