Dept. of randomosity

[kaffy_r]

Things I've Thought Recently

• This I believe: it is impossible to keep knit sweaters safe from disfigurement in a house with three cats.
• After checking out some clips of rugby games (don't ask - it started with YouTube clips of haka from the New Zealand All Blacks and went from there to the Rugby world championship) I am now convinced that rugby is a game that requires more skill and gut toughness than any other version of sport that could be called "football." It particularly eclipses American football (Sorry, supergee.)
• Also? Haka are pretty amazing pieces of theater to watch and listen to and make me want to learn more about Maori history and culture. 
• I have gained back much (not all, but a lot) of the weight I lost to my RA/scleroderma. I find that I don't care quite as much now as I did a few months ago. Perhaps the idea that I'm exercising regularly and attempting to be a teeny bit more active, makes me feel this way. Perhaps it's because I just can't be bothered to worry about it. Hmmmm.
• Getting anywhere at all on Chapter 26 of Hearts and Moons has proven to be very difficult. This story won't be done before the end of 2015. Bother. 
• I really am liking this season of Doctor Who, although the most recent one had me violently swinging between enjoyment (Osgood! Kate Stewart!) and irritation (Doctor with little time in world-threatening crisis decides to travel trans Atlantic in a plane instead of the TARDIS. O rly?)
• Exercise is hard
• Wow. Much randomosity. 

Comments

[heliopausa]

Nodding sagely here at how much exercise is a Good Thing.
I've been wondering what you've been thinking about this season of Doctor Who! I thought the Woman Who Lived was very patchy, with exciting possibilities. This latest one - I feel it was setting up for huge dollops of Important Moral Lesson next time. :( I hate it when they do that. (Who's to say that those small piles of ash left inside the church weren't the Zygons, hey?)

[owlboy]

>>I am now convinced that rugby is a game that requires more skill and gut toughness than any other version of sport that could be called "football."

This is correct.

[bibliofile]

Cats who stay away from the sweater areas of a person are fine (except for emergency grabbing, in which case the sweater isn't the main concern). If you have cuddly cats who put their feet anywhere on your sweater, yeah, no. Especially if you don't trim their claws.

Yes, hakas are way cool. Also, the Maori are the only indigenous people that ended up forcing the British into a treary rather than being overwhelmed militarily. Lots of interesting stories about the people from before the Brits arrived, too. And a replica of a building at the Field! (Did you ever meet my ex, the kiwi/Brit? NZ is a cool place.)

re: rugby -- In NZ, some amateur rugby players play US-type football in the off season. And end up with more injuries than when the play rugby, too. Other than that, I don't know a lot about the game.

Yay, exercise! (Um, better you than me?)

[shanghaied]

I am now convinced that rugby is a game that requires more skill and gut toughness than any other version of sport that could be called "football." It particularly eclipses American football

What the Owl said. On eleven :D

I'm exercising regularly and attempting to be a teeny bit more active,

THIS. Believe in it. Do it. Keep doing it. Pretty much daily mileage (four of same) at one hella pace (150 steps/minute. alternated with jogs and outright proper running) is why I've not had to use my old walking stick for over half a decade now. It also undoubtedly has a lot to do with why I still wear UK size 8 jeans :-)

Exercise is hard

And fun. Using the body can bring joy. FWIW I also find I do some of my best creative thinking on the hoof!

p.s. Check your inbox - you've got me waiting on a vital piece of info...

Three cheers for randomosity

[maruad.livejournal.com]

Hip Hip Hurrah!

Woohoo!

Yay!

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Love that GIF...is ONLY, lol!!

Ahh, sweetie. Sounds like life is still taking a bit of a kick at you, but you are handling well...(and rugby has always been superior - if more violent - than football...apologies to all football lovers).

*CUDDLES YOU*

[thisbluespirit]

Notghing wrong with a bit of random! I hope the week isn't treating you too badly. ♥

(And, ha, come on, let's face it, taking the TARDIS in a hurry can be useful, but it could also land him 10 years later, which, by and large, a plane isn't going to do. I'm such an old school fan that it never even pinged on me that it would be better to use the TARDIS - I'm still spending all my time grumbling that he seems to risk using it all the time, when clearly that's the unreliable option!)

[elisi]

I am now convinced that rugby is a game that requires more skill and gut toughness than any other version of sport that could be called "football." It particularly eclipses American football
Yeah, this. Every nation that plays rugby regards 'American football' as something rather ridiculous. All that padding! Real men don't need that.

[eaweek.livejournal.com]

Exercise is SO hard.