How I Spent My Saturday
Oct. 17th, 2011 10:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elionwyrMy plans *had* been of the naughty nature with my sweetheart. But he had to cancel his plans to visit. Alas.
So my next plans were to stay in bed all weekend and sulk.
That didn't seem like such a good idea (though the cats approved) so I did a bit..a small bit..of housework, buffered with lots of Second Life.
Then as it began to get dark out, I decided to go trim the hedges. Which seemed like a good idea at the time. So I shoved my celphone into my hoodie pocket and ventured outside.
Said hedges are on a slope and are, um, a good bit higher than my head. After realizing I couldn't reach most of the tops of the hedges, I focused on doing the sides, which wasn't too bad until I went around to the front of the house. I've been parking by these hedges for 2 years now, and Bartok's tires have created some truly impressive trenches in the dirt, which seem to be permanently filled with water. Fairly icky slimy dark brown water.
I straddled the tiny ponds and kept on trimming. Then decided to go get my ladder and try to hit the tops of the hedges. Then realized that putting a ladder up on very uneven terrain isn't the best of ideas, even *when* there's someone else home to hear the scream when you fall. When you're alone? Really not a good idea.
So I decided to nix that idea - yay me! - and instead replaced it with the impulsive move of dropping my celphone into a pile of branches as the sun was going down. *facepalm* Which led to my crawling around the lawn for...a while and dragging my hands through some incredibly icky muddy water, desperately hoping my phone was not in fact in said water. Which led to my very determined statement to the universe: "I will have my phone back in my hands safe and functional, in the next ten minutes."
Cue my neighbor,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
keleyat, to drive by, stop, and ask me exactly *why* I was crawling around my lawn in the dark.
The quick use of his celphone helped us to locate my phone, safely buried in a pile of leaves. Which meant my visualization worked.
Yay!
And someday perhaps my neighbor will *not* stop by the house when I'm involved in some 'well this seemed like a good idea at the time' course of action that has gone horribly horribly wrong.
I then retreated back to the bed, where the cats happily made room for me and where nothing else stoopid could (in theory) occur.
(So, um,elfowls_nest, that's why your hedge looks like it has a mohawk. Sigh.)
(I...really need a keeper.)
So my next plans were to stay in bed all weekend and sulk.
That didn't seem like such a good idea (though the cats approved) so I did a bit..a small bit..of housework, buffered with lots of Second Life.
Then as it began to get dark out, I decided to go trim the hedges. Which seemed like a good idea at the time. So I shoved my celphone into my hoodie pocket and ventured outside.
Said hedges are on a slope and are, um, a good bit higher than my head. After realizing I couldn't reach most of the tops of the hedges, I focused on doing the sides, which wasn't too bad until I went around to the front of the house. I've been parking by these hedges for 2 years now, and Bartok's tires have created some truly impressive trenches in the dirt, which seem to be permanently filled with water. Fairly icky slimy dark brown water.
I straddled the tiny ponds and kept on trimming. Then decided to go get my ladder and try to hit the tops of the hedges. Then realized that putting a ladder up on very uneven terrain isn't the best of ideas, even *when* there's someone else home to hear the scream when you fall. When you're alone? Really not a good idea.
So I decided to nix that idea - yay me! - and instead replaced it with the impulsive move of dropping my celphone into a pile of branches as the sun was going down. *facepalm* Which led to my crawling around the lawn for...a while and dragging my hands through some incredibly icky muddy water, desperately hoping my phone was not in fact in said water. Which led to my very determined statement to the universe: "I will have my phone back in my hands safe and functional, in the next ten minutes."
Cue my neighbor,
keleyat, to drive by, stop, and ask me exactly *why* I was crawling around my lawn in the dark. The quick use of his celphone helped us to locate my phone, safely buried in a pile of leaves. Which meant my visualization worked.
Yay!
And someday perhaps my neighbor will *not* stop by the house when I'm involved in some 'well this seemed like a good idea at the time' course of action that has gone horribly horribly wrong.
I then retreated back to the bed, where the cats happily made room for me and where nothing else stoopid could (in theory) occur.
(So, um,
elfowls_nest, that's why your hedge looks like it has a mohawk. Sigh.)(I...really need a keeper.)
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Date: 2011-10-17 04:07 pm (UTC)ETA: Oh, right ! Context! I dropped my wallet at a haunt earlier this month. That was..a bad week. But it was returned safe and unused. :)
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Date: 2011-10-18 12:27 am (UTC)Glad your neighbor could help though. And am so intrigued by your neighbor's nickname..
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