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Hello. It's me. I am still online pretty regularly, it's just that between sleeping in most mornings, going with my mum into town a few times a week and helping look after my nephews some of the rest of the time, and attempting to get my Jobseeker's claim and bedroom something like, I never seem to have much time to make posts. The middle of the night seems to be my main opportunity, so I am taking this one.

I have been living at my parents' for almost three weeks now, and it's been fairly quiet. In between my dad yelling at me to get my bedroom sorted out and decide what I'm putting in loft because it won't fit, which if it were up to me would be nothing. And various arguments between my parents and my sister. The family drama has not really let up, but it's not all-consuming, which is nice. My grandmother's still in a care home doing physiotherapy, but she'll be back at home on Monday. She was meant to be back last Thursday, but she's unfortunately come down with shingles, so they put it off for a few days. But she's pretty much fine, and probably actually going home on Monday, which is good. She still has some memory problems, but the nurses and social services have assessed her and have got her a care package and don't seem too worried, so it seems alright. She's pretty ready to get out of that place, really, as I have picked up from my conversations with her over the last week or so.

Also I have been watching TV. Highlights included:

  • Sue Perkins being on The Bubble, and then getting a show about brass bands in the North. When will they bring out Supersizers on DVD? When?


  • The Bubble. I have watched it. I love it.


  • Emmerdale of the past few weeks )


  • Meanwhile on Coronation Street, Gail Platt has been charged with the murder of her dead husband, and sent to jail. David is not coping well. His brother Nick is there, but Nick is kind of a git and David hates him, so it's not much consolation. He spent tonight mostly asking his ex-girlfriend (Gail's dead husband's daughter) if she really believed his mum was a murderer, looking incredibly hurt and betrayed when she said she dead, and wandering away clutching his sleeves. And then going into the factory to actually talk to his brother about their mum, and how he couldn't sleep without seeing her in prison, and how no he didn't want to go to the pub and get drunk, and they had to do something, while Nick was all 'You are getting in the way of my work, David, my work!'. Then Nick tried putting his hands on David's shoulders and talking nicely to him, and giving him some money, causing David to look at Nick like he hated him, and leave. It was also a bit brilliant. I will admit that soaps are a bit rubbish or boring sometimes, but sometimes they are incredible. INCREDIBLE.


  • Anyway. Besides that. Lambing Live! I love lambs. And sheep. It was a great show to watch if love both those things. Mostly I feel that next year Nathan from Emmerdale should be forced to take part in the lambing that goes on at the farm on the land his family owns. I think it would probably go some way to healing all of his psychological scars.


  • Much like a couple of things on the Mighty Boosh, I never expected to find a middle-aged comedian I don't know dancing to Fight For This Love in a red military jacket, wig and cap kind of sexy. But then Rufus Hound proved me wrong.


  • Due to making a change from terrestrial TV to Sky while moving from Nottingham to my parents', the only thing I've seen so far from the current series of Skins is the rather grim last two episodes. With a cliffhanger that is apparently not going to be resolved next series, or at least not with the current cast. Well.


  • I saw an episode of Shameless because my parents watch it, when I never really have. I fell quite in love with one of the characters, at least, and some of the writing. Hurrah.


  • I also ended up watching Dancing on Ice again, because my mother does, and was treated to another actor I kind of like from Hollyoaks doing a routine to the Pink Panther, and then last week to a Freddie Mercury song and him pretending to be a rockstar. Both of which were great. Soon there will be proper skating on, apparently, according to the Eurosport channel. Yay.


  • And a bunch of other stuff probably, but I can't remember it now.


Other things:

  • I know it's a mistake generally to look at jewellery, but how much do I want this stuff? A whole lot.


  • I have also started sort of shopping for clothes, mostly because there's a New Look in my town centre, which has few enough other clothes shops for me to notice it. Also because New Look has some sort of nice stuff in at the moment. Mostly all it's doing is making me even more annoyed by stock rotation, though.


  • I've done a live transfer of my Jobseekers claim, and they've at last written to me today telling me what I'll be receiving (I think). They don't really say anything about the live transfer, but there's not really any other reason to send me a letter telling what allowance I'll be getting, a few weeks after I've moved. But at least it seems to be sorted. And I need to start job-hunting now.


  • I still do look for Tiana/Faciler things and fic sometimes, but to be honest, I'm not really that desperate to find anything, because I can't really imagine it being better than the Magic Dance video.


  • Even though there were quite a few problems with Wanted, and I hear that the comic book by Mark Millar that it was based on was even worse really, I'm still kind of looking forward to the new adaptation of another Mark Millar book, Kick-Ass. I don't know. Rubbish superheroes are kind of my favourite superheroes. Also, Mark Strong! Hurray.

I think that's pretty much it. Next week it's my birthday, and the week after it's Eastercon. Both of which I'm quite looking forward to. Hurrah.
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  • I made some Coronation Street icons. I forgot that icon-making can be kind of fun, even if kind of frustrating.


  • At the moment on Coronation Street, David Platt's heavily debt-ridden new stepdad has gone missing after telling David's mum he was going to fake his own death so she could collect on the life insurance (the canoe man from last year was mentioned at least once). She didn't want to but he sailed off onto a lake (in the Lake District) in the middle of the night anyway. She called David when her husband (Joe) still hadn't come back the next day, David came up and when she told him what was going on, told her to phone the police. She said no, because Joe would get in trouble, and she had to help him, or at least give him a chance to change his mind. So now David is helping her to lie effectively. It's sort of great. He really does want to help his mum, and it is his main skill. He thought up a whole story for her, and keeps telling her how to act so people will believe it, and occasionally freaking out when she isn't very good and nearly gives the whole thing away. Sadly, what they don't know is that Joe drowned while trying to fake his death, and his body just came up to the surface tonight. So in a while it's going to look slightly suspicious how much they were lying about where he was. Oh well.


  • David's 'enemy' Gary Windass is back from the army tomorrow also, and he's bringing a soldier friend with him. The soap magazines are saying that 'there may be more to their visit than meets the eye', though. It's probably not so they can double-team David. But I can dream.


  • I have to move in a week and a few days. Arrghhh.


  • A man came around to view the flat today with someone from my estate agents'. They had called and left a message about it a few days ago, and I was thinking about calling back and trying to reschedule it, because the flat is still a bit of a mess, but I figured I'd just have to do it another day. So I cunningly decided to tidy up a little bit and when they came around pretend that I hadn't heard anything about a viewing, and claim the flat was a mess because of pack so that they'd either a) leave, or b) not judge me too harshly. They came in, but they didn't seem to mind the mess too much. And it was a good incentive to start tidying up a bit. It was a bit weird to have people in the flat, but they were both pleasant enough. The guy asked a few questions about noise and how hot it was in the summer, and how much of the furniture came with the flat. I tried not to mention too many negative things about the flat, and a bunch of the positive ones. And then they left. So it was strange, but not too painful, in the end.


  • My mum and nephew came down on Friday for the Nottingham Light Night. Friday night and Saturday ).


  • My mum called in the middle of that paragraph and we ended up talking for about 50 minutes, so if there's a change of tone mysteriously that's why.


  • After there not having been much on at the cinema that I wanted to see (apart from the Princess and the Frog, sort of) for a few weeks or so, four films I wanted to watch came out last Friday. Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea, the new Studio Gibhli one, which I've been waiting for since the tutor of my Japanese Anime course mentioned it coming out a year ago; The Wolfman remake (on the assumption that werewolves + Emily Blunt = good times); My Name Is Khan, because I've seen two films now with Shah Rukh Khan in that I liked, and wanted to give this one a whirl; and Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, which is sort of about Greek Mythology and powers and stuff, and looked sort of interesting.

    Vague spoilers, though not really, for Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea and The Wolfman )

    Sadly, from having stuff to do all week and from what I know about how long my local Cineworld tends to keep showing Bollywood films, I have a feeling I've missed the chance to see My Name Is Khan. Although having said that, given that it was sold out and everything in the week, maybe they'll keep it on for another week. But if not I think that'll be that. So now there's just Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, which I'm not as bothered about, but can probably see tomorrow or over the weekend. Yay.


  • I'm really tired, and I have to tidy the flat, properly, tomorrow, and start packing things up so my dad, who's coming down at some point over the weekend, can take them back to Yorkshire. It's one of those situations where I keep on thinking of new things I have to do. I have to call the electric company, and the water company. I have to cancel my internet contract. And my contents insurance. And clean the place. And sort through my bills to decide which can be thrown away now. And argh. I've got a week left. But I'll probably get it all done. I sort of have to, really.


  • The Princess and the Frog fandom continues to be not full of Facilier/Tiana shippers. I don't know why.
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I went to see The Princess and The Frog on Monday. My main thoughts were:

1) Is it wrong to sort of love Dr Facilier?

2) Is it wrong to sort of ship Tiana/Facilier?

Which I sort of do, dudes.

However since then I have been on the internet. Someone made a Facilier/Tiana songvid to Magic Dance by David Bowie ALSKFJlksdljkfhklsjdhfkjdsh.

Magic Dance by pinkwhig

It is a bit amazing.

My other thoughts on The Princess and The Frog was that I really liked it. Huzzah.
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