So, basically

[kinkme]

for the first time in about three weeks things are actually SETTLED. I'm in my own lounge, eating pasta + tuna + cheese + cherry cola, my DS is on the armchair, my guitar is on the floor, there's chocolate in near reach and my duvet is covering my feet. After eight hours of trying to fix the television (reception is shitty - I'm using a portable

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[emmypenny]

I play with cats and crochet. Which is not that hard to do (I taught myself when I was TEN!). Also, I put on loud music and dance/work out.

[kinkme]

My cat is at home, and he can't really be played with - rather played AT. The only time he shows affection is when you're holding the packet of food above his ginger faaaace.

I used to scoobi a lot, but that's not really knitting or crocheting and was mostly to kill time in History class. Do you have scoobi-ing in the Americas?

AH YES MUSIC. iTunes updated and it scared me, but I shall try and find my Kasabian album on its shiny new screen. But I'm not much of a dancer - more a singer.

[emmypenny]

Well then obviously you should just get another one.

...I have no idea what that is. And google only pulled up stuff about pasta and Scooby Doo porn.

I don't use iTunes or have an ipod, but I am sorry that it scared you.

[kinkme]

I would, but we'd need a forklift to move this one. We think he's been scarred from when he was a kitten and the next door neighbours accidently locked him in their garage for half a week with a big dog guarding his only exit. Now he trusts no one.

DAMN IT RULE 34 it's this. It's, like, a thing to keep your hands doing something and you make keychains and stuff. And it's spelt scoubi, sorry. But you need special gel strings, although I have done it with normal string once upon a time. It's just a little more difficult.

It's version 10 and when I downloaded it the icon changed and everything looks really old or retro and I got worried and thought apple had jumped into a time warp or something. It looks really bad, but eh. THE THINGS US MAC LOVERS PUT UP WITH.

[emmypenny]

Awww poor kittie.

OH YOU MEAN THAT THING HAS A NAME. I just always thought it was called lanyard/keychain crafting.

I hate Apple. So I don't have to put up with any of that :D

[kinkme]

He's a cat with much darkness in his past.

OH, SO THAT'S WHAT A LANYARD IS. Lanyard is one of those American things that I never understood, but heard on Nickelodeon. /the more you know

I love apple. Even if I do get teased for the similarities between my name and their product. *Treasures her mac*

[emmypenny]

Well now you know!

Have you read Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series? I could send you the .pdf of the first book if you're interested.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uglies

[_samalander]

We call it boondoggle. It's a regional thing. A lanyard, here, is something you wear around you neck and keep keys on.

[kinkme]

boondoggle? srsly? that's amazing

[_samalander]

We also called it gimp, but that is hilarious in its own way.

http://www.boondoggleman.com/what_is_it.htm

[emmypenny]

Yes, we called it gimp sometimes. But mostly lanyard. And here, lanyard can be both (the rubber-y string thing and the key-neck thing).

[echoinautumn]

GIMP. YES. THAT IS WHAT I KNEW IT AS.

Back when I was seven, and in day camp.

[_samalander]

YES!

Also I may or may not have bought a Klutz book about it. Maybe.

[kinkme]

You Americans and your camps.

We don't have camps in Europe. I'll give you five guesses why.

[echoinautumn]

...not enough landmass to justify opening a playground for people in their mid-twenties to herd children around all day/for weeks on end so Mom and Dad can have special alone time?

[kinkme]

I think it's just the idea of "HEY LET'S PUT EVERYONE IN A CAMP THAT WORKED WELL IN THE GULAGS AND THE WAR oh wait"

But we have holiday camps, but they're for the whole family and take place in a seaside down which is always -10 degrees Celsius.