Categorylife
The general parent category for most of the things I write about on here.
One of the more interesting Louisa-centric sub-categories is biodata (where I explore my personal history with graphs, maps and whatnot), and if you’re that way inclined, you can read about the wonderful felines and canines with whom I’ve shared my life too.
- 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. #
(As originally posted on my Twitter thingy.)
louisa_ “enjoyed” a modern day re-enactment of Romeo & Juliet last night between two drunk, repugnant neighbours.
ROMEO: 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]
(This follows on from last year’s “Summer in Armley” post.)
- 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. #
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