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Aug. 25th, 2017 10:58 amThis is a sketch that has genuinely stuck with me ever since I first saw it:
Definitely made it, Kelly.
And this is a song that makes me feel insane, it's so good:
I'm really looking forward to my holiday tomorrow, and the house and internet all to myself. Except that I've just remembered it's also going to be filled with a lot of dog-walking and picking up dog poo. But I'll survive. The new dog is fine by the way. His name is Frank. I don't love him as much as I think I would a dog of my own, and he's a bit needy and it turns out he'll poo all over the kitchen at night if he doesn't get taken out enough times during the day - I'm going to make an effort to do that over the next week. But he's very sweet, and he's settled in pretty well with us.
Definitely made it, Kelly.
And this is a song that makes me feel insane, it's so good:
I'm really looking forward to my holiday tomorrow, and the house and internet all to myself. Except that I've just remembered it's also going to be filled with a lot of dog-walking and picking up dog poo. But I'll survive. The new dog is fine by the way. His name is Frank. I don't love him as much as I think I would a dog of my own, and he's a bit needy and it turns out he'll poo all over the kitchen at night if he doesn't get taken out enough times during the day - I'm going to make an effort to do that over the next week. But he's very sweet, and he's settled in pretty well with us.
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Aug. 2nd, 2012 11:55 pmSome things I have seen on the internet in the past few days/week:
An annoying thing: Harpies with arms. No no no no no. I have come to realise that I have weird and very specific ideas about what a harpy should look/be like, that most other people who are interested don't seem to share. But the main point of them is still that they are half-bird, half-woman or human, in whatever proportion or way you see fit. If you just draw a person with wings then you may as well just draw an angel, or a person with wings, what is the point?
A confusing thing: Just now on imdb, an announcement for the new trailer of Paranormal Activity 4. 4? What happened to 2 and 3? Did I miss them?
A pleasing thing: It turned out that the We Want Julia sketch from Man Stroke Woman totally is online, which is nice because it pretty accurately describes my feelings whenever I love a show/film/fandom, and people start talking about changing it, or getting rid of one of the characters, or replacing them. Behold:
Which, you know. It's not a Tumblr-ready gif, but pretty handy all the same.
I'm going away for the weekend tomorrow now, so you probably will not hear from me again until after the weekend.
An annoying thing: Harpies with arms. No no no no no. I have come to realise that I have weird and very specific ideas about what a harpy should look/be like, that most other people who are interested don't seem to share. But the main point of them is still that they are half-bird, half-woman or human, in whatever proportion or way you see fit. If you just draw a person with wings then you may as well just draw an angel, or a person with wings, what is the point?
A confusing thing: Just now on imdb, an announcement for the new trailer of Paranormal Activity 4. 4? What happened to 2 and 3? Did I miss them?
A pleasing thing: It turned out that the We Want Julia sketch from Man Stroke Woman totally is online, which is nice because it pretty accurately describes my feelings whenever I love a show/film/fandom, and people start talking about changing it, or getting rid of one of the characters, or replacing them. Behold:
Which, you know. It's not a Tumblr-ready gif, but pretty handy all the same.
I'm going away for the weekend tomorrow now, so you probably will not hear from me again until after the weekend.
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Sep. 24th, 2011 10:28 pmA nice thing: Seeing this jacket on Eastenders, and then finding out where it was from online.
A not nice thing: Finding out it was on sale months ago, and isn't any longer. Oh stock rotation. You giveth and you taketh away.
A nice thing: Getting conkers from the park.
A not nice thing: Figuring out what to do with conkers from the park.
A nice thing: Being inspired by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cakesy to visit my local charity furniture store, and finding out they actually have some really nice furniture in there.
A not nice thing: Having no opportunity to buy or use said furniture. However, there was quite a nice triple CD storage unit which I might go back for, if I can figure out where to put it in my bedroom.
A nice thing: Getting Man Stroke Woman series 2 in the post.
A not nice thing: Watching all of Man Stroke Woman series 2, and having no more.
A not nice thing: Wishing that I wasn't so easily won over by Boots' Christmas gift set things every year, so I could have more respect for myself.
A nice thing: Boots' Christmas gift set things, eee!
A just plain weird thing: Hearing 666theheartless666, whose Lets Play videos I have been watching for a bit now, suddenly announce on a video from two years ago that in a few days, he'd be 20! For some reason, just from his voice and the way he talked, I was thinking mid-twenties. Even when he mentioned his uni course. But no. He's been 19 or younger for most of the videos I have been watching, and even now, is only 22. Which is just plain odd.
A not nice thing: Finding out it was on sale months ago, and isn't any longer. Oh stock rotation. You giveth and you taketh away.
A nice thing: Getting conkers from the park.
A not nice thing: Figuring out what to do with conkers from the park.
A nice thing: Being inspired by
cakesy to visit my local charity furniture store, and finding out they actually have some really nice furniture in there.A not nice thing: Having no opportunity to buy or use said furniture. However, there was quite a nice triple CD storage unit which I might go back for, if I can figure out where to put it in my bedroom.
A nice thing: Getting Man Stroke Woman series 2 in the post.
A not nice thing: Watching all of Man Stroke Woman series 2, and having no more.
A not nice thing: Wishing that I wasn't so easily won over by Boots' Christmas gift set things every year, so I could have more respect for myself.
A nice thing: Boots' Christmas gift set things, eee!
A just plain weird thing: Hearing 666theheartless666, whose Lets Play videos I have been watching for a bit now, suddenly announce on a video from two years ago that in a few days, he'd be 20! For some reason, just from his voice and the way he talked, I was thinking mid-twenties. Even when he mentioned his uni course. But no. He's been 19 or younger for most of the videos I have been watching, and even now, is only 22. Which is just plain odd.
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Apr. 18th, 2011 11:20 pmThings:
- I am all up to date on Coronation Street, and have been for the past week or so. ( Spoilers up to tonight )
- I've been feeling really weird and blah lately. I'm assuming it's because my sleep got a bit messed up last week when I was running around all over the place. And it was weird not having my mum around. And I'm trying to sort out my money again. And my sick note ran out, so I'm having to try to sort that out again. And I'm assuming my hormones have something to do with it, although I'm not sure you can just keep claiming that for weeks. I do think I'm due a period though, and it would be nice to get one if it might actually make me feel better.
- The other possibility is that I've been playing my new PS3 game, Folklore, until I feel a bit exhausted most days. I love Folklore. It's sort of like Pokemon, but with fairies. And a storyline about a fairy war. And also about a murder mystery in the real world village your characters are currently staying in. I have no idea if posting about when you probably don't know what I'm talking about will be really dull or not, so I'm going to try to keep it to a minimum. Mostly when I've not been posting because I've been playing a game a lot I think that maybe I could just post about the game, but then I think "or I could just go play the game some more", and then I end up doing that. But suffice to say, things started getting a bit difficult and I got a bit stuck, so I decided to go back and power up the creatures I already had. Which is partly very satisfying, going back and having a load of fights you know you can win. And partly very frustrating, because sometimes you need to try to power them up in very specific ways. In the middle of a battle. When lots of things are attacking you. And you don't really get the satisfaction of progressing in the game and learning any more of the story. You do get the satisfaction of winning quite a lot of your fights though. And being kind of amazing. I love Ellen. You don't know who she is. But I love her.
- My dad has messed up the music on my computer. That's a lie in a lot of ways. But still. He really likes music (his kind of music), and usually has some of it on on car journeys and stuff, and sometimes I like a bit of it, and I've been sort of asking him if he's heard of any bands I like every now and then. And he said no, and then the other week he said I'd have to make him a mix CD of music I like, to see if he likes it too. Which was fine, it was not high up on my to do list, but it was a decent idea and fine. Then last week he came up to my bedroom with a flash drive, with all of his music on it. 3GB worth. Which is another thing he's talked about doing for a few months, and I always said I couldn't because my laptop didn't have enough space on it. But now I have a new laptop and it does. So he did. He told me I could just upload all of his files, and then sort through them and delete any I didn't like. And that he wanted it back by Monday morning, so to do it soon. So on Saturday, very quickly, I uploaded the files and put them in my 'Music' folder, which seemed logical. But I didn't realised that meant they would automatically be uploaded to my Windows Media Player, in with all my other music. Even now I have moved the file to a 'Downloads' file of mine, it's still there in my playlist. The first time I tried to open my Windows Media Player, without realising what had happened, it wouldn't respond and I had to close it. Then it took me about 10 times as long as usual to skip through tracks, because they were all new tracks to Windows Media Player, so it kept saying "media changing" and I had to wait. And twice when I tried to just scroll through the songs, it jut crashed. So now I have my dad's 3GB of music on the general playlist with all of my songs. I can't just let it play music at random anymore, because it keeps playing songs I don't know, which is fine, but not always what I'm in the mood for.
It's not all bad. He's got quite a lot of good-looking songs in there, and some things I recommended to him even (like some Melanie songs). I just really expected to be able to go through his songs at my leisure, or just when I chose to, and now I can't, and I can't really just randomly listen to my own music anymore. It's incredibly frustrating. - The 2004 version of the Merchant of Venice was on on Saturday. It's the one where Al Pacino plays Shylock, and they put a load of stuff on at the beginning about just how awful and hard it was to be Jewish in 15th Century Florence, and within about 10 minutes I was suddenly shipping Shylock/Antonio. I figure if I do just ship a load of pairings who hate each other, at least I'm hitting the big ones. I didn't watch most of the rest of it though, because I couldn't stand Bassanio and the woman who played Portia was really annoying me, and I figured it would probably have the same horrible ending, anyway. Maybe one day I'll watch the rest of it.
- I watched a few episodes of Man Stroke Woman last night, with Nicholas Burns. I forget he had long hair in it and was really especially pretty. Also, I'm pretty sure some of it is the straightest acting I've ever seen him doing. In a half hour sketch show. A pretty good half hour sketch show though. I love Man Stroke Woman.
- A while ago I bought some Amazonite beads from the Bead Shop in Nottingham, and now I've got an idea for a bracelet to make with them, but I'm not sure I have enough. The Bead Shop don't seem to sell them anymore, or only mixed in with another type of stone and not many of them, so I went looking for some online. I found some on eBay that seemed to be the right size, so I clicked to buy them. It was only after I clicked to buy them that it occured to me that I wasn't sure if they had holes drilled in them, actually, or were just stones. But I'd ordered them, and they were only £3 or so. So I paid for them anyway. They arrived today, and they don't have holes in, and they're kind of massively too big. Woe. They are still pretty though.
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