girlofprey

Hello. I'm mostly posting negative things at the moment, aren't I. I am good and I am happy, mostly, and the world is good in whole patches. And I love Yorkshire, and I love England, I think it is the best country in the world still, in a very biased way. I just wish you could express that sentiment at the moment and not feel like you're encouraging racists somewhere. I do heritage things and go to heritage events, and then I also feel like "hm".

I went to Harlow Carr, it was beautiful. The carbonara at Lucia's is still A+. I went to my MN's birthday and it was lovely to see him, and lovely to see him spending time with my YN too. I got my YN's cold on the way back, and I've had that all week which has been annoying, but it has been a very mild cold where I didn't feel like I was dead or even wish I didn't have to go to work at all, and now it's mostly gone. I got my hair cut on Saturday, which I've been meaning to do for weeks and am very pleased about. And I went to see Birds of Prey on Saturday, and I liked it, and I think I like it more and more the more I think back on it. I am still into fragrance. Then I discovered Penhaligons. They have a store in Leeds. A permanently empty store with only one lonely-looking shop assistant in it. The expense is eye-watering. I have £80 to last me the next two weeks to payday, and that's without buying any perfume. Valentine's Day is this week. I like Valentine's Day, mostly for the special chocolate and red things they bring out. My dog ate some chocolate this week too. Some special rhubarb chocolate I had bought. Took it out of my bag, neatly unfolded the foil, and ate it. Then went in my bin for some more chocolate I threw out weeks ago. We took him to the vets. He's fine.

Also I have been watching this other chatty husky. He's the friend of the other one. They're both very good.

Some other things that have happened in my life:

• I made it to Holmfirth for the art market on Sunday. Despite it taking two hours to get there, getting up late, and missing the next bus after I did get up. On the way, I discovered exactly how beautiful some of the rural towns only a few hours busride from my house could be. The main ones being West Clayton and Denby Dale. It's hard to describe, they were just full of weird little cottages and churches and things that obviously used to be churches but weren't anymore. They were sort of creepy and beautiful at the same time. It was a really nice busride. Then I got to Holmfirth, which was also beautiful. It's an old mill town, and they've got a slightly exaggerated idea of what a river is, but it's a really beautiful place all the same. The art market was also lovely, and I manfully bought hardly anything. Unfortunately, the jewelley maker I'd been meant to be picking my necklace up from had forgotten it, which was disappointing, but I know her quite well and she was really nice about it, and she's promising me a big discount when I finally do get it, so I'm not too upset. But it was a really nice day out either way. I had lunch in a tearoom, decorated with little teapots. It was wicked.



• I may have made a huge mistake in, having finished the main questline of Oblivion, installing and starting the two expansion packs included in the Fifth Anniversary Edition at the same time. The problem is that one comes before the other, it doesn't have to but technically, you know, but I like the second one better. So I'm just playing both! And not really focusing properly on either! And it sort of gives me a headache! But maybe it's better than just playing one until it's used up and then using up the other, I don't know. Probably I should still just pick one and stick with it.



• Yesterday I managed to make it to my jewellery course, go most of the way to make my first 'piece' (a very, very small house with windows on that might be going to be a brooch or pin), then get to Wakefield for my counselling, and in between I got a call offering me an interview for the job I applied for. Considering that I started my period on Monday and didn't know if I was going to be able to stand up yesterday, it turned out to be a very good day :D



• Death Valley turned out to not have done the horrible thing I thought it might do, hurrah! And it did something else that pleased me. So hurrah again!



• ( Grimm 1.03 )



• ( Once Upon A Time 1.04 )



• Also, adverts. During the time when I wasn't posting, I discovered what was probably my least favourite advert in the whole world. It's had a lot of competition over the years, but it's definitely, definitely the McDonalds 'On The Street Where You Live' advert. It's just such a perfect combination of trying to be something it isn't, hideous, and nothing, that I really can't believe it. Shortly after I made this decision, I didn't see it as much, and thought they'd pulled it. But no. It's still on. It's horrific.
  
  Also, on a similar note but much better note, Charlie Brooker and We Love Hollyoaks have pointed out the Sevenesque-ness of the new John Lewis christmas advert. And now I can't unsee it.



• Someone I don't know is following me on Twitter. I forgot about that aspect of the whole social networking thing. Ugh. It's fine I'm sure. They haven't talked to me yet. I just cannot imagine what they have joined up for, looking at my tweets page. But they did. Fine.



• That is all the news I can think of right now.