Deep end.

[reddragdiva]

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We has finished cleaning the lounge. (The collection of Freda discards under the couch was much smaller than last time. Though it did include the cute little Pound Shop radio, which Freda loves and we don't.) We got some paperwork and shopping done today. Now we are kicking back with glasses of Mummy Juice (white) and Daddy Juice (red; Banrock Station for four quid, not bad at all). Freda is actually asleep not on Mummy.

The younger teen got up and came in this morning showing off her home snakebite labret piercings, done herself at 3:30 last night. AGH KIDS. She used a sewing needle. Straight through her own face. Thankfully she has looked up aftercare etc so is at least doing stupid things smartly. We got plastic backs for them from Claire's (she has school next week). It was only today that she worked out that eating might require some thought in the next week ...

My work laptop is delayed. O noez! This means I'm still using ye venerable N410c at home longer than I hoped. The keyboard has now completely died, so I have the old Microsoft Natural Keyboard — my second favourite model of keyboard ever, only beaten by the Model M; my ideal keyboard will be a Microsoft Natural with Model M keys — which is larger than the laptop. I'm tempted to have another go at reviving Celery's display.

However, sound is working on the N410c again. I have music again. It's wonderful. And the older teen doesn't try to get her mother to stop me playing horrible fucking noise on her Mac on the grounds that it will break if she doesn't stop me.

Comments

[damned_colonial]

argh sewing needle! *cringes*

[reddragdiva]

Ah, to be young and stupid!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

After the first home piercing I decided safety pins were much better than sewing needles, being easier to hold onto and sharper for the right diameter.

[reddragdiva]

She just spent an hour trying and failing to swap the ear studs with the Claire's studs. She is in rather a lot of pain right now and swearing copiously. Her mother and I are being most sincerely solicitous and helpful, and not pointing and going "HA-ha!" or saying the words "learning experience."

[arkady.livejournal.com]

She'd actually used my best darning needle, which is at least sharp. If she'd told me she wanted to do it herself, I'd have got some proper labret studs and a hollow piercing needle for her though. Her older sister has pointed this out to her.

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

my ideal keyboard with be a Microsoft Natural with Model M keys

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

The Microsoft Unnatural has the 6 key on the wrong side of the split for touch typists. Typical Microsoft.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

That I had to look up what a labret was, I think, shows just how disconnected I am with The Kidz.

The relative stupidity of teens also continues to astound me. I thought doing one's ears with a pin was bad enough, but skewering one's lip with a sewing needle makes me wince.

I was hoping this whole piercing fad might be dying off by now. Apparently not.

Also, $8 for a bottle of Banrock Station seems on parity with what we pay her for goon in a bottle. Although, I seem to recall I haven't touched the stuff in years.

Oh, congrats on the job.

[redcountess]

Nope, it isn't with old farts like me either - enquired about getting my labret redone yesterday and was offered a free tongue piercing (they were training someone) but I demurred because I'm going to a friend's wedding tomorrow and didn't want to have food issues and I really didn't fancy being homeless because my mother would have hit the roof ;)

D, glad it's not the kb controller on the N410C and you can use an external kb.

[reddragdiva]

Australian wine is usually way more expensive here, with shipping. So £4 for Banrock Station is really pretty bloody amazing.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I was sad to see that the Sex in Christ site was not, in fact, literal.