girlofprey

On Saturday, my parents and I went to see Les Miserables.

( Random thoughts, maybe some spoilers )

Also, the other day I saw an advert on TV for a new Ministry Of Sound CD called 90s Anthems. I recognised literally every song in the advert. It was a little bit like my childhood compressed into 20 seconds. Then I went and looked at the tracks online. I read the first 6 and knew them all. So I bought that CD. Because having a particularly frantic aspect of your childhood always available on disc seems sort of handy, really.

Adventures today included:

• I checked my electricity meter, and saw where it was. We don't actually have access to the meters in our set of flats, they're in a privately-owned garage below, although it's privately owned by a quite nice and rather accomodating man. My landlords took some readings and sent them to me in November, and my electricity company sent me a letter in December saying they had never actually got in to see my meter and were basing my bills on estimates so I could I take some readings and get back to them please, and I finally called on Tuesday-ish to give them the landlords' readings. Apparently they showed my billing was wrong even then, and the guy asked me to take some more up-to-date readings if I could. I popped a note through the garage door on Thursday, but as I was passing the garage today I noticed it was open and asked the guy if he'd got my note, and he offered to let me take some readings then. Sometime between realising how big the garage was inside and him taking me down some stairs to the underground bit, kicking over car parts all the way, I realised it might not have been the best plan in the world. But I saw the set-up and took the readings, and gave them to the electric company tonight, so it's all good. I hope their billing is wrong in that it's too high, rather than the other way around. I'm generally pretty careful with the electricity I use, although I have had the heating up pretty high recently. Anyway. They're sending me a new bill, so I guess I'll find out.



• I went into the shop I'd been looking at on the way down into Nottingham that sells garden stuff, finally. I don't actually have a garden, but there's never a bad time or place for tealight holders, is there? It was lovely, anyway. They had rather a multitude of wasp catchers, and pots of seeds, and little books on beekeeping and fruit-growing. And they had a sale on. Although probably not for long at this point.



• I totally got the hand-towel I was looking for. Hah.



• I went into one of the antique stores on Derby Road as well, as it was closing down. I found rather a lovely bowl carved with dragons and flowers, and when I thought it was £15 they almost had a sale. It turned out it was £115. Oh well.

In other news, this week Disturbia arrived, as did the Eagle Vs Shark soundtrack I've wanted since I saw the film at the cinema and was only available on random websites in New Zealand until a seller on Amazon starting listing it, and the new Constantine novel (in the right order). So I have films and music and reading, I just can't spend anything for the next few months. I think that's fair enough.

Choices for tomorrow include: going to do the washing; taking all my recycling to the big recycling site in Nottingham to finally get rid of it; going food shopping for the week; trying to get that underwear I wanted earlier on. Or possibly ALL FOUR.

Other things:

1. I have become mildly obsessed with that ( Spoilers for songs from Sweeney Todd and plot details )



2. Pairings I have from Sweeney Todd include:
   
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3. Searching Youtube seems to suggest that no-one has done a 'Blame Canada' vid with characters from Due South and Stargate Atlantis and Wolverine from the X-Men. Maybe I'm just not looking right.

Hello. I haven't been here for ages. I went to see jekesta, alicamel, nerdcakes and calapine for New Year's Eve and they kidnapped me they were difficult to leave. But I couldn't have had a better time if someone had taught me to dance, so it's really all fair.

( All of that (where 'all' is subjective) )

And then today I finally managed to get up in time for the Lancaster-Leeds train with no changes, and it turned out to be on the Settle-Carlisle line. Which is gorgeous, and goes through some fantastic countryside, and I highly recommend - if you're ever going to Lancaster from Leeds on the train. I wasn't always sure I was going to Leeds, but I'm pretty sure we went along the coast, and I saw what looked a like a kestrel, and what looked like a yak, and stations with names like 'Giggleknees'. And I ended up in Leeds a mere two hours later! And am come here now.

Naturally we watched the Green Wing special. ( Thoughts )

And I didn't do any '2006 in retrospect' or 'this year in fic' (sparse) posts, and I haven't finished reading Yuletide even, or done my 'Big Reveal' (I wrote Underbelly, Neverwhere), but I did have a really good time in Lancaster, and I don't regret it. Even when we turned a weekend into a looong weekend. So hurray :)