Trying out a new meme thingy, c/o Loobylu.

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My vegetables, and how they are not dead yet!

My petunias and how they have started flowering:

Finally making a start improving this large box of dirt today:

This video/article about Miss Fat Gay Venezuela, a beauty pageant for overweight drag queens. Especially the quote from the mum at the end of the article, aww!

This Metafilter thread on Clever Relationship Hacks. Although I’d suggest “techniques” as nicer terminology, it’s an interesting read. “Try to make it a personal policy to prove yourself WRONG on occasion. And get excited about it. Realizing you’ve been wrong about something is a sure sign of growth, and growth is exciting.”

Jillian Michaels exercise videos.

Monkey linguistics.

Bertie Beetles. Only 65 calories!

The super turkey lasagna I made on Monday night. It has every vegetable in the world in it – consequently, it turned out enormous and there are now 7 portions of it waiting for me in the freezer!

Not

The fact that my home is literally surrounded by spiders!!

The end of term. Yes, holidays are nice, but not getting paid for at least 7 weeks is not :(

My poor, ruined muscles after possibly overdoing it on Jillian Michaels exercise videos :( Hobble.

This chair.

Today, I have begun Take #2 on my vegetable patch!

My first attempt ended something like this, but on a far greater scale:

Note the thriving weed, sigh.

The secret to my success this time will be not to plant them right at the start of a 43-degree heatwave!

So far, they look happy:

Time will tell!