i kept meaning to update, i just kept forgetting.
it's turned cold here, cold like winter, cold like it stings your nose when you breathe in. i'm wearing a jumper and gloves today. still, i'm kind of excited about winter. the last winter i had was a year ago, in new zealand.
the thermometer in my room read 17.4 degrees earlier. it's sayiing 20.1 now. a computer is an amazing room warming apparatus, really. lets you update your journal and listen to music while heating your room. woo!
so - my big news of the week: i got new boots. lordkilljoy and i went on a slightly random road trip to limerick and i got them in wacky shoes. wacky shoes is also where i got my funky red boots a few years ago - it's just this godsend of a shoe shop - like zarkia's shoe shop or something.
and the trip ended up being doubly good because lordkilljoy got a present for his nephew (who is 1).
my other massive news is that i'm moving up to maynooth at the end of september. i still don't have a job, but actually being there will (hopefully) help me get a job a little quicker. i guess it will be a bit wierd for lordkilljoy to have me hanging out with him all the time and making a big mess with my stuff and invading his shelves with my books and dvds and my computer peripherals (graphics tablet, printer, pink mouse, etc). i'm quite excited about it.
i've been thinking about my novel too. there is a reason why i havn't been working on it so much recently and that is because it is deeply flawed and i have no idea how to fix it. a lot of things just don't make sense, mostly in the cultures in the worlds. so i'm thinking of going back to world-building and doing it properly. i totally concentrated on characters and plot before i started writing and didn't do proper world-building at all. which is fine. i'm ok with doing things higgledy-piggledy. i couldn't have done world-building first because the story is not about the world, it's about the characters. but now that the plot is well entrenched in my mind i can go back and play with the world all i want, and make it so that the characters are actually a product of where they are from rather than things just feeling random. and what i also didn't want was the world dictating the plot.
hmmmmmm. yea. i'll see how well that works out for me. i'm a very random person, and having to pin things down utterly gives me serious procrastination symptoms.
[edit - i really like this music. it's very mellow, and sort of ambient. but it reminds me of vangelis a lot.]
Showing posts with label boots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boots. Show all posts
04 September 2008
30 August 2008
today is my birthday
not much happening today. i went into town, to see if i may have missed any shoe shops. i had, but still didn't find any boots i like. oh well. i'm thinking of giving up on the whole boots thing and just getting a ds instead.
i'm making sushi for dinner tonight. we have miso - we didn't know what ingredients to buy for that, so we just got a packet. i hope it's nice.
are you male? if you are you should be ashamed reading something a girl dosn't want you reading. lordkilljoy, you are allowed because i will probably tell you all this anyway.
i got a new bra yesterday. i'm quite happy with it. it's got wires, which i usually can't stand wearing because they dig in in all sorts of uncomfortable places. but yesterday i got fed up with never being able to find a bra that fits properly and has a decent amount of support. so i went online and read up on bra sizes and how to know what to look for when you are trying on a bra. then i went to dunnes (because it was close and handy) and tried on about 5 different sizes. and that kind of guaranteed that i found the right size for me.
and i did find the right size for me and bought 2 new bras, a cute blue sort of one and a nice black one - both underwired, but the cool thing is that both of them are quite comfortable and supportive. yeay :) so i've been wearing the blue one today and it's working out well. the wires do poke in a bit (just right at the base) when i sit down for too long, but that has more to do with my bad posture that anything else (i think).
i'm still not sure if i'm going to go out tonight. i'll see if lordkilljoy and penelope_stone want to do anything. the mutton lane could be good, but will be absolutely packed on a saturday night. anyway. i'll see.
i'm making sushi for dinner tonight. we have miso - we didn't know what ingredients to buy for that, so we just got a packet. i hope it's nice.
are you male? if you are you should be ashamed reading something a girl dosn't want you reading. lordkilljoy, you are allowed because i will probably tell you all this anyway.
i got a new bra yesterday. i'm quite happy with it. it's got wires, which i usually can't stand wearing because they dig in in all sorts of uncomfortable places. but yesterday i got fed up with never being able to find a bra that fits properly and has a decent amount of support. so i went online and read up on bra sizes and how to know what to look for when you are trying on a bra. then i went to dunnes (because it was close and handy) and tried on about 5 different sizes. and that kind of guaranteed that i found the right size for me.
and i did find the right size for me and bought 2 new bras, a cute blue sort of one and a nice black one - both underwired, but the cool thing is that both of them are quite comfortable and supportive. yeay :) so i've been wearing the blue one today and it's working out well. the wires do poke in a bit (just right at the base) when i sit down for too long, but that has more to do with my bad posture that anything else (i think).
i'm still not sure if i'm going to go out tonight. i'll see if lordkilljoy and penelope_stone want to do anything. the mutton lane could be good, but will be absolutely packed on a saturday night. anyway. i'll see.
27 August 2008
the weekend (my brain is tired)
ugh, google reader seems more like a chore than a hobby at times. i think i need to un-add egl again (116 new entries in that comm in 4 days. not funny). i have 205 new entries. i'm so glad i got to check my Lj on (whatever day it was - 24th oh wait that was sunday - not so bad then). i had a page of entries since then. not too bad at all, actually. twitter was another matter. i stopped reading after 3 pages of random replies.
ok. enough of complaining about getting home after a weekend. the weekend was really good. very domestic - relaxing at home, not really doing anything major, cooking together in the kitchen, but it was good. i got to play psychonauts. it's a very strange game, but fun. i didn't get very far with it (about half way through the second mind-area).
i went looking for boots in dublin and i found a pair with a nice shape (chunky: boots must be chunky) but they were black (boring) and they didn't come in my size (which was 3.5 for this particular company). so that was a little disappointing.
i've been awake since 6:30 this morning and up since 7:11. way too early, but i did it to myself. i wanted to see what lordkilljoy would be like getting up on a work morning. he made it sound like the biggest struggle ever, but i think most of that is just messing. once he made the decision to get up things seemed to go very well. unfortunately it takes 4 alarms to get him up, where it takes me half an alarm, so i was eight times awake and there was no way i was getting back to sleep. but that's ok. it's not like i had to do anything productive. now, if i'd had work, things would probably have been disastrous. i was totally falling asleep on the bus on the way down. i never fall asleep in transit (unless i've been awake for over 20 hours). so it will be bed early for me tonight.
tomorrow i think i'll go into town and look for boots in cork. hopefully i'll find something nice. meh - i'll see. i'm guessing the whole half-size feet thing is going to depress me, so i'll just psyche myself up for depression and rack my brain to figure out where boys' boots hang out.
i'm sure i'm forgetting something. oh well. there are infinite more entries, and i can make one if i feel the need to divest my brain of more stories and random bits of info.
ooh - i got to see a bit of flight of the conchords. it is very random, but funny. we also finished watching avatar. great series. i think i liked the fact that it ended, and didn't just turn into a sprawling 7 season epic where everything falls apart around season 4 and just drags after that. i like that they had a story to tell and they told it well.
ok. enough of complaining about getting home after a weekend. the weekend was really good. very domestic - relaxing at home, not really doing anything major, cooking together in the kitchen, but it was good. i got to play psychonauts. it's a very strange game, but fun. i didn't get very far with it (about half way through the second mind-area).
i went looking for boots in dublin and i found a pair with a nice shape (chunky: boots must be chunky) but they were black (boring) and they didn't come in my size (which was 3.5 for this particular company). so that was a little disappointing.
i've been awake since 6:30 this morning and up since 7:11. way too early, but i did it to myself. i wanted to see what lordkilljoy would be like getting up on a work morning. he made it sound like the biggest struggle ever, but i think most of that is just messing. once he made the decision to get up things seemed to go very well. unfortunately it takes 4 alarms to get him up, where it takes me half an alarm, so i was eight times awake and there was no way i was getting back to sleep. but that's ok. it's not like i had to do anything productive. now, if i'd had work, things would probably have been disastrous. i was totally falling asleep on the bus on the way down. i never fall asleep in transit (unless i've been awake for over 20 hours). so it will be bed early for me tonight.
tomorrow i think i'll go into town and look for boots in cork. hopefully i'll find something nice. meh - i'll see. i'm guessing the whole half-size feet thing is going to depress me, so i'll just psyche myself up for depression and rack my brain to figure out where boys' boots hang out.
i'm sure i'm forgetting something. oh well. there are infinite more entries, and i can make one if i feel the need to divest my brain of more stories and random bits of info.
ooh - i got to see a bit of flight of the conchords. it is very random, but funny. we also finished watching avatar. great series. i think i liked the fact that it ended, and didn't just turn into a sprawling 7 season epic where everything falls apart around season 4 and just drags after that. i like that they had a story to tell and they told it well.
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