crappy day

[blamebrampton]

I'm in a world of pain today. I managed to wake up through the night with stabbing sensations in my lower back and have spent the day with sundry drugs, a hot water bottle, many pillows and other fruitless bids to fix it up. Am about to head over to the chemist in a bid for mega-strength drugs, which I will follow up with a hot bath if they don't do the trick (water restrictions are still tight here, so a bath is the last port of call).

It has all put me in mind of the experience of writing for HD Worldcup earlier this year, which is why I decided to spend what upright time I could manage editing my WC fic for posting here, at last.

In happier news, I had a box of Hello Panda biscuits from the Asian grocery aisle last night. I offered one to J, who said "No thanks, I don't eat panda."

In actual fact they were gooey chocolate inside a sweet biscuit, and quite tasty. And the panda theme reminded me of a moment at a tram stop in Melbourne. There were two little boys, about eight years old, yammering. "And we can go and see KungFu Panda!" the first one said, excitedly.

"Yeah!" replied the second. "But we'll need to get up for the early screening. Everyone will want to see it, lunchtime will be panda-monium!"
 
There was a long pause. The first boy shook his head. "That was awful. That was so awful, it was really good."

I like to think he has taken the first step towards a lifetime of bad pun appreciation.

Comments

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

DROUGHT! Pretty much since I got here (it wasn't me.)

For the last ten years there has been significant drought across almost all of Australia, which came hard on the heels of a seven-year drought. At one point the dam that supplies Sydney was at under 30% capacity. So it was three minute showers all round, two days a week for garden watering, no car washing.

The dam is back up over 60% after the last six months of reasonably good rain, and the restrictions have been lifted a little, but we are still very careful with every drop, because who knows when the next decade-long drought will happen.

J believes he is HILARIOUS, sometimes he is ...

[empress-jae.livejournal.com]

oh wow! i'd known about draughts throughout australia over the years, but i didn't know it was THAT bad. 3 minute showers?? it takes me that long to get the water temperature to my liking! :D

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Better than in Goulburn where they had level five water restrictions; we stopped in a cafe there, they had signs asking you to be very quick washing your hands in the loos.

[empress-jae.livejournal.com]

isn't it amazing what we take advantage of? stuff we never consider as "draining of the supply" until we're forced to use less of it.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how often I have smothered an "I told you so!" over the current fuel crisis ...

[empress-jae.livejournal.com]

i willingly gave up having a car last year because i knew the prices would spike even more than they already were. something in my brain just said trust me jae. save yourself the headache and cash.

now i just giggle when i walk past gas stations. :D

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Good choice!