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Aug. 21st, 2013 08:49 pmFuck Emmerdale at the moment, tbqh. And Cameron. And Declan. I wish Nathan was still around to lol.
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Sep. 7th, 2011 09:57 pmSo, the busy-ish part of my week is over. I went to the advice and guidance session at the school thing in Leeds, but it turns out it's funded by Leeds City Council, so you really need a Leeds postal address to go to the classes, and I have a Wakefield one. I asked the lady who was running the session, and she said some Wakefield addresses are technically Leeds - I don't know. It turned out mine wasn't, but she said it shouldn't be a problem. But anyway, the outcome is that I could only put my name down on the waiting list, not sign up. It's only if the class doesn't fill up and there aren't too many people on the waiting list that I can go, and I didn't have to pay which is nothing, but I probably won't know for definite until the class starts in October. Or before a class starts in another semester, I guess. I hope I get to go, because it did seem quite nice there, and some of the prices are ridiculously cheap. But I'll have to wait and see.
And then yesterday I went to the dentist. It turned out I have a new dentist, my old one has either left or changed his cases, so I had to fill out my medical/lifestyle history again. The new dentist was nice though, although she expressed concern that drinking three cans of coke a week was 'a lot'. I told her I had some problems with my enamel, but she had a look and said it wasn't a problem, it was just a bit worn. My two front teeth - which sort of get hit with coke a lot nowadays, since I'm trying to take small sips and not soak my mouth in it - have been aching a bit recently, and she did touch them and say something about 'cracks in the enamel'. But she just recommended some things, fluoride mouthwash, flossing, not drinking so many fizzy drinks, and changing the heads on my toothbrush regularly. So I'm going to try to cut down on my coke-drinking again. But other than that she said I was fine, and she even said she'd see me again in six months, and then if there were no problems we could probably just set my appointments yearly, which is nice. So yay. And then I went into town to buy my sister a birthday card. I took me a little while to find one that wasn't either blank, didn't have one of those jokes inside one sister being better than the other, and didn't have any stuff in it about sisters being like best friends. Which felt a little mean to be honest, but also felt like stuff that was a bit too obviously not true about our relationship at the moment to buy a card about. But anyway, I finally found one. Which means that everything I was planning to do for my sister's birthday is also done. Hurrah.
In the meantime, I have finished all of 666theheartless666's youtube Let's Plays of the Fatal Frame series. Which was both hilarious, and left me really quite impressed with the Fatal Frame series. I have no idea what it would be like for me to play them, but just as games they manage to be both really really scary and really really sad and touching, usually, by the time you find out what's been going on with the ghosts or get to the end. Between that and listening to more of the songs I don't normally listen to from The Decemberists' Hazards Of Love album, I'm sort of in a tragic love story type of a place. Except that I really need to listen to The Hazards Of Love all the way through and in order, at some point, because I still don't really know the full story. I get the picture of most of it though, and the songs are really really lovely.
TV-watching wise, I have been watching Hollyoaks Later. There's a character in Hollyoaks that I love called Seth, who is a teenager and looks like this:
(from emmerdale.me.uk)
He is 16 in the show, and 17 in real life, and mostly I just find him adorable, and also I've decided I don't really care. Anyway, he's one of those sweet sort of characters that's in a slightly messed up family, knows about it, but sort of just has to put up with it. And in Hollyoaks Later this year he seems to have been hooked up with a stripper, taken some drugs, slept with her, and then killed her. I'm pretty sure it's all just a set-up and he hasn't actually killed her, but it makes pretty interesting viewing nonetheless. Also, there's another character called Mitzeee who I kind of love, and I'm pretty sure we got to see her naked. Which is also a plus.
I am also watching the other soaps, pretty much, but they're all a little bit boring just at the moment. I really don't care about Leanne on Coronation Street. I just sort of don't. And yet we must watch her. And Eva. Becky has been in it though, <3 <3 <3. The only storyline I'm really interested in this week is Emmerdale's ongoing Amy pregnancy storyline, and that's often about as difficult as it is lovely. Also, watching Declan in Emmerdale and thinking about Nathan. But that's pretty par for the course.
Also, I have been watching some downloaded shows, for once, but only really funny, slightly nothing-y ones. In some ways they're easier to get into and watch than the really heavy, plot-driven ones. I have been watching NTSF: SD: SUV, which is sort of an American crime procedural parody show, and has Janeway in it, as well as Mystique from the X-Men films and I had thought Adam Scott from Parks and Recreation, but it turned out to be some other dark-haired, dark-eyed guy. It is actually pretty funny, and Janeway is probably the best thing in it, so I am planning on keeping on watching it. And I watched the first episode of Death Valley last week, and have just downloaded the second episode yesterday. That is also quite funny. Hurrah.
And I think that is all my news. Aside from some generic rants, and Things I Have Bought Recently. But I think those can wait for another time. Oh, and I have a team in a sweetstake for the Rugby World Cup! My team is Tonga. And I love Tonga. GO TONGA.
And then yesterday I went to the dentist. It turned out I have a new dentist, my old one has either left or changed his cases, so I had to fill out my medical/lifestyle history again. The new dentist was nice though, although she expressed concern that drinking three cans of coke a week was 'a lot'. I told her I had some problems with my enamel, but she had a look and said it wasn't a problem, it was just a bit worn. My two front teeth - which sort of get hit with coke a lot nowadays, since I'm trying to take small sips and not soak my mouth in it - have been aching a bit recently, and she did touch them and say something about 'cracks in the enamel'. But she just recommended some things, fluoride mouthwash, flossing, not drinking so many fizzy drinks, and changing the heads on my toothbrush regularly. So I'm going to try to cut down on my coke-drinking again. But other than that she said I was fine, and she even said she'd see me again in six months, and then if there were no problems we could probably just set my appointments yearly, which is nice. So yay. And then I went into town to buy my sister a birthday card. I took me a little while to find one that wasn't either blank, didn't have one of those jokes inside one sister being better than the other, and didn't have any stuff in it about sisters being like best friends. Which felt a little mean to be honest, but also felt like stuff that was a bit too obviously not true about our relationship at the moment to buy a card about. But anyway, I finally found one. Which means that everything I was planning to do for my sister's birthday is also done. Hurrah.
In the meantime, I have finished all of 666theheartless666's youtube Let's Plays of the Fatal Frame series. Which was both hilarious, and left me really quite impressed with the Fatal Frame series. I have no idea what it would be like for me to play them, but just as games they manage to be both really really scary and really really sad and touching, usually, by the time you find out what's been going on with the ghosts or get to the end. Between that and listening to more of the songs I don't normally listen to from The Decemberists' Hazards Of Love album, I'm sort of in a tragic love story type of a place. Except that I really need to listen to The Hazards Of Love all the way through and in order, at some point, because I still don't really know the full story. I get the picture of most of it though, and the songs are really really lovely.
TV-watching wise, I have been watching Hollyoaks Later. There's a character in Hollyoaks that I love called Seth, who is a teenager and looks like this:
(from emmerdale.me.uk)
He is 16 in the show, and 17 in real life, and mostly I just find him adorable, and also I've decided I don't really care. Anyway, he's one of those sweet sort of characters that's in a slightly messed up family, knows about it, but sort of just has to put up with it. And in Hollyoaks Later this year he seems to have been hooked up with a stripper, taken some drugs, slept with her, and then killed her. I'm pretty sure it's all just a set-up and he hasn't actually killed her, but it makes pretty interesting viewing nonetheless. Also, there's another character called Mitzeee who I kind of love, and I'm pretty sure we got to see her naked. Which is also a plus.
I am also watching the other soaps, pretty much, but they're all a little bit boring just at the moment. I really don't care about Leanne on Coronation Street. I just sort of don't. And yet we must watch her. And Eva. Becky has been in it though, <3 <3 <3. The only storyline I'm really interested in this week is Emmerdale's ongoing Amy pregnancy storyline, and that's often about as difficult as it is lovely. Also, watching Declan in Emmerdale and thinking about Nathan. But that's pretty par for the course.
Also, I have been watching some downloaded shows, for once, but only really funny, slightly nothing-y ones. In some ways they're easier to get into and watch than the really heavy, plot-driven ones. I have been watching NTSF: SD: SUV, which is sort of an American crime procedural parody show, and has Janeway in it, as well as Mystique from the X-Men films and I had thought Adam Scott from Parks and Recreation, but it turned out to be some other dark-haired, dark-eyed guy. It is actually pretty funny, and Janeway is probably the best thing in it, so I am planning on keeping on watching it. And I watched the first episode of Death Valley last week, and have just downloaded the second episode yesterday. That is also quite funny. Hurrah.
And I think that is all my news. Aside from some generic rants, and Things I Have Bought Recently. But I think those can wait for another time. Oh, and I have a team in a sweetstake for the Rugby World Cup! My team is Tonga. And I love Tonga. GO TONGA.
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May. 23rd, 2011 10:19 pmSo. My terrible week has begun. I'm not feeling too great about it. I went to the doctor's today and got my sick note and everything, so that was fine, but I didn't get much sleep last night, and I don't think I'll be getting much tonight. Actually today didn't go entirely smoothly, but it went alright, and it's tomorrow that I'm really worrying about. I don't think I had it the right way around when I was talking about this week's appointments last week, but tomorrow is my Disability benefit assessment. And it's the thing that I'm looking forward to least, so hopefully when it's over things will be better. But at the moment, it's tomorrow, and I'm worrying quite a bit about it.
I don't know. I've heard a bunch of horror stories online about the current disability system, and about people with proper physical conditions which stop them from working being pronounced fit for work. So I'm sort of not really expecting to get it, or trying to make myself not expect to get it, so it's not too huge a let-down, or so I don't blame myself too much. On the other hand, I do want to try my best to get it. All of my counsellors and the services I'm talking to at the moment have told me to explain what the worst case scenario with my symptoms is, or what my condition's like when it's at it's worst. But at the moment I can't even really think of that. I know things are bad, but they're not really as bad as they were when I was living on my own, in terms of affecting my ability to actually do stuff. But then again, I'm doing a lot less now than I did when I was living on my own. I don't know. I don't want to accidentally make out that it's better than it is, but I don't want to lie either. And I don't know what they'll want to hear that would convince them I'm not fit to work, or not feeling well enough to work right now. Not just so I can say it, whether it's true or not, but there might be plenty of stuff that they find important which I might not say because I don't think it's relevant, or I forget. But then again, I don't even know if it'll be about me making a big speech and laying out everything I have to say about how I'm feeling, or if it'll be more about them and the questions they're asking. I don't know.
I just wish it was over. Except that I don't, because I do want some time to sleep and to prepare. Except that I do, because I'm not sure I'm actually going to sleep or prepare. But it will be over by tomorrow, and hopefully I'll be feeling better by then. I'm getting a bit worked up and am pretty sure I'm acting weird. Also I've just eaten an entire tub of Ben and Jerry's knock-off ice-cream. So yeah. Anyway. It's not till tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully if I get some sleep tonight I'll feel better, and at least by tomorrow it'll be over I guess.
It's just come at a really funny time, as well. Obviously having it in the middle of a week which is unusually full of appointments for me is not ideal. And we've been having some issues at home lately. Nothing major - last week me, mum, my youngest nephew and the dog went for a walk, and our fairly old (he's 12) dog had an unfortunate incident of falling into a little ditch by the path and not being able to get back up again. I had to get down in the ditch with him, free his foot from some grass and pick him up until he could get his legs underneath him. And then he was eating grass and he was a bit sick for the next few days, not getting up from his bed very much and not eating his food. He's better now though. But also, our fridge is broken, and has been since last week as well, and mum's sort of freaking out not knowing what to buy, and not wanting to fill the freezer because she has to defrost the freezer for 24 hours before the repairmen come out to fix the fridge, and we don't know when that's going to be. So we're keeping everything we can in a mini-fridge in the garage, and in coolbags, and coolbags don't keep things as well as a fridge obviously, so I'm worrying about things going off. And our cat - who pretty strictly normally just kills birds and leaves them outside the garage for us - apparently killed a rat the other night and left it outside, so mum was worried rats might be being drawn in by the food in the garage. And we don't know what we're eating any day really, because we can't put stuff in the fridge and keep it, and the stuff we do have might have gone off by the time we get around to eating it. So yeah. It's kind of tense at home, unfortunately.
Anyway. I did mostly want to come on and talk about things that make me happy, rather than impending disability assessments. Mostly I wanted to talk about Coronation Street.
( Coronation Street )
I have a bunch of other things I want to post about, have been meaning to post about since last week really, but I don't really have the focus or the energy at the moment. And there's probably better things I could be doing with my time. It'll be okay, I think. I'm just not feeling too great at the moment. But it'll be over by tomorrow, I guess. Chances are I'm rattling myself more than I need to be, especially since I've been pushing myself to catch up with soaps and stuff over the weekend. Which was nice, but still. Anyway. It might not even be as bad tomorrow as I'm thinking. Which I would prefer, obviously.
I don't know. I've heard a bunch of horror stories online about the current disability system, and about people with proper physical conditions which stop them from working being pronounced fit for work. So I'm sort of not really expecting to get it, or trying to make myself not expect to get it, so it's not too huge a let-down, or so I don't blame myself too much. On the other hand, I do want to try my best to get it. All of my counsellors and the services I'm talking to at the moment have told me to explain what the worst case scenario with my symptoms is, or what my condition's like when it's at it's worst. But at the moment I can't even really think of that. I know things are bad, but they're not really as bad as they were when I was living on my own, in terms of affecting my ability to actually do stuff. But then again, I'm doing a lot less now than I did when I was living on my own. I don't know. I don't want to accidentally make out that it's better than it is, but I don't want to lie either. And I don't know what they'll want to hear that would convince them I'm not fit to work, or not feeling well enough to work right now. Not just so I can say it, whether it's true or not, but there might be plenty of stuff that they find important which I might not say because I don't think it's relevant, or I forget. But then again, I don't even know if it'll be about me making a big speech and laying out everything I have to say about how I'm feeling, or if it'll be more about them and the questions they're asking. I don't know.
I just wish it was over. Except that I don't, because I do want some time to sleep and to prepare. Except that I do, because I'm not sure I'm actually going to sleep or prepare. But it will be over by tomorrow, and hopefully I'll be feeling better by then. I'm getting a bit worked up and am pretty sure I'm acting weird. Also I've just eaten an entire tub of Ben and Jerry's knock-off ice-cream. So yeah. Anyway. It's not till tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully if I get some sleep tonight I'll feel better, and at least by tomorrow it'll be over I guess.
It's just come at a really funny time, as well. Obviously having it in the middle of a week which is unusually full of appointments for me is not ideal. And we've been having some issues at home lately. Nothing major - last week me, mum, my youngest nephew and the dog went for a walk, and our fairly old (he's 12) dog had an unfortunate incident of falling into a little ditch by the path and not being able to get back up again. I had to get down in the ditch with him, free his foot from some grass and pick him up until he could get his legs underneath him. And then he was eating grass and he was a bit sick for the next few days, not getting up from his bed very much and not eating his food. He's better now though. But also, our fridge is broken, and has been since last week as well, and mum's sort of freaking out not knowing what to buy, and not wanting to fill the freezer because she has to defrost the freezer for 24 hours before the repairmen come out to fix the fridge, and we don't know when that's going to be. So we're keeping everything we can in a mini-fridge in the garage, and in coolbags, and coolbags don't keep things as well as a fridge obviously, so I'm worrying about things going off. And our cat - who pretty strictly normally just kills birds and leaves them outside the garage for us - apparently killed a rat the other night and left it outside, so mum was worried rats might be being drawn in by the food in the garage. And we don't know what we're eating any day really, because we can't put stuff in the fridge and keep it, and the stuff we do have might have gone off by the time we get around to eating it. So yeah. It's kind of tense at home, unfortunately.
Anyway. I did mostly want to come on and talk about things that make me happy, rather than impending disability assessments. Mostly I wanted to talk about Coronation Street.
( Coronation Street )
I have a bunch of other things I want to post about, have been meaning to post about since last week really, but I don't really have the focus or the energy at the moment. And there's probably better things I could be doing with my time. It'll be okay, I think. I'm just not feeling too great at the moment. But it'll be over by tomorrow, I guess. Chances are I'm rattling myself more than I need to be, especially since I've been pushing myself to catch up with soaps and stuff over the weekend. Which was nice, but still. Anyway. It might not even be as bad tomorrow as I'm thinking. Which I would prefer, obviously.
( Coronation Street )
Ah. Anyway. I also ended up watching Emmerdale tonight. ( Emmerdale )
In other news, bah. I have been playing a lot of Folklore recently, and I thought I was nearly finished. There are five realms you can visit, and I had completed four of them. However, there are also two characters you can play, a young girl called Ellen, or an adult man called Keats. When I first started I genuinely did alternate, playing a chapter with Ellen, then the same chapter from Keats' point of view. But then I decided that I didn't like Keats much, and it was kind of annoying, just finishing one chapter, and then basically having to do it all over again with Keats. You learned more information from playing both characters, but still. And the game guides seemed to say you could play as Ellen or Keats or both, so it seemed like you didn't have to do both. So after the first chapter, I decided to just play as Ellen. But now, like I say, I've just completed the fourth realm, out of five, and now it says to complete the fourth realm properly, you have to play it as Keats as well. So I have to go back and play through three realms and do the chapter I've just done again, just to move forward with the story and with Ellen. Pah I say. Pah and bah.
Ah. Anyway. I also ended up watching Emmerdale tonight. ( Emmerdale )
In other news, bah. I have been playing a lot of Folklore recently, and I thought I was nearly finished. There are five realms you can visit, and I had completed four of them. However, there are also two characters you can play, a young girl called Ellen, or an adult man called Keats. When I first started I genuinely did alternate, playing a chapter with Ellen, then the same chapter from Keats' point of view. But then I decided that I didn't like Keats much, and it was kind of annoying, just finishing one chapter, and then basically having to do it all over again with Keats. You learned more information from playing both characters, but still. And the game guides seemed to say you could play as Ellen or Keats or both, so it seemed like you didn't have to do both. So after the first chapter, I decided to just play as Ellen. But now, like I say, I've just completed the fourth realm, out of five, and now it says to complete the fourth realm properly, you have to play it as Keats as well. So I have to go back and play through three realms and do the chapter I've just done again, just to move forward with the story and with Ellen. Pah I say. Pah and bah.
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Jan. 4th, 2011 06:28 pmI have so much to do at the moment. Or not that much to do, but a lot more than I have been doing over the past few weeks. I am still not on my new laptop from Christmas, despite it all being set up and everything, because I want to back up everything from my current laptop before I move onto it, including my Favourites/Bookmarks, if possible. But I want to go through my Favourites first, to check for any broken links or things I don't want anymore, before transferring them over, and I have not edited my Favourites for at least a couple of years. I have added to it. Plenty. But not edited it. And a lot of the time when I find a broken link, I mostly spend my time trying to find another link to it, so I can decide whether or not I want it later - mostly because it can be hard to tell from a broken link and a bookmark title what a page actually is, and whether it's something I would actually want. So. It's taking a little while. And mostly it's reminding me of all my old fandoms. Remember when Heroes used to be less shit? I do. Also, last night I started going through my Vids bookmarks. Which basically led to just watching a lot of vids. So. It's a bit slow going. But hopefully once I'm through the big folders, near the beginning, the rest won't take very long. Then I only have to back up my Favourites, back up some music, and try to back up my Morrowind saved games, if possible, and then I am ready to move over to my new laptop. My dad keeps asking me if I've started using the new laptop yet. I want to tell him that after 7 or so years, and doing a lot of stuff online, moving laptops sort of feels a bit like moving house. But I've decided to just get on with it instead.
Other than that, I was meant to have a dentist appointment today but the receptionist called this morning and said I couldn't go because the dentist was at a funeral in Africa. And I thought I might have a Jobcentre appointment tomorrow, but it turns out that's not until next week. Apart from that, I need to tidy my room, which is a tip, buy some new jeans (desperately), decide whether or not I want to stay on Jobseeker's or try to get onto Disability Allowance, possibly chase up the mental health organisations I'm meant to be getting further help/treatment from, possibly buy some new wellies in case it snows again, go down to Alliance and Lester to check if I changed my details with them when I moved back to my parents' house, try to look at and sort out my money at the moment especially since I need to put some money aside for London, and try to charge my new electric toothbrush. And try to book my travel tickets for London. And try to watch up some of the stuff on our Sky+ box from over Christmas. Honestly, I finally deleted a mere 38 episodes of Emmerdale with lovely Nathan in then from off the Sky+ box on Friday, and dad IMMEDIATELY tried to get me to delete other stuff as well. HE HAS NO CONCEPT OF GRATITUDE.
Other things that have been happening, in bullet points:
Other than that, I was meant to have a dentist appointment today but the receptionist called this morning and said I couldn't go because the dentist was at a funeral in Africa. And I thought I might have a Jobcentre appointment tomorrow, but it turns out that's not until next week. Apart from that, I need to tidy my room, which is a tip, buy some new jeans (desperately), decide whether or not I want to stay on Jobseeker's or try to get onto Disability Allowance, possibly chase up the mental health organisations I'm meant to be getting further help/treatment from, possibly buy some new wellies in case it snows again, go down to Alliance and Lester to check if I changed my details with them when I moved back to my parents' house, try to look at and sort out my money at the moment especially since I need to put some money aside for London, and try to charge my new electric toothbrush. And try to book my travel tickets for London. And try to watch up some of the stuff on our Sky+ box from over Christmas. Honestly, I finally deleted a mere 38 episodes of Emmerdale with lovely Nathan in then from off the Sky+ box on Friday, and dad IMMEDIATELY tried to get me to delete other stuff as well. HE HAS NO CONCEPT OF GRATITUDE.
Other things that have been happening, in bullet points:
- There were three new Marples on in a week over Christmas, which is almost always a good thing. I like Marple better than Poirot, I think. But unusually, I managed to guess massive plot twists in each one, if not who'd actually done it, long before the end of the programme, which I don't normally do. I can't tell if it's because I'm more used to the formula/stories, or if it's because they're getting more obvious. I feel like it's the second one, with all the ominous line delivery and close-ups on people's shifty faces, and Clearly Important Slight Slow Motion applied to certain things that happen. Which seems like kind of a shame. Still, nothing happened that was quite as disturbing as when I was watching the new one in August, and suddenly started shipping Miss Marple with the killer. Dolly is clearly Miss Marple's girlfriend, but I remain convinced that the killer from The Pale Horse is her one true love. Sort of.
- Coronation Street did a disgusting thing, but at least David had the good grace to look slightly ashamed and hunted over it the next day. And I don't normally enjoy sexual slurs being aimed at women, but the sheer timing of his comeback to Tracy the next day was sort of too good to believe.
( Spoilers for the Tracy storylines over Christmas and New Year. Mostly about the Platts ) - ( Sort of big spoilers for Tracy storylines up to the next six months or so )
- Nathan got a mention in yesterday's Emmerdale! A sort of actual involvement in the script! His little brother Will was playing computer games with his friend Belle, alone, and someone called his mobile and he looked at it and then his face darkened and he just put it away. Belle said maybe he should answer it because it might be someone important, and he said it was no-one he wanted to talk to. Then later on, in another scene, his phone rang again, and he checked it and his face darkened again and he put it away. And Belle asked who it was, it was okay, he could tell her anything, and he said "You want to know who it is? It's Nathan! He won't leave me alone!", and then he SMASHED THE PHONE ON THE FLOOR. Oh, Nathan is calling his little brother! I have wondered what Nathan's first Christmas and New Year without basically ANY OF HIS FAMILY would be like, unless he visited his mother. It makes sense he wouldn't totally give up without a fight too. And at least it suggests he's okay-ish and still has his mobile phone, or a phone, and hasn't had to sell it for warmth or food or shelter. I'm assuming Nathan's probably okay, they had a house all rented down in London to go to and I think he still has friends in London he could call on if he was properly in trouble. Still. It's nice to hear of him again. OH NATHAN.
( Some spoilers for upcoming Wylde storylines in Emmerdale ) - I didn't see the new Doctor Who special over Christmas (also I did see a bit of Voyage of the Damned with Tony Gordon in it, with his hair slicked back and calling everyone idiots, swoon) - but I did see a clip of it yesterday with the CRAZY SHARK, CRAZY MASSIVE SHARK THAT WILL TRY TO EAT ANYONE, ANYTHING, BUT ESPECIALLY HUMANS, NO MATTER HOW MUCH EFFORT IT TAKES OR HOW MUCH DAMAGE IT DOES TO ITSELF DOING SO. I know that it was some sort of weird air-breathing shark from some sort of mysterious anomoly. I'm assuming it was an alien shark and they explained that earth sharks generally don't act like this. Or that it was very hungry. Or something. I'm being very kind about it, really.
- Reason number one why it's probably a good idea for me to sort through everything on my laptop and back it up and start using the new one: I'm keeping the new one on the floor next to my bed, out of the way. Or so I thought. The fancy Christmas light decoration thing my parents put in my window is no longer staying on the glass, so I was propping it up against the window. I just went over to close my window and knocked it I think and it accidentally fell over and knocked a bunch of ornaments of my windowsill, including one I think onto the laptop. There doesn't seem to be any damage to the computer or marks on it though. Still. Oops.
- I was following John Allison's little Giant Days 'blog' on the top twenty albums of the year complete with sample songs. I wasn't too taken with a lot of them, but I'm finding myself suddenly a bit obsessed with Infinity Guitars by Sleigh Bells. Warning: This music may make you feel like punching a crow.
And I was all sort of feeling a bit Alternative and pleased with myself. And then today I was watching E4 and an advert for the new series of 90210 came on, using that song as a soundtrack. Damn you 90210. Or you E4. You and your music-stealing ways. - Ed From Bugs Dancing On Ice starts on Sunday. Eeee!
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Dec. 12th, 2010 06:23 pm- I hope Matt Baker goes through to the final in tonight's Strictly results. I hope so greatly.
- I watched about half of the first session of the Higgins/Williams match today on the snooker, then I gave my dad the remote and he found a rather beautiful film about Robert Mitchum being a marine on an island with a nun. TV has been quite good today. Hopefully it will continue with the Strictly results. I can't believe Scott. And I'm kind of much less fond of Natalie, since she's started going all weird and emotional all the time. And talking about how Scott is the best partner she's ever danced with, when Ricky Whittle got her to the final last year. Whatever, Natalie.
- I'm spending a lot of my time nowadays still going on Digital Spy most days, in the vague hope that they will, for some reason, mention Lyndon Ogbourne and Nathan Wylde, in a positive way, through some chance. I am a sad picture of fannishness just at the moment.
- Coronation Street happened this week, the tram week happened, and the live episode happened, and it was all kind of amazing. A part of me thinks they put too many storylines into the one night/week, and it was all just a massive coincidence - on the same night, there was Peter's stag party, Molly leaving Tyrone, Becky's sister coming back to take Max briefly and demand more money, John killing Charlotte, a gas explosion that then caused a tram crash, and an accident on a nearby motorway that meant they couldn't get as many ambulances and fire engines to the disaster as they would normally be able to. And the accident somehow knocked a lot of the mobile phones out. But it is the anniversary week I suppose. But it was great, especially the live episode, and David, oh God David. After having Nick not involved at all in David's recent charged-with-attempted-murder/epilepsy storyline because he was involved in the affair-with-Leanne storyline, when Nick was trapped in the Joinery David ran up and joined the dangerous attempt to clear the rubble to try to get him and the others out, and when Nick was brought out he ducked under a police cordon and raced across the cobbles to him. I just love how even though David is often properly awful, and does genuinely awful things, sometimes they have him just be really, genuinely lovely. OH AND THEN HE HUGGED NICK IN THE HOSPITAL. It was beautiful.
A lot of it was sad though, and we're meant to be expecting another death - I don't think that's a spoiler since ITV have been using the tagline 'Four Funerals and A Wedding' all week, and I don't even know for sure. However, it's become unfortunately comedic since I realised that apart from one, all the people who seem like they might die next week all rhyme - I think it's either Keiran, or Rita, Peter, or Sunita. Hmm. Although it may be none of those four - some people are wondering if they might find someone when they clear the rubble, or if the man trapped in the car that the fire officers mentioned last week might turn out to be someone from the street. We'll just have to wait and see. - Also I watched The Event. ( Read more... )
- And I went to see two films. I saw the Warrior's Way, which is mostly like a cross between a martial arts film and the Lemony Snicket film, with the effects from Ninja Assassin. And, mysteriously, bills the Asian lead below all the three of the other white main cast members, including the villain who isn't really in it for that long. Okay. And I saw the new Narnia film. Oh Edmund. Oh. Mostly I liked the inclusion of ( Spoiler, although not if you've seen the tv adverts I'd guess ) and the fairly strong 'Let's go look for clues. And make out' vibes between Edmund and Caspian. But it was also a very good film overall, I think. Which was nice.
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Nov. 27th, 2010 02:08 amSo. Nathan Wylde has left Emmerdale. I could have made this post and titled it 'Bye Bye Love, Bye Bye Happiness'. But I didn't. Because I'm very restrained.
( Emmerdale )
As if to make up for us losing Nathan Wylde, David Platt came back into Coronation Street yesterday, after a few weeks' absence. That was quite good. But watching Coronation Street lately also means you usually have to put with John Stape OH MY GOD I HATE HIM SO MUCH, and Owen Armstrong HE IS KIND OF PSYCHOTIC AND A DICK OH MY GOD. And Nick Tilsley, just being a dick. So it's still not entirely enjoyable. Hmph.
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As if to make up for us losing Nathan Wylde, David Platt came back into Coronation Street yesterday, after a few weeks' absence. That was quite good. But watching Coronation Street lately also means you usually have to put with John Stape OH MY GOD I HATE HIM SO MUCH, and Owen Armstrong HE IS KIND OF PSYCHOTIC AND A DICK OH MY GOD. And Nick Tilsley, just being a dick. So it's still not entirely enjoyable. Hmph.
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Nov. 22nd, 2010 12:41 amHello. I'm so tired and busy lately. Also we've moved onto the treatment part of the CBT group, which as of last Wednesday is half over, so that's a little bit stressful. But helpful, so far. I had a bit of a wobble last week, which I may talk about later, but I took some time and got through it alright, I think. I am putting some of it down to the fact I went to Leeds last Tuesday, then Wakefield on Wednesday for the CBT group, then slept in and had my nephew on Thursday, then slept in and had my other nephew on Friday. Doing things day after day after day isn't really a good idea for me, I think. But I'm not sure what to do about it, because for the next few weeks I will have the group in Wakefield on Wednesday, my youngest nephew on Thursday, and my oldest nephew on Friday pretty much every week. Oh well.
This week I also did that, then went to the Thought Bubble comic convention in Leeds yesterday. I thought I might just be exhausted today, but I seem to be alright. Basically, the writer and artist of Scary Go Round and Bad Machinery was going to be there, and there's a few things I've been eyeing in his shop and it was a chance to go buy them without paying for postage or messing about with online shops. And was doing a convention exclusive book with all the Bad Machinery strips so far in it (it was my last/only chance!). And I like comics. So off I went. It was quite good actually, I had to get up a bit ridiculously early, but it was easy to find, I think I accidentally waited in line when I didn't have to since I'd pre-booked my tickets, but there were lots of cosplayers there, and lots of stalls. I bought a few little picture things, almost pounced on some Girl Genius books before realising it was 6 and 7, and I don't have 1 yet. Eventually I found John Allison and probably freaked him out a bit with my non-talking style of communication, but I got my books. And I spent a slightly ridiculous amount, but I did get some quite lovely things. And Paul Cornell was there, because apparently there is no escape from him. But it was lovely, and I found out about a few new comics/artists I quite liked. I was all ready to go at about quarter to 2, having been all around the stands and spent as much as I was prepared to. But then I thought as I was there and had a ticket, I may as well go to as much of it as I could, and stuck around for quite a nice little panel about a publishing/comic group called Metaphrog, and then a panel about women in comics. Then I came home, with all my stuff, just in time for Strictly Come Dancing. Yay.
Also I have been thinking about Emmerdale, obviously. There are many things I could say about Emmerdale, but a lot of them don't make any sense and involve Lady Gaga. This week is Nathan Wylde's last week on the screen, he is leaving on Friday, and it's going to be kind of awful before he goes. I LOVE HIM. I DON'T WANT HIM TO LEAVE. I WANT TO VID HIM TO ALL THE LADY GAGA SONGS IN THE WORLD. However, I've fallen kind of in love with some of the soap mags out at the moment. A few weeks ago when Nathan was kidnapped by Cain and being kept tied up and gagged in a barn, someone wrote in to Inside Soap and said it served him right after everything he'd done, and they replied that "We did miss Nathan's usual scathing comments while he was gagged, though...". And then in the latest issue of Soaplife, someone wrote in to say "I think it's a real shame actor Lyndon Ogbourne is leaving Emmerdale. His character Nathan Wylde has been a brilliant baddie and caused so much trouble, plus he's very good looking. Let's hope he'll come back one day to scam Declan and the entire village.", and they made it their star letter and awarded it £25. I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL, SOAPLIFE. Also, according to Lyndon Ogbourne Nathan is 24. What? That's not what it says on the Wikipedia page. But if so, OH MY GOD. NATHAN.
In other news, from last week's Emmerdale episodes:
(from nathanwyldefanpage.tumblr.com)
Nathan Wylde: still baffled and alarmed by heterosexuality.
I love him so much. OH.
This week I also did that, then went to the Thought Bubble comic convention in Leeds yesterday. I thought I might just be exhausted today, but I seem to be alright. Basically, the writer and artist of Scary Go Round and Bad Machinery was going to be there, and there's a few things I've been eyeing in his shop and it was a chance to go buy them without paying for postage or messing about with online shops. And was doing a convention exclusive book with all the Bad Machinery strips so far in it (it was my last/only chance!). And I like comics. So off I went. It was quite good actually, I had to get up a bit ridiculously early, but it was easy to find, I think I accidentally waited in line when I didn't have to since I'd pre-booked my tickets, but there were lots of cosplayers there, and lots of stalls. I bought a few little picture things, almost pounced on some Girl Genius books before realising it was 6 and 7, and I don't have 1 yet. Eventually I found John Allison and probably freaked him out a bit with my non-talking style of communication, but I got my books. And I spent a slightly ridiculous amount, but I did get some quite lovely things. And Paul Cornell was there, because apparently there is no escape from him. But it was lovely, and I found out about a few new comics/artists I quite liked. I was all ready to go at about quarter to 2, having been all around the stands and spent as much as I was prepared to. But then I thought as I was there and had a ticket, I may as well go to as much of it as I could, and stuck around for quite a nice little panel about a publishing/comic group called Metaphrog, and then a panel about women in comics. Then I came home, with all my stuff, just in time for Strictly Come Dancing. Yay.
Also I have been thinking about Emmerdale, obviously. There are many things I could say about Emmerdale, but a lot of them don't make any sense and involve Lady Gaga. This week is Nathan Wylde's last week on the screen, he is leaving on Friday, and it's going to be kind of awful before he goes. I LOVE HIM. I DON'T WANT HIM TO LEAVE. I WANT TO VID HIM TO ALL THE LADY GAGA SONGS IN THE WORLD. However, I've fallen kind of in love with some of the soap mags out at the moment. A few weeks ago when Nathan was kidnapped by Cain and being kept tied up and gagged in a barn, someone wrote in to Inside Soap and said it served him right after everything he'd done, and they replied that "We did miss Nathan's usual scathing comments while he was gagged, though...". And then in the latest issue of Soaplife, someone wrote in to say "I think it's a real shame actor Lyndon Ogbourne is leaving Emmerdale. His character Nathan Wylde has been a brilliant baddie and caused so much trouble, plus he's very good looking. Let's hope he'll come back one day to scam Declan and the entire village.", and they made it their star letter and awarded it £25. I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL, SOAPLIFE. Also, according to Lyndon Ogbourne Nathan is 24. What? That's not what it says on the Wikipedia page. But if so, OH MY GOD. NATHAN.
In other news, from last week's Emmerdale episodes:
(from nathanwyldefanpage.tumblr.com)
Nathan Wylde: still baffled and alarmed by heterosexuality.
I love him so much. OH.
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Nov. 17th, 2010 10:30 pm( Emmerdale, yesterday and tonight )
( Spoilers for next week, sort of )
In other news, I don't normally look at the digitalspy boards anymore, and often regret it if I do. But yesterday I went looking for the Emmerdale posting members' reactions to something that happened last week, and thoroughly enjoyed some of the posts. Highlights included them feeling that Moira and John should perhaps call an exorcist soon for Holly, or "Professor Abraham Van Helsing", and them claiming that Moira and John weren't great parents, but "as sex symbols, they're second to none". It was kind of genius. Though also in some ways disappointing, as usual.
( Spoilers for next week, sort of )
In other news, I don't normally look at the digitalspy boards anymore, and often regret it if I do. But yesterday I went looking for the Emmerdale posting members' reactions to something that happened last week, and thoroughly enjoyed some of the posts. Highlights included them feeling that Moira and John should perhaps call an exorcist soon for Holly, or "Professor Abraham Van Helsing", and them claiming that Moira and John weren't great parents, but "as sex symbols, they're second to none". It was kind of genius. Though also in some ways disappointing, as usual.
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Nov. 12th, 2010 04:31 pmSo, these are my current issues with the internet: it's broken in my bedroom again. I don't know how, my network status thing claims that my wireless attachment thing is connected to the modem, but the modem is not connected to the internet. But when I use my dad's computer, which uses the same modem, it is connected to the internet. This happened on Monday night, just kind of suddenly, and it hasn't fixed itself anytime I've switched my laptop off and then on again, or when I've unplugged the wireless attachment and plugged it back in again. So I don't know. And then last night when I was on my dad's computer, checking my flist for the first time all day (up till about 2am) and about to make a post, we had a sudden powercut. So that plan went out of the window until today (and my nephew is coming over in about half an hour to an hour).
But anyway. The post I was pretty much going to make was: ( Last night's Emmerdale )
And now my nephew is here, so I have to go.
But anyway. The post I was pretty much going to make was: ( Last night's Emmerdale )
And now my nephew is here, so I have to go.
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Nov. 8th, 2010 02:38 amA few weeks ago, I went on the internet and scoured it for every picture of Nathan Wylde I could find. It was one of the best things I have ever done. So guess what you get now? That's right.
( Nathan Wylde picspam )
( Nathan Wylde picspam )
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Nov. 7th, 2010 03:34 amSo, my week has once again been incredibly busy-seeming, without me actually seeming to get anything done. Monday was basically recovering from Halloween/the weekend, Tuesday I was getting ready for the CBT group and Jobcentre appointment/interview I had pretty close to one another (read: I filled in some forms and washed my hair), and it was also the day I came on my period. Thursday I woke up with massive stomach cramps, and then my mum brought my youngest nephew over as usual, and then let me know that she was working a night shift that night, so she wouldn't be back after taking him home. Then yesterday I got up and remembered, as I'd only done occasionally throughout the week, that not only was it Bonfire Night, it was also my dad's birthday. So I rushed out to town to get him a card before the shops shut and just managed to meet up with my mother to get a lift home with her and my oldest nephew. When we got back my dad was there, so we gave him his cards and we agreed that he could take my nephew and me to my nephew's karate lesson while mum put some shopping away, then we came back, my nephew got changed, and we all went round to my sister's to go to a bonfire near her house. Eventually we got back and watched the soaps and The Event until pretty late into the night. Then today I basically slept in, got up, had lunch, checked the internet, ordered pizza with my mum because in all the rushing around yesterday she didn't really get a chance to buy any food for the weekend, watched Strictly, watched Casualty, watched most of the Armstrong and Miller show, and am now here. Tomorrow we're going out for Sunday lunch, and then having my sister and two nephews and my grandma over for cake and sparklers for dad's birthday. Yay.
The bonfire was good, aside from my taking my two nephews on the teacups ride at the little fair they had and managing to bash my youngest nephew's lip, twice, moving him around the ride. But in between those two time, he seemed to be enjoying himself. Um. Anyway. It's quite a big do, at a pub, so the fireworks display is usually good, and the fire - when we could get to it - was pretty big. However, the flying burning debris and embers from the fire told us we were probably a bit too close to it, so we went back a bit again. But the kids had a good time (I think), and we had a good time, so it was pretty good all round.
Anyway. In the mean time, these are the things that have happened to me:
And now, having had both Halloween and Bonfire Night, we are basically into the Christmas season. Somehow. Great.
The bonfire was good, aside from my taking my two nephews on the teacups ride at the little fair they had and managing to bash my youngest nephew's lip, twice, moving him around the ride. But in between those two time, he seemed to be enjoying himself. Um. Anyway. It's quite a big do, at a pub, so the fireworks display is usually good, and the fire - when we could get to it - was pretty big. However, the flying burning debris and embers from the fire told us we were probably a bit too close to it, so we went back a bit again. But the kids had a good time (I think), and we had a good time, so it was pretty good all round.
Anyway. In the mean time, these are the things that have happened to me:
- I went to the second week of my CBT therapy group, as I said. We had to/were asked to do a questionnaire thing in the first meeting, to bring to the second, to see if we really had OCD. When we got there, in the second meeting, the women leading it said that a score of over 40 on that questionnaire was generally taken as you having OCD. It turned out I'd added mine up wrong, but when I did it right, it turned out I had a score of 90. So I'd say I probably have it. Yeah.
- It turned out that the way to get me to buy almost anything lately is to sell it on the internet and claim it is the "Last Chance" to buy it. In the past two weeks I have bought a print you can no longer see on the website from Scary Go Round and this t-shirt based on that principle. Basically all Jon Burgerman needs to do is declare it is my last chance to buy everything on his website, and I am financially screwed.
- Although on the bright side, I ordered that t-shirt apparently from Canada, and I placed the order on 26th October and it arrived last Wednesday. Beating any order I ever made from Threadless by about three weeks. Score one for Canada, my friends.
- I want to buy a new winter coat. I'm thinking of this one from New Look. But there's quite a lot of things I've been thinking about buying or doing lately, and I have only a finite amount of money, so it's going under advisement.
- I found two new webcomics I like: No Rest For The Wicked, which is based on fairytales, and is GREAT, I LOVE IT. I love Red, and I love November, and I even kind of love Perrault. Oh God. And the other is Snowflakes, which I don't like as much as some of the others I read, and which is a bit weird once you find out that the orphanage is meant to be set in some mountains in the Andes and yet pretty much all of the characters are white, but which has kind of sucked me in nonetheless. I LOVE PRITI. OH MY GOD. I LOVE HER. I get the feeling from the comments and stuff that a lot of people love Wray (who is also quite great) the best. They are idiots. PRITI IS CLEARLY BEST.
- Also, Irregular Choice apparently hate me. Every year it seems to be the same. It's not enough that I've already fallen in love with a number of pairs of shoes that I couldn't afford and have now sold out. They have to now put out these. And these. And these. And these. And these. And these. Do they hate me? I'VE DONE NOTHING TO THEM!
- I continue to be floored by how pretty a lot of the women on Hollyoaks are nowadays, and how amazingly they dress. Oh my god.
- Nathan Wylde is leaving Emmerdale sometime in the next few weeks, and it sounds like it goes pretty badly for him before he leaves. Even worse, or at least as well as, being kidnapped for a few days and then tortured by his sister, which he recently was. And he is going to be kind of a dick, apparently, and is probably going to be tricked into something he doesn't want. It mostly all I am thinking about these days. That and porn. I am trying to decide what they won't do to him. ( Sort of spoiler ). But what else will they do to him? They can't utterly destroy him or how could he ever come back? I can't picture anything worse happening to him and him not having a complete emotional breakdown and going into catatonic shock, perhaps. Unless that is what they're doing, and should he ever return that will be when he sort of comes out of it, to WREAK HIS VENGEANCE UPON THE WORLD. Sometimes I wish Emmerdale was that sort of show. I have been comforting myself lately by imagining him being completely destroyed and losing everything before leaving Emmerdale, and then turning up again a few years later as a super-rich super-businessman, and being all "By the way everyone, I've bought up all the land in town and am going to turn it into a strip mine! Ciao, fuckers." OR, I wish it was the kind of show where eventually SOMETHING/SOMEONE MUCH WORSE would come along and threaten the town, and they would be all "God. They are the terrible. To beat them, we are going to need the worst human being, and best liar, we know" "..." All together: "Nathan!" And then they go and track him down, and maybe he's come good, or maybe he just still hates them, and they have to convince him to come back and help them somehow, and they kind of fall in love with how great he is. With Declan sort of leading the charge both times, obviously. Probably it won't be anything like that. Probably it will just be AWFUL. Oh God.
And now, having had both Halloween and Bonfire Night, we are basically into the Christmas season. Somehow. Great.
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Oct. 27th, 2010 11:29 pm( Emmerdale )
Also there was quite scary new Poirot on tonight. ( Thoughts, vaguely spoilery )
And I had my first group CBT therapy session today as well. It was alright, not too bad, there's only about four people other than me, and the woman running it said we don't have to talk or share at all over the weeks if we keep going, which is quite nice. For my social awkwardness/anxiety, at least. Also, I'm pretty sure there was a Jon Burgerman picture on the wall, which was quite nice to see, if nothing else. Hurrah.
Also there was quite scary new Poirot on tonight. ( Thoughts, vaguely spoilery )
And I had my first group CBT therapy session today as well. It was alright, not too bad, there's only about four people other than me, and the woman running it said we don't have to talk or share at all over the weeks if we keep going, which is quite nice. For my social awkwardness/anxiety, at least. Also, I'm pretty sure there was a Jon Burgerman picture on the wall, which was quite nice to see, if nothing else. Hurrah.
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Oct. 20th, 2010 10:50 pmI missed last night's Emmerdale because we had my youngest nephew, because my mum is working a night shift tonight and so wanted to sleep tomorrow rather than have him over as we usually do. However, because my sister is kind of a dick, I think we're going to be having him tomorrow anyway. But in any case - I caught up with it today, and watched tonight's episode.
( Spoilers from that/Natasha Wylde discussion )
Meanwhile, I have also been watching Hollyoaks. ( Hollyoaks, up to tonight's episode, with spoilers for tomorrow and Friday's nights' episodes )
Also, on Saturday I went to see Despicable Me. ( Thoughts, only vaguely spoilery )
But what I really wanted to say was that while I was sitting waiting for the film to start, during the adverts, that new advert for Reeboks came on - the one with a lot of close-ups of women's bums? Often barely covered ladies bums? Which I am guessing is to appeal to the mums in the audience - because from the advert I can only assume they are just for women - but for a U-rated film I am not sure that is appropriate, when you know there will probably be a lot of kids watching. "Look, kids, ladies' bottoms! They are important and deserve a lot of attention! But only 'nice' ladies' bottoms, that is". Hmm.
In other news, I got a letter from the mental health services I signed up with for counselling for my OCD symptoms, asking me to come along to a Group Therapy session. Dude. I don't even really like telling one counsellor about my problems at the moment, never mind a group of people I don't know, even if they do have similar problems. But they sent a nice little statistic in the letter about how group sessions are apparently 50% more effective than one-on-one counselling. So it sounds like it's worth a go. And, because they are only OFFERING me an appointment, I have to call up and confirm and say that I WANT to come, instead of just turning up and being sullen and sort of hating them. Except that that didn't so much happen, because I got the letter last week and I didn't call them, so they finally called me today to ask if I wanted to come, and I told them yes I did. So yeah, I'm giving it a go. That's next week.
In other other news, I was out in town today with my mum, and she asked me if I ever wanted a 'life partner', and talked about all the people she works with or knows who are gay and have partners, and that there must be somewhere near to us where you can meet other gay people. I told her that basically I am not all that eager to get another person massively involved in my life, although I do see the appeal - which is true, I'm not against the idea, but it's not really something I am actively interested in, to be honest. But at least she sort of remembered that I am kind of gay. And Alice is great.
Also, I watched a documentary about the South Pacific Ocean today (woo, documentary!), and learned that Moby Dick is apparently based on a true story. It makes finding out about the Moby Dick game from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cakesy's journal, and spending quite a lot of the last few days being all "Is Moby Dick going to have to capsize a bitch?" (it turned out she almost always was), just slightly more pleasant. Hurrah!
( Spoilers from that/Natasha Wylde discussion )
Meanwhile, I have also been watching Hollyoaks. ( Hollyoaks, up to tonight's episode, with spoilers for tomorrow and Friday's nights' episodes )
Also, on Saturday I went to see Despicable Me. ( Thoughts, only vaguely spoilery )
But what I really wanted to say was that while I was sitting waiting for the film to start, during the adverts, that new advert for Reeboks came on - the one with a lot of close-ups of women's bums? Often barely covered ladies bums? Which I am guessing is to appeal to the mums in the audience - because from the advert I can only assume they are just for women - but for a U-rated film I am not sure that is appropriate, when you know there will probably be a lot of kids watching. "Look, kids, ladies' bottoms! They are important and deserve a lot of attention! But only 'nice' ladies' bottoms, that is". Hmm.
In other news, I got a letter from the mental health services I signed up with for counselling for my OCD symptoms, asking me to come along to a Group Therapy session. Dude. I don't even really like telling one counsellor about my problems at the moment, never mind a group of people I don't know, even if they do have similar problems. But they sent a nice little statistic in the letter about how group sessions are apparently 50% more effective than one-on-one counselling. So it sounds like it's worth a go. And, because they are only OFFERING me an appointment, I have to call up and confirm and say that I WANT to come, instead of just turning up and being sullen and sort of hating them. Except that that didn't so much happen, because I got the letter last week and I didn't call them, so they finally called me today to ask if I wanted to come, and I told them yes I did. So yeah, I'm giving it a go. That's next week.
In other other news, I was out in town today with my mum, and she asked me if I ever wanted a 'life partner', and talked about all the people she works with or knows who are gay and have partners, and that there must be somewhere near to us where you can meet other gay people. I told her that basically I am not all that eager to get another person massively involved in my life, although I do see the appeal - which is true, I'm not against the idea, but it's not really something I am actively interested in, to be honest. But at least she sort of remembered that I am kind of gay. And Alice is great.
Also, I watched a documentary about the South Pacific Ocean today (woo, documentary!), and learned that Moby Dick is apparently based on a true story. It makes finding out about the Moby Dick game from
cakesy's journal, and spending quite a lot of the last few days being all "Is Moby Dick going to have to capsize a bitch?" (it turned out she almost always was), just slightly more pleasant. Hurrah!
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Oct. 6th, 2010 08:58 pm( Tonight's Emmerdale )
In non-soap related news, it turns out there are actually some benefits to tidying, or sort of starting to tidy. I realised that before putting some of the stuff on the floor into the cupboards over my wardrobe, I'd probably have to clean out the cupboards over my wardrobe a bit. So I opened them and looked round inside, and spotted a bunch of my old stuff, including what looks like a pile of graphic novels. Which I'm assuming are the copies of Fables I was missing. Hurrah!
In non-soap related news, it turns out there are actually some benefits to tidying, or sort of starting to tidy. I realised that before putting some of the stuff on the floor into the cupboards over my wardrobe, I'd probably have to clean out the cupboards over my wardrobe a bit. So I opened them and looked round inside, and spotted a bunch of my old stuff, including what looks like a pile of graphic novels. Which I'm assuming are the copies of Fables I was missing. Hurrah!
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Oct. 3rd, 2010 11:05 pmInternet problem of the day: When my dad decided to put some extra security on our wireless network and decided not to tell me about it or that that was why I couldn't get a signal for about an hour or two.
Things I have done this weekend include:
Things I have done this weekend include:
- Watching Strictly. I think I might be in love with Felicity Kendall. I thought I was during the first/introduction show a few weeks ago, but I thought it might be because she was wearing a colour I really love. But I saw her again on Friday, and no. Still kind of love her. So that's who I'm sort of rooting for. In other news, Matt Baker was suprisingly good, as was Gavin Henson. When I saw Patsy Kensit in the introduction show I thought she looked really uncomfortable with her partner, but having watched them since then and seen their training and stuff, I think she might just be a bit nervous in front of cameras, maybe. I feel a bit bad for her, she does seem quite self-conscious and stuff, and she didn't dance too badly, so I hope she relaxes and maybe does better in the next few weeks. Also, she was wearing an AMAZING dress. And Paul Daniels! He did magic! And sang along. He was quite sweet. I hate Bruce Forsyth.
I'm not sure how I feel about the 'show without voting' thing. On the one hand it seems like a way to get rid of the complaints about people having to go after just one show, and it not being fair because they were nervous, when it's a dance contest and everyone's in the same boat, really. But on the other hand, it might stop things happening like people voting to give people who've performed badly another chance, and having slightly better dancers go out first. Hmm. I'm interested to see how things play out next week, anyway. - I watched Casualty. ( Casualty )
- I found out Nathan Wylde from Emmerdale has a birthday. I was wondering if he officially had one, since he's been in the show for about two years now, and we've seen quite a lot of the Wyldes' private lives, and I'm pretty sure they've mentioned it before when it was Maisie's birthday, and I knew something had happened years ago when it was Mark's birthday, but I couldn't remember them ever saying anything before about it being Nathan's birthday. But there it is, on Wikipedia. 4th September 1984. I cannot blame them for not making a big deal out of it though. I think last year it was about September when Nathan was told his father had had an affair with Faye, possibly? And this year he had the whole murder cover-up and his sister accusing him of killing their dad and stuff to deal with, I think. Not exactly the best times for celebrations.
- Bedroom tidying - some. Mostly tidying up the mess I've made since the last time I actually tried to organise it a bit.
- Watching the stuff I said I would watch before Connotations/ever - none. I should proably get on that this week, maybe.
