I need more sleep

[cosmolinguist]

There's a rose in the kitchen.

A red one. In the coffee press, like last time, because I still have nowhere else to put flowers. I never thought to plan for this contingency.

I got it from a random lady on the tram last night. I don't quite remember how this happened. So every time I go in the kitchen, I think Oh yeah, there's a rose from someone whose name I don't even know...

But I do know she bought a vibrator yesterday.

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[tubewalker.livejournal.com]

But I do know she bought a vibrator yesterday.

How do you know?

[kalieris.livejournal.com]

Because Holly is the Sherlock Holmes of sex toys. She deduced it from the woman's shoes.

[cosmolinguist]

I like your answer better.

[cosmolinguist]

Because her partner made fun of her for it--"I should show you two what she bought in Ann Summers today!" he said, then gave us a hint by going "bzzzzz!" Then she let me look in the bag, but with instructions that Andrew shouldn't see.

[stealthmunchkin.livejournal.com]

Because her husband insisted on showing it to Holly. It was her 40th birthday present.

[publicansdecoy.livejournal.com]

Awww, how sweet!

-x-

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

My mother gave me a weird and very pretty plastic vase that becomes flat when it isn't in use, thereby being good for storing. I should try and find out what it's called for you.

[cosmolinguist]

That's cool. It's not even a matter of not having space for one (though I don't) or worrying that it'd break (though I would) as much as me actually not thinking I'd ever want one. But if this randomly-getting-flowers thing keeps up, I may have to break down and do something about it. :-)

[hephaestos.livejournal.com]

You could always get a second coffee-press.

[cosmolinguist]

Heh. This one doesn't get used for anything else; the boy's happy with instant and I don't drink it. Not instant, anyway. :-)

[besskeloid.livejournal.com]

a random lady on the tram

"Ooh yeah, random lay-deh
Randomize me tonight
You got the random factor
You toss my dice outta sight..."

It's gonna be a smash!

[classytart.livejournal.com]

I've been given exactly 2 roses in my life. I don't especially like them, but am not one to turn down a flower. One was from a random man in a pub, and the other was from my friend Ruth.

One day at school I was wearing a black dress with a red rose print, and at lunch time Ruth found a single red rose left after the market, still intact but abandoned. So she brought it to school and gave it to me because it matched the dress. All afternoon I wandered around with that rose, and everyone asked "who's the rose from". I told everyone it was from Ruth and offered no further explanation beyond "it matches my dress" if pushed. Got some interesting looks that day.

I put it in my milk bottle sprayed gold when I got home. I have since lost that milk bottle. And the rose died. And the dress is gone, too.

I own THREE vases! I bought myself some gerberas (second fav flower) for my last-but-one birthday and saw a vase on the way home that would take them. It cost less than the flowers. Last birthday I bought myself some tulips (fav flower) and did the same thing with the vase. Tulips are shorter than the gerbera vase. The third came from Grannie, who won a crystal vase in a raffle and doesn't need any more, but knew I like flowers.

All three vases sit under the sink for about 50 weeks a year. Yet I love flowers. I should buy more.

I think my birthday time puts me at an advantage, vase-buying wise, though. There doesn't seem to be a big market for vases in early january, and it's the sales.

[cosmolinguist]

The idea of getting yourself flowers for your birthday sounds cool.