She Lives! Just.
To say things have been crazy around here would be an understatement. Following on from this entry, I am still quite stressed out and therefore, still quite ill. It’s been particularly difficult to...
View ArticleOnce Upon A Time: A Depression Story
Thanks to this summer being one of the hottest and driest on record here in New Zealand, my summer SAD has been especially horrible to deal with this year. The worst thing is, I’ve been back at...
View ArticleThe Inevitable Return of the Teenybopper!
I am probably betraying some kind of bogan code by writing this entry, but I haven’t always been a bogan… and I still actually really love what I’m about to share right now. Over the past few weeks,...
View ArticleThanks Obama Google!
I know I’ve just blogged, but I need to make a few housekeeping announcements before I forget entirely and people start wondering what the hell is going on. Due to Google shutting some services of...
View ArticleWhat Is a (Kiwi) Bogan?
As some of you may already know, Sam and I are friends with a fairly famous Hamiltonian1. His name is Dave and he’s a bogan. More than that, he’s a doctor. He has a PhD in the field of community...
View ArticleI’m Sorry!
Just popping in to apologise to those of you who read Harlequin Girl via the feed, and to those of you who left the lovely comments on my little outburst last night. As you can see, I’ve deleted it...
View ArticleThe Public Wait and Hope You Don’t Have an “Untreatable” Illness System
On Thursday, my sister went into hospital for surgery to remove her gallbladder which had a pretty massive gall stone in it. This was after three years of pain and nausea, two years of not knowing what...
View ArticleLook Who’s Moving House Again…
Before I get stuck into this entry, I’d just like to apologise to any readers of Harlequin Girl who are getting sick of my rants. It’s just that there’s a lot of complete and utter bullshit going on in...
View ArticleMoral of the Story: DON’T STRESS!
EDIT: I had another seizure yesterday morning, and I’m now on medication and waiting to see a neurologist. I’m trying really fucking hard not to stress, but because I had a second seizure so quickly...
View ArticleA Bittersweet Victory
As of about half an hour ago, New Zealand now has marriage equality. Marriage is no longer a heterosexual privilege in my country, and I couldn’t be prouder. But as amazing as this is, it still doesn’t...
View ArticleYet Another House Upgrade!
Sam and I have now been living in our new house for two weeks. I was quite apprehensive about this place when we did the initial viewing, but we didn’t have much of a choice being that the first two...
View ArticleDiagnosis Please!
While I wait to find out for sure what’s going on in my scumbag brain, I’ve been doing some reading on seizures. Not for self-diagnosis purposes, but to simply prepare myself for the possibilities....
View ArticleDraw My Life?
Today is my 26th birthday, and I had planned to celebrate by doing a ‘Draw My Life’ video. I’d like to congratulate everyone else who have managed to do one, because I couldn’t, for the absolute life...
View ArticleRecipe?: Nutella Hot Chocolate
Winter is on its way down here in the Southern Hemisphere, I say as I blog whilst wearing a ridiculous amount of layers under a mink blanket. Winter is my favourite season, but sometimes the cold can...
View ArticleAlmost, Probably, Maybe Open for Business!
Although I made this decision over a week ago now, I wasn’t going to blog about it until it was finalised, but the admin at my university are taking a while to process my application and I’m the...
View ArticleBullyshit
I just finished reading this article written by a 17-year-old girl about her best friend’s ordeal with cyber bullies. As I was reading, the story sounded a whole lot like mine, right down to actually...
View ArticleExcuse Me While I Temporarily Lose My Shit
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View ArticleA Desire to Get Inked
It might seem a little weird that “someone like me” doesn’t have any tattoos, but I am sadly tattoo-free. Entirely because I’ve just never had the money to actually get any. That doesn’t stop me from...
View ArticleThe Only Thing That’s Being Reinforced…
… is my hatred of behavioural psychology. THE FLOOR IS ELECTRIFIED. Seeing as I have dropped out for the semester1, I’ve been having a look at the papers available next semester for when I (hopefully)...
View ArticleRegret on the Internet & Other Stories
In 2003, I found a personal website belonging to a girl named Jacky. Without sounding too much like a creep, Jacky quickly became my internet idol. I got unreasonably excited when she put up new...
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