10% of Your LJ Experience

Ouch.

Early morning - managed to secure first cup of coffee successfully, brought said first cup of coffee to room. Took one sip. Planning on reading while drinking first cup of coffee, in potentially futile attempt to wake up.

Hear phone ring downstairs. Thoughts go through swmbo's head: "Phone. Phone? Oh, Phone!" swmbo leaps up and dashes down the hallway and down the stairs.

swmbo is wearing wool socks. All of the time because, as she may have delicately pointed out in her previous posts, swmbo is very cold recently. Wool socks provide little traction on carpet of stairs, particularly when someone is launching themselves in order to get the phone before the fourth ring.

Lands in a sprawled heap at the bottom of the stairs, skins palm of right hand *shows you palm* Propels herself immediately back up to her feet because the phone is still ringing...launches herself across the room. Grasps and picks up the phone ....just as it rings the final time.

Waits a minute. Checks phone. There is no voicemail. There is no voicemail.

*swmbo nurses brusies and palm* Ouch. Also, coffee went cold. *sigh*

Apparently I am having a rough morning. And on the VERY slim chance it was somebody who reads my LJ calling me - sorry I missed the call. I was too busy falling down the stairs.

I'm sorry for the interruption in your regularly scheduled program - namely my stalking of circe_tigana's friends in a vain attempt to get close to her. I might just need to dig out the pigeon costume and peck at her window instead. Wait. I think it's even colder there and I know there is more snowfall. Nevermind. Sorry, Circe! I'll stalk you in the springtime.

ETA: There doesn't appear to be moodsets for pained, bleeding, battered, bruised, clumsy, etc. I'm going to have to go with sore.

ETA a second time: I just realized the date - it is swmbo's mom's birthday - which means it was probably either swmbo-mom or a swmbo-sibling calling. So THAT mystery is primarily solved. And...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY MOM!

The S in swmbo stands for slacker!

Because now I finally will update my LJ with bear and associated friends list!

But first - swmbo-updates. I spoke with my mom to wish her a Happy Birthday - and passed along the lovely messages everybody else left for her, she much appreciates them. It was not her on the other end of the phone this morning that caused my near-brush with death so unless it was a sibling calling to remind me it was her birthday (which I KNEW) then I don't know who it could have been. Forever a mystery!

SO anyway - I called my mom and as soon as I heard her voice I sang "Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear mooooooom, Happy birthday to you"

And she says to me in a tone of complete surprise: Oh! That was very nice, I'm so proud of you.
Me: What, that I remembered all of the words? (unable NOT to laugh)
Mom: Well that and you managed to sing properly! Your tone of voice was so chipper and it didn't sound horrible!

Hee! I adore her. She sounded incredibly pleased and proud of me, I rather felt like I had just tied my shoelaces for the first time. She also scolded me for falling down the stairs and agrees with caille that I should be more careful with her daughter.

So! On to bear - Bear is a notorious spy and a member of top sekrit societies in which most posts are hidden from the swmbo.

( Eeep! Cut for length but click, click the cut tag! )

*hugs everybody on her list* There! 2/3 done - only fitofpique left. And it might not be very interesting because *gasp* we have too much overlap and yesterday it was mostly posts by people that were on both our friendslists. I'm going to continue the experiment today to see if I can learn any new gems.

*beams*