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lauren3210) wrote2014-12-01 12:57 pm
lauren3210) wrote2014-12-01 12:57 pm
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I had about the craziest and best weekend the past couple of days! I went shopping on Friday with my daughter, and we had to buy her some new bras, because she's rapidly growing out of her old ones. Is it weird that I'm slightly jealous? Like, when I was her age, my mother used to describe my chest as "two paracetamols on an ironing board," and she wasn't too far off tbh. Of course these days I look like I'm smuggling watermelons under my shirts, after growing a size after giving birth to each child. But still, how is it possible that my baby could be growing up so fast? It's not fair somebody make it stop!
Ben bought me flowers on his way home from work on Friday, which makes that the fourth bunch of flowers he has given me in our entire 11 year relationship. I might be bothered by this if I didn't kill anything with leaves on it within a 24 hour period. I think maybe they can sense my inability to prolong their life and just give up preemptively. But then we went out for dinner together, and then went to see Mockingjay, which we both thought was kinda cool. We had a bit of an altercation in the cinema, because this couple weren't very pleased that they were sitting so close to us in the so-called 'priority seats'. For some reason they thought that glaring at us and mumbling under their breath would make us move, so instead I just smiled really brightly and started talking really loudly in Gaeilge, just to piss them off. I figured they didn't like my colouring and wouldn't actually be all that knowledgeable about different languages, and I was right, because then we heard them mumble, "it's not right, that guy should be with a white girl." Nice to know racism is still going strong in this country. Ben looked like he might actually get up and kill somebody, but I managed to soothe him with the promise of some road head on the way home, haha!
We spent Saturday and Sunday moving all of our upstairs furniture downstairs, because tomorrow we have some carpenters coming to replace all of our floorboards. We're currently all camped out in our living room, it's kind of hilarious. But! New beds and carpets by next week, which I have been looking forward to for almost 2 years, dear lord. Saturday night was also our date night - we don't usually get to spend a lot of time together, so we make sure to spend one evening a week just having fun together. We got very drunk while watching The 100 (which is an awesome show that everybody needs to watch btw) and then put on some old episode of Stargate and laughed over the terribleness of it. Eryn came downstairs at about 3 am to tell us off for being too loud, and found us in the kitchen, giggling while we tried to make nachos. We are actually 13 year old children, I don't know why we're allowed to live on our own tbh.
Sunday was spent trying to relieve our hangovers, which for some reason involved a game of Hide and Seek for the entire family. I hid in my wardrobe and actually fell asleep for half an hour, it was very refreshing! Then I wrote 750 words of a new H/D fic, and then switched and began writing a prequel for my Sterek fic, because it's Christmas!
I went out Christmas shopping today with my daughter, and a lovely woman in front of us in a queue said that she was surprised when Eryn called me "mum", because she thought we looked more like sisters! I'd like to marry this lady, tbh. And I've finally finished my Christmas shopping, just a few more bits to get, and then I can stop worrying about it. It's been so hard figuring out what to get the kids this year - they already have absolutely everything. I'm beginning to realise that they might be quite spoilt.
ERISED starts posting today! I'm so excited, I can't wait to see what everyone has written, and what my giftee thinks of their present! And a fic tailored specifically to me! I actually can't believe this is happening, it feels so unreal! I'm also getting ready to help mod the D/E Holiday Exchange - I might not ship the ship or even watch the show anymore, but I love getting involved every Christmas, catching up with all my D/E writer friends and seeing their new prompt ideas and stories, it's great fun.
In other news, I kind of really want to write some more H/D, but am coming up short with ideas. Does anybody have any for me? I have like a half dozen random scenes and bits of dialogue floating around in my brain, but no actual story to use them for, so any ideas or prompts would be fantastic!
How has everyone else's weekend been? Fun, I hope! <3
Ben bought me flowers on his way home from work on Friday, which makes that the fourth bunch of flowers he has given me in our entire 11 year relationship. I might be bothered by this if I didn't kill anything with leaves on it within a 24 hour period. I think maybe they can sense my inability to prolong their life and just give up preemptively. But then we went out for dinner together, and then went to see Mockingjay, which we both thought was kinda cool. We had a bit of an altercation in the cinema, because this couple weren't very pleased that they were sitting so close to us in the so-called 'priority seats'. For some reason they thought that glaring at us and mumbling under their breath would make us move, so instead I just smiled really brightly and started talking really loudly in Gaeilge, just to piss them off. I figured they didn't like my colouring and wouldn't actually be all that knowledgeable about different languages, and I was right, because then we heard them mumble, "it's not right, that guy should be with a white girl." Nice to know racism is still going strong in this country. Ben looked like he might actually get up and kill somebody, but I managed to soothe him with the promise of some road head on the way home, haha!
We spent Saturday and Sunday moving all of our upstairs furniture downstairs, because tomorrow we have some carpenters coming to replace all of our floorboards. We're currently all camped out in our living room, it's kind of hilarious. But! New beds and carpets by next week, which I have been looking forward to for almost 2 years, dear lord. Saturday night was also our date night - we don't usually get to spend a lot of time together, so we make sure to spend one evening a week just having fun together. We got very drunk while watching The 100 (which is an awesome show that everybody needs to watch btw) and then put on some old episode of Stargate and laughed over the terribleness of it. Eryn came downstairs at about 3 am to tell us off for being too loud, and found us in the kitchen, giggling while we tried to make nachos. We are actually 13 year old children, I don't know why we're allowed to live on our own tbh.
Sunday was spent trying to relieve our hangovers, which for some reason involved a game of Hide and Seek for the entire family. I hid in my wardrobe and actually fell asleep for half an hour, it was very refreshing! Then I wrote 750 words of a new H/D fic, and then switched and began writing a prequel for my Sterek fic, because it's Christmas!
I went out Christmas shopping today with my daughter, and a lovely woman in front of us in a queue said that she was surprised when Eryn called me "mum", because she thought we looked more like sisters! I'd like to marry this lady, tbh. And I've finally finished my Christmas shopping, just a few more bits to get, and then I can stop worrying about it. It's been so hard figuring out what to get the kids this year - they already have absolutely everything. I'm beginning to realise that they might be quite spoilt.
ERISED starts posting today! I'm so excited, I can't wait to see what everyone has written, and what my giftee thinks of their present! And a fic tailored specifically to me! I actually can't believe this is happening, it feels so unreal! I'm also getting ready to help mod the D/E Holiday Exchange - I might not ship the ship or even watch the show anymore, but I love getting involved every Christmas, catching up with all my D/E writer friends and seeing their new prompt ideas and stories, it's great fun.
In other news, I kind of really want to write some more H/D, but am coming up short with ideas. Does anybody have any for me? I have like a half dozen random scenes and bits of dialogue floating around in my brain, but no actual story to use them for, so any ideas or prompts would be fantastic!
How has everyone else's weekend been? Fun, I hope! <3