This is the lovely funky lamp my Mum has in her dining room. I closed the curtain on the lamp side so that the light didn’t escape through the window.

This kinda hard! I started my taking a picture of the number bit on my keyboard and decided that if I didn’t come up with anything better I would stick with that.

This was my second idea so what do you think?

Today we went to church as normal. Pastor Mow Mow preached which was cool.

Afterwards me, Chris, Mr W, Mrs W, Abster and Essie went to the Gurdwara for lunch. It was really cool. Chris had told us how that they serve lunch not just for the “congregation” but for the community as well. So we went there for lunch – they were sooooo welcoming it was really cool (Did I already say that it was cool?!?!)

I took this picture on our way back the Mr and Mrs W’s house. There was some story I was told about that originally the domes on the roof were going to be painted/plated in like gold coloured paint/metal but the council refused the planning permission or something like that. I think it’s a beautiful building.

The building is an area of Bedford called Queen’s Park, there are a lot of people who go on about how rough it is and all this sort of thing. Now admittedly I don’t live there but Mr and Mrs W are raising their kids there and they think it’s a great place to bring the girlies up in such a multicultural area.

I was bored and decided to be creative. I chose Hannie-Pants as it’s my nickname and went off to find pictures that showed the letters. Also I’m kinda trialling header ideas. I’ve decided that I am going to pay out the money for my own URL hopefully Hanniepants.com (I’m going to be a DOT COM!) and so I am working on designs. Well mine are hand draw and then Chris will do the funky magic and make it look pretty.

I’ve decided to go back to a paper diary. I’m not really sure why I kinda feel lost without it. I have the diary on my phone but I like the feeling almost of writing it down rather than typing it in. Is that random or does that make sense?

I was brought up on Star Trek – it was like a tradition me and Dad would park in front of the TV on a Wednesday evening and we would watch it.

As I got older and was allowed to stay up later – I found The X Files – I was a bit late to catch on with this as BBC2 stopped showing it kinda once I got into it. My Mum wasn’t keen on me watching it as she thoought it would give me nightmares – on the other hand my Dad was ok with it.

By the time I got to Upper School The X Files was old hat and no one was particularly bothered about it – horror films had got scarier and Sci-Fi was dreaming bigger.

My English teacher let us watch it one lesson – I can’t remember why now but I guess it was to do with Media. I didn’t get to see all of it because I had to go to a music lesson – I went home and searched through the video cupboard and found it. I sat and watched it and would have watched it again but I didn’t have the patience to sit still!

I can’t write a proper blog while at work so it’s more like random thoughts.

Why do I have Five Minutes by Madonna and Justin Timberlake in my head – I really don’t like the song.

The canteen is always quiet but I go in a hi-speed dash to grab a bag of crisps and a sausage roll and the world and his wife are in there grrr!

So today is Wednesday and Yesterday I met my Goddaughter to be for the first time. She’s gorgeous and has beautiful eyes. It was good to catch up with Kitten B – I’ve missed her so much – I haven’t seen her since before university and I knew I missed her but not properly until yesterday.

This song is quoted in the front of IzzyB’s baby book. Here are the Lyrics:

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat
But always keep that hunger
May you never take one single breath for granted
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed

I hope you still feel small
When you stand by the ocean
Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens
Promise me you’ll give faith a fighting chance

And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance
I hope you dance

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Living might mean taking chances
But they’re worth taking

Lovin’ might be a mistake
But it’s worth making
Don’t let some hell bent heart

Leave you bitter
When you come close to selling out
Reconsider

Give the heavens above
More than just a passing glance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance

I hope you dance
(Time is a real and constant motion always)
I hope you dance
(Rolling us along)
I hope you dance
(Tell me who)
I hope you dance
(Wants to look back on their youth and wonder)
(Where those years have gone)

I’m happy or comments i really am but when you rant about the colour scheme and not the content I know something is wrong.

I’ve had this design fo about a year and in the last two weeks ish I’ve had two comments telling me how much the colour scheme sucks and that a 6 year old could have done it. Now my cousin is 7 an I know that he wouldn’t be able to design websites that’s for sure.

Chris spend two or three afternoons designing and tweaking the design so it sat right with pictures and videos.

I would consider toning down the colours but then it wouldn’t be my blog – it would be someone elses. If you met me in person you’d see that I live in colour.

So I loved Maria and then Joseph and me and my Mum guessed on both of them who would win. Connie was clearly the winner when it came to Maria she just had this sparkle that the others didn’t have. With Joseph it was a little harder but Mum guessed it would be Lee (something along the lines that he looked more like a Joseph than the rest.)

Anyway so I’ve been watching I’d Do Anything and I really think that Jessie might win – Andrew L-W likes the idea of having an Irish Nancy (aparently alot of people in London would have been Irish at that point.)

Theres a lady in the office that I work in who always wheres high heels – they are kinda wedges.

She has a cream pair that are about 2 inches tall for around the office then to go home or out at lunch time she puts on a pair of black ones which are even taller (probably about 4 inches) after work she then practically power walks it to the station to catch her train home – I’m concerned that one day I’ll drive past on my way home and she’ll be collapsed in a heap having broken her ankle or something.

Why do people spam blogs and emails? What is the point?

I am seriously struggling at the moment, I do like my job but technically it’s only temperary for six months so as much as the fact I want to feel settled – in a way there is no point because I could be going in 5 months (I’ve been here nearly a month already).

I don’t know what I want to do next as such. I heard an article today on the radio that nearly 5 years per person are wasted because they are in the wrong job. I left University at the end of my degree last June and since I have bounced from one job to the next pretty much. I worked for an Electrical Wholesalers from April through to August. I was a cleaner at church and for my Mum through to November, I then worked for Star until the end of February and started here on the 10th-ish of March.

I guess I would be ok staying here but I don’t want to get “stuck” here as such.

I sit and try and think of what I would do – like if I knew what I know now what would I have done at the end of my GCSE’s and/or A Levels. When I finished my GCSE’s I wanted to do performing arts or become a Paramedic – I looked at which A Levels I needed and where I could go to Uni but because I didn’t move to the college I ended up doing Performing Arts. Now I am here 5 years down the line and don’t think I made the right choice. I need God to stick his giant Godly hand out of the clouds – point at me and say this is what you need to do!!!!! Except it doesn’t happen like that in real life – I just mumble along and see what I can do.

I looked at going back to study again but I still have no idea. Kewey and Chris suggested I started my own business doing crafty bits but there isn’t enough money in it. I know the job shouldn’t be for the money but I need to cover some of the bills. GRHA;JHWRLHWERLJH!!!!!!!!!! WHAT DO I DO?!?!?!?

When my iPod arrived I looked at jailbreaking it because I wanted the mail app amongst others that weren’t on it. I added a couple of games and was well chuffed.

I’ve now upgraded to 1.1.3, only to find out that the applications that were supposedly in the upgrade aren’t free. So I have the free version of 1.1.3 but to get Mail etc I need to pay £12.99. However if I was able to I could purchase the US upgrade for $19.99 dollars which according to google is £10 rather than £13 – now ok £3 isn’t a big deal but it’s the middle of the month most people aren’t paid for another 2 ish weeks.

If they make upgrades like this every few months is it going to have worked out better to buy an iPhone from eBay where i would have recieved the upgrades for free.

Anyone?

So I love signing up for Swap’s I come and tell you all about them.

Here is the second Swap that I am hosting.

I finished reading the book about a week ago and decided that watching the film was next on the list. Now if I have the patience with my iPod keyboard I’m good to blog from my mum’s living room while watching csi las vegas. Everyone say “hi mum!!!!”

I knew the film would be different but I didn’t quite catch on how different. I will ty to avoid spoilers but can’t guarantee anything.

The book is by Cecelia Ahern. It’s set in Dublin however the film writers moved it to New York. There is two little bits in Ireland but it’s not the same.

Admitted I did cry!!!

I love girlie films and love happy endings – it has a sad beginning but gradually it gets better. There are big chunks that are missing like the ball what happened there????

I have to go as my battery is dying I will be back with more later or 2moro

(I’ve come back to edit it now I can see it properly on my computer!)

So I said there would be a photo yesterday but I was having trouble with the internet so I didn’t get round to here. But here we are are with it today. At the moment it’s brown but when I get chance I am going to dye it black again – especially as my two grey hairs are sticking out like a sore thumb again!

Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know Your friends. Okay , here’s what you’re supposed to do, And try not to be a SCROOGE !!! Just copy (not forward) This entire email and paste into a new e-mail that you can send. (or you blog like me!)

Change all the answers so that they apply to You. Then send this to a whole bunch of people you Know, INCLUDING the person that sent it to You ……T’is the Season to be NICE!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Either really, I wrapped the presents in paper this year but I am with Ellie’s response about using Fabric bags and recycled paper. I have some paper to use up but I will try and use both to balance it out lol.

2. Real tree or Artificial? Since I was little my parents have had an artificial tree (which was bought Christmas 1985 when my Mum was pregnant with me) they still have the tree! Chris has a real tree last year as he was treated to it by my Grandparents as he didn’t have a tree of his own. This year we have a little artifical tree which is ok but Chris decorated it without me!

3. When do you put up the tree? That usually depends when we get chance. My Mum usually gets her diary out and writes out a couple of dates then has a look to see which date are we free on so that me, Mum Rich and Dad are all in the same place at the same time to do the tree. As may be known this year went pear shape. Chris put the tree up without me while I was at work. I decorated the church tree with Caroline which was cool but it was definately not the same as decorating our own tree for our first Christmas 2gether. Chris keeps whinging at me because I keep bringing it up. Hello! My family do the tree together Christmas is about family (after the celebration of the birth of Baby Jesus)

4. Vanished!

5. Do you like egg nog? Don’t think I have ever tried it but from the recipe that Hina at work read before we split for Christmas it sounded pretty gross.

6. Favorite gift received as a child? I don’t know, Is that bad? My favorite recieved in the last few years (so not really child as I’m now 21 lol) would be my Electric Guitar that my parents bought me I think maybe three Christmasses ago.

7. Do you have a nativity scene? I do! It came as part of my advent calendar that Jenny bought me. I was babysitting her daughter for the weekend that covered the 1st and 2nd of Dec and Jenny had bought me an advent caledar so that I didn’t feel left out. It’s like a cardboard make it yourself kit but it’s really cool – i just need the space to put it out.

8. Hardest person to buy for? Richard! My brother lives with my parents and so pays housekeeping which takes up a tiny bit of his wages and so each month buys computer games, CD’s and DVD’s so it gets to Christmas and I don’t know what to get him becuase anything I’ve thought “I could get that for Rich” he probably already has!!!!

9. Easiest person to buy for? Mum! Amazon Wish Lists rock my socks! lol. This year her present wasn’t from it though. Me and Chris bought her heated slippers to keep her feet warm.

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Proper Cards are cool because its personal. It’s more environmentally friendly to send emails now or send recycled cards – Karen inspired me for something for next year.

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? It’s not my worst but I swear everyone thinks me and Chris need fattening up or something we have 5 boxes in total of Chocolates and biscuits that we were given as Christmas presents. I try not to give food or sweets as presents because people have lots of food anyway. I do homemade biscuits or flapjack because it’s not as rich as shop bought.

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Miracle on 34th Street, The Holiday or Love Actually. I don’t know if the second are technically Christmas films but I love them all the same.

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? September – when I had a job. This year was a bit more tight packed as I was unemployed till the middle of November, so my best friends presents were homemade with little bought touches when I could afford them.

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yes I have but it’s often because a relative might have thought I’d like it but it really wasn’t me and I’d rather it went to a loving home than gathered dust in my room.

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? At my parents, My mum would get this tube of Fruit and Nut mix, I’d sit and pick out the raisins and Papaya as it was the only bits I liked. It always winded up my Dad as he’d get just the nuts.

16. Clear lights or colored on the tree? I prefer clear so that they don’t clash with the decorations lol

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Home! I would like to travel one year just to see the difference but more than likely Home wins over, because it’s one of the few times that we all have the same time off.

19. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeers? Ready…….Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph. However Rudolph wasn’t actually one of Santa’s Reindeer. He was added after that song was released.

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Red metallic star on top of ours.

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas Morning. At my parents they were done about 9am ish as we went to church the night before (like midnight mass but there was no communion). This year me and Chris opened one before the service, went to church then opened the rest over a period of about 3 hours as we had to do them in slots during the cooking of lunch.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? Christmas decorations in October/November. Hello not even had Halloween yet.

23. Favorite ornament theme or color? Purple and Silver

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Chicken joint with stuffing through the middle.

25. What do you want for Christmas this year? Well Christmas has passed now. What I would have liked was one day where me and Chris didn’t fall out over something petty. That happened because he made a mean comment and I stood in the kitchen and cried while trying to do the washing up.

26. Who is most likely to respond to this? Not really sure, everyone is probably busy.

27. Who is least likely to respond to this? Erm not sure.

The iPod didn’t arrive. I think I am waiting for a dispatched email to be told it is on the way. I ordered a book at the same time as the iPod and that has been dispatched so should be at my Mum-in-Law’s on Monday. I just would very much like it alot if my iPod arrives on Monday then I can charge and play with it till work on Wednesday am.

Ok so it doesnt close for another 24 hours technically but from about 9pm tomorrow I am pretty much internet less for the weekend. I am babysitting my friends daughter for the whole weekend – She’s 9 so I guess it’s more childminding than Babysitting.

I enjoyed doing NaBloPoMo it’s easier to fit around work etc because you can sit down when you get it from work – type about your day and that can be your post if that is all you have to write about whereas NaNoWriMo takes so much more dedication – 50,000 words is not easy – I think if I actually had word counted my dissertation I might have been close to 15,000 (it was a research folder and so it was hard to determine what was research and what counted as your word count)

I think I am going NaBloPoMo again next year although I have a year to decide – well maybe 11 months. Can I plan my story rather than write it then start typing as fast as I can on the 1st November – someone clever worked out that you would have to write 1667 words each day to be able to reach 50,000 on the last day.

So yesterday at work we had the ops meeting – this is where lots of different people across the company get together and organise bits like transport, hotels and crew amongst other things – it was only my second time at this meeting and I had to do the update – this is a spreadsheet that we put all the information in and then send it round everyone at the meeting so that they know whaat they need to do before each of the different jobs go out. Sounds simply believe me it’s not! I started as soon as I got in. I took a break to wrap a present as one of the guys in our office is leaving at the end of this week tomorrow and my hour for lunch. I also did a couple of other small jobs other than that I worked on it from 9 to 4 it really shouldn’t have taken that long and I know one of the other girls in the office turned round and said “Don’t ask HER she’s taking too long”. Hello it was my first time doing the update of course it’s going to take me longer than you – you’ve been doing it longer! Anyway it really upset me then when I showed the next attempt to the office manager her response made me cry – now she’s not a mean person, but I’ve been a bit off the last few days and been feeling under the weather – yesterday morning I stood in the HR Manager’s office and nearly fainted – I kept feeling like I was going to pass out or something – I hadn’t exactly slept well the night before and so I don’t know if that had anything to do with it but Mum has been poorly this last week so maybe i’ve come out in sympathy.

P.S. last night I wrote nearly 1000 words in just over an hour for my NaNoWriMo story!!!!!! About two weeks ago I totally lost inspiration and started another story – i then restarted a third story but have been able to use some of the second story in it which is cool. I am currently on about 4000 words and thats without the stuff I wrote while babysitting this evening.

So I don’t really like reality TV some bits are funny other bits aren’t. I’m a celebrity just grosses me out – why should people be forced to complete tasks to get food – sounds like something out of Saw! lol.

I am more into music reality TV so I prefer things like Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing with The Stars (I watch it on YouTube – thanks to the many lovely americans who post clips – you can watch it on UKTV Gold but we don’t get it). I watch Strictly Come Dancing on BBC 1 rather than the X Factor. I sometimes watch the clips posted on YouTube as then you don’t have to watch all the waffle in the middle. Rhydian is good but he’s a bit odd if you get me.

Same Difference are a Brother and Sister group – I would say they are ok but they sang Breaking Free from High School Musical a few weeks ago and tbh it wasnt the best choice – after all it’s a love song lol.

On Saturday they sang this one which is actually really good. Not sure who I would like to win though. I thought that Mel B or Marie Osmond would have won DWTS but it wasnt to be Helio won!

Today is Tuesday that day between Monday and Wednesday in case anyone forgot.

I have writers block and so am trying to think of something to write.

So here goes

Five useless facts about Tuesday.

1. Tuesday started off as Twisday in Middle English.

2. It was named after the Norse god Tyr. He was god of combat.

3. In Romance languages (they come from roman background) like French (Mardi), Italian (Martedi) and Spanish (Martes) all have the similarity of being called “Mars day” or Martis dies in Latin.

4. I can’t work out the history of Dienstag (German) but fact 4 is that Dienstag is German for Tuesday and Dinstag is Dutch.

5. Christmas this year falls on a Tuesday!

I was working on ten but seemed to have hit a floor!

My cousin David who is about 4ish weeks younger than me is at the University of Hertfordshire doing a course in 3D Animation. And you see I already knew he did lots of work at university – in the past he has been known to come home at Christmas in his slippers because he didn’t have the energy to change into his shoes – I feel sorry for his girlfriend sometimes! (She is lovely – she wants to be a teacher one day and might be coming to study in Bedford – I doubt they will but if they did split I hope that we will still be friends because she’s really cool – We chat about Shakespeare and I don’t feel like a geek because she gets as excited as I do!) Anyhoo here is one of his videos.

So me and Kewey wanted some way to keep in touch between us that could be a conversation as sorts, didn’t cost lots of money as we would chat for Britian and that would give us arthiritus from writing too much. So we came up with Our Blog. I will possibly put a link but I need to check with Kewey first.

Yesterday I was having a bit of a pants day and this was the post I wrote to Kewey. (p.s. Today I am much more happier – I think I was tired and not handling little things so well)

I MISS YOU!!!!

I almost need you here to tell me that I don’t suck and put the smile back on my face. I want the uni days back, when I had no job I couldn’t handle it because the four walls were driving me nuts and now I have a job and it’s draining every spare moment of time out of my life – ok not quite every spare moment as I leave at 5 and I’m home by 6 so I still have my evenings but this last week I have got home and Chris has then been in meetings or been essay writing. Thursday I went to Mum’s after work – she’s been feeling really tired and on Thursday had gone down with a cough thing (she’s only got to breathe slightly too heavy and it makes her cough up her lungs at this rate there will be no lungs left in the woman!) Anyhoo so I go on Thursday to see her end up staying for tea so that she didn’t have to cook etc (the only cooking that it took was phoning the Chinese for a takeaway).

Chris then had Rock Solid on Friday so I spent that on my own in No90 as it was my evening off (I do every other week). Chris then packed the car and dashed off to the Youth Sleepover thing at St Johns (Can’t really complain I had the bed to myself!!!! WAHHOOOOO more room lol but actually it was really cold – the heating in our room sucks and the fan heater blows! It’s so noisy you have turn it off to sleep and so the temperature drops shortly after – No good for insominacs they’d have icebergs hanging from their noses!).

This morning there was banging and crashing around in the house and I woke up (Chris has gone to get me a tissue because my nose is running and I have been crying and there’s a really cold draught running across my fingers!) thought aah thats ok probably just someone here to use the photocopier etc something like that. Then there was footsteps heading for the door – so I’m like who on earth is that – start panicing as I am the only person in the house other than this person outside the door (like how am i going to defend myself?!?! Throw Chris’s cheesey socks at them and hope it gases them????). The door swings open – It was Chris!!!!!! Says about how he brought the car back and I could have it but I needed to take him back to St Johns and it needed to be before 10am (Baring in mind I have just woken up at 9:25am, got the fright of my life thinking I may be attacked by and intruder and Chris wants me to be dressed and ready to drive him in less than half an hour!!!!!!)

So I get up and get dressed – I look in the mirror and I look as white as a sheet. (If I make no sense it is because Chris is chatting at me and I am trying to be a woman and multi-task!)

I rush round and get my bits sorted for the day and I was expecting to kind of daudle around and get myself sorted before lunch not before 10am! So I get sorted and take Chris to St Johns. I head for the car park that is over Iceland and near the bus station. I decide not to park there and head for Lurke Street car park (near Lidl) as it’s about 20p cheaper – and I would like to save all I can until pay day.

So I park there and do some quick bits in town – after that I head for Mum and Dad’s I had an angel costume to make (and it wasn’t for me!). It was easier said than done – with all the dashing around I hadn’t got to measure Chris and so had to draw round Richard (he’d been at work and stunk to heaven!) so I draw Rich who as a joke pretends to kick me – except actually really does kick me (He was laying on the floor and I was lent over his legs drawing round him to get the rough size for the angel – theoretically Rich is bulkier than Chris and so if it fitted Rich it should fit Chris – easily!)

So I hung out at Mum and Dads – that was the good bit of my evening – me and Mum had had a Bones fest and watched most of season 2 (i think!) with bits of Casualty, Strictly Come Dancing and Robin Hood in the middle. At the end of the Dancing they are getting more and more sillier about how their introduce what is next – last week Len (the judge) got hit with a prank arrow (you know the ones with the bend in to put round your head). This week they played the flying arrow noise six times and “killed” off the male dancers! lol There was a close shot on Bruce and Tess while they played the noises then the camera shot went to a wider one and the guys were all laying on the floor. Me and mum had to rewind it on the Sky plus because we missed what had happened the first time round!!!!

So then it got to 10 to 10 (Chris keeps looking over to see what I am typing about and now had rolled over in a slight strop). Chris had asked me to pick him up between 9 and 10 but hadn’t told me exactly so I sent him two text messages to find out what time he wanted me to get him – this is where the ‘Enders stylee drums come in because although I would like to finish posting Chris is about to doze off so I will write more possibly/hopefully tomorrow – Do you still want to come Christmas shopping? If yes let me know and I will tidy the living room so you have somewhere to sleep!!!!!!!! I can’t do next weekend but I am free the following if you want to go then – any closer to Christmas and it’s just gonna be mad. Smithey over and out!

So below is a long blog post – it’s the first 300 words ish of my story for NaNoWriMo – I decided that I would post it on here so it saw the light of day in some form. There are websites now where you can upload files and they will print and bind them – if you want to read the rest of my story when I finish it (if i finish it lol) drop me a message and I’ll see what I can do. Maybe I could post installments!
Hi I’m Lottie, indie emo chick I would say. I live in Bedford not exactly the centre of the universe but I think it’s somewhere near.

I am writing this diary to somehow explain my existence I guess. Not in the sense of Creation versus Evolution (Note: Yeah I’m emo, but I’m a Christian I don’t do the whole cutting thing for one it makes a mess and two you get scars).So the whole diary thing started again to prove existence and second I have a wild imagination and need to get my ideas down before they escaped my grasp.

Here’s a bit about me, up to six months ago I lived with my parents and sister. I moved out when my sister went to uni and Mum and Dad split up. Something about Dad no longer loving Mum and he’d been with her for the last few years pretending he could survive with her till I got to uni. Obviously didn’t look as I left school went to uni but lived at home. He was hoping that I’d move away and he’d somehow vanish. I guess you are probably going “but what about your sister?” and “what is her name?”

Well she’s called Emily, yes I know my Mum had a thing about the books by the Brontes so I was Charlotte (well Lottie) and she got Emily. Mum went to uni and did English Literature. She met Dad in the Student Union Bar. If it was possible it was love at first sight. You know the cheesey “their eyes met across a crowded room” scenario. It was the late seventies early eighties when they met. It would have been 25 years next year if they’d stayed together. I guess something good is that they are just separated and not divorced at the moment so they might get back together one day I guess.

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I love Youtube but do they do know that there is a loop in their system when it comes to embedded videos that are disabled?

Ok so I get the feeling I may have already posted this or I just emailed it round my friends but I wanted to share.

Today was sooooo cool. So yesterday Linus and Jo arrived from Shanghai which was cool. It was decided that us girlies in the office would go out with Jo and show her how we do Christmas. Originally we were going to go to see Bedford Christmas Lights be switched on but we decided town would be too packed and it would be kinda rubbish. Then it changed to going to MK and wandering round the shops, we then found that the shops in the centre don’t open for Christmas shopping on a Wednesday. So then it changed to going to Xscape and wandering round there grabbing some food and maybe going Bowling or something.

So after work I dropped Jo back at her hotel. We’d chatted on the way back into Bedford about what it’s like to live in Shanghai and how busy it is. I found out that she’s an only child and she ended up living in Shanghai as she went to university there. Some of her friends came over to England to study at Uni rather than staying in China. I then came home, washed my hair at high speed (I swear it gets greasier quicker now) and got changed out of my work uniform. I then picked up Abby and Jo and we headed for MK. Me and Abby chatted for Britain on the way – which is good as we don’t really get much time to chat at work and we dont get like lunch break at the same time so it’s not like we can get to know each other then, I felt kinda bad that we didn’t include Jo more but when we tried it was a little bit of a struggle. We went and waiting in the middle of Xscape for the other girls to arrive. Theres currently a board about the Re-Generation project that is happening in MK, this was good as there was a map and we could show Jo where we would have gone if we had gone shopping. We chatted about our families and what we enjoyed doing. We met the other girlies at Xscape and went for a drink in the City Limits bar upstairs near the cinema. This was great fun as we got to know each other better – me and Abby only started last week so it was a bit like a trial run before the Christmas party in December which was cool.

Tea was lovely – we went to Frankie and Benny’s which I love! lol. I had a Bacon Cheese Burger which was very nice but sooooo filling – I really fancied a pudding but I was really worried I wouldn’t concentrate on driving as I felt so stuffed. We were going to go Bowling after dinner but Jo decided she would like to head back to Bedford – I think the jet lag has her up at peculiar times. China is I think about 9ish hours in front of something like that – so it’s 10pm here and it feels like 4am or something like that – so a bit like when you go to America but the other way and because it’s just a short trip by the time she has got used to the time difference it’s time to go home and she’ll be on a different time zone again. It would be nice to stay in touch, I think!

The company I work for also has an office in Italy – maybe I need to see if I can do some kind of exchange to see how their office works lol. I can just about get by in Italian – I can borrow my dicitionary back off Tubi if needs be lol. I think she would understand lol.

So today I probably could have started the costume if I had a body to draw round and a sheet to draw on! Chris has gone to the Elders and Deacons Meeting, while I see next door and watch random bits of Grey’s Anatomy on YouTube. I am sure it’s not supposed to be on there but there you go.

I know what roughly happens up until Episode 8 – apparently Episode 9 is on Thursday at 9/8c what ever that means when it is at home.

I should really write some more of my story for NaNoWriMo – it’s the 20th which gives me 10 days to write about 48,000 words – that is 4800 a day!!!! If I was to write for 24 hours straight – so for the whole day it would be 200 an hour which I could possibly just about manage except I wouldn’t be able to manage the 24 hours straight. So I start work at 9 finish at 5 it takes me about 30-45 minutes to get home depending on traffic. If I start writing at 6 that gives me 5 or 6 hours to write which means I need to write 800 words an hour.

I am still struggling with my story and think I may write it all as one person rather than the two different voices I was going for. The other option is to carry on changing my uni script into a story rather than a script. AAH well any suggestions are welcomed.

I think I may have already posted under that title before but there you go.

It’s Monday – again lol. Well at least first Monday at my new job so I think thats something to celebrate isn’t it?! I have lasted three days so far which is good!

I had to chase hotels this morning – why is it soooo difficult to send an invoice either by email or fax – preferably email because then there is only one copy – the one that goes to accounts as proof rather than the one that was put in the fax machine and the one that appeared my end.

Anyway – how do you remain chilled when you want to shout at them?

Chris has asked me nicely if I will make him an angel costume. He was collared into playing the Angel Gabriel – I am thinking whole hog – Tinsel on his head for a halo and some description of wings. I just need to get hold of a sheet and get on with it.

So at high speed I am writing this post, I gave up singing in the worship band today to help with the sound desk as Chris is away. OK I barely know anything about a sound desk – I’m usually on stage saying “I would like this in my left ear and that in my right and can you stand on one leg while you do that please.” It doesn’t always go like that lol. Any way so I get there at half past 9 set up the desk (It takes me 15 minutes to work it all out – hey the last time I went near a sound desk I nearly broke it because I turned on the wrong switch 🙁 the time before that I was still at school doing Music Technology). So I’ve sorted the desk and I’m ready for the practice – Sam arrives (he was meant to be doing the desk but had arrived late – so at least by setting it up he was ready to go). The worship band decide – well Ruby isn’t playing drums today lets move the kit – so there’s a new sound technician who is following instructions from a sheet of paper, and the worship band decide to furniture move rather than run through the songs. OK!!!

Anyway I decided rather than getting annoyed about it I would come back home (I live next door to the church) chill out until about 2 minutes to the beginning of the service and I would park myself in the back corner – after all the girlies who I would normally sit with have gone away this weekend with out me (Their spouses have gone to a Men’s conference and mine has gone to a youth work conference).

I started my new job this week which I really enjoy – the office is 6 girlies and we have a great laugh. But I feel like I have lost my friends by getting a job. I am going to go I think I might cry.

I found this on Kassrose’s blog. So apparently if you have seen over 85 films you have no life – so I can tell you I probably most definately have no life but I decided I would do this anyway. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, go to your blog, facebook or myspace  and paste this. Then, put x’s next to the films you’ve seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and click post at the bottom. Have fun.

(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest
() Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
(x) Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story
() Blazing Saddles
(x) Airplane

Total:8

(x) The Princess Bride
(x) AnchorMan
(x) Napoleon Dynamite
(x) Labyrinth
() Saw
() Saw II
() White Noise
(x) White Oleander
(x) Anger Management
(x) 50 First Dates
(x) The Princess Diaries
(x) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

Total so far: 17

() Scream
() Scream 2
() Scream 3
(x) Scary Movie
(x) Scary Movie 2
() Scary Movie 3
() Scary Movie 4
(x) American Pie
(x) American Pie 2
(x) American Wedding
() American Pie Band Camp

Total so far: 22

(x) Harry Potter 1
(x) Harry Potter 2
(x) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
(x) Resident Evil 1
(x) Resident Evil 2
(x) The Wedding Singer
() Little Black Book
(x) The Village
(x) Lilo & Stitch

Total so far: 31

(x) Finding Nemo
(x) Finding Neverland
(x) Signs
(x) The Grinch
() Texas Chainsaw Massacre
() Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
() White Chicks
(x) Butterfly Effect
(x) 13 Going on 30
(x) I, Robot
(x) Robots

Total so far: 39

(x) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
() Universal Soldier
() Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(x) Along Came Polly
(x) Deep Impact
() KingPin
(x) Never Been Kissed
(x) Meet The Parents
(x) Meet the Fockers
() Eight Crazy Nights
() Joe Dirt
() KING KONG – only the original

Total so far: 45

(x) A Cinderella Story
(x) The Terminal
(x) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
() Passport to Paris
(x) Dumb & Dumber
(x) Dumber & Dumberer
(x) Final Destination
() Final Destination 2
() Final Destination 3
() Halloween
() The Ring
() The Ring 2
() Surviving X-MAS
(x) Flubber (I watched it for like the 5th time on the morning of my own wedding!)

Total so far: 52

() Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
() Practical Magic
(x) Chicago
() Ghost Ship
() From Hell
(x) Hellboy
() Secret Window
() I Am Sam (I want to see this!)
(x) The Whole Nine Yards
(x) The Whole Ten Yards

Total so far: 56

(x) The Day After Tomorrow
() Child’s Play
() Seed of Chucky
() Bride of Chucky
(x) Ten Things I Hate About You
(x) Just Married
() Gothika
() Nightmare on Elm Street
() Sixteen Candles
() Remember the Titans
() Coach Carter
(x) The Grudge
() The Grudge 2
(x) The Mask
() Son Of The Mask

Total so far: 61

(x) Bad Boys
(x) Bad Boys 2
() Joy Ride
() Lucky Number Slevin
(x) Ocean’s Eleven
(x) Ocean’s Twelve
(x) Bourne Identity
(x) Bourne Supremecy
() Lone Star
(x) Bedazzled (if you mean the old one, or watching the last half hour of the new one)
(x) Predator I
() Predator II
() The Fog
(x) Ice Age
(x) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
(x) Curious George

Total so far: 73

(x) Independence Day
() Cujo
() A Bronx Tale
() Darkness Falls
() Christine
(x) ET
() Children of the Corn
() My Bosses Daughter
(x) Maid in Manhattan
() War of the Worlds
(x) Rush Hour
(x) Rush Hour 2

Total so far: 78

() Best Bet
(x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
(x) She’s All That
(x) Calendar Girls
(x) Sideways
() Mars Attacks
() Event Horizon
(x) Ever After
(x) Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
() Big Trouble in Little China
(x) The Terminator
(x) The Terminator 2
(x) The Terminator 3

Total so far: 87

(x) X-Men
(x) X-2
(x) X-3
(x) Spider-Man
(x) Spider-Man 2
() Sky High
(x) Jeepers Creepers
() Jeepers Creepers 2
(x) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Little Mermaid
(x) Freaky Friday
() Reign of Fire
() The Skulls
(x) Cruel Intentions
() Cruel Intentions 2
() The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
(x) Shrek 2

Total so far: 99

() Swimfan
(x) Miracle on 34th street – only the original
() Old School
() The Notebook
() K-Pax
() Krippendorf’s Tribe
() A Walk to Remember
() Ice Castles
() Boogeyman
(x) The 40-year-old Virgin

Total so far: 101

(x) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
(x) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
(x) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
(x) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(x) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(x) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Total so far: 107

() Baseketball
(x) Hostel (I got through the titles then decided I really wouldn’t watch it even if it was for uni!)
() Waiting for Guffman
() House of 1000 Corpses
() Devils Rejects
() Elf
() Highlander
() Mothman Prophecies
() American History X
() Three

Total so Far: 108

() The Jacket
() Kung Fu Hustle
() Shaolin Soccer
() Night Watch
(x) Monsters Inc.
(x) Titanic
(x) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(x) Shaun Of the Dead
(x) Willard

Total so far: 113

() High Tension
() Club Dread
(x) Hulk
() Dawn Of the Dead
(x) Hook
(x) Chronicles Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
() 28 days later
() Orgazmo
() Phantasm
(x) Waterworld

Total so far: 117

(x) Kill Bill vol 1
(x) Kill Bill vol 2
() Mortal Kombat
() Wolf Creek
() Kingdom of Heaven
() the Hills Have Eyes
() I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
() The Last House on the Left
() Re-Animator
() Army of Darkness

Total so far: 119

(x) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(x) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
(x) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(x) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(x) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(x) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
( ) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
( ) Ewoks The Battle For Endor

Total so far:125

(x) The Matrix
(x) The Matrix Reloaded
(x) The Matrix Revolutions
(x) Animatrix
() Evil Dead
() Evil Dead 2
(x) Team America: World Police
(x) Red Dragon
(x) Silence of the Lambs
(x) Hannibal

Total so far: 133

See I am seriously a geek – I think I might get The Murf to do the quiz that will really show who is the King of the Films! Lol

Ok so I pranced around the living room to this when they performed on Children in Need, but I had an excuse – I have a free house and I was am a massive fan!!!! I doubt there is actually any chance but apparently my friend Jane will love me forever if I can get her tickets to the upcoming come back tour!! lol Maybe I need to see if I can go out on the rigging if we get the job – you know see the other side of the business lol.
I was a little disappointed by the Newsreaders though the last few years it’s been the thing that we’ve looked forward to. I think Fiona did an amazing job to sing All That Jazz – because it is a hard song – I know that as I sang it in my singing lessons.

I feel like I should have taken a photo of me on my first day at my new job. But I didn’t – It didnt cross my mind to do it until now and I’m kinda in the same clothes but changed my jumper – so I can’t now!!

I had a phone call at 4pm ish and was told that my car was finished and that I could pick it up – there will be a photo tomorrow of it’s new nose once I’ve taken it to the car wash on my way home from work. It’s funny the bonnet is lovely and clean where they have put the new coat of paint onto it, the wings are absolutely filthy as the car hasnt been probably washed since the accident. Apparently according to Chris I shouldn’t wash the car tomorrow as the paint might be too new or something – he’s shouting at me from the other room rather than getting off his backside and coming to talk to me about the car and what I should be doing.

So after my accident back in August it was about time that the car got fixed – so today I got up at 9am and took the car to the garage with some assistance (and taxi driving) from Grandad. My Grandma came with us as we went to the Greengrocers on the way to get their shopping. It was very funny because Grandma kept telling Grandad off but he’d just take the mickey out of her back. Me and Chris really struggle with that because sometimes Chris can actually be really person and really hurt my feelings.

Anyway we were in the car on the way back and it got even more sillier!!! Thats for sure! They chatted about where my Grandad used to live (the garage is about 3 minutes down the road from where my Great-Grandma and Great-Grandad used to live. Great-Grandma died when I was in Year 10 – I would have be about 14 and Great-Grandad now lives in a Old Folkies Home) and then my Grandma was going to show me where she used to live and then she completely missed it – she was too busy talking about how Grandad used to cycle through the village to her house to pick her up to go “courting”. It was very very very sweet.

Hello so my reason for manic dancing was that I was offered a job on Friday and so proceeded to dance round my Mum’s living room, landing then our living room when I got home.

I had my interview on Wednesday and was offered a job on Friday how cool is that. So now I am counting down the days to get to a job lol. Well thats if the car is fixed in time, in the morning I need to take the car to the garage, to get the bonnet sorted – yes my car is having Rhinoplasty tomorrow – to the rest of us it’s a nose job lol

Karen had Drastic Fantastic playing at her birthday bash last night and in tribute to the fab party and the amazing birthday cake we have this video. (and because Computer course is boring me!!!!)