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I update so infrequently that whenever I do, I first have to upgrade WordPress to the latest version. Happens every time! Here a little update with some major things that happened in my life in 2009.
Moving house
Up until February 2009 Andrew and I were living together in one room in a flatshare with two [...]

Earlier when I was walking to the post-box in my flip flops (not only my flip flops, mind) it struck me that I am actually quite happy. This is quite a huge thing coming from me, ever the depressed pessimist.
Life’s thrown some punches at me and I’ve been good at surviving, but lately I’ve [...]

Someone kick me and make me update already! I’ve been toying with the idea of updating my blog for about a month but I keep putting it off. So voila, an impromptu update with no topic or meaningful content whatsoever!
I just bought a Nintendo DS Lite off ebay, so I’m pretty excited about that! [...]

Decision Time. This article published on the BBC News site today is pretty interesting. It is about emotion vs rationality in decision making.
Things that especially resonate with me are:
As Kahneman and Tversky put it: “In human decision-making, losses loom larger than gains.”
Loss aversion is now recognised as an important mental bias, with widespread [...]

(I have to type really quietly because Andrew (the husb) is still asleep and gets very grumpy when woken up. Good luck to me, because my massive G15 keyboard is anything but quiet)
I have such a love/hate relationship with the internet. On the one hand I love it (I could extol the virtues of the [...]

I finished a little painting the other week which I have yet to take pictures of. It’s a girl on a swing. Coming soon, I promise!!
I got some new canvases today! I got four, two are the same size as Girl and a Frog and two of them are slightly bigger. I am addicted to [...]

I’ve done some more art over the past few weeks. Not been too productive but I have some stuff to show you. I’ll post them as soon as I’ve managed to take some pictures. I got some new art supplies for my birthday so I’ve been playing with those. Fun!
I get annoyed with myself for [...]