Italy Update: Paying for Grocery Carts

[sevendeadlyfun]

Okay, so: ten days in and I have learned one very VERY important thing. The use of grocery carts (or buggies, for my southern flisties) is not free in Italy. It costs one euro to free a grocery cart for use here. Now, in fairness, you get the euro back after you have returned to the cart to its little cart corral and locked it back up (the lock thingie is what releases your euro). So it's not exactly a cart fee. It's like cart rental.

In consequence, I have a grocery store euro. It lives in my wallet and is devoted to getting me grocery carts. This is definitely not how I pictured my life. But enough about me and my complete inability to get an apartment in a reasonable amount of time, plus the kiddo started school today finally and I got to the gym for the first time in like three weeks, only to find I'd gained FIVE MOTHERFUCKING POUNDS and oh yeah, I didn't die on the transatlantic flight. How're you guys?

Also, I'll be back to my writing as soon as I can get settled. The hotel room here is nice, but not exactly overflowing with quiet and privacy. Hard to write with a husband watching Time Warp and a Monster reading to you from his Encyclopedia of SuperHero History and explaining what his future HQ will look like, plus the necessary characteristics for his future sidekicks.

So share, share. What have you done, who have you mocked and should I write some more hell dimension Dru/Spike/Connor with bonus!voyeur Angel, since no one else appears to have any love for my pairing of doom?

Comments

[anxiety-junkie.livejournal.com]

OMGOMG!! *kisses all over your face*

Missed you! I can't believe you're actually over there already!

Your kid sounds awesome; I remember sitting down and thinking about that exact same thing when I was a nipper. The HQ is very important, man. *nods*

Five pounds? Who cares? You're still a sexy bitch, yo.

[sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com]

Hey hon! I'm over here...and about to be out of internets again. We're (hopefully) moving to the new apartment this weekend, but we still have to get all the goodies hooked-up. How're you? What've you been doing? My kid is weird, but a nerdy kind of weird instead of boring kind of weird (we've all dated that guy that's both weird andboring, thus defying weirdness characterization), so it's okay.

Soooo...I'm behind in my comic reading (the mail is still waiting to catch me up or vice versa), but how do you feel about some Hellverse kink action? I have absolutely no plot, but I love writing them together and really, is there a better reason?

I keep trying to get back to my SRS BZNS fics, but my brain is not going there. The last Xander idea I had started with him and Dawn sitting on top of the submarine, bantering about whether a submarine in Tibet was the weirdest place they've ever been.

...Yeah, it was just that thrilling. Probably actually less than that. But Dru's back in L.A., comicswise and I'm feeling a kink moment coming on. Or, it could be Spike/Dru/Angel (with possible voyeur!Connor, if I can finagle it into the not plot).

OMG, I cannot get all of my comments to you in one box and we are even further out of sync then we were before! Let's just start a random convo here.

::hugs::

[anxiety-junkie.livejournal.com]

What time zone are you in now? Because I can definitely work out a time to talk to you via IM once you're connected again.

Hell yeah, send me whatever! I'm always available for you. Oh, and the cart thing? They do that in England too. Threw me for a loop the first time I saw that. *g*