Various stuff

[vilakins]

It's our national election tomorrow, which means an early start (eep) and a late finish for me. The polling station I'm working at, just round the corner, was apparently the second busiest in the country last time; I have no idea why. But hey, it will be fun! We have to take all our food and drink etc for the day, though I'm sure we'll be able to make tea and coffee. I will have sandwiches and water; that should do me.

Aware that I'm working for the next couple of weeks, I actually got a few things done today.

• Got a quote to get our trees trimmed, well overdue. Greg has this things about letting them grow till we live in a small rainforest and we lose our light and I can't get washing dry and the neighours won't talk to us, but yay, we're finally getting them cut back, and by some guys who know what they're doing.
  
  
• Ordered the Venetian blinds for the living/dining room. This has floor-to-ceiling windows and it can get pretty hot in summer (despite the trees). It has Roman blinds right now, but they're not easy to put up and down, and when they're down, it's very dark.
  
  
• Rang the library to say that the book their website said I had out and overdue was returned weeks ago. They found it and were suitably apologetic.
  
  
• Found that Lindt do a chilli chocolate and Foodtown sells it, and bought a slab, plus one each of their intense mint and intense orange. I have not yet tried any of them, but I like dark interestingly flavoured chocolate for our after-dinner treat of a square each.
  
  
• Not an achievement as such, but the wool I ordered for a Doctor Who scarf arrived today too. :-)

Comments

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

And you won't have time to knit it for a while. The election supervisors in CoE sometimes have their knitting with them but we are a very quiet voting area, after all the whole village could vote in half an hour if we tried(that's not counting the 'new' estates either side of us).You've had very effective day.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'll be lucky to get 5 minutes for lunch and dinner!

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

If it's a Fourth Doctor scarf, then that would presumably be about a dozen balls of wool. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'm not doing it floor-length because 1) I'm not as tall as him, and 2) I'm a klutz and that's an accident waiting to happen.

[san-valentine.livejournal.com]

I got a letter from the library yesterday to say that one of my books was overdue. I'd checked the return date in one of the four books I'd taken out at the same time, and that's for next week. However, this particular one, is from the 'best seller' or some such range, and has an earlier return date than the other three.
Fortunately, I'm now listed with the library system as disabled, which means I don't have to pay overdue fines :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I racked up over $10 once when I was ill and they waived it. :-)

[pet-lunatic.livejournal.com]

Good luck tomorrow! (today?)

Wow...chilli chocolate. I've never tried that one.

[crycraven.livejournal.com]

They sell it here! I can sort it when you come up, man...

[pet-lunatic.livejournal.com]

Aha! Always good to have a dealer ^-^

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I just got back after 14 hours work. :-P

I've had it before, but not this brand. It's a nice combo.

[crycraven.livejournal.com]

Chocolate makes the world go round. And BAD LIBRARY! I'm glad they found the book, and didn't try and make you feel like you've lost it but are trying it on anyway.

Good luck for work - and the election!
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[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I know! I was a bit worried, but I could prove it because all three copies were listed on-line as available instead of checked out. But still, I was relieved. The person I spoke to actually remembered it coming back, which was good.

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Intense mint and intense orange are great! Haven't seen the chilli one over here but my daughter got some from a friend in Switzerland and says it's lovely too.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I haven't tried any of them yet but I will, I like all three flavours anyway. :-)

[jecono.livejournal.com]

Is there a picture of the blinds online? I have no idea what they might look like. Okay, never mind, Google helped me with that. ;)

Lindt does very good chocolate, although the darker stuff is not for me. I like milk chocolate and the more creamy (?) types like nougat.

I hope you'll have a great day tomorrow!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I like the milk chocolate Lindor balls too, but when I only have one square, a really intense flavour is great. I'm more inclined to eat several squares of the creamier kinds.

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

Wow, very busy and accomplished indeed!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

And now exhausted after a 14-hour stint at the polling booth! :-P

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

Well, you did your bit for democracy - go you!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

:-D And I'll be doing my bit with the official checking for a over a week afterwards too, starting tomorrow. :-)

[trixieleitz]

I've tried the chilli chocolate and found it too mild; your tastes may vary :)

The weather here is lovely, so I hope we get a decent turnout. I hope you have a good day!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I haven't tried it yet. I've had some very yummy artisan chilli though.

The weather was amazing here: brilliantly sunny, clear blue skies, and a high turnout. It was a tiring but fun day. :-)