OW! Oh, yeah, and a meme.
The first part is very much "What I did today" so if you want, you could skip it and click the cut at the end where the memes are...
Well, I had a lovely day today - note to self, find synonyms for lovely, preferably with a less... primary school feel to them. You just know when I say something like that on my livejournal that I'm going to follow it with, and then my house burned down. Luckily, the house didn't burn down. Anyway, I was telling you about my lovely day. I got up quite early - a first for me if you must know because I am a lazy arse who only gets up if she has to. I mainly got up because our next door neighbour is finally sorting his (our) fence out and therefore we had Romanians knocking on our door to ask if they could use our garden and garage gate as a thoroughfare. So that was the first good thing. Secondly, I went to Bromley with a certain lovely serenasnape to show her my (admittedly not very good) pictures from the wedding (they're not very good because I was paying attention and completely forgot that I actually had a camera, so it says something about the wedding at least!) and just to see her because she is great at managing to remove any of my "I'm crazy and insensitive" fears. Well most of them - generally when she can't I actually am being crazy, and/or insensitive. Anyway, I also tried on shoes (yay, shoes, I am buying purple shoes!) and then we went to the music shop to buy piano books. So that was fun. Serena then had to rush home (she has one busy schedule) for to make dinner and teach another student, so I wandered around looking at table mats and then came home. Only to be sent out for fish and chips a little while (for a little while read almost two hours) after I got back.
Anyway, that was (more than) three good things that happened today. But, it wouldn't be a me day if I didn't have a bad thing to go with it. Luckily it's nowhere near as bad as I alluded to at the beginning of this entry. However, it is painful. As I was getting ready to watch Die Hard 4 on my laptop (another good thing) I decided to go back downstairs and grab something to drink. And so I walked across my almost empty floor to the other side of the room. Unfortunately, the cable from my computer was in the middle of the empty floor. Two crashes and an almost swearword later (I screamed "OW" instead) and I think I can safely say that I attempted to break at least three of my toes, if not my entire foot. Luckily I appear to escaped unscathed with just a couple of bruised toes and some very small scrapes. It could have been a lot worse since the foot that got damaged landed on top of my sewing box - something that is made of wood and has, among other things, in the top (open) compartment a whole bunch of needles and some pins. So I got off lightly. I won't be wearing heels for a while, but that's OK because I'm buying pretty purple shoes (see above) soonish.
All very exciting, and I hope that this doesn't mean I'm due for two more bad luck things happening. Because that would be bad.
Anyway. Meme! Stolen from just about everybody.
Take a picture of yourself right now
Don’t change your clothes, don't fix your hair
Just take the picture
Post the picture with no editing
Post these instructions with your picture
I actually intended to make this post just before I started watching Die Hard, not just after, so it's been 2 hours since I took it, and I can't be bothered to take a new one. So I'm breaking the rules. However, I didn't break the rules at the time, and had I posted, the picture would have followed the rules. So here we are stepping back in time to see me two hours ago.
Yuck. Bad photography - and I mean that, I hate the "I'm taking it myself 'myspace' style photography, and try to avoid it. And would have too but I just attempted to break my foot so I can be forgiven for not going downstairs for the tripod.
As a bonus we also have this - which I always love, and get good results from, so here goes.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next four to seven sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest [unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1].
As it happens, the nearest book is my diary, and since it doesn't have page numbers - except the dates, and they don't go up to 123 - and there's sod all written in my diary, I shall find a different book. Which is underneath the diary. Technically there are three within reach, since they're all ranged on my bedside table but I'll not cheat and therefore you get a quote from the first one which is...
'But Lyne wasn't ready to give up. "Hello?" she'd said sleepily into the receiver, thinking at that early hour it might be Wendy calling. "I want you to know that I'm potentially losing twenty thousand dollars here by calling you myself," Lyne's voice came over the line.'
That's four sentences and that's all you're getting. It's from Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell. And my only defence for owning and reading it is it came free with Cosmo months ago, and occasionally crappy chick lit is worth it.
Well, I had a lovely day today - note to self, find synonyms for lovely, preferably with a less... primary school feel to them. You just know when I say something like that on my livejournal that I'm going to follow it with, and then my house burned down. Luckily, the house didn't burn down. Anyway, I was telling you about my lovely day. I got up quite early - a first for me if you must know because I am a lazy arse who only gets up if she has to. I mainly got up because our next door neighbour is finally sorting his (our) fence out and therefore we had Romanians knocking on our door to ask if they could use our garden and garage gate as a thoroughfare. So that was the first good thing. Secondly, I went to Bromley with a certain lovely serenasnape to show her my (admittedly not very good) pictures from the wedding (they're not very good because I was paying attention and completely forgot that I actually had a camera, so it says something about the wedding at least!) and just to see her because she is great at managing to remove any of my "I'm crazy and insensitive" fears. Well most of them - generally when she can't I actually am being crazy, and/or insensitive. Anyway, I also tried on shoes (yay, shoes, I am buying purple shoes!) and then we went to the music shop to buy piano books. So that was fun. Serena then had to rush home (she has one busy schedule) for to make dinner and teach another student, so I wandered around looking at table mats and then came home. Only to be sent out for fish and chips a little while (for a little while read almost two hours) after I got back.
Anyway, that was (more than) three good things that happened today. But, it wouldn't be a me day if I didn't have a bad thing to go with it. Luckily it's nowhere near as bad as I alluded to at the beginning of this entry. However, it is painful. As I was getting ready to watch Die Hard 4 on my laptop (another good thing) I decided to go back downstairs and grab something to drink. And so I walked across my almost empty floor to the other side of the room. Unfortunately, the cable from my computer was in the middle of the empty floor. Two crashes and an almost swearword later (I screamed "OW" instead) and I think I can safely say that I attempted to break at least three of my toes, if not my entire foot. Luckily I appear to escaped unscathed with just a couple of bruised toes and some very small scrapes. It could have been a lot worse since the foot that got damaged landed on top of my sewing box - something that is made of wood and has, among other things, in the top (open) compartment a whole bunch of needles and some pins. So I got off lightly. I won't be wearing heels for a while, but that's OK because I'm buying pretty purple shoes (see above) soonish.
All very exciting, and I hope that this doesn't mean I'm due for two more bad luck things happening. Because that would be bad.
Anyway. Meme! Stolen from just about everybody.
Take a picture of yourself right now
Don’t change your clothes, don't fix your hair
Just take the picture
Post the picture with no editing
Post these instructions with your picture
I actually intended to make this post just before I started watching Die Hard, not just after, so it's been 2 hours since I took it, and I can't be bothered to take a new one. So I'm breaking the rules. However, I didn't break the rules at the time, and had I posted, the picture would have followed the rules. So here we are stepping back in time to see me two hours ago.
Yuck. Bad photography - and I mean that, I hate the "I'm taking it myself 'myspace' style photography, and try to avoid it. And would have too but I just attempted to break my foot so I can be forgiven for not going downstairs for the tripod.
As a bonus we also have this - which I always love, and get good results from, so here goes.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next four to seven sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest [unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1].
As it happens, the nearest book is my diary, and since it doesn't have page numbers - except the dates, and they don't go up to 123 - and there's sod all written in my diary, I shall find a different book. Which is underneath the diary. Technically there are three within reach, since they're all ranged on my bedside table but I'll not cheat and therefore you get a quote from the first one which is...
'But Lyne wasn't ready to give up. "Hello?" she'd said sleepily into the receiver, thinking at that early hour it might be Wendy calling. "I want you to know that I'm potentially losing twenty thousand dollars here by calling you myself," Lyne's voice came over the line.'
That's four sentences and that's all you're getting. It's from Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell. And my only defence for owning and reading it is it came free with Cosmo months ago, and occasionally crappy chick lit is worth it.