Coming soon...me actually reading me friends Journals!

...said the Ageing Hippy.

I suppose distance lends enchantment to the view. I don't suppose I would like the crowds and the mud. But there are so many other things.

We can't afford it anyway and I don't know that Pod would cope with the lack of sanitary arrangements.

Womad weekend I am going away with Tim and Gillian (yay!) and Buddha Field only sells weekend tickets, so I think maybe no festivals for us again this year.

On the other hand, Gillian, Tim and I are going to Wells, which should be fun. It will be after Gillian gets back from Vancouver and comes down to Bath. It will be over a year since I have seen either of them. On the other hand, I do speak to Gillian most weeks - it's Tim who is hard to keep in touch with.

Doll news: All being well, I am buying a nude Masher from someone. I have paid them the bulk of the money already. The last few weeks have caused me to do some serious thinking. I'm very grateful for all the support I've had from friends. The re-appearance of the Bupster cheered me enormously.

I am so much happier now. I got a replacement pureskin body for Annat from Fanny on Den of Angels. The body arrived today, so as soon as we got back from our walk, I hastened to pop Annat's head on top.

I didn't realise, but the body, which came from SD Mimi, has the H-02 spread hands, which were what I wanted all along. I put Annat into an outfit from Kasiotfur (which is really for SD13, but never mind) and a wig from Bibish. She looks good, though I am not sure about the dark brown glass eyes she is currently wearing.

I'll have to pop some photos up...anyway the sequel is that there are now THREE dolls, one head and one body. So things have improved. The head (Hedy) won't get a body until the twigLIMBS are done, which is something that I am looking forward to tremendously. From the photos I have seen, I definitely feel it is worth the wait.

Other doll machinations: a whiteskin Soom Gena head for my SD13 body, which I am not sure about, and a Minimee head from dechanique (which will need a body). These arrangements are quite fluid...I do not yet know whether I will keep the Soom Gena head when I get it. I am very excited about the Minimee head, but dechanique has got her finals, poor soul, so there will be a bit of a wait there.

Note for purists: the Anais in the avatar is the wrong one XD. My Anais is no. 1, with a different default wig etcetera. Yeah.

Sometimes, I really wish I still had Sasha - the actual limited Sasha, that is.

I just sold my F16 BW head to someone on DoA, and now I'm advertising for another one. The trouble is, for various reasons I have always been such a restless doll owner (Revolving Doll Association).

I suppose the other idea at the back of my mind is a quest for an FCS-type boy - maybe with the new F-28 head.

Anyway, if anyone knows of...or comes across...any snow-skin F16 heads knocking around...please let me know.

Williams was feeling rather sad...

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I am a silly bean...
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Just some stuff...
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I got this doll from Cenarius on DoA. First shots of him in the nudie with otokke and Pomme. He's my new Yuda...



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Ok. It's the New Year.
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I've just done me writefantastic blog du jour. Which was about giving up smoking. We have just managed a complete week with no ciggies.

I have to say, it has been pretty dire. LOL I don't want to moan on about it, as we have had nicotine replacement therapy and lots of support from all kinds of people. It's really that all the stuff that was bugging you already pops up again and hits you smartly on the nose, like a rake in the grass.

Feeling insecure about your writing career? BAM!

Anxious about your friendships and professional relationships? SPLAT!

What you realise is that the ciggies didn't make you feel any better. But they were a kind of crutch that helped see you through the difficult bits.

So yes, you do feel better in many ways, but life can still be sodden awful and difficult to deal with.

Ok, you knew that.

I always forget this and think that people are disapproving of ME and preoccupied with ME when in fact everyone has to deal with their own shit (in the broadest sense). So what I say and do probably impinges to an infinitesimal degree and may cause no more than a brief irritation (damn, it's that pesky Jessica again). Like, quite a lot of people seem to be ill right now?

(wanders off vaguely...)

Currently reading Them: adventures with extremists by Jon Ronson.

In the bath.

The Stop Smoking Campaign (or is that just pain?)
Oh Gawd. This is absolutely bloody awful.

Well, yesterday wasn't too bad, though Stephen got sick in the morning due to overdose of nicotine.

At the moment, both of us are just dying for a fag. It would just be so good. Light up - inhale - breath.

If you have not smoked, you have never known this pleasure.

Of course, when you're on 40 a day (as we were) you're probably not getting it 99% of the time. And ok, everything smells like shit. When you look at the stuff that adheres to the walls, it occurs to you: Jesus, that's what it looks like inside my lungs.

I think I'm going to do some cleaning. I can't face the washing at the moment. Which is silly, because it really isn't difficult with a washing machine AND a tumble drier.

I must clean. I must scrub, polish and inhale ionic surfactants.

We stopped today. Haven't smoked since about 10am this morning.

Keep thinking - must have a fag - and then remember I can't.

Happy Thanksgiving to those as celebrates it!

Tomorrow.

We've got the patches and the inhalers and the lozenges.

Lots of sugar-free gum.

We saw the pharmacist today and we have another appointment in a week's time.

Help!

I oughtn't to be writing this.
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What do you call someone who arrives on 31st October?

otokke and Thorsten have been waiting patiently for her to arrive.

Ottokke: what are you holding, Thorsten?


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Hello again,

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who replied to my last post^^
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I swore I wouldn't do any more depresso posts and here it is - another depresso post!

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I am really sorry - I'm very behind with replying to things again. We have been installing a new broadband connection this weekend (which worked surprisingly well) and then everything else went rather pear-shaped, as life has a habit of doing from time to time.

Now we're in recovery mode - S is doing the Observer cryptic crossword and I'm on the internet (hi!). I've just changed my email address as well (oh goodie) with all that that entails.

The excellent news is that I've had an email from my travelling nephew in Bolivia. I never did South America in my youth, but as a person with no progeny, it's very cheering to have a nephew who likes doing the same things I did! He and his girlfriend started in the States and then headed south...and sent us an Oaxaca blanket as a wedding pressie!

This is a shortie, so I won't put in an LJ cut. Must take more doll photos. Emma now has a body and a really eye-piercing yellow tracksuit (ouch!). Yuki is being traded, despite his new face-up being much better. I am still waiting for his head to come back from Spain. Have sold Miso to...you know who you are! ;) And have got a Souldoll Paris on layaway. The Yuki trade is a part-trade for a Unoa B-el and I am VERY excited! I think I may get a Classic Narae for him with a Custom face-up. I think the main prob with my original Narae was that, though beautiful, she had the default face-up (VERY basic) and NO eyelashes!

Also...whisper it...I am a secret admirer of Naomi and Grim. Somehow the petite girl with the large yet gentle boyfriend is very touching. Aw. I'm an old romantic sucker. LOL