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Life and times of the Asuka.

-Daddy Dearest decided he didn't like the rented apartment we have lived in since I was 1 year old (yeah, so about ... a lot of years) or the neighborhood (which hasn't changed at all) and got and bought another apartment. It's not too far from here, there's a bus and everything, blah di blah. Sounds okay, yeah? Except the building is at the bottom of a hill-slope AND the apartment is on the ground floor AND I get the room that faces the hill, so I'm losing my view of the sky and restful green trees to gain a view of a small grassy slope, an ugly tar path where people sometimes walk, a line of boxy-looking garages, and more unpretty hill. Sky? Hah.

What bugs me the most is that the path is on the same level as my goddamn window, or even a little higher, meaning anyone who walks by can look down and see me plain as day. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate. Goodbye, days of making faces at the computer, scratching various scratchy bits of my anatomy, and walking around in my bedroom in my underwear. That, or goodbye sunlight. My god, summer will kill me.

(It's kinda cute to see my dad fangirling over wooden planks, floor plans and prettily-shaped windows, though. Of course I would like it more if he didn't need an audience for his deep ponderings over whether this color is better than that color. Dad, I'm the artist of the family and I can't see any difference, as long as it's not flammable or toxic just take the cheapest. DX )

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askerian: all these years i stupidly thought that grapefruit = sorta like grape, and when they said "the size of a grapefruit," um, strange way to mean a cluster of grapes? and, no. It's an orange.

askerian: u____u;;;;

sarolynne: XDDDDD

sarolynne: Well, it's a citrus fruit, yeah. XD

sarolynne: ...I. Don't know what they're called in French, actually.

askerian: i knew the french name up until three seconds ago.

askerian: of course now i can'tPAMPLEMOUSSE

sarolynne: ...XDDDD

askerian: ... stupid brain.

sarolynne: I honestly have no idea why we call it a grapefruit.

sarolynne: It is nothing at all like a grape.

askerian: Wiki says it's because they grow in grape-like clusters on their tress.

askerian: *knows this now! All Hail Wiki.*

sarolynne: Yay, wiki!

sarolynne: ...However, pamplemousse is kind of a funny word to me. For some reason. Like. It looks like it should be the name of a cartoon character or something. Or a nonsense word. I dunno why.

askerian: pamplemousse makes me think it should be the name of one of those mexican mice in old speezy gonzales cartoons...

askerian: It has this kind of spanish/portuguese sound to it.

-Why do I still have "X years after Garou" bunnies. Especially of the "let's invite Wufei in" variety. I'm so bad. XD;;; (but! there are sexy, exhausting, sweat-inducing, shower-needing three-way sparring sessions... ;__;)

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On trying to decide what to RP ...

sarolynne: I'm torn. NaruSasu sounds good, but then, NaruNeji sounds... not much worse, and easier. On the other hand, true to the nature of the inspiration, a part of my mind is going "love dodecahedron!"

askerian: LMAO.

askerian: yeah but we'd have to play them all

sarolynne: That would be annoying.

sarolynne: Okay, so we'll ignore my urge to harem it out. XD

sarolynne: Because, clearly, who needs NaruSasu or SasuNeji when you can have NaruSasu/NaruNeji/SasuNeji/ItaSasu/ItaNeji/SasuSaku/SakuIno/InoNaru and so on and so forth, until they all have syphilis.

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XD pamplemousse. That is basically the first word anyone says whenever we do fruit/vegetable vocab.

._____.

*enlightened now!*

Losing the sky...instead..hill...=( *taps shoulder*

Try to look on the bright side! At least you have your own room. I've never had that. So far at least. Hope is still there.

I've had my own room since I was ten and both of my brothers have left home anyway, so unless I share with my parents... urgh. It's not hope, more like status quo. XD;

*petpet* you'll have your own room eventually! (even if that means you have to move out. x___x )

Ouch. Maybe if you got... I dunno, a really really big one-way mirror? Man, I can deal with ground floor, or I can deal with non-isolated area, but both at once? Again, ouch. My condolences.

Pamplemousse? That... that sounds rather sinister for some reason.

DX my window's kind of big, it would be hideously expensive. Also I'm not sure it wouldn't make my room 100x times warmer... ;_;

*whine whine cry*

*twitches as anglophone girlfriends say it wrong*
PAMPELMOUSSE! pamp pel mooose. *twitch*
they do it just for the twitch.

That's the one aspect about my tiny room I love. It faces south, so I can watch the sun pass east to west throughout the day. I'm sorry about your loss DDDD:

Aah, pamplemousse. It's definitely one of the favorites in French class, along with the stems for the conditional tense (VOUDR, DEVR, VIENDR). We say them in really honky-tonky southern American states accents and drive our poor teacher crazy.

And that really does suck for the loss of your sky-view. D: I do like the idea that someone said about a one-way mirror. Just think of how many idiots might walk by and start checking themselves out in your window-mirror. It could make for great entertainment.

...JAY VOUDURRRRAY OUUNE PAMPUULMOUUUSE.
Now I'm going to walk into class tomorrow and start talking honky-tonk French about grapefruits and how I would want them.

Pamplemousse always sounded Greek to me.
And I've always asked my mom, "why is it grapefruit?" I guess I know the reason now. XD

The one-way mirror would be great, except for the physics of it. They're only one-way when the light on the outside is more intense than the light inside, which kinda makes things awkward at night. You may have seen this effect in the cities, when the one-way mirrored windows of office buildings are suddenly transparent at night.

However, there are these cool films that you can put on your window that will let the light in while making it hard to see through them. There's all sorts of options to choose from, and it's cheap and easy to install yourself. http://www.gilafilms.com/Residential/residential-window-film.htm has more info if you're curious. :D

eeh, i'd hate thinking i'm still safely hidden, and then... actually not. X__x Okay, mirrors are vetoed.

... oooooh. shiny shiny link. thank you! will look it up.

Speaking of shiny - http://www.windowfilmworld.com/windowviews.htm has actual scenes of things like mountains and streams. And there's plenty more where those came from, I found both of those links in a matter of a couple minutes by googling "decorative window films".

You could get curtains that let light through? I know they exist, I used to have them. I just can't remember what they're called right now... Shear? *shrug* Anyway, the idea behind them is that people can't see in, but there is still sunlight! Of course, you can't see out, but from what I'm hearing that's not too much of a bad thing...

Adi

Hey, here all our juice tins and stuff have english, french and spanish on them ^______________________^

I always wondered why such a long name like pamplemousse!!!

My first thought for decorating anything you don't want to look at is "fabric", comes with the costume design degree I guess. ^_^ Like someone said above, sheers are great for privacy while still letting sunlight in.

But like someone else said, I've also been eyeballing window film for my work "window" (which used to be an exterior window until they built another chunk of building around it in the fifties so now I get a choice between closing the steel miniblinds or having people on the second and third floors looking down at my monitor from the walkways that look like they came outta Alcatraz so er yeah visual interference is good.) The wall's concrete (did I mention Alcatraz?) so I couldn't put drapery holders on it so window film is looking like a nice plan B...

good luck with the redecorating-your-view! I get the feeling I've got a loooot of redecorating I'm going to be doing in the next month or two myself...

I'm tempted to get both sheer drapes and window film. XD;;; *paranoid*

... My god I would HATE this kind of office. DX

Urk, yes. ;_; I'm sorry. Was there a lot in your basement?

Yeah, it was a completely furnished basement. Emphasis on the was. Carpeted, wall panels, a living room down there with sofas and a TV, a computer workstation, most of my bookshelves, my sewing stuff, my laundry room... ;___;

Most of the stuff I think has survived, but the infrastructure - the carpet and the wallboards - are a total loss and already gone, and my stuff is all piled in heaps in the middle of concrete slabs, and I can't even get to my washing machine because the stuff from the wettest room is piled there, and... yeah, not fun. I need to stop writing now or else I'm going to start crying. DX

Oh my god, I kinda tought it was just a basement to pile stuff you're not using in, but an actual living space with all that stuff in it, oww shit, i'm so sorry ;_______; *hugglesqueezes*

so you're on the ground floor? Honey as long as you're not in a floodable area like Montpellier.... Here ground floor is the same as indoor swimming pool in September. Actually I'm surprised we haven't have flooding this month.
Also Pamplemousse always sounds like a bath product to me. A pink, fluffy one.

We're not very far from the river anymore, though. T_____T We used to be 200 meters up on that hill... *sniffle*

Sorry about your move. I've lived in the same house all my life. Own room too. :)

As for grapefruit...huh, never really questioned the name, just know I don't like them. I'll take real grapes, thanks. Grapefruit juice is pretty gross too.

GRAPEFRUIT, C'EST UN PAMPLEMOUSSE ??? O_O !!
(et c'est là que tu te dis que de temps à autres, tu devrais ouvrir ton dictionnaire au lieu de penser que ouais, grapefruit c'est assez imagé ce que ça veut dire, pas besoin...)
Oh God... un pamplemousse...

(en même temps, si maintenant on sait pourquoi ça s'appelle grapefruit, ça me fait me demander pourquoi ça s'appelle pamplemousse ! :D)

X____X n'est-ce pas. J'étais traumatisée!! Grapefruit indeed. N'importe quoi comme nom. >:/

(... putain maintenant je vais pas arrêter de me demander la même chose. Bon ben Wikipedia...

AHA!

Le mot « pamplemousse » est emprunté au néerlandais « pompelmoes », lui-même composé à l’aide de pompel, « gros », et limoes, « citron ».

Bon ben on se couchera moins connes ce soir. Je suis soulagée.)

Gloire aux pamplemousses ! :D
("gros citron", en plus, ça se tient comme explication ~~plus que grapefruit, kss~~)

i have this one

http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&productId=100014505

in the entry hall to my house. its covering a HUGE window that shows the stairs leading to the 2nd floor and the chandelier hanging from the ceiling. It lets in lots of light but no one from the outside can see in (anymore). We did have to buy multiple rolls to fill in the entire window, but that was ok cause it was inexpensive and it did exactly what we wanted it to do. Privacy without losing the sunlight :D

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