I'm sitting here on the bed with my laptop. Elizabeth is dozing next to me and the dog is curled up asleep on my feet. There's soft music playing, and our newly-redecorated bedroom is gently lit.

Life's pretty bloody good here at the moment. Domestic bliss and all that. Who'da thought it? When I think back to what it was all like just a few years ago-well, it's very odd.

I like this. It's good.

I'm still exploring LJ. I've uploaded a few avatars now, and I like this one-it's cropped from a photo of me trying to demonstrate that I could walk along the floor on the palms of my hands without bending my knees...

I've been looking at various communities, too. There's all sorts of things out there!

Mostly I've been using it as a diary, though-making private entries. Gosh, how anti-social of me!

I made this journal after I discovered that some people I used to dance with, way back when, used LJ. I'm just exploring it, finding things out :-) I've friended a few friends of friends too. I hope that's okay, and of course no-one must feel obliged to add me back-I'll be using this thing more for reading than writing, anyway.

My name is Juliette. I'm twenty-four, a burlesque dancer living in London with Elizabeth, my amazingly beautiful and wonderful girlfriend of three years. I love dancing, music, and poetry-especially Gerard Manley Hopkins, as you may have gathered from my name and userinfo!

Now, to go and explore everything...