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It's the end of the week, and I feel very much as if my brain is "argle blargle wargle." You see, I haven't had much sleep, and there's been a few reasons for this. They include the weather, joint pain, my cat deciding to be a LOUD conversationalist at silly o'clock in the morning, and finally, my Nano novel.

This is going to be the novel that ate L. J.'s brain, I can just tell. I've hit the point in my targeted wordcount that I have to keep extending it. I'm over 75K words now, and this morning, mum said to me, "Are you nearly finished it?"

Oh, how I laughed. LAUGHED, I tell you. And then I sighed, because the joke's on me, really, as I have to wear my fingers to the bone, typing uphill both ways in the rain and snow and drought... you know how it goes. Basically, I'm tired, so I'm a bit dramatic and a touch sleepy-hysterical, which is of course, the best time to write a LJ post! Y/Y? Y.

Anyway, I've neglected blogging for the healthy pursuit of gardening, which is more in the nature of the pursuit of agony and fear of the summer sun burning all our plants. Subsequently, two giant outdoor umbrellas are on their way, because I can't figure out anything else that works to shade everything. I've tried just about everything else, hit Gardner Google, and mum suggested the umbrellas, so that was the winner. I like the idea a lot because when it's not summer, we can fold them up and store them in the garden tool nook, so they're not out all the time.

In October, though, I had a lovely weekend visit from my good friend and fellow author, [livejournal.com profile] meredith_shayne. We went all over the Adelaide Hills and down into the Barossa Valley, bought a lot of things, tasted a lot of amazing wine, and had a great time. It's been a while since we've had the chance to hang out together, that little thing called the Tasman Sea is a bit difficult to drive over! So that was terrific, all in all.

Then in November, there was a visit from another old friend and fellow author, [livejournal.com profile] vayshti, an Adelaide expat, so we spent a lovely day together in a different part of the Adelaide Hills and then went to a brunch with some of the members of the South Australian M/M Group at a great cafe in North Adelaide called E For Ethel. (Best toasted cheese and ham and tomato sandwich I've ever eaten.)

There's been a lot of other things of the less exciting and happy kind too--I was diagnosed with acute bursitis, and had a very painful injection of corticosteroids for that, followed by long sessions with my pain clinician, aka, physiotherapist. Mum had lots of various tests and so on as well, so November has been a mixture of medical things and writing and gardening. Suffice to say, that now the garden is looking pretty amazing, and my left shoulder is achey as opposed to agonising. And I haven't yet hit the point in my book where I know I'm nearing the end.

To conclude, a couple of photos. As ever, click to see full size!

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1. Meredith and her birthday present from me--a plush Captain America shield. 2. The Giant Rocking Horse in Gumeracha, one of the places we visited when Meredith was here. 3. Robyn Walker and I, up in Mt. Torrens in the hills. 4. The quirky awesomeness that is E For Ethel cafe.


More later! Hope everyone is well. <3
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Yesterday, [livejournal.com profile] minnie13 and I went to Melbourne to see the Tutankhamun exhibition at the Melbourne Museum. We were only in Melbourne for twelve hours and all in all it was a great day, even if my entire body is still complaining in pain.

We got to Melbourne around 11am and I tweeted, but alas, Vodafail being epic fail, did not deign to share my tweets with the world, so, they aren't there. Lovely. Anyway, it was grey and overcast for most of the day and in the evening it got really cold, so it was good to get home and rug up and pass out. We had dinner at Lord of the Fries, which I loved, it was delicious. There's photos galore, so enough rambling, time for piccies.

Exhibition )

Tut's actual mask and sarcophagus was not part of the exhibit and the exhibit was less about him than it was him and his family. The sarcophabus was that of his half-sister, and the golden mask with the linen that's blackened on it was also hers. The diadems and statues were in his tomb, as were the shabti and canopic jars, and the beautiful ornamental dagger.

Although we'd pre-bought our tickets, the wait to get into the exhibit was half an hour. They basically coralled people in groups of 30-50 and sent them in in ten minute intervals. The result was small spaces with too many people and so you couldn't really get a good look at some of the artefacts. Plus, there was a school group being noisy and one 'clever clogs' thought he could get away with taking photos but he was ousted by security who confiscated his camera and kicked him out. The shop at the end of the exhibit was hideously overpriced, so I didn't buy anything, although [livejournal.com profile] minnie13 bought a mini-mummy and some Scarab beetles. And then we went outside away from the huuuuuuuge crowds and sat down to rest our very weary legs and feet.

And now for non-exhibition photos, these ones I did take.

Pics )

And that concludes our day in Melbourne!

Also, Yoo Seung Jun crooning in my ears blasting on my iPod makes for awesome falling asleep on the plane music.
misslj_author: (Reading - outdoors)
Yesterday, [livejournal.com profile] minnie13 and I went to Melbourne to see the Tutankhamun exhibition at the Melbourne Museum. We were only in Melbourne for twelve hours and all in all it was a great day, even if my entire body is still complaining in pain.

We got to Melbourne around 11am and I tweeted, but alas, Vodafail being epic fail, did not deign to share my tweets with the world, so, they aren't there. Lovely. Anyway, it was grey and overcast for most of the day and in the evening it got really cold, so it was good to get home and rug up and pass out. We had dinner at Lord of the Fries, which I loved, it was delicious. There's photos galore, so enough rambling, time for piccies.

Exhibition )

Tut's actual mask and sarcophagus was not part of the exhibit and the exhibit was less about him than it was him and his family. The sarcophabus was that of his half-sister, and the golden mask with the linen that's blackened on it was also hers. The diadems and statues were in his tomb, as were the shabti and canopic jars, and the beautiful ornamental dagger.

Although we'd pre-bought our tickets, the wait to get into the exhibit was half an hour. They basically coralled people in groups of 30-50 and sent them in in ten minute intervals. The result was small spaces with too many people and so you couldn't really get a good look at some of the artefacts. Plus, there was a school group being noisy and one 'clever clogs' thought he could get away with taking photos but he was ousted by security who confiscated his camera and kicked him out. The shop at the end of the exhibit was hideously overpriced, so I didn't buy anything, although [livejournal.com profile] minnie13 bought a mini-mummy and some Scarab beetles. And then we went outside away from the huuuuuuuge crowds and sat down to rest our very weary legs and feet.

And now for non-exhibition photos, these ones I did take.

Pics )

And that concludes our day in Melbourne!

Also, Yoo Seung Jun crooning in my ears blasting on my iPod makes for awesome falling asleep on the plane music.
misslj_author: (Writing)
I cannot recommend these things enough. I'm sharing the joy far and wide because they are truly awesome and amazing. Never have my feet been so toasty warm and as it's very, very cold here in Adelaide right now, the arrival of my own pair today was very timely!

Gah, I know I sound like an advertisement, but I'm not, I swear! LOL! I am a very happy customer though, these things are fabulous. I will never have cold feet again, which is amazing to me because I've had cold feet most of my life and find it very frustrating. I know, poor circulation is the cause, but now I have these fuzzy black cuddlee feet thingies, no more cold feet for me, huzzah!

Cuddlee Feet ftw!
misslj_author: (Writing)
I cannot recommend these things enough. I'm sharing the joy far and wide because they are truly awesome and amazing. Never have my feet been so toasty warm and as it's very, very cold here in Adelaide right now, the arrival of my own pair today was very timely!

Gah, I know I sound like an advertisement, but I'm not, I swear! LOL! I am a very happy customer though, these things are fabulous. I will never have cold feet again, which is amazing to me because I've had cold feet most of my life and find it very frustrating. I know, poor circulation is the cause, but now I have these fuzzy black cuddlee feet thingies, no more cold feet for me, huzzah!

Cuddlee Feet ftw!

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