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Thing I've been looking at today:
♡ Fontcapture; I've been making a whole heap of weird fonts - this place is entirely free, doesn't involve any software and doesn't have a limit on how many fonts you can make/download.
♡ Letters of note; Amazing letters by notable people, one of my favourites is this letter by Mick Jagger to Andy Warhol. I could read these letters all day long.
♡ Making a gift bow from a magazine page; I'm going to try this one out.
♡ Mystery Google; Type something in and results to something entirely different come out.
♡ Dear Lily Allen from Dan Bull; I wholeheartedly agree.
♡ Cardboard Cupcakes; Yep.
♡ Pictures of kittens; If you don't go "Awww..." you're a horrible person :)
♡ Twenty Ways To Be A Good Pen Pal; cute.

My Lastfm Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-11):

1. Kate Miller-Heidke (35)
2. WHY? (6)
3. Yo La Tengo (5)
4. Regina Spektor (5)
5. The Smiths (5)

This one-word meme is from Meet Me At Mikes via Hazelnuts, who found it at PetalPlum who found it via Bits of Sunshine who got it from Leah!

1. Where is your mobile phone? Desk.
2. Your hair? Messy.
3. Your mother? Dungog.
4. Your father? Gone.
5. Your favourite food? Chocolate.
6. Your dream last night? Gone.
7. Your favourite drink? Hotchocolate.
8. Your dream/goal? Happiness.
9. What room are you in? Lounge.
10. Your hobby? Misc.
11. Your fear? Unhappiness.
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Content.
13. Where were you last night? Home.
14. Something that you aren’t? Unhappy.
15. Muffins? Orangepoppyseed.
16. Wish list item? Camera.
17. Where did you grow up? Stroud.
18. Last thing you did? Wrote.
19. What are you wearing? Newjeans.
20. Your TV? Obsolete.
21. Your pet? Hairy.
22. Friends? Goodvalue.
23. Your life? Simple.
24. Your mood? Good.
25. Missing someone? Yes.
26. Vehicle? Feet.
27. Something you’re not wearing? Makeup.
28. Your favorite store? Etsy.
29. Your favorite color? Red.
30. When was the last time you laughed? Recently.
31. Last time you cried? Days.
32. Your best friend? Zombies.
33. One place that I go to over and over? Now.
34. One person who emails me regularly? Facebook :P.
35. Favorite place to eat? Rolador.

Today I became an aunt. My brother and I have been basically estranged for the last 6 months, but I got a call from my mum today to say that my brother's wife gave birth to a little girl today, Rose. It seemed really weird to have this huge, amazing thing going on today while I sat at home totally detached from it. I have some contradicting feelings regarding it, but I think I will try to make a visit to see them in the next few weeks. Happy birthday Rose.

Ps. I find it hilarious that upon deciding what name she would like to be called by her (first) grandchild my mum chose "Granny Allen" (her surname is Allen). She wrote this on Facebook and I replied "This made me lol", to which she replied "Glad to be the provider of lols". Ah, I love you mum.

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I felt unreasonably anxious today on my walk to the doctor's and back. I wasn't expecting any bad news or doing anything particularly stressful, but I just let tiny, irrelevant, meaningless things overwhelm me. I can't even remember what I was thinking about now. As my coping mechanism on my walk, I bit my nails, lots. I hadn't bitten them in several months before this and it seems so stupid that upon feeling anxious I just stuck my fingers in my mouth! The problem isn't that I bite my nails, it's that I bite my nails until they hurt. Tonight typing hurt, and writing hurt, and picking things up hurt. It's like a bizarre form of self harm or something. Nail biting is a gross, nervous habit for me and posting these pictures here is going to remind me how lovely it is to have nails that aren't all bitten and sore. I will no longer bite my nails, I promise!

I thought I might start something new here wherein I post some of my favourite music (Youtube videos, mix cds, soundtracks, etc) here on a Monday. The lovely Design Is Mine does a 'Monday Morning Music' feature in her blog, but as you're probably aware I don't often have mornings.

I've only really started getting into The Flaming Lips recently, but I'm intrigued. Here are videos for two of my favourite Flaming Lips songs;

"Race For The Prize"

Race For The Prize @ Yahoo! Video

"Yeah Yeah Yeah Song", no video, just audio.


What music are you listening to lately?

^ by F Letter.

Here are some envelopes I made today for a swap - there are 6 envelopes in total, which all fit inside one another and the tiny last one contains a handful of cute stickers. Kind of like pass the parcel, or Babushka dolls.

First you open up Mario Lanza's big face, made from an old record cover;


Then out pops a cat (from a page of a calendar);


And then a strange photograph I found which I can't quite make out, stuck to an envelope;


Followed by;


Inside of which is (a page from a children's book);


And lastly (a comic book page);


The point is that you send as many envelopes as you can make that fit inside one another, and the recipient should be able to then use the envelopes. Obviously some aren't practical for the post, but hopefully can still be used for something. They're all a bit rough and I'll probably fix 'em up before I send them. I thought it was a very cute idea for a swap.

We had our small house rewarming gathering last night which was very pleasant, a lovely assortment of people. I was having this really cool dream this morning about going to America, and then my mum woke us up exclaiming; "Bianca, it's already 10 o'clock!", to which I replied, "...um, so?". Apparently that's ridiculously late to wake up on a Sunday. I was like "Jees! Old people!". She liked that. Of course that's an entirely reasonable time to wake up, but what is stopping me from staying up until 4am every night when I have no responsibilities the following day? That's what I'm trying to figure out...


^ Speaking of dreams. Have YOU ever dreamed of This Man? Apparently "every night throughout the world hundreds of people dream about this face". The website attached to the face seems awfully ridiculous and hoax like to me, but I guess it could be true. C said he was trying to picture the face before he went to sleep last night in order to dream about him, haha.

I am swooning over this letter set at the moment (and all of the other stationery) from We've Got Paper, who is doing a giveaway on her blog currently. In the likely event that I don't win them, I don't think I'll be able to help myself but to purchase them (thanks for the heads up Missive Maven :P);



Tomorrow I must:

• Call my grandma.
• Assemble appropriate 'interview outfit' for Wednesday.
  
• Go to the doctors.
• Post mail.
• Tidy desk.
• Not sleep until noon.