Officially the first day of my holiday.

I just realised that if this year had gone according to plan, if that lady hadn't knocked me off my bike and if the NHS hadn't jerked my Starsister around.

I'd be in London right now.

I'd be in London getting to hug Starshine for real and looking foward to my first REAL Guy Fawkes and second-ever Winter Birthday.

Instead I'm stuck in fucking Dunedin at the ass-end of the world with the nearest DECENT malls still being in Wellington because National has fucked around with funding the rebuild in Christchurch and the people I want to see the most are far, far away or dead.

Been managing to sorta-successfully ignore all that but it kinda hit today when I woke up and went 'OH YES FIRST DAY OF HOLIDAY. NEXT ROSTERED SHIFT IS DECEMBER 3RD!'

Going to be crying off-and-on and poking about on Book Depository for something to cheer myself up.

Not that books can replace real hugs.

I'm still sick. Have a secondary infection that kicked in before the cold I caught from Miles was completely gone as well as an ear infection that is clearing up faster thanks to ear drops.

The heat pump broke just before a late spring cold front that has sent the temperature back down into the single digits.

Ugh, so fed up with this year.

~Peri

Made you a video yesterday



SummerGirl brought me coffee at work today.

Miles picked her up and drove her in. he was pissed off that it took her over an hour to get ready for a 30second meeting.

She was all made up, wearing black jeans and a black-and-red corset to give herself a waist.

I reminded the boss that I actually have time off coming up.

Chatterbox and New!Boss didn't talk to me all fucking day.

Left me out front serving.

Got more help from the seafood person than them!

Confronted Chatterbox about the way she's been acting and treating me the same way Buttinski did.

Today Chatterbox just brought out a dixie of cheese that had been cut fuck knows how many days ago, and left it on the counter.

Assuming that I
a) Had nothing better to do than wrap it
b) Wasn't doign anything
c) Wasn't already run off my feet with customers
d) Would just do it

I was already serving customers, trying to fill the cabinet, cooking hot food, cleaning up the fucking trainwreck that the front part of the department had become.

SHE DIDN'T FUCKING ASK.

JUST ASSUMED.

NOT A SINGLE FUCKING BY-YOUR-LEAVE.

I guess now that she has no need of me she feels safe to resort to the way she was when she was hired.

Short-lived friendship?

Probably.

It's only been recently that we've actually gotten on.

She's been kissing New!Boss' ass so much that people outside the deaprtent are complaining of favouritism.

Oooooooooh.

And if she lets Manny get away with picking on Anna because
1) North India VS West India is basically like Catholics VS Protestants in Ireland
2) He used to work with her husband and hated him so he's taking it out on her

I'M GOING TO LOSE MY FUCKING SHIT.

Two days. TWO FUCKING DAYS and Anna already wants to quit.

I've already had a go at Manny for being a dickhead and told New!Boss about it.

Lets see how this goes.

~Peri

There are 8,000 Jehovas Witnesses in town for a convention.

Their kids are either perfectly behaved or throwing exhausted bitch fits.

There is no in-between.

I'm going to need extra sugar to survive this.

~Peri

SummerGirl TMI

So according tot he blood test everything was PERFECT except my white cells, which are a bit low.

So its 'just a virus' and get another test done in 2-3 weeks.

So fucking sick of this.

The garden is in full anime-mode. Pink flower petals are going to be fucking EVERYWHERE over the next week.

Had another date with Summer Girl last night.

We're officially a Triad, for the now.

She basically pounced me as soon as we were alone.

She's a shoe fiend and I showed her my fucking tiny collection of high heels.

She wants to dress me up like a giant doll *shrug* I can't do that girly shit myself but I love being pampered.

She is referring to me as her Targaryen because apparently I get this evil dragonish smile when I go down on her o.O

I met her dogs. Two tiny, twitchy little hairy slipper-things that are like unstable electrons, constantly orbiting in circles around everything and flinching away when you move.

Fuck, I would too if everything in the world was about 40-60 times my size!

We're both brainspazes who are major introverts. It's good to be able to talk brainspaz shit with someone who GETS it.

Now if I could only do something about the bruises she left on me. . .

~Peri

Because She's My Summer Girl

Last week I went to doctors without period.

Headaches/nausea/fainting

Male Doctor says "oh you're not on the pill so you're probably pregnant. Or it could be a virus. Pee in a cup and drink more water."

This week I go in, with period.

Lady doctor wonders why the fuck blood tests weren't ordered, asks me to get an eye exam, orders fucking massive blood test and asks how much water I'm drinking.

Asks me to drink less.

I point out that I faint if I try to drink less.

She reminds me that drinking too much water also causes problems.

I'm like "no fucking shit"

It is interesting to note that whenever I've told a bloke I'm drinking 4-6L of water a day and STILL experiencing problems with low blood pressure, they just ask me to drink more.

Blood test was taken on Tuesday, haven't gotten results back yet.

They're checking:

• CBC
• Iron Studies
• Ferritin
• B12/Folate
• C.Reactive protein
• Electrolytes
• Glucose
• Creatinine
• Liver Function
• TSH

Half-pie tempted to get a multivit and see if that makes a difference, but how the fuck am I going to know if it's placebo effect or not?

Had an excellent night last night with Miles and our 'Summer Girlfriend'.

Wow.

I finally got to hold a bra up and hoot the Miles'-Old-Flat Victory Call. Miles cracked up, Summer Girlfriend was confused as all fuck until we explained it to her.

She smells like lemon and cocoa butter. Her bra, undies and heels all matched.

I just can't compete with that level of class.

Thankfully she seems pretty interested in my boobs.

And she makes the most AMAZING noises.

Great thing about chicks? We already know to find the clit and play gentle.

Miles enjoyed the faces she was getting from me.

She will be The Summer Girlfriend/Natsuko (Even though she's a kiwi too)



We're going to have writing arvos and poke eachother with sticks. She's already given me a great evil idea for that godawful sticky egg-fic.

~Peri

I Am Learning To Take My Body Back

Negotiations continue apace.

If any one of us four at any point says 'Stop' the whole thing stops.

Good News: She is Bi.

She spent about 45mins telling Miles in explicit detail what she wants to do to me.

The whole point of this project is encapsulated in this:



They waited until marriage, and the pressure and expectations it put upon them, and her in specific, mean that the whole thing is a nightmare of nerves and shyness and 'This is supposed to feel good HOW?!'

She has made a specific demand for cuddles/snuggles.

I can do that.

We have beanbags and blankets and a bunch of Dylan Moran and Cirque Du Soleil DVDs. I don't mind spending and evening drinking cups of tea and making a cuddlepile of 2, 3, 4 people.

I haven't been involved in a cuddlepile since Circulation a few years ago :/

~Peri

Today was the second time in my life I've done a victory dance when I started bleeding from the vadge.

(Last time it was because Irma was a fortnight late because of exam stress)

No work AGAIN. I've only worked 2 hours this week.

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

Going to the doctor tomorrow to DEMAND they fucking figure some shit out.

I could fucking lose my job because of this.

~Peri

Stupidly Large Garden Photo-Dump

Ok this is a massive post of photos and a Vlog because I've been crook lately so I've been going to work and coming home to plunge into fantasy worlds until I have to go back to work.

I'm more-or-less coping but I'm being an utter shithead about keeping up with you guys.

I'm really really sorry.



Ok massive pile of photos. I hope you guys like flowers and spring-type shit.

You can compare the progress with old photos from roughly this time last year found here.

This is the snow we got 2 weeks ago:

Driveway garden status update. We had a really mild winter so the Rhododendrons all started early this year and you can see the ornamental cherry getting ready to turn into a candy-floss anime tree:

The hebe is going NUTS. We used to make 'Friendship Candles' from the buds at school. I made you guys one but the camera wouldn't focus on it:

Garden beside the front door and along the front of the house. The lemon tree is Officially Dead so I've started a herb garden. The ornamental quince is recovering well from losing most of it's branches under the grapevines and the vines themselves are starting the years growth already:

About a third of the Jungle has been reclaimed. Omnomnom lots of garlic, strawberries and broad beans in the garden! And some weird self-seeded leafy things:

The pear saplings are all flowering and the big trees are getting ready to go nuts as well:

The Magnolia has pretty much peaked, though:

Here is the MASSIVE FUCKING PILE of tree that was the Macrocarpa:

But we get to see the sunsets properly without it in the way:

Sorry for being an incommunicado shithead. I'll try to buck up my act.

~Peri