Continental Drift

Am still trying to wake up - had my coffee cold this morning, as I spent time giving Musti her pill and completely forgot that I'd poured the coffee out already, and it was icky and disgusting and I had to force myself to drink it (I do wish something, anything, else worked the way coffee does to keep off the otherwise unavoidable afternoon headaches, as I really dislike coffee).

And Pätsu just finally, after days of trying, managed to get my laptop out of the shelf and threw it down. :-/ I think it works - turned it on briefly and seemed fine, but I didn't try the DVD drive or anything else beyond basic turn-on, as all the cables are put away. It wasn't a big fall, maybe from about 30 cm, and corner-first... more like a slide, I suppose, and it is a business-class laptop which ought to mean a tougher shell. But still. Argh. That cat.

As I'm still too out of it to do much else, here's a handful of pics from last week and yesterday. Snow all gone, sniffle. ( Cut for picspam. )

Am tired and a bit achy. Managed to take a tumble down the stairs yesterday on the way out, as the stairwell was quite dark and I missed a step. Not a big fall, but my knees and hands didn't appreciate it anyway. I was wiser on the way back - still no lights - and used the phone flashlight. Which reminds me that I really should get that new phone I want, and give my current one to mum, whose phone isn't working too well any more.

Well, at least I know now that it wasn't the power supply or the dust causing the random restarts.

New desktop shopping tomorrow, I suppose. Although I'm not sure the timing's the best, what with the start of the school year and all - they're probably going to be busy. Well, won't get it any sooner if I put it off longer.

Bleh. Will need to see if I've forgotten to back up anything I need, although I hope it'll last long enough to let me transfer everything properly.

And I have had a fever for most of the weekend, including right now. I suspect the cold and moist air and no heating aren't helping, as I'm also quite sneezy. I do hope I get better by tomorrow though as I'd rather not work on the laptop (and don't know if I can risk actually doing work on the desktop now).

And I spent half the day scrubbing the kitchen walls high up and part of the ceiling, too, as Pätsu (who likes to sleep on top of a cupboard, right under the ceiling) seems to have scratched her ear bloody in the night ... it's amazing how far and wide blood drops can splatter when a cat shakes her head. It looked like someone had been butchered in the kitchen in the morning. Pätsu seems quite fine now though.

Still haven't got anywhere - it's just too hot here to do anything. Don't feel like moving around much... managed to vacuum my floor though, amazingly, and am now fairly dead. Also located swimsuit but am not at all certain that I'll get anywhere near the beach today. Ah well, maybe tomorrow.

So here's some ( more recent kitty picspam. )

Still need to do dusting and put the washing away and so on... argh, heat and housecleaning is not the best combination ever.

Have taken a few more looks at the prompts at sshg_exchange since this morning. So many I'd love to read! And some I'd really rather like to write, I think... of course, the possibilities of some make me cower in fear. Ah well, only three weeks (plus a bit) to wonder about my fate! *is excited*

Ex-tooth is feeling considerably better. Still on soft food, which is getting annoying (and I keep drooling at thoughts of the most common food items, such as a slice of bread), but I've managed to have some strawberries, which were delicious. But the tenderness and swelling are as good as gone. On the other hand, I've lost a bit of weight - seem to be barely over 52 kg now, which can probably be explained by the recent enforced lack of chocolate and real food.

Also managed to drag myself out yesterday, for post office and grocery shopping, which (combined with a walk, some 3-4 km altogether) took a good couple of hours. Got some lovely pics, but haven't got around to doing anything with them yet. The weather is lovely and sunny, but still staying firmly under 10°C and with wind, really not nearly as summery as it looks.

( Recent kitty picspam. Mostly Kribu, with a bit of Pätsu. )

Finished reading Doctor Who: Sting of the Zygon yesterday. Will probably start The Last Dodo today. I really am enjoying the Ten & Martha books, although when reading several Ten books in a row, the authors' desire for Tennish dialogue (especially the multitude of repetitions of some random word) can occasionally become a little tiring. Ah well.

The most wonderful thing about a three-day weekend is realising, in the evening of the second day, that there is a one more whole day of lazing about ahead. Well, maybe lazing about - have to go shopping tomorrow - but not work, at least.

The cats were pretty yesterday. And I had a camera. ( Kitty picspam behind the cut. )

Have been busy today, for a Saturday. Fingernails had grown to an uncomfortable length again, so dealt with those (awfully much effort, and it takes forever - all the cutting, and then the filing, and then more filing). Have read more fic. Finally got up enough courage again to post something to the archives - decided to upload the jelly baby ficlet to TPP and Ashwinder. Now the fingernail-biting days of scary waiting will start...

Also finished reading a Doctor Who book - The Price of Paradise, which wasn't too bad, I suppose (but my expectations when it comes to new Who tie-in books are anything but high, considering their nature). Now I only have one more book with Rose to read, and then I can finally move on to reading books with Martha.

Had the camera with me when going to the grocery store today, and took quite a few snowy macro pics. And there's a few more of Musti, too.

( Three cat pics. )

( Nine snow pics. )

There will probably be more snow picspam tomorrow or so, as I seem chronically unable to narrow down the choice of what to post. Ah well.

Am rather tired and a little bit cold. And tomorrow means back to work. At least there is a weekend again in just five days!

I dumped a bunch of recent pics from the camera to the computer again today, so it's picspam time! Mostly Pätsu being evil, and then some snow from my way to work this morning.

( Pics behind the cut. )

I've found some chocolate on my desk. Yay!

Am feeling better today - tooth pain was all gone in the morning, the sun was shining, it was pretty. (Tooth is still sensitive now though - has started making me notice it again in the evening, but at a minor annoyance level, not agonising pain.)

Caught an earlier bus today, and as I had the Fuji with me, and as the weather was gloriously sunny, got off at Lauluväljak to take some pics of the sea before catching the next bus onwards to town. Weather was... well, sunny, yes, but also slightly cold due to the massive wind that I wasn't quite expecting. Ah well, it was really very, very pretty. And the last few nights have been cold enough again to even have a tiny bit of ice on the shore.

( Picspam: Musti + icy water. )

The rest of the day was suckier, although I got quite a bit of work done (not that it matters, with time-based rates...). Of course, now I'm feeling a bit cold. Perhaps tea would be in order... *toddles off to the kitchen*

Gah, Saturday's almost over! Not fair. At least I've not been completely idle today, in spite of the cold... have now got a headache, and still have a slight fever, but I did manage to change the bulb earlier, so at least there is light. And do manicure, which is on my most hated things list, so I generally tend to put it off as long as possible... but the nails were getting in the way of typing. And I dusted a bit, and cleaned my monitor screen, yay.

And I located my laptop, which I've been neglecting since summer... heh. Windows needed 28 updates.

( More ancient kitty picspam. )

Watched the first four episodes of Doctor Who and the Silurians earlier... was a bit worried that I wouldn't like it as much as I remembered liking it, but it's still good. Well, the Silurians are a bit silly, but damn I liked Three. *sighs wistfully* So wonderfully arrogant. And funny. And dishy. And where's all the Three/Liz fic that so ought to be out there? They definitely fancied each other. Although not as much as Three fancied Bessie. *sniggers*

Really, everyone who is even vaguely interested in classic Who should watch some Three. Preferably starting with his first season.

It's a nice ... grey, wet, rainy, windy ... Christmas day, yay. Should go out at some point, I suspect, but perhaps not just yet.

Went to get a tree yesterday - a bit late, yes, but it paid off in the sense that we got a rather nice 2m tree quite cheaply. I suppose shopping for a tree in the evening of the 24th is not something too many people are expected to do! And we haven't had a tree for years - I don't even remember when we last had one, but it was a long time ago.

( Tree and kitty picspam. )

Anyway, I hope everyone is enjoying the holidays! Or at least enjoying the start of the week, if you don't celebrate.

With any luck, I should get The Coldest Summer finished today or tomorrow. Not that I know yet how it's going to end, but I'm hoping it will come to me once I start writing (at some point in the evening).