Lorri’s Neighborhood

Trying to get a bit organised before we head off to Thailand a week from now.

So day 6 plan.

Shut the internet shop and put it on vacation mode. No more tiles until 1st January 2010. Then I plan to hit Papa's slides hard and get some newbies up.

Main plan for the day was to get my office work up to date and get the filing done. Because I really hate filing and usually leave it until I can't squeeze anything else in between the top of the pile and the shelf above it.

Filing

And then it spreads onto the floor. And everytime I need to get an envelope or get to my paid file I have to lift Tinkerbell and Harry up to get to it.

They are part of tomorrows plan.

I seem to accumulate a lot of paper.

Filing-2

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If you could hang out with any movie character for a day, whom would you choose as your sidekick?
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That would be Snake Plissken.

Because he's my kind of guy. And he looks like he's not a big fan of showering, and neither am I.

And it could be longer than a day. Say a day and a night. That could work.

But if he's not available I'll hang out with Horton for a day. Because I've only watched Horton Hears a Who about twenty times in the past 3 months and its one of the only movies I've watched more than once. The only other show I've watched more than once is Buffy. And I've watched the whole series of that a LOT of times because my daughter was obsessed with it and it ran on high rotation in this house for months. Years really because then my other daughter watched it a few times as well. Lucky I loved it. Actually I'm watching it again at the moment. Its playing on the sci fi channel. Thank god we just finished the series about Adam, and The Initiative. That was my least favourite series. Riley - what a sookie lala.

 

 

"Conceptual" Art


Originally uploaded by kenneth_rougeau

by Kenneth Rougeau

I've been wanting to do more with less in Photoshop and this is my first fully rendered image. I'm a junkie for source images and it was a refreshing challenge to have to create everything from scratch.

When I get up through the night to go to the toilet.

And I do.

Every night.

Because a while ago, for some reason, I decided it might be a good idea to drink about 2 litres of water every night before I went to bed.

But anyway, when I get up through the night to go to the toilet, I don't turn the light on.

Mainly because Daz, being an electrician, has installed two huge lights in the bathroom that resemble spaceships, that could illuminate a country dance hall on a saturday night.

And because I don't want to burn my retinas and have to stumble into doors on my way back to the bedroom, I leave the lights off.

But last night I had a nasty surprise.

And I don't like to cast blame, but lets just say that Lizzie's boyfriend has been spending a lot of time here lately. And he comes from a family of boys.

So anyway, last night I stumbled into the bathroom half asleep.

Ok, I wasn't really half asleep.

Because I always do that thing where you wake up and have to go to the toilet, but you don't go, because you can't be bothered getting up and you think you can wait until the morning. Even though its about 5 hours away. And you'd never wait that long through the day but for some reason you think you'll be able to get a good nights sleep with an exploding bladder.

Do you know, something you probably never need to know. But sometimes when I finally go to the toilet at 3am, I can count to 50 before I finish the wee,

However, I digress.

Last night I stumbled to the toilet, in the dark, not fully awake, or asleep, pulled my jammy pants down and sat on the toilet.

And sat directly on the porcelain rim.

Because someone (maybe lizzies boyfriend, maybe not) hadn't put the seat down.

And it felt wrong.

And dirty.

I was just about to say - thank god its Friday.

But its only Thursday isn't it.

Well I hope there's a cold bottle of wine in the fridge.

You know how sometimes you have a job to do and everything goes wrong? I had one of those jobs this week. It was an order of 20 tiles and everything that could go wrong did go wrong. There was a point yesterday when I felt like taking all the tiles outside and smashing them to small pieces, then seriously hurting whoever was nearby. In fact at that point I would've paid the people to take them away from me.

So I considered lying on the bed and having a quick cry, but I didn't. I sucked it up and got them done. And now they're all packed up ready to post.

And it reminded me of this job I had once. It was my first job when I left school. For an accountant doing boring bookeeping type things.

And he was a dodgy creepy sleazy bastard who fancied me.

And his wife who also worked there was a nasty mean bitter old bitch.

And she in particular made my life hell. She was so mean and twisted that she made me a nervous wreck and I used to do everything wrong and then she'd think I was stupid. She'd just be at me all the time and I couldn't concentrate.

Of course these days I could drag both their ugly arses up for harrasment but back then there was nothing like that. You just had to suck it up.

I left in the end because it was starting to mess with my head.

I hope they both got their comeuppance

oh look, almost wine o clock

anyway, here's a sort of newbie

Therapy-copy-copy

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Eliot and I spent some time with this beautiful girl in early October.

She grunted and slept and ate a whole squash while we chatted her up.