Random update!

[laligin]

Right. So. Reality:

I'm quite happy at the moment. This is good. I would be almost entirely happy if shadowbyrd was fighting fit and well, but that's a discussion for elsewhere. (You can do it!)

Very very slowly, I am making progress on my John Hart jacket. The black velvet I'm using for the collar and cuffs is lovely stuff, if hellish hard to sew (the stitches disappear...) and I have 53 perfect buttons (the shop was two short) and some rather good cushion cord for the braid. And I'm leaving on Wednesday. It's going to be touch and go whether this is finished in time... But I have some hope.

Jantolution fic is marvellous fun to write. (: Though I need to finish another one quickly to go up before midnight tomorrow and maintain the fic-a-week record.

I have found a Dungeons and Dragons game in Liverpool! The Live Action Roleplayer I met at the fabric shop (I think I mentioned him on here) has a group and invited me along, and they all want me to return as a level 6 half-elf Druid. XD It's a shame five of the six of them smoke. Heavily. Despite this, the game I got to see was fun, and I shall be blackening my lungs with a return visit at some point.

Meanwhile, my flatmates set my oven gloves on fire. Despite the fact the smoke alarm screams if you put bread in the toaster for three seconds, it failed to go off when the kitchen filled with smoke. Decidedly odd, that. But the flatmates in question apologised spontaneously and promised to buy me some new ones. Which has yet to happen, but I seem remarkably unperturbed.

The dead scorpion on top of the microwave leaves me similarly bemused but unbothered.

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Um.

Comments

[rosy-dawn.livejournal.com]

Dead scorpion??!!

There was a similar incident in my house the other day actually; my housemate somehow managed to set fire to spaghetti. The smoke alarm didn't go off, but it always does as soon as you even turn on the grill. I think it did eventually go off, like 10 minutes afterwards... helpful.

[laligin.livejournal.com]

*nods* Dead scorpion. Sting has been detached, but is visible. It only has one claw though. We're not sure if it was dead or alive when it entered the kitchen, and the flatmates are away this weekend so we have not been able to ask them. It's about... an inch, inch-and-a-half long, maybe, tail included...

Spaghetti on fire. That's... quite difficult, usually? I'm impressed! I think our smoke alarm is actually a heat alarm. It goes off if you open the oven for too long with the temperature up, but not for burning things. Except incense. It doesn't like incense.

[rosy-dawn.livejournal.com]

I didn't think you could get scorpions in this country... that's kind of scary!

Yeah, I don't get how the flames reached that high up to set the spaghetti on fire... quite impressive! Heat alarm would make sense actually, ours is a weird one attached to the burglar alarm :S lol poor incense.

[laligin.livejournal.com]

*points down* ranamag says we can, so it must be true! Though I agree. *fears*

... attached to the burglar alarm? That fills me with dread...?

[ranamag.livejournal.com]

This is such a weird coincidence. Somebody told me that there were scorpions in the UK just the other day and I didn't believe him. Then I looked it up and sure enough, titchy little Biitish scorpions.

Glad you're well, and as far as the coat goes, you can do it! Just be sure to post pics when you're finished, I'm curious.

[laligin.livejournal.com]

Huh. That's... slightly concerning, actually. ^_^' We were postulating that it might have arrived attached to a packet of something, already dead, but now... Perhaps somebody should tell the staff people here... :| Eep.

One cuff down, one cuff, one collar, 15 metres of braid and 53 buttons to go!

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I'll be offline for a bit... Hope you're well!