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hellison ([personal profile] hellison) wrote2006-11-23 10:54 am

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Meh. Meh meh meh stupid rainy wet November. Meh.

Which sums up how I felt this morning. HOWEVER things are not all bad. On the plus side...

1. The plumber is coming tonight, yay! Not quite sure how or where he'll fit in between horse/pilates/mulled wine, but I'm sure I'll manage. Principally by leaving work an hour early I reckon.

2. The horse is fix0red! Well mostly - the equine physio lady (more of a horse pokerer than whisperer) came on Tuesday and did the pokey stretchy massagey thing; said she had a very very stiff shoulder and worse hip, with lots of scar tissue, poor Zigs, but she should be fine. We have to do the leg lifty/shoulder rotatey things on her daily tho, which she is NOT impressed about at all (Ziggy that is, not the horse pokerer). She already looks much happier and will ride tomorrow and see how she feels.

3. Stuff ordered AGES ago (over a month) from Blackmarket Beagles has finally arrived! I had almost given up and WOULD have emailed cafe press about it, except I can't get into hotmail at all atm to get the email. But it's all here now, except I have to go to Tomb St and pick it up and pay customs on it. Damn Americans.

So. I want Reasons to be Cheerful from the rest of you! What's made your crappy november day a bit brighter?

[identity profile] kimkali.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
What's made your crappy november day a bit brighter?

Horse pokerer

"Hi, what do you do?"
"I am a horse pokerer"
"A what now?!?"
"I am a professional poker of ponies"

Oh there needs to be an icon.... an "iPoke" with a pony....

For you!

[identity profile] kimkali.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
Voila!

[identity profile] being-here.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
I vole you!

Go on - sing carols to cheer yourself up! I might try for a zombie version of Ding Dong Merrily on High later for you....

Re: For you!

[identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
VLE VIOLE VOLE VOLE

[identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
*dies in anticipation*

Re: For you!

[identity profile] kimkali.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
Soon I will have enough VOLE to make a lovely winter coat
~snuggles Voles~

~begging~

[identity profile] kimkali.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 11:17 am (UTC)(link)
Oooo and a Zombie version of little donkey...

Little zombie, Little zombie...

Reasons to be cheerful

[identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
Zombie Vole
It's not raining here it's sunny
The nasty man who was attacking wimmin in the Wicklow mountains has been arrested and so I can go walking again
A job has been advertised in the Institute of Public Health that I am actually qualified for and with a starting salary 20,000 higher than my current salary and and AND it is based in Dublin AND Belfast and I would have to travel between the two offices (now I haven't got this job yet but the fact that it exists is immensely cheering)
I think the roofers are doing our roof.

Re: ~begging~

[identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
*cries and begs for more*

[identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
Also kimkali and being_here creating more zombie carols PLUS the iPoke icon

[identity profile] lazy-hoor.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 11:31 am (UTC)(link)
Meant to reply to your post yesterday. I had similar WOE 10 years ago when we lived in Watford. We were on the top floor of a block of flats. When it rained we noticed a spot on our celing got dark. It got darker. And darker. We told the landlord 'I'll get someone round' he said. Darker, darker darker. Then a lump of the ceiling fell out one Saturday tea-time. The following Monday with one of our friends kipping on the couch, the entire ceiling came down. On top of Dave. It was like ground zero. He survived, we fleed to my parents, the landlord tried to sue us. Fortunately I started off doing a law degree so knew to take photographic evidence.

Ah, happy days.

Photoshopping reindeer made my day brighter actually.

[identity profile] kimkali.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 11:35 am (UTC)(link)
~squee~

[identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
O






M


GEE!

VOLE YOU SO MUCH

[identity profile] kimkali.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
~sharing the joy~

Re: ~begging~

[identity profile] kimkali.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
It's nearly done...

[identity profile] hellison.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Hehe that reindeer brightened up my day too!

Alas the perils of house ownership mean i have no landlord to blame this on and have to be GROWN UP and sort it out myself. WOE WOE WOE.

OTOH, I might get a nice new bathroom, since the current one is clearly fucked. And a horrible colour.

[identity profile] hellison.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I have being_here's song to post now too, will do so immediately!

I may ahve to create a Muffateer's carolling Book for us all :)

Re: For you!

[identity profile] hellison.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 12:06 pm (UTC)(link)
ICON YAY *steals*

She Did poke tho. WITH KEYS at one point. Which made poor ziggy jump in surprise so much she hit her head on the front wall of the stable :p

[identity profile] kimkali.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
May have to? May?
Why yes, actually, you MUST! It is NEEDED! ESSENTIAL! There will be NO CHRISTMAS if there is no Muffateer Carol Book.



~begs~

[identity profile] lazy-hoor.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
What colour? We had a dusky pink one, and an olive green one (both in the 80s).

[identity profile] hellison.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
hehe I will see what I can do

*plots*

[identity profile] hellison.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh we had that green at home for YEARS.

According to the estate agents it is 'champagne', which means it's a sort of yellowy beige...

[identity profile] kimkali.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
~beam~

[identity profile] lazy-hoor.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yes, we had one of those too! We moved house a lot if you're wondering... :\

Re: For you!

[identity profile] kimkali.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
~beam~

With Keys?
Is this woman a poneypoker or a mechanic?!?!???

[identity profile] kelemvor.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I woke up to the sound of rain, but it stopped in time for me to ride to work.
Several of the Orable-related projects are about to have a fist-fight over who gets to use a certain customisable field for what (which gives me an evil happy glow inside).
I'm chatting to an apparently cute 20-y-o with long blond hair online.
All the references to "horse pokerer" have left me shaking with laughter.

[identity profile] hellison.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh, all very good reasons.

I am going to have such a hard time not referring to her as the 'horse pokerer' round the stables from now own ;p

Also, I very nearly typoed that as 'horse poRKere', which I think has a rather different connotation...

Re: For you!

[identity profile] hellison.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Well I couldn't see just what she did with them, cos I was holding the head and she was right at the back... but Ziggy's eyes pretty much did what they do in this icon ;p

Re: For you!

[identity profile] kimkali.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh dear
I'm now worried about Ziggy and those persons who make it their business to "make horses feel better"

Re: Reasons to be cheerful

[identity profile] hellison.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh ooh go for the job go for the job and get it and we can DO LUNCH and stuff.

also YAY ROOF!!!

[identity profile] kimkali.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
VOLE

Actually, I think a pony porkerer is how the Bay of Pigs came about.

[identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
oh god stop i'M LAUGHING HELPLESSLY HERE.

[identity profile] kimkali.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
~poke~

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/ 2006-11-23 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
oh oh oh! i got a customs notice too! NOT LOST! woohoo! still. how can they charge me tax on fuckin' t-shirts?

p.s. bugger pilates, get your re-plumbed self down to j&a's once he's done fiddling with your pipes.

[identity profile] hellison.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Nearly a fecking tenner for 2 tshirts and note book!

Will see re pilates, I skipped it last week due to being excessively hungover, missing 2 weeks inna row generally leads to MUCH PAIN on week 3...

but I suspect mr plumber-to-the-archaeologists won't be finished in time for me to go anyway.

[identity profile] adelpha.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
So how was the horse fux0red before being fix0red by the horse porkerer?

Did you manage to squeeze the plumber in? (*fnar*)

[identity profile] adelpha.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
-pokeporkpoke-

[identity profile] adelpha.livejournal.com 2006-11-23 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
New icon!

[identity profile] hellison.livejournal.com 2006-11-24 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Hehe :p nice one!

[identity profile] hellison.livejournal.com 2006-11-24 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Old muscle injuries, probably from last season's hunting, that had totally stiffened up and have lots of scar tissue built up. But the horse pokerer unlocked the joints and we have to do leg rotatey things and massage to keep it all move and she should be fine!

And NO, fecking plumber never fecking showed up. WOE.