Wedding Shoes

I got some pretty dolly shoes to go with my wedding dress. I had to settle for what was available, even though it's not really what I wanted. They are white, soft leathery material, and about 2mm too small, but the next size was about a centimetre too big.


This is them.

They are pretty, and I did want flat shoes. So they'll do. We had considered getting cons, but we woosed out in the end.

I also got two pretty tops today. We had a good day's shopping, really.

Watch

After 11 years of perfect service, I finally let my watch go to watch-heaven. lordkilljoy's been trying to convince me to get a new one for some time, but there really isn't anything wrong with my old watch - it's just old, and a bit worn. The battery went a while back and I've been meaning to get it fixed. But lordkilljoy said to get a new one instead of fixing the old on, and I guess I agree with him. So, here's my new watch. It's so pretty: Momentum M1. Anyone who knows my old watch will also know that the new on is a lot like it. But if something works for you, why go looking for something different - comfort in the familiar and all that.

Further to Yesterday

More news. Which conveniently escaped my brain as soon as I started typing. Typical.

So, I got a sunhat. Actually, it's not so much a sun hat as an autumn hat. It's made of black felt and I have an idea that if I wear it out in the sun my head will bake. But it's lovely - 1920s style cloche (there are loads of pictures on google if you want to know what style that is). I'm wearing it now :)

I also got a cake decorating funnel with shaped metal tips - for putting icing on things. Ooh - that was my main news. I made muffins yesterday. I used a kind of modified banana bread recipe and they are gorgeous. This recipe called for egg and butter and they made the muffins come out light and fluffy (well, lighter and fluffier than any other bread I've tried). I got the cake decorating thing, because I think some chocolate frosting on top will make the muffins simply decadent :) nom nom nom. And because I've always wanted to have a go with cake decorating / making cupcakes. And yes, muffins magically turn into cupcakes when you add frosting on top.

I don't have much other news.

I don't know if I've mentioned World of Warcraft on here before, but I've gotten up to level 73 and Wrath of the Lich King stuff, and boy are the quests and storylines amazing. I'm playing alliance (because they feel like a big supportive family, where horde feels like a bunch of selfish individuals) and the storyline involving the 7th legion was fantastic. Totally epic. It's funny, because when it ended, I went on to a new area, and it was back to killing animals and providing food for the local community. It felt so small-time.

However, at the same time I reached the alpine area (can't remember what it's called) lordkilljoy was watching Bear Grylls (Man vs Wild, which is a amazing show - I wish I could be like Bear - he can survive in the wild on nothing but insects and plants he finds along the way) in Alaska, and the terrain was so similar to that in WoW that it almost felt like I'd find Bear just over the next hill. So that helped add some of the missing vitality back into the game.

Yea, I think that's about it.

hat

do you remember last week, when i said i lost my hat? well, i couldn't live without it and i've ordered a new one from the company who make them :) i'm happy. i hope it gets here, though. the address had UK instead of US on it. i emailed them about it, but they didn't reply. i'm sure someone in the postal system will be good enough to change the k into an s...

i don't have much other news. i moved all the furniture in the apartment around today. i didn't like the way it was before, it wasn't cosy at all. and there wasn't room for my computer desk. i still amn't sure about the location i found for the desk, but the sitting room is vastly improved from the way it was. we'll see how lordkilljoy reacts when he gets home. i'm sure he'll like it.

it's wonderful to have my keyboard again. i love this keyboard. typing on it is so easy. i have my mouse too. mice are so much more efficient than a trackpad. i also shipped a temperature sensor / clock thing. so now i have a clock that tells me what time it is in ireland without having to do any addition. lazy, i know, but there you go.

right, i think that's mainly it.

trip downtown

It was freezing today. This is the coldest it's been since we got here. It didn't get above 3 today. It was -1 early this morning. And I can now report on the temperatures accurately, because we got a little temperature sensor for outside.

I finally made it to downtown abq today. What a disappointment. It was more like south mall, where i was expecting patrick st. there was just the courthouse, city hall, the library and some other official places. I got the bus in - it was mainly straightforward (except i put all my money into the little box at the same time (as you do in dublin) and the driver had to take it out and put the coins in one by one) and the journey was short enough. $2 gets you unlimited bussing for the whole day. Not bad at all.

I joined the library. Got out a random trilogy. It was the only intact (as in, all three books on the shelf) set they had. I may have to do a bit more research into which branch has the most sci-fi / fantasy books, because the main library was sadly lacking.

And the most awful part of the day was losing my hat. My lovely warm, long, cool, ultra-complimented hat went missing somewhere in the library. I think I left it down when I was filling in my application form and someone else must have picked it up and walked away with it. :( It wasn't in the lost and found, but I asked the librarian to ring me if it turned up anyway. I'm really sad. I had that hat for ages (8 years or something) and it had a few close calls, but I always got it back. Let's hope I get it back this time too.

lordkilljoy encouraged me to join good reads the other day. now i have this obsession to get all the books i've ever read listed on my page there. it is folly, because i'd have to add in all the books i read when i was younger (i used read about a book a week when i was in school - it has dropped significantly as i've gotten older, which is a pity). so i've been doing that and not writing, as i had hoped to do today. march is sliding rapidly into the gloomy depths of the past and i'm not even half-way through my high-fantasy.

it was really good having penelope_stone up last week. we went into town on saturday, she bought a bit of stuff, i didn't buy anything - i just don't like the clothes that are in fashion at the moment. i never like the clothes that are in fashion, though - so there's nothing new in that.
on friday, we barbecued food for penelope_stone. it was an extremely random idea for dinner, but it was lovely. we cooked outside on the balcony, but ate inside where it was warm. perhaps the spring solstice is just a little early for outdoor food.

we bought a little (well kinda big, actually) box for yoshi to chase crickets around in. he just seemed scared in there yesterday, but today he ate 2 crickets. i was so happy for him. he can actually feed himself. it's great though that he's gone from only eating morio worms and refusing crickets to catching them on his own. he's shedding a lot at the moment as well. he spends lots of time sitting in his water scratching.

i can't really think of anything else to say.

tiredy post

yoshi ate 6 crickets today. that's a personal record. he was very off-colour today though. i worried about him, but he perked up quite a bit after he ate... jumping off his branch into his pool of water, splashing around for a few minutes, climbing back up onto the branch again until a few minutes later when he plopped back into the water again. repeat about 4 or 5 times. it was cute to watch, and good to see him so lively.

i'm thinking of heading into the mind body spirit festival tomorrow for a bit... i missed the one in cork and it would be good to look around and see what the atmosphere is like.

recently lordkilljoy got me a really cute bear-hat-thing. it's white and fluffy with cute black ears and big cutie eyes at the front. it's really adorable - i love it :) i should post up a picture.

i'm really tired. i should go to bed. yep - i'm spacing out here, i'm so tired.

a few days at home

wow, one and a half pages of friends entries to get through (that's like 60 entries, mad). so i'm off to kerry today. i'm really looking forward to it.

i went into town yesterday and broke my non-spending policy. why is it that when i have no money coming in, i find nice clothes to buy. well, actually, i think it's that cork is better for shopping in. maybe it's because there aren't the massive crowds and because i know the layout of all the shops. but anyway, i got 2 new hoodies and a t-shirt, which is magenta (i don't know why i was attracted to it, but it will go well with a black long-sleeved top under it).

i haven't really been doing much all week. i've been getting 10 hours sleep the last few nights... i have no idea why i'm sleeping so long, 9 is usually what i need. and i've been having really vivid dreams - like really brightly coloured and loads of movement in each scene.

ow, this flexible rubber keyboard is making my fingers sore. i'm going to go now.

ocd

so, it turns out that the heating had an airlock problem and wasn't working. it's now 13° in here. a significant improvement, but i would prefer if it was at least 17; 22 is best.

i had a semi-productive morning. looked into magazine submissions and got some washing done. i figured out why lordkilljoy's numerous (aka infinite) black socks annoy me. they have innate shields against OCD (aka perfectionism). i just can't put them together like i do for my socks. or maybe it's that they have OCD aggravating x20 or something. it would be just far too difficult to actually put them in matching pairs because there is so many of them and they are practically all the same. and black and boring. and just no fun at all.

that's all i wanted to say really. it's still snowing here. it's mad. the one advantage to living in the midlands. they have more seasonal weather than the south.

warpcon night 1

i had a fabulous night last night. got to the old bar at 9:30 ish, left the old bar at 1:30 ish. the warpcon pub quiz was hlaf way through when i got in, but it seems i missed nothing. the pub quiz was a shambles and left many,many people feeling cheated. ah well. i got to see loads of people i hadn't seen in ages - we had a girls' table going and just talked and laughed for most of the night. lordkilljoy and i ended back in frosthearted and my_name_is_fiki's until 3ish.
and the fun continues tonight with clubWarpcon. i think i'll sleep for an hour or two before heading out though.

and i got asked to defect from "the awesomes" to go join aidan's band. apparently word has gotten around that i can sing. but it would never work out, me and lordkilljoy make a good "rock band" band.

me and penelope_stone went clothes shopping today. i got a petticoat (not a proper one, but it will do) and a pair of cord flares. :) i am singularialy happy. They are a little narrow around my thighs (they make my legs look very skinny), but i love the flare on them.

anyway other news quickly - barry's game is on tomorrow. that should be good fun. i've been invited to royal rumble on sunday night. that should be fun, even if not for the wrestling, for everyone else's reactions to it.

right. gotta go. i'm on penelope_stone's laptop and she's heading back to kerry now. i don't think her spell checker works... sorry about the bad spelling.

packing and moving

i put my packing list to use this evening when i packed my rucksack. it weighs 3 stone (20kgs) and i can just about lift it. heh, good luck to me on monday when i have to carry it. i'd love to head up tomorrow evening (after d+d - get the bus at 7) but that would mean not getting into dublin until around 11, and i doubt lordkilljoy will still be awake at that stage. nah - i'll wait and get the bus monday morning instead. if i get the bus at 9, i can be there for lunchtime and we'll still have a bit of the day to hang out.
i had considered leaving it 'til friday, so that i wouldn't spend my first few days just being alone in his house for most of the day. but i just know that if i leave it that long, all the stories from his trip will be old news and it won't be nearly as much fun going through everything he bought. and i have japanese books being delivered that i want to get up there for. so yea. i'll go on monday :)

i went into town with penelope_stone today. she bought loads, i just got a present for davidnarby (it was his birthday a while back). but we had fun tramping all over the city looking at outdoor gear.

so that's about it. i feel like i've forgotten to pack a million things. i had to put quite a few clothes back, because they wouldn't all fit in my bag. i have so many tops that i love and i wanted to bring them all. i have a good reason for this too: when we went to new zealand, i missed all my clothes - because i'd only been able to bring a small handful of them. so this time, i'm just bringing everything i like, and just leaving behind anything i never really wore anyway, which isn't much - i don't tend to buy clothes if i don't think i'm going to wear them.

right so, i'm off to bed then :)

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.

news about happy things

i got new leads for my pencil, so can write my nanowrimo outline with a good pencil - my faber castel one that adi gave me in germany - my favourite pencil. that's going well. i made the archassembly yesterday: they are shaping up to be a pretty cool group. they're reminding me of neil gaiman's endless (is that what they are called? dream, destruction, delirium, et al). i hate having to come up with names though, i have one and a half, i need 11 and a half more. buh. anyway - its good.

i'm also starting editing my zan kej story, thanatos_elnyx made some really good points, trying to incorporate them is a little challanging, but well.

ahhh - i'm so happy: i wish i had more to say. anyway, i guess i'll go. there's a short story festival on in town sometime soon + i want to go look up info on what's on. there's workshops - you never know, i may just pick up some improvement points.

right, so. bye.