I'm thinking of doing the washing up
There's a lot of it. I also need to get to the gym (thought I'd give it a miss while I was shitting uncontrollably over Christmas) and do laundry.

That must be why I'm sitting here.

What do you have "planned" today?
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 9:30, 122 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I'm at work, but it's fucking dead
so I'm dossing about on the internet and playing with my awesome new synth.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 9:36, Reply)

I'm at work
i'm planning on throwing myself out of the window, but as i'm only on the 1st floor and there's a soggy lawn beneath me, I may just make a pot of coffee and do more work

Choices, choices...
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 9:43, Reply)

You're a little trooper Colonel.

( girlinthehole, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:01, Reply)

Hi Blousie *waves*
Just had a bit of a bummer moment. I'm preparing a set of accounts for a client who is a happy bubbly young woman. I've just found a prescription in her invoices for "Fluoxetine Hydrochloride". I Googled it...trade name "Prozac"

I feel bad for telling her off for claiming personal drawings as a business expense now.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:20, Reply)

It's used for other things-
like, erm, treatment of bulimia. Nasty drug.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:25, Reply)

Well, she could do with shedding a few pounds...
I jest
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:33, Reply)

TREATMENT of bulimia
Not causation or mimicking the symptoms. If anything, she'd get fatter.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:40, Reply)

Well if she's on Prozac, she won't care : )

( girlinthehole, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:25, Reply)

She is always giggling
I wonder how many other outwardly happy people I know are actually clinicly depressed.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:33, Reply)

You'd be surprised.

( girlinthehole, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:36, Reply)

But does that mean that some miserable fuckers are laughing inside?
how dare people be so complex
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:40, Reply)

I'm planning an indoor picnic,
cheese and mulled wine.
Later on a 'roast dinner'. By this I mean roast potatoes and veg, but with leftover chicken legs.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 9:51, Reply)

In my less than humble opinion, if roast dinners consisted of nothing but perfectly-cooked roast potatoes and a whole bunch of sauces
I'd be a very happy man.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 9:55, Reply)

I must admit it was nice to have a turkey dinner again at Christmas.

( girlinthehole, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 9:56, Reply)

I had faggots
they were lush.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 9:58, Reply)

Faggits an' pays?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:15, Reply)

Nah, the trimmings were more traditional
roast carrots, roast parsnips, roast potatoes, cabbage, broccoli, some dauphinoise potatoes and onion gravy.

There was turkey as well but I'd been looking forward to faggots..
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:34, Reply)

On boxing day I was fed boiled gammon, potato dauphinoise, broccoli and an amazing cheese sauce.
Dollop of mustard, can of beer, W.I.N.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:20, Reply)

We had homemade quesadillas
Oh tradition!
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:23, Reply)

Aye
but you have to put some meat in there, for tradition's sake.
And the chicken legs were roasted originally. Three days ago.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 9:57, Reply)

Bugger all so far
But I suspect 'vegetating' is going to form a substantial part of it.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 9:53, Reply)

Hello crow : )
How was Belgium?
( girlinthehole, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 9:54, Reply)

Very cold, and very icy
But very good. Brussels is actually a lot more interesting than I thought from my previous visit. (No, really...) And, well, you heard about our adventure getting there. Journey back was mercifully much smoother.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 9:57, Reply)

Glad to hear it.
I'm just glad Poppet wasn't on her own while there. What you up to for New Year?
( girlinthehole, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 9:59, Reply)

Plans are sketchy at the moment
But it looks like I've been talked into hosting a few friends and a large amount of wine. On which note, you up to anything?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:36, Reply)

I'm off to the North east to stay with DG and tourettes.
Hopefully we'll be off to Edinburgh for New Year's day.
( girlinthehole, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 11:18, Reply)

I went there with mates for a long weekend once
Museum of Modern Art, Comics Museum, go up in the tethered balloon, a couple of pretty churches, the big atom thing - that's about it I think. Plus a ludicrous quantity of fine Belgian beer.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:00, Reply)

Don't tell me you missed the musical instrument museum?
That had to be one of the highlights for me.

The Magritte musem was pretty good as well. In fact, I came to the conclusion that they generally keep their museums in much better nick than they do in That London. (With some exceptions: don't bother with the brewing museum)
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:38, Reply)

Doesn't ring a bell (haha see what I did there)
Did the Magritte Museum as I recall, I think it's part of the whole complex with the Modern Art bit.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:43, Reply)

Cleaning : (
Off to my mum's for a couple of hours as my dad wants to borrow the car to take my sis to the airport. Unfortunately there is no trifle left.
( girlinthehole, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 9:54, Reply)

Have cheese instead

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 9:57, Reply)

As much as I love cheese, it's not the same.

( girlinthehole, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:00, Reply)

That is unfortunate.
Trifle makes everything better.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 9:57, Reply)

Yup!
I could buy my own but where's the fun in that?
( girlinthehole, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:00, Reply)

duty visit to family I don't see very often
I love them of course but meh, the prospect really doesn't thrill me.
(berk, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:02, Reply)

I must admit I enjoyed this Christmas with the family.
My mum wasn't stressed and my dad behaved himself. Even my other sister and nephews came for dinner. (Although I did sleep through a lot of it).
( girlinthehole, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:04, Reply)

oh, christmas with the family was fine
Even my cunt stepbrother didn't annoy me too much and I managed to tolerate my mums constant fussing. I'm just not used to all the noise and kerfuffle and I don't like it very much, especially since I have a steaming cold and am feeling hugely grumpy.
(berk, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:08, Reply)

Be brave little Berk : )

( girlinthehole, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:12, Reply)

S'pose
*huffs* how long is it til you go tenerife?
(berk, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:15, Reply)

I go on the Thursday after the New Year.

( girlinthehole, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:23, Reply)

you lucky thing
I don't have anything to look forward to in the new year until I get paid again at the end of january! There's amberl's minibash too I guess.
(berk, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:26, Reply)

The two days I'm at work before I go will be a bit stressful though : /
We must plan the girly London bash next year.
( girlinthehole, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:27, Reply)

A stressful two days isn't such a high price to pay
For going on holiday :) and yes, we really must! I shall definitely be looking forward to that, whenever it ends up happening. I need to pester vipros about a surfing/camping bash as well.
(berk, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:35, Reply)

Read Neil Gaiman short stories based around Beowulf instead of reading Beowulf
lunch with a very good friend I've not seen in ages, bit of a stroll around where I live, look at Wikipedia, get annoyed, play with the cat.

That's pretty much my day.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:20, Reply)

Going into town with my old man and brother.
Considering we're like polar opposites when it comes to clothes, shops and food etc I can see this ending badly.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:29, Reply)

Is it like a gyppos day out and you're testing the latest generation of shoplifting jackets with 'secret' pockets that your mum got you lot for christmas
Do you all divvy up what you've purloined at the end of the trip including the 'fagans' portion or do you get to keep your individual thefts. It strikes me as a real father and son bonding experience.
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 11:26, Reply)

That's very witty.

(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 12:52, Reply)

^ Wot he said

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:49, Reply)

Today I plan to find out why we have no tv signal upstairs
but we do downstairs despite going through the same aerial, splitter and booster. I planned to delete my facebook account and did that this morning. Properly deleted too, no deactivation, I wiped everything and then went through the very well hidden process of deletion. 5 clicks to find the delete page, also bugged me that you can upload whole albums at once but have to delete each picture individually.
( Peej, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 10:48, Reply)

I'm building a computer
just as soon as I find my favourite screwdriver. I don't really know what I'm doing.

My current order goes:
power supply
attach cpu/sink to motherboard
motherboard goes in case
harddrive
dvd drive
memory

WIN!?

do you computer people spot any obvious mistakes here?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 11:42, Reply)

Should be alright, can't think of anything else except maybe graphic/sound cards if not built into mobo.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 11:46, Reply)

Mobo heat gel?

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 11:46, Reply)

what?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 11:48, Reply)

phew
sound card/graphics is onboard I think, it's the order I'm a bit bothered by - especially whether the processor goes on before you put the motherboard in. The rest is just sticklebricks, right? I've done on before, but it was 10 years ago
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 11:47, Reply)

Haven't done it in yonks, but pretty much, you can't put something where it doesn't go 'cus it won't fit.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 11:58, Reply)

Power it all up to make sure it works before you put it in the case though.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 11:59, Reply)

tits!
no heat sink paste - where do you get that shit from?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 11:53, Reply)

That's what I meant by the heat gel =)
I think your best bet is somewhere like PC World, or if you have a local independant place. I can't say weather I know the likes of curries/dixons would have the stuff.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 11:58, Reply)

OK, cheers

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 12:02, Reply)

Most new heatsinks have some on when you buy them
Worth a check
( Peej, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 12:07, Reply)

that's what I thought
but this one didn't. Got some now
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 12:51, Reply)

Plan so far
Take G/F's daughter to a sleepover birthday party. Book table for two at fave chinese restaurant Buy sparkling merlot. See if Pooflake is up for a lunchtime beer and discussion of setting up 'Twang club'*. Write and practice presentation for new job interview on 10th Jan. So far so good!

* group of budding acoustic guitarists/singers meeting at a local pub on sunday lunchtimes to share experience, skills and generally have a great time
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 12:04, Reply)

sounds like a potentially good day

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 12:52, Reply)

I was thinking about
imposing a version of agrarian socialism, forcing urban dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor projects, toward a goal of "restarting civilization" in a "Year Zero". Hopefully the combined effects of forced labour, malnutrition, poor medical care and executions will result in the deaths of approximately 21% of the population.
Might just have a wank, though.
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 12:57, Reply)

Yeah, socially-engineered genocide is overrated
especially when compared to wanking.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 13:12, Reply)

Nothing much at all
I can now watch bbcicplayer etc so I might catch up on that
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 13:07, Reply)

I'm just sat at Bella's
We just watched Dr Who, and are heading to the pub soon. This is a good day.

I'm planning to meet a few b3tans later too, it's all good!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 13:31, Reply)

Holy fuck ! I was only joking.
Man, you're one hell of a quick worker.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 13:44, Reply)

Just wait until he sees inside the TARDIS.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 13:49, Reply)

That would be like going down on Ron Jermy without being a brontosaurus

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 13:58, Reply)

hello strangers
i am trying to move everything from my spare room into my room because my new flatmate moves in on 30 dec. the flat looks like a bombsite and i am getting crosser and crosser. how can i have enough clothes to fill: 14 drawers and 3 wardrobes in my room plus the 3 overhead cupboards that i would need to be 10' tall to reach so god knows what's in there, 8 drawers and a double wardrobe in the spare room, a closet in the hallway and 4 divan drawers when i never have anything to wear ????????

i am off to the gym at about 4, then dinner with a colleague at 8. hoorah for him keeping me sane because the flat is pushing me over the edge!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 13:59, Reply)

Because you are female
(And before you dismiss this as sexist, males of the species have a similar affliction when it comes to having boxes and boxes of tools scattered around a room but never being able to find a Phillips screwdriver.)
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:03, Reply)

you may be right
i was really surprised once when my boss asked me how many pairs of shoes i have. i would not have the first clue, in fact just moving boxes of them out of the spare room wardrobe has turned up 4 pairs i bought in the august sale and promptly forgot all about.......
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:06, Reply)

See, I could mock you for this - and you certainly wouldn't be the first woman I've known who's lost track of her shoe collection
But similarly you could, quite justifiably, ask me whether I really need to own four different types of pliers. To which I would have to screw my face up in panicked thought, fish for an answer and reply that they all have their uses...
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:09, Reply)

shoes are all different
different colours, different materials, different heights, go with different outfits, make you feel different when you put them on (eg: sparkly high heels - beautiful. gym trainers - depressed). can you say the same for pliers, eh? eh??
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:19, Reply)

Oh, hell yes!
Standard, heavy-duty pliers for gripping and twisting nails and lumps of metal, etc.
Needlenose pliers for smaller, more delicate jobs.
Side cutters for cutting and stripping wires.
Bolt cutters for cutting thicker cables, bolts, brake cables and suchlike.
And don't get me started on adjustable spanners and mole grips...
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:21, Reply)

it's like a foreign language

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:29, Reply)

Then I think we understand one another.
Your inability to understand why my boltcutters are entirely inappropriate for a task that clearly requires needlenose pliers is just the same as my inability to understand why you have five pairs of heels that ostensibly serve the same purpose, even though you haven't yet worn out the first pair you bought!
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:37, Reply)

shoes can make or break an outfit though
if you wear the wrong shoes, you just don't feel right. it's like going out with second-day hair - even if you paid 350quid to have it all cut and coloured and styled the day before, and even if it still looks the same, and even if it will look a damn sight worse once you've washed it and done it yourself... you just don't feel clean and sexy if it's not freshly washed!

whereas pliers, how often do you wash pliers?!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:41, Reply)

Well, likewise
Whereas a different pair of shoes "will have to do," I could similarly use a less suitable tool for the job - and frequently I have to, if I don't own the ideal tool - but I'll spend the whole time grumbling about how "this would so much easier if / I could have done this much better if I just had a larger head on this ratchet screwdriver."

And for the record, I don't wash my pliers.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:48, Reply)

oh no
oh no no no, now i am truly shocked.

there is no such thing as shoes that "will have to do" - the correct solution is to tell the date/girls that you'll be an hour late, unavoidable deadline/phonecall/period pains... and hit westfield!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:55, Reply)

Haha! So perhaps the analogy falls down at this point
Certainly, it's often possible to bodge a job with a different tool (or just patch it with duck tape) - I've never thrown down a pair of sidecutters in frustration and complained that I wouldn't be able to fit that new plug today due to my massively swollen testicles, before sneaking off to a DIY shop to buy a set of wire-strippers.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:59, Reply)

this has made me laugh a lot
i have never actually played the period pain card, it's just far too girly and i am crap at lying to my boss.

but you should totally use the testicles are swollen up like a hamster line. and then tell us about it. brilliant.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:06, Reply)

Or a huge collection of audio, computer and power cables
that serve very little purpose whatsoever but are kept "just in case" you ever need to power a stylophone and connect it via a washing machine to an 8-in 2-out mixer connected through your DVD player to your 1962 monitor speakers.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:09, Reply)

Ah, so that's what that one's for
I knew it was for something important. *puts back in junk drawer*
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:13, Reply)

^this is true
under the stairs we have about three black bags full of cables none of which are ever used except when I go scrabbling around for a cat5 or something
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:13, Reply)

i had a massive sort-out of the lounge/kitchen a few months ago
threw away any cable where i didn't know what it did.

turns out that would be my ps2 power cable.... my DS Lite charger..... my camera charger........ stupid electronic items, why can't they have a one-size-fits-all system??
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:17, Reply)

Ah yes, guilty as charged.
Sitting at the foot of my computer table are three power supplies, two optical drives and a floppy drive, which were all harvested from several obsolete PCs last time I moved house, on the grounds that I'd "probably find a use for them at some point..."
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:19, Reply)

I have a big box of these things, too

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:43, Reply)

can I be an exception?
I hate buying clothes and my house is full of tools/stuff to make things with. This morning, though, I could not find my favourite screwdriver
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:42, Reply)

You should have a good clean out of clothes
just go through all the stuff that's too big for you, and all of the stuff that realistically you won't wear again because it was a size 4 and bought in a sale
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:12, Reply)

the sad thing is
i have just done exactly this when M said she would like to move in for a bit. i threw away about 57 binliners of "thank fuck, too big" and "come on you're not 16 anymore" and "what the fuck were you thinking". what is left has already been well-filtered!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:16, Reply)

That's more tricky
Have you got no more storage?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:19, Reply)

i did have. my spare room!
i'm really looking forward to M moving in, and it's made me have a massive clear-out rather than just shoving it in the spare room and locking the door, but i will be cramped for space until she moves out again.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:29, Reply)

You see I don't have that problem
a) because I don't have nearly as many clothes and b) because I'm really untidy and therefore think nothing of just chucking shoes into a massive box
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:31, Reply)

i am anal about stuff being clean
but not too fussed about it being tidy, so long as it is sparkling clean underneath. i had a friend who didn't wash her uni duvet for the entire 3 years, this story still makes me feel a bit queasy!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:43, Reply)

Eugh that's pretty bad
Same here- clean = important, tidy= really not
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:59, Reply)

when you come round here you'll see
the flat looks immaculate. just don't open any cupboard doors........
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:08, Reply)

Haha I'll be careful
not to cause any avalanches
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:18, Reply)

the kitchen is the worst
the woman who owned the flat before me had these cupboard doors fitted which don't QUITE close sometimes and i have to bang them shut. it's a very shallow cupboard space, but very tall. at any given time, opening it could result in some or all of the following landing on you: pots of spare paint, iron, clothes horses, ironing board, carrier bags, wine carriers, hammer, nails, rolls of wrapping paper.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:23, Reply)

haha treading like ice
that'll have to be the key
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:40, Reply)

or just stay on the sofa demanding MOAR wine and MOAR food
this is my own personal preferred position when in the flat!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:46, Reply)

How was Jamaica?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:50, Reply)

fucking awesome
being home SUCKS
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:56, Reply)

I'm bloody well taking this as a command :)

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 16:15, Reply)

that's more then a bit gross.

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:04, Reply)

i flatly refused to sleep in the same room as it when i went round there
on the other hand, i used to wash my bedding every time i had sex with my bf at uni. even i think washing your duvet cover 7 times a week is going a bit far!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:07, Reply)

hmmm....
maybe once every couple of days... any more and it's a bit weird, but less would make it a bit smelly wouldn't it?
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:11, Reply)

i was trying to make some sort of passive-aggressive point to him i think
[was a LONG time ago!] as we weren't openly a couple to start with, but clearly everyone else in the house knew exactly what was going on.

these days, he can just sleep in the wet patch and the bedding gets changed once a week. done!

i am a bit obsessed with bedding though, i have about 15 sets. and 2 bedrooms :(
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:16, Reply)

nowt wrong with having lots of clean things.
edit:
also, I'm like that with books. I have really struggled on my trip not to buy a book at every place I go to. I have well over 700 at home, most of which are in storage, yet still I buy more and more.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:20, Reply)

omg you are me
wait til you're my age. i have 5 bookshelves and 2 wardrobes full of books at my dad's, and my flat also has 8 full bookshelves. i must buy at least 15 new books a month, it's like some kind of sickness. a house with a real library is my one serious goal in life!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:24, Reply)

ahahaha when my family moved into the house we live in now, the first thing my dad did was build floor to cieling shelves along two walls.
I bought a book today at the Van Gogh Museum. I looooooooooooved it. It's so beautiful.
by beautiful, I mean the prints by van gogh it contains.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:29, Reply)

tell your dad if he and his hammer/nails ever want a place to stay in kensington...
that sounds awesome, you are doing some brilliant things this trip. i guess you can package the books up and send them home rather than carry them everywhere?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:34, Reply)

ahaha I already sent a box of stuff home! I've only got this one new book to carry.
And I'm coming back to my cousin's after new years so I think I'll leave it here then pick it up. :)
Ahaha, my dad would crack the shits, ten minutes in, grumping about this and that and whatever else he could find. He does that at home too.
I'm having a fucking BALL on this trip. Also - re your sig? I did that in Belgium when Crow and I went out for tea - I spilled a few drops of the balsamic vinegar/oil dressing on the table, and I had to pick it up with my fingertip to eat it. It was FANTASTICALLY yum.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:39, Reply)

i am seriously jealous
i never did the travelling thing because when my friends were all doing it, i stupidly decided to go back to uni to get a law degree (because an english degree = unemployment). also you massively get the buzz, you're bound to do loads more trips when this one is finished.

ha, my sig is from "family guy", i think it was labs who said he made you watch that with him??
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:45, Reply)

ahaha yeah, Labs made me watch it and I didn't really get it.
didn't find it that funny at all, just bizarre.

RIGHT. TIME FOR DENMARK!
If there is internet on the train, I'll be back!
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:47, Reply)

Bon voyage!
(Or whatever they say in Dutch...)
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:48, Reply)

you need to watch about 4 episodes back to back
then you will love it. i think it's the best thing on tv (not that i watch much).

have fun in denmark... i never met a danish guy who wasn't obscenely fit!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:55, Reply)

Right, been to the gym, put the laundry on
has sausage and chips innatray from the chippy. Washing up still looks like a lot of work.

Dunno if I'd get it done before kickoff now. Still, I've given everything a rinse and put the dried-on stuff to soak - what more could you ask, eh?
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:04, Reply)

VICTORY!!
computer built, didn't explode. Tomorrow I should have the software to make it live
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:24, Reply)

wooo, I'm glad it didn't explode.
lack of explosions is always a good thing. Except in action films.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:31, Reply)

I'm at the pub with AA.
We're just about to set off to Saltaire to see other b3tans. Today is a good day.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:43, Reply)