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Dragon Age
Monday, 12 March 2012 15:00My copy of Dragon Age was in the mail today. Hmm. Too bad I had plans to play TS3 all afternoon.
Mailbox cons: Bills. :( Mailbox pros: Ponies! :D
Both my pony packages came in the mail today. I have five out of six ponies now, in cute plastic tiny size. They're pretty adorable, all perched on my desk and stuff, and I like them already. Getting a Fluttershy isn't easy, so I'm putting it off. Also, I accidentally bid on two Pinkie Pies, so I have a spare. I'll figure out what to do with it eventually.
eBay has served its cosmic purpose.
Both my pony packages came in the mail today. I have five out of six ponies now, in cute plastic tiny size. They're pretty adorable, all perched on my desk and stuff, and I like them already. Getting a Fluttershy isn't easy, so I'm putting it off. Also, I accidentally bid on two Pinkie Pies, so I have a spare. I'll figure out what to do with it eventually.
eBay has served its cosmic purpose.
I think my eBay frenzy is over, I bid on a calendar for 2012 and managed to fetch five out of six ponies. Fluttershy is a lost cause I'm afraid, at least until there's another wave or something. Anyway, whether she is or not, I'd better stop.
Still no news from the lab I want to work at, I'm supposed to hear from them by the end of the week.
My laundry dryer needs a tube thingy to go out the window so that the bathroom doesn't fill up with lint. Also, I bought bedside lamps in Passover (April-ish) and haven't put them up yet.
In more interesting news, I am deathly dull? I think reading my DW could actually, literally kill someone with boredom.
Suddenly I am overcome with a weird listlessness. It might be because I planned on taking a walk out of doors today, and forgot to do it. Consequently I'm still wearing the sweatpants I put on after my "morning" shower at 1 PM. Tomorrow I have classes and Friday I am making a family dinner, so it should go away. Oh! Next week is my first organism lab. It's a dissection, which doesn't thrill me.
Some days I am filled with a vague nameless dread.
Still no news from the lab I want to work at, I'm supposed to hear from them by the end of the week.
My laundry dryer needs a tube thingy to go out the window so that the bathroom doesn't fill up with lint. Also, I bought bedside lamps in Passover (April-ish) and haven't put them up yet.
In more interesting news, I am deathly dull? I think reading my DW could actually, literally kill someone with boredom.
Suddenly I am overcome with a weird listlessness. It might be because I planned on taking a walk out of doors today, and forgot to do it. Consequently I'm still wearing the sweatpants I put on after my "morning" shower at 1 PM. Tomorrow I have classes and Friday I am making a family dinner, so it should go away. Oh! Next week is my first organism lab. It's a dissection, which doesn't thrill me.
Some days I am filled with a vague nameless dread.
Lego Castle Shenanigans
Saturday, 19 November 2011 12:48Due to ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
ponyville_trot hijinx, I've been bidding on an MLP:FIM calendar on eBay. This lead directly to examining the new pony models (Gardenia Glow? Hmm) and then even more directly to trying to locate this one lego set I was infatuated with years ago as a kid.
My brother used to have this fantastic castle set with knights and horses. We played with it together sometimes, but because there's a big(-ish) age difference between me and my older siblings, more often I played alone. At a certain point I got a small play set out of the newer series of castle legos that was coming out at the time. It was called the Dragon Masters series and by then I already had my heart set on dragons. The set naturally came with a catalog and the catalog had this spread in it.
Long story short, for about two years I had my heart set on the biggest lego set in the dragon series and I saved up allowances and holiday/birthday gifts devotedly, hoping to amass the legendary-sounding sum. By the time I was starting to get pretty close I was way above the age range of acceptability for playing with lego, and yet not old enough and wise enough to say "fuck acceptability" yet. Eventually I forgot about lego and developed other dreams.
Years later I suddenly remembered this lego set, in the way that one suddenly remembers childhood artifacts, at least if one is me. When I tried to recall what the set that I was in love with looked like, I came up with the strangest amalgamation of all the castle lego sets I had known and loved. Looking at the wiki (of course there's a lego wiki) and other evidence compiled lovingly by devoted collectors, nothing as grand and sweeping as the set I imagined ever existed.
Brains are funny.
Anywho, I'm thinking of buying nine of the super cheap two inch plastic ponies and making the world's first My Little Pony Hannukah Menorah. Good idea, or The Best Idea?
ponyville_trot hijinx, I've been bidding on an MLP:FIM calendar on eBay. This lead directly to examining the new pony models (Gardenia Glow? Hmm) and then even more directly to trying to locate this one lego set I was infatuated with years ago as a kid. My brother used to have this fantastic castle set with knights and horses. We played with it together sometimes, but because there's a big(-ish) age difference between me and my older siblings, more often I played alone. At a certain point I got a small play set out of the newer series of castle legos that was coming out at the time. It was called the Dragon Masters series and by then I already had my heart set on dragons. The set naturally came with a catalog and the catalog had this spread in it.
Long story short, for about two years I had my heart set on the biggest lego set in the dragon series and I saved up allowances and holiday/birthday gifts devotedly, hoping to amass the legendary-sounding sum. By the time I was starting to get pretty close I was way above the age range of acceptability for playing with lego, and yet not old enough and wise enough to say "fuck acceptability" yet. Eventually I forgot about lego and developed other dreams.
Years later I suddenly remembered this lego set, in the way that one suddenly remembers childhood artifacts, at least if one is me. When I tried to recall what the set that I was in love with looked like, I came up with the strangest amalgamation of all the castle lego sets I had known and loved. Looking at the wiki (of course there's a lego wiki) and other evidence compiled lovingly by devoted collectors, nothing as grand and sweeping as the set I imagined ever existed.
Brains are funny.
Anywho, I'm thinking of buying nine of the super cheap two inch plastic ponies and making the world's first My Little Pony Hannukah Menorah. Good idea, or The Best Idea?
Lost & Found
Sunday, 3 July 2011 17:28My capacity to lose things, it is pretty much infinite. I lose/break watches with particular severity, especially considering I can only really tolerate a watch if I wear it on a string around my neck. This is because my skin is ludicrously sensitive to just about everything, including most of the middle part of the periodic table.
This makes things complicated, because necklace watches are hard to come by, and necklace watches with decent mechanisms triply so. For a while I was ordering cute Hong Kong made watches off e-Bay. They looked adorable (I had a ladybug, and then an owl) but their durability matched their price. Most of the time my cellphone suffices for time-telling needs, whenever I happen to drag myself away from the computer, that is. Of course, during exams my cell if on silent and in my bag, and I desperately need good time management.
So, I went back to trusty e-Bay. I was going to buy one of the cute watches with the dubious innards and have it gutted by the local watchmaker and replaced with a more effective Japanese mechanism (his idea, via being introduced to him by my father). Instead I found a bargain on a lot of eight proper, honest-to-Florence-Nightingale nurse's watches. Now I have eight multi-colored watches on my desk and I'm debating which eye-smarting color I should wear.
The options (for eternal record): Black (yawn), yellow (a bit much maybe), bright blue, light tealish blue, green, violet (quite bright!), pastel pink, and OMGWTFBBQ eye-smarting hot pink of Barbie and Ken's nightmares. I think I'll save that last one for special occasions.
This makes things complicated, because necklace watches are hard to come by, and necklace watches with decent mechanisms triply so. For a while I was ordering cute Hong Kong made watches off e-Bay. They looked adorable (I had a ladybug, and then an owl) but their durability matched their price. Most of the time my cellphone suffices for time-telling needs, whenever I happen to drag myself away from the computer, that is. Of course, during exams my cell if on silent and in my bag, and I desperately need good time management.
So, I went back to trusty e-Bay. I was going to buy one of the cute watches with the dubious innards and have it gutted by the local watchmaker and replaced with a more effective Japanese mechanism (his idea, via being introduced to him by my father). Instead I found a bargain on a lot of eight proper, honest-to-Florence-Nightingale nurse's watches. Now I have eight multi-colored watches on my desk and I'm debating which eye-smarting color I should wear.
The options (for eternal record): Black (yawn), yellow (a bit much maybe), bright blue, light tealish blue, green, violet (quite bright!), pastel pink, and OMGWTFBBQ eye-smarting hot pink of Barbie and Ken's nightmares. I think I'll save that last one for special occasions.