Thorn Wilde

You probably needed it. I have tea. My guests will start arriving in about fifteen minutes.

It’s not just the sounds of daily living, though. It’s never quiet when she’s up. She’s always, always watching something on YouTube or something, and if she’s not she’s listening to music. And if I ask her to wear a headset for a bit she acts offended. Sounds of daily living I can deal with. I just don’t understand how someone can want sounds all the time and never want it quiet. I do make an effort. I just wish she’d make an effort back. Still, it’ll be easier to deal with constant YouTube videos when there’s no dog also being noisy. Additionally, I’m basically having to play shrink for her every time she’s struggling with her PTSD, and I’m mentally ill as well, you know? She blames all her shortcomings on that, but when I say that I’m currently depressed she says, well, I can do it when I’m depressed so you can too. Which is bullshit, because different people have different limits, and what’s easy for one person can be a serious hurdle for someone else. It’s not comparable. I guess we’re just not very compatible as flatmates... thankfully she’s planning on moving out in a few months. If she doesn’t fully commit to that in the next couple of months I’m just gonna tell her she has to. I lived here first and nearly all the furniture here is mine. Sorry for ranting.

Chill as a surfer boy.

That may be true, but sentence structure is Germanic. Most of the grammar is Germanic in nature. It's the vocabulary that's become so bastardised. Even there, most common loan words came from Norse, not from Romance languages. English is about 90% Germanic. I stand by my previous statement. (Though it's worth noting that in German you would use sie, not hir in this sentence, just like the supposedly 'correct' English sentence.)

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. There will definitely be a sequel at some point, though it's not a priority right now. Happy New Year to you as well!

Thanks! I'm glad you like it. I always fall in love with some of my supporting cast and feel like they deserve their own stories... And so things like this happen.

Lol! It's actually 1:30 pm here now. I'm starting my day late.

Good morning, DiC! Hope everyone's had a good night's sleep. I'm headachy and anxious today, but I'll keep it at bay for the sake of my guests. Gonna clean the kitchen and start preparing for dinner and all that. Had kind of a... fight, I guess? With my flatmate just now. She accused me of not making an effort of keeping the house very tidy. I do try. I'm not the best at it, but I'm really struggling. But I'm gonna try to make more of an effort and be mindful of her, but I feel like she's not being very mindful of me with how much noise there constantly is. When I've brought it up in the past she just comes with the 'I live here too' argument. I dunno, I feel like I'm trying to bend over backwards to accommodate her and she just doesn't do the same for me. She told me another thing, though, which is that she's gonna send her dog to her mum for a while. She has so much separation anxiety, and the neighbours are annoyed because she's constantly barking when no one's home, and we can't have someone always be here, not long term. As much as I'll miss the puppy, I'm kind of relieved. It will be quieter, and a lot less disruptive for me. So, that's my morning rant. How's the rest of you doing?

Well, I've accidentally stayed up until 5 am again. Time to get my arse into bed. I have friends to entertain tomorrow. The prospect seems less than appealing right now, but I'm sure it'll be fun when it happens. Goodnight, DiC!

Well, perhaps not. Still, we occasionally have fun, don't we?

I'm glad people get it. And glad you liked the poem. Thank you.

I was invited to a NYE party, but it got cancelled. So I'll be at home, with Tesla, and possibly boyfriend up on Skype. I've got a small bottle of champagne and I think I'll make some nice food. Thinking steak. I'll watch a movie or something. I would not be averse to watching this display... Isn't it always?

Was my observation to blame for this unfortunate mishap? If so, I apologise. I once got a laughing fit while eating onigiri (Japanese stuffed rice balls) and had rice coming out of my nose. Also not particularly nice, but at least it wasn't hot.

Aaaaaaaah, dying!!!! ❤️

One of my friends has a Malinois who thinks he's a puppy. He'll try to sit in your lap. He's lovely, but damn, is he heavy... He weighs 30kg.

...so when I open a new tab in Safari these days there are some kind of random blurry moving images going on in the background and some of them are flesh coloured pulsing things, and it occurred to me that this is what it must be like watching porn if you're severely myopic and not wearing glasses, and now I can't get that thought out of my head. There's something wrong with me.

Not saying small dogs can't be dogs. Just saying that if I were to have one, I'd want it to be a bigger one. I mean, for tiny critters I already have my cat, and I'll never stop having cats, so... I love Australian Shepherds! I wrote one into Storms. They're such gorgeous dogs. And, thank you. I'm sure I will. Having the gang over for dinner and drinks tomorrow, so that might cheer me up.

The angry react is for shitty dog owners who don't train and leash their dogs properly. In Oslo it's illegal to have your dog off the leash, always, except for out in the forests, and even there only for some months out of the year.

Ugh... I feel so tired and depressed today. At least it's finally quiet since my flatmate's gone to bed. I really do like dogs. They're just not for me, I think. Not at the point I'm at in my life right now. I grew up knowing lots of lovely dogs. My aunt had a Groenendael named Glory. Another of my aunts raised Lundehunds. My uncle (my dad's best friend, not an actual uncle, but he was always uncle to me) always had Border Collies. And my godmother had a Komondor named Emma. So I grew up with medium to big dogs. I'd want a bigger dog if I was gonna have one. So it feels like, well, a dog.

I miss my other cat.

Omg, so hot! ❤️

I have a cat. I never wanted a dog. Sigh... Can't afford to live by myself, though.

See, I just plain disagree with that she. It doesn't make grammatical sense to me. It doesn't make linguistic sense when you compare it to many other germanic languages with comparable sentence structure. In Scandinavian languages, you'd use the equivalent to 'her', unless you're following 'she' with 'is'. 'Everyone is smarter than she is', or 'everyone is smarter than her'. I guess that's where the dissonance lies with me.

Thank you! There will be a lot more about the two of them in Storms, as they're becoming very central characters there. I have another one-off in my head that I'll probably write, and we'll see about what else I come up with.

Induction stoves are all the rage here now. My ex's parents had one that could boil a litre of water in nine seconds.