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[labellementeuse]

1. For my birthday I got a finally-done-up flat bathroom and kitchen, which is super, super exciting, and we also got a heater last week and we've started to hang our paintings finally (my mother likes to give art - other people's, not hers - as gifts and also she owns a lot of art and we got to steal some), and basically it's all very exciting and the flat feels like home all of a sudden! It's pretty great. I took some photos. My photography is pretty rubbish, but hey.


(that's my sister, not me, FWIW)



- to give you an idea how wide our kitchen actually isn't







I wish I'd taken before photos so that you guys could understand what a MASSIVE improvement the toilet and kitchen actually are, but oh well.

2. I have been watching the hell out of Fringe lately. That is a good show, y'all. Although sometimes kind of gross.

3. I learnt how to make .gifs!

This is my first one! It is kind of small because tumblr is a brat and LJ/DW aren't really great for gifs. Anyway it's a bit too energy/RAM intensive for me to do often, but it's always fun to have a new skill, you know?

4. I've also been rewatching Stargate - first because shihadchick and blademistress were doing it and tweeting about it and that kind of behaviour is contagious, and then because dazyndara is staying with me and she's watching Stargate for the first time. That's been pretty fun. No exciting opinions yet.

5. I got an external hard drive for the first time in ~4 years. I sort of can't believe it. I remember my first external hd. It was 200G (massive at the time - my laptop held 40G), thirty centimetres long, twenty centimetres wide, and five centimetres deep. It weighed ... well, I never weighed it; it wasn't really heavy or anything. It had a fan and moving parts and you had to plug it in to the wall. It was brushed silver. And it cost like $250. This thing? $110; one terabyte; a nice matte black; completely USB powered; weighs hardly anything; slightly smaller than my hand (I have smallish hands). I don't know what the point of this ramble is except: technology, people!

Also, it's pretty amazing to be able to download stuff and not delete it straight away.

6. I saw Harry Potter! I have thoughts, but I want to see it again before I try to express them.

Comments

[the_antichris]

Happy birthday! Your flat looks really nice now that the kitchen and bathroom are done. Is that really a little room just the size of a bookcase?

[labellementeuse]

Thank you! And: Yes! Well, not quite, it's a little raised area off the living room, but I definitely refer to it as "the library" in my head. Eventually (soon I hope) I'll also get my other bookcase over, which will fit along the wall on the right and look great, and then it will be very VERY booky. (Also, I obviously need an armchair in there.

[shihadchick]

Ooh, it looks very nice! And it looks like you have great light in there, too, which I am envious of.

[labellementeuse]

haha. actually, apart from my room, we have *awful* light, we're on the south side of the house and have only my room and the front door facing west. I just switched on all the lights so the pictures looked good :P but hey, it's the middle of winter, it's dark everywhere.

[shihadchick]

Ahh, I see. Our whole house (and yard. and washing line. :( ) is pretty much in the shade, so I tend to see most things as an improvement, heh.