Taking the rest of the day off...
Sep. 22nd, 2001 06:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deathpixieThere's something soothing about spending the afternoon lying in the sun, snoozing. BRM needed to use the computer again today for his assignment, so I took myself, my portable CD player, my notebook and a cup of tea out and spent a few hours lying in the extremely battered deckchair. Of course, I fell asleep, after a late night at mum and dad's (with beer involved), but that was okay.
There's a story to our deckchair. It was acquired by the age-old honoured technique employed by all students - we raided the hard rubbish collection in our neighbourhood and lifted it. ;) For those unaware of the hard rubbish collection tradition, it's a day perhaps twice a year when the local council provides a removal service for city-dwellers' large items of rubbish - old fridges, broken furniture, wood, trees, that sort of thing. So every so often, all this Stuff appears on the kerbsides. And it's amazing what people throw out - there's many a student household furnished entirely by hard rubbish raids.
Our deckchair came from one such raid in Brunswick, when we were living there. It's a bit grotty, and a dreadful shade of green, and I keep promising myself that one day I will strip back the paint and redo it. Maybe this summer would be a good time, now I have a perfect place to sit. Our small patio out the back is a bit rough still, but once the shed goes up and I can clear away various bits and pieces, it'll be very pleasant.
The other thing that made my afternoon extremely pleasant was that I got a call from David, the schoolmate of BRM I mentioned a few days ago. BRM actually came through with his phone number, and I was stealing myself to call him this weekend, when my nap was interrupted byt BRM telling me I had a phone call. *smiles* We had a nice chat, and he's going to call on Monday afternoon to arrange a mountain bike ride or something. As I said to Dyce in chat this evening, even if it's just a friend thing - which I'm perfectly happy with - it's nice to know a bloke likes to talk to you and wants to be with you. So, my ever-mercurial self-image has risen again. I'm such a sad case. *grins*
Sorted out transport for getting people from the airport for the GASP. I love my Dad. He's such a nice dad. :) And Yas, if you don't mind, that is, Mum and Dad suggested taking us to the Dragon Court restaurant in Wodonga on the Thursday night you get in - we can ogle the extremely attractive manager, if you like. ;) The food's great too. And Mel's sorted - I just need to hear from Raph about how/when she's getting here, and whether Andraste can make it. It'd be great if she can. *crosses fingers*
There's a story to our deckchair. It was acquired by the age-old honoured technique employed by all students - we raided the hard rubbish collection in our neighbourhood and lifted it. ;) For those unaware of the hard rubbish collection tradition, it's a day perhaps twice a year when the local council provides a removal service for city-dwellers' large items of rubbish - old fridges, broken furniture, wood, trees, that sort of thing. So every so often, all this Stuff appears on the kerbsides. And it's amazing what people throw out - there's many a student household furnished entirely by hard rubbish raids.
Our deckchair came from one such raid in Brunswick, when we were living there. It's a bit grotty, and a dreadful shade of green, and I keep promising myself that one day I will strip back the paint and redo it. Maybe this summer would be a good time, now I have a perfect place to sit. Our small patio out the back is a bit rough still, but once the shed goes up and I can clear away various bits and pieces, it'll be very pleasant.
The other thing that made my afternoon extremely pleasant was that I got a call from David, the schoolmate of BRM I mentioned a few days ago. BRM actually came through with his phone number, and I was stealing myself to call him this weekend, when my nap was interrupted byt BRM telling me I had a phone call. *smiles* We had a nice chat, and he's going to call on Monday afternoon to arrange a mountain bike ride or something. As I said to Dyce in chat this evening, even if it's just a friend thing - which I'm perfectly happy with - it's nice to know a bloke likes to talk to you and wants to be with you. So, my ever-mercurial self-image has risen again. I'm such a sad case. *grins*
Sorted out transport for getting people from the airport for the GASP. I love my Dad. He's such a nice dad. :) And Yas, if you don't mind, that is, Mum and Dad suggested taking us to the Dragon Court restaurant in Wodonga on the Thursday night you get in - we can ogle the extremely attractive manager, if you like. ;) The food's great too. And Mel's sorted - I just need to hear from Raph about how/when she's getting here, and whether Andraste can make it. It'd be great if she can. *crosses fingers*
