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Stuff for my flist:

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Someone stole the sign from Auschwitz

JJ Abrams is working on another new TV show, which i like the sound of

2009 in photos

Watching the Take That concert on ITV at the moment
[x] It really was a no expense spared gg wasn't it?
[x] Not enough old TT songs.
[x] I'm very sad at the lack of jelly and icecream during Do What You Like. Oh old skool TT you'll always have a special place in my heart.
[x] Yay old TT songs! Even if it is in a medley
[x] Mark's silver trousers are very eye-drawing. OMG!

The Doctor Who Buzzcocks did make me laugh rather a lot, but it also made me cringe in embarrasment too.
[x] Bernard Cribbins is a god of a man, he made me laugh so much. And he's a sharp as a pin too with perfect comedy timing. Him and Brian Blessed should join forces and fight crime with their AWESOME
[x] David's Tennant's love of Coldplay has torn me. (I can't stand them.)
[x] Noel Fielding's donkey ear hat would go really nicely with the cape he was wearing last week.
[x] I want whatever Catherine Tate was on.
[x] Jamie Cullen. Why?
[x] I am embarrassed that I couldn't guess the Muse track on the intros round. I am a bad bad Muse fan. The Matt Bellamy 'facts' afterwards gave me a chuckle though.

I want one of these bow-ties for Bilbo



Panto stuffs!!!

• Have you all got your hotels booked yet?
• Have you sorted out how you're getting to Cardiff?
• Do you all have my phone number?
• Please can I be texted Monday morning to remind me to pick up the tickets. (I am sleep deprived, I am very likely to forget)
• doylefan22 is Piper's friend still taking the spare ticket?

To morbid_sparks for the card and the present. (Which is on the bookcase still all nicely wrapped.)

And to tortugax and posioninjest for the cards.

Also thank you to everyone who got me a snowflake V-gift. I've only just sen them on my profile and I'm sorry I missed the chance to break LJ to send you all some back.

P.S. Christmas Cards and DWM's went out in the post on Saturday.

Am very much enjoying telly at the moment. The Sky+ box is getting A SEVERE working out. I just wish the series link feature would work a little bit more often.

( Merlin )

( Flashforward )

( Chuck )

( Top Gear )

( James May's Toy Stories )

Got lots of stuff to look forward to next year, Sky have already started to run trailers for Lost \o/ and I'd quite like to see V. I'll finish watching Dollhouse (because I'm a Whedon completist) and there's the new series of Chuck and that's about it.

What new series should I be watching flist?

I'm going to be posting all my cards and stuff on Saturday, so if you'd like a card from me then fill in this poll.

In other Christmas news I went out and bought our yearly copy of the Christmas Radio Times. Going through it and highlighting all the stuff we're going to watch is a yearly tradition and now it truly does feel like Christmas. Although I've still not got the decorations down out of the loft (I'll do that this weekend)

I like the fact that Sky have set up reminders against the BBC Christmas trailer so you can add (and series link) all the big Christmas Programmes, I've got Doctor Who, Cranford and the Triffids remake all on my planner now.

When the Baby formerly known as Cheddar is asleep tomorrow I'll write all my Christmas Cards. And make some soup.

Bethan, His Lordship and myself would like to give you a big thank you (and massive hugs when I next see you) for the parcel of joy that arrived today. It was really very, very generous of you and you shouldn't have spent so much on her.

(It had, not one, not two but three hand knitted baby blankets, little bootees, little gloves (which are the cutest thing ever), a cute little hat (which is a tiny bit big on Bethan, but should fit her by Christmas), a pile of sleeveless vests (you can NEVER have enough), a fleecy romper suit, this gift set from Mothercare (which I'm really pleased about as we have it in tiny baby size for Bethan already but she's nearly grown out of it and I love the vest, trousers and babygrow so much!) and two teddies.)

Thank you!!

Due to some poll!fail I've redone the poll. Annoyingly it won't let me put it into the original post, hence the new post.

Poll #1491983
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 17

Do you have a card exchange thing going on this year?

Link me to your card exchange

If you'd like me to send you a card please leave your name/address here. Use / for line breaks. Ta.

I cannot guarantee that you'll get your cards before Christmas but you should get them before the end of 2009.

ETA: Poll re-done so that your addresses are kept private.

Please see the new post here

Please can you be linking me to your wishlists, I want to spread the festive cheer:
Poll #1491204
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5

Link me to your wishlist

This year’s list is split into three sections and there’s something for everyone.

The rules:

Step One:
♥ Make a post, with a list of ten holiday wishes
♥ If you wish for real things include your contact details
♥ post the rules in your journal (or in my case the edited rules)

Step Two:
♥ surf the flist/random journals to find other wishlists
♥ If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true.
♥ don't spend any money unless you really want too, it's not to put people out but to spread joy

( Dear Santa, I've been a very good girl this year )

Hey Flist!

I'm not getting onto LJ quite as often as I used to and I'm probably missing all your wishlist/card posts. Please can you leave me links to them in the comments so I can try and spread some Christmas cheer.

Ta!

trying to navigate lj on my phone is becoming very difficult and annoying.

My laptop is on its last legs and is taking nearly an hour to load.

I think it's time I invested in a new laptop. I rather fancy getting a netbook but don't know which one to get. Can you give me some advice?

Who's just bought two tickets for Muse in Manchester for next year?

Oh, that'll be me! :D

Muse doing a stadium tour 2010 (Manchester and Wembley in the UK). Ticket pre-sale 18th November.

Definitely going this tme.

Sunday is shaping up to be awesomesauce when it comes to telly what with all-new Doctor Who AND Top Gear. Brilliant!

Meet Cheddar, who has now been rebranded as Bethan, and is a very special outside baby! There's a few photo's behind the cut. A full account of my adventures with the NHS is currently being typed up (I'm doing it in between feeds, it's taking a while) and will be posted on the baby-filter in the next day or so. If you're not on that filter and you want to be, let me know.

( beware, here be cute! )

Hi everyone! I'm back home and able to get onto LJ again. Hoorah!

I'm not even going to attempt to catch up on my flist from the last week or so (because the idea of skip=880 scares me), so if you have important news and stuff I should be knowing about leave a comment and a link here and I can go and have a looksie.

The reason for me not being about is forthcoming, the pictures are just uploading :D

Via: slartiblast Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright discussing Hot Fuzz slash on Twitter (helpfully collated by peekabooboy

( two LOLcats I'm rather taken by. One 'cos it's pretty the other because it's an awesome action shot. )

So there I was, minding my own business in the shower, happily washing my hair, when i felt something crawl across the back of my neck. Thinking it was a spider I panicked-ly swiped it off and turned round....

...to come face to face with the biggest Queen wasp I have ever seen. She was like the size of my thumb.

And she was pissed off. Obviously I screamed and ran from the bathroom (difficult in my current situation) and stood shivering in the bedroom with Bilbo protecting me until His Lordship managed to dispatch of said Queen wasp with a copy of my Buffy Yearbook.

We think she came in through the vent for the extractor fan in the bathroom looking for somewhere to hibernate through the winter because she spent about five minutes trying to get inside the bathroom light fitting. Said extractor fan is now covered in loads of sticky tape to deter any other wasps from following.

This really isn't the sort of scare I should be being put through at the moment.

In less distressing news: have a youtube video of a cute Small-Faced Kitten-like cat trying to box a Bilbo-like cat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tf4tAv-Mfs (I miss that little black and white cat)

Just stupidly busy, and not getting to the computer as often as I'd like.

Spent the weekend with our friends in Wiltshire and we drove (slowly) past Stonehenge (It was very busy and a lot smaller than you'd imagine it) and went shopping in Salisbury (bought stuff for my silversmithing course). Our friends were a bit freaked out by my superactive supermassive tummy. It was lovely to spend some quality time with them.

Nearly finished my first project in Silversmithing. I need to drill a hole and polish it up and it's all done. A photo post will be forthcoming. Been trawling eBay for things like bezel mandrels as I'm doing a lot of bezel setting at the moment.

Via txvoodoo: CFS may be linked to a little-known virus I thought it may interest some of you on my flist.

Now I'm going to eat some Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Fudge brownie ice cream. Yum!