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Jun. 18th, 2006 10:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nishatalithaDue to the fact that I start my new job in a couple of weeks (yay!), I went shopping this afternoon with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
maudlinrose and our flatmate C., and with their able assistance (read: orders), walked away with a variety of clothes.
First find, and already a favourite is a gorgeous pair of orangey pants (they're really nice) in a wool blend on special from Annah S. Since pants shopping was expected to be the hardest part of the day, this early success was promising. After going through Soho, where C. bought a top, Glassons, Fin, Max, Farmers and Shanton, I am now the proud owner of four new tops, one a white shirt, and three of them in shades of purple! Even though I'd deliberately worn things that were easy to take on and off, I was still pretty tired by the end of the day, and the first order of business when we got home was to lie down and have a nap! Or in my case, turn on the computer, chat tothesane for a bit, and then lie down and read a book.
C. was wonderful and checked the Wellington Public Library stacks for the Lorna Hill ballet books - we discovered last weekend that we'd all read and enjoyed them as children. There are now fourteen books by Lorna Hill in the house, all library owned, and we've been working our way through them slowly.
We bought salmon at our last grocery shop, kinda on impulse, and kinda because we thought it was going to be a cheap shop, and a treat like that would be fantastic. And it was. Salmon on a bed of kumara and potato mash with wilted spinach and leek. Mmmm. It was good.
To follow up all this effort, tonight I caught up on most of my mending. I sewed on three buttons and tacked up two hems. Unfortunately, the main things that need mending - the lining on a couple of my coats - I don't actually know how to mend. I shall ask the Bujold mailing list; someone there is bound to know.
Right now I'm just putting off the inevitablity of going to bed. I am rather tired and do want to go to bed to sleep; I just don't want to go now. Lace & Steel tomorrow night, and Earthdawn on Tuesday. Isthian and Maree have been fairly quiet this week. Earthdawn was cancelled last time due to GM illness, and Isthian is pretty much out of her depth. Very fond of the girl, but it's a real challenge playing someone with that type of limitation, since I'd rather try and fail, and it doesn't even occur to Isthian to try.
mashugenah and house_monkey think it's weird that my characters occupy a space in the back of my head where they tell their own stories. I shall muse on this further at some stage, but I think it's probably got something to do with the fact that I was a storyteller (in the writing sense of the word) first, and am accustomed to my characters (what some would call muses, I guess) occupying part of my head, and automatically expected my roleplaying characters to do the same thing, and so they did. Now, if only Miryam would make up her mind whether she wants to teach or assess teaching, and settle on either Japanese or Liaden manners (for a Christian Jew in Harry Potterverse), I would be a lot happier. As it is, she's annoying, and she might end up somewhere else, because I like her concept too much to lose her.
Many thanks tomaudlinrose and C. who made the days shopping expedition much more organised, fun, and productive than it would have been alone. I'd've given up a couple of hours in by myself. Thanks, guys!
maudlinrose and our flatmate C., and with their able assistance (read: orders), walked away with a variety of clothes. First find, and already a favourite is a gorgeous pair of orangey pants (they're really nice) in a wool blend on special from Annah S. Since pants shopping was expected to be the hardest part of the day, this early success was promising. After going through Soho, where C. bought a top, Glassons, Fin, Max, Farmers and Shanton, I am now the proud owner of four new tops, one a white shirt, and three of them in shades of purple! Even though I'd deliberately worn things that were easy to take on and off, I was still pretty tired by the end of the day, and the first order of business when we got home was to lie down and have a nap! Or in my case, turn on the computer, chat to
thesane for a bit, and then lie down and read a book. C. was wonderful and checked the Wellington Public Library stacks for the Lorna Hill ballet books - we discovered last weekend that we'd all read and enjoyed them as children. There are now fourteen books by Lorna Hill in the house, all library owned, and we've been working our way through them slowly.
We bought salmon at our last grocery shop, kinda on impulse, and kinda because we thought it was going to be a cheap shop, and a treat like that would be fantastic. And it was. Salmon on a bed of kumara and potato mash with wilted spinach and leek. Mmmm. It was good.
To follow up all this effort, tonight I caught up on most of my mending. I sewed on three buttons and tacked up two hems. Unfortunately, the main things that need mending - the lining on a couple of my coats - I don't actually know how to mend. I shall ask the Bujold mailing list; someone there is bound to know.
Right now I'm just putting off the inevitablity of going to bed. I am rather tired and do want to go to bed to sleep; I just don't want to go now. Lace & Steel tomorrow night, and Earthdawn on Tuesday. Isthian and Maree have been fairly quiet this week. Earthdawn was cancelled last time due to GM illness, and Isthian is pretty much out of her depth. Very fond of the girl, but it's a real challenge playing someone with that type of limitation, since I'd rather try and fail, and it doesn't even occur to Isthian to try.
mashugenah and house_monkey think it's weird that my characters occupy a space in the back of my head where they tell their own stories. I shall muse on this further at some stage, but I think it's probably got something to do with the fact that I was a storyteller (in the writing sense of the word) first, and am accustomed to my characters (what some would call muses, I guess) occupying part of my head, and automatically expected my roleplaying characters to do the same thing, and so they did. Now, if only Miryam would make up her mind whether she wants to teach or assess teaching, and settle on either Japanese or Liaden manners (for a Christian Jew in Harry Potterverse), I would be a lot happier. As it is, she's annoying, and she might end up somewhere else, because I like her concept too much to lose her. Many thanks to
maudlinrose and C. who made the days shopping expedition much more organised, fun, and productive than it would have been alone. I'd've given up a couple of hours in by myself. Thanks, guys!