http://not-quite-human.net Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:50:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What is it with teenagers and their unwavering insistence upon doing the exact opposite to all the life expectations you've spent years and years heaping upon them? When I was pregnant with Char I was fairy certain she was going to grow up to save the world. I didn't know how ... http://not-quite-human.net/index.php/2009/12/10/teen-angst-and-other-stories/ This morning we saw Char off on a bus to Marton. We’ve rented out her room for $60 a week to a Japanese exchange student and hope that in a few weeks time we’ll have made back the damage she’s incurred on us in therapy sessions. So, good luck Jenny, ... http://not-quite-human.net/index.php/2009/07/12/our-nest-is-half-empty-the-time-for-biscuit-is-upon-us/ A few weeks back, my daughter (the eldest one) went to her school's Athletics Day at a public domain.  For this event everyone dressed up in costume, so there were vampires, devils, smurfs, oompa loompas, cowgirls... You get the point.  Unfortunately a passerby took the toy-gun toting cowgirls a bit too ... http://not-quite-human.net/index.php/2009/03/13/drop-the-cowgirl-hats-we-have-you-surrounded/ Although sometimes I do feel a little like the bug-eyed walking dead these days.  Certainly look like one.  Seriously, I think I've aged a lifetime since the Lilybug was born.  My mother kindly told me I look haggard, the last time she was over.  She also told me I need to brush ... http://not-quite-human.net/index.php/2008/12/04/relax-people-rumours-of-my-zombie-conversion-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/  Whoops! I've been a little late in coming in here and showing off the latest addition to our crazy family, but... After 5 years of contemplating, 41 weeks in the baking, and a 12+ hour labour, THE WORZEL can now be unveiled! Born on 4 Feb, seven excruitatingly long days late, and ... http://not-quite-human.net/index.php/2008/04/17/meet-my-baby-shaped-bubble-of-gas/ Yeah, it was a false alarm. http://not-quite-human.net/index.php/2008/01/29/two-words-bowel-cramps/ Have decided that now is a good time to renew layout, but in the midst of this I'm experiencing some of the worst pain I've ever had since giving birth to Char. I think The Worzel is trying to kill me. Periodically, someone in the household dares to ask if I'm in ... http://not-quite-human.net/index.php/2008/01/25/bungy-jumping-with-a-fistful-of-spinal-cord/ Yup, I'm still carting around this little Worzel inside me, and despite how much I've quacked on about hoping she'll come a tad early, I'm now keeping my fingers crossed that she'll hold off on arriving until after Monday.  I have plans to go to the pools on Monday.  The ... http://not-quite-human.net/index.php/2008/01/16/im-a-lazy-sloth-oh-and-we-have-a-name/ It's 12am, hot and stuffy as hell and my feet are so swollen they feel like great puffy clubs. My feet are usually kinda long and bony, and my toes long and skinny. Now, even my ankle bones have well and truly disappeared and my toes are like chubs. Meh. Pregnancy. I'm ... http://not-quite-human.net/index.php/2008/01/10/urgh-cant-sleeeeeep/ We're a family who are fantastic for doing things at the last minute.  For months I've griped about getting The Worzel's room ready, and yet until a week ago we've done nothing much about it.  Up until a week ago, the spare room remained filled with Jarrod's speedway memorabilia and his ... http://not-quite-human.net/index.php/2008/01/08/get-this-child-out-of-me-already/