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November 13th, 2009

Hello again!

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Dog and Beth
Well, Livejournal seems to be picking up again, or is it just me? I posted like 3 times in 4 days last week, then completely lost it this week, so here I am on a Friday evening at work.

I'm quite excited, we've got a Heroes Vs Villains night this Thursday - I can't decide who I want to come as, or if I even want to be here [anime screening, makes me wanna stab] but it seems like it's going to be such a good night!

Only one more week at work before I disappear around the country for a week. God I wish I could drive - I'd do this everytime I had more than one day off in a row!

I really need a hobby. I have one I want to do but don't know where to start. Who are the sew-ers on my fl?

Oh and I miss you all :)

November 6th, 2009

Choo Choo

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My train tickets arrived this morning, Aside from the tube trip across from Victoria to Kings X I am sorted. I also already have an Oyster card so I guess I am really sorted. Wonderful. Now I have to wait 2 weeks for it to happen!

The brilliant people over at bleepingcomputer [and a couple of you guys] have worked out that my computer problem is more than likely a driver issue with my new keyboard. It hasn't happened in a while but I'm not holding my breath. I am able to watch movies and play games without killing anyone now though, so I guess that's an improvement.

Tonight I'm at work, should be a fun one - I've got loads of H&S work to be doing, heh. It's not so bad, I kinda like mindless forms, especially ones that are imperative to be done. Then I'm on Saturday daytime, finishing at 8pm and off Sunday. Sunday I'm going to tidy the house as between Halloween and feeling slightly sick the other week it's all got slightly on top of me. I will more than likely watch all the Kevin Smith movies while I do it, it's been a while :)

Also, must photograph all the other clothes I wanna sell and list them. Need the house space!!!

November 4th, 2009

I am seeking it, oh yes.

I have just booked tickets to see [info]cavalorn and [info]lucybond for the end of this month. A happy chappie I am. It's only costing me £46.50 to visit my parents, possibly my grandfather, then my auntie and these guys for a WHOLE WEEK of adventure. My parents have offered to pick me up from Leeds and I got a SUPER deal for the return leg to leeds just in time for our weekly Management meeting. I am so happy!

Have done a good deed and helped my boss with a Christmas present for her beloved today too, which is going to [info]web_kitten who will then send it on to us. OH GOD I'M LIKE A CHRISTMAS FAIRY.

Also ordered the bulk of my Christmas shopping off Amazin Amazon, so I should get to wrap it soon.

As Sunday is after Bonfire Night is that too early to put up a tree? Hehe

November 3rd, 2009

New Shoes, Pretty Dress!

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Today these shoes arrived:
Pretty Shoes
and I'm sitting at my computer watching 'Au Revoir Les Enfants' while trying to wear them in. They are giving my toes pins and needles to be honest!

My hair is white blonde again, the roots are a bit yellow but I can't help that much, the bleach still burns me when I use it :(

Halloween at work was mental - I'll show you all a photo when I get a decent one. There is one knocking about but the iPhone it's on won't turn on. Typical!

Hopefully going daahn saarf to see [info]lucybond and [info]cavalorn sometime in the next two months. That should be awesome! Graveyards and babies! :D

Life is same old same old, work weird hours, get up in the afternoons, watch some stupid documentaries, wake milf up on my way into bed, wake up without him. It goes on and on and on and it sucks sometimes but it's just the way it is.

October 19th, 2009

ARGH

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Fucking Laser Beam!
My computer is trying to make me go insane.

SOMETHING is pressing the 'back' button. I've tried taking out my keyboard and mouse and no, it's not a hardware problem.

The only thing that Spybot came up with before was PartnerBHO and I've done all the removal steps for that one.

I can't seem to find any posts where people are having the 'back' button pressed mysteriously. I really want rid of this, it makes browsing practically impossible. If I run Spybot and restart it seems to have gone, but then a day or two later it starts up again.

Has anyone got any ideas? Anyone know of a good hijackthis forum? I am at my wits end :(

Edit: I even did a factory reset on my main hard drive too. It hasn't solved it :(

October 1st, 2009

Selling Comics

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After sorting and deciding which ones are staying and which are going, what would be the easiest way to sell comic books? Most are from the last 10 years with a few from 1992. Mostly X Men titles, some transformers and a few other types.

Ebay could be an option but is there a site where you can just list everything and people buy what they want like Amazon? It would be nice to get our computer room back.

Also, in the same vein, Magic Cards :/

September 30th, 2009

Aion

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This is a post about Aion so that I don't crowd other people's pages with chit-chat.

Post here to talk to me about Aion, this means you [info]cavalorn and [info]lucybond!

New PC

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Milf is helping me to get a new PC as I can't play Aion [or indeed ANYTHING] on my 5 year old Insurance-bought PC.

He has swapped £465 of Supercheques for PC World Vouchers, which can be used at PC World and Curry's. He is willing to put the extra to it to get me THIS PC but me being me, I'm sure I can get a better deal for under £800 and I think that case is ugly as fuck. Also I don't particularily want Vista.

Unfortunately both PC World and Curry's don't list any Motherboards on their website, so I can't start there and work my way up :(

Minimum Specs for Aion:
System Requirement
CPU : Pentium 4 2.0GHz
RAM :1GB
VGA :GeForec FX 5600(128MB), DirectX 9 or higher
OS :Windows XP

Am I right in thinking I would need:

Case
Motherboard
New HDD
Memory
Graphics Card
possibly a nice fan for inside to help everything keep cool?

or is there anything else I'd need?
If you can advise me by tomorrow afternoon I will probably go out and pick it all up myself tomorrow. Will a helpful PC World employee be able to assist or am I more likely to get advice from the crackheads outside?

I think I would like a Nvidia card as there are less reported crashes with Aion.
I need at least a 500GB drive
I have 1.5G ram but I think it's buggered
I already have a good monitor
I need a new mouse but my keyboard is A-OK

I am so so confused :/

September 29th, 2009

Ministry of Cocksmokers

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Ministry of Deals.

Imagine my surprise when I get my email today to see that the SHAVING KIT that I ordered early in September is on sale on your site for £16! That is the same £16 that I paid to you for the set I didn't receive.

I saw the set on sale for £16
I paid for the set at £16
I didn't receive my set that I paid £16 for
I saw the set go on sale a SECOND TIME for £16
I decided to find out where mine was
I was told that the set I had paid £16 for hadn't been sent and I would receive a refund.

I received a refund of £14.
I tell you I paid £16 for the shaving set, you repeatedly deny this
I send you a screenshot of my bank account in 6 different formats stating that I paid £16 for it
You still repeatedly deny that I paid £16 for my SHAVING SET while repeatedly sending me replies to someone else's emails
Today I see the SHAVING SET on sale again for £16.

Is this enough? Can you now verify that I paid £16 for a GENTLEMAN'S SHAVING SET that I didn't not receive and I only received a £14 refund? What do I have to do to make you give me back my £2?

Here is a screenshot of your GENTLEMAN'S SHAVING SET up for sale at £16 along with the screenshot of my bank account again and also a screenshot of the email confirming that my order had been placed for, guess how much? That's right - £16.

Refund me my £2, this has gone on for long enough.

I have CC'ed in Watchdog, they've probably got enough complaints to do a whole show about you, but I guess it won't hurt having my e-mail along with it.

How can you repeatedly lie and say that I paid £14 for the GENTLEMAN'S SHAVING SET and then put it up again on your site for the full £16 that I paid?

Send me back my money, please.

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September 16th, 2009

Ministry of Deals Fail.

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A while ago, [info]deathboy recommended Ministry of Deals and I have had quite a bit of success ordering things from them like my magical showerhead that changes colour when the water runs through along with many more useless yet cheap items.

Unfortunately all this was to change. I ordered a men's shaving kit as a present for Milf at £16.00 and it didn't arrive. I was a bit concerned as everything else had come so quickly so I sent them an email on the 9th asking them if anything had been sent. I got this in reply:
From looking at our orders I can see that, although payment was taken, no order went through. therefore I have sent your details to our accounts department who shall issue a refund for you.

It seemed strange that they could take the money yet not send the item. Nevermind, they were pretty quick sending the refund [although I would have liked the shaving kit].

I got the refund. For £14.00 )

At this point it's well worth the £2.00 to keep messing with them. I would, however, STRONGLY reccomend that you don't deal with them as they quite blatantly don't give a shit about repeat customers. Please do not order from them.

August 23rd, 2009

Warning: I'm a Jaded, moaning cock sometimes. This is one of those times.

Thursday 13 August
The compere for the day was John Tams who to be honest didn't even register with me. I know the sign of a good referee is one who you don't notice but the same cannot be said for a compere. He didn't unnecessarily take up time on the stage, which was nice but he also wasn't extremely exciting.

Harlequinn - While I appreciate that the first slot of any festival is no doubt both an exciting and daunting prospect, it's also an important choice. Harlequinn were apparently not chosen to appear due to one of the members being the daughter of one of Fairport Convention but it would appear that they certainly weren't chosen because of their talent. One of my pet hates is when people cover songs and change nothing about it - add nothing of their own to the version. While their cover of Michael Jackson's 'Beat It' was not a direct cover of his version, it was of the version churned out by Fall Out Boy in 2008. While I'm sure these young artists will get better with time I feel like they were thrust out way too early. They were disengaging and their drummer appeared to be afraid of her own kit.

4 Square - A pleasantly surprising bunch of youngsters. The addition of the female singer using her clogs as an instrument - though I'm sure not entirely original - was something I had not seen before. While none of the group were particularily strong singers, their musical ability more than made up for it. The style was extremely pleasant during the sunny afternoon and the lyrics had the right amount of metaphors without sounding condescending from people so young. While I wouldn't seek them out to see again, I would be more than happy to see them a second time.

Ken Nicol & Phil Cool - Phil Cool's impressions combined with musical ability made for an extremely entertaining session, I just wish the same could be said for Ken Nichol. I'm afraid I spent most of the time he was on stage solo waiting for Phil to come back. I must admit I also took this point of the day to purchase some food and look around. I guess that's the good thing about a festival.

Buzzcocks - While the accoustics from the front at the barrier left a lot to be desired, the energy that exuded from the performance of the Buzzcocks was plain to see. Scarcely leaving a three second gap inbetween the songs, they performed chunk after chunk of punk defiance and bouncy fun. I have been reassured that the sound from further up the field was much better and the videos that I have seen on youtube corroborate this. While a small amount of people baulked at the idea of a 'punk' band playing at Cropredy they certainly rose to the occasion and provided some much needed energy.

Steve Winwood - The legend that is Stevie Winwood was finally able to appear at Cropredy. With his soulful voice and guitar playing that anyone would enjoy Steve was a fantastic way to end the Thursday. His entire band had movement and feeling, the songs came thick and fast. From the beginning of "I'm a Man" to the end bars of "Dear Mr. Fantasy" everyone was hanging on to his every note.


Friday 14 August
Compere Danny Thompson / Geoffrey Hughes. When I asked about the Comperes to my mother, the first thing she told me was that the idiot that had done last year wasn't booked for it. It was a crying shame that Danny Thompson was unceremoniously dumped halfway through the day without so much as a reason why and replaced by Geoffrey Hughes the unfunny bumbling idiot. I haven't got the faintest idea why they did this.

ColvinQuarmby With the energy and warmth of ten men, Gerry Colvin was the friendliest act of the weekend. Although his ability to pronounce Ritalin is in doubt, it was probably just used to make the song rhyme. Although funny, the fact that he had to slow down and do a dramatic eyebrow wiggle for every joke he made in a song wore through quite fast, the fiddle player Marion Fleetwood was fantastic and the songs enjoyable. The sing-along sections involved the whole audience and together with the sunny weekend meant that I would love to see CQ again!

BBC Young Folk Award Winners - Megan and Joe Henwood - I went shopping and did not watch this pair. Sorry!

Ade Edmondson and the Bad Shepherds Probably the act of the weekend I anticipated the most. With a Uillean pipe section that will set all the hairs on the back of your neck on edge, The Bad Shepherds were straight talent from beginning to end. They had just the right amount of humour without it affecting the music. Although before I saw them I felt it should all have been, there was only one incident of being the naughty child. The songs were all performed without the obvious 'look at me, look at me' that many anticipated - These guys were playing punk songs with a folk twist with serious faces. Absolutely amazing set!

Scott Matthews - I would rather stab myself repeatedly in the face with a fork than listen to him again. The only act of the weekend to not get loudly shouted at for an encore.

John Jorgensen Band - This guy really knows how to handle a guitar! Though I'd never heard of him before it was obvious that some had. There were obviously a lot of fans of his previous band present who made rather a large noise in appreciation but they were far from alone! Although I didn't know any of his songs, I was extremely content to sit and watch him and his band perform. Extremely easy to listen to!

The Dodge Brothers - Letdown of the weekend. While watching these guys I had the same feeling that Mark Kermode did while he was watching Transformers 2:ROTF. "I love Skiffle!" I thought, "I should love this!" Wrong. The songs seemed sloppy, the singing was lacklustre and I was left with a bad taste in my mouth.

Richard Thompson - A friend who I was with who had seen the look on my face as I watched The Dodge Brothers reassured me that the next act would be great. I was not disappointed! Richard Thompson commands a guitar as Caesar commanded his armies. A melodic performance which was only marred by the appearance of his daughter Kamilla on the stage. She performed some of her songs with him which seemed a little unfair, if she wants a slot at Cropredy she should have been good enough to earn one.

Seth Lakeman Surprise of the weekend. I'd looked at his face, assumed he was too young and wrote him off. I have never heard someone get such emotion out of a fiddle before. How he managed to sing, dance and play like that without keeling over is beyond me! Kitty Jay was probably the best performance of the whole weekend with his and Cormac Byrne's performance of Lady of the Sea (Hear Her Calling) also in the top 5. An amazing way to wrap up the Friday night!


Saturday 15 August
Compere Sid Kipper - My parents said that he does better in a more intimate setting. Having listened to him as a child and found him hillarious on tape, I'm sure this is true. He wasn't that great on stage.

Richard Digance - He seemed to have to spend most of his set telling the people that moaned about him to get lost. I think as he's on at 12 midday EVERY Saturday they should know by now to either sleep in and shut up, or put up. Hillariously funny, easy to sing along with and a Christmas song in August? I don't think anyone else would be able to fill this spot quite how he does.

Churchfitters - What a delight! These guys were a never-boring whirlwind of energy, with decent music to boot! I was highly amused at the random french that was spoken on the few occasions they didn't realise they were in the UK. Their home-made instruments along with their enthusiasm ensured that everyone paid attention. I'm sure they'll be back in years to come!

Feast of Fiddles - Although the majority of the people around me appeared to really enjoy these guys, I guess this is where a difference of opinion comes into play. I didn't understand why they needed 12 people to perform music that 5/6 people could have done. All the fiddle players seemed to be playing the same thing. While their music was listenable, I found myself restless.

Dreadzone - When I saw Dreadzone on the bill I wasn't sure how they would work on this bill. As it turned out, my worries were unfounded. As the first song played everyone seemed to wake up. I didn't see as many shots of the crowd dancing as I did during Dreadzone. The poor singer was stuck on a chair due to a knee injury and he still managed to get us up and dancing. I was expecting people to really dislike them and as of yet I haven't heard one negative review.

Nik Kershaw - Nik provided us with the right amount of recognisable cheese and serious music. There was a very nice surprise with Kershaw doing a song he wrote for Chesney Hawkes in 1991, 'I am the one and only' which I'm sure most people in the field never thought they'd hear perform live, much less sing along. While not many people knew his newer songs, and his singing voice is a little high-pitched and American sounding, most people seemed pleasantly surprised by his set.

Ralph McTell - Ralph played his songs just as the sun was setting and everyone was either getting some food or going to the toilet to prepare for the 3 hour set that was on its way and I'm afraid I was no exception. While I enjoyed his rendition of "[his] one hit", 'Streets of London' I wasn't left wanting for more.

Fairport Convention & special guests. The fact that Yusuf Islam was appearing (Cat Stevens) was no surprise as he'd 'accidentaly' let the cat out of the bag a couple of months ago on the radio. It was quite nice to see him, but more of a surprise that after he used quite a lot of Fairport's set time to do his songs, that Richard Thompson came on with his daughter again and did some more of his songs. We were left with very few by Fairport but the few they did were wonderful. The use of the large screen during "The Festival Bell" was great, showing us by video the story they were singing. I was disappointed at the shortness of their set, but the quality more than made up for it. I'm sure there wasn't a dry eye in the field as they closed with the now traditional 'Meet on the Ledge' and the fireworks were lit over yet another successful Fairport's Cropredy Convention.

August 19th, 2009

Cropredy 2009

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Tattoo
My favourite moment of the weekend - Ade Edmonson and the Bad Shepherds - All Around My Hat

NOT WORK SAFE

August 4th, 2009

Bump It!

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Bobos!
I haven't ordered any of these from ebay, oh no, honest.


I knew posting my last entry on a late Saturday night was silly but hahahaha I thought I was more interesting than that!

Today I went Festival shopping and got Wellies, a poncho and a mac. I should stay dry. I also got my mum to text me the number of Evans in Lichfield so I can have some black jeans in my size. You may have some idea on how difficult it is to get black jeans but I've been trying for like a year and haven't found any :(

I want my bump-its :(

August 1st, 2009

Hello old friend!

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Black Side Parting
I've been pretty quiet on here recently, all my time seems to be swallowed up here and there, but fear not, I'm not going anywhere. I want to make it to at least 10 years of inane crap typed into this thing!

I had a birthday and it was great. I don't remember the end of it, but the partys I do remember were SO much fun. Milf dressed up in a giant rabbit suit so that I could feel like I was in Harvey. It was great but a little bit hot so he didn't wear it all night. This led to the suit and the hand-made legwarmers I made because the outfit was too short, to be stolen. We've got the mittens and the head but the body has gone. The Dry Dock said they had it but the girl couldn't find it while Milf was on the phone, but then by Monday it had obviously been thrown away. I am absolutely gutted - I was going to sleep in that!

I had the week afterwards off, Colette barred me from FAB so I coudln't just get bored and sit in the bar. So I sat bored at home instead. We went out with Milf's workmates on Thursday night which was nice, we had a curry together and a few beers.

Last weekend we went down to London to attend the lovely [info]despina's perfect wedding to Jamie. The whole day was an amazing magical experience, and I was so happy to see a lovely couple get married like that that I'm not ashamed to say that I cried a little! The party was wonderful and everyone there was so so SO nice!

The next day Milf and I had some breakfast, went to the British Museum where we looked at mummies and vikings. We 'looked' at Forbidden Planet which was way too expensive so we didn't buy anything. Then we went to Hard Rock Cafe where we spent a 3-figure sum on steak and chicken and beer. Then we took all of my Hard Rock points and spent them on badges for [info]web_kitten. She's a lucky bird! We then went home on the coach and cuddled up at home not realising that Milf was about to come down with Swine Flu.

He's been in bed all week with Tamiflu. Poor sod. I've been VERY lucky and don't have it though I have been keeping myself away from people at work as much as I can.

Went out last night for Colette's birthday and drank myself STUPID. haha. My name is Aileen and I am an alcoholic. No, really :/

In two weeks I'm off to Cropredy festival with my parents so I can see The Buzzcocks and Nick Kershaw. SNOOD!

July 18th, 2009

Happy Birthday

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To [info]gillianfrances, [info]brummie_ninja, Nelson Mandela, Vin Diesel, M.I.A., Izzy [mine and Amy's friend], Hunter S Thompson! Happy Birthday!

Oh, and me I guess :D

July 6th, 2009

OMG CHOCO!

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OMG!
RIGHT THIS MINUTE Jhenn is on a plane to Japan to see her beloved for a month.

I talked to her this morning to wish her well

AND WHEN I JUST GOT IN FROM WORK THERE WAS CHOCOLATE!!!

She didn't know if the person who bought me replacement chocolate was to remain anonymous or not, but THANK YOU. I have chocolate with VEGAN BACON in it.

Here are some emoticons to show you how grateful I am...



I am so so so so happy right now! OMG!

July 2nd, 2009

Crackberry

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Blackberry. Hmmmm.

Facebook is practically integrated into my phone. The only problem was that everytime something happened on Facebook I was getting 3 notifications. One in my Gmail inbox, one in Facebook itself down the bottom and one straight to my phone.

That's way too many.

I first thought of turning the facebook emails to Gmail off but it would appear that that's where the Facebook application gets its information from. I got nothing to my phone.

Then I made a filter in Gmail, sending all facebook messages to the trash but then they didn't send them to my phone either.

You can't make different folders in Gmail, which really seems ass-backwards when you have so many social media sites sending you mail all the time. I'd love to have a Facebook folder and a Twitter folder and a Livejournal folder.

Lastly I checked the options in the BB Application itself, where I found you could get it to remove the messages from the server after it gets them. This would appear to be what I want, except it only notifies me of, say, the first comment on a status, and not the rest. They are there, sure but I don't get TOLD about them.

It's times like this I wish I could code. There's a couple of applications I'd LOVE to make for my BB to make it an even bigger part of my life.

That and a new type of battery.

I wish....

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Body Builder
I wish Yahtzee would review Transformers 2 but he's a games reviewer, not a movie reviewer :(

June 25th, 2009

Michael Jackson

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OMG!
You got hit by...
You been struck by...

A Cardiac Arrest.

June 23rd, 2009

There are 15 flowers on my chili plant. I think they are Birds Eye Chillies, meaning I have 15 gorgeous little red fire bombs coming my way. This is 3 more than I had last year!!!

I have got a 2liter pan of tea that's cooling down on my hob to make iced tea with. It's Her Majesty's Blend which has brewed to a delightful ruby red colour in the pan. Can't wait for it to cool!

Sims 3 is continuing to amuse me as I made my 8 staff then made their personalities as close as possible. They are all doing things which are very much like them and screenshotting them and putting them on facebook is a source of much amusement for me.

I have Thursday and Friday off [as well as today] so I will be taking photos of a few things from around the house and selling them on. Less clutter, more money. I hope.

What is making you happy?

June 19th, 2009

To-do list for today

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Eat breakfast
Do washing
Do washing up
Sew bra
Pack outfit for Christening
Sort paperwork
Sort makeup
Mend earrings
Pack for weekend away
Shower
Find train tickets
Sort pants and socks

Edit: all before 7pm so I can go to work.

June 18th, 2009

Wot I as dun.

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I have been really busy recently, and it shows no sign of stopping!

Saturday afternoon I put extensions in someone's hair other than my own. They are really pretty roving dreads, I'm hoping I can get a reputation as able to do this enough that I can get a few pennies here and there doing it for the customers of [info]miss_needles who are in Leeds.

After finishing work on Saturday at around 5am I went straight to the bus station and got on a bus to London. I 'slept' on the way down and found myself in Victoria! Once there I recognised a Subway I'd been to many many years ago on a previous trip to London, but had no memories of what else we did. Weird!

As I had failed to buy what I went to London for, I went to the park that we were all meeting at for [info]poggs's birthday and had a nap in the sun. I got sunburn on my arm during the second hour. Whoops!

We all sat around and had a really nice picnic, I met loads of new people as well as saw a couple of old faces. It was really really nice aside from the fucking pollen.

Monday morning I woke up on Poggs's sofa to find a cup of Red Hot Lava Java beside me. Silly Poggsie, he didn't really know what coffee would do to me.

Neither did I to be honest.

I ended up wired as fuck walking around in circles in London around Tottenham Court Road, getting upset at bookshops and deciding that I didn't want ANYTHING but Sushi for like 3 hours. Then I sat down and waited for Yo Victoria to open, only for [info]icklekitty to let me know that Wasabi next to the toilet was better and cheaper and already open. Win.

I ate some sushi in the bus station, got back to Leeds and then went to work for a meeting. Then I went back home and saw my [info]milfos before finally getting some sleep.

Tuesday day shift was ok, then I went home to get some tea, before heading out to the cinema.

Last night I worked until around 3, then had to be back in at 11 to have the machines emptied. That is 3 hours before my shift usually starts so I am sitting her SO TIRED right now. Really tired. Can sleep tonight!

Tomorrow I'm on the nightshift, Saturday day shift before heading off on a train to Lichfield where I will see my little brother and then head out to a school friend's daughter's Christening. I have bought a DRESS and related accessories like SANDALS and new EARRINGS and I will be road testing it Sunday ready for the wedding I'm off to in July. It is PINK as fuck and really SHORT.

Sorry for the overuse of caps, I'm just a bit excited. I am tired as hell.

Monday I get back to Leeds and then work a night shift straight after. Then I'm off Tuesday and will take this opportunity to sleep as much as possible next to my betrothed.

If I've already bought most of an outfit, am I allowed to get a new handbag? Do I really need one?

June 4th, 2009

Screw you, world.

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I have very little contact with my best friend anyway, bearing in mind she lives on a different CONTINENT to me and you go and ruin the thing I've been looking forward to for ages?!

I don't have much money right now as it is and when I order some chocolate from her business to a. give her money and b. so I can try her vegan chocolate for the first fucking time it gets 'lost' in transit?

WHAT BULLSHIT IS THIS!?!?

Well done, you've made me cry.

Oh yeah, the envelope arrived, with the contents missing. How on earth? Wrapped in a plastic bag that says "Item Damaged Before Arrival In UK". Also, how the fuck did it get posted on May 20th and only 'arrive' today? Especially if it was damaged BEFORE it got here, it's all bullshit.

I certainly can't afford to re-buy the chocolate

I certainly won't ask Jhenn to re-make it, it's her home business and that's a tad unfair.

My copy of Sims3 also arrived today, but now I don't want to play it. I want my vegan bacon chocolate.

Worst thing? Jhenn probably put a note or something in it, and now that's lost to the world.

Edit: and it appears there's nothing I can do. The official line is 'welp, you've lost your stuff. We didn't do it. bye now!'

June 1st, 2009

5 Years!!

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Today, Milf and I have been together 5 years. We rang in the day by dancing to The Waterboys at a friend's house while all my workmates from Fab cheered and drank to our health. It was an amazing night!

Today we've had a nice meal and are sat in watching The Wire season 2. It's a great day!

Oh and Milf finally let us set a date for the wedding. Dude!

May 26th, 2009

Dragon Eggs

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This is one last try - one will die in 4 hours, but please click these and save them!

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Then I'll never post them again, as it's too hard thinking one will die! :(

May 20th, 2009

Star Wars Day!

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Hello [info]tga, I'm updating livejournal!

Under here are the pictures of Star Wars Day - Some of the costumes and all the fun we had.

May The 4th Be With You [albeit 16 days later] )

I know it's taken me forever to update with this, but I wanted all the photos and I didn't have a camera other than my phone, so I had to wait until the staff put theirs up.

It was so much fun! :D

May 16th, 2009

Dragon Eggs

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I am being silly and have picked up some Dragon Eggs so I can see what happens to them...

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May 5th, 2009

May The 4th Be With You.

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I thought up the idea of having a proper Star Wars party at Fab.

I suggested it

I organised it

I designed posters and flyers

I arranged entertainment and food

It happened

And I sat back and I saw that it was good.

I am having such a good night, but I really wish I'd brought some spare shoes!

My blue is slowly fading the more fun I have.

Pictures to come at some point I hope!!!

April 30th, 2009

Eurovision.

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So, who's hosting the party this year?

16th May!

My house is WAY too small and with no TV License, so I'm out I'm afraid.

April 26th, 2009

Whitbeh 09

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So I did go to Whitby for the day. It was lots of fun, but I came home yesterday as I thought I had something to do today. Now everyone has let me down :(

I got a lift with [info]blondelass's friend Tracy, so we got to Whitby around 11.30. I had gone to bed at 5 and got up at 7 so I was mighty tired and hadn't eaten since 7 but nevermind :D

I went straight to the Spa to see [info]needler and [info]spookyzo where I got a fake fringe to stop myself from trying to cut one all the time. Then I went to the Little Angel, where I found a friend from Leeds's mum that I knew goes every time just to people watch. Then I called [info]poggs, who came to meet me for lunch. While waiting for him I saw [info]ashbet and her boyfriend, who went to a nice cafe that had sausages, but unfortunately not enough room for the 5 of us so we went to The Resolution.

The Resolution had plenty space but no beer in the fridges. £3.50 pints and when we went to order food they told us they weren't taking orders for another 20 minutes due to the backlog. Haha stupid underplanning gits. We drank our extortionate pints and ran away to The Shambles, as [info]myz_lilith was there and had room for us all.

As we got there we found that Lord Vader was outside and I had some photos taken. I said "Lord Vader, could you please choke me a little bit?" then started laughing 'cause it was so childish and a bit kinky. Haha!

We ate dinner and had another beer, before I realised I would have to go home soon. [info]dan_lane was in the pub, but Google Latitude said he was still at the cottage. The one time that programme has come in useful and it turns out he left his phone back on charge, haha! Said a very quick hello to [info]dj_alexander before going back to the Spa to get another fringe from Needles and some pink leopard tat from the other stalls. Then I went for one last pint in the Angel with Anna before going back to the car to come home.

I was very glad I went but I am quite glad I came home. I got to see Milf, I'm chilling at home now and I didn't have a spa ticket unlike most the people I saw.

Today I am playing LOTRO, listening to 'The Skeptics Guide To The Universe' a reccomendation from Daäg and drinking the home-made iced tea that I made and put into bottles in the fridge. Life is sweet!

April 22nd, 2009

I bought myself a new one inch spike for my chin today. People had been commenting that I looked weird without it so I bit the bullet and spent another £8. The only bad thing about spikes is that they seem to come off easier than anything else and I keep losing them in my cleavage.

I've also lost two of my tunnels in my ears. I wear single-flared tunnels, in 10mm 4mm 3mm and 2.4mm and the 2.4s went a few weeks ago. I've got to replace them.

Been thinking about getting more piercings - Milf doesn't want me to get my madonna back although I loved it. I kinda want my finger pierced on the top where a ring would be, but my piercer doesn't reccomend it, though he will do it :)

Need my roots doing - hoping I can convince Milf this evening. Then I may pink it, I don't know. I think I want a beehive for the weekend.

Can't fully decide about Whitby. Today is day 6 of an 8 day run at work. Saturday will be my first day off since last Thursday. My lift is at 9am. I don't remember the last time I saw 9am. Although my job is fun the sleep pattern is KILLER. 9am in the morning is like 5am to me. Also my auntie is visiting my parents in Lichfield and I could go home Friday night and see them all.

I could also enjoy my first day off in bed and then regret being a lazy arse.

I miss you guys. Last night at work I cried a little bit and missed [info]web_kitten. I think I have to go to Whitby so I can see your smiling faces!

April 19th, 2009

Whitby?

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I've all of a sudden realised that A. I'm free from Friday at 8pm 'till Monday at 6.30pm and B. I quite fancy going to the seaside to see some Goffiks.

Is anyone from Leeds going and coming back within that time that I can buy a lift off? I'd really like to see some people I've not seen in a long time...

April 14th, 2009

MEERCATS

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I'm going to Tropical World. RIGHT NOW.

There are Meercats and MONKEYS.

Wheeeeeeeeeeee!!!

April 9th, 2009

I've almost finished watching the whole of the IMDB top 250. I will finish this later on, I'm halfway through Great Expectations at the moment, and United 93 is the last one. It's been such a labour of love, and I'm almost sad it's over.

I archived the list on the 12th of March 2007, and I'm finishing it on the 08th April 2009. It's taken me 2 years and 27 days. 758 days. One film every 3 days! That's actually a lot better than I thought it would be, although I had started with 64 already done so it's more like every 4 days.

I know the list has changed since then, and I've already moved from twofifty.org which disappeared into the internet grave with my donation I'd just made, to http://250.s-anand.net/ which someone made when he too was annoyed that twofifty.org had disappeared. My list is here, detailing the ones that have come and gone since 2007. I've already got all of the films I'm missing ready to watch, and at that point I'm going to do something very silly.

I'm going to take the free 14 day trial of IMDB Pro, and copy a list of the top 500. Then I guess it all starts again! Some of you may think I'm mad, others may do it themselves when I have the list, but I've seen so many films I would otherwise have ignored - films that I'd never even heard of before I started this.

Harvey, Rebecca, The Wages of Fear, Les Diaboliques, La Notti di Cabiria and many others, I couldn't start to tell you all how heavily I recommend them! I feel more enriched for having seen so many treasures of many countries and I'm looking forward to seeing how many more I've got to watch.

April 8th, 2009

Found out today that my hosting with Dreamhost is due. $190.80. Damn the weak pound.

I have two reservations about this:
1. My website hasn't worked in a long while, everything is still there but the pages themselves don't work
2. I've not used the bloody thing since last March I don't think, so what's the point?

I have some questions:
1. Is there a better place to host my stuff? I have taken up 2 gigs of space [no idea how, can probably get rid of a LOT] and have very minimal traffic.
2. I have Gallery installed. I would lose that if I move it all, right?

Does anyone have any ideas? I don't think I can afford to spend that much money right now, I have to pay N Power :(
I woke up yesterday to find that one of the kittens had bitten straight through one of my speaker cables. Damn them!! I suspect it was the girl, we had to bin a phone charger 'cause she wouldn't leave it alone.

My Blackberry is nice. Very nice but I have a few problems with it.

It takes forever to bring up the 'call' screen. It's become a problem when people were asking me to find a number and I wanted it to do it quickly.

The battery is Li-Ion, which means it's not like a normal battery and one long charge will look after it. It's more of a little-by-little thing, which is annoying at the bar, as I can be away from a power point for ages and I NEED it.

Twitter is easy to post from but difficult to read from.

The alarm clock automatically repeats either every day or every weekday. I wish I could set a week's worth of alarms on it.

I do however LOVE:

Getting my email straight to the phone just like a text message - however I can't reply to LJ comments from it by using the boxes in the email.

My RSS reader - I need more to digest so please suggest good RSS feeds. I already have notalwaysright.com and Reuters Oddly Enough [which annoyingly will update with the same story multiple times in one day :/]

Twitter to my phone for FREE

Instant messaging - Googlemessage, aim, yahoo and MSN but I can't use them 'cause I have too many people on my friends lists and they all message me at once!

Automatic synching up with my google calendar. Heaven.

The Push Touch screen. Awesome.

Things I need:

A new theme
New Ringtones
Another charger.
Google Latitude to stop thinking I'm in fucking Hyde Park. AS IF!

Anyone on Google Latitude, Blackberry IM or Twitter, let me know right now

And don't worry, none of those fucking annoying LiveTwitter bollocks will be appearing on my page. As if I don't post enough shite already.

April 6th, 2009

E-mail I just got...

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"Dear GazoPa user,

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You fucking what??

April 1st, 2009

Long Time No See

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How is everyone? I've been reading but not commenting, as I said to myself that I wouldn't update until I'd told you all about the Metallica concert. I utterly failed at that!

Back in February I went to see Metallica - it was the most amazing day/night that I've ever EVER had.

We got the tickets back in September, so it was a long wait until we got to go, but boy did it come around fast.

I worked the night before, but I was up early and bright for Flick to pick us up around 1.

We arrived at Sheffield at around 2 I think, where after a pint over the road we got ourselves into the queue for the gates. They didn't open until 7 so it was a long, tiring wait! But once the crowd got huge we realised why it had been such a good idea to be there early.

We were front row baby! Flick and Bev were determined, so Milf and I stood directly behind them. There was an asshole who decided he should be standing where Flick was, and told us as much so we bolstered ourselves against his pushing and delivered a few swift elbows to the ribs. I have never seen someone so rude and insistant at a gig. He was pushing me with all his weight and I had to swap places with Milf. He also spent the whole night resting fully on the bloke in front of him. I think there wasn't a person within a 10 meter radius that didn't want to twat him.

The Sword were shite, poor little boys on a man's stage. Machine Head were ok, but I think those rumours of Metallica making their support bands sound like shit may be true.

When the theme tune from "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" started, a couple of tears rolled down my face, but when they played 'One' I absolutely sobbed my heart out. Hetfield even gave me a funny look. Proper tears of "I never thought I would hear this song live"-ness.

Metallica Setlist )

So then we went for a drink in a nearby bar with Bev and her husband, Liam. Then got in the car back to Leeds. All in all a day to remember and I'm able to die happy now I've seen Metallica.

Another thing I've done recently is go to Weston-Super-Mare to see [info]medusa and [info]dr_atheist. It was LOADS of fun, really nice to meet my Godson, who sat peacefully on my lap for like an hour on first meeting me, and to properly meet Felix, who was ill the poor sod, and we played a game that I've wanted for ages that I thought would be appropriate for Felix, Cooking Mama. Alas it was too hard for an almost 4 year old [yeah no surprises there] and so we tried playing a skating game and Mario Kart instead.

I had a nice relaxing couple of days, thank you so much guys :D

Another thing I did was go to see Lily Allen. I'm glad I managed it, but I wish I hadn't got so drunk I don't remember any of it beforehand. I remember her playing Womanizer by Britney and I remember her stage but I don't remember much else. I was also stood right at the back as we got there late. Oops.

This sunday I'm working and we're showing Flight of the Navigator at work. Then on Monday it's Wrestlemania at FAB and I'm getting quite excited about that!

I've been feeling quite lonely recently, as the people I used to hang out with aren't answering texts, or are cancelling at last minute. A couple of weeks ago I reached out to a few others with calls but no-one answered. I don't know who my friends are any more. I only know that I'm always the one who leaves a comment or the one who sends the first facebook message.

February 28th, 2009

Oh. My. God.

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OMG!

Too much cute.

We are in HAWAII

Metallica today! :D

February 27th, 2009

Oh my, what a busy week!

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It's no-where near the realm of what [info]needler knows as busy, but I do feel that everything is being busy and I've not had 5 minutes to myself sometimes!

On Tuesday the female kitten of the house, Frenzy, went to the Vet's to have her bits taken away. Rumble had his done a month ago, as we were concerned that he may start spraying or try to make his sister have inbred babies. Frenzy's cost a lot more, so we waited to have it done, but today I took her back for her checkup and her microchip is in place, it reads ok and she's fixed. I'm allowed to let her outside in a week. I'm rather afraid of letting them out when there's a MASSIVE black tomcat, and a really FAT tabbby tomcat that roam the street from time to time, but if I don't let them out to fight their battles now then then will never be any good. I think I may get them both a cat leash to begin with...

My quest to watch the IMDB top 250 is really almost finished! I've got around 38 films left to watch, which I calculated would take me 3.66 movies a day if I wanted to watch them and have finished at the 2 year anniversary which is the 12th of March. It's not going to happen but it won't be far off!!!

I'm at work tonight, and then off to Sheffield tomorrow to see Metallica. Oh My God. So excited. We'll probably be in the queue so we get a good standing point for most of the day, so I can't see anyone - though I am still unsure as to whether there's anyone that would want to see me in Sheffield.

I cannot express how happy I am to see Metallica!!!

On the other hand, I went to buy a Lily Allen ticket last night, as my money finally cleared, and they are all sold out. I am devastated. I will keep trying for one though, I am GOING to see Lily if it kills me :(

Very excited to go to [info]medusa and [info]dr_atheist's in a week and a half - Everything is go go go at the moment!!! Train rides and stuff, it's all a nice distraction from how ill my 89 year old grandmother is :(
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