"And I know it's out there..."
Jan. 6th, 2003 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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snowdrop24's last post was lovely. I don't know why.God bless the fanfic writers.
[On that topic - even though she can't see me, I'm waving at
scarlatti, a new friend...]In the meantime... I am cold. I have been reading and watching television, but all the time feeling I should be revising.
Or something.
I'd quite like to write something, but I have no ideas. The story of my life, I suppose. All dressed-up and nowhere to go...
Which reminds me. Why on earth do I bother wearing jewellery and touching up chipped nail varnish when I'm on my own all day? The only person who's going to see me is me... but I cling to my habits.
Ah, well. It's not as if my life is awful at present, so there's no need to be maudlin.
[What's the noun to go with maudlin? Maudlinity? Maudliness?]
But yes. My life is, well, it's okay. I'm safe at home, I've been home for a week... I'm still me, it's my birthday in exactly two weeks, I'm not revising but I won't fail, there is still good fanfic in the world, I still have my friends, I figured out the heating switch and the house is warming up, I've got the media player and as long as I'm alone, I can have the volume up as high as I like, and as long as I'm here I have the whole world at my fingertips.
"And I know it's out there,
But somehow here is gone."
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on 2003-01-06 06:52 am (UTC)Florida is experiencing a cold snap as well and I recently discovered that the heat sink element for the air system doesn't work. There's no point in calling it in since the cold snap will end soon and we shouldn't be living here much longer anyhow.
I'd quite like to write something
I think that's every writer's dilemma! I have ideas the come into my head that the oddest moments where I cannot capture them but when I sit down to write, they dry up and blow away on the winds.
Why on earth do I bother wearing jewellery and touching up chipped nail varnish when I'm on my own all day? The only person who's going to see me is me
I think you answered your own question there. I am a housewife and I rarely leave the house most days, not even to shop (I save it for weekends and dream of having a working car again so that I can go places). Even so, I find it a tremendous boost to self esteem to wear jewelry, makeup, whatever even though no one else will see me. It puts me in the right frame of mind for productivity and it makes me happier to be well cared for.
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on 2003-01-06 07:00 am (UTC)We're not having a cold snap, per se... it's just always like this in January, although I have to say today is exceptional. About eight degrees under, today... but bright and sunny.
I guess you're right about the jewellery thing- although perhaps I never thought of it in those terms. It's just something I do....
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on 2003-01-06 08:32 am (UTC)no subject
on 2003-01-06 07:05 am (UTC)Strange! :P
I'd quite like to write something, but I have no ideas. The story of my life, I suppose. All dressed-up and nowhere to go...
Me too, which is why once I get this damn coat, I'm running off to find a cafe to write in. And on another note - I love the bag you got me! It's perfect, so I don't lose my phone and purse any more, and it's easier to take a pen and notebook everywhere with me! Thankyou! *huggles*
The only thing is, I don't want to stick badges all over it now! :( of which I have about 50...
Right...I'm taking my CD player and one CD. Something Corporate? What do you think?
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on 2003-01-06 07:13 am (UTC)I'm glad you like the bag! I wasn't sure you would!
*huggles back*
Come back soon...
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on 2003-01-06 07:17 am (UTC)We're picking grandma up from Lime Street.
Gah!
*More huggles*
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on 2003-01-06 08:47 am (UTC)I have the perfect tool...
(I also get a chance to practice my HTML...)
Ideas taken from 'The Writer's Block'
- Describe the largest crowd you've ever been part of.
- Describe a time when you've settled an argument between two close friends.
- Conformity (it's supposed to be a spark word)
- Bad hair day.
- Write about an incident that could be used against you if you ever ran for political office.
(And this one is interesting...)
You don't have to do any of them, they're just ideas, and I wanted to put my new book to good use...
*huggles*
P.S It is freezing, isn't it? And yet it's so sunny...
And I'm wearing jewellry, too.
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on 2003-01-06 09:48 am (UTC)And that last one is fantastic. Political office?
Hmm....
Thank you! I love that book!
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on 2003-01-06 10:07 am (UTC)And I'm wearing the bracelet you gave me!
*huggles*
I bet you have a hundred little secrets that you don't want the press to know about, don't you?!?!
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on 2003-01-06 10:31 am (UTC)Re:
on 2003-01-06 02:05 pm (UTC)And I will use it, when I am blocked. In the mean time, it so much more fun being a fairy god-mother and unblocking everyone else!
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on 2003-01-06 11:18 am (UTC)*waves back, smiling*
I'd quite like to write something, but I have no ideas. The story of my life, I suppose. All dressed-up and nowhere to go...
We must have the same muse, or something... On those rare occasions when I do come up with a good idea, there's a 99 percent probability that I won't have a chance to write it down before I completely forget it. :P
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on 2003-01-06 11:51 am (UTC)Re:
on 2003-01-06 01:23 pm (UTC)Ever get the feeling she's somewhere in Hawaii, drinking cocktails with little umbrellas in, having forgotten all about you?
'Cause if the answer's yes, we've got the same one...