oh honey all the hugs! ECT is a big deal, I hope it works for you. I do know someone who had ECT (after years of unsuccessful and flat-out disastrous other forms of treatment), and it helped her a little, she got more stable and could keep working/living her life.

being in a timezone far, far away, I set my alarm a little earlier than usual so I can drink my coffee and read BCO before work. (It's Tuesday here.)

oh, yeah, blaming mum when I didn't want to do something, that was the best.

dude, that's effing genius. The place my nan was in would be perfect.

yeah, this was an open secret and a well known joke amongst the other prestigious/high end high schools in Sydney. I remember it went something like 'Knox for the kiddy fiddlers, Kings for the poofs, and (a girls school) for the anorexics.' (Etc, etc for all the schools in the region).

yes, if you actually wash/scrub your hands. Vaguely rubbing on the soap like it's lotion then washing it off immediately doesn't actually remove the dirt/oil/sweat/dead skin and the germs that eat them. Don't forget under the nails too.

yep. I think of myself as a career administrator - whether the job title is executive assistant, admin assistant, office manager, whatever - and will gladly take on all that shit because it's my job. And I'm damn good at it. But I also know how to prioritise, and say no, and I expect to be in a professional…

thank you for adding 'even if they are not good at it'. I consider myself a gamer, because I like to play games and spend a considerable amount of leisure time at it. But I don't play FPS's, I hate multiplayer (especially forced multiplayer and forced online only games), and I am not really a obsessed fan type who…

nimblebit is the bomb. I happily pay for extras every so often because their games are a) well made; b) funny; and c) you don't have to pay to play. Tiny Tower, Tiny Death Star, Tiny Tower Vegas, Pocket Frogs, Pocket Planes, Pocket Trains, Disco Zoo, all great little time sinks.

I like the mechanism some freemium games have of trading eyeballs for special currency, So I've seen a lot of GoW ads. I have tried new games this way, some of which I really enjoy. However, I have a rule - if they are using boobs to sell me, I won't download it.

oh, yes! When I was eight I wanted to marry 'an Asian boy' so I could wear a beautiful red cheongsam I'd seen in a picture. Priorities.

I occasionally have problems sleeping, or sleeping on the correct schedule, and the only thing that really works is temazepam, which is an anti-anxiety med. I don't use it for more than a few days at a time though, so I cant speak to how it works long term. I know your feels tho about Drs not listening, they always…

is it a new occurrence in an older cat? My last cat was a rescue and had kennel cough or some such as a kitten, he was always a little sneezy.

awwww, that's nice! My mum's engagement ring was wearing thin, so she had it placed on her wedding band and gave it to me for my eighteenth. I'm not a ring person, but it was her way of giving me something precious. I'm unlikely to marry or procreate, but I'm holding on to it in case I can give it to one of nieces.

wow. The logic and sheer adultness of your decisions, way before the actual wedding, is probably why you are happily married!

I like stuff a little weird - we got some locally grown purple potatoes and I made mash. It looked like blue play dough.

brother made dinner one night and it was a little bland looking. Sister in law mentioned this. Brother paused from shaking up the salad dressing, pulled out some green food colouring, poured in a few drops, shook it up and poured it all over the dinner... :)

I had a great coriander and cashews pesto at a local Italian place, then I found it at the supermarket under the Jamie Oliver brand. Yum!

thankyou for your honest comment - I'm pro-choice because I believe that in the end, the decision has to belong to the woman, whether I think her choice is moral or not - no one else can, or should, make that decision for her. It irritates me that society attempts to take that right away from women, while forcing…

yay, I got them all right this week! (I am determined to learn the art of shade, every column I carefully evaluate the cases before reading the judges decision.)