An eventful Monday
May. 26th, 2020 01:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartThis was actually yesterday's entry but the internet died on me in the moment I tried to post it. Fortunately, LJ saves drafts, so I can post it now. I doubt I'd have been able to recreate it from my head only. *sigh*
Since I've got other plans for tomorrw (and since weather forecast threatened us with storms), I decided to go a-hunting today. As I wanted to stole a glance into the closest two shops where I might find some craft supplies, I went after hag time (=after 12:00).
The promised rain came a day earlier, but only two short showers, one before I'd leave and the other one while I was in the supermarket, so I got home in the same dry state as I left. I got some general craft glue at Kik for half the price craft shops would sell something similar and a set of small half-pearl stickers in various colours for an equally moderate price. Yay!
Then I entered the supermarket, heading directly to their fairly small creative corner.
And I found this:
And this:
And also this:
It is a good thing that I'm absolutely useless at the high art of internet shopping, or else we couldn't enter the flat due to all that beautiful craft paper and I'd be broke by now.
Less delightful events and some whining behind the cut.
My lower back was particularly belligerent today. It doesn't like shopping days, for some reason; although I even made the sacrifice of boarding a (low-floor) tram to spare it the jarring. The pain is somewhere on the right side near my backbone, and while it only lasts a few seconds, it is not a pleasant feeling. For these few seconds I feel like I've lost all strength in that area and can't even attempt to move. I know it will go away on its own eventually (it's always done in the last 24 years, so let's hope that won't change), but it always takes so bloody long! It's been with me for some two months this time. Grrrr!
After I've made up lunch from some leftover Käsespätzle and impromptu carbonara sauce, I rested a bit, talked on the phone to two lovely colleagues and fell asleep in front of the telly. Even though it was one of those zoo reports I love to watch. For the Germans among us, right now it's Panda, Gorilla & Co. I'm watching on NDR, but I love just about every incarnation of the series.
Then, around 6pm, I decided that it was time to go online and connect to you, lovely people. Well... the Internet was down. For three frigging hours! I called the company (Vodafone, that has recently swallowed UPC, and since then there are problems). Their automated message told me that they're aware of the problem and working on it. Offered me to send an SMS with the progress report if I wanted. I did not. I wanted my Internet back!
Well, as you can see, I'm back online again, thank goodness, and even used the "cold turkey" time to transcribe some new stuff I wrote for my vampire crossover story, so it wasn't totally wasted. Still, one only realizes how much one has become addicted to the Internet when it gets taken away. Even if only temporarily.
Since I've got other plans for tomorrw (and since weather forecast threatened us with storms), I decided to go a-hunting today. As I wanted to stole a glance into the closest two shops where I might find some craft supplies, I went after hag time (=after 12:00).
The promised rain came a day earlier, but only two short showers, one before I'd leave and the other one while I was in the supermarket, so I got home in the same dry state as I left. I got some general craft glue at Kik for half the price craft shops would sell something similar and a set of small half-pearl stickers in various colours for an equally moderate price. Yay!
Then I entered the supermarket, heading directly to their fairly small creative corner.
And I found this:
And this:
And also this:
It is a good thing that I'm absolutely useless at the high art of internet shopping, or else we couldn't enter the flat due to all that beautiful craft paper and I'd be broke by now.
Less delightful events and some whining behind the cut.
My lower back was particularly belligerent today. It doesn't like shopping days, for some reason; although I even made the sacrifice of boarding a (low-floor) tram to spare it the jarring. The pain is somewhere on the right side near my backbone, and while it only lasts a few seconds, it is not a pleasant feeling. For these few seconds I feel like I've lost all strength in that area and can't even attempt to move. I know it will go away on its own eventually (it's always done in the last 24 years, so let's hope that won't change), but it always takes so bloody long! It's been with me for some two months this time. Grrrr!
After I've made up lunch from some leftover Käsespätzle and impromptu carbonara sauce, I rested a bit, talked on the phone to two lovely colleagues and fell asleep in front of the telly. Even though it was one of those zoo reports I love to watch. For the Germans among us, right now it's Panda, Gorilla & Co. I'm watching on NDR, but I love just about every incarnation of the series.
Then, around 6pm, I decided that it was time to go online and connect to you, lovely people. Well... the Internet was down. For three frigging hours! I called the company (Vodafone, that has recently swallowed UPC, and since then there are problems). Their automated message told me that they're aware of the problem and working on it. Offered me to send an SMS with the progress report if I wanted. I did not. I wanted my Internet back!
Well, as you can see, I'm back online again, thank goodness, and even used the "cold turkey" time to transcribe some new stuff I wrote for my vampire crossover story, so it wasn't totally wasted. Still, one only realizes how much one has become addicted to the Internet when it gets taken away. Even if only temporarily.
