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Nov. 2nd, 2017 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turpsIn a fit of madness I signed up for both the popslash and bandom holiday exchanges. Both assignments are perfectly doable, but even so, what have I done?!
Though I have to admit I signed very last minute for both. Not because I'd intended to do that, but because the date had slipped my mind. Which was especially stupid for the popslash one as I knew sign ups ended on Halloween, had spent a few hours giving out sweets to trick or treaters, had gone in the bath and was sitting there when it suddenly struck me it was the 31st.
I also forgot that mini nano would be starting yesterday, so had to quickly dust off an old google doc to get some words done because I hadn't finalised any exchange ideas. So I wrote some more of my Musketeers space au, and read what I have already, and you know, I like it. And of course want to write more of that now.
In rl news. We've got yet another hire car atm, the third in as many months. Last week James had a very minor fender bender, and thought our car, Jaffa, had got off unscathed as he'd bumped a car that had to suddenly break and while that one had back bumper damage ours looked fine. Got the insurance sorted for that, then two days ago it was bright sunshine instead of grey like it's been for a while, and we realised that Jaffa not only had a small hole in the bumper, but one side of the bonnet was twisted and a clip on the headlight broken. So that's a £100 excess payment we weren't expecting.
In the last few days we've also had a double cinema day. Breathe, which was good, and Thor which was amazing and so funny. Plus, at the risk ofsperrywink shunning me, I loved Thor and Loki's relationship in it. We also had an afternoon at Beamish, the local open air museum. Once you pay to go in you can use your ticket for a full year, and ours is due to run out at the end of this month, so as it was sunny we decided on a quick visit. It was a good time, because it was out of season it was relatively quiet, so easy to get on the trams and buses, plus, we got to go down the mine. Well, I did. You have to walk down it bent over and James couldn't manage more than a few feet, so he went back to the surface. I went all the way down and man, it was creepy at the bottom. Surrounded by coal and rock on all sides, unable to stand upright, your feet soaking due to running water, and then the guide turns off the lights and its pitch black. Those miners must have had nerves of steel to work in those conditions.
Though I have to admit I signed very last minute for both. Not because I'd intended to do that, but because the date had slipped my mind. Which was especially stupid for the popslash one as I knew sign ups ended on Halloween, had spent a few hours giving out sweets to trick or treaters, had gone in the bath and was sitting there when it suddenly struck me it was the 31st.
I also forgot that mini nano would be starting yesterday, so had to quickly dust off an old google doc to get some words done because I hadn't finalised any exchange ideas. So I wrote some more of my Musketeers space au, and read what I have already, and you know, I like it. And of course want to write more of that now.
In rl news. We've got yet another hire car atm, the third in as many months. Last week James had a very minor fender bender, and thought our car, Jaffa, had got off unscathed as he'd bumped a car that had to suddenly break and while that one had back bumper damage ours looked fine. Got the insurance sorted for that, then two days ago it was bright sunshine instead of grey like it's been for a while, and we realised that Jaffa not only had a small hole in the bumper, but one side of the bonnet was twisted and a clip on the headlight broken. So that's a £100 excess payment we weren't expecting.
In the last few days we've also had a double cinema day. Breathe, which was good, and Thor which was amazing and so funny. Plus, at the risk of
sperrywink shunning me, I loved Thor and Loki's relationship in it. We also had an afternoon at Beamish, the local open air museum. Once you pay to go in you can use your ticket for a full year, and ours is due to run out at the end of this month, so as it was sunny we decided on a quick visit. It was a good time, because it was out of season it was relatively quiet, so easy to get on the trams and buses, plus, we got to go down the mine. Well, I did. You have to walk down it bent over and James couldn't manage more than a few feet, so he went back to the surface. I went all the way down and man, it was creepy at the bottom. Surrounded by coal and rock on all sides, unable to stand upright, your feet soaking due to running water, and then the guide turns off the lights and its pitch black. Those miners must have had nerves of steel to work in those conditions.
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Date: 2017-11-02 04:43 pm (UTC)How irritating to find the car was damaged after all. I hit a post a few months ago and damaged the rear bumper slightly, but we decided that the thing is plastic and not going to rust so we'd just live with it. But some damage you can't just live with.
The mine thing sounds... terrifying. I can't imagine being able to do that every day—the idea of all that rock up there, and the discomfort, ew.
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Date: 2017-11-03 06:53 am (UTC)Yeah, some damage can be lived with, this not so much. We both looked and when we realised how far out of alignment the bonnet was neither of could believe we hadn't seen before. But once we had seen it was obvious.
I couldn't have done it every day. The physical aspect was bad enough, but the mental was just as bad. Under all that rock and in the dark and wet. Nope.
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Date: 2017-11-02 05:13 pm (UTC)Just reading about the mine is terrifying. D:
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Date: 2017-11-03 06:54 am (UTC)The mine was horrible, especially when the light was turned off. It was an interesting thing to experience, but I couldn't have coped for more than a minute.
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Date: 2017-11-02 10:50 pm (UTC)Good luck with the car. Sounds like you guys are having some annoying transportation luck recently. Maybe you should go to the bus full-time. *g*
OMG!!!! You are... not dead to me, but very, very, VERY suspect!!!
*spits*Loki*spits*
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Date: 2017-11-03 06:57 am (UTC)You know I'd go full time on the bus but tickets are so expensive. I'm shocked how expensive. When James dropped our car off at the garage he was going to get the bus home and it was £7 for a ten minute journey. Though I suspect part of that is we live on a county border, and travelling over those bumps up the prices.
Ahahahaha, I know! But I really did like their relationship in the movie. I was even tempted to look for fic.
Finally, despite talking to you multiple times yesterday, thank you for the card! I kept forgetting to say yesterday. ♥
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Date: 2017-11-03 06:13 am (UTC)Sorry about your car though. I hope that doesn't cause you too much more hassle.
And wow, the mine sounds like an experience indeed. I've been in some caves before, but they were still relatively large spaces though enclosed. The mine shaft sounds terrifying.
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Date: 2017-11-03 07:00 am (UTC)With it being a motobility car we're lucky that they're great in terms of getting things fixed and supplying the kind of car that suits James and he can actually drive. But it's still money we could have done without paying. And of course, your own car always feels more comfortable.
The mine shaft was really uncomfortable to be in. Even walking down, having to bend all the way felt wrong. You were so aware of all the rock and earth that was above you.
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Date: 2017-11-03 08:40 pm (UTC)I'm glad I don't have either a car or a house - they both seem to be equal money drains!
The mine sounds so scary!
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Date: 2017-11-04 03:37 pm (UTC)Money drain is a really good way to put it. Sometimes it feels like we're constantly paying for some repair or another.
It was scary!
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Date: 2017-11-04 06:02 pm (UTC)Bummer about the car, but glad it isn't much worse. Can it be repaired easily enough?
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Date: 2017-11-13 12:04 pm (UTC)I know, I usually stick to one challenge story but got a bit carried away *g*
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