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Apr. 1st, 2011 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreySo. I just freaked myself out trying to buy something online (long story short, there was a webcomic offering itself for $5, when I got to the checkout shipping turned out to be $13.50, I immediately tried to cancel and then - having signed in with Paypal as it recommended - couldn't tell whether I was signed out or not or how exactly my Paypal account was tied up with the site). But anyway, I went into Paypal and changed my password and there's no activity in my account, so I think I've done everything I can to fix that, if indeed there was a problem. It was a very confusing site I was trying to buy the thing from. But anyway.
In other news, I almost can't watch Emmerdale at the moment. I really started to like Nicola before she left, and I had a lot of sympathy with her over the pregnancy and abortion and her break-up with Jimmy. But now she seems to have just been brought back in to cause trouble and hurt people, and it really annoys me. Partly because her actor, Kelly Windsor, is saying she hopes Jimmy and Kelly get back together, so I don't know if they're going to try to make her sympathetic again in a little while. But at the moment, she's just being manipulative - about as manipulative as you can be. And Nicola's just in pain. And I just want Jimmy to get his memory back and for it to be over, or at least back into the "dealing with Kelly being back" stakes, and not the "Kelly is lying to everyone, and taking advantage of the man she apparently loves" stakes. Also, I really like that Carl is really on Nicola's side at the moment, but it's shame he has to do it in a particularly jerktastic way. Also I don't like Alicia much. Also I find Hazel really annoying. Also I hate Andy. And I don't care about much else that is happening, I don't really care if Chas takes over the pub, and I don't really care about Debbie's new love interest. I don't know what it is. I'm just not that interested in Emmerdale at the moment.
On the other hand, Coronation Street! I went back to feeling a bit sorry for Kylie again last night. I just wish they'd mix some more of the sympathetic stuff into more of her character, rather than just have it be occasional almost-exposition, and all stealing, insulting people and child-selling the next. But I suppose that's the point of the character, that she's made herself be a bit hard and unfeeling to cope with things. Still, I know they probably want some female villains or "bad girls" about, but it would be nice to see her soften up a bit more still.
And David got concerned about her kid, and wanted them to spend some time with him. Oh. From the way he's talking and the way he went slightly into Evil David mode when he was talking to Becky, I'm guessing that he doesn't know the whole story about why Max is with Becky and Steve yet. It's really nice that he genuinely seems to love her though. And Becky! Becky wants to DESTROY HER ENEMIES, IN THE MANNER OF A COMPUTER GAME. I love her. A whole bunch. Maybe the whole street should just decide to get a bit social justice-y, and band together to make Becky and Kylie's lives as easy and lovely as possible to make up for their horrific upbringings. Or maybe Roy and Hayley should just adopt them both. And David. At least Steve is being nice to Becky again though. Although I'm not that fussed about this new running away plan. Unless they run away to a CRUISE SHIP. And take a few people with them. That would be better.
And I've been playing more Heavy Rain. I think I'm into the last third or quarter of the game now, and it's getting harder, obviously. MAN, it's hard to keep Jayden alive! And off the drugs! And I like him, so I want to keep him alive. BUT IT'S NOT EASY. Those are my main aims for the game really. Keep Jayden alive, keep Madison alive, hopefully win and save Shaun. I did one trial at the beginning though and mysteriously the controller wouldn't do the things I needed to do to get the key at the end, so I didn't get the reward for it. So I hope I CAN still win. That was irritating, because I totally did the trial and won it, I just couldn't get the reward at the end. But we'll see if I can still finish it. I'm guessing the next few parts will take the longest, especially if I actually want everyone to live and stuff. Hmm.
In other news, I think a bit of a rehaul of this journal is in order. Nothing massive, just getting rid of some of the deleted journals from my flist, update the interests, go through the icons and get rid of the ones I don't really use. It's a bit difficult because at the moment I mostly like stock icons, not having many current fandoms at the moment (that aren't soaps), and they're the kind of icons you kind of love and upload and then hardly ever use, in my experience. Maybe it's just me. But anyway. It's needs doing. Whether or not I will actually get round to it anytime soon is another matter, of course.
Also, I totally went to my appointment yesterday, and then this morning I got up at twenty past nine to go to today's at ten. My mum drove me to where it was being held at, at a community centre that's pretty near our house, but down a bunch of weird streets on an estate I don't normally go to. She said she'd wait outside for a few minutes and if I wasn't done by then she'd go home, and I could call her there if I wanted a lift back. It took about five minutes for the woman to even come downstairs, then we went upstairs and she briefly outlined the course, and said something about it being completely voluntary, but if I agreed to doing it I'd be committed to doing 10 hours of stuff a week up there. Then she asked me, just to check, if I was on Jobseeker's, and I said no, I'd just signed off and gone onto Employment Support Allowance. And she said whoops, the course was only open to people on Jobseeker's. So I couldn't do it obviously, but she told me later on, when I was feeling more up to doing stuff, I could call her again for some other courses. Anyway, so I came out at about quarter past ten, my mum had already left, and I ended up trying to find my way back on my own. And getting lost. And briefly climbing a dirt track up a hill. It was like a really elaborate April Fool's joke the world itself had played on me. But anyway. I'm not going on that course, obviously. And at least I went and checked it out, I guess.
In other news, I almost can't watch Emmerdale at the moment. I really started to like Nicola before she left, and I had a lot of sympathy with her over the pregnancy and abortion and her break-up with Jimmy. But now she seems to have just been brought back in to cause trouble and hurt people, and it really annoys me. Partly because her actor, Kelly Windsor, is saying she hopes Jimmy and Kelly get back together, so I don't know if they're going to try to make her sympathetic again in a little while. But at the moment, she's just being manipulative - about as manipulative as you can be. And Nicola's just in pain. And I just want Jimmy to get his memory back and for it to be over, or at least back into the "dealing with Kelly being back" stakes, and not the "Kelly is lying to everyone, and taking advantage of the man she apparently loves" stakes. Also, I really like that Carl is really on Nicola's side at the moment, but it's shame he has to do it in a particularly jerktastic way. Also I don't like Alicia much. Also I find Hazel really annoying. Also I hate Andy. And I don't care about much else that is happening, I don't really care if Chas takes over the pub, and I don't really care about Debbie's new love interest. I don't know what it is. I'm just not that interested in Emmerdale at the moment.
On the other hand, Coronation Street! I went back to feeling a bit sorry for Kylie again last night. I just wish they'd mix some more of the sympathetic stuff into more of her character, rather than just have it be occasional almost-exposition, and all stealing, insulting people and child-selling the next. But I suppose that's the point of the character, that she's made herself be a bit hard and unfeeling to cope with things. Still, I know they probably want some female villains or "bad girls" about, but it would be nice to see her soften up a bit more still.
And David got concerned about her kid, and wanted them to spend some time with him. Oh. From the way he's talking and the way he went slightly into Evil David mode when he was talking to Becky, I'm guessing that he doesn't know the whole story about why Max is with Becky and Steve yet. It's really nice that he genuinely seems to love her though. And Becky! Becky wants to DESTROY HER ENEMIES, IN THE MANNER OF A COMPUTER GAME. I love her. A whole bunch. Maybe the whole street should just decide to get a bit social justice-y, and band together to make Becky and Kylie's lives as easy and lovely as possible to make up for their horrific upbringings. Or maybe Roy and Hayley should just adopt them both. And David. At least Steve is being nice to Becky again though. Although I'm not that fussed about this new running away plan. Unless they run away to a CRUISE SHIP. And take a few people with them. That would be better.
And I've been playing more Heavy Rain. I think I'm into the last third or quarter of the game now, and it's getting harder, obviously. MAN, it's hard to keep Jayden alive! And off the drugs! And I like him, so I want to keep him alive. BUT IT'S NOT EASY. Those are my main aims for the game really. Keep Jayden alive, keep Madison alive, hopefully win and save Shaun. I did one trial at the beginning though and mysteriously the controller wouldn't do the things I needed to do to get the key at the end, so I didn't get the reward for it. So I hope I CAN still win. That was irritating, because I totally did the trial and won it, I just couldn't get the reward at the end. But we'll see if I can still finish it. I'm guessing the next few parts will take the longest, especially if I actually want everyone to live and stuff. Hmm.
In other news, I think a bit of a rehaul of this journal is in order. Nothing massive, just getting rid of some of the deleted journals from my flist, update the interests, go through the icons and get rid of the ones I don't really use. It's a bit difficult because at the moment I mostly like stock icons, not having many current fandoms at the moment (that aren't soaps), and they're the kind of icons you kind of love and upload and then hardly ever use, in my experience. Maybe it's just me. But anyway. It's needs doing. Whether or not I will actually get round to it anytime soon is another matter, of course.
Also, I totally went to my appointment yesterday, and then this morning I got up at twenty past nine to go to today's at ten. My mum drove me to where it was being held at, at a community centre that's pretty near our house, but down a bunch of weird streets on an estate I don't normally go to. She said she'd wait outside for a few minutes and if I wasn't done by then she'd go home, and I could call her there if I wanted a lift back. It took about five minutes for the woman to even come downstairs, then we went upstairs and she briefly outlined the course, and said something about it being completely voluntary, but if I agreed to doing it I'd be committed to doing 10 hours of stuff a week up there. Then she asked me, just to check, if I was on Jobseeker's, and I said no, I'd just signed off and gone onto Employment Support Allowance. And she said whoops, the course was only open to people on Jobseeker's. So I couldn't do it obviously, but she told me later on, when I was feeling more up to doing stuff, I could call her again for some other courses. Anyway, so I came out at about quarter past ten, my mum had already left, and I ended up trying to find my way back on my own. And getting lost. And briefly climbing a dirt track up a hill. It was like a really elaborate April Fool's joke the world itself had played on me. But anyway. I'm not going on that course, obviously. And at least I went and checked it out, I guess.
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