Christmas mishaps

[rallamajoop]

Christmas was pretty good, I got a new camera and a really nicely made little bust-figure of Ky, my sister got a carniverous plant and a remote control Dalek, there was turkey and crackers and a Christmas tree that wasn't too wilted considering it was bought slightly too many weeks in advance, and there catching up with friends/relatives we don't see much these days, and much general merriment.

Then that evening, back home (very much a cosplay-in-progress-zone this close to Wai-con) I put my foot down hard on a sewing needle that must have been sticking up out of the carpet. Said needle went about a centimetre and a half in, then the rest snapped off right at skin level and proved impossible to get out without professional assistence. The emergency department at RPH was not actually so busy on Christmas Night as we'd feared, but by now the my foot had gone and healed over the thing and it was no longer visible without an x-ray, and there wasn't going to be anyone around available to cut it out until tomorrow morning.

Up until this point this was actually not as painful as most of you were probably imagining, but spending a night trying to sleep with the thing still in my foot? Not my favourite part of the process.

I was actually given the piece of needle in a little jar to take it home afterwards. I declined - going home with it seemed against the point of the whole exercise.

So if you see me limping around in the next couple of days, now you'll know why.

<.<

How was everyone else's Christmas?

Comments

[sethyhide.livejournal.com]

Heey~ Glad you're well =D

Spent X'mas at the arcade. Pretty fail, I know. =|

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Apart from the limp, you mean? =P I was quite well until Christmas day, does that count? ^^;

Spent X'mas at the arcade. Pretty fail, I know. =|

Given that I've spent so much of the holidays 1) sewing, or 2) recovering from sewing-related accidents, I don't think I've got much room to talk there. >.>

[janegray.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you got hurt, but I'm glad to hear they got the needle out. Hope you get well soon!

really nicely made little bust-figure of Ky

Wait, they make figures of Ky? I thought there only were resin kits of him, no finished figures... I looked everywhere and couldn't find any.

And the carnivorous plant sounds like a really cool present. Now your sister can actually claim that her house has got death traps ;P

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Not without some difficulty, we're talking general anesthetic here. ._.

Wait, they make figures of Ky? I thought there only were resin kits of him, no finished figures... I looked everywhere and couldn't find any.

Not in recent years, but a friend of mine living in Japan was lucky enough to find one from an old gashapon set in a second-hand store. There was a Sol figure with it too which she sent to velithya (my Sol-cosplayer friend). Found the same set on ebay here (http://cgi.ebay.com/GUILTY-GEAR-Character-Bust-gashapon-Banpresto-Full-Set_W0QQitemZ360201521727QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item53ddaf0a3f) - not sure why the original coloured Sol isn't included in the picture though. They're only a few centimetres high, for reference, but really quite well made.

And the carnivorous plant sounds like a really cool present. Now your sister can actually claim that her house has got death traps ;P

Aha, true! But only if you're a fly. =P

[janegray.livejournal.com]

Aha, true! But only if you're a fly. =P

Oh, people don't need to know that. Just say that your house has got death traps that drop the victim into a pit of acid, and let them make assumption *evil laugh*


Anyway, I wanted to ask you, do you by any chance ever use MSN? Talking with you is always so fun, I'd really like to have a chat with you ^^

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

our house has sharp pointy spikes sticking out of the carpet at times, does that count? and a Dalek.

Anyway, I wanted to ask you, do you by any chance ever use MSN? Talking with you is always so fun, I'd really like to have a chat with you ^^

I haven't actually used MSN in ages - everyone I chat with regularly uses Gmail chat these days, which does handy things like keeping chat logs and runs from my email window. I guess I could hop on MSN sometime if that's all you've got though?

[janegray.livejournal.com]

...I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I didn't even know that Gmail chat exists. Out of the loop, that's me ^^"

MSN is all I have, but I could get something else if it's more comfortable for you.

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

It's a built-in feature for anyone who has Gmail - lets you chat with anyone on your email contact list, and since I check my email a lot, it's the best way to catch me online. Would depend if you want a new email account though, obviously (though if you do, I'd highly recommend Gmail). AIM works too, since Gmail chat lets you log into an AIM account directly.

I was going to check what my MSN ID was, but I don't actually seem to have it installed right now. ^^;

[janegray.livejournal.com]

I got the account :)

janegray(at)gmail(dot)it

I'm not sure how to use the chat, though. Do I have to first add some email contacts?

[prue84.livejournal.com]

Oh my... sad to hear that... I almost sticked one in my finger since I was sewing but... ack! Hurthurthurt! *scared*

How are you now? The foot is still painful?

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Poking yourself in the finger with a pin now and then is pretty standard in sewing. This, not so much. -_-

It's not that bad, but I can't really walk on it properly. Been hobbling around the house on my heel.

[phred-has-sonar.livejournal.com]

You should get Lisa to piggyback you everywhere until your foot heals :D

I got exactly what I wanted from Santa this year - SLEEP! I slept right through Christmas. It was quite fantastic. Come Boxing Day I had the energy of a bear that had the energy of two bears. Which I happily squandered hunting for Boxing Day bargains around Cockburn Central and Perth.

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

She's already driving me places and doing all the chores I can't pull off while limping. I do not want to push my luck. >.>

I got exactly what I wanted from Santa this year - SLEEP! I slept right through Christmas. It was quite fantastic. Come Boxing Day I had the energy of a bear that had the energy of two bears. Which I happily squandered hunting for Boxing Day bargains around Cockburn Central and Perth.

As contrast to me, who did not sleep much at all on Christmas night, and spent Boxing day alternately a) sleepy, b) under anesthetic, c) extremely woozy due to anesthetic, or c) passing out in the late afternoon and not waking up again until the following morning. Bit of a monotonous day, really.

Sleep is wonderful, but sometimes better in smaller doses.