- has completed disappointingly few items from her to-do list today but have crossed off some big things, which is at least something. #
- only intended to come back onto her laptop for a second but got distracted by the world that lives on here. boo interesting things, boo. #
- might very well just scream. #
- apologies to strowger78 for suggesting that it might be worthwhile dual-booting his laptop. it was clearly not worth it. sorry. #
- watches 3 cats cheese it from the same place – wonders what lured them all over there in the first place and then what scared them away. #
- @IdleSi I’ve pimped #sausagefest on ThingsToDoToday – http://www.thingstodotoday.org/2009/07/14 – we’ll be sausaging later :) #
- watches 12 year old neighbour flirts with a should-know-better 30-something neighbour. is somewhat disturbed. #
- has a legitimate work reason to be reading Twitter. awesome. #
- has watched the magpies eating cat biscuits for the last few weeks, now the cats are eating the sunflower seeds put out for the magpies. #
- realises as the sausages and mash are being served that they should have made onion gravy too. doh. #sausagefest #
- wonders if anyone has an ad network recommendations – to be used in addition to Adsense preferably. #
- realises she’s going to get spammed to buggery by bots for that last tweet. hopefully the actual advice from real people will be worth it :) #
- is glad she has guard cats protecting her from the scary outside world: http://bit.ly/guard-cats #
- @sugarquay isn’t that illegal? even for equal ops monitoring, i thought there always had to be a “would prefer not to say” option in reply to sugarquay #
- @sugarquay they were once mighty? in reply to sugarquay #
- is warm. #
- and @jeremyjarvis pull more people into their magical WordPress whirlwind of unproductivity. #
- thinks a helicopter is hovering directly over the house or the magpies are getting *really* persistent. #
- is being seriously stalked by the magpies now: they were on the bedroom window sill this morning & are now staring at me from the phoneline. #
- is fighting with the cat for control of the cursor – she’s moving the mouse, i’m moving on the trackpad. #
- wishes she could go to the cinema in her pyjamas. may blind the fellow filmgoers with their garishness though. #
- thinks she’d like to try a day of sea fishing from the north yorks coast this summer. any recommendations? anyone want to join? #
- dropped a whole lot of popcorn down her cleavage. Snacks for later. #
- is frustrated at being unable to find out any information online about a quilting bee tomorrow at scrap in leeds. anyone know any details? #
- saw a flyer for said quilting day in arcadia last night so will have to return there if the internet fails. @johnleach will be delighted. #
- is feeling queasy :( #
- has an idea involving bottle caps and a big hammer. will have to wait until I’m feeling better tomorrow though. #
- lets out an anguished wail: “no brown sauce!” #
- realises if she has any “things to do before turning 30”, she has just 6 hours, 39 minutes left to do them in. #
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- enjoyed the first hour of the day – woke up refreshed, got going on a few different things – but it’s been downhill from there. sigh. #
- is feeling productive today – a walk to the wilds of Armley resulted in four things ticked off my to-do list. #
- is both jealous of, and confused by, people who get tattoos that encapsulate that moment in their lives. #
- had one of the worst driving lessons she’s had in a long time. driving confidence at an all time low. :( #
- has had to fire Carbon from his position as “cat” after he failed to display the requisite amount of curiosity required for the role. #
- discovers the downside of working entirely online. #ihateyouvirginmedia #
- @johnleach surely you mean “thank’s” ;) in reply to johnleach #
- dared to move the food for the stray cat from the path to inside the garden. stray cat doesn’t care either way but the magpies are livid. #
- @xbaz i read that was “fucking awesome magician”, which would have been even more awesome. ;) in reply to xbaz #
- says “ohhh, picard” as the stresses of the day come to an end. #
- @Squiggle it’s our favourite too – and at the Brightbox office. it really spoils you for other tea, doesn’t it? in reply to Squiggle #
- finds things hilarious this morning. hil-ar-ious. #
- tried but failed to clean her laptop screen. It’s now both spattered AND smeared. 18 months of food dust and sneezes. #
- had lovely pizza for lunch at Brio’s with Team Brightbox – got a little leftover for an afternoon snack too :) #
- @paulhorsfall awesome! keep us posted on what you’re up to and about the wee shoes! :) in reply to paulhorsfall #
- can’t believe she left her power supply at the office again, even after having a conversation about doing just that over lunch. Doh. #
- is so sleepy, so very sleepy. #
- ‘s poorly sick cat is nothing but stink and bones at the moment. very sad. :( #notatypo #
- watches @johnleach play with a bouncy ball outside. it quickly went from bouncy-bouncy-weeee! to “how high can i bounce this”. #
- @IdleSi Geekup’s on Wednesday 15th. We should be there. :) in reply to IdleSi #
- had jolly nice cake with Katherine at the Bowery in Headingley. We’ve both had a tough week so we deserved sweet things. #
- managed to last a whole 10 days before dropping her phone onto stone and denting it. #
- is finding it very hard to stop tip-tapping away on her laptop and start the sewing project she’s been planning all day. #
- thinks ‘a second earlier, a second later, i’d have just seen a very messy death.’ #
- had a dream her ex-boyfriend was twittering under a random username. checked username’s profile on waking, it’s not him, phew. #
- has been collecting copper wire coils from dead PSUs as well tidying out the junk under the eaves. off to bingley little theatre tonight. #
- enjoyed the Senior and Advanced groups’ showcase at Bingley Little Theatre: I’ll be an asst drama tutor for the Senior group from Sept, fun! #
- finally buys all the books that have been in her basket for weeks and weeks – a lovely hippy selection about chickens, cheese & leatherwork. #
- @sugarquay no, not moved yet so the players are the old neighbours not new ones. moving sometime in the next few weeks, hopefully. in reply to sugarquay #
- would not be surprised if their internet dies today: old lamppost on one side of the cable, new lamppost on the other. workmen look clumsy. #
- watches a magpie mum practise tough love on her child to teach it to eat the cat food we’ve left out for the stray. #
- @IdleSi i wish i’d seen the argh! bread before my lunch – i’d have replied with a surprised “oooh” bagel ;) in reply to IdleSi #
- just got a stone in her shoe – the first time in years. thought that sort of thing died out in the 1980s, like white dog poo. #
- doesn’t feel like she’s achieved much today. been tired :( #
- watches the old lamppost being ripped out of the ground. I wonder what they do with them when they’re done… #
- is surprised how easily said lamppost left the ground: it only took a bit of wiggling. will be so much easier to park outside the house now. #
- forgot how good malted milk biscuits are when dipped in tea. #
- isn’t found of the new white light lamppost outside the house: it’s like aliens landed and brought floodlights with them. #
- just had the most stressful driving lesson ever. 2 mock tests then the car kept cutting out every time i took my foot of the gas. also hot! #
- wants one thing to go her way this afternoon. ONE FUCKING THING. #
- thinks it’s a close heat between who has a worse telephone-menu set-up: orange or hsbc. #
- orange made me go through 6 menus and type in password digits then when it tried to pass me to a real person, said the call was barred. #
- with hsbc, i jumped through 4 telephone banking hoops to book an appt at my local branch, then the person just emailed my branch my request. #
- thinks it would have been quicker to have walked to the bank and might replace her mobile with a tin-can and string arrangement. #
- returned home from the #brightbox office to find a box of books from amazon, hurrah. :) #
- wonders if this crazy thing works now… #
- fails to find a pattern/method to make umbrella-esque food covers. will have to buy one and reverse engineer it. #
- is getting a lot of cat love now it’s raining and the felines have come in from sunbathing for the first non-mealtime time in a week. #
- is glared at by a wet magpie – he wants to know where the outside dish of cat food is today. #
- had the best frickin’ Friday lunch ever, from the Dutch Pot in Chapeltown. Jerk chicken, rice & peas, and a sweet, sweet festival. Yum! #
- has been asked to point out that @johnleach brought home the jerk chicken and other Dutch Pot delights, and therefore deserves (my) worship. #
- intended to stop working at 6pm. Actually stops working at 8:30pm. Long day. At least I get a full weekend to recover these days. #
- is eating sausage for the third time in two days. #notaeuphemism #
- @xbaz us too! now i have to walk to the shop before i can have my cereal. boo. in reply to xbaz #
- can’t wait until her desk and printer are in the same room, not two floors apart. #
- loves the smell of wet cat. #notaeuphemism #
- suspects she’ll be upgrading her OS this evening. what fun! #
- changes her application and desktop fonts to comic sans just to see @johnleach grimace #
- is trying to get used to her long-awaited ubuntu upgrade – suspect i won’t notice the changes that benefit me, just the annoying niggles #
- has her bookmarks from a year ago instead of her current list after an upgrade snafu. funny how much it’s changed. #
- adds twister ice lollies into the deliciousness hall of fame, alongside vimto and encona sauce. #
- is waiting, impatiently. #
- is now riding a giant wave of frustration. #
- worked out her frustration by trimming the fuchsia bush. trimming it with a big saw. #
- has not found any mindmapping/brainstorming software that comes close to beating a pencil and big piece of paper. #
- feels cleaner after restyling a messy document. #
- finds it very strange writing formal, serious work-related emails to people she’s met socially #
- is decidedly unimpressed with lloyds tsb fraud prevention efforts. #
- had a charity shop win. took 6 bags of stuff in & got a complete set of ugly-ace 1970s crockery, which matches our existing set, for £3.80. #
- got a tshirt&comic from liz prince (http://lizprincepower.com/) the other day. post from an internet famous person! http://twitpic.com/8kquw #
- “enjoyed” a modern day re-enactment of Romeo & Juliet last night between two drunk, repugnant neighbours. #
- That rock through yonder window breaks. It is my house and Juliet has locked the door…. #
- … Arise, fair Armley, and kill the ugly bitch. Who is already sick and pale with hangover. #
- [POLICE enter. ROMEO is manhandled into a police car. Exit] #
- declares the ankle to be the funny bone of the foot, ie, it hurts disproportionately when you bang it. #
- has spent years trying to woo @johnleach with intellectual humour & wonderpuns but made him laugh more than ever today with a silly walk. #
- is delighted that for the first time in nearly 4 years, she doesn’t have to read any tabloid newspapers for work today. hoorah for change. #
- doesn’t mind thunder but dislikes lightening. after years in a dark house with @johnleach, super loud noises don’t scare me but light, eeek! #
- dries her cat after he, evidently, chose to stay out in the rain. #
- has had an interesting evening but shall leave it at that for now because it’s so much fun keeping Katherine in suspense. ;) #
- is glad she woke up fractionally before the pneumatic drill started. #
- and @johnleach have a new streetlight outside their house – will be strange for nights to be white-lit, after a lifetime of orange. #
- tends the oregano, basil, mint and rosemary growing in the garden – my hands now smell great :) #
- now has hands smelling of vinegar rather than herbs – shiny clean (albeit a little streaky) windows though! #
- hopes to fall asleep before the caffeine from her ill-advised evening cup of tea kicks in. had it with good cake though. #
- starts the day doing something she usually leaves until last – wonder how that will affect procrastination/productivity… #
- watches a magpie eating cat food left out for the stray cat. Sili’s watching too and imagining a cat food-filled bird – chirp! chirp! #
- would like to know how SEOers justify charging a monthly fee for a site with static content. not being aggressive, I’d really like to know. #
- saved 12p on a tshirt order from the US because of an exchange rate change between adding it to my cart & buying it 2 days later. score! ;) #
- is frustrated: in the last few weeks, I’ve tried to offer two companies my b2b custom but they have no contact details on their websites. #
- had an awesome time at GeekUp. Talked about absolutely everything and put the world to rights. Solution to all problems: I’m put in charge. #
- listened to her snooze alarm beeping for 40 minutes then had to eat her cereal in the car. #
- @IdleSi yep, http://tinyurl.com/bradford-listed – i had it bookmarked because we nearly bought one ;) in reply to IdleSi #
- watches a big cat lapping milk in time with @johnleach’s ukelele playing – they finish at the same time too. #
- is going for curry. hurrah! #
- and @johnleach are going to look around their new house again today. excited! excited! #
- is now even more excited about the new house now. we’ll have windows! and trees! and secret cupboards! and secret windows! #
- and @johnleach have a new cunning idea that could make the new house even more exciting and awesome. perhaps too exciting. #
- @Squiggle ok, now we have two possibly too exciting ideas for the new house. ;) in reply to Squiggle #
- is having her first Sunday off in 3.5+ years. been to the farmers’ market and the pub so far – wonderful. #
- discovers an ink blotch on her forearm from last night’s late night diary writing. #
- listens to @johnleach make cereal/serial jokes. is not amused. #
- is presently particularly partial to pickled peppers. #
- has crossed everything off her to-do list for today and @johnleach is making paneer and chickpea curry for tea: double win! #
- had a lovely meal at Cooper’s in Guiseley with Katherine. Had a bad driving lesson before then: better driving backwards than forwards now. #
- dreamt of salty sea dogs. #
- can’t wait to be working in our new office in the new house – craving music and space. #
- reads some comments that don’t help her mood one bit, even though she knows the remarks are just trolling. sigh. #
- feeds the cats a big pile of meat to celebrate it being 10yrs since Carla, Carbon & I adopted each other. Gave a short unappreciated speech. #
- had a surreal 1930s themed trip to the cinema this evening. Probably ate more crap than they did in the 1930s, laughed more too. #
- got “chased” by two horses on the way to the hairdressers – they were running, I wasn’t. i will miss armley. #
- had to bite her tongue several times at the hairdressers. Everyone repeating myths about nutrition, diet & sex education as the truth. sigh. #
- hasn’t done as much work as she should have done this afternoon but nevermind. been a good, busy week all in all. time to sit in the sun. #
- had a lovely day in Harrogate with @johnleach. ate lemon & lime cheesecake and bought binoculars from oxfam & fabric for bunting. #
- can smell the neighbours’ bbqs and now has super-mad bbq cravings. #
- is having to work today because PastLouisa_ was slack on Friday but is getting ahead on some stuff too so FutureLouisa_ likes her tomorrow. #
- has another wonderfully long conversation with @johnleach & @thattommyhall. world not put to rights, just decided everyone is confused. #
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