Bloated plutocrats. Coffee.

[whatho]

Here's me guilt-tripping my holidaying parents like a big 'un.

Text from Mother: Have just passed the Arctic circle. Big pointy mountains in distance.
Text from Me: Great! Am just going to Tesco to buy an onion.

I do feel slightly ashamed. But I am properly happy that Mother is pootling around in the Arctic circle zones and seeing amazing things. She writes highly amusing texts too. She wrote one in which she called my father a 'bloated plutocrat' because he'd booked first class tickets on the train to Gatwick (so, much deserved censure in my opinion). And she informed me with glee that the toilet in their cabin had a notice on it that said 'PLEASE DO NOT THROW STRANGE THINGS INTO THIS TOILET'. Presumably boomerangs and the like. Star fruits.

I'm very tired, you know. I brought it all on myself. I went to bed at around 2am and then the small lady cat beast came at woke me at half hourly intervals by bouncing on my head and saying 'Brrrrrrrroooooow' until eventually I swore at her and she went to try the same treatment on my brother. Then I got up at about 8am. And now my head is all swimmy and I'm drinking coffee, which is not a thing I do very often, but it's kind of fun and makes me feel like a lowly reporter on a biggish newspaper. Huzzah.

Comments

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Ah! So pretty. Though I think I would've found that too baffling to be spoilerish even if I'd seen it before I saw the episode.

[aldenmacrae.livejournal.com]

Nooooooo! I waited months and months to even upload it for fear of you being spoiled! Woe!

(Actually I don't mind; it's sort of a random, never-really-appropriate icon, and anyway now I have the strange joy of getting to use an icon I made ages ago. It feels all ready-made and pleasant, like for once in my life I have actually planned ahead! Must investigate this 'planning ahead' lark further.)

Also I forgot to say thank you for asking after the itchiness. It is a bit less awful today, which pleases me. :)

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Actually, it might've been spoilery because I probably could've figured out that was Claire and then I would've been hugely confused. It's a very pretty icon anyway.

I am glad the itchiness is a bit less awful. Way to go, itchiness.

[aldenmacrae.livejournal.com]

I have made you a terrible present.



Do feel free to absolutely not use it ever, for it is bad... but it makes me laugh a bit so I thought I would share my present-icon-making attempt.

~hides~

[aldenmacrae.livejournal.com]

P.S. Those are palm-fronds on Bertie's shoulder. I had a bit of an accident with the resizing, and there was a gap, and... palm-fronds seemed the only thing to do.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Oh! Oh! I love it and you SO ENTIRELY. It's beautiful. *hugs you and spins you and everything*

Also I can't stop giggling.

[aldenmacrae.livejournal.com]

OMG you have used it! ~glee~ Hurrah, I am so pleased you like it!

~happydance~ :D I am also giggling. We are having trans-continental synchronised giggling!

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Quickly! Make people on all the other continents giggle too!

[aldenmacrae.livejournal.com]

Do we know anyone in Antarctica?

I bet everyone in Antarctica is giggling anyway, just because it's so random to be in Antarctica, so maybe we can forget about them...

[whatho.livejournal.com]

I would laugh constantly and hysterically if I was in Antarctica. Imagine waking up and thinking 'I'm in Antarctica.' Ha!

[aldenmacrae.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly! I think I would go mad *very* quickly in Antarctica, just from the strangeness of being there. Hmm.

I have a Photoshop thingy open with a disembodied head of Jeeves in it, and I do not have the heart to delete him! Very hard to tell him he has served his purpose, icon-wise...

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Jeeves likes tidying up. He will understand.

[aldenmacrae.livejournal.com]

There, I have put him away. I think he understands.

Look, we have had such a long conversation that the comments are all tiny and narrow! Yay!

[whatho.livejournal.com]

I know! It's so exciting when that happens. Eventually they get down to one word per line, and then you know there's been some damnably good talking going on there....

[whatho.livejournal.com]

And there is no good reason why I am not using my ICON OF JOY at every opportunity.

[aldenmacrae.livejournal.com]

Awww! I like your regular icon so much though!

But I am hugely pleased you like your silly new icon. :D

Random: For ages I thought you only had the once icon, and then one day you used a different one and I was SO confused. I have a rather strong image-word association thing with LJ, I think.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

I have some very silly...creatures. That I doodled in a margin of my A-level history exercise book. And turned into icons. I generally forget that I have other icons though, so it must be rather surprising.