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[Jul. 14th, 2009|10:33 pm] |
It is happening - I am about to rewatch Day Three. I still can't face the last hour and a half though... |
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[Jul. 13th, 2009|11:31 am] |
I am a huge fan of the craft and design blog How About Orange? (also available as a feed on lj!). On Friday Jess posted a link to a rather fun quiz on the Empire movie site where you guess the movie based on one letter from its poster. I managed 14/46 before I got frustrated and clicked each letter for the answer, only to discover a couple of movies I'd never even heard of!
Now I've set a base score, who will beat it?! |
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[Jul. 10th, 2009|11:14 am] |
I am meant to be washing up dishes, tidying the house and packing for Brownie camp. So instead I'm here doing a meme! Quelle surprise...
I am really enjoying Torchwood and am miffed that I've got to wait till Sunday for the final episode. I have decided to wait till I've seen all five eps before writing a review (plus I'll be watching them again with Andrew next week) and I'm so worried about my non-UK friends getting spoiled that I'm using this as an excuse to procrastinate...
Anyway, onto the mememeeeee. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dtissagirl did this and I couldn't resist joining in!
RULES: Comment and I'll LJ stalk you to find THREE FANDOMS you apparently love. And then you answer these questions about them!
01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
She gave me Doctor Who, Stargate SG-1 and Farscape..
( Doctor Who )
( Stargate SG-1 )
( Farscape )
And when I'm home, if there are any takers I'll reciprocate... |
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[Jun. 29th, 2009|10:16 pm] |
rabid1st posted the Lit Slits test and got an impressive 9/10. I couldn't resist trying it out and got 6/10, so not too bad. I was pleased that I got a comic correct (The Watchmen - I still need to see that movie), guessed well for a couple of others and recognised a Harry Potter one and, thanks to GCSE English, To Kill a Mockingbird! Plus it helps that I loved that story...
Have a go too! Rae pointed out that there isn't a 'next' button and once you've made a selection it automatically loads the next question, just fyi.
P.S. Just been for a Stumble and got an excellent set of pictures of Glasto (or, to give it its proper name, the Glastonbury Festival). Well worth a look to get a taste of the biggest festival in the UK calendar. |
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[Jun. 20th, 2009|09:34 pm] |
As you all know, Andrew and I are spending week days apart as the moment (for the sake of paying the rent). I have a Sunday job and today I spent most of the day at guiding training. So how are we spending the evening? He's watching I am Legend and I am hiding from it upstairs. Hmm, coupledom...
P.S. However I must point out that it's not all bad - with me upstairs are pistachio nuts and Green and Black's milk chocolate with butterscotch! Mmmmmmm!
And I have finally worked out how to keep the internet cable in my computer *parts the cable to see the screen...*
PPS: revenge should be sweet - I've challenged him to Scrabble, but he keeps disappearing to his computer.... |
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[Jun. 19th, 2009|03:54 pm] |
Perusing my favourite unadmittable-to newspaper website, I found this article about the Ascot hats which I tend to love as so many of them are so over the top. However this year's favourite has to be this one:
There's nothing more amusing than a topical hat featuring rubber ducks...
In other news I have tickets to the recording of a Radio 2 Friday Night is Music Night concert featuring Mr Barrowman. I am rather excited.... |
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| Hmm, service as usual, then |
[Jun. 12th, 2009|08:13 pm] |
Last Sunday, just because Andrew fixed the washing machine, the dishwasher broke. So Andrew left me to deal with the pot that still had half its mince in and therefore all the bits of mince that were then all round the dishwasher. Needless to say, I left it till today to deal with (I know, eww!) I hadn't realised quite how stenchy the house had got - although the Neutradol had been brought out of hibernation - so when Andrew came home he was cross. Not that I blame him, but I am annoyed with him for putting the pot in in that state in the first place. And so the last two hours have been spent in a lovely grouchy silence - you know, the type that makes me glad I'm at work on Sunday. Bah.
Plus now I've had to do my least favourite thing in the world and select and defrost tea (I'm still utterly unexcited by food but still need to eat it). Joy.
I do hope that next week starts without any horrible task for me to do. If it does, it'll be my first real run at the home alone during the week thing. I wasn't depressed this week, next week maybe I'll manage to do the washing up and laundry. And feed the birds and water the tomato plants.... |
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| A poem. By Robert Frost, not me. |
[Jun. 11th, 2009|02:10 pm] |
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
This is what Stumbling sometimes brings you. We're thinking of having a poetry night with the Brownies some time. I do hope I'm still there so that I can read this one to them. |
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| Not a meme - a job! |
[Jun. 8th, 2009|01:43 pm] |
I've just remembered that I also have job news (at long bloody last). Yesterday I was booked to work a few hours at the country park. I found this odd as they have weekend staff and four hours in the middle of the day isn't really much use to anyone. When I got there I was offered a casual contract for the summer as the park 'Gopher'. I tried it out yesterday, restocking ice creams, clearing cafe tables, wandering around replacing misprinted posters and covering the shop for lunchbreaks, and needless to say I'm pretty certain that I'm going to take it. This is good for at least two reasons: money fairly regularly for 3-4 months and company while Andrew is away. Unfortunately it means working weekends, but see previous re: money. Also it means I get to spend the summer working at the park. Yay! Andrew has agreed that it's a good idea to take it and the added bonus is that by September we'll probably know whether we need to move to the other side of the world of London or not.
Of course the irony is that last week I also applied for two proper permanent jobs too, but now when I don't get an interview I'll be less disappointed! |
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[Jun. 8th, 2009|01:14 pm] |
_jems_ posted a meme that appealed to me so I couldn't resist passing it on.
01. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their livejournal. (Obviously, this is optional, but please feel free to post - I think desktop wallpapers say a lot about their owner. Or maybe it's just mine...)
02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper.
03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this. The point is to see what you had on.
This is Nelson (it says so on his saddle!). He's a chicken and he's on a carousel at Wicksteed Park - a small theme park in Northamptonshire. I thought it was hilarious to find a chicken where you would normally find horses and so regretted not taking a picture of him that the next time I was there (working on a robot event), I went and took a picture of him. Naturally he became my wallpaper. I like to be able to see my icons clearly so the other good thing about Nelson was that I could crop him and add a block of (almost perfectly matched) colour to keep the icons on a plain background but to still have a desktop wallpaper.
And I'm pretty sure I've posted pictures of him before. Hmmm.
And now I must ask _jems_ what her wallpaper is of as it's rather cool... |
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[Jun. 5th, 2009|10:43 pm] |
Why am I so tired all the time?... |
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[Jun. 5th, 2009|11:48 am] |
- I am not so sad as last night. Andrew is coming home today and I am going to try not to be cross with him for being pants. He can't help it.
- Today when I go shopping I am buying Green and Black's milk chocolate with butterscotch pieces. Mmmmmmm!
- I have just applied for a job in forty minutes as I now have so many personal statements that I can just cut and paste the right paragraphs in! Plus I have given up all hope of getting a job so no longer care. Oops.
- I either couldn't be bothered or forgot to vote yesterday. It may well be a combination of both.
- I am meant to be watering Andrew's tomato plants - the plants that I said he could only have if he looked after them. They've been watered once this week. Don't tell him...
- I posted on Facebook last night that I seemed to have mislaid Andrew. I got no responses.
- Next week I have a day or so's work. And I plan to spend a night with Andrew's family for company. Even if it is just the cat. They have full Sky so if his parents are still away I get to watch non-stop movies! Yay!
- One more week down of this split living, less than twelve to go...
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[Jun. 3rd, 2009|12:29 pm] |
And where I used to live, apparently. This is a report of a stream of orangy lights flying across the sky in Cambridgeshire, and comments on similar occurrences in Lincolnshire and Merseyside. Personally I'd say the military is up to something no matter what they say, even if I'd love it if it was actually ETs.
Most amusing is the following reader's comment:
I can assure you that these lights are indeed alien space craft. We have landed, assimilated local languages, and our emisary is called BLEARS*. We are all of similar stature and are here to save the World. We are alarmed at the cost of fuel on your planet and did not know you had to serve yourself, this, because of our height, has caused us problems when refuelling, you will pay for this! We have been shocked to discover how deeply primitive you earthlings are, why do you still mash potatoes? Must go now as some hooded earthling has just let my tyres down.
- Dr. David Entwistle, England
It currently only has one vote (mine) and is deserving of many more, even if it does mean visiting the Daily Whale Fail Mail website.
*For the non-Brits, Hazel Blears is in the UK Cabinet and has been naughty with her expeses claims, particularly in allowing her husband to claim for hotel porn movies. She's off soon - she announced it yesterday. And the country cheered. |
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[May. 24th, 2009|10:32 pm] |
Last week we spent half an hour in Greenwich Park before the Blue Man Group concert. I was rather amused by a perfectly dalmationy pigeon so ( took a couple of photos )
Pigeon amusement seems to run in my family...
And yesterday, I had a lovely time in our back garden. The sun was had been shining, the birds were inhaling food to feed their babies who were all over the lawn - or at least they were till the marmalady cat who I have christened Hamish Marmaduke Ginger (in the hope that one of those names might be correct) saw a chance at an all-you-can-eat buffet and took up watch on top of the shed, conveniently warmed by the sun (mmm, warm furry tummy...). I've seen him before and because I was out taking pictures of an interesting cloud (I want to join the Cloud Appreciation Society) I thought I'd grab a couple of snaps of him too. Suddenly he perked up as a leetle mousie popped out from under the shed and started helping himself to his all-you-can-eat seed buffet that we lay down for the pigeons (hmm, there are those pigeons again). HMG got very interested, but mousie was clever and had collected enough seed to satisfy himself so changed direction to the fruit patch (there aren't any veg there, see). Andrew has christened him Jerry cause he outwitted HMG and left him frustrated, but had a lovely full tummy himself (and I bet his wife and 100 children...) And he was out tonight collecting more seed too. And naturally, I couldn't resist ( posting the pictures... ) |
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[May. 24th, 2009|12:00 pm] |
I have nearly 300 free text messages to use by Friday. I am strongly tempted to join Twitter and tweet the camp away...
Update: I have set up Twitter and Loudtwitter and text to Twitter. And now I know that texts cost 20p each and to Twitter they aren't free. Arse.
Also, the washing machine is broken and caused a power cut this morning. So Andrew just went in and turned it off. Five and a half hours later I went to reclaim my clothes and to go and find a laundrette, only to discover that in his hurry to rescue his computers, he hadn't noticed that the machine was full of water and that's what my clothes had been sitting in since then. Soapy water too. I am not impressed. This is a load that was meant to finish at 9.00 this morning so that it could dry in the sun. The sun has now gone in and my laundry still needs washing. And camp is tomorrow. Ooops. And I have been yelling at Andrew too. Ooops a little bit more.
However he has just made bacon sandwiches and not asked for any help, which is usually a sign of some guilt. Hmm.
I'm off to eat my sandwich and to see if Facebook by mobile is any better...
ETA2: Thank goodness that worked - I was beginning to think that today was a bad day! Texts to Facebook are free and set up, so I will text from camp on occasions. If you want to add me and don't know my real name, comment and I'll send a message to you.
Oh, and the sandwich was nice too, and Andrew set up the washing machine for me so my laundry is now on its way. *Breathes* |
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[May. 21st, 2009|08:54 pm] |
Remember the pictures of my toys getting drunk on onlyoot's watch? Well, I found another photo from the same day, though if the daring acrobatics are anything to go by, this was taken at the beginning of the night - before the debauchery starts...
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