Life is strange.

[laligin]

So. I'm still in the same flat I have been since September, and since there was no joy on finding the keys for the alternative, I am staying put. Though now I know what's what, at least I can finally put up all my posters and pictures. For about three months. Ugh.

Still, I have a ridiculous amount of posters, now. (: Five full size Torchwood ones (ie, all the ones there are) one same size Why So Serious one (it was 70p or so in the death of Woolworths, I couldn't resist it for that...), the BBC's panoramic inside-the-Tardis/the monsters of series 3 Doctor Who one, another small Torchwood one... And then there's the Weeping Angel foam board, and the lovely framed (signed) Ianto picture, and the three-photo Torchwood frame, and then six 10 by 8 cardboard backed photos... And then the GIANT Mind Warp poster, too.

Wallspace is an issue. (:

In other news, I swear there's something in the water here. Two days apart, (Tuesday and Thursday) I was... let's say flirted with... by two different, random people. One girl, one boy.

Tell me true, people. Is it the hat?

...

Neh. I very much don't get it. Girl is on the creative writing course, but boy I met randomly in the queue at the fabric shop shadowbyrd found, while I was buying scraps of brown leather to make me and Jackbear matching wristbands. Ahem. Boy is a Live Action Roleplayer, D&D geek, Firefly fan... and managed to ask me out for dinner and drinks very quickly. ^_^'

Anyway, I'm going home on Wednesday (whoot!) and staying there for Reading Week the week after. Taking my stack of renewed Mills and Boon with me. See my dedication to Harkness PI? See it? ^_^'

I've also made the potentially fatal mistake of signing up for tardis_bigbang. Again. Hopefully I will not fail so spectacularly this time, though part of me doubts it. Because the writing time is cut in half, I'm already worried that my idea has been done and is mere pretention on my part, and the first draft of 15 thousand words is due in the day before all my poetry coursework...

Still, I shall give it a go.

(I should probably delete dead people from my email/phone contacts list, shouldn't I?)

So, done a ridiculous amount of washing today, so much so that I ran out of space for it all on my many-many runged dryer thing, and the heated towel rail too. Have borrowed shadowbyrd's not-quite-so-many runged dryer thing, and even then it's a fairly close run thing. This amuses me.

I appear to have made it something of my mission to possess everything that even approximates official Torchwood merchandise. Hence my growing 10x8 collection, and the stack of signed stamp covers from Scificollector.co.uk waiting for me at home... This is an expensive mission, I must admit. But it is rather fun.

Also, my obsession with deserts is still going strong. Bought the Lawrence of Arabia soundtrack in Manchester yesterday. On vinyl. It has a beautiful sand-filled, sun-bleached cover. Sadly I can only play records at home. But the cover... (I should probably mention that I was in Manchester to visit ranamag, with shadowbyrd. Thus it was not entirely random. But I had a marvellous time. (: And probably laughed a bit too much at the OTT gore in Sweeney Todd... Sorry, guys, I didn't mean to freak you out...)

My tags, I notice, are still just skewed in favour of this being my personal journal as it has been for the past five years, rather than my fanfic depository, as it has been for just over two years. 127 "updates" versus 112 "fic". (109 "fic - torchwood", 60 "torchwood", 120 "randomness") And that's not including this post. I'm... slightly relieved about that, actually. I was here long before Torchwood, after all.

The only reason I noticed the tag numbers, though, is because I was looking to delete a few misspellings elsewhere.

(:

My dream has come true. I am now a mod at jantolution. That makes me smile more than any of my practical achievements today. Damn, but I love that comm more than is healthy.

And when I look back on this in another five years, I wonder how much will have changed?

(And with Media Player randomly selecting the Torchwood Theme for me, I shall post!)

Comments

[pinkfairy727.livejournal.com]

I figured it was only a matter of time before you became a jantolution mod, you being the Queen of the Challenges.

You're making wrist-straps? MINT! I love Jack's wrist-strap. Not as much as I love the coat, but it's up there with Ianto's stopwatch.

Taking my stack of renewed Mills and Boon with me. See my dedication to Harkness PI?
I totally believe that those books were for research purposes only ;)

[laligin.livejournal.com]

^_^' I think it's more for the mad tagging spree... which pleases my OCD tendencies so is no trouble anyway. And *happyclap* I do still get to complete the challenges, Mara says. (: (But I grin, because I have never been called royalty before. XD)

Yus, I make wrist straps! I was going to buy the Jack's Vortex Manipulator dress up thing that's just been released in Forbidden Planet etc, but it's too small. ): Kiddy cosplayers only. Not catering to the adult audience at all. So I must make my own, and whatever I add to my costume, my bear needs to match! XD

... and why do you sound so sarcastic there? *weeps* ^_^'

[cowgrrl.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your new modly status! (Is modly a word? Oh well, it is now!)

[laligin.livejournal.com]

(: I use it all the time. I'm still getting used to my newfound modliness, though. I think I'll be double-checking stuff with mara_202 before I go round weilding my powers for evil in full...

Ahem.

[shirafuzzy.livejournal.com]

<3

I'm glad you made moderator! <333333

Don't forget to save up for D*C! Cause we're so totally going to be there!

[laligin.livejournal.com]

^_^ Love! I have the money for D*C set aside, don't you worry! Not going to miss it for the world!

Gotta dash, have to leave for my poetry lecture right now but I loves you both and hope you had a good weekend etc etc etc!

*hugs and runs*