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@u@ That is a very good price for a repair. Van goes in tomorrow am. They have all day and Saturday to fix it. Dealer should be able to get it done *looks at them*

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Ahahaha! :D Never fear, you are not the only one to have too-strong 'get your hands off, that's mine' reactions to people touching your stuff.

I can remember several years ago my parents bought me a big jigsaw puzzle for Christmas, and my sisters wanted to have a go at finding and placing some of the pieces, because you know, it was a jigsaw puzzle, they're hard to resist. I did a very poor job of suppressing my reaction of 'that's mine, I want to do it by myself, stop touching!' - a very four-year-old response for someone in their twenties. XP

Good luck getting your van fixed, I hope it doesn't cost too much. My car's windscreen has suudenly developed a big crack, so it looks like I'll be forking over some cash for car repairs myself.

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Don't you hate that person who comes along just as your eyes are going screwy and places the piece you've been searching all day for?!

I've not done a jigsaw in years - I have snarling issues ;)

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What is worse is when you're nearly done and have tried every piece, every way up, several times and none of them fit at all, and half an hour later one of them suddenly fits and is all 'What? Me? I was here the whole time, and so obviously the piece that goes here, what are you cursing about?'

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YES Like the little bleep hadn't been hiding from you and that it's you being unreasonable and bad tempered.

People don't always appreciate the ingrain ebillness of jigsaw pieces!

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I haven't done a jigsaw since 1993 and no matter how much I'd like to, I can't *sniffs*. I used to do a 3000 piece puzzle in a weekend. Now? A 300 piece puzzle would likely be seriously frustrating (my spatial recognition is sketchy at best due to a TIA stroke).

The most fun one was a sort of Where's Waldo but with cats. That was 2500 pieces and took me a while to finish. I made the Hubby and The Boy eat on the coffee table so they wouldn't disturb my in-progress work.

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:( That sucks to a huge and terrible degree. And not just because you can no longer do jigsaw puzzles (which sucks in and of itself).

Oh man, that one sounds crazy. :D
And I fully approve of kicking the menfolk to the ~~curb~~ coffee-table. Jigsaw puzzles take precedence! Some things are just more important than otehrs. :P

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I still look wistfully at them in stores but walk on by. I have a hard enough time figuring out the right container size to put away leftovers never mind something with almost the same shapes and blobs of colour *sigh*.

I was fortunate in that neither the Hubby nor The Boy touched my puzzles in progress. Even my cat was exceptional in that he never saw the loose pieces as cat toys and absconded with any pieces. He would lay on them though, but he was a cat so I suppose that was the best behaviour I could expect.

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Isn't it amazing what happens with the mind. Puzzle pieces aren't on anymore but you are truely amazing with everything else. But then you're just amazing period.

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My spatial reasoning was pooched in that stroke *mutters*. You never really notice something like that until you don't have the skill anymore. I'm not as bad as I was when it first happened, but I still can't do a jigsaw or create my own sewing/knitting patterns anymore *sigh*.

That one also shifted my writing style to be almost exclusively 1st person from 3rd person. Weird, huh?

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*HUGS* That must be hard when it's something you've enjoyed doing and were cleraly good at.

Where's Waldo @.@ I've seen those ones..WOW

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Yeah, it sucks. I am grateful that the aftereffects weren't more severe though. They've all made me appreciate what I do have even if I sometimes get really frustrated by the limitations I now have. It would be super keen if the docs knew why I've had the strokes as I'd stop doing whatever it was in a heartbeat. Instead, Mister-7-years-of-medical-school tells me to avoid stress in my life. Ummmm, yeah. I'll get right on that /sarcasm.

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Avoid stress! if only that was so easy.
*hugs* hope you're not still having them

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Well placed smacks of the hand to their body works wonders to alleviate such stressful occurrences, not hard and done with growls that end in laughter and a bad name or two. I've always resorted to such, it's part of the community solve the jig-saw experience.

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My g.aunt used to do huge jigsaws, I remember a few 'tapped hands' when I was little *guilty look* I also remember instructions to 'go for it' coupled with a 'don't you dare' glare :D

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So you're saying that your car has finally experienced whip lash from its mishap with the tree limb falling on it. Whip lash doesn't show up right away. Your body has to think about it for a while.

Puzzles *grins* I've seen puzzles done and then you frame them or put them under glass and make them a table top. All that work and then you tear it back apart, put it away for a few years hoping that no pieces get lost, and redo it later. I love puzzles but they are kind of a community project for it to be fun for me. When my Mom was having to do follow up onocology appts. they had an on-going jig-saw puzzle on a table to work on. Same puzzle was being worked on for months but it did get done. Amusing.

Computer is mine. *growls* I don't want anyone else messing it up,I do well enough on my own. *grins*

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Gonna try and catch up on your other recent stuff over the weekend, Dad's screen is rubbish to read things on. Plus I get the feeling some of it is stuff I don't want my parents wandering in and reading over my shoulder. :P

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Oh yes, Honey what is this feltching they're talking about? Somethings parents don't meet the age restrictions.

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*Charis*

I so understand. Hubby is down with the flu (I was taught it's good to share!) which means he feels he can hog the sofa and laptop...though I still get the dog ;)

I tried the 'But I've loads of jobs to be avoiding!' but he just sneezed and went to another football site. I tried the 'but Internet is for p0rn' line too, but then felt it wizer to make myself scarse *snicker*
Have watched some Criminal Minds though, and re-watched some Sherlock.

Money - A great mythical substance that manages to disappear before it ever appears!

Running out of Coffee is just wrong! *hugs* not a good way to feel.

*runs to check pantry, then sniffs jar for reassurance*

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I think it is nice that as a family only one of you gets sick enough at a time, to not be able to take the dog out for a walk. Planned illnesses, very nice.
Now if only he could not be ill when you are off work when you have nothing else to do but surf, write,or crochet... Have you tried sitting on the floor with your yarn and hook and murmuring 'guillotine, guillotine' in a heavy French accent?

No coffee.. *quivers* Today was a 4 pot of coffee day (12 C per the pot). All the cold people were coming to us for hot coffee. The Library should be a site of civilization. *nods head* *Sighs* Boiler problem exhaust being sucked back into the building and distributed into the Library still isn't completely fixed but it's better.

Money. I have seen it and touched it long enough to switch it from one bank to another and then it's gone. I think it's a figment of the imagination.

Am hoping that when the van is better I will be getting my Christmas present of the first season of Sherlock. *puts on little angelic garb*

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mmm I feel kinda guilty. He was lovely making me food and stuff, but beginning of the week I wasn't fully over it and then my neck was bad from attempting to sleep on sofa so I was all grouchy. *polishes halo* been nicer since though.
Tried some crochet, looked at floor - pup had sat on the ball and chewed the wool in half grrr I confess I threw it and stomped off!

Coffee *slurp* it makes life managable ;) Still no safe heating? an frost/ice showers :( *Hugs*

Money really exists? You've touched it? *Is awed* thought it was mere rumour.

:D I'm keeping an eye on ebay (auction site) but been outbid so far. It shalt be mine.

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The DVDs done by Hallmark that are available in the US have scenes missing. I watched the originals on-line and wondered why it didn't seem right and then read on lj of the clipping that had been done. Curses the need to clip on their part.

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Why would they clip it? did a lot get clipped?
Seems silly, when it's only a three part series anyway.

Hey I just wiki'd Sherlock, never noticed some of it is actually filmed pretty near to me! ..I need to get out more LOL though in fairness they made changes ;)

Now Torchwood I'd watch just to be able to point and go 'I been there' and it amused me to hear familiar expressions...

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clodiametelli.livejournal.com

I don't think you should feel selfish wanting the use of your own computer (especially if the person has his own!).
Hope the van repair isn't too extortionate - my mum's boiler broke down over Christmas and the engineer came round, disconnected one pipe and charged £60. Even while it was a lot to pay for a five minute visit, it was still a relief that the problem wasn't more serious and costing hundreds of pounds. These are extra expenses one can do without.
The tragedy of running out of coffee is that the resulting caffeine deprivation can leave one too weak and letharic to struggle to the shop for more...

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But if boiler is disconnected then how is she staying warm??? It's winter out there, *looks at Luz, Dibbs, Skimbliss,Nae,& Meridae* (maybe not those of you are south of the equator).

You run out of coffee; weak and letharic means crawling back into bed and pulling the covers over one's head. *whimpers*

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clodiametelli.livejournal.com

The actual boiler is (sort of) ok now. The engineer just disconnected a pipe so that it would drip into a bucket rather than outside I think. It was the extremely cold weather over Christmas that actually caused the boiler to malfunction (freezing the pipes?) - apparently there was a whole spate of boilers breaking down- the heating engineers must have been taking home thousands that week!

I hope you did suceed in struggling out for coffee in the end and are not still whimpering under the covers.

I like the moon icon by the way.

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We still have coffee at work. At home I am hoarding a bottled Starbucks. Such is the power of coffee.

Thank you. The moon icon looks better full size. Most of the detail goes away when it becomes an icon.

Do not talk about things dripping into buckets. *shudders* Just do not. Long story.

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I'm lucky that my laptop is mine. The Hubby has the desktop (which he curses roundly for it's dinosaur age/slowness). But yeah, I get that MINE! every now and again. And every time I get that feeling, I'm reminded of this scene from Red Dwarf: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q54lVO7elt0

For the uninitiated, that's Cat and he's a scream. He evolved from Dave's cat Frankenstein over several million years in the hold of the mining ship, Red Dwarf. He's not to terribly bright, but damn he's funny.

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Even without looking, am betting that that is the one where Cat's using a spray can to claim things while saying, "Mine. And that's mine. And that's mine. And this too is mine." I loved that episode.

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YES! Whoot! Another Red Dwarf fan!

*sing-songs* I'm gonna get you little fishy. I'm gonna get you little fishy.

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Wait, if he has his own computer, then why was he on yours? o_O That makes no sense. I don't think you have anything at all to feel bad about. If he wants to get on the computer then he can get on his own damn computer. That's why you have two, right? Good grief....

Angie, who'd resort to firearms to keep custody of her computer

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Would you believe 4 computers. One is too far from the dsl to hook in and he uses it for games. The other two are his laptops and they are slower than my computer. He's watching anime on-line.

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frogs_of_war

We have five computers in a house with five occupants, but my computer has the best monitor (even before I got this sparkling new one for my birthday), best speakers and is in the best location, so all movies and shows get watched on it. Sometimes it makes me grumble, like when I'm trying to get a story done and everyone is gathering around waiting for me to start a show. But lately I've been using that time to crochet. Once I'm back to writing more, I'll grumble again.

I used to love jigsaw puzzles, but the last time I did one I lost a piece and could not find it anywhere. Plus they take up a lot of space, which I don't have. So now I do all my puzzles on AfterElton, so instead of cottages and dragons and dolphins, ect., I end up with half naked men.

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*GRINS* Only half naked men? Think about doing one with all naked men.. on it. Sorry, those last two words were delayed as I thought about doing puzzles with naked men. *hums in pleasure* Wait they are beefcake men, yes?

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frogs_of_war

Yes, with enough skin that I've realized that it's impossible to tell the race of someone from a single puzzle piece. Some bits (this is a PG site, so not that bit) of dark men are lighter than some bits of pale men, especially when shadows are involved.

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thetowerxvi.livejournal.com

Pfff. Kick him off. Its not like you're severing his internet umbilical. He's got his own computer. You're brave. I would go absolutely nuts if anyone else hopped on my laptop. Its the other half of my soul...

Van again?! Oy.

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*sighs* Yeah, van again. Have noticed that it's acting like its engine doesn't know what speed to go at and today it decided to do that high pitched I'm running my engine as fast as it can. Popped the hood to look/listen and it seems to be coming from where all the belts are. That was replaced recently. Tensioner was replaced recently (less than a year ago)and I don't know if the other one is going out now but it's making 2 tones sometimes when the wheels are in motion. *sighs sighs sighs*
On a good note, the defroster works now. *smiles* It's getting probably into the teens tonight. Oh yes, van goes to the shop tomorrow am and they can give me a ride to work.

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I don't think vans like the cold. Mine is being picky as well. Cars. Ugh. Now that I don't have to haul a lot of PA equipment around I am seriously considering down sizing. There really isn't a reason for me to have a Ford Econoline van that gets 11mpg.

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How much authority do you have over this computer hog? Is it feasible to limit his use until he buys his own or make him earn his computer time by helping around the house?

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