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Feb. 27th, 2012 10:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lady_t_220Woke up this morning with a splitting bloody headache. I think I got dehydrated at the G-ma's house yesterday. The heat's been turned way down but it's like the atmosphere is so fucking dessicated by 10 years of being an over-heated furnace it just wants to suck all the moisture out of your body.
Have to go round there again later, to get a quote from the carpet fitters. And to pilfer more stuff. I keep finding the weirdest shit there. Like a box of 1,000 cocktail sticks from the 70s, and 2 dozen mint in box vintage red colouring pencils. (Verithin. Takes a fine point in any sharpener. Makes 4,000 check marks before repointing! 26 colours that won't run when wet!) They still make 'em but they're part of Prismacolor now, these are Berol, in amazingly ugly 80s boxes.
I have no idea. Really, who needs 24 colouring pencils, all of them red? I've half-inched 'em anyway because I will probably end up using at least some of them, but what baffles me is why the grandparentals had them in the first place.
For that, I fear, there is likely no answer. Or at least no answer more detailed than "They were your grandad's," which is the stock answer to almost anything old and weird that no one quite knows what to do with.
Have to go round there again later, to get a quote from the carpet fitters. And to pilfer more stuff. I keep finding the weirdest shit there. Like a box of 1,000 cocktail sticks from the 70s, and 2 dozen mint in box vintage red colouring pencils. (Verithin. Takes a fine point in any sharpener. Makes 4,000 check marks before repointing! 26 colours that won't run when wet!) They still make 'em but they're part of Prismacolor now, these are Berol, in amazingly ugly 80s boxes.
I have no idea. Really, who needs 24 colouring pencils, all of them red? I've half-inched 'em anyway because I will probably end up using at least some of them, but what baffles me is why the grandparentals had them in the first place.
For that, I fear, there is likely no answer. Or at least no answer more detailed than "They were your grandad's," which is the stock answer to almost anything old and weird that no one quite knows what to do with.
