- and carbon engage in today’s round of the daily tussle: battle over the dregs of cereal milk. #
- is being told to ‘please make the rain stop’ by a whiny cat. #
- learns why you shouldn’t remove nail varnish in the semi-dark: i’ve left loads on every nail & because it’s lime green, i look most ill. #
- gets nervous when @johnleach laughs like that. #
- loves having normal people as friends – people who can ask if a “data centre” is a real place or “a mythical geek location” :) #
- is feeling unsatisfied at the moment, not really dissatisfied with anything but unsatisfied in general. it’s been another tough year, sigh. #
- loves: crunchy toast; cats snoring in uncomfortable positions; and, mysterious tummy rumbles when we can’t work out who is the gurgler. #
- @strowger78 i think our little girl is the loudest. she does proper barry white meows when she goes in the car too, the boys just whine. :) in reply to strowger78 #
- put food out for the stray cat but after he’d finished, the wind blew over the dish and now the magpies are having a party in the crumbs. #
- @strowger78 carla & carbs had to go through a 2 hour journey at rush hour, in a heatwave to get to leeds when we moved. not fun for anyone. #
- makes a Madonna/pop culture reference. Suspects @johnleach did’t get it. #
- gets overly excited about a pack of labels. #
- just had a fucking amazing experience with legal & general’s call centre people. absolutely superb. (not being sarcastic for once either.) #
- is going to: eat the bestestest chilli ever, have a shower, go to Leeds Ruby Thing then relocate to The Chemic to watch The Gillroyd Parade. #
- struggled to wake up this morning and is greeted by emails that kinda make her wish she hadn’t. #
- planned to feed @thattommyhall a delicious farewell lunch. Hangovers mean no one feels like it. Biscuits and coffee will have to suffice. #
- notices the jerk seasoning marinading on the chicken smells a little like Branston pickle. Hope I didn’t use the wrong jar… #
- has been helping @thattommyhall move out pre-india. took 4 loads of stuff to the charity shop & kept a load ourselves, inc 27! cans of beans #
- is tired and covered in cats. #
- is sat in perfect formation on the sofa: cat (carbon), me, cat (boron), @johnleach, cat (carla). #
- @IdleSi Valentine’s Day evening. We always go then – it’s deserted. Still doesn’t really make it bearable though. in reply to IdleSi #
- has spent the day thinking a lot about new houses and old houses. #
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- is very very, very very very, tempted to scream. #
- has spent the whole morning chasing bits of paper, working her way through frustrating phone systems and dealing with inept people. joy. #
- doesn’t think she can adequately express her frustration at Royal Mail in 140 characters. #
- doesn’t think she can adequately express her frustration at Leeds City Council in 140 characters. It’s been a frustrating day. #
- can hear @johnleach hovering near the cellar door and wonders if he’s thinking of locking the meter-reader down there. #
- forgot her power supply in the hurry to the office. it’s going to be a dull-screen day, or rather a dull 1hr 50mins. #
- wasted 13mins of her precious 1hr50mins fannying around getting an external screen working for no benefit. also wasted time twittering. bah. #
- kisses her power cable – oh! how I’ve missed you, electricity. #
- just got her rock on. #
- visited new parts of the supermarket today, places she’s never been before and never wants to go again – ie, the baby aisle. *shudder* ;) #
- got confused by a reflection. #
- loves the train ride from leeds to bingley – so very green and glorious in the sunshine. #
- is full of pizza again. we should probably change the company name to brightpizzabox. #
- had a meeting with the solicitor re: our new house. things are progressing but still slowly and still in a wtf manner. #
- @Threebt re fivers: I used to get them from a machine at uni in Liverpool, my friend at the uni in Hull. gets it’s a near-students thing. :) in reply to Threebt #
- is so very tired. has a dreaming cat on her foot. #
- dislikes being distrusted.-===================fgtrrrrrrrrrrrr-==========re0ds #
- also dislikes cats stomping on keyboards and accidentally tweeting. #
- had lunch too early – feeling peckish but it’s FOUR HOURS until we’re going to dos amigos. might have to have a giant snack in the meantime. #
- @strowger78 you need to end tweets like that with the hashtag #notaeuphemism ;) in reply to strowger78 #
- has had a great end to a bad week – lots of fun stuff happening at @brightbox and @threebt called me a “re-useable goddess” on her #ff. ;) #
- had another lovely meal at dos amigos, this time with @johnleach, katherine&john, and dan. tapas and smutty humour, mmmm. #
- should very possibly have gone to bed about an hour ago. #
- remembers why she shouldn’t re-read TC Boyle’s Drop City – I so feel bereft when it ends, the rebound book always suffers in comparison. #
- only achieved this yesterday: http://www.twitpic.com/ezc88. the eagled eyed will notice it’s only 1 side so far & that i have very ugly pjs. #
- must be doing something wrong monetising one of her sites – can’t believe it’s not worth more than $0.08CPM… more experimentation i guess. #
- thought today started off really well but it’s been downhill since then. Frustration piled upon frustration. #
- returns from a superb meal at Dos Amigos with Katherine. Stuffed now though. #
- thinks Boron has missed her for the 2 hours she’s been out because he’s all about the love now and is purring loudly. :) #
- feels oniony even though she only ate the tiniest bit of (admittedly raw) onion at lunch. also feel like i could use a good long stretch. #
- would like a snooze now. #
- finally has a mortgage offer letter in her hands. Whoop whoop. #
- has annoying ear wobbles again – thought I’d got rid of them for this year. Boo. (still though *does the offer letter dance*) #
- had another full day at the office – looking forward to working from home tomorrow. #
- wonders whether it’s her screen that’s dull today or a problem with her eyes. #
- thinks she’s done for the week. keep trying to work but my head & my ear object. an evening of crochet tonight; off to Nottingham tomorrow. #
- lets the cats in – they’ve been misted by the drizzle and glisten in the light. We all smoosh faces to share the sogginess. #
- now has a hula hoop. #
- @xbaz we were in the city centre and wollaton – had tapas and milkshakes in the city centre, then kebabs when we arrived back in leeds :) in reply to xbaz #
- spent some time yesterday afternoon in a milkshake shop in nottingham listening to tina turner’s private dancer. it was a special moment. #
- has had a lazy day up to now, reading books about chickens. Now time for laundry, cleaning out the kitchen & lasagne with @thattommyhall. #
- is firm but fair while consigning books to the charity shop. But space on the bookshelves is instantly filled with piled elsewhere to-keeps. #
- wishes she was at home in bed with a cat or three. #
- has been bought a lovely fountain pen by @johnleach. I got some pretty ink and a converter too so no more throwaway biros for me, woo. #
- was late to the office because we were watching videos of a slow loris on youtube. @strowger78 had a can of grape soda waiting for me – ace! #
- has been visiting the 3M website a lot recently – strange how I went a decade without visiting it once and now 3 unconnected times in a day #
- has some crazy ideas that just. might. work. #
- has been working on a new mini-feature for @recycle_this this afternoon – fun! #
- @thattommyhall leeds will miss you but woohoo! yay! you’re on your way! ;) in reply to thattommyhall #
- will spend this evening blogging, frogging and … making scones. #
- spent longer than intended baking but has a lovely full wire cooling tray now. made treacle & cinnamon cookies as well as scones. yummo. #
- just had homemade scone with homemade butter. sadly had to use shop bought jam – still yum though :) #
- thinks it’s time to funnel meat down the throats of cats then retire for the evening. #
- can see 5 tiny birds flying in an out of the big bush in our garden & can hear that one very happy (but fat & lazy) cat is watching them too #
- turns out cat wasn’t too fat or lazy. doh. #
- @IdleSi I’ve used Inkscape since 2006. I’ve not used Illustrator so I can’t compare but I like Inkscape a lot: lots of great features :) in reply to IdleSi #
- wonders if there are a lot of wasps around today or if it’s just the same really dumb one again and again. #
- is struggling to write some copy. Drinking water whenever I get stuck. Worried I might get water intoxication. #
- finally got to go inside BaaRamEwe – been pining at the window for weeks, always turning up when it’s closed. I’ll be a’felting tomorrow :) #
- is waiting for the Tedesco Brothers to arrive so we can go to the Leeds Asian Festival http://www.leedsmela.org/asianfestival/main.php #
- has had a day of spicy delights: had an ace kebab at the (smaller than we thought it would be) mela then dawdled over to bradford to omar’s. #
- donned leather palmed gardening gloves at midnight to help a stranded hedgehog back over the little wall into the park. #
- thought she swept up all her sewing fluff and cut-offs last night. In the light of day, it’s apparent she did not. #
- is easily amused: “Which cheese would you use to entice a grizzly down from a mountain? Camembert.” teehee. #
- is getting over-excited looking at small animals. *bounces* #
- had a lovely day out with katherine – lots of animals and a lovely lunch too. shame the weather got in the way of paddling though. #
- is in a vicious circle: when I get stressed, my ears hurt; when my ears hurt, I get more stressed. #
- starts the day with a game of catch the cat vomit. #
- has a fading stamp on her hand: a casual observer may think it’s from some cool exclusive club; it’s really from a stroke-the-animals farm #
- accidentally deletes a whole bunch of her personal email while cleaning out fluff and stuff from under the delete key. #
- has some very excited cats. #
- loves the internet, loves the internet very much. i want to hug it. #
- is ready to go for pizza but no one else is. HINT. #
- ate a smidgen too much at lunch. by “a smidgen”, i mean half a pizza and a slab of rocky road too much. #
- just nearly knocked a glass of water over @johnleach’s new phone. sssh! don’t tell him. #
- is *still* full of pizza. #
- is delighted how much the cats love poached salmon trimmings – best 15p i’ve ever spent ;) #
- woke up feeling good and happy. turned on laptop, instantly deflated. sigh. #
- very much likes this today: http://little-people.blogspot.com (link from @threebt) I think I have seen them before but they still delight :) #
- would like to apologise to everyone – it’s my fault it’s got windy and is about to rain – i thought i’d dry some washing outside. sorry. #
- feels strangely lost whenever Wikipedia blips off the internetz for a moment. #
- is taking our poorly cat Silicon to the vets for the last time. heart breaking. :( #
- dreamt about Sili. In the dream, I told her I was dreaming because “you’re not here any more” and she was lovely old, pre-cancer Sili. :( #
- is having lunch lovingly prepared for her by @johnleach. He’s enjoying eating raw carrot just a little too much. #
- has a question for people at Unity Day: heading down there shortly, should I wear trainers or wellies? #unityday #
- is very pleased to have randomly come across this photo on Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/7kFbf #
- returns from Unity Day. Glad I wore my wellies. Not the best Gillroyd Parade gig ever because of sound issues but a fun evening anyway. :) #
- loves having Sundays off work now. #
- looks up Thora Birch’s age on IMDb so @johnleach knows whether or not he can find her attractive in Ghostworld. She was 19, so he can. #
- had success making butter, less success with the buttermilk cheese, paneer is setting – next ricotta, lemon cheese and dinner at salvo’s … #
- thinks the super-easy paneer & butter were the best creations of the afternoon. only made enough ricotta to fill a tablespoon. dinner now :) #
- has had an email from a long-lost old (pen)friend today and spent the rest of the day catching up – a lovely way to spend the day :) #
- has inner-ear wobbliness. #
- loses another day to mortgage stuff #
- has to stick her hands in to stop boron and the stray cat *properly* fighting. scratches a go go. #
- thinks in some parallel universe Alternate@johnleach & Alternate@louisa_ have got it frickin’ made & can’t believe their ongoing good luck. #
- is now ready to start her working day after 4 hours of running to and from banks, and an hour of house valuing preparation. *FUN*. #
- decides to give herself half a dozen small, achievable goals so she can actually feel a sense of accomplishment today. first: eat sandwich. #
- saw these guys practising in Mr Foley’s last night. It was surreal but fun to have them scary-dancing right next to us. http://bit.ly/EZY0J #
- thinks it can’t be a coincidence that when the other cats bend down to steal the poorly-sick cat’s food, they look just like vultures. #
- orders pizza for team brightbox #
- feels specrapular. hates her ear and nose tubes. #
- is having to make her own damn tea. boo. #
- might just clean out her cup before making herself that damn cup of tea. http://bit.ly/mCWm1 #
- @IdleSi #cheesefest i’m in! i’m all about making cheese at the moment. #notaeuphemism in reply to IdleSi #
- has been doing annoying website housekeeping things today instead of “proper work”. hope for a more productive next week. #
- is really rather excited about the prospect of curry this evening. But what to have? What to have? #
- is scared what @jeremyjarvis will try to trouserpress next and suspects @sarahjarvis should watch out. #doesittrouserpress #
- spilled olive oil on her top. Wiped it off with a napkin – napkin covered in sauce. Bought replacement top, spilled ice cream down it. N … #
- is all about grape soda at the moment. Stuff in bottles seems better than stuff in cans. Neither contain actual grapes. #
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