We Have HEEEEAT!
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anonymoose_au10:45pm: Yes! The little heater I got from my parents house is indeed little, but it works and thus I feel warm. It's niiiice. Although I did forget to switch on the light on the other heater for a nice woodfire effect and I'm a bit disappoint. Have to remember to do that.
Anywho! As I wrote yesterday I was at my friend's place, in my costume, which was a bit of an odessey to get because when I went over to collect it from the parentals yesterday I realised, horror of horrors the crinoline wasn't there! And I realised that I had put it in the Box Thing over at Newtown, since originally I was only supposed to be gone from there for three months. Well, shit! It was a good thing I got there earlier than usual because of the IPL appointment, which incidentally didn't actually go ahead because the machine is broken again, do'h. They didn't let me know though because I was also booked in for my eyebrow was, I wasn't sure if they actually needed doing, especially since it's $20, but when the beautician heard my tale of unemployment she offered to do it for free, how nice! I should bring her a cupcake or something next time.
So yeah, the plan was to go to Newtown on the bus, grab the crinoline and head back in time for church, Dad though managed to convince me to take the car - with him as passenger. And I'm very pleased to inform you all...I did it! I drove over the Bridge! There were a few moments when I thought I'd flip out, but I managed it! And it went well enough that I even drove back too!
And the crinoline was tucked away, but I managed to locate it, phew! So crisis averted there, because the costume just doesn't look right without it.
However, despite my success with the Bridge, driving the car after church back to the Granny Flat proved far more difficult. Firstly, I don't like driving in the dark, secondly there's a lot of hills in the north side and I'm no good on hills with manual cars and thirdly, there was an accident that left the traffic going at a crawl and what was usually a twenty minute trip max took nearly forty-five minutes!
But I got home all right, but alas, my efforts to fix the frosting for my cupcakes backfired and it went from being too sticky to being too runny, but it still tasted fine, so I glazed the cupcakes with it before putting on the costume and heading out.
By this point I was half an hour late for the party, which wasn't really a big deal, but it unsettled me nonetheless, so I was edgy and then to make matters worse the street lights here are very spaced out and thus it was very dark out. And the hills are awful! Barely five minutes out and I was trying to crawl up one of them with a line of cars right up my rear. And then in my nervousness I broke the chain on my crucifix! D:
Anyway, I ended up nearly throwing in the towel and returning back to the Granny Flat, I called the friend I was originally going to ask to give me a lift, but he was all ready at the party. So I took a deep breath, turned around to get back on the right road and continued on. I ended up using Dad's GPS to get me to my friend's house, which involved driving up a very steep curving hill that scared the shit out of me and half way there I realised I'd forgotten my little hat! The coup de grace of the whole costume, boo! But in the end I got there.
As it turned out there weren't nearly as many people at the party as there had been for the Halloween Party a couple of years ago and only half of us were in costume, LOL. Seeing as my costume was for a Comic Convention it was waaaay over the top, but hey everyone liked it, my friend's mother even commented on it when she and my friend's father got back. Still total bummer about the hat.
Anyway! A good time was had by all, when I arrived they were playing was Trivial Pursuit on the Wii, which my friend won and then I played Mario Kart with some other people and oh man, trying to do that on a Wii is crazy hard! Seriously, I came last pretty much every race! Eventually though, we found that if you put the little joystick attachment on the controller it handles like an old school controller and then I was winning like a BOSS! Although by then, the other two people had moved on to playing some other game so I had to go by myself, but some people watch me so hey still cool.
In the end I decided to stay over - my friend had mentioned that there was room - because I didn't want to go out into the dark again and when the party ending, she, her boyfriend (another friend of mine - in fact he's the one who brought her into the group) and I watched the pilot episode of MacGyver (so hilarious) and then it was off to bed.
My friend lent me a pair of PJs, but I had nothing to change into this morning, so I had to put my costume back on - minus the wig, gloves and crinoline of course to get back home. Which reminds me, when I woke up my friend was still asleep so I left without saying goodbye, he father was up and said he'd pass on the message but I was going to call her later today, but I forgot...
So yeah I went back to the granny flat, got on some proper clothes had breakfast and later lunch before getting back in the car to return it to Dad, I almost considered waiting until tomorrow to do that, but when I got into it this morning I discovered Dad had left his manbag with his wallet and licence in it (so even if he'd wanted to use Mum's car to get around he couldn't) and then I went to to the gym.
My workout went great, right up to the end when after taking my shower I went to open my locker in the change room and...it wouldn't open!
WTF?! Now, the locker I used is sometimes temperamental but this is the first time its refused to open! And everything was in it because I'd just been swimming before the shower so all I had on was a towel! Eventually I had to ask a fellow gym goer to go to the front desk and ask for some help.
So, someone came with the master cards, none of which worked! As you can imagine I was really beginning to worry now. If it couldn't be opened what was I going to do? Even if I could contact Dad (my mobile phone was in the locker, but I could have borrowed one I guess) all my clothes are here at the Granny Flat so...
Eventually, after about fifteen minutes the upstairs control people got the locker open remotely, phew! Unfortunately, the time that had passed meant I missed my bus and would have to wait for another hour, do'h! Of course, I went back to the parental abode, so it's not like I had to sit on a bench for that whole time, shivering, but still, quite annoying.
But, as I said, I got back here, complete with some leftover spaghetti from Dad that tasted delicious! Although my attempt to resurrect the frosting by adding more butter hasn't done any good at all, bah!
And finally, I'm slightly worried because I can't actually find the little hat that goes with my costume now, I'm more than sure I had it over here, but it's nowhere to be seen. Man, I hope it isn't in one of the bottom baskets, it might be squashed then!
Anywaaay, this has been an epically long post, so I'm gonna hold off on the Memes until tomorrow.
Wish me luck finding the hat, and for now, goodnight!
Anywho! As I wrote yesterday I was at my friend's place, in my costume, which was a bit of an odessey to get because when I went over to collect it from the parentals yesterday I realised, horror of horrors the crinoline wasn't there! And I realised that I had put it in the Box Thing over at Newtown, since originally I was only supposed to be gone from there for three months. Well, shit! It was a good thing I got there earlier than usual because of the IPL appointment, which incidentally didn't actually go ahead because the machine is broken again, do'h. They didn't let me know though because I was also booked in for my eyebrow was, I wasn't sure if they actually needed doing, especially since it's $20, but when the beautician heard my tale of unemployment she offered to do it for free, how nice! I should bring her a cupcake or something next time.
So yeah, the plan was to go to Newtown on the bus, grab the crinoline and head back in time for church, Dad though managed to convince me to take the car - with him as passenger. And I'm very pleased to inform you all...I did it! I drove over the Bridge! There were a few moments when I thought I'd flip out, but I managed it! And it went well enough that I even drove back too!
And the crinoline was tucked away, but I managed to locate it, phew! So crisis averted there, because the costume just doesn't look right without it.
However, despite my success with the Bridge, driving the car after church back to the Granny Flat proved far more difficult. Firstly, I don't like driving in the dark, secondly there's a lot of hills in the north side and I'm no good on hills with manual cars and thirdly, there was an accident that left the traffic going at a crawl and what was usually a twenty minute trip max took nearly forty-five minutes!
But I got home all right, but alas, my efforts to fix the frosting for my cupcakes backfired and it went from being too sticky to being too runny, but it still tasted fine, so I glazed the cupcakes with it before putting on the costume and heading out.
By this point I was half an hour late for the party, which wasn't really a big deal, but it unsettled me nonetheless, so I was edgy and then to make matters worse the street lights here are very spaced out and thus it was very dark out. And the hills are awful! Barely five minutes out and I was trying to crawl up one of them with a line of cars right up my rear. And then in my nervousness I broke the chain on my crucifix! D:
Anyway, I ended up nearly throwing in the towel and returning back to the Granny Flat, I called the friend I was originally going to ask to give me a lift, but he was all ready at the party. So I took a deep breath, turned around to get back on the right road and continued on. I ended up using Dad's GPS to get me to my friend's house, which involved driving up a very steep curving hill that scared the shit out of me and half way there I realised I'd forgotten my little hat! The coup de grace of the whole costume, boo! But in the end I got there.
As it turned out there weren't nearly as many people at the party as there had been for the Halloween Party a couple of years ago and only half of us were in costume, LOL. Seeing as my costume was for a Comic Convention it was waaaay over the top, but hey everyone liked it, my friend's mother even commented on it when she and my friend's father got back. Still total bummer about the hat.
Anyway! A good time was had by all, when I arrived they were playing was Trivial Pursuit on the Wii, which my friend won and then I played Mario Kart with some other people and oh man, trying to do that on a Wii is crazy hard! Seriously, I came last pretty much every race! Eventually though, we found that if you put the little joystick attachment on the controller it handles like an old school controller and then I was winning like a BOSS! Although by then, the other two people had moved on to playing some other game so I had to go by myself, but some people watch me so hey still cool.
In the end I decided to stay over - my friend had mentioned that there was room - because I didn't want to go out into the dark again and when the party ending, she, her boyfriend (another friend of mine - in fact he's the one who brought her into the group) and I watched the pilot episode of MacGyver (so hilarious) and then it was off to bed.
My friend lent me a pair of PJs, but I had nothing to change into this morning, so I had to put my costume back on - minus the wig, gloves and crinoline of course to get back home. Which reminds me, when I woke up my friend was still asleep so I left without saying goodbye, he father was up and said he'd pass on the message but I was going to call her later today, but I forgot...
So yeah I went back to the granny flat, got on some proper clothes had breakfast and later lunch before getting back in the car to return it to Dad, I almost considered waiting until tomorrow to do that, but when I got into it this morning I discovered Dad had left his manbag with his wallet and licence in it (so even if he'd wanted to use Mum's car to get around he couldn't) and then I went to to the gym.
My workout went great, right up to the end when after taking my shower I went to open my locker in the change room and...it wouldn't open!
WTF?! Now, the locker I used is sometimes temperamental but this is the first time its refused to open! And everything was in it because I'd just been swimming before the shower so all I had on was a towel! Eventually I had to ask a fellow gym goer to go to the front desk and ask for some help.
So, someone came with the master cards, none of which worked! As you can imagine I was really beginning to worry now. If it couldn't be opened what was I going to do? Even if I could contact Dad (my mobile phone was in the locker, but I could have borrowed one I guess) all my clothes are here at the Granny Flat so...
Eventually, after about fifteen minutes the upstairs control people got the locker open remotely, phew! Unfortunately, the time that had passed meant I missed my bus and would have to wait for another hour, do'h! Of course, I went back to the parental abode, so it's not like I had to sit on a bench for that whole time, shivering, but still, quite annoying.
But, as I said, I got back here, complete with some leftover spaghetti from Dad that tasted delicious! Although my attempt to resurrect the frosting by adding more butter hasn't done any good at all, bah!
And finally, I'm slightly worried because I can't actually find the little hat that goes with my costume now, I'm more than sure I had it over here, but it's nowhere to be seen. Man, I hope it isn't in one of the bottom baskets, it might be squashed then!
Anywaaay, this has been an epically long post, so I'm gonna hold off on the Memes until tomorrow.
Wish me luck finding the hat, and for now, goodnight!
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Date: 2014-06-29 02:53 pm (UTC)