Welcome to a world of Pink

MY HEAD.

Looking at being at FAB from around 7 and then the Wren's from about 8. Anyone up for the pub tonight? :D

I'm 25! I got woken up by lots of text messages and then finally just the postman with a delivery of present for Milf next week.

Haha!

Happy Birthday gillianfrances and brummie_ninja, as well as two other friends of mine, Mat Dunwell and Izzy Blackburn.

18th July people are obviously the Acest!

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I'm rounding the corner, I've passed halfway and the end is in sight!

Right now I am watching Ben Hur - It's LOOONG but I've not really noticed as it's good

Unforgiven - AMAZING. Loved this loads and loads and I HATE westerns!

Princess Mononoke - Not half as good as Spirited Away, it was hard to understand any meaning from the story.

Back To The Future - Hate.

Vita è bella, La - Gorgeous film, right 'till the end.

Once Upon A Time In America - LONG and AWFUL and BLEEEHHHHH.

I've not had much of a chance to watch them, what with moving and everything. I really need to watch The Manchurian Candidate and The Seventh Seal but Milf wants to watch them too, so I can't see them without him.

Is anyone out there playing Age of Conan? I just started last Thursday and I'm properly addicted.

Shame about the new patch ruining everything, but hey.

Anyone out there? I'm Mofette on Bori

Today is 06/07/08 which is sequential - neat! This will happen only 11 times in a whole milennium.

01/02/03
02/03/04
03/04/05
04/05/06
05/06/07
06/07/08
07/08/09
08/09/10
09/10/11
10/11/12
11/12/13

Then it won't happen again until 3003. Weird, huh?

I remember being in school and in assemly when it was 19/9/1991 - they told us then that it wouldn't happen again in our lifetime, but what about 29/9/1992?

Then again it was St. Stephens. Not known for its common sense!

Are there any more funny dates like that that we'll see in our lifetimes?

INTERNETTTTT


YEAH!

Oh. My. God. It's also a 16Mb line, so I am annoying people faster than ever.

I've missed my torrents, SomethingAwful and my Mp3s. I didn't turn my computer on 'cause it's just a glorified jukebox without an internet connection.

YAY!!

I am having a party for my 25th birthday, Milf's 34th birthday and our housewarming.

Obligatory Facebook link.

There will be Banzai drinking games, Rock Band, jelly and ice cream and possibly a BBQ. I will see what I can do on that front.

SATURDAY the 26th of July.

Come on, make it better than last year when only 4 people visited me in Fab, I popped next door to Viva Cuba to see brummie_ninja and say Happy Birthday to her, saw loads of people who didn't bother to pop their head round Fab's door and say hi on their way and I cried all the way home.

Also the day after Eureka Machines [Robochrist, Chris Catalyst] are playing at TJs, then it's Wendyhouse. Also my little brother is visiting!

Edit Due to Milf's work schedule, and other parties, and wanting to move my birthday from July 'cause it's a busy month I've moved it to the actual day of Milf's birthday. Should be less clashes this way!!

Always read livejournal before updating.

Sam mamfa, amazing woman, partner of Andy eblue died on Saturday night.

Like all others who knew her, I am firmly in shock.

Milf and I are busy packing. His computer likes the internet, mine does not. I have to go to work tonight, he does not until the 9th. Lucky sod.

I have located some kittens, unfortunately they are in Huddersfield. This will be sorted, oh yes.

It was good to say goodbye to Carl and Heather on Friday, shame I had to rush off to work.

Please let me know what you've been up to - I won't get much internet time until the house is more sorted!

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List 5 songs you like that start with that letter
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

Zell gave me a C

Call The Shots - Girls Aloud - I love this song so much it makes me dance around as I tidy my room. I also adore the Xenomania Club Mix.

Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Reminded me of my brother so I Sang it every chance I got in Japan at Karaoke.

Cry Little Sister - Gerard McMann - Reminds me of 2001 - 2002 when a lot of us used to go round to a friend's house and watch TV and drink mead.

Closer - Nine Inch Nails - Reminds me of going to Wendyhouse and dancing. I miss that sometimes :)

Caller ID - bis - One of the last things that came from them before they broke up for good. Shame really :(

I miss friends

I miss people that I can just collapse on and not say anything for the whole evening and just exist beside and have a good time.

Sometimes my job makes me talk to so many people, yet leave me the loneliest person in the world.

I miss Pete who noticed when I was in this mood

I really need someone this close to me. How does one go about advertising for a 'best friend' anyhow?

Pass me the booze.

Today my hay fever has been playing up for the first day this year. I have taken a Mizollen tablet, and it's done bugger all. Poo.

This afternoon I hung out with damnspynovels and heart_caves. They were visiting Leeds so we went to FAB and I was given my copy of Andrew Morton's Tom Cruise Biography that was banned in the UK. It will, of course, be available for borrowing as soon as I'm done reading it. We had a couple of drinks and then went to Pizza Express. God I love their pizza, and it was only the 4th time I'd ever been to one. Should be kept as a treat really :)

Tonight I am watching The Prestige. It's alright but I'm not too good with faces, so I'm getting confused between the two main men a lot. Good to see David Bowie though, which reminds me I promised to make a website for a customer. Must get on that.

Last night I watched 'Eyes Wide Shut' which I was distracted during by Tom Cruise being all scary looking and the Scientology thing is now impossible to ignore.

I watched Barry Lyndon the night before, which was alright. I don't really like Kubrick.

We watched The Sting at work, I really liked that and it fooled me to the end. Milf is also very good for keeping secrets :D

Million Dollar Baby - Brilliant. I almost cried!

Touch of Evil - BLEGH.

Tomorrow I will try Moulin Rouge and possibly Unforgiven or Once Upon A Time In America.

T-4

Today I sent a text out to some of my phonebook asking what they would like as their ringtone.

Please tell me what you would like as yours, whether I have yours or not!

If I should have yours, let me know here!
Poll #1209770 Phone Numbers!
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None

Phone Number!

To tell me your song, comment! :D

This weekend was spent rather nicely

Friday Nina and I went out from work to three strip clubs, where we got in free, got free drinks and got to look at boobies. Unfortunately I didn't get a dance because all the girls didn't think I was a customer, and weren't friendly or smiling or dancing so I didn't know who to pick in the deserted club.

Saturday Milf and I were joined by shygoth and myz_lilith and we played Guiter Hero and then watched episode 1 of Beauty and the Geek series 4 which had a LARPer in it :D Then we watched War which was poo while we ate chinese and then I got sick :( I was so scared I would have food poisoning. Luckily I didn't.

Sunday I went out for Sunday Dinner at The Pack Horse, but although their veggie roast is amazing, they hadn't got any Cauliflower Cheese that week, so I sulked. Did I mention I've gone veggie? No? I'll maybe talk about that in another post.

Today I was at work all morning, then I've gotten home and I'm drinking Lambrini and shivering in my room [wtf June!] on my own when I realised that the bottom of the bottle says "Enjoy chilled with friends".

Bugger.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7468681.stm

Well fuck :(

Today's purchases: Pink corkscrew, pink tea towels, 3x pink tupperware [for medicines and then pasta].

Has anyone seen pink frying pans anywhere? I was bidding on some on eBay but got outbid and it's now higher than I want to pay with postage. The listing says they are from Matalan. I will be going there next weekend with my mum to finish up everything I need for the new house, but I don't want to let these get away if they've stopped doing them.

The main things we need now for the new house are Pink and Blue bath sheets and face towels, pink bath mat and shower curtain, pink toothbrush holder and cup and soap dispenser for the bathroom and a large pink bin for the kitchen. Most of these can be bought at Pink Princess but I'm not ordering from them until they answer my e-mail. I asked if they had any spoon rests in stock [I really want one] as they have them listed on eBay but the site says they are out. Once they put them back in stock I'll be ordering a load of things as I now have a paypal balance but until then I think I'll continue buying what I see elsewhere until they answer their e-mail. It's not that hard to say "Yes, we have it instock" or "No, sorry". Oh well, they're losing custom the more days they leave it!

In related news, Wilkinsons opens up three doors down tomorrow. Oh yes I will be in there buying shit as soon as I'm able to tomorrow, I can't wait.

There are many things that polarise people

here are just a few!

Poll #1207094 Yes, or No?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Marmite

Olives

Blue Cheese

Anchovies

Cider

Semolina

Mushrooms

Liver

Anal Sex

God I love Salvia.

Every time I smoke it it's like a new experience on life, a new way to see everything. I've never had a bad experience and my giggling will attest to that.

It's a shame that a lot of people don't get on with it, because I wish that everyone could see the colours that I see.

I hope you're all doing your bit and downloading it today for the record!

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/firefox3

It's quite pretty, I hope it solves the 'firefox likes to hang for a few seconds when you save something' problem that I've been having for a while.

I've already set it up at work, but will do it when I get home tonight too. Beautiful :3

I've watched so much recently I've sailed past the 50% mark and into the home stretch!

Das Boot - Good film, but I'd had it over-sold to me in the past. Yay for male stubbornness though, the film was ok :)

The Maltese Falcon - Enjoyed this a lot, expecially the ending

Requiem for a Dream - I am not anti drugs when used sensibly, unfortunately the people who use drugs and are irresponsible with them are the ones that are noticed the most. This film made me feel really bad for the mother but nothing much for the other three to be honest.

Double Indemnity - This film was hillarious. I'm not sure its supposed to be but it was. Loved the ending!

Metropolis - I loved this so much, I went on the hunt for Metropolis '.gif's. I hope they don't remake this like I've heard rumours of!

Rashomon - Great to see the film that's inspired so many versions. Although the story itself was confusing I loved the way it was told.

Singin' In The Rain - Another film I can't believe I'd not seen - didn't even notice the singing too much and so quite enjoyed it, although the actresses piercing voice was a little TOO good.

Raging Bull - This was interesting and I was even more surprised to find out it was based on a real story. Man I hate Joe Pesci in films where he doesn't die. Great performance by DeNiro.

Modern Times - Sorry, I just don't like Chaplin. This was no exception.

Rebecca - Loved loved LOVED this film. It was spooky without being obviously so and I adored it. I will watch this one again and again.

Some Like It Hot - This made me laugh a lot - a tranny film from 1959. I always adore films where men dress up as women, this one was great :)

The Great Escape - Another tale of male persistance. Got upset when David McCallum got shot. Not as great as I thought it would be.

All About Eve - Interesting but not amazing. It just about held my attention

Amadeus - Good film but again it just didn't 'get' me.

On The Waterfront - Loved this, but unfortunately standing up to the mob doesn't get you anything but shot is all too real.

Mr Smith Goes To Washington - Didn't get it at all. Nope.

Braveheart - God I hate Gibson and it was anti-English wank.

Full Metal Jacket - Loved both halves of this. The only Kubrick work I actually liked!

City Lights - Better than Modern Times but I still didn't like it that much.

Rosemary's Baby - Craziness! Cults, pregnancy, Satan. YAYYY.

Leben Der Anderen - Interesting enough but awfully obvious what would happen to them all. Apart from the woman.

Planet of the Apes - Great film, I'd had it ruined many times over by Jay and Silent Bob and The Simpsons and the like. Still got the songs from The Simpsons stuck in my head!

In Cold Blood - Average flick, not sure what the fuss is about and it made no sense.

I am 3/4 of the way through The Apartment and I have to go to work for a meeting. Really enjoying this one :D

Hopefully I'll have some room on my HDD now :}

Oh god I love my Xbox.

Today I have watched three movies through it, and then fully installed the larger Hard Drive. Right now I am transferring the whole of Due South straight onto it so that I can take it off the HDD in my PC.

It's so easy to watch anything on it, it's a godsend. I have taken out the SVHS cable from the PC to the TV and I will be discussing installing it in Fab so we can stream video AND music to the system, negating the use of CDs and DVDs during the day, meaning we can download songs whenever we want and also place adverts and trailers in between films on the televisions.

Recently I have watched all manner of films. Why only today I have watched The Princess Diaries 1 and 2, All About Eve, The Life Aquatic and now I am watching Amadeus. Browsing IMDB on my PC doesn't affect the playback even though it is streaming through the network from the PC.

LOOOOVE!

I have today off

Due to failed plans yesterday I'm at home with no hangover and can therefore concentrate on packing everything to move house with.

I bought some Swing Bin Liners in yellow, and have put all of the clothes I won't be wearing in the next 2 weeks into them. They are lemon scented which is so nice!

I moved out the bed and have vacuumed underneath it. I think there was still half a George under there. I Shake 'n' Vac'ed my way to a half hour workout! The sweat was pouring off my head. I feel accomplished.

I still can't find the back panel to one of our Wii remotes. It's got to be in here somewhere, but where? :(

I have a pile of things for the charity shop and I've thrown out everything else that's no good. I'm sure there's plenty more I could get rid of but hey, I'm not Wonder Woman! I just want to get the next two weeks over with and get out of here. Then I can find me some kittens and then take over the world.

Anyone doing nothing tonight? I could do with some company - at least my room is clean! :D

As I said a couple of months ago, DO NOT put my e-mail address into any invites for any sites such as twitter, jaiku or anything like that. I have no wish to have one of those services, nor any wish for my e-mail address to get on any more spam lists.

My hair is such a nice shade of baby pink. Combining that with the fact that it straightened really nicely today I look like an animé character or a dollfie. I dyed it to go to fancy dress as Lily Allen but then the theme changed. Lily I love you ♥

Last night I dreamed that Milf had shot someone by accident with the gun that we had brought back from the US. Remembering that handguns are illegal over here I knew if he wasn't in trouble for the shooting, he would be for having a gun. I was hiding him in a secret compartment in my bed [!]

Before work I'm off to The Skyrack to eat dinner, I feel good today as I've not had any booze yesterday or today. This will continue, oh yes.

I'm not working Thursday, so no Fab Thursday for me I'm afraid. I'll be at home watching The Sopranos or The Wire.

I bought more pink shit for the house yesterday - Oven gloves, dustpan and brush, Tupperware and a barbecue mitt. Yay!

Last week I finally bought a new hard drive for my Xbox and yesterday from when I got in at 8pm 'till 3am I spent my time modifying it. It ran Evox dash, changed now to XBMC and all I have to do now is put a new partition into the large HDD so that I can drop over all of my torrents and watch them without the inevitable stuttering that occurs when we IMDB to see who that person was in that thing we are watching that we saw somewhere before but we just can't place it.

Need a laptop. Want an Asus. Do they come in pink?

Ever since I had my birth control changed about three months ago, I've had a lot of horrible side-effects. One of the least horrible but nevertheless annoying is remembering more dreams than I used to.

Before this was a once-a-month occurance and I only ever remembered them long enough to relay them to milf in my sleep, waking him up and then pissing him off with my snoring for the next 10 minutes. I never remember again until he tells me the next morning.

The dreams I have been having in the last 3 months are driving me crazy. They are not insane enough for me to know it's fake so I don't just relax, I wake up feeling like I've had zero sleep.

I've had several weird ones, ranging from things like cheating on Milf [ha!], him cheating on me, Crocodile Dundee rescuing him from London, friends in hospital and other nastiness but last night's was especially amusing.

I was employed by MI5. I didn't get much money unfortunately but also I was in Spooks the TV show. I knew I was going to die soon because I was the longest running agent aside from Adam. We ended up in a small train like thing, passing through the streets of Russia after giving a secret password to someone in the train station.

I then had a horrid fight with some bitch who was trying to kill me [I won] and then I accidentally speared another person through the head with an ice-pick. I won again! Then I was in hiding as the police wanted to get me for both the murders and obviously MI5 didn't want that.

Sometimes they are right entertaining!!

I've been so busy recently, I feel like I've only just had time to sit down. I've left a member of staff on the bar as it's quiet to steal a moment for myself.

Last Sunday I travelled down to London, where I eventually found me a needler and dan_lane. We wandered out to a Pizza Express that was lurking where we were expecting a Wagamamas, and we had lovely pizza. Turns out that all three of us like hairy fish [Anchovies] which I always assumed people hate. It's my secret weapon when I don't want people to steal my pizza.

We went back to their place on the boat. BOAT! I loved it on that thing, it's so novel. Leeds' river isn't even visible other than the small piece that goes under a bridge, let alone getting a boat on it. We saw the O2 dome and London Bridge and the eye. Also the men selling the tickets on there were awfully friendly. I'm no longer scared of London.

When we got there I finally got to see their gorgeous flat. Oh lordy it's amazing. So jealous. I was all excited about my new place but now I'm not so much because now I have something new to aim for ;)

We sat up for hours discussing TV and Films. I think partly because we were so happy to see each other after such a long time, but also partly because we didn't want it to be Monday. We also played some Mario Kart online, and I sucked.

Monday we got up thanks to the workmen outside digging up a load of concrete and went out. The fucking barriers at the train station wouldn't let us through with our tickets we'd just bought from the machine RIGHT NEXT TO THEM and we missed the train we needed. We ended up showing a taxi driver how to get to Beckenham Cemetary instead. How do taxi drivers not know where stuff is? :(

We got to Lisa's funeral where we saw many many people. Although it was a sad and sombre occasion, the way that the humanist service was performed and actually hearing things about Lisa that I didn't know was so nice. I admit, I cried a little even though my emotions have been pretty much turned off since I got these new pills :( I can't believe how strong stevek was.

We all piled on to a train into the city where we went to The Market Porter where it all went a bit Pete Tong. I ended up getting so drunk I thought it was a good idea to stay behind rather than ride with sarcaustic and Ed and go home that evening. I really enjoyed meeting tga, cookwitch, d_floorlandmine and fraghag amongst others, and great to finally meat Heath and see a lot of people, some of which I'd not seen in like 6 years. We ended up getting a kebab at a cafe and getting home very late. Whoops!

I got up the next day with not even a slight hangover [god I love cider] and played on my PSP 'till it died, and then my DS before finally getting the guts to truly experience television on the giant tv. I want a big tv :pout:

Eventually we went out after needler had her birthday relax in a bath and we went to Leon where we had some food. I wasn't impressed but I think I just made a bad choice. When we got the Kings Cross we discovered that the £78 ticket to Leeds was only valid after 7, so I bought one and hung around for a while.

My auntie just happened to be coming through Kings Cross [She lives in Surrey!] so I saw her for 10 minutes, and get a hug and then I went and spent a fortune at Yo Sushi by eating idle-mindedly while I read my book. I got on the next train home and arrived around 9.30, getting an evening to myself watching movies and packing. My room looks decidedly queer right now :/

I was very happy to see people in London but it shouldn't be for something like that. I will be making sure we come back for another visit before the end of the year and I am bringing milfos with me.

Happy 4 years, milfos!

Although you're at work right now and hardly ever read livejournal, I want to tell you that I love you more than I ever thought possible. Every day I think of you and smile and count down the days 'till we move into the new house and I can sleep next to you every night.

I love you and can't wait to marry you.

I went over to the kittens' house today to say hello and give them collars.

They had gotten too big, so they'd given them away. Fuck :(

Apparently the moma cat is already pregnant again [thanks for adding to the world of unwanted cats...] but it'll be another 12 weeks.

Bugger :(

Well, I'm now coming down to London on Sunday to see needler and dan_lane and then say goodbye to Lisa on Monday.

What the fuck happened to thetrainline.com? Not only do they practically insist on insurance, they they charged me 50p for using a debit card. THEN they charged me 50p for picking it up from a machine in the lobby. Seriously? At least I'm going first class, so I can travel relaxed and sat down.

It's been a funny old time recently - everyone has felt the loss of silverfiligree, but none more than stevek. There's nothing I can say that would add to what everyone else has said, but things like this always make me vow to get out more. Shame that my monetary and work constraints don't let me :(

I really want to be there at the funeral on Monday, work have even managed to give me the day off but I can't afford a train ticket. I don't suppose there's anyone going from Leeds that will give me a small space in a car in exchange for petrol money?

I'm already packing for the new house. For a person who doesn't really read books, how have I got 3 boxes worth? Admittedly a lot of those are Japan related, like dictionaries and storybooks and horrible books about war, but I really didn't think I had that many. I must get around to reading Stephen Fry's autobiography. Maybe when I finish Discworld.

I've got a few things I want to sell and get rid of, they're all Here if anyone cares. I don't want much money for them, just them gone. I am scared about moving - I have a lot more shit than I remember, but then again instead of just having one room to put all my stuff into, I've got a whole house. No huge TV in the bedroom - along with all the consoles they will be in the lounge. Does anyone have any reccomendations for home contents insurance? I need cover for all my DVDs and consoles.

I've already cancelled my internet at Hartley Avenue and ordered it for the new house. Which also needs a name. Any ideas to the usual places please!

I am going out to the bank now. Must make more of an effort to pay my wages in more often!!

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Ever since I came back from holiday, the laptop at work is making chirp noises, like it's got something wrong with the sound card. I disabled sounds but that hasn't worked and it sounds like a fucking sparrow is making home in it.

I've run a troubleshoot on the sound card and it says that nothing is wrong. I don't know what they did while I was away but it's sure as fuck annoying now! Any ideas?