Bracelet I found that I decided would be good for stealthy stimming. Hard, heavy, plastic beads with a matt texture on a stretchy string. Unfortunately, there was no stealthy colour option – the choice was hot pink, hot orange or hot yellow. Cost: $3.
Luuuuush!
They finally got stock back in of the Atomic tooth powder, so I got a sample of that to try.
Also, I finally used up all of mum’s ancient bath salts, so I bought my first ever Lush bath bomb! Tossed up between several and eventually settled on Sakura, which was the cheapest of the ones I liked but smelt just as amazing as the others. Plan is to smash it and use a bit at a time, since I can’t fill our bath more than hip-deep anyway, and also, am poor.
Today – Whales! Because people keep reblogging that thing about the biggest great white shark and I had two aquatic puzzles to choose from.
Picture two is the point where all of the remaining pieces were ‘shades of the same kind of blue with undefined edges’. It took just as long to place those last hundred or so pieces as it did all the previous ones.
Maybe about seven or eight hours for the whole thing? I didn’t really time it.
On the tenth of December, 2007, I bought a book from Angus & Robertson for $7. It was an author unknown to me, Jane Yolen, but the cover illustration and blurb on the back caught my attention. Further inspection told me it was the third of a trilogy. “That’s okay,” though I. “I’ll just grab the other two when I see them.”
Fast forward nine years. I have never found copies of either, anywhere. I have seen copies of her solo fairy tale book Briar Rose (indeed, I got one eventually through Bookmooch), but nary a sighting of either of the Great Alta books I was missing. Had The One Armed Queen been the first of the lot, I would have read it and read the others when I found them. Alas, it is the third, and sits unread, waiting.
In November 2016, when BetterWorld has a sale on, I put in an order for a bunch of books, mostly to complete series I already own part of. To my chagrin, at the time of the order, only White Jenna is in stock. I buy it. I can’t read it yet either, since it’s book two, but I am one book closer to my goal.
In early January this year, my partner’s mother visits. She gives me $10 to cover something I bought, ostensibly to be my Christmas money. I talk to my partner when she leaves. “It’s back in stock at Betterworld. I want that for my gift.” With currency conversion, it’s just enough. Today, it arrived.
And that is my story of how I had to wait nine years to be able to read a bargain bin find. Now, I’m going to wait at least a little longer, since I’m in the middle of rereading a fifteen book series by Katharine Kerr, and I don’t want to shift gears. BUT I COULD, NOW. I COULD.
I just realized that Riz Ahmed (who plays Bodhi Rook) is the same guy from this meme a few years ago??
I KNEW I’D SEEN HIM BEFORE
That’s funny because last night I figured out he’s on the Hamilton Mixtape too – Immigrants
OH MY GOD I KNEW I’D SEEN HIM BEFORE. I have a thing where I often recognise people from other shows they’ve been in, even tiny or really old or obscure roles, and I just came to the conclusion that he just looked like someone else. NOW I KNOW.
Hello! I’m Eliot! This is my stim blog!
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Yesterday felt easy. Today was a hard, dogged slog, with the internal chant of ‘ten more minutes, now ten more, now ten more.’ Started out and did about half of it at 6.4kph, then dropped to 6.0kph for the remainder. Honestly wanted to give up after the first kilometre, so I don’t know what it says about me that I was stubborn enough to push on for another sixty seven-odd mintues.
I also worked out I take about 14 steps for every ten metres, which I will use to calculate average steps per walk at some later time when I can think.
Today’s music: 21st Century Breakdown by Green Day
Today’s weight: 71.8kg
knitting in the dark 