Why can't Shirota sell me some cat food?

[pez]

I have a double bed. Why do I still have to fight for the duvet? With my cat??? No, don't answer that. I know. Because my cat is a cat. XD

Lots of sewing last night, did as much as I could with Soldier Blue, now waiting for more material to arrive. I mucked up Faize's top. :( It's not really bad, just the leatherette not lying very flat and there's no way to fix it unless I rip it ALL off. This is what I get for being impatient. The red leatherette is also very difficult to work with, hard to glue and the sewing machine hates it too! Luckily there isn't much left to do that requires the red.

Started the PoT fic. Look! I'm being good and writing what I should be writing! TLR fic might get abandoned. Rush can go blow a harmonica or something. That fic is being silly. I've got all the character conflicts and interactions and motivations, but I don't have the main plot that strings it all together. As in, "there is this great evil event that happens which triggers everything!" - but what the hell is that event? ||||orz

Every day I feel very tired, but when I get home I get into this stupid state where I just do stuff rather than go to bed early. And then I catch a cold and have a headache and I get even more tired the next day.

Whenever I see a shopping website that has a picture of a woman with a headset and the words "live help is available!" I close the tab. Something about that just makes me cringe. Not the idea of live help itself, but that perfect-looking, very-Aryan, obviously stock-photo woman with a headset. It's always a woman, too. It's like pet food TV ads. Has anyone noticed that until recently, there hasn't been pet food ads that show a man feeding a cat? If a guy (or a whole family, or children) shows up, it's dog food. If it's just one woman, it's cat food. I find it all rather repulsive.

Though, this does remind me of Marcus Brigstocke at Live at the Apollo, when he talked about accident insurance ads. People following invisible 45 degrees lines towards the screen. Ace. XD

Comments

[storme]

I think it's probably safer for everyone if Dave just wears socks. It certainly seems safer for Dave's toes.

Huh, wow, that's pretty horrifying. That would mean most of where my parents live would just be shut down entirely in the summer.

Most of my awareness of the importance of highways maintenance comes from Sim City 2k, where reducing the budget for it even a *tad* screws up all the roads everywhere. :S Maybe that was more realistic than I thought at the time!

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Or the bedmate can teach Dave to double up the end of the duvet so that it wraps under the feet. That's how I usually sleep. XD It's either that or, I dunno, the bedmate would have to hug Dave's feet? XDDD

Yeah. For places like your parents' area, and Norfolk, for example, most roads right now are likely to be in near-failure state already, actually. Keeping on top of it with the maintenance is a losing battle as it is, then you add the effect of climate change on top... >_> to make things safe, some roads would have to be shut down and others have heavy speed limits imposed. For somewhere like Norfolk county, 70% of its 10000km roads are C and U class! Then you think about all the farmers in rural areas who rely on the HGVs to transport their produce, the school buses, or simply people who live away from cities who need to commute... meep!

[storme]

That's what I tend to do, too. Or warm my toes on the SO, who yelps but is mostly used to the chill toes of fate by now. :P

Those places are both probably also suffering from tractors-driving-on-the-road abuse, too, come to think of it (it's certainly torn up a bunch of road surfaces near my parents in the past (rural wales, incidentally), even where it's expressly prohibited). My parents live a mile from the nearest paved surface, mind you, so they're used to being trapped without access to the outside world sometimes.

So, so glad I live in London.

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

XDDD Awwwww. Dave's bedmate would probably yelp, too. He would just have to snuggle close to keep Dave warm, so that the feet will warm up soon.

Ah, London is a completely different story. It's always a struggle between keeping the roads open and getting them fixed. DX (And working for TfL is like riding their buses. Only even more infuriating.)

[storme]

:) I'm sure Dave's feet will warm up soon enough if there's a bedmate who is willing to snuggle up and keep him warm.

Yeah, I bet it's horrific having to organise repairs--everyone wants the roads to be open and in perfect condition, and nobody wants to put in the time needed to keep them in good condition. :S And it's not like the tube is any better off, from what I hear; really they need to close many more parts just to keep it functioning reasonably, but nobody wants to do that either. Bah.