new phones

both of my parents now have mobile phones. in the space of a few hours the number of mobiles in the house has doubled! cool. mammy's is a nice basic phone - does phoning and texting and not a whole lot else. daddy's is quite a cool sony ericsson, which he got second hand off a friend. it has all the fun features of a SE, even though it's a bit scratched on the outside. neither of them has had a phone before, so it's a bit funny watching them make their first calls and receive texts and stuff. it's nice knowing that i can send them texts - not that i really have any reason to, but it's fun.

i'm such a procrastinator - i've done most of a plot outline for my may genre challenge, and then i decided my livejournal needed updating. :roll eyes: oh well.

ok - i'm going back writing now.

the end of my phone problems

so now that my phone's all sorted out, i got to check my voicemail. and it was a message from meteor. so now i'm wondering if i've killed my chances with this 3d company. that would be so awful. this possible candidate ringing up because she things there's a slim chance someone may have called her. ah well. no job would mean i get to concentrate a lot more on my writing.

yea - as you may have guessed, i sorted out the €25 credit problem. They were fine with it. Excellent stuff. it's so nice having a working phone again. It's like when you have a cold and you can't smell anything and it's ok - you don't really realize what you're missing. It's just when the cold heals up and you can smell again that you realize how much you missed it.
i texted lordkilljoy to figure out which of the 2 numbers i had for him is his and i got a random reply from the wrong number saying "who r u?" it was a bit funny. so i deleted that number and kept the other one.
ok - that was a pretty random little story, but it's valid because it's the first text i sent since i got home. to a stranger - awh!

and since we're on random little stories - this morning i ate breakfast with a plastic spoon. one that i got in san francisco in a 7-eleven (like one that you get with take-away soup, a free one). but i was eating breakfast and it reminded me of eating breakfast in glacier national park, sitting on the bench, surrounded by snow and being freezing cold and eating cereal with warm milk to ease the cold passing into my stomach. ahh - good times.

movies and things

i've been spending my evenings watching movies (wow, this word isn't in firefox's dictionary) recently. i watched krull first, because i have loved that film since i was little and my parents introduced me to it. so when i came back from the world and saw that we had it on dvd i was excited. it's still a great movie. i was happy from the first note of the opening music until the last credit had rolled by. and firemares: nothing more need be said.
the second movie i watched was conan the barbarian. i don't think i've ever seen it before. it was quite good. arnold is good in it - a sword suits him. i can't believe he's the governor of california. crazy.
anyway - last night's film was the final cut of bladerunner (and now i own 2 copies of that film - the quality of the final cut is better, though). i love ridley scott. bladerunner and legend are 2 of my favourite movies (and gladiator).

i booked flights for glastonbury in june the other day too. o_O, did i forget to mention that penelope_stone and me are going to glastonbury festival this year? :) we are. it's going to be cool. so we're flying to bristol and getting a bus to the festival from there. and there's still tickets left, so if anyone wants to meet up in glastonbury that could be cool.

my phone's back working, but now they are telling me that i have no credit. lies - i should have €25. so i'm going to go sort that out and then all will be well (hopefully).

there was something else i wanted to say, but i can't remember. oh well.
oh, wait. i remember. last night, i was typing and i remembered that i had a wireless keyboard and that it fits comfortably on my lap. so now my keyboard's back to it's usual position and by back can stop straining over to the left ('cause computer desks just don't leave enough room for a mouse and keyboard to fit comfortably).

people shouldn't be allowed to ring me (this post get's off this topic)

i just got a call from my bank asking me if i wanted to make any changes to my account details or take out a loan or something, but during the call i managed to drop my graphics tablet on the ground and get the wire for my mouse all caught up. and apart from that i'm totally shaking with the stress of having to talk to an unexpected person.
i'm such an unsocialized (aka shy) person - i just don't do normal human interactions very well.

ah well.

heh - oh yea - yesterday playing shivering isles, there was one part where i was in a kinda freaky area with bones scattered around a garden. i hear a noise like someone whispering or singing insanely or something. it's coming from behind me and is totally freaking me out - it sounds like who's evers making the noise would turn out to be something uberly freaky.
anyway - i turn around, nothing there. oh wait, goes my brain. it's actually coming from behind me in reality. duh - it's my phone ringing.
i had changed the ringtone to a song (helena by my chemical romance) and was totally not used to it. so yea - it was kinda funny. i'm kinda glad i didn't have to face the scary monster. that was one thing that used always get to me playing daggerfall - they'd put in all these crazy sounds and people laughing and stuff and it would freak me out wondering what sort of freaky creature that i can't find is making this pertifing noise. heh - yea. i guess that's why i don't play resident evil or silent hill or stuff - i'd cower in a corner, and when i did venture out i'd save every 3 seconds or something. i get like that playing oblivion sometimes. that's why i love new areas to explore, and why i always play sneaky characters - it's so much fun hanging out in the dark near a wall watching a monster come closer, and closer, and you can't run or he'll spot you, so you just crouch there, praying. and then he moves off and so do you. down the corridor - quick-saving at every corner and sometimes at every step.
yea - it's fun.

right before i got the call i was working on remembering how to draw - i'm cheating and doing a paint over (where you put a photo on a lower layer and basically copy it), but it's helping get me back into the swing of art-stuffs.