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Regarding tonight's Coronation Street )

Hello. I'm not sure what news I have to give any of you. I'm really enjoying the sunshine at the moment. I like that it's sunny and warm but not quite ridiculously hot yet. Yesterday my mum and I had my oldest nephew, because we normally have him on Fridays but tomorrow is Good Friday and his dad will be at home, so we're not having him on Friday, so mum said she'd have him Wednesday or Thursday instead. And we were playing with him and stuff, and we were just about to go around to our local shop, when my sister called to say she had an appointment with the dentist, five minutes before she rang, could we meet her at the dentists and take my youngest nephew off her hands until she was finished in there. Apparently she's got a rotten tooth that's been giving her a lot of toothache for the past few days, and she just managed to get an emergency appointment that day. So it wasn't so bad that she asked really. But me and mum and my oldest nephew had to go uptown and pick up my youngest nephew and look after him for half an hour or so. Anyway, the point of this story was that we ended up going to the local gardens, which are just down from the town centre and where we hardly ever go. And it turned out it was really lovely down there. I haven't been for years, and it's got a bad reputation as somewhere you don't want to go at night, but during the day at least it's lovely. Lots of grass, hardly anyone there, right next to the local bowls club and pitch and at the moment lots of the trees are full of blossom. It was a really lovely way to spend half an hour or so. The only off-putting thing really was the broken benches and every now and then the path was full of broken glass. Which is a shame really. But mostly it was lovely.

Other things: I finally got around to cancelling some phone insurance I've had for nearly 7 years apparently, on Tuesday. I don't even have the same phone anymore, so it was about time I cancelled it really. And now I have and it is done. So now all I have to do is change my account to a regular one that I don't have to pay £7 or £8 a month for, and I will have gotten rid of all my bills and won't have an overdraft anymore, and I will just have the money I have and I will be able to see it and hopefully none of it will disappear without my noticing. Which is really nice.

In other news, my youngest nephew is now getting pretty good at riding his bike with stabilisers, and my oldest nephew has just learned pretty much how to ride his bike without stabilisers. And I really like Lush's Breath Of God perfume. Hurrah. I also went to my third session of the confidence course this week. There seem to be less and less people coming every week. But I'm still sticking with it. I think there is a lot of value to a lot of the stuff the guy says, although I can also understand some other people maybe thinking there's no point to it or it's not for them. But it's not so bad. And I even got some expenses back this week. Hurrah again.
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  1. I just went to see the Green Hornet with my parents. It was quite good! Cut for vague spoilers and thoughts )


  2. Oh God, Tom Stade, why? For those who don't know, Tom Stade is a fairly little-known comedian who I love. I saw him a couple of years ago on Michael Macintyre's Comedy Roadshow, and then I saw a live show of his in Nottingham, and then I saw a show of his with Cakesy in London. And he's always had some jokes that I'm not completely comfortable with, but I really do find him funny a lot of the time. But I just today got an email from a comedy mailing list I'm on about a secret gig of his, and they called him "Frankie Boyle's right hand man". I have looked into it. Apparently he co-wrote and appeared in Frankie Boyle's recent TV show Tramadol Nights, which I avoided. And, I just. Why? Except that now I feel like I can't really be angry with him for it or judge him for it, because I haven't seen the show, so I don't know exactly what was on it. But I do know he was writing a thing with Frankie Boyle, and apparently they and the other writers would sometimes sit down and think things like "'What the fuck we can write that will piss absolutely everyone off?'" Which doesn't really tally with his earlier claim that nothing they say is an attack, because it's not an attack, is just an idea they talk about. Whatever Tom Stade. God. I do really like a lot of his stand up, and his delivery and stuff. There's another article where he says that "Guys like [Michael Macintyre], they all take the road of not offending one person...I like to tread the line, sometimes...it's good to challenge people's perceptions.", which at least sounds at lot less wanky than the other stuff he was saying about writing with Frankie Boyle. I just. God, I really like him. I don't know why he has to keep hurting me.

    I'm sure he's actually funny, and not just a wanker. I'm sure he's a bit of a wanker, in previous things I've seen, but wasn't just a wanker. Oh my God.


  3. In other, happier news, I got my period yesterday, so it really is a good thing I got my prescription of Mefenamic Acid. And it even came in weird, funky hot pink boxes. None of that was a bad thing.


  4. Also, I have been using the Lush solid deodorant lately. Between my mum telling me using aerosol deodorants too much can cause breast cancer, apparently, and worrying about CFCs, and not really knowing how to recycle empty aerosol cans properly, I kind of gave up using it a few months or so ago. To my parents' distaste. But I asked for some Lush stuff for Christmas, and my mum said she got a free sample of their deodorant with it, so put that in with them. And I have been using it, and it totally works! Apparently it is made with bicarbonate of soda, which is a smell that makes me want to throw up if I smell it too much, but if I only use a bit of it, it's not too bad. So. It's a recommendation from me, if anyone else was interested in changing deodorant for whatever reason. It's probably ridiculously expensive. But it does work.
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