I like how I get something not useful from myself...
What Will freyaw Get ?
| Xmas pressie predictor |
| Big wooly jumper knitted by | enkorvaks |
| Pair of Socks from | placeboid |
| Bottle of Whiskey from | prime212 |
| Cd from | lederhosen |
| Something Cuddly from | brandtotter |
| Something Intoxicating from | jesusandrew |
| Something Silly from | jazzmasterson |
| Something Funny from | penguin2 |
| Lump of coal from | frou_frou |
| Something Pretty from | elegantgrendel |
| Something Shiny from | drzero |
| Something Naughty from | lordstorm |
| Something Smelly from | fizit |
| Something Breakable from | silverblue |
| Something Useful from | reynardo |
| Something not useful from | freyaw |
| The Black and Decker Tool Kit from | waitingman |
| Livejournal account from | shadowedlullaby |
| The Make-up Bag from | sapia |
| Stack of DVDs from | harliquinn |
| Something Geeky from | sez_ladyhawk |
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And yet, sometimes you still can't find what you want.
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Like the tie with great big huge anti-smoking symbols all over it that I gave to my Dad for his birthday (just before Christmas). He's planning on wearing it in an aggressive manner at the bridge club. You know, only putting it on when playing against people who must leave halfway through a match for a smoking break and things like that.
That was funny-haha, although I guess if you didn't know that these people smoke right outside the front door and that Mum and I are allergic to cigarette smoke, you'd think it was funny-peculiar.
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FWIW my SO is cig-smoke-reactive (he used to work, a few years back, in an office of chainsmokers, and how he suffered) and I'm an extremely low-volume smoker (and NEVER in the house! - and to give you an idea of how low-volume I mean, my tongue is textbook-healthy pink, I have no nicotine stains on my fingers, and I only go through about 40g of tobacco a month), and we get along fine. I just always make sure to Listerine meself before washing his tonsils :P
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Now it has people as well as a grey haze through which you must push in order to enter, because the smoking space to either side of the front is, while adequate to allow the number of smokers to stand there, is not wide enough to allow them to stand in large, chattering groups. So they stand in between the front door and the street. The only way in that isn't smoke-befogged is to detour down the driveway, to the round-the-back carpark and in the backdoor (smoking at the back door has been banned, so it is not done when people can see). Only problem is, the driveway's too steep for Mum's knees.
Mum reacts horribly to heavy smokers sitting within three bridge tables. Some smokers have tried covering the smell when sitting at the same table with perfume. We're allergic to most perfumes too.
We get hayfever quickly, migraines consistently after about an hour and a half unsupported by drugs, and sinus infections after any heavy dose.
The problem is also that the smoking break is taken in the middle of a 16-board match. Directors budget 7 minutes per board to allow for slow players, which group includes few smokers. So these smoking breaks are taken in the middle of a match that, at the most, takes just under two hours. Most players take about an hour and a half to finish 16 boards. And as soon as the smoking players come back, Mum and I start sneezing, itching, and having difficulty visually focusing on the cards.