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Post by Mira O'Halloran on Jul 19, 2009 11:09:44 GMT -5
I elecrocuted myself a few weeks ago, and that was the first in a series of rather unfortunate events:
Electric shock, mild shock, flu, throat infection, chest infection, bad allergic reaction to walnuts, new allergic reaction to milk, first asthma attack in a year, bruising hands and knees tripping onto a concrete floor, those are the important ones. The bruising is nearly gone, my throat and chest and sinuses are still getting to normal, but all in all, i'm alive!
And I'm moving house. Here are the house dynamics: Mum and I pay equal split on rent, Jon (housemate) pays the utilities and food. Jon's moving to a place of his own, and mum and i are moving to a place with one, maybe two friends. So, we have to get the internet, gas, electricity, water and phone up and running. I may dissapear for a while. We're packing things up at the moment - all the spare stuff, extra stuff. Posters, statues, candles, ect. The lease ends August 12, at 12:01 am. the keys must be in by 10am.
We haven't found a place yet, but i'll keep you all posted.
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Post by Rook on Jul 19, 2009 11:51:17 GMT -5
That is awful, they say when it rains it pours but jeeze, that's a flood.
If you need anything, you've got us. We can't help you pack, or move, but if there's anything remote that you need and it's just one more thing you don't want to deal with we'll help.
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Post by Mira O'Halloran on Jul 29, 2009 7:10:19 GMT -5
Thank you!
All in all things are well. my body is still flushing all things allergy related from my system, the power and gas to the house are to be connected on the 31st between 7am and midnight, local time. Internet and phone on the 6th of August soemtime.
I am freaking awesome. the lease was meant to end on the 11th of August - i've got it ending on the 6th, which gives us a week to get everything moved (our new lease starts on the 30th) so it's a thursday to thursday. And it's 9:33pm on the wednesday night, and guess what? I have the keys!!! Yes, i am that awesome. We haven't even taken one load over, and already, about 70% of everything is ready to go!!
But we have a hilux ute and a large trailer, and it's getting packed as i type. and I should go help ^-^
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Post by Rook on Jul 29, 2009 9:05:32 GMT -5
Be careful moving. Don't hurt yourself or pull anything. Break as little as possible.
That about covers my moving difficulties.
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Post by Mira O'Halloran on Jul 30, 2009 3:58:47 GMT -5
Well, i still have all my muscles intact... Sanity, not so much.. moving house seems to bring out the worst in all... We haven't broken anything just yet. I'll try to update when i can. The computer might be dismantled tonight Although - i feel very tired and blah.
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Post by Rook on Jul 30, 2009 8:06:30 GMT -5
It will pay off in the end. A new place is always exciting after you settle in.
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Post by Mira O'Halloran on Aug 6, 2009 2:47:12 GMT -5
Insert manic laughter here.
It is done.
Finally!!
the last thing just came off the trailer and then there's a load for the rubbish dump, and then the unpacking begins!
The phones been connected, so we have internet, i just need to find my computer, and pick up the modem from the delivery guys, and i'll be back online in full capacity.
thanks for all the encouragement these last weeks, much appreciated.
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Post by Rook on Aug 6, 2009 8:47:32 GMT -5
Fantastic. Are you throwing a housewarming party?
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Post by Mira O'Halloran on Aug 13, 2009 2:32:20 GMT -5
We're having a disney movie marathon next week sort of as a house warming. But the computer is up, and we can cook relatively well, the pictures are going up, the boxes are getting unpacked. it's all awesome and i'm loving it. We now have half a study (it's a giant room that'll have all the computers in it) since movign boxes and wardrobes and what not.
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Post by Gelare on Aug 13, 2009 9:11:16 GMT -5
Might I ask what's going to be on the list for that Disney movie marathon? Personally, The Lion King has always been one of my favorite movies. It's Hamlet. With lions. How can you go wrong?
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Post by Rook on Aug 13, 2009 21:59:32 GMT -5
If you're talking classic Disney Peter Pan will never let you down.
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Post by Artz on Aug 14, 2009 9:44:59 GMT -5
I wasn't keen on Peter Pan, personally. The story is cute, but it never grabbed me. I love Lion King and lion king 2, 101 dalmations, fox and the hound, hunchback of notre dame, oliver and company, aristocats, tarzan.. perhaps hurcules.. dinosaur was a good movie.. ummm... beauty and the beast was alright.. lol. I.. am a slight big disney fan ;D
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Post by Rook on Aug 14, 2009 19:33:08 GMT -5
I like Fox and the Hound. It, and a freeway overpass we used to walk under a lot, inspired a movie idea I'll likely never have the money to produce.
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Post by Artz on Aug 15, 2009 9:30:22 GMT -5
Fox and the Hound was good.. used to make me cry, though.. but, now its made me want a beagle pup ;D I will get one.. one day.. lol
What was your movie idea, Ari?
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Post by Rook on Aug 15, 2009 14:14:44 GMT -5
So the setting is the future, about Firefly type advancement (though not a space western feel. More of a futuristic American Civil War feel.)
The setting is the city, it's a brilliant domed prosperous city tall glass towers and clean streets and happy people etc. etc. It's very advanced, well manicured parks and agricultural areas; extremely Utopian. Except of course it's very controlling. It is walled completely with a tall perimeter. Outside the city walls is not a wasteland, just a bad land. There are settlements outside the walls, and they are not allowed in the city, and those in the city do not go out into the 'bad lands.' The bad lands are filled mostly with people who were exiled or self exiled from the constrains of the city. They are more nomadic, out of necessity. The world that they live on has a very transient environment, with dust storms and water supplies that spring up and dry out without much apparent reason. Traveling from the sources of water and farm able land they are a loose configuration of families with no real government.
The movie begins with a child of about ten playing in one of the many parks of the city. The park is just against the wall. An old neglected access tunnel through the wall shows light through to the outside. He is, of course, never allowed to go near the door, it's got gates before the gates and such, but he goes and plays there anyway. It's during one of those times playing at the gates that he catches sight of something. On the other side of the broken gate is a kid, from the bad lands. The first part of the movie involves them becoming friends, sneaking into and out of the city, etc. It is from there that they are forced a part as the boy from the city is forced off to academy.
There will be exposition that covers the next ten years or so. It covers how the city is getting crowded and they are planning on expanding. How the outposts being set up and the initial new wall constructions are being terrorized by the bad landers. Previously unmolested areas of the city's influence, like mines and such, are being attacked as well. The city is mounting an offensive against the bad landers. The bad landers are raising forces to oppose. The boy from the city was in the military academy and, due to his obsession with the outside, joins an expeditionary force. The boy from the bad lands, for his obsession with inside, joins an infiltration section of the militia.
The rest of the film is the war. The scenes pointedly show the two boys fighting each other and most of the time nearly missing each other, passing through a door the other one just left kind of thing.
Then, of course, they do meet and have to deal with not shooting each other. In the end they end up shooting each other by accident, in the same tunnel they met. Everyone in the audience cries.
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