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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.
