Adventures in a real world

[listersgirl]

I could have sworn I posted yesterday with the computer update (which I know you are all DYING to hear...heh). But, nothing. Ooo, phantom LJ posts! Creeeepy!

...sorry, wrong season.

This morning I had an email from someone saying (among other things) she missed my LJ posts (and my tea reminders, amazingly enough). I FEEL TOTALLY LOVED. Therefore I am going to attempt to update more regularly. Which means I will have to leave the house more often in order to have something to say. Oh the pain.

Anyway, computer update! It's all good. Isn't that exciting? There was a second disk I needed to install, with drivers and settings and the like, which fixed any number of problems including the display, and then thanks to the amazing magical wizardry of sanity_clause, I have all my files back. Seriously. I am still amazed - I had totally found a place of zen about losing everything since June and then! He somehow dragged them all off the dead hard drive! s_c, there is a prize for you coming at some point when I have enough time to actually get it.

Here are my ruminations about safety for the day. Car alarms and fire alarms have both kind of hit that point where people don't pay all that much attention to them, except to be annoyed about the noise. I personally think car alarms are ridiculous, unless the owner of the car is within hearing range and is willing to go sprinting out to the car to deal with whatever is happening. Otherwise? People assume that either a) someone walked too close to the car (and oh, this is why car alarms should not be allowed in cities, because if your car is parked beside the sidewalk, someone is going to walk too close to it!), or b) someone (aka the driver) accidentally set the alarm off and can't figure out how to shut it up. Which is what I assumed on Friday when I passed a car with the alarm going off and someone sitting inside. It didn't even OCCUR to me until three blocks later that there might be some other reason, because car alarms go off all the damn time, for no good point.

Fire alarms are kind of the same way. At work, we assume it's a fire drill. And it always has been. At home, only once out of all the times the fire alarm has gone off in any of my apartment buildings has it been an actual fire. Last night the fire alarm went off, and half the people I saw just looked out their doors, and then went back to what they were doing. Of course, we couldn't smell any smoke. Personally, I went for coffee. I figure if it is a real fire, it's going to burn down whether I'm there or not. But no-one ever rushes anymore. No-one ever panics (which is probably a good thing). Everyone takes the time to put on shoes and coats and scarves (which is also a good thing, because it was crazy cold last night).

I was going to end this with a carefully thought-out and detailed moral, but then realized that it's really just the boy who cried wolf as applied to inanimate objects. All the good morals are taken, yo.

Question: if I have a funky t-shirt that I totally love but it's too small now (like all my funky t-shirts), how lame is it of me to buy the exact same one again in a larger size?

Finally, mystery_diva's birthday brunch this weekend reminded me of how awesome brunch is and how it's really one of my all-favourite socializing venues. Something about the combination of breakfast foods, being early in the day so no-one is cranky or exhausted from work, a recognition of the weekend, good venues for talking, no clean-up after. Whatever it is, it totally works.

Comments

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

i rebought a funky tshirt this winter because i had gotten paint on the first version of it. so, it may be lame to rebuy, but you can be lame like me, and of course everyone wants that.

[listersgirl]

Lame like you! It's the path to happiness. :D

[globetrotter1.livejournal.com]

Hurray for recovering files!

And I've been living in highrises far too long. I never leave the apartment anymore. It helps that I now have a balcony and can see the firemen slowly walk into the condo.

[listersgirl]

And, you know, you could always lower yourself with a sheet rope if it came to that. :D

Lame?

[mistress-wanda.livejournal.com]

How small is it? Can you layer, always a good look. Well at least I think so.:)

Re: Lame?

[listersgirl]

It kind of gives me sausage arms, which is maybe not so much of a good look. :D But I should try the layering thing.

[pomma-penses.livejournal.com]

Yay for more posting!

It's totally not lame to buy a new t-shirt. :D

[listersgirl]

But it's a new SAME t-shirt! I don't know - I think I have this fear of someone sneaking into my house and questioning why I have two of the exact same t-shirt.

[offscreen.livejournal.com]

GAH, car alarms. Did you see my post from yesterday or is this LJ synchronicity?

[listersgirl]

I saw it after I had written that bit! Clearly the car alarms were out in full force. :)

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

one of my RL friends has a book of crafts to do with old tshirts- as we both have gazillions of too small shirts, we plan to use that book to make new wearable things with the old shirts.

But no, it's not lame at all to replace the shirt with a bigger shirt. And to tell your friends where you got the shirt, because all of your clothes are cool and if they come in XLs for me, yay!

I'm on the safety committee at work (gak) and we're always being warned about alarm fatigue. Plus, people are stupid. They're like, I refuse to die in a fire until my work is saved and my computer logged out, all of my stuff gathered up and my ugly hat is at the right jaunty angle. Seriously. Bah.

I want to know more about your home-buying plans... and I live vicariously through you, so, you know - talk more about the doing of stuff! :)

[listersgirl]

Well, I have an appointment today to talk about the remote possibility of a pre-approved mortgage, so we'll see!

And that is a totally clever idea for shirts. Also would work for all the massive oversized shirts from the 80s that have sentimental meaning but no actual use anymore!

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

I use those 80s giant tshirts for bedtime wear... I don't know exactly when the baby t started to exist, but I'm so glad they do...

I was looking at the canadian morgate corporation website recently, and our MLS listings.. and for me to save 25% of what a house in this very expensive market costs, well, it boggles the mind... but you can get by with 5% downpayment now, can't you, if you're willing to spend a few thousand on mortgage insurance?

All these morons I know in RL are buying houses, why can't I? (You are not one of those RL morons. Nor are you a virtual moron. You rock.)

Are you looking for an apartment type thing? Or a house type thing?

[listersgirl]

Oh, apartment. I don't want a yard, nor do I need an entire house to keep clean. :D

More mortgage details to follow...