~ I have grapes. I have Maltesers. The Maltesers are nicer.

~ The songs that have been stuck in my head today: You Are The Music In Me from High School Musical 2, Treat Me Right by New Kids on the Block - the first album baby! - and the song from Beauty & The Beast that Belle and The Beast sing when they start to realise that they fancy each other. There's a line in the Beauty & the Beast song, "New and a bit alarming", that my sister and I used to find hilarious, it was something to do with the way Belle said 'alarming'. There wasn't much to do in the town we grew up in.

Quote of the day
The Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. ~- William Gibson.

A-freaking-men to that.

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how I feel: complacent

You know those old women that talk to you while you on public transport even if you are reading a book or have headphones on and very clearly don't want to have a conversation with anyone? The ones that continue to talk to you even when you only answer them with, "hmmmm" before you try go back to your book or turn the volume on your Ipod up. I'm turning into one of them.

On Friday I sat down on a seat on the bus next to a girl who was very clearly In A Strop and didn't want to admit that anyone else in the world existed, never mind talk to them. She had her arms and her legs crossed and we looking out of the window with a fixed determination and a raised chin. I plopped down next to her with a dripping umbrella in one hand and a knitting magazine in the other and the first thing I wanted to do was say: "Oh hai! U r having a bad dayz, y/n?" in a loud, cheerful voice.

I didn't, but I was really tempted.

I think the older I get, the filters in my brain that tell me that doing that kind of thing would be annoying are going to wear out and I'll be sat chatting away to people with their MP3s on full blast.

I expect to be completely batty by the time I'm 45.


And speaking of knitting magazines, there's a pattern for a throw in this months Let's Knit that is done on size 20 circular needles. I want to do it because it will be a good, low maintenance wedding present for my uncle (you never can have enough throws) and because I want some size 20 circular needles. Knitting with them will be like wrestling with an octopus!


Three words that I always spell wrong: originally, definitely, and maintenance. Bad things happen with the vowels.

how I feel: thirsty

~ The remaining members of the cast of Dad's Army have met for a reunion. I'm amazed there are enough of them left alive to have a moot! I bet whoever was buying the rounds got change from a fiver when they went to the bar :)

~ indigo_blind kindly lent me season 2 of Battlestar Galactica and I've been happily watching it while I've been having my tea. It's good, but it's been giving me weird dreams about robot armies and soldiers. I suppose it's better than when I was watching Bones and kept dreaming about corpses.

~ Work is so boring. At the moment I'm stamping "First Class" and "Private and Confidential" on to envelops. I want it to be the weekend now. My plans for this weekend involve me, the sofa, my telly and knitting and I'd much rather be doing that than sitting here waiting for someone to come in and ask me a random question. *sigh*

how I feel: bored

It has been predicted that a months worth of rain is going to fall today. It hasn't, not yet anyway. This probably means that two months work of rain will fall tomorrow. Joy.

Someone on metaquotes linked to an entry were someone was talking about the library of their own personal cannon where the poster's own versions of tv programmes and films live, in this library, for example, the three most recent Star Wars films were never made. I like this idea:

( In my personal cannon library... )

ETA, Quote of the day
We have to believe in free will. We have no choice ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

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how I feel: bored

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I had such a crush on Matthew Broderick when I was 11. I liked him and my friend Emma liked Ralph Macchio (the Karate Kid) and we used to sit and think about how marvellous it would be when grew older and married them... Good times. :)

Quote of the day
I think it's all to do with food. People who are, you know, thingy, and people who are overweight - it's all to do with food. ~ One of the cleaners at work.

True.

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how I feel: bored

Monday morning = reality bomb, blergh


LOL Cat that made me LOL:

more cat

( Doctor Who! )

Dear Brain

Please for to turn off now - I would like to go to sleep

Your imploringly


Me

how I feel: grrrrr

Luke Goss denies rumours of Bros reunion. Gutted.

It's the 4th July on Friday. Which means that a month from Friday will be my birthday, which means that a month and 5 days on Friday will be my uncle's wedding, which means I need to buy a nice frock.

I'm going to wonder around town on Saturday looking at frocks to see what there is (flora patterns are in this season according to Gok).

I'm not good at pretty frock buying. They always look too girlie and too expensive and like my boobs are too small or my thighs are too big for them to fit and I get all huffy and have to run away.

Then of course the flock problem is immediately followed by the shoes problem; I don't do heels and I have square feet so pretty, pointy shoes never fit and then I get even huffier and have to run away to somewhere that sells cake.

Trying times.

I need to approach clothes shopping with a new attitude and see it as a chance to look at pretties rather than a massive chore. I'll let you know how that goes *snerk*.

how I feel: hungry

Series 2 outtakes

I found a link in metaquotes for a Torchwood fan fiction story that can be found here in which Ianto becomes a sentient alien squid. There is Jack/Ianto tentacle porn apparently. I haven't read it yet but I thought it was worth mentioning.

Tentacle. Porn.

And the characterisation is supposed to be good. :P

Bros are reforming. Ohhh and I'm 11 years old again... I didn't like Matt or Luke, they were too blond and Hitler Youth-esque for me, I liked Craig, he was wee and no one else fancied him.

Bros have a special place in my heart as the group that are responsible for one of the best worst lyrics ever in the song I Owe You Nothing: "I watched you crumble, like a very old wall"

Genius. They don't write them like they used to.

My teeth have just started to hurt, the orthodontist finished tinkering with them at about 9.30 so it's taken *counts on fingers* 5 hours for the aching to start. It's soup and smush for me for the next few days then. Soup or smush followed by angel delight or ice cream diet. I shall call it the Metal Mouth diet; I might write a book, it can't be any worse for you than the Atkins diet.

how I feel: amused