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Apr. 25th, 2005 08:52 pmToday has been mixed...
I had my appointment with Carole which was good. I get to rant to someone who is paid to listen and doesn't have much stress in her own life...well ok she has stress at the moment but unlike most of us she is dealing with it and, as I said, is paid to listen to me rant. We had tea in asda and bitched about men, what more can you ask for?! I also found out something useful, they have a budget for giving money to carers, specifically she can get me/us some extra cash (up to £300) to go on holiday with. Getting out of the house and the immediate environs of Nuneaton would be good for both of us. I'd love to go abroad, but since neither of us have passports at the moment and it would cost about £88 to get them both, it looks like we may be restricted to this country, still there are some interesting places to go.
The other obstacle to us going abroad is a muppett...not really a surprise. He has forgotten most of his french and german, it's been nearly 12 years since he used it so you can kinda understand that. The thing is, he thinks, and I agree with him, that you shouldn't go to a foreign country if you're not willing to at least learn the bare basics of the language. His reasoning is that he would feel bad having to constantly ask me what people were saying and getting me to do all the talking, then he'd panic...he gets stressed and panicky when he can understand what's being said so surely he'll be a hundred times worse when he can't. The fact that most people speak english as well if not better than some of us do is beside the point apparently! Part of the reason I want to go is to stretch my linguistcs again, I still remember enough of both french and german to get by and a quick flick through a phrase book will have me fine again in no time.
Whatever we do, a holiday would be nice, something to look forward to anyway and in the mean time I have lots of pretty brochures to look through and dream about the places I want to go. There is one slight thing that worries me, if we go somewhere with a pool I'm going to want to swim...I'm not sure if he'll be able to...oh well, we'll just have to get somewhere near the beach instead. Mmmmm, being able to fall asleep to the sound of the sea again, that will relax me more than anything else could I think.
I haven't ended up with the bruise I thought I was going to from yesterday, this is good since we're going swimming tomorrow, I didn't fany not being able to lift one arm properly! If the 'leisure pool' is open I might have to go have a play in there as well, slides and bubbles and a little outside bit...it will be a cool down after however many lengths we wind up doing. My right arm is still a little achey from yesterday, you forget just how much a LARP weapon weighs when you keep it scabbarded all weekend, when you're actually waving it around it does have an effect on the muscles. Of course the fencing part and the fact that you're holding it out at an angle all the time might cause that as well. I can't remember if I mentioned it yesterday but apparently I took better to the fencing than I did swinging a broad sword/bastard sword around, I seemed more confident in my first practise than I do now with the bigger weapons. That would be because I am elegant and lady-like and require a weapon suited to my delicate nature....*Glares threateningly at the snorts of laughter from everyone reading*....I AM delicate and lady-like when I want to be!
And we ARE going to remember to warm up this time!
Hmmmm, I'm also a couple of posts behind on Stolen Shards, I really should go update that but I'm tired and my inspiration is still in hiding...maybe I should flick through the faerie oracle and see if I can find my inspiration faerie there...I will get to play with that properly at some point, it feels nice. I honestly never thought I'd use it, sure I've seen them and they're pretty but they always struck me as being a little...wrong. Maybe it was just the right time for me to get one.
Money comes in tomorrow, I feel like buying something pretty, ideally I need to get a skirt for Maelstrom but maybe I should exercise a little restraint and wait to go shopping in Brum when we get there....I'll think about it. I may even get some fabric and see if I can persuade my sewing machine that it likes me again...Robs are wonderful, they're making us frock coats! And we're getting the pretty black dusters that we saw last time....yay pretty kit! I might actually get to be more kit than goth in a couple of events time! Hmmm, this is turning into Maelfroth again isn't it? Oh well, better that than me checking the HP game I found on RPOL every five minutes. Bad Fae, you have your own game to run, stop finding other people's that you want to play in!
Ok, since this is just degenerating into a ramble I'm going to go make tea and have a bowl of cereal since I haven't got around to eating much today.
*pixie dust*
I had my appointment with Carole which was good. I get to rant to someone who is paid to listen and doesn't have much stress in her own life...well ok she has stress at the moment but unlike most of us she is dealing with it and, as I said, is paid to listen to me rant. We had tea in asda and bitched about men, what more can you ask for?! I also found out something useful, they have a budget for giving money to carers, specifically she can get me/us some extra cash (up to £300) to go on holiday with. Getting out of the house and the immediate environs of Nuneaton would be good for both of us. I'd love to go abroad, but since neither of us have passports at the moment and it would cost about £88 to get them both, it looks like we may be restricted to this country, still there are some interesting places to go.
The other obstacle to us going abroad is a muppett...not really a surprise. He has forgotten most of his french and german, it's been nearly 12 years since he used it so you can kinda understand that. The thing is, he thinks, and I agree with him, that you shouldn't go to a foreign country if you're not willing to at least learn the bare basics of the language. His reasoning is that he would feel bad having to constantly ask me what people were saying and getting me to do all the talking, then he'd panic...he gets stressed and panicky when he can understand what's being said so surely he'll be a hundred times worse when he can't. The fact that most people speak english as well if not better than some of us do is beside the point apparently! Part of the reason I want to go is to stretch my linguistcs again, I still remember enough of both french and german to get by and a quick flick through a phrase book will have me fine again in no time.
Whatever we do, a holiday would be nice, something to look forward to anyway and in the mean time I have lots of pretty brochures to look through and dream about the places I want to go. There is one slight thing that worries me, if we go somewhere with a pool I'm going to want to swim...I'm not sure if he'll be able to...oh well, we'll just have to get somewhere near the beach instead. Mmmmm, being able to fall asleep to the sound of the sea again, that will relax me more than anything else could I think.
I haven't ended up with the bruise I thought I was going to from yesterday, this is good since we're going swimming tomorrow, I didn't fany not being able to lift one arm properly! If the 'leisure pool' is open I might have to go have a play in there as well, slides and bubbles and a little outside bit...it will be a cool down after however many lengths we wind up doing. My right arm is still a little achey from yesterday, you forget just how much a LARP weapon weighs when you keep it scabbarded all weekend, when you're actually waving it around it does have an effect on the muscles. Of course the fencing part and the fact that you're holding it out at an angle all the time might cause that as well. I can't remember if I mentioned it yesterday but apparently I took better to the fencing than I did swinging a broad sword/bastard sword around, I seemed more confident in my first practise than I do now with the bigger weapons. That would be because I am elegant and lady-like and require a weapon suited to my delicate nature....*Glares threateningly at the snorts of laughter from everyone reading*....I AM delicate and lady-like when I want to be!
And we ARE going to remember to warm up this time!
Hmmmm, I'm also a couple of posts behind on Stolen Shards, I really should go update that but I'm tired and my inspiration is still in hiding...maybe I should flick through the faerie oracle and see if I can find my inspiration faerie there...I will get to play with that properly at some point, it feels nice. I honestly never thought I'd use it, sure I've seen them and they're pretty but they always struck me as being a little...wrong. Maybe it was just the right time for me to get one.
Money comes in tomorrow, I feel like buying something pretty, ideally I need to get a skirt for Maelstrom but maybe I should exercise a little restraint and wait to go shopping in Brum when we get there....I'll think about it. I may even get some fabric and see if I can persuade my sewing machine that it likes me again...Robs are wonderful, they're making us frock coats! And we're getting the pretty black dusters that we saw last time....yay pretty kit! I might actually get to be more kit than goth in a couple of events time! Hmmm, this is turning into Maelfroth again isn't it? Oh well, better that than me checking the HP game I found on RPOL every five minutes. Bad Fae, you have your own game to run, stop finding other people's that you want to play in!
Ok, since this is just degenerating into a ramble I'm going to go make tea and have a bowl of cereal since I haven't got around to eating much today.
*pixie dust*
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Apr. 25th, 2005 11:07 pmThat was nice. Had rant/chat/fluffiness on the phone to a Skye...Ok was for many hours (ie not long after I signed off last time to now and muppett was talking before that) and will probably do hideous things to the phone bill but we both needed it and was nice. I haven't had the chance to really talk to her since everyone was at the flat. Besides I've felt a little guilty for not really being with it when she phoned last night but I was in the middle of my own stressy ranty crisis at the time and really didn't want to talk to anyone.
Anyway, it kept me from staring at the screen for more hours and getting a headache and it's kept me away from obsessively checking posts. Now I have several to read and something else on Shards.....Still haven't had that cup of tea though....must put kettle on....that much talking has kinda left me with a sore throat.
*pixie dust*
Anyway, it kept me from staring at the screen for more hours and getting a headache and it's kept me away from obsessively checking posts. Now I have several to read and something else on Shards.....Still haven't had that cup of tea though....must put kettle on....that much talking has kinda left me with a sore throat.
*pixie dust*
