Highlights of the past few days.

[baratron]

OK, so what is the opposite of "highlight"? I know there's a word "lowlight", but I've only ever seen it used in hairdressing or stage management. "Lowdark" just sounds stupid. Hmmm.

The highlights:

• watching bizarre cable channels with Tim.
  
• shopping in Tesco at 1am on Saturday morning.
  
• the rather excellent Tesco green pesto.
  
• buying some purple dykey leggings and a t-shirt.
  
• getting the Bloodhound Gang album "Hooray for Boobies" and getting various silly songs from it stuck in my head.
  
• ruthlessly pruning my video game collection and taking enough old games to Computer Exchange that I was able to buy a Dreamcast.
  
• Samba de Amigo
  
• making a fake chicken pie that everyone liked, even the meat eaters.
  
• yummy food at Noodle Express in New Malden last night.
  

The low... points:

• lying in bed all day on Thursday because I was too depressed to get up.
  
• sitting on the floor crying for an hour because everyone was busy.
  
• lying in bed all day on Friday (ditto).
  
• lots of lovely nightmares.
  
• Tesco running out of pesto just when I was getting addicted to it.
  
• none of the other pestos I could find being suitable for vegetarians.
  
• not being able to sleep even when I was falling over with tiredness.
  

Comments

[jinian.livejournal.com]

I am having trouble picturing "dykey leggings". Picture?

[baratron.livejournal.com]

By dykey leggings I mean ones that look like the sort of sportswear that Mel C from the Spice Girls would wear. The first pair I picked up were absolutely perfect - purple and slightly baggy, with a white stripe down the side - but they weren't stretchy enough for me. It would seem that I have really big thighs, as I simply can't fit into non-stretchy trousers.

I did an experiment once. I was so irritated that I couldn't find trousers to fit me (in Evans! which is a "plus size" shop!) that I tried on a pair of every size in the shop. I usually take a UK size 16, or an 18 if the clothes are particularly tight. By the time I'd proven that my thighs wouldn't fit into a size 26, I felt I'd made my point. Bah.