So I was on vacation a few weeks ago, humblebrag, and in front of this old church there was one of those "look I'm a statue" guys who was painted gold, wearing a robe and ram's horns and the creepiest devil/demon mask. It was so freaking scary guys. He haunts my nightmares now.
I was thinking that I was so boring and there weren't any crimes that I'd want to commit, but after reading all of these great ideas I want to do lots of things! I would definitely try to enact some street justice on all the jerks who break the traffic rules. You want to run that red light to turn left mister, well you're going to get rammed.
Yesterday was pretty good. I finally got my iPhone unlocked! Plus today the internet people are coming back for the 2nd time to try to get internet set up in my house. I'm finally starting to feel more connected. However, once I have internet, I won't have any good reason to go to the local coffee shop every day and eat their delicious paninis. So good news and bad news I guess.
Oh, also it's been incredibly beautiful here for the past few days, warmish and sunny with blue skies and everything. We went to a wedding in the country this weekend, and they had a ceilidh, which was basically a scottish hoedown. Most of the dudes were in kilts, and it was awesome. I need to figure out how to get invited to more weddings.
You are not the only one to complain! The kid woke up screaming at 4am the other day and it was already total daylight outside. Do you know how hard it is to get both the kid and me back to sleep after that? Then the next night I randomly woke up at 1:30ish and it was like dusk outside....I don't know when it actually gets dark in this place. I keep watching all these historical documentary things here because there's nothing else on tv, and I just keep asking myself how those people were able to sleep without sleep masks and why the hell did they settle here?
Yes! What's up with people not using their hands for eating normal hand-food things? Why do I have to either look like an uncouth American or eat my freaking french fries with a fork?
My day was pretty good. I've met a few people here, so I'm feeling a bit better about moving around the world. We took a weekend trip to 'the continent' last week and I ate my weight in chocolate, which also helped my attitude! The sun didn't go down till after 11 last night, and it was for sure up before 5am this morning, and I don't think there's any way I'm going to get used to that. But since I can't sleep anyway, I've started reading again, and it's been nice to get back into it.
Basement dungeon update: I closed off all the doors leading to the dungeon and went in the other day and now the entire basement smells like menthol, and the smell is definitely strongest in the dungeon. WTH?
A few years ago we rented an older rundown house in an almost totally (except for our house) gentrified neighborhood. The kids on our street decided that our "creepy" house was haunted and would hang around in our garden, daring each other to knock on our door and screaming when they got close to our house. All the noise and stuff was kinda weirding me out, until I found out what was going on. Then I started playing Halloween music whenever I saw kids come near the house. Kids are silly and like to randomly scare themselves and they scream a lot...or you know, they were ghost kids.
I loved Luther so much, and i think it's only 12 total episodes, so it's not nearly as much commitment as the other shows. I totally understand your queue stress, I've had Breaking Bad, Doctor Who, The Killing, Friday NIght Lights and Louie in my queue for like a year and haven't been able to commit to any of them!
I think yours would definitely win! I don't have any creepy chains or crucifixes or anything. Seriously, the crucifix thing really really freaks me out. I feel like there could be other explanations for all the other weird stuff going on in your dungeon, but not for that. I have an overactive imagination and I don't think I could live there.
So my husband has the same name as some middle aged sports fisherman, and they are always battling for emails and such. My husband now just randomly signs up for any new technology, just to get his name locked in. The one time he fell down on the job though was twitter, and now this dude is tweeting all the time about fish and boats under my husbands name.
We've moved into our new house and as long as I avoid the basement with the creepy dungeon at all costs then everything is fine. Still no tv or internet, so it's getting super boring. Things take so long here, it will be 2 more weeks till we get internet in the house!
Also, I'm super tired this morning cause I stayed up way way too late reading Steph's book. It's really good y'all! It's the first book I've actually had a chance to read since having my kid last year and it's definitely a good first book back.
So part of the problem isn't just PR, it's also that scientists have been trained to never make broad over-generalizing statements, and they avoid doing it to their own determent. For example, there was this really stupid post on the Angelina Jolie article yesterday basically saying that tumors were natural and your body would take care of it if you had a good diet and that mammograms and surgeries, etc were actually causing cancer. I wanted to log in and refute this person's claims, but a) my internet was crap and I couldn't log in and b) there were some sort of half truths to the things he/she was saying and I couldn't bring myself to just say "no that's dumb" and I would have just written a huge post about which parts were accurate and which were over-reaching statements.
It's really good that scientists are trained to be this way, but it makes them look very wishy-washy to the general public.
I threw a drink at a boyfriend once, it was a mudslide. We are no longer together...not directly because I threw my drink at him but really any relationship where you have the urge to throw things at each other is probably not very solid.
Does your basement dungeon look like someone was locked into a bedroom and tried to dig their way to freedom, Count of Monte Cristo style? Mine has a normal closet door on it, totally just looks like it would be a normal bedroom closet, until you open it.
I did see some baby sheep on the drive in from the airport. But haven't been out to the countryside since then. Oh, and I've been watching a lot of 1D, and thought of you! I finding them surprisingly cute for a bunch of teenagers.
We made it to Scotland. The first few days were sunny and pretty, but yesterday was gloomy and rainy, so a typical Scottish day. I survived, but realized that I didn't pack a jacket with a hood, which was very poor planning on my part. I got to check out our new house yesterday, and the ground and 1st floor are really cool, but the basement is creepy and possibly haunted. It has a dungeon in it. I'm not kidding, it's a dungeon. It's got stone walls and a weird crawlspace and I don't like it. My days have consisted of shopping for furniture, trying to figure out where to go to get the things, and sitting in a hotel room watching hours and hours of Viva. I've seen more videos of British boy bands than I care to admit. Also, for some strange reason, the Goo Goo Dolls "Iris" video was on the top 20 countdown this week.....
Sometimes I think I would have been a way cooler person in high school if the internet had been a bigger deal back then. I mean the internet existed, but it was all AOL chat rooms and angelfire pages, and my parents certainly weren't going to pay for that crap. But, if I had it I would have known so much more about music and pop culture and everything else. Then I see something like this and I thank god that I missed out on all of this.
Hey y'all, I just find out that the apartment that we thought fell through maybe didn't actually fall through. That means when we move half way around the world next week we may actually have a place to move into! Here's hoping that I won't be homeless next week.
And I think about half of my videogum comments have now been about embarrassing or klutzy situations I've been in. I'd say I've gotten better as an adult, but that's really not true.
Ok y'all, I've actually had a paper cut on my eyeball before, and I'm afraid this means that I may be Tobey. To be fair to me, it wasn't due to a paper airplane accident. It was during middle school band class (ok this isn't making my story any better) and the director was passing out some sort of handout, and he dropped it right in my eye. I actually had to wear an eye-patch. And picture day was the next day. It was pretty much some sort of awful embarrassing teenage movie situation. I think I ended up saying F it, I don't care about proper eye care, I'm not wearing an eye-patch on picture day.
Here's the recipe. I think actual French ppl would be very upset that it's called ratatouille, but it's pretty and delicious, and fairly easy to put together if you have the mandolin.
http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2007/07/rat-a-too-ee-for-you-ee/
I have a mandolin slicer that I bought for a specific recipe, and I am completely terrified every time I use it. But I love the recipe so I'm forced to use it quite often. So far I haven't done any permanent damage, but it's a risk every single time!
As for the Le Creuset stuff, we registered for 2 things at a fancy kitchen store when we got married and I absolutely love them. They are amazing. However, fancy kitchen store has now discontinued the color that we ordered. They have a new color that is just a few shades off and it really bothers me to an unreasonable degree that my stuff doesn't match. So beware that if you buy the bakeware on clearance you may not be able to buy matching stuff later on.
Oh yes, I will definitely be complaining about that. I have lived in the south for the majority of my life and I'm just completely unprepared to live so far north. I'm mourning the loss of all my flip flops and shorts right now, they are all going to live at my Mom's house while we are abroad. I keep thinking that maybe I should just pack a few t-shirts and shorts, just in case, and really shouldn't I be able to wear flip flops at some point during the summer? But my husband, who is much more cold-natured than me, was wearing fleeces in the middle of summer last year, so I think I'm in for quite a shock. Right now I'm sort of looking forward to the late sun, just because it'll be so weird an different. But I'm really dreading the lack of sun in the winter.
Yep, I'll be there in a couple weeks. I'm really excited about the lambs. My husband said there are some that have big rabbit-like ears. I'm basically going to die when I finally see one.
Right after I moved into my first apartment and was living alone for the first time ever, I was chopping up a watermelon and sliced my had open. Had to get 6 stitches! I resolved to (was ordered to by my mom after the ER bill) only buy pre-chopped fruits. What I'm trying to say is that watching this video makes me very very nervous.
So I'm moving to Scotland soon, and I have these fantasies that I will run into Tilda Swinton at a coffee shop or grocery store or something. She probably shops for her own groceries right? We probably won't become friends or anything, because I'm shy and awkward, but maybe she'll take a picture with me, and I'll post it on here. Or at least I can post that I've seen Tilda in her natural habitat.
Today was my last day at work. We're moving out of the country for my husband's job, and tomorrow I'm going to be super excited about it, but today I'm mostly just sad that I'm leaving a good job and a city that I love. On a much more positive note, hopefully I'll be able to comment a lot more (at least on the morning posts), now that I'm going to be unemployed for the next year or so!
A meetup would be cool! We will be in the Aberdeen area, but are planning to travel around quite a bit. I'm going to need to be in a city bigger than pop. 200,000 fairly often! My husband has basically been living there for the past year and he really loves it. He says it is so beautiful and its amazing that you can drive for 15 minutes and be completely in the countryside. He's also a big fan of the highland cows.
Trust me, I've already informed him about the need to purchase lots of wellies and other boots. I realized a few days ago the only boots I have are suede, and those aren't exactly going to hold up well to the weather.
I'm pretty nervous about the produce situation. We live in the south and there are beautiful fresh veggies available all year around at the grocery store. I visited my husband around this time last year and there were like 3 green tomatoes and maybe some lettuce at the grocery store. But I'm telling myself that it'll be a chance to broaden my culinary horizons and learn to cook more seasonally.
Hey chaka khans moms, I'm moving to Scotland this spring, entirely for a man (my husband's getting transferred). How do you like it there? I'm pretty nervous about it, cause I like the sun and I think I'm really going to miss it.
I'm a new mom, and breastfeeding, and I got a blocked duct and really bad infection. Had to have surgery last week to have the milk drained, and they can't just stitch you back up after that because the milk would just come back in and get infected again. So the recovery is a bitch, but I'm lucky I guess that we caught it before the infection got super bad.
Recovery update: Still have a giant, but getting smaller, hole in my boob. But things are getting better. Had this crazy vacuum thingy put in this week, which is really cumbersome. I won't go into to many details, but I have to wear this purse thingy that carries the vacuum at all times, and even sleep with it, but it'll help to heal faster. My mom is here helping with the kiddo for now and my husband comes home this weekend, yay! On a positive note, it's a hilarious injury to have, and most of my friends can't resist texting me variations of "how's your boobie today." You can't stay too grumpy when getting messages like that all day.
I have actually had ant is my pants before. There was a rainstorm while I was visiting a friend, and somehow the rain forced the ants out of the ground and into my car which I had parked way too close to the curb, and they attacked me as I was driving off. I dunno, I have really bad luck with ants. Anyway, that's basically how I solved it. Ran to my friend's house, took pants of in the shower and threw them in the dryer to kill any remaining ants.
So last time I commented I was excited because I was starting to get the hang of this whole motherhood thing....well things have taken a weird turn. I went to the doctor yesterday with the kiddo thinking I had a little infection and needed to get on some antibiotics. Turns out it was a wicked horrible infection and I had to have emergency surgery, with the kiddo in the next room being watched by nurses. I had to refuse general anesthesia, because of the kiddo, and I somehow needed to drive myself home after said surgery. The husband is currently out of town for the next month and my in laws left on vacation yesterday, so I really didn't have anyone to help in the middle of the day. There was more drama with traffic and local anesthesia running out, but I don't need to write a dissertation about that. However, fun fact about boobs, they are magical and don't heal like normal areas of your body, you can't just sew the wound shut. So I'm currently sitting here with a giant hole in my boob, an actual hole. Luckily, my mom was able to fly here last night to help with the kiddo, and the doctors are saying I should be better in 7-14 days, but this really wasn't how I was planning on spending my last month home with the kid.
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