I suspect you, my loyal readers, are no actual help at all, or at least, not in the practicality of finances department. I have decided against the Bergen boots, even though they are very sexy, because I less need very sexy boots than ones I can walk in. Consequently, I somehow ended up buying a pair of the brown leather Cavalios, which are also riding style boots and which cost more than either the Ravennas (which they don’t have in my size) or the Bergens. *squints at you all* This…
Year: 2007
tired me
I got up somewhat too early to play CoH, which I’m going to have to stop playing for at least a week after today, because I’m having CoH dreams. Like, I was trying to get screenshots of the amazingly good CGI in the dream so I could show it to people. It was like Advent’s Children level CGI, but the character I was playing had all the markups of CoH chargen. I may try to make her later, although she was a broadsword scrapper and scrappers aren’t my favorites… Went…
shopping and shoeses
I think I walked five thousand miles today. In that time, I bought one pair of shoes. If someone had told me three months ago that the place to find tennies in Ireland was a *sporting goods store* I would have been much less cranky about shoe shopping. I did not, however, think to ask, and had an epiphany about it this afternoon after an hour or so of walking around wondering why in hell the Irish did not have tennies in their shoe shops. I ended up getting a…
random bits
End of week writing tally: 86 pages, approximately 21,000 words. 5 and a half chapters written, and I broke a hundred pages on the book. I’m 14 pages short of 20 pages a day, but 16 pages *over* my non-over-achiver goal of 15 pages a day, so I’m really happy with the week’s output. And I’m utterly and totally looking forward to not having to write over the weekend. :) Weekend plans include buying new walking shoes (mine are pretty much dead. I have cratered a hole over my right…