Why I can't have nice things [sheldrake]

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Here is a picture of the rather nice Denby pasta bowl I owned for the fifteen minutes in between buying it in TK Maxx and dropping the bag in Marks and Spencer's lingerie department. I am now taking bets on the lifespan of the matching mug. I blame TK Maxx for being a FUCKING EVIL TEMPTRESS! Either that or I'm just a clumsy fool who shouldn't be allowed out of the house.

Haircut has been achieved. It's all right, not exactly spectacular. Got told off, of course... Honestly, you'd think it was immoral not to have your hair cut for seven months. Nobody died!

Sorry I started forgetting everyone's birthdays again. I am a terrible, bad person. :(

I am also in a bit of a grump, apparently!

*grumps off*

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Oh bugger. Still, at least it was TK Maxx you bought it in, not John Lewis... I have an entire set of Spode from many visits to TK Maxx, so I know their tempting ways well.

I recently managed to drop a heavy jar of honey onto a beloved Emma Bridgewater spotty mug than we had as a wedding present, giving it a Death Crack. You can't get that mug any more, so I trawled ebay and found another one. I paid pretty much a shop price for it, unwrapped it lovingly, put it back on the shelf...and 24 hours later managed to drop a cast iron pan onto it, chipping the top! ARGHHH! Nice china is obviously just not for me, or at least not in my current clumsy condition.

Yes, that's the one consolation -- it was incredibly cheap! Oh dear, though - that's a terribly story about your poor mug. *winces in sympathy* Sadly, I don't think really nice china will ever be for me -- I'm such a terrible klutz.

Wishing you all the best for the next few days, btw! :)

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Also wondering why I type 'terribly' whenever I try to type 'terrible'. ARGH, I just did it again!

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I have those sorts of typing glitches too.

My mug is ok-ish - the chip hasn't cracked down, and I keep on meaning to put some clear nail varnish over it to seal it.

I never used to break stuff - I honestly think it's a hormonal thing. I used to avoid picking things up at antique markets if I had my period, too... *cringe*

Thanks for the good lucK!

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I'm horribly clumsy -- runs in the family -- but it's even worse when I've got my period!

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someone should do a community called

lj comm=pots_i_have_dropped

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Haha, I would join that comm!

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potsihavebroken

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Yay! I'm honoured to have the dead pasta bowl as community icon! :)

btw, did you know, you can edit comments now? Tis v handy!

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Oh come on... you dawdling whore!!!

*cracks up* (that was not a pun).

There were quite a few people in Marksies I'd have liked to say that to, I can tell you!

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Eepiepooh! Shards! Sherds! (however one spells it)

There is a German proverb: Scherben bringen Glück. Sherds bring good luck.

So: this is a great omen! Watch out for that good fortune!

:-)

I sometimes break things my mother makes (she pots). You've seen her pots, I think. They are beautiful and irreplaceable so every time one goes, I feel very bad, as if I've done something bad to my mother. But maybe I will photograph the sherds next time it happens and make myself a good-luck icon!

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I do have a vague recollection of you telling me that about your mother, and I'm sure I have seen the pots. I'm happy to hear about the good luck though - that puts a whole different spin on things! :)

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And that is one of the reasons why I get my mum to cut my hair with clippers (not the china thing, of course, the other thing). The other main reason is that I'm very cheap, and short hair pretty much looks the same whoever cuts it.

I really don't get the point of hairdressers who insult their customers, unless they're actively campaigning to only cut the hair of people who feel exactly the same way as them and get far more stuff done than is in any way necessary. Doesn't seem terribly good business, but there you go. My mum, who also doesn't get her hair cut properly very often, swears by going to Toni & Guy salons, because apparently they're specially trained to be nice to you and not insult your previous hairdresser either.

It's a shame, because I was cultivating a nearly normal hairdresser at the same salon, but she went to Australia... this one wasn't horrifically insulting, it was just like, "Do you cut your own fringe?" "Well... I have done, yeah..." "Oh, right, cos I was gonna say..." *cringe*

Thanks for the tip about T&G, I might give them a go next time. :)

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You think that's bad, I knocked a teapot onto the floor in Woolies and it smashed!!!!

I walked out of the shop quickly and inconspicuously and now I am scared to go back incase I was cctv'd!!

HAIR
Yes, I had my hair cut once, about 8 months ago!!

I liked it so much, I am scared to go back incase it is ruined this time.

She was a new hairdresser and I gave her very vague instructions, usually, I try to describe Sharon Osbourne's hair and it always goes wrong!!!!!!!!!!!

Ouch! A few years ago I had to walk through John Lewis china department carrying a HUGE and heavy backpack on my back, filled with clothes, books and comics. Terrifying...

Maybe could take in a picture of Sharon Osbourne? And then, if you get a good haircut, you could take a picture of yourself and the next time you could take it to the hairdresser and say 'I want it like that again'.

I hate giving instructions to them though. I don't know why they ask, they always end up telling me why that's a bad idea and we just do it their way instead.

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Oh! That is a rather nice bowl. :D

I think you mean WAS! :)

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Ugh, I hate when that happens. But now you're well on your way to making your first mosaic!

Damn fine idea! :)

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I rather enjoy the look of mild horror on hairdressers faces when I tell them it's been over a year, probably two, and that I've cut it myself at times. Depending on the hairdresser you can almost see the dismay at the money wot they imagine could have been in their bank accounts.

Pity about the bowl. It looks like it could have had a nice life of pasta dinners. YUM. Maybe it was rebelling against the thought of being surrounded size 8 knickers. Ahaha. ;)

Haircuts - ur doin it right! I'm going to have to work on that one - I just get so horribly self-conscious and powerless when I'm sitting in that chair and they've got my head in one hand and sharp implements in the other...

Next time I will say "NO! Hairdresser - you have no power over me!"

Yeah, I think that's what happened with the bowl. I was mourning the pasta dinners all the way home with my bag of clinking bits of china.

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You have a very nice camera! I just finished having my third klutz incident...stabbed myself with scissors while trying to cut open a plastic bag with food inside, dropped a pocket mirror which shattered, dropped a ceramic ramekin that shattered. *sigh* Hopefully I'm done for now.

Oh and your hair looks gorgeous.

Yeah, I was quite pleased with the way that pic came out, even if it was a photo of broken china! My camera is getting a bit ancient now, but it works ok still. :)

And thank you, thank you... *preens*

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I rilly like Denby pottery, but it just comes in such awkward colours that don't match primary red and stuff.

Hi Duckie! Circe got her hair cut yesterday, I think it is the week for it. I'm going to colour mine next week i think.

I had this half-hearted blue theme going on with my china, but the Denby was too nice to pass up. Not too nice to smash though, apparently...

I bet your hairses will both be looking fabulous. :)

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I cut my hair by myself (it's wavy, I probably wouldn't do it with straight hair), but every few years I do go to a hairdresser. I always get "did you cut your own hair?" like that's a sin or something. It was worst though when I told them that I don't use conditioner :)

Not using conditioner is a hanging offence, surely! I'm surprised they didn't arrest you on the spot!

I love how they make you feel guilty, like your hair is children or something... silly hairdresser people...

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Having to have regular haircuts is the only downside to having short hair, I think. What gets me is that one day it is fine, and the next, too long and driving me mad. I always cut my fringe in between regular hair cuts because it has a will of its own and grows twice as fast as everything else.

I have a nice hairdresser now who comes home to me and just nods when I tell her what I want and never comments on the latest butchering with blunt scissors that I have inflicted on the hair. Of course, as is the habit with hairdressers, she will eventually emigrate or otherwise vanish, leaving me to break in another one!

Mind you, before this, I went to a hairdressers near where I work a couple of times. But because I don't go that often the stylist had completely forgotten me. And when she sniffily asked "who cut it last time?" I had the great joy of replying "you did"...

Hahaha, that must have been a very satisfying moment! They always say that, though, don't they? "Who cut it last?" None of your business! And they always ask me what I do for a living and if I like it. So I start mentally soul-searching about whether I like my job enough and does that matter, and am I really fulfilled as a person, then I realise they were just making conversation. :/

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I broke a bowl that had been my grandmother's on Christmas, I had to pretend it was no big deal because we had company, but trust me, it was a big deal to me. New or old, breaking things is very upsetting.

New or old, breaking things is very upsetting

It really is! I was upset enough about my bowl, and I hadn't even had time to get emotionally attached to it.

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