Thoughts of a late night knitter

Please writers if you're writing about a particular show - find out how to spell the major character's names. Please for god's sake learn how to use apostrophes and the difference between to and too; the two(ha) words are quite different you know...

Yes instead of writing my various wips or writing my fics for the ficathons I've signed up for I've been reading fanfic :) I love it, but couldn't folks edit their stuff?

In other news - 5 weeks since my gas bottles started leaking, I'm still waiting for hot water. Having cold showers in winter is no fun, and I'm very grateful to my neighbour who lets us use her shower every day. We're quite a sight, walking up the street with our pjs, towels, soap and shampoo!!!!

My renovations in the little guy's room continue and the bed arrives next week. I'm feeling pretty proud of my efforts at laying the new floor and can't wait to see the finished product.

How's everyone else doing?

Well here we are sitting in the Yahoo cafe at Tokyo airport. Is it sad that I actually knew both where it was and how to find it? As usual I can:t find half the punctuation marks on the Japanese keyboard, so forgive the typing weirdness.

Anyway, we had an uneventful flight up from Cairns and reached the hotel just in time for the little guy to have a swim before bed. I forgot that even though the pool and gym are at the hotel I:d have to pay for their use, so that was a bit of a blow to my slight stopover budget. Otherwise we had a lovely stay and sleep-in and took a bus ride around the town near the airport. The scenery is much prettier this time around, with all the cherry blossom trees out in bloom and lots of flowers. The little guy is impressed with his first (remembered) visit to Japan and wants to come back for longer next time.

The next leg of the flight is 12 hours to Chicago and then it:s only a little way (relatively) to squish 67s!!! Yay! Hopefully we shall sleep on the plane and arrive with smiles on our faces...

It was presentation day at Surf club yesterday and the little guy did well again.

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The little guy in his mowing gear! He wanted to mow, but was put off by the grass hitting his legs. So on went the socks and eye protection and he mowed - for at least 10 minutes. But the grass hurt his legs *giggles*, so I had to take over...

It's the first day of the new school year today and it's the little guy's first day at the new school. *wibble* I hope he does ok.

We've moved from a small school of 30 students to one with 129! I know that doesn't sound a lot to most, but it's a big change for us and I hope he's going to fit in. I'll be anxious all day till I pick him up this afternoon...

In other news - I won ladytalon1's wicked mad skilz for both fiction and video in the latest Sweet Charity auction. Now I'm trying to think what to ask her for *rubs hands together in glee*.

I'm sitting here with a heat pack on my leg and frying because it's about 90 degrees out there. Why you ask?

Because I have sciatica.

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Also real life is bugging me - I have too many things to do and not enough time to spend talking to my friends(I missed ladytalon1 on MSN twice now *sobs*), writing fanfic, reading and doing nothing. Here follows a picture of a fairly regular Friday (yesterday) I'm mainly writing this down to see if I can improve on the rushed aspect of it all, so don't read it if you don't want to :DD...( Read more... )

We've been to soccer today and I'm exhausted.

It's such a production! We left home at 6.15am and got home at 6.45pm. Both our teams won their pools, playing 3 games each and ended up having to play each other in the final. Sensible heads prevailed and they didn't play and shared the final trophy instead. I took a photo of our winning teams - it's not that great because it's from my camera - but here it is :-( Read more... )

Honestly the shit that's on television sometimes stuns the mind. The umpteenth incarnation of Big Brother, The Family guy and The Footy show *retch* just make me wonder how much banality people will accept.

Thank god for Inspector Rex! A long-time favourite of the little guy's. We watch religiously as Rex and his human counterparts solve all the crime in Vienna.

Yes Rex is a dog! A sort of mixture of Rin-tin-tin and The littlest Hobo he solves crimes, rescues children, takes on bad guys and has a great time stealing food! Tonight he broke down the barriers between some homeless children and the police, and then subsequently rescued the kids from a burning train carriage! What a dog :)

Not only are the story-lines good, we are also improving our language skills! We've been watching since he was 5 and at first I had to read all the subtitles to the little guy (paraphrasing hastily some of the more questionable parts), but now he can read most of them himself Yay! And can even recognise a good portion of the commonly used German phrases.

I find myself suddenly wanting to write a Rex fic - maybe I could team him with Jayne? They both bark, growl and have an obsession with food...

The cheery school newsletter informs me that it's only 8 days till the end of the term! Where did the last 9 weeks go? It's nearly the end of the second term and I'm still back at the beginning...

Of course I have been busy, but I haven't finished the things I wanted to or done half the stuff I planned :( My works in progress are still just that (and I want to do lots more fic), my garden is still overgrown, my car still needs servicing etc. etc.

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But the little guy has got a very good report card - so all is right with the world! :D

I'm feeling definitely mopish tonight.

I broke down and ordered The Firefly Companion Volume two. I was going to wait till I went to the US in December. But couldn't - so now I'm paying $49.95AUD ($41.40USD) plus postage since the closest place that had it is 1500kms away. It'd better be good...

Today/yesterday was the closing date for the story writing competition I was going to enter and I didn't send my entry. For the second year running *grrrr*

The little guy is growing again and having hormone attacks ie having hurt feelings over everything, yelling at everyone, etc and got sent home from school today...