I liked looking at houses when I was a kid and my parents were planning to buy a house.

I'm quite relieved that my hand is back to normal - it hurt quite a bit yesterday! (And my best friend accidentally poured her tea water over her hand a few years ago, which was a very ugly thing. I think her hand was painful and bandaged for several weeks.) I spent most of the evening with it in a bowl of cold water, and wasn't sure I'd even be able to go to sleep, but I did, and in the morning it had stopped hurting, and there are only a few tiny reddened spots any more.

I felt rather frustrated today, because I felt like I'd been running around for most of the day, and yet accomplished nothing. Which isn't true, I did buy shoes (which I've been planning to do since last summer, when I noticed my one-and-only pair (not counting work shoes) was beginning to fall apart - it's still hanging on, but now that my cousin is getting married, I needed a pair that wasn't old, scratched and all around ugly.), I did poke around the seed shop and have a chat with the owner (although I didn't buy anything), and wandered around the flea market (and bought a book) - but I'd also planned to buy a shirt to wear under my dress, or a cardigan to wear over it, but I utterly fail at buying clothes. I didn't find anything, and the stores were so crowded and noisy that I couldn't convince myself to go into more than two, and felt irritable and discouraged afterwards, and like I was wasting all of a wonderful sunny day. So I made a short stop at the bookshop and another at the garden centre to pick up some things I needed, bought groceries, dumped everything in the hallway and spent the rest of the afternoon sitting in the sunshine on the balcony and reading.

Now I still have a lot of cleaning and tidying to do, but I'm still glad I didn't do that right away after coming home - I do such a lot of gardening on that balcony that I often forget to just sit still and enjoy it for a while.

cyan wrote:

Thanks y'all!  The soreness in my neck is gone so I'm all good.  And, thumbs up for advances in automobile manufacturing.  If I were in the car I had 18 years ago, I'm pretty sure it would've been pancaked between those two SUVs.

Now I'm really annoyed that I have to drive around in my dented car being female and asian, it just feeds into such an awful stereotype.  The insurance adjuster hasn't called me yet so I have to bug them tomorrow.

I'm so happy you're okay!!! And yes, I fully understand the not wanting to be a stereotypical eh.. (lost trail of thought) thingy..... maybe write over the dents. "It was someone else, you bigot!"

Hugs!

@Aan, yes I am! (And I was planning to stay for dinner too, unless it's inconvenient.)

Sounds awesome, Libra!

I'm slowly catching up with housework. I've been too busy/tired/demotivated to do anything since ... uh... Wednesday, I think. Yes, because Thursday was medieval dance, so I couldn't do anything at all (didn't get home until 11 PM, and went straight to bed). At least the kitchen and bedroom are clean now. But now I want to write for a bit.

Sahi wrote:

@Aan, yes I am! (And I was planning to stay for dinner too, unless it's inconvenient.)

Not at all; it's going to be a quiet day though; T is sick, and E is only coming for a very short bit (if at all). But lots of new games to introduce you to and keep us busy! :) (Oh, hmm, and xavie needs to still prepare some things for Monday, which means no more games for her in the evening; but if you're still up for some 2-player games at that point, then so am I.)

Those are entirely different 2-player games!

Hola, Mint!

This weekend was fun--best friend came in from out of town and we had fun! Saturday we went dress shopping (she's my maid of honor for my wedding) and she picked one out! It's a floor length, A-line, with I guess a "high neck" (neckline goes all the way up to the neck, bitty straps tie around the neck to hold it up) and a low back (but not too low!) It looks really elegant. Ordered it in plum color. We tried going and looking for shoes with little success. She's having the same problem I had when I was a bridesmaid for her... Very hard to find shoes in the color I want (white) in a decent style without going over her budget ($50). Actually the biggest issue is that it's hard to find white dress shoes, period. Anyway.. we went out to dinner Saturday night, then rented a movie ("The Help", really good, gonna go read the book soon..) and just crashed, as we had stayed up late the night before chatting and were going alllll day Saturday. Sunday the fiancee and I ran to get tasty pastries from a local bakery and we all just hung out in the morning talking & catching up. Really very little wedding-related convos took place, even though that was half the point of the visit, haha..

So far work is going smoothly today... waiting for the other shoe to drop... >.>

Sahi's suggestion made me laugh - reminded me of Castlefest the year my best friend, mother and brother were with me - when we were walking back to the car one evening, someone behind us started to howl, and my best friend and me immediately joined in.

Oh dear... it's only March, and I already kind of lost my temper at a customer today!
We've always offered free boxes for our customers, but now we no longer have our old, cheap supplier, so now (since Monday) we have to charge 40 cents for a box. I've already had several people whine at me, and today, there was this one woman who is always complaining about something or other, who got very, very angry at having to pay for a box because "I already have so many at home, and you always offered them for free, why should I have to pay now?!" There were some flats and trays lying around, and she started asking if she could have one of them. Um... we actually need them to, you know, grow stuff... She made me so angry I raised my voice at her more than I usually do at people who aren't family. Man, I hate that women!

Well, I guess I can be glad we've started charging money for the boxes now, instead of in the middle of the busiest time in May!
My boss, with his soft heart, let Mrs Whine-A-Lot have a flat for free - but as soon as she was gone, I took them all to the back of a greenhouse. Hopefully, if people see no alternative to the boxes, they won't argue so much - out of sight, out of mind!

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