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deird_lj ([personal profile] deird_lj) wrote2008-04-28 08:33 am

Three Days Of Stuff

I think I've finally got my sleeping patterns back to normal, post-play. For once I'm not going to work already exhausted! Sleep is good.

Friday was Anzac Day, so I had the day off from work. I spent some time industriously cleaning my house (mopping floors and all!) and then spent the rest of the day watching Farscape. I'm almost finished - only six more episodes (and one movie) to go.

On Saturday I babysat Caleb while my sister and brother-in-law did renovations downstairs. Every few minutes he'd sit on his toy car, and anxiously say "peese?" and, once again, I would push him round the room making "brrm" noises. We also played hide-and-seek (with Caleb walking behind a chair and me asking "Now, where on earth has Caleb gone?" in a baffled voice), read some stories (in German, of all things), and played the piano.
It was a fun day.

Mum and I went shopping for my birthday present, which will be delivered tomorrow. She said I shouldn't really be allowed to use it until my birthday, but there's no way I'll be able to resist once it's in my house.

I also had enough time this weekend to cook dinner twice. Which might not sound like much, but I tend to cook in BULK, so cooking twice means I now have ten frozen meals on hand. Even if I ate nothing else, I could still last nearly a fortnight just on those.

After making nearly twenty pages of notes, I think I've finally come up with a good idea for my current fic challenge. Now I just need to start writing the thing.

In other news, my cat has started sitting next to me whenever I watch tv. Which is wonderful, but if I finish a dvd I'm so afraid of disturbing him that I just sit there letting the 'front page' play theme music at me, rather than putting in a different disk...

[identity profile] feralxheart.livejournal.com 2008-04-28 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Aw..that all sounds nice, n' your nephew sounds awful cute.

I completely understand the cooking excitement. I made muffins this weekend once (out of a box) and I was still unbelievably proud.

Workin' on the Love is Everywhere Fest challenge? Feel free to ignore me, just bein' nosie..
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[personal profile] deird1 2008-04-28 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Actually, Love is Everywhere is still stumping me. I keep half coming up with a plot, and then changing my mind.

The one I was talking about isn't technically a 'challenge', so to speak. It's the good__evil Month of Spike. As much as I adore Spike, trying to write about him intimidates me enormously. But I think I've figured it out.


My congratulations on the muffins. Well done!

[identity profile] feralxheart.livejournal.com 2008-04-28 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm..gotcha. Yeah, the Love is Everywhere still has me stumped too. I started fiddling with a few of the pairings half-heartedly, but no luck just yet.

If it's any consolation, I'm still too chicken to even try and write him. But I'm sure you'll do fantastic, good luck!

[identity profile] hamishbunny.livejournal.com 2008-04-28 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay for reading to him in German! I have plenty of kids' books here if he ever progresses to German comic books or kids' stories... ;-)

What's your pressie? Does it make food, or entertain, or do both? Fairy floss makers do both, until they get too hot and the sugar just starts sticking and spraying out everywhere and you end up with a very sticky kitchen...not so entertaining then.

Hamish sits next to us on the couch now, but as soon as Mark leaves, he leaps down and races to follow him, usually resulting in me yelling out 'incoming' and Mark freezing on the spot, as Hamish runs under his feet in his eagerness to try to overtake him...Silly bunny.

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[personal profile] deird1 2008-04-28 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it's very entertaining, it definitely doesn't make food, my nephews think it's awesome, and I've been missing it all year. It's also going to mean my spare room has a purpose other than as a space for empty boxes...

Woo! German books! I'll have to browse through your collection at some point. :)

Hamish sounds so extremely cute.

[identity profile] immer-am-lesen.livejournal.com 2008-05-04 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, now I have read further posts, I can see why the excitement.
I have a reeeeal piano. Okay, so it isn't able to sound like a harpsichord (wah), but it does sounds like a real piano, and also has three pedals. Ans is getting tuned tomorrow, yay!
Poor thing has been untuned since the last few moves, so it's high time it got its wires checked. Or plucked. Or whatever it is a tuner does with it. For $110, I hope a lot.

I do envy the computer-plugging-in though. Muchly. I tried recording with my crappy little GE tape player (recording the bottom hand to 'chopsticks' so I could then play it back and duet with myself), but it's not quite the same...

Ah, I wish I had a spare room. A shed out the back isn't quite the same. Especially since I'm loathe to put much of anything in it due to the lovely fragrance of rising damp, or mouse, or whatever the manky damp smell is. It needs the carpet ripped out and burned, for starters...

Ja, German books rule. I even have some translated-into-German fiction which mum palmed off onto me once, so I can expand my mind by reading in German things I'd never touch in English...

Oh, Hamish is so very extremely cute. And then some. He's spent tonight being hyperactive and seeing how high up on the couch he can get, so sitting on the arm, the back, on Mark...
Life without pets must be sad. And without laughing.