Recent discoveries
- You cannot sharpen scissors with a knife sharpener, no matter how good the knife sharpener. Using the knife sharpener on the scissors will simply blunt them, making you increasingly frustrated as you hack at cloth with little to no effect.
- Related: there are not very many knife sharpening services in the Wellington Region.
- I still get a frisson of excitement every time I make a purchase - one that matches the frisson of excitement everytime I knock another $100 off my Debt Unicorn. While I wish the savings/debt paying back frisson was bigger than the other frisson, I am also not wishing my purchasing frisson into guilt because: Feeling Guilty Achieves Nothing.
- When bored, I procrastinate terribly. This in turn leads to more boredom which leads to more procrastination, sending me into a procrastination spiral of awfulness.
- It’s impossible to talk about Snakes on a Plane without swearing.
- I am too too attached to the George RR Martin Song of Ice and Fire series. I’m on the last published book at the moment, am halfway through, and am already wondering how I will be able to stand the wait until the next book. The pain! The anticiPAtion!
I learnt the hard way about scissors too :(
ReplyDeleteHowever I recently learnt that if you fold sheets of aluminium foil (can be used) into lots of layers and then cut through it into tiny slivers the action of cutting through metal sharpens scissors - don't think it will resurrect a blunted pair, but definatly maintains the sharpness of my kitchen scissors - and you can still recycle the foil