Writing by numbers.
Number of new MacBooks gracing our kitchen table: 1
Number of shiny British pounds spent bringing about this happy state: not going to be thought about
Number of shiny British pounds about to be made by shameless flogging of iPod bought for £20 courtesy of Apple deal in shop: probably about £130
Number of hours spent in frustrating discussions about wireless router: mind-numbingly plural
Number of loaves of bread baked this week: 6. Six. SIX.
Number of presents currently scattered about the house in happy toddler disarray: approx. four billion
Number of cats snoozing, complete with muddy paws, on newly-waxed oak bench seat: 2. That’s eight paws, and forty claws. FORTY CLAWS.
Number of mothers-in-law currently entering their third – THIRD – week of residence: 1. Thankfully, they don’t tend to be a plural phenomena.
Number of hair-pulling insane discussions with afore-mentioned legal maternal relative: lost somewhere in the first twenty-four hours
Number of blog posts fermenting in Earthenwitch brain, or remnants thereof: 3, including dolls, cooking, and exterior painting of windows and doors which has greatly reduced the pikey appearance of our house.*
And you?
*Is it horribly anal of me to find it almost hand-clenchingly wrong to write a number, i.e. a numerical character rather than the word, followed by punctuation? Or, indeed, to use numbers rather than words full stop?
No, it’s not anal.
I agree – not anal at all but right and proper. Is the shiny new mac book lovely? Is it? I do so love my mac book and all of its silvery, glittery, wonderfulness. I’m not convinced that the trauma of losing an old computer is compensated for by the sheer glory of a new one… but it’s close!
Sometimes numbers just say it better than words! haha I love the fermenting blog posts… you’re singing my song on that one
I agree about the fermenting blog posts-so much to do, so much to say, only so much time and only one person to do it all!!
Tra la, the number thing is a symptom of age – we spent our teenage years in the pre-mobile era so little things like appropriate punctuation and proper english are hard-wired into the brain. Good job too I say. My mother in law lives many hundreds of miles away in the south of France and she still manages to irritate from afar…hey ho.
60 claws is why my three don’t come in the house. Between them they’ve destroyed the generator box in the garage/workshop where they live.
I do approve of your buy two, sell one to make the purchase of iStuff cheaper policy.
And only *three* fermenting posts? You’re doing well
i feel like i ought to know what a macbook is…….. oh, got it. chuckle
well done on the ipod scam, you gotta do what you gotta do.
thank the spirits MILs are singular. but 3 weeks? yikes
yes, numbers, terribly anal.
Yes, horribly anal. As for techno-critters, will be getting an iPhone quite soon so I can connect to the web, email and paid work stuff from anyway. Yes, ANYWHERE! At least anywhere I have phone signal. The husband was rambling on about “teathers” and “jailbreaking” and all sorts of unintelligable things, but the short of it is nearly unlimited connection. YAY! Have fun playing with your new ‘puter and electronic music box.
MacBooks are rather lovely aren’t they? I can’t bring myself to do it though. I looked at a MacBook – or more precisely I looked at the price tag – for all of a nanosecond before I decided that I will remain a PC-muggle and bought a cheap and cheerful netbook instead. Even looking at a Mac felt like going over to the dark side
On a different subject – I hadn’t noticed that most cats only have 18 toes (and therefore 18 claws) until someone pointed it out to me. I then proceeded to annoy the heck out of my very tolerant cat by examining his feet to count the toes. Strangely, it’s true: five on the front paws, four on the back.