To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955

Gidday, my name is Angie and I’m a 1977 baby (you do the math) – happily married. public servant who dreamed of being Humphrey from Yes, Prime Minister as a young lass, so followed her dream to Canberra. I have the attention span of a gnat.

I’m a flamin hypercondriac. I love to travel but only went overseas for the first time in July 2006 (Thailand and Singapore). I was convinced I was going to be abducted, falsely accused of smuggling drugs, get food poisoning so bad I wouldn’t be able to fly back home and get a third degree sunburn all while butchering the Thai language. (Got the food poisoning and sunburn – thankfully no run in’s with customs!)

I’m a backsliding Presbyterian who constantly thinks of her faith but does nothing to nourish it. I have a killer appetite for anything highly preserved, enhanced with additives and bound to make me diabetic just by looking at it.  My weight became such an issue in my life that I opted to have 80% of my stomach removed to try and extend my life.  It’s the second best decision I’ve ever made.  (The first being to let HUBBY marry me!)

I’m a total clutz. If you can trip over it, fall down it, break it or be impaled on it – I’ll do it. I think exercise is a form of taxation.  I started to play roller derby in 2010 and train with the Canberra Roller Derby League under the derby name Miss Gnomer.  I constantly prove that Newton’s Three Laws of Motion are based in sound proven fact.

I love anything to do with paper supplies, fabric or craft goods. I love my cameras. I start things and don’t finish them. I read like a mad women. I read romance in secret and love it more then literature. I have a hidden collection of pop music that I keep stashed in the back room with my street cred music up the front of the house.

I’m a wanna be geek. I know nothing about computers, but I love my mac and my ipod. I rely on my husband to fix things when they’re broken. I’m a slut for interior design. I want to build my dream home. I dream of a big lotto win.

I’m nothing without my spell checker. I love my life, my family, my friends, my messed up mutts, my teddy bear and my husband. I rant and rave and talk about nothing in particular.  This is my corner of the internet.