Claire

Right. I worked all day and my car went from GREEN \o/ right back to BROWN /o\ in the space of nine hours because it was so dry/dusty/windy and well, I really don't have much of anything to say/contribute to the world. So I'm going to explain about the shoelaces and spam you with some other random pics.





BigDykeyWorkboots (please pretend they're not dirty) with sparkly blue $2-shop laces. I have to express my individuality somehow! (Also: SHINY.) Heh, you can also see how the insides are getting ripped up (and, by extension, ripping the shit out of my socks) after only seven months. For the record, this is the smallest size boot they make and it is a size too big for me, really. *rejoins the munchkin army*

[Oh, HEE. I just found the video I took Christmas Day of my brother opening his Christmas present from L. - a pink Disney Princess esky-bag with three cans of beer in it. V. amusing. He says he'll use it, too. *is proud*]



Little Bangladeshi kitties I got from Trade Aid the other week. I really shouldn't be spending money on non-essentials at the moment, but I kept being drawn back to them because CUTE and I just couldn't take it and I had to get them. John is on the left, Rodney is on the right, and I am not crazy because Kat thought exactly the same thing before I even told her. Also pictured, my fimoTP from that most excellent of Emmas.



Taken from the rim of the crater on Hawai'i (the big island, that is) on the Tuesday of our vacation. I really love this shot, and it was my background on the laptop until it got ousted by the picture of the girls down on the beach.



This huge tour group had got in front of us, so Barb and I hung back to let it go on and just after they'd vanished, we caught this rainbow arcing out from the crater floor. It was freaking awesome and I think we were possibly the only people who got to see it.



This is lava from the September 1982 eruption. We were walking on this area when it cracked under my feet, bent the steel plate in my boot and gave me a wicked blister/sore as a result.



No prizes for guessing why I took THIS one, due South people. :D



Took this for Lissie and Joy.



...this was in the window of the US National Geologic Survey building on Kilauea. I promptly fell over cackling while B. was very tolerant and didn't pretend not to know me. :D



Rainbow Falls, Hawai'i.



The view behind our condo. (The dark area is a golf course and a canal.)



The Monday morning, when I was there by myself I woke up and there were four Blackhawks circling the harbour. I kinda had a moment, kay?



Sundial on Mt Eden, Auckland. Look! It's pointing at lots of interesting people!



Looking back across the Waitemata Harbour from Mt Victoria towards the city centre (Auckland). I just like this photo, okay? I know I've posted it before.



SO MAYBE I REWOUND THIS BIT MAYBE A LOT. guhhhhhhhhhhh. (free if anyone wants it, I just-- had to make it. I have no space. I just-- he yoinked him. ngh.)



I wanted a Claudia Black icon for ages, and I LOVE her line as Vala in SG-1 in response to someone using the term 'jam-packed' where she expands it to "packed full of jam!" and 'jamboree' keeps making me think of that moment (and squeak), so I was all "ooh, I can put it on an MJ icon!" and so I did. And then I stopped and thought about how it sounded (a first!) and realised a lot of people wouldn't get the reference and I'd just be opening myself up to more mocking than usual, so, er, no. But hey, I share here anyway. :D



I couldn't help myself. Cap from Liz (thank you kindly, sweetheart) and icon for blue_raven if she wants it, and anyone else should they so desire to have an injokey Armageddon reference. *g*

[Spoiler for SGA 3x12 Echoes below!]

Aaaaaand I still have a headache (today's work texts - Me: Are there Ancient whales just off the coast of NZ or something? Because, ow, headache. BlueRaven: There must be whales! I haven't been able to get rid of this headache for four days. I say we nuke the damn things! NZ: *is nuclear free* ...darnit!) so I think I will take in an episode of SG-1 and then go to bed. I watched Meridian last night which was, um, not the best timing ever (to put it mildly) and got really invested in it and just-- waaaaaah. TEAM. So then I had to keep going to get to Redemption for the Rodney-factor to make myself feel better and omg, did NOT disappoint. I just. He. He is SO AWESOME in those episodes. He looks gorgeous (much better hair, sweetie!), Russia was obviously very good for him (*significant looks at someone who knows who she is* :D) and is just adorable and woobie and can I lick him, please? Also oh my god the bit about "Anubis, this is your agent", I DIED and then I had to rewind it which, since i HAVE NO REMOTE FOR MY DVD PLAYER meant going back to the very beginning of the episode and watching all the way through again cos I can't fast-forward/rewind, I can only jump scenes and SO WORTH going to bed after midnight, oops. Night guy kinda fired, as usual. Right. Byeeee!