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I am sitting here dripping blood over the keyboard gently like an over-fed vampire, having just had my broken tooth finally removed, and the replacement slapped straight in within 30 seconds! So I have a much better smile than I have had for a few months, except for the blood oozing which is a bit off-putting, and of course with only one half of my top lip within my control I also look like I'm doing an Elvis impression!
I am sort of getting Christmasified (I suddenly came up with Christmasticated - I guess I'm that too!). I think whilst it is quiet I might write some Christmas cards - it is quiet partly because D-d is at her part-time job down in Au Naturelle (always sounds as if it is a nudist supplies shop - but it isn't honestly!). The other reason it is quiet is because poor old husband's body clock is totally screwed at the moment, and he has just gone to bed! At a time when even on nights he would be due to get up soon, but he hasn't slept for nearly thirty hours except for an hour in the armchair, and so I told him better to go to bed properly than just doze in the chair again.
I think I might go and make some ginger shortbread to take to the faith supper and quiz on Friday. A faith supper is not really a religious thing - it's called that because you all have faith in everyone bringing something to share! I got this recipe from a magazine - if it works I will make more for Christmas. Now is a good time to cook - as long as I keep my mouth shut to prevent blood drippage(!) - because I can't eat the ingredients as I go along!
I could also sit and put glitter on pine-cones - as you do.
Someone at Church suggested that the Sunday School children could make decorated pine-cones - I don't know who, or why, but my sister's brother-in-law and my niece spent ages collecting pine cones whilst dog-walking, and then even painted them all with spray paint, and brought them in to me. Much to my suprise - because it hadn't been MY idea, that's for sure!
Anyway, the children did some on Sunday, alongside other things, but there are still piles of them, and it occured to me that if we finish them we can sell them by the basket-full at the church coffee-morning next week - so D-d and I are doing a few each evening. I have to say actually they look really nice!
I will only let myself collapse back in a heap and read fan-fic when I have done something productive. Yes. *Nods head vigorously*.
I am sort of getting Christmasified (I suddenly came up with Christmasticated - I guess I'm that too!). I think whilst it is quiet I might write some Christmas cards - it is quiet partly because D-d is at her part-time job down in Au Naturelle (always sounds as if it is a nudist supplies shop - but it isn't honestly!). The other reason it is quiet is because poor old husband's body clock is totally screwed at the moment, and he has just gone to bed! At a time when even on nights he would be due to get up soon, but he hasn't slept for nearly thirty hours except for an hour in the armchair, and so I told him better to go to bed properly than just doze in the chair again.
I think I might go and make some ginger shortbread to take to the faith supper and quiz on Friday. A faith supper is not really a religious thing - it's called that because you all have faith in everyone bringing something to share! I got this recipe from a magazine - if it works I will make more for Christmas. Now is a good time to cook - as long as I keep my mouth shut to prevent blood drippage(!) - because I can't eat the ingredients as I go along!
I could also sit and put glitter on pine-cones - as you do.
Someone at Church suggested that the Sunday School children could make decorated pine-cones - I don't know who, or why, but my sister's brother-in-law and my niece spent ages collecting pine cones whilst dog-walking, and then even painted them all with spray paint, and brought them in to me. Much to my suprise - because it hadn't been MY idea, that's for sure!
Anyway, the children did some on Sunday, alongside other things, but there are still piles of them, and it occured to me that if we finish them we can sell them by the basket-full at the church coffee-morning next week - so D-d and I are doing a few each evening. I have to say actually they look really nice!
I will only let myself collapse back in a heap and read fan-fic when I have done something productive. Yes. *Nods head vigorously*.
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Date: 07/12/2005 05:14 pm (UTC)Wondering, now, what sort of things a nudist supplies shop would carry. Sunscreen, of course. Materials for building/repairing fences, perhaps? What else? It seems part of the point of being nudist would be the lack of equipment required, since it's really a "less is more" lifestyle. I suppose it would sell a line of handbags, since nudists have no pockets in which to carry their wallets.
Would the shop assistants be required to work nude? Perhaps that would attract the wrong sort of customers, people who were there to browse, rather than buy. Of course, that might depend on the attractiveness of the employees!
And a holiday question--would a nudist shop offer gift wrapping, or would that be against their principles?
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Date: 07/12/2005 05:26 pm (UTC)Wondering, now, what sort of things a nudist supplies shop would carry.
I think all the above and possibly also those clear plastic aprons for when they are cooking, maybe?
And a holiday question--would a nudist shop offer gift wrapping, or would that be against their principles?
A friend once bought a floor cushion from Habitat and asked them to gift wrap it(!) - the girl looked at him very seriously, then cut a long piece of string, tied it around and formed a loop for him to carry it by, and said 'Here you are'! That type of gift-wrapping would be OK I guess!
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Date: 07/12/2005 05:27 pm (UTC)The pine cones do actually sound particularly nifty. I'm disappointed in my street, it isn't festooned with hideous Christmas lights on people's houses like the streets where my parents live. Taste is so not the real meaning of Christmas.
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Date: 07/12/2005 07:12 pm (UTC)The pine cones DO look rather smart - spray paint with glitter glue applied along the edge of each segment is remarkably effective.
There aren't many decorated houses around here yet - but I will be doing my bit for naffness - I have a fibre optic front door wreath that changes colour! Kat is never sure whether to like it, or be deeply embarrassed! I love it - it makes me smile every time I approach the house - it is the ultimate in kitsch!
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Date: 07/12/2005 05:50 pm (UTC)Now there's a lovely image. Hope the numbness wears off soon, and the blood stops dripping even sooner.
And the ginger shortbread sounds good (I just cannot resist shortbread). If it turns out well, perhaps you could share the recipe?
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Date: 07/12/2005 07:14 pm (UTC)As for the ginger shortbread - I've made it - when it is edible temperature-wise I will consumer-test it - and if it's OK I'll put the recipe on my journal later.
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Date: 07/12/2005 06:15 pm (UTC)Oh dear, I bet that produced a splatter pattern on your keyboard. And pine cones decorated with glitter and fresh blood sounds rather pagan, though I'm sure it could be Christianised if someone tried.
Congratulations on the tooth.
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Date: 07/12/2005 07:18 pm (UTC)Christian meaning of the blood and glittered pine cones - cones = bringer of new life, splattering of blood = sacrifice of the bringer of new life, glitter - well what's not to like with glitter?
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Date: 07/12/2005 06:19 pm (UTC)Well, I'm glad you got it fixed! But it still doesn't sound like a whole lot of fun...
I think I might go and make some ginger shortbread to take to the faith supper and quiz on Friday. A faith supper is not really a religious thing - it's called that because you all have faith in everyone bringing something to share! I got this recipe from a magazine - if it works I will make more for Christmas.
Oh, and share please! I'm always on the lookout for new recipes!
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Date: 07/12/2005 07:20 pm (UTC)And if the ginger shortbread works well, I'll put the recipe up later.
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Date: 07/12/2005 06:43 pm (UTC)And my sympathies to your spouse; I've worked nights most of my career and I still have trouble telling if I'm coming or going sometimes when I'm off. It's worth it though-- much fewer administrative types running around at 2 am!
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Date: 07/12/2005 10:06 pm (UTC)S2C's computer is now on its way back to the UK yet again, but this hopefully is it's last trip! His body-clock is slightly screwy - we are a bit like ships that pass in the night - or more like the sailors of old who 'hot-bedded' - one in, one out!
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Date: 07/12/2005 09:54 pm (UTC)Sympathies also on the tooth, though it's good that it's fixed. And Elvis-the-Vampire sounds cool. Perhaps that was the look Spike had in the early 60s?
You have now been productive enough to justify the fic-reading. Go on. Go on. Go on. You know you want to!
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Date: 07/12/2005 10:09 pm (UTC)The smile is much better than it's been for ages - apart from the blood oozing out around the edges!
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Date: 07/12/2005 11:32 pm (UTC)Hee! I Christmasticated company party food today. Not good, but free.
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Date: 08/12/2005 12:03 am (UTC)The tooth was in three seperate bits, a new crown wouldn't work, but I have one top tooth on a palate anyway, so they took my palate, yesterday, added the extra tooth, and then today she took out the jagged broken bits, and put my palate straight back in, to be left for a couple of days until the gum heals under it!
It looks so much better, and is remarkably painless. As I am used to the palate it is not odd feeling at all - I'm really impressed!
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