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While the bath water was going down the drain and I was sitting all towel'd in, making my feet pretty, on the edge of the tub... my playlist ended. Yes, I always play music when I take a bath. And yes, I keep my computer/speakers/whatever it may be far away from the tub.
The playlist ending meant I'd been in there for about 45 minutes.
I then finished taking care of my feet and hair and ears, and I got dressed. I also had a bowl of yoghurt, and then I packed water and stuff in a small bag. By then an hour and a half had passed and it was down to 17 degrees outside again, with a thick cover of clouds, no sun, and some semi-mild wind. Sigh. Takes about 15 more minutes to get outside, and by then it's 15 point something degrees.
My own fault. I should've showered/had that bath after I got in instead. Then again maybe I should've just hurried up some more.
First thing that happens, out the door, is that we meet the one dog in the neighborhood my dog goes insane for. People must think she's nuts. I had to sit her down and wait for ages until she calmed down. Then when we finally continued she pulled the leash a lot and was all insane. I got upset and then I was cranky, and then we meet her BFF dog. But she sat down nicely and waited, and then they sniffed each other, and I had a short conversation with the owner, and then we were on our way again.
She behaved nicely after that. But instead I had another problem. Well, sort of. There were tons of ants in the woods, and they were on me, and one got stuck to me and I had to shake and poke it and pluck it off. I hate ants. I used torun screaming the other way and REFUSE to walk this particular path before. But then I gave it up, because I got temporarily emo and my emoness made me realize that there are WAY worse things in life than ants.
But now they were ON me! So. Many.
A billion mosquitoes, biting, and the moist ground made my shoes all wet, and everything sucked in many minor ways. I finally got out on the big dirt road where I usually walk, so I stopped and took out the extra leash i packed in my little bag and I attached Bell to a root tree thing after checking it's sturdy... and I sat down on a tree stump, opened my jacket, and settled down. I had some water and stuff with me so I could sit and snack... but the ARMY of mosquitoes made it impossible to enjoy.
Now...
Bell is somewhere I can't see, so I turn around, and she's sitting behind me... staring intensely at something. "Dog!" I think, instinctively, and feel relieved over the fact that I brought this extra leash that I've attached her with, and I turn around the other way to see what she's looking at.
And there - although admittedly quite far away - is a FREAKING MOOSE staring at me! OMGWTF! I have never seen a moose in the wild before, except passing them by way fast in a car or a bus! (Luckily we have this wild life fence thing covering the sides of our major roads with woods on either side. Therefore it's rare seeing them on the actual road. Which is good. But that also means that you can only see them far off, right at the tree-lining, behind the fence. You barely have time to realize you just saw something, let alone realize it was a moose, when you pass by in a car.)
Which is just... ridiculous. Because they're everywhere in the woods here and all my friends ever have seen at least one each. Basically walked into them, from what I've heard. I've never had such a dramatic moose story to tell. It's never happened to me.
Until now. Well, it's not dramatic. I just meant the meeting part. Or seeing, more like.
By "quite far away" I mean about... Fifty or sixty meters. Which is... 164 feet, apparently.
I suppose that isn't that far away, no, but not walk-into-it close either.
It stared at me, and I stared at it, and I was wondering what to do if it started running towards me. I'd freak the fuck out and DIE because I wouldn't be able to run fast enough! IT WAS GOING TO KILL ME! THE WILD MOOSE WAS GOING TO RUN AT ME AND KILL ME BECAUSE IT SAW ME AS A THREAT WHEN BELL UNDOUBTEDLY STARTED BARKING AT IT OR SOMETHING! -- Except permaybehaps wouldn't that most likely only scare it away? I DON'T KNOW I'VE NEVER MET A MOOSE IN THE WILD BEFORE AND I'VE HEARD SO MANY HORROR STORIES PERHAPS IT WILL CHARGE AT ME AND I WILL BE CRUSHED BY IT AND IT WILL SAY CAUSE OF DEATH: CRUSHED BY ANGRY MOOSE ON MY DEATH-WHATEVER!
Is what's going through my head. In the matter of seconds.
Nothing happens, of course. It's quiet, I go "OMGWTF this is so cool omg!" in my head, and it looks at us... then it runs off into the woods. So. Wow.
L. O. L!
Then people jog by, and one has a dog, and I'm - again - very thankful I've attached Bell to a tree. They say hello, I say hello, and the dog owner is quite cute and he asks me if everything's alright. (See, his dog was loose and randomly appeared before they appeared, and Bell barked, and he called his dog, and then his two friends - I assume - run by first, and then he and his dog show up, and he asks if it's all good because he couldn't see what was happening earlier... I guess?)
And I say sure, it's peachy, and smile. ... Except I didn't really say that. I just said "Yeah, it's fine" more or less. But I did smile!
Then I text people and then I whine and then I go home in misery.
As I come home and unlock the door I think about this post and how I'm going to write "Was it worth it? Conclusion: HECK NO!"
But then I think about me spending all day in front of my computer feeling uninspired, and bored, and emo about never doing anything. That's when I realized that it was worth it!
It's fun being out experiencing the world. Both the good and the bad!
And I'm lucky. My mosquito bites never itch that long. These have already stopped.
I feel better for all of this!
I finally get outside and it's gray and windy again. Not too cold, but not as summery nice as it was when I first posted. That annoys me.
Bell whines a lot before we go out. It annoys me. Eventually we finally walk out the door, and first thing we do is meet a dog unexpectedly, and Bell goes nuts because neither of us are prepared. I get more annoyed. People around are staring.
Not helping.
Got off on the wrong foot. I go on anyway. She pulls the leash a lot. I correct her and train a bit with her. She behaves.
I enter the forest and walk on. I realize I forgot to bring something so I can put my hair up. My hair annoys me already.
There are a lot of ants. A LOT. On me. Semi-crushed. Crawling. Everywhere on the path. Ground is wet and muddy, makes my shoes wet and slightly dirty. There are mosquitoes. I'm in a bad mood.
I finally reach the dirt road I usually walk along. There are so many mosquitoes it's impossible to sit and enjoy the snack I brought. People jog by, one with a dog, Bell goes off again. Why can't she just behave? I text my friends and whine about the minor things making everything suck. The mosquitoes eat me alive.
Bell's attached to a tree. I don't pay much attention to her until I realize she's gone. I turn my head. She's sitting right behind me, staring at something. I turn myself around the other way. A moose is staring at me. HOLY SHIT OMGWTF!!
It runs in among the trees.
I die because of more mosquito attacks. I grab Bell and head home.
DFTBA
Mac
While the bath water was going down the drain and I was sitting all towel'd in, making my feet pretty, on the edge of the tub... my playlist ended. Yes, I always play music when I take a bath. And yes, I keep my computer/speakers/whatever it may be far away from the tub.
The playlist ending meant I'd been in there for about 45 minutes.
I then finished taking care of my feet and hair and ears, and I got dressed. I also had a bowl of yoghurt, and then I packed water and stuff in a small bag. By then an hour and a half had passed and it was down to 17 degrees outside again, with a thick cover of clouds, no sun, and some semi-mild wind. Sigh. Takes about 15 more minutes to get outside, and by then it's 15 point something degrees.
My own fault. I should've showered/had that bath after I got in instead. Then again maybe I should've just hurried up some more.
First thing that happens, out the door, is that we meet the one dog in the neighborhood my dog goes insane for. People must think she's nuts. I had to sit her down and wait for ages until she calmed down. Then when we finally continued she pulled the leash a lot and was all insane. I got upset and then I was cranky, and then we meet her BFF dog. But she sat down nicely and waited, and then they sniffed each other, and I had a short conversation with the owner, and then we were on our way again.
She behaved nicely after that. But instead I had another problem. Well, sort of. There were tons of ants in the woods, and they were on me, and one got stuck to me and I had to shake and poke it and pluck it off. I hate ants. I used to
But now they were ON me! So. Many.
A billion mosquitoes, biting, and the moist ground made my shoes all wet, and everything sucked in many minor ways. I finally got out on the big dirt road where I usually walk, so I stopped and took out the extra leash i packed in my little bag and I attached Bell to a root tree thing after checking it's sturdy... and I sat down on a tree stump, opened my jacket, and settled down. I had some water and stuff with me so I could sit and snack... but the ARMY of mosquitoes made it impossible to enjoy.
Now...
Bell is somewhere I can't see, so I turn around, and she's sitting behind me... staring intensely at something. "Dog!" I think, instinctively, and feel relieved over the fact that I brought this extra leash that I've attached her with, and I turn around the other way to see what she's looking at.
And there - although admittedly quite far away - is a FREAKING MOOSE staring at me! OMGWTF! I have never seen a moose in the wild before, except passing them by way fast in a car or a bus! (Luckily we have this wild life fence thing covering the sides of our major roads with woods on either side. Therefore it's rare seeing them on the actual road. Which is good. But that also means that you can only see them far off, right at the tree-lining, behind the fence. You barely have time to realize you just saw something, let alone realize it was a moose, when you pass by in a car.)
Which is just... ridiculous. Because they're everywhere in the woods here and all my friends ever have seen at least one each. Basically walked into them, from what I've heard. I've never had such a dramatic moose story to tell. It's never happened to me.
Until now. Well, it's not dramatic. I just meant the meeting part. Or seeing, more like.
By "quite far away" I mean about... Fifty or sixty meters. Which is... 164 feet, apparently.
I suppose that isn't that far away, no, but not walk-into-it close either.
It stared at me, and I stared at it, and I was wondering what to do if it started running towards me. I'd freak the fuck out and DIE because I wouldn't be able to run fast enough! IT WAS GOING TO KILL ME! THE WILD MOOSE WAS GOING TO RUN AT ME AND KILL ME BECAUSE IT SAW ME AS A THREAT WHEN BELL UNDOUBTEDLY STARTED BARKING AT IT OR SOMETHING! -- Except permaybehaps wouldn't that most likely only scare it away? I DON'T KNOW I'VE NEVER MET A MOOSE IN THE WILD BEFORE AND I'VE HEARD SO MANY HORROR STORIES PERHAPS IT WILL CHARGE AT ME AND I WILL BE CRUSHED BY IT AND IT WILL SAY CAUSE OF DEATH: CRUSHED BY ANGRY MOOSE ON MY DEATH-WHATEVER!
Is what's going through my head. In the matter of seconds.
Nothing happens, of course. It's quiet, I go "OMGWTF this is so cool omg!" in my head, and it looks at us... then it runs off into the woods. So. Wow.
L. O. L!
Then people jog by, and one has a dog, and I'm - again - very thankful I've attached Bell to a tree. They say hello, I say hello, and the dog owner is quite cute and he asks me if everything's alright. (See, his dog was loose and randomly appeared before they appeared, and Bell barked, and he called his dog, and then his two friends - I assume - run by first, and then he and his dog show up, and he asks if it's all good because he couldn't see what was happening earlier... I guess?)
And I say sure, it's peachy, and smile. ... Except I didn't really say that. I just said "Yeah, it's fine" more or less. But I did smile!
Then I text people and then I whine and then I go home in misery.
As I come home and unlock the door I think about this post and how I'm going to write "Was it worth it? Conclusion: HECK NO!"
But then I think about me spending all day in front of my computer feeling uninspired, and bored, and emo about never doing anything. That's when I realized that it was worth it!
It's fun being out experiencing the world. Both the good and the bad!
And I'm lucky. My mosquito bites never itch that long. These have already stopped.
I feel better for all of this!
I finally get outside and it's gray and windy again. Not too cold, but not as summery nice as it was when I first posted. That annoys me.
Bell whines a lot before we go out. It annoys me. Eventually we finally walk out the door, and first thing we do is meet a dog unexpectedly, and Bell goes nuts because neither of us are prepared. I get more annoyed. People around are staring.
Not helping.
Got off on the wrong foot. I go on anyway. She pulls the leash a lot. I correct her and train a bit with her. She behaves.
I enter the forest and walk on. I realize I forgot to bring something so I can put my hair up. My hair annoys me already.
There are a lot of ants. A LOT. On me. Semi-crushed. Crawling. Everywhere on the path. Ground is wet and muddy, makes my shoes wet and slightly dirty. There are mosquitoes. I'm in a bad mood.
I finally reach the dirt road I usually walk along. There are so many mosquitoes it's impossible to sit and enjoy the snack I brought. People jog by, one with a dog, Bell goes off again. Why can't she just behave? I text my friends and whine about the minor things making everything suck. The mosquitoes eat me alive.
Bell's attached to a tree. I don't pay much attention to her until I realize she's gone. I turn my head. She's sitting right behind me, staring at something. I turn myself around the other way. A moose is staring at me. HOLY SHIT OMGWTF!!
It runs in among the trees.
I die because of more mosquito attacks. I grab Bell and head home.
DFTBA
Mac
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Date: 2010-06-25 08:01 pm (UTC)When I read your entries of late, I sense you're very lonely and it hurts me to see you like that coz I recognize it from my own live and know how much it sucks.
I was kinda guessing that your EePC wasn't up to HD and that that was the problem with making videos. Well, I hope you manage to save up enough for a good PC. (Buy a PC instead of a Laptop btw, much better and cheaper too. More Ooohmpf for you buck)
Well, I'll be folowing your posts and hopefully post some myself. I just opend this account to be able to reply to yours.
Speak to you later my dear Macca! :)
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Date: 2010-06-25 08:08 pm (UTC)Nice that you got an account! Perhaps you can post every now and then. That would be fun!
Thanks for all your support!