It has reached December and I haven't, as yet, received that all important telephone call or email from my parents asking me what I would like to appear under my tree this year. (Complete with tag inscribed with their fondest greetings and best wishes for the season. A tag I will promptly ignore as I tear into the wrapping paper and watch my mother ( Read more... )

I had such plans for this weekend. There was going to be laundry and dusting (haven't had a chance to do a proper spring clean in the bedroom since returning from my travels). There was going to be some video editing (trying to re-edit some old Xena music videos and have an urge to make a femslash trailer for Ruthless and Maven). There was even the ( Read more... )

Upon waking in the morning I can not function, I'm disorientated and do not have all my faculties about me. And apparently telling your girlfriend that you've just had a rather intensely erotic dream about another girl is not the done thing. Then to later in the day get a text message from the aforementioned girlfriend saying she was 'surprised it ( Read more... )

Expect back entries with random titles and rambling comments of complete nonsense as I attempt to deal with my return to reality and my recovery from jet lag.

... I promise to do better with the journal entries in 2011 ( Read more... )

So now that all the fancy perfume adverts and expensive chocolate adverts are finished with, it's time to turn towards adverts for furniture sales and winter holidays in the sun and, my personal favourite, partworks projects. Every new year we get bombarded by commercials for a weekly, fortnightly or monthly publication covering a vast array of ( Read more... )

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You're just like an angel, your masque101 makes me cry.
Which song was this lyric from?
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When my Mother retired last year the firm presented her with two day passes to The Sanctuary Spa. Let me first tell you that my Mother and I work for the same firm and so everyone looked to me for gift ideas... that's my sisters department. The spa day was also my sisters idea, the second day pass was the idea of my boss because she thought my ( Read more... )

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Sharing is caring.
For one week recommend/share the following:

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever takes your fancy

Some days, I swear, this is what my soul looks like.
(Artwork by Katie McCrystal)

Magpie - ( Read more... )

According to stand-up comedian Michael McIntyre posh people can substitute any word in the English language to mean drunk. Hence 'gazeboed'; it could also be 'car parked', 'trampolined', 'pajamaed' or 'paninied'. I'm not actually drunk but I'm wearing the tee-shirt I got last night when I went to his live show at the O2 arena.

The first time I saw ( Read more... )