Girl Anachronism

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• My kid brother’s deadly feet

  Monday, April 7th, 2008

  My brother has always had a thing for fighting. When we were all little, this manifested as him chasing me and my sister around with sticks and hitting us with them, which prompted my parents to start him training in Taekwondo (before starting kindergarten!) and get him a set of real, albeit padded, nunchaku as [...]

• Ouch

  Thursday, March 20th, 2008

  I have done so much cooking and cleaning of the house over the past three weeks that my right shoulder has become ridiculously stiff and heavy and doing as little as holding a glass of water now causes immense pain.
  Overkill? Perhaps, but the fact is that my family have come to rely on me so [...]

• Lazy siblings

  Sunday, February 17th, 2008

  Mom has been ill this past week with some virus that’s fucking with her nervous system. She’s almost through the course of drugs prescribed, and getting a little better, but now my father has been felled with some other illness, and consequently both are bedridden most of the day.
  Whilst I don’t bear any ill will [...]

• The biggest sook in the world

  Monday, December 3rd, 2007

   

  We had some unseasonally spectacular torrential downpour today, which Mr Woofy wasn’t too happy about…

• When one door closes, another one opens

  Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

  Well, so “they” say anyway. All I know is that tomorrow is my last ever day at H, after 27 months under their wings, and I’m nervous as all hell.
  Oh god, what am I going to do with my life? Who the crud knows??
  I feel so bloody unsure about my future that it’s making my [...]