Hope everyone is safe and having a good time. Love to all of my friends, and everyone else =)
My review of my favourite films of 2007 is up on Youtube now for your enjoyment
You better be good, you better not cry, you better not pout, I'm telling you why...
Its Christmas!!!!
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Car Woes
Been having trouble with my car this week =(
Driving back from work on Monday I noticed that the dipped lights (the normal driving ones) weren't working. My mum helpfully found a garage for me that could sort them out that night and they changed the bulbs for me. But then distaster the next night, they had stopped working again! And this time not just those lights but the main beam as well. So according to the garage this means there is a problem with the electrics, which means I'm going to need specialists to look at it. I'll be taking it to them early on Monday morning, but until then I have to drive around without headlights, which is not much fun in the winter >.<
Luckily someone from work gave me a lift to the Christmas meal last night, which was a pretty good time, and the food was good
The other problem I had this week was that a package that had come for me was at the post office for collection because I hadn't been in. But the woman in the post office wouldn't let me have the package because I didn't have any ID for the name on it (the only ID I currently have is for my birth name, somewhat frustratingly). She returned the package to sender! But its been arranged to come back out and hopefully I'll get that christmas present before Christmas still, no thanks to the post office woman, who may have been sticking to the rules but could have used a bit of helpful common sense in my opinion.
Its nearly Christmas and I only have one day left until my vacation starts, and I'm very much looking forward to getting a rest... punctuated by piles of marking *sigh*
I hope everyone has a good Christmas/Holiday season, if anyone is actually reading lol. I may post again before or may not. Eitherway love you all ^^
Driving back from work on Monday I noticed that the dipped lights (the normal driving ones) weren't working. My mum helpfully found a garage for me that could sort them out that night and they changed the bulbs for me. But then distaster the next night, they had stopped working again! And this time not just those lights but the main beam as well. So according to the garage this means there is a problem with the electrics, which means I'm going to need specialists to look at it. I'll be taking it to them early on Monday morning, but until then I have to drive around without headlights, which is not much fun in the winter >.<
Luckily someone from work gave me a lift to the Christmas meal last night, which was a pretty good time, and the food was good
The other problem I had this week was that a package that had come for me was at the post office for collection because I hadn't been in. But the woman in the post office wouldn't let me have the package because I didn't have any ID for the name on it (the only ID I currently have is for my birth name, somewhat frustratingly). She returned the package to sender! But its been arranged to come back out and hopefully I'll get that christmas present before Christmas still, no thanks to the post office woman, who may have been sticking to the rules but could have used a bit of helpful common sense in my opinion.
Its nearly Christmas and I only have one day left until my vacation starts, and I'm very much looking forward to getting a rest... punctuated by piles of marking *sigh*
I hope everyone has a good Christmas/Holiday season, if anyone is actually reading lol. I may post again before or may not. Eitherway love you all ^^
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Winter Blues
Its been a really depressing week so far, mostly because of the huge stress that my workload is causing me, which has meant I've had no time to organise a proper video. The real problem is that I tend to end up spending more time miserable and worrying about the work I have to do than actually doing it! However due to the combined efforts of some friends, particularly Anne being very firm with me (thank you!) I have started to make a dent in it, and hopefully this will continue, although I am currently sitting here waisting time hence why I am writing my blog. Yes thats right I mostly write to give me something to do at work other than actually.... working. Hence the lack of posts when the website is blocked.
Present buying seems to be in full swing, although certain people are very difficult to buy for, including the work colleague I got for secret santa that I have no idea what to buy for because I don't know him at all. I shall have to resort to something incredibly dull this weekend I think.
The crazy shortages of not only Wii hardware but also software mean that it doesn't look like I'll get some of the Wii games I was hoping for this Christmas (most notibly the Wii Lego Star Wars: Complete Saga which can't be found for any even remotely sane price). But the new year should ease the Wii craze hopefully. Contrast the Wii situation with the legions of unwanted PS3s.
I suspect another drastic PS3 price reduction next year, hopefully to something approaching a resonable price, at which point I may get one as a Blueray player. Of course the format war is something that I could (and many others have) talk about for pages, but suffice to say here I think if either format does win it will be Blueray, but I suspect both formats will fail to become mainstream, this will probably leave us to suffer some downloadable format. Yuck.
Well thats enough for now. Tonight I need to go and pick up my lightsaber from Dagobah... I mean the post office, so that should be fun.
Present buying seems to be in full swing, although certain people are very difficult to buy for, including the work colleague I got for secret santa that I have no idea what to buy for because I don't know him at all. I shall have to resort to something incredibly dull this weekend I think.
The crazy shortages of not only Wii hardware but also software mean that it doesn't look like I'll get some of the Wii games I was hoping for this Christmas (most notibly the Wii Lego Star Wars: Complete Saga which can't be found for any even remotely sane price). But the new year should ease the Wii craze hopefully. Contrast the Wii situation with the legions of unwanted PS3s.
I suspect another drastic PS3 price reduction next year, hopefully to something approaching a resonable price, at which point I may get one as a Blueray player. Of course the format war is something that I could (and many others have) talk about for pages, but suffice to say here I think if either format does win it will be Blueray, but I suspect both formats will fail to become mainstream, this will probably leave us to suffer some downloadable format. Yuck.
Well thats enough for now. Tonight I need to go and pick up my lightsaber from Dagobah... I mean the post office, so that should be fun.
Into exile I must go.
Thursday, December 06, 2007
Another day at work...
...but tomorrow is a day off, yay! It gets really hard this time of year, all the staff and students are very tired after such a long term, but only two more weeks to go till the christmas break. Unfortunately I have so much marking to do that its forming a large mountain, I may have to break out the mountaineering equipment when I finally do tackle it.
On Tuesday I had a late night at work, that wasn't much fun. Got home feeling like a zombie, searched the fridge for freash meat but found only old pizza so ate that instead. I've not managed to do much this week, including not yet having a chance to make a new video, but people are still enjoying last weeks effort and the Khiliana & Tam'mi videos are growing in popularity. I will get something new done soon, I'm on a promise to work on a video with Anne this weekend. I have a ton of ideas just need the necessary actors and actresses to make them a reality.
I think this weekend is Christmas shopping with my family, after my trip to London for hair removal (owie!) tomorrow.
I'll talk to you again soon, and until then keep watching the skies!
No don't stare at the sun... here put these glasses on... nevermind, just come back inside
On Tuesday I had a late night at work, that wasn't much fun. Got home feeling like a zombie, searched the fridge for freash meat but found only old pizza so ate that instead. I've not managed to do much this week, including not yet having a chance to make a new video, but people are still enjoying last weeks effort and the Khiliana & Tam'mi videos are growing in popularity. I will get something new done soon, I'm on a promise to work on a video with Anne this weekend. I have a ton of ideas just need the necessary actors and actresses to make them a reality.
I think this weekend is Christmas shopping with my family, after my trip to London for hair removal (owie!) tomorrow.
I'll talk to you again soon, and until then keep watching the skies!
No don't stare at the sun... here put these glasses on... nevermind, just come back inside
Monday, December 03, 2007
Good Evening Wembley!
So on Friday night Anne and I saw Bill Bailey at Wembley. The journey there took a couple of hours, but the show was awesome!! Bill was hilarious as usual, and put on a good multimedia production (clip of it on Youtube). Our seats weren't great, we were a long way back, but yay for giant screens hehe.
The journey back wasn't much fun, it was pouring down with rain and an accident on the M25 caused a big jam, but not enough to dampen our mood.
We spent a lot of Saturday and Sunday watching the 10th Kingdom, a great fantasy TV series that I'd highly recommend to everyone. Sadly not currently available on UK DVD, I have a Canadian copy.
Thats all for tonight, time to go to bed. Peace be upon thee
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