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Princess What-A-Mess

  • Jun. 5th, 2008 at 4:21 PM
pepper: Pepperpot (Ah crap)
Notes to self:

Alarm clocks. If you switch them off, you need to be certain you're actually going to get up now, and not merely fall back into a comfortably non-alarm-interrupted sleep. Restful though it may be.

Glasses. Yes, you still wear them. No, they don't mysteriously disappear when you want to splash water on your face. Apparently you need reminding of this fact.

Salad. Should not, in fact, go up sleeves.



Notes to others:

Being disorganised. Clearly I'm not the only one. Yes, I'm looking at you, schools of the UK. The deadline was in February.



(Has anyone read the Prince What-A-Mess books, btw? I adored them when I was little. Perhaps unsurprisingly.)

Comments

[identity profile] caladria.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 03:36 pm (UTC)
Salad. Should not, in fact, go up sleeves.

I'm dying to ask. I really am.

Schools? Disorganised? Never!
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 06:38 pm (UTC)
I am a) messy, and b) the possessor of fairly large sleeves. Watercress is cold and damp. *g*
[identity profile] caladria.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 10:04 pm (UTC)
Ewwwww... Roll them up. It's all I can say. Damp sleeves are no fun.

Also, for the record, I'll jump on the "I do strange things with my glasses" parade. Like, go swimming and forget to put them back on, then wonder why all the prices in ASDA are fuzzy. Twice.
[identity profile] cnidarian.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 03:54 pm (UTC)
What-A-Mess!!! Oh, much love!

What? You mean you never feed your elbows? I'm calling the authorities! ;)
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 06:40 pm (UTC)
Yay! I'm glad someone other than me has heard of it. I should've known you would have, really. :)

My elbows are on a diet.
[identity profile] cnidarian.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 07:00 pm (UTC)
:D Oh yes, along with 'Meg, Mog and Owl' and 'Hairy Maclary'!
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 07:20 pm (UTC)
I learned to read with Meg, Mog and Owl! But I don't know Hairy Maclary, I am very sad to say - it sounds lovely.
[identity profile] cnidarian.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 07:24 pm (UTC)
It's New Zealandish, so that's probably why. It won't be the same now you're an adult, but if you have a kid and call it Captain Pepper you simply must get it, and enjoy it through their eyes. *nod*
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 07:30 pm (UTC)
*snerk*

And yes, best reason to have a kid - so I have an excuse to read all those books again. :D
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[identity profile] abyssinia4077.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 04:08 pm (UTC)
*checks sleeves*
really?
that shouldn't be there?
:P

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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 06:40 pm (UTC)
If it's green and leafy, possibly with a dressing of some kind, then no. *g*
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[identity profile] holdouttrout.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 04:10 pm (UTC)
All this time, I really thought salad was good for you. And how else are you supposed to eat it except up the sleeves?

I've done that with my glasses! Usually when I forget I'm not wearing contacts.

I've had the same CD in my alarm clock for over a year. It's a miracle I still wake up to it by the second or third song.
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 07:08 pm (UTC)
Salad is good for you, but I don't think it's supposed to be applied externally. Then again, people have cucumber eye-masks...

I don't have the contacts excuse, sadly. I've managed to forget to put them on, on the odd occasion - headed off to work, thinking, "Why is the world so blurry?"

I can listen to music repetitively, but not that repetitively. Eesh.
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[identity profile] holdouttrout.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 07:13 pm (UTC)
I can listen to music repetitively, but not that repetitively. Eesh.

I don't usually, either! This is a very, very special case. I've even tried to switch the CD out, but my brain refuses to go along with it.
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 07:22 pm (UTC)
...Is it very loud and startling?

I used to have music to wake me up, but I don't have a clock radio thingy at the moment. I might get one, next time I get an alarm - I much prefer waking up to music. Although not to radio DJs, who are loud and grating and are a horrible way to start the day.
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[identity profile] holdouttrout.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 08:01 pm (UTC)
No...it's actually Frou Frou. So it's quite nice. Not conducive towards having to get out of bed, though.

:-)
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[identity profile] zats-clear.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 04:11 pm (UTC)
I am laughing out loud! Really loud. And that is a good thing!
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 07:08 pm (UTC)
Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds me funny. *g*
[identity profile] kalquessa.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 04:11 pm (UTC)
*cracks up* Oh, I've done the glasses thing. And then been startled when the droplets of water HANG SUSPENDED IN TIME AND SPACE before my eyes. So sad to discover it was just me being a doofus and not my latent mutant superpowers belatedly manifesting.
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 07:10 pm (UTC)
Hee! Me, I tend to go, "Splash, splash - ack, what's that cold, hard thing on my face! Oh."

The superpowers thing would be a nicer shock. :D
[identity profile] sg1danny.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 04:26 pm (UTC)
I went swimming once and was about to start doing the crawl when I realised I still had my glasses on!!

One wee tiny teensy final little thing...When you say 'schools of the UK' you mean 'schools of England and Wales' dontcha :-D Us up here in Scotland have a seperate education system from the rest of you :-p
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 07:13 pm (UTC)
Heh - yes, I've almost done that, a few times. I don't think I've ever got in the pool with my glasses on, but I've definitely had to leave them by the side a few times, because the lockers will eat my 20p if I go back. :)

And, ah, true - but I'm sure that Scottish exam board workers say exactly the same about Scottish schools. ;)
[identity profile] sg1danny.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 08:44 pm (UTC)
And, ah, true - but I'm sure that Scottish exam board workers say exactly the same about Scottish schools. ;)

Oh I'm pretty sure they do!!!
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[personal profile] aelfgyfu_mead wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 04:30 pm (UTC)
I occasionally start to get into the shower with my glasses still on. This would be more excusable if I hadn't stopped wearing contacts more than five years ago. The shower is supposed to be all blurry when I get in; if it's not, something's wrong.

Salad: glad you've straightened that out for me. I'm making a note now. ;-)
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 07:16 pm (UTC)
Hee, yes. The hazards of full-time glasses-wearing - you forget about the darn things. You wouldn't think you could do that with things that are right in front of your damn eyes all the time. But I'm so used to them that sometimes, when I'm really tired, I have to rub my hand over my face to work out if I'm wearing them or not. *g*

And I'm glad I've cleared up the salad issue. My work here is done.
[identity profile] cnidarian.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 07:06 pm (UTC)
Ooh ooh and also (only slightly related through the mention of books), I saw your SG novel list and next is Do No Harm and I'm getting it tomorrow, hopefully, and I've heard it's pretty good and yey Janet!
*breathe*
I'd be interested to hear what you thought of it when you get chance to read it.
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 07:19 pm (UTC)
Oh! I'm so glad you mentioned that, because I had a note from the Post Office today to say that I had to pick something up, and I was damned if I could remember what it was. It's my copy of Do No Harm! Excellently well-timed of you. Heh.

I have to catch up on my posting about Stargate novels, come to think of it. I've not blathered about Trial By Fire and Siren Song yet. Must do that.
[identity profile] cnidarian.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 07:26 pm (UTC)
No way! *preens*

I've not read the others (I'm a shameless Janet!whore, so unless I know she's got a chunky role, I'd rather save my money) but I'd still be interested to read reviews.
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 07:33 pm (UTC)
Survival Of The Fittest, then - you'd probably like that. Janet has a major role, she gets to go offworld, and it's also one of the best of the Stargate novels, IMO. In the others, she doesn't really appear, or only barely.
[identity profile] cnidarian.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 07:54 pm (UTC)
Yes http://pepper-field.livejournal.com/109990.html, by others I meant others-not-Survival. :) I was all over that Janet adventurey hurty Jack-related-angst action!
(I liked it a lot too - I hear many people not liking the gore and stuff but that's silly. Like when people read fic with bad language and complain that it's not true SG cos they never swore on the show. Yes, granted, the group of them are adult and intelligent enough to express frustration/whatever without swearing excessively, and I don't like fic with gratuitous language either. But the reason they never swore on the show wasn't cos the characters never swear, but that it was a family show. Even more ridiculous is the idea that the wounds and scrapes they get into are really as sterile as we saw on the show. A staff burn has to be really gross. They just couldn't show us loads of blood and gore. Doesn't mean it didn't happen. Whoa, essay! Sorry)
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[identity profile] surreallis.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 08:25 pm (UTC)
Haa! I've SO done that with my glasses. I've also got into the shower with them on and been very confused for a moment as to what the hell the water was hitting on my face.
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 09:47 pm (UTC)
Hee - I'm so glad this is not just me. I always feel so dopey when I do that. But then, people around me tend to treat me as if I am slightly ditzy, so I suspect I am moreso than the average person. :D

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