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[bubosquared]

I now own a drill. For some reason, I am incredibly pleased by this. I kept wanting to drill random holes in the walls JUST BECAUSE I CAN! As time goes on, my inner butch dyke asserts herself. Halp.

I'm taking an hour or so to check e-mail and shit before I go back and continue cleaning. Most of my stuff is now unpacked, so it's just a matter of re-packing some of the stuff into logical boxes (instead of packing the pots and pans with my computer WTF mother?) and giving everything its place, and then actual proper cleaning (including the carpets, which are actually fairly disgusting and need a good deep cleaning) and minor things like hanging up pictures and sorting my books and other papers instead of just sticking them on the shelves in the boxroom.

*deep breath*

It's less than it sounds like, I swear. <g> There's also some things like a TV and a DVD player I need to buy, but that's secondary.

Signs that the stress is no longer quite as bad as it was: my shoulder no longer feels like it's going to fall off, and my face is finally clearing up again, after four weeks of looking like the goddamn moonscape. And my appetite is back. Today's dinner: spicy bean burgers and oven chips. I'm surprised I managed to not blow myself up with the gas cooker and oven. (I'm used to electric.)

And now, back to the grindstone with me, I think.

Comments

[ruby-fruit.livejournal.com]

Someone sold you power tools? Oh dear...

*is glad she's on the other side of the ocean*

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I am totally geeking out over this! Help!

[ruby-fruit.livejournal.com]

But drills are cool! You should be geeking out!

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

You're no help. :P

(Am trying to write you H/F, possibly by later tonight. Also am doodling. Expect, at some point after the end of this month, lots of random doodle posts/e-mails, as I will then have a scanner. Muahahaha!)

[ruby-fruit.livejournal.com]

Am I ever? :)

(Squee! And yay, doodles!)

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

They're kinda stupid, random doodles, but there's one self-portrait that's not bad. (Dreads are a bitch to draw, did you know? Argh. You would't have any photo/drawing references, would you?)

[ruby-fruit.livejournal.com]

I'm fine with stupid random art. :) And www.corbis.com is a great site for photos of anything.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

You'll get a lot out of todaym then. It's going to be a loooong day, and it's quiet, argh. I could use distraction for once, too.

Thanks for the link, btw. I just can't figure out how to transfer how dreads look to drawing.

[wibbble]

In order to buy a hammer today, I got soaked, though my raincoat, to the skin. My jeans got so wet that my /underwear/ was soaked through. My mobile phone still doesn't work.

All because E didn't have enough money on her to buy herself a £2 hammer after work.

I had to resist using the hammer to cave in the skulls of all the fucking tourists.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got totally drenched walking home--dripped all over Sainsbury's, too. Boo.

And yes, dammit, FUCKING TOURISTS!

(And dude, if you need something like a hammer or whatnot, ask. I have so. much. stuff. Someone better get some use out of it.)

[wibbble]

Well, we needed a hammer and Homebase is right next to E's work. She was going to pick it up but ran out of cash. So we decided that I'd go out and meet her after work.

Except that I thought I'd be smart, and get her shiny new mobile phone unlocked first, so I walk to Great Junction Street, find the shop closed, walk to Leith Walk, get on a bus that takes forty minutes to get to Nicholson Street, and then walk up the Pleasance to the Scottish Widows building, getting soaked through /to my fucking balls/.

All for a £1.99 hammer with an orange handle.

I'm supposed to go and get the phone unlocked today, but it's raining, and after yesterday I'm taking no chances. :op

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Hee! Good call, man. I need to buy me an umbrella at some point, because WET! Argh.

[wibbble]

You should get one of those tartan ones that that place on Rose Street sells. ;o)

[meacoustic.livejournal.com]

Hey, what region DVD player are you going to get/have?

[wibbble]

Just because I'm randomly reading this, and know the answer: it'll be a region 2 player, since all players in the UK are region 2. However, I've pointed bubosquared at Amazon.co.uk, who sell very cheap region-free players. So while it'll technically be region 2, it'll play anything.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

What wibbble said. I need multi-region because half of my DVDs are USAian and half are European, so.

Also! I have spotted your birthday present muahahahaha! It'll be late, but still.

[jamaisneutral.livejournal.com]

a DRILL?? My god, you must be the dyke pin-up girl of the month!
*swoons*

And oven chips... yum.. Discovered them in Manchester... is it a UK thing?

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Shut up!

And yeah, although I think it's more that they're available everywhere but Belgium, because we'll deep fry anything that has potatoes in it.

[jamaisneutral.livejournal.com]

(you can buy them in Delhaize and Carrefour :-P)

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

You can? Huh. I never saw them in Delhaize!

[jamaisneutral.livejournal.com]

deep freeze isle, next to kroketten :)