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It's happening again :O None of the links work yet except those that link out--tpyo, Fig Jam and [Snapshot Henchman]--but the splash functions! Hooray!
Saw Toy Story 4 on Tuesday with new frand! I think I have a new favourite Toy Story, maybe. Best line: 'I think Daddy needs to say some Words now so we'll just go over here, okay, Sweetie?' I want to start using that phrase in my daily life. 'I need to say some Words now.'
Pixar fangirl 4 lyfe.
Which all leads me to: NEW FRAND!
Her name's Alice and she has the most adorable and photogenic three-year-old you ever did see, called Laszlo. I met her on Tinder and we at the very least clicked as friends, if not anything romantic because 'narti does not do childs. Met for coffee/hot chocolate back in... March, I think? YES because we went to the AFLW Grand Final. Anyway yes, we've been to do fun things pretty much weekly since then. Gone to the zoo, went to a Cabaret Festival show called The Swell Mob which I didn't do very well at because it was a sort of... interactive performancey thing? Idk. Like all the characters were LARPing, so I feel Sallie and Ku would've done awesomely at it but I just didn't know what sorts of questions to ask and who to talk to and what was going on. It was fun but I know I didn't get as much out of it as I could have.
Alice plays AFL herself so I've gone to see one of her matches en route to Victor Harbor where we got ice cream and played minigolf, gone to a community screening of Wall-E which was... an experience XD It was in this little country hall, the kids all had a costume competition where they dressed up as robots and gave a fashion parade during the interval--yes, there was an interval--and it was all rather odd. She's from the UK originally, moved to Perth as a teenager and hence picked up on Fremantle as an AFL team, so we've been watching the odd Freo match up at my place.
She's a love, as is Laszlo. Srsly perfect small child, which really does just confirm to me that I don't want one myself. He went bowling the day we went to see Toy Story 4 and got to choose a prize from a cabinet at the end, and picked the sparkly tiara, which he was trying on while watching the movie. He sits and pays attention to the entire movie while watching and gets totally invested when characters are sad, while other kids twice his age are climbing over the seats. He carefully pats the cat, I've seen him throw one hissy-fit (because I wanted donuts and bought donuts, and he didn't want donuts so he didn't get donuts. You bet I was thinking of the 'why my kid is crying' tumblr) and the rest of the time he's got the biggest grin and is always excited to see me. At the end of Toy Story 4 as he's hugging his Woody toy I asked who his favourite character was, to which he answered, 'Mummy!'
But everything still gets planned around the small child, which is ttly fine in a friendship but I couldn't deal in a relationship. Having to either plan around his bedtime, which activities are going to be fun for a 3-year-old, how much time he can deal with, or alternatively when Alice's mum's free to take him. Basically, child must always be entertained, and everything winds up being about the small child. I need way too much me-time to be able to deal with that day in, day out, no matter how perfect the kid is. So yes. Happy for a friend to have a small child, not for a significant other.
MEANWHILE. This is the most piss-weak winter I can remember. It's July and we've had, like, four days over 20. WINTER. We're at least still getting reasonably steady rain and I haven't needed to water the garden, but the rest of the country isn't doing so well. The drought in the eastern states scares me.
But my back's healed! So there's that. And bloogum's finally getting a makeover. Maybe I'll have that done by the end of the year. HHHHHHHHHAH.
'narti originally stuck this at Dreamwidth cos she lives there now.
Saw Toy Story 4 on Tuesday with new frand! I think I have a new favourite Toy Story, maybe. Best line: 'I think Daddy needs to say some Words now so we'll just go over here, okay, Sweetie?' I want to start using that phrase in my daily life. 'I need to say some Words now.'
Pixar fangirl 4 lyfe.
Which all leads me to: NEW FRAND!
Her name's Alice and she has the most adorable and photogenic three-year-old you ever did see, called Laszlo. I met her on Tinder and we at the very least clicked as friends, if not anything romantic because 'narti does not do childs. Met for coffee/hot chocolate back in... March, I think? YES because we went to the AFLW Grand Final. Anyway yes, we've been to do fun things pretty much weekly since then. Gone to the zoo, went to a Cabaret Festival show called The Swell Mob which I didn't do very well at because it was a sort of... interactive performancey thing? Idk. Like all the characters were LARPing, so I feel Sallie and Ku would've done awesomely at it but I just didn't know what sorts of questions to ask and who to talk to and what was going on. It was fun but I know I didn't get as much out of it as I could have.
Alice plays AFL herself so I've gone to see one of her matches en route to Victor Harbor where we got ice cream and played minigolf, gone to a community screening of Wall-E which was... an experience XD It was in this little country hall, the kids all had a costume competition where they dressed up as robots and gave a fashion parade during the interval--yes, there was an interval--and it was all rather odd. She's from the UK originally, moved to Perth as a teenager and hence picked up on Fremantle as an AFL team, so we've been watching the odd Freo match up at my place.
She's a love, as is Laszlo. Srsly perfect small child, which really does just confirm to me that I don't want one myself. He went bowling the day we went to see Toy Story 4 and got to choose a prize from a cabinet at the end, and picked the sparkly tiara, which he was trying on while watching the movie. He sits and pays attention to the entire movie while watching and gets totally invested when characters are sad, while other kids twice his age are climbing over the seats. He carefully pats the cat, I've seen him throw one hissy-fit (because I wanted donuts and bought donuts, and he didn't want donuts so he didn't get donuts. You bet I was thinking of the 'why my kid is crying' tumblr) and the rest of the time he's got the biggest grin and is always excited to see me. At the end of Toy Story 4 as he's hugging his Woody toy I asked who his favourite character was, to which he answered, 'Mummy!'
But everything still gets planned around the small child, which is ttly fine in a friendship but I couldn't deal in a relationship. Having to either plan around his bedtime, which activities are going to be fun for a 3-year-old, how much time he can deal with, or alternatively when Alice's mum's free to take him. Basically, child must always be entertained, and everything winds up being about the small child. I need way too much me-time to be able to deal with that day in, day out, no matter how perfect the kid is. So yes. Happy for a friend to have a small child, not for a significant other.
MEANWHILE. This is the most piss-weak winter I can remember. It's July and we've had, like, four days over 20. WINTER. We're at least still getting reasonably steady rain and I haven't needed to water the garden, but the rest of the country isn't doing so well. The drought in the eastern states scares me.
But my back's healed! So there's that. And bloogum's finally getting a makeover. Maybe I'll have that done by the end of the year. HHHHHHHHHAH.
'narti originally stuck this at Dreamwidth cos she lives there now.