If you need a giggle.....

I was just scouting through Blogger's "Blogs of Note" and found these boys - scroll down to the Gallery and pick your song - so purile, and sooooo funny :)

All Change

Well, the Broadband is fixed - sort of! It took several phone calls (the most recent taking 25 minutes!)and fiddling around with the line and the modem, but almost normal service has now been resumed!

Since last blogging:

*My 25th Birthday happened, it was fun, got cool stuff had a nice evening at Emma and Adrian's with some folks form church and kicked a** at Disney Trivial Pursuit (Can you name the cat up the tree at the beginning of "The Incredibles"?....I did - I know, I'm a freak :) )

*Also for my birthday, the mother, the sisters and I went for a fab meal at the "Red Lion" in Earlswood. I picked it because the serve Hunter's Chicken..mmmm.. my favourite (Chicken served with BBQ sauce covered in Bacon and cheese....mwa!) so we had a fab evening with Red Wine an open fire and, oh yeah, I got a job!

*Last week I started at said pub as a waitress, something I've never really done before but I do a bit of bar work now and again so I feel at home. It's a lovely place to work and keeps me busy!

*Also on the work front P.E.E.L rang me to offer me a job on the 'Celebration' over summer (well Feb-Nov, that's a LOOOONG summer!). It's a new position involving DSMing 2 evening plays (which replace 2 of the more usual musical shows) and a day time play, as well as sorting out the various lecturers/speakers who will be on the ship giving presentations. It sounded great except for the fact that I would have to DJ/Tech for 2 months before I started it and then I would be DJ/Teching when I wasn't working in the main lounge. I feel that I've served my time as a DJ/Tech and really can't see myself going back to that position....in fact....I can't stand the idea! SO I turned it down....First time I've done that - kind of a scary feeling!!

I was SM on the 'Destiny' before we left and I thought I did a pretty good job, I really enjoyed the work and loved the responsibility so I'm not sure I really should go backwards in the line of command. I'm going to call this week and have a chat to the Top Bods who were on there at the end with me and see what's happening.

* Have completed decorating the 'New' (it's about 12 years-old now!) bathroom, stripped all the paper in the Old Bathroom (now just waiting for plasterer) and started on my room. I've dismantled my huge, but v.useful corner workstation (coming to eBay soon!) and am creating one with various shelving parts from IKEA. Have planned a sort of Victorian colour theme for the walls and bought all the paint etc. Also fitted a new light and Junction box (yes, it's been tested by an electrician!)for my room so my Mum will no longer complain about the fact that I have three bulbs on, on a dark afternoon!

So all in all have been pretty busy! Will have some photos up soon of the decorating progress but also hoping to spend some time updating my Morris Minor Blog before I go away again.

Our Broadband needs a break!

Haven't posted in what seems likes an age! mostly to do with actually getting to enjoy Christmas and the New Year and partly because this pain in the a**e of a computer keeps disconnecting itself from the internet, oh, and when you attempt to reconnect it tells you 'there's no Dial Tone'.....It's a Broadband connection - what the hecks it's problem????!!!??? (any ideas gratefully accepted!)

I was hoping to put a few photo's up from the festive time but the computer won't allow me the liberty of time, but I had a fabulous Christmas and a great New Year (Murder Mystery at Adrian and Emma's - riot!!) and now just waiting until my Birthday on s`aturday and that's all my celebrations gone for another year ;)

Logic Gaming at FASCO rocks!

Was checking out some blogs via various routes and came across this game:


You HAVE to go check this out. It's a point and click style mystery - the idea is to get out of the room by finding objects and working out the clues. Amazing design with flash player and so addictive. WARNING: You will need a good 30mins to an hour spare. I played this room and then the Viridian room - next onto the Blue Chamber!
Load the English Version then click on the title screen to start the story.

The "URL" clue doesn't work - HINT: 1994

If you need a tip then just leave a comment on this post.

Week going well so far. All Christmas cards written, most foreign ones posted (held up most of the cue in the post office buying stamps for various countries!) and presents wrapped. Enjoying various Christmas "do's" this week - all church related - fabulous!

The Lurgy cometh

I have been ill for roughly the last 4 days. Caught the rather dislikeable sickness bug that is going around the wilds of Wythall and Hollywood at the moment, so spent most of Sunday in bed unable to move, eat or even drink water - which then leaves you with a stunning headache. I also developed backache not sure whether it was the bug or just me lying there but I have to say that I haven't felt quite so pathetic in a long time. I'm just waiting to get "The Cold" now....bring it on....

I'm enjoying this life of leisure so far. I went to see the new Harry Potter film with Mum, Vix and some of Mum's friends. It was good, although due to the length of the film vs the leangth of the book quite a lot of the non-essential plot gets missed out. Visually stunning, packed with action and I have to admit to shedding a few tears at the v. well handled ending. My favourite scene is in the Great Hall when Harry, Ron and Hermione are studying and asking about dates they are taking to the ball - Alan Rickman doesn't have a lot to do in this film - but this is truly his finest comic moment!!(although I'm going to have to chec in the book to see if that actually happens!)

I've been to see various folks, done some Christmas shopping, had a trip to IKEA with Jo and we moved my room about - no matter what you do to it it still reembles a box with a window!- started to organise a work placement/visit and got various bits of work for the next couple of months.

I have 3 Christmas "Do's" next week - 3! and they're all for Church related groups!!

[/fangirl]

What a fab weekend! I got to forget all the training that has been drummed into me (..must not ask for autograph..must not ask for autograph..) and be a gleeful fangirl (although not too much!) at the Memorabilia exibition.

I saw the Red Dwarf cast minus Craig Charles(family issues...) and got autographs. Chloe Annett was cool, I asked her to sign my DVD of 'Pasty Faces' and she got all excited about seeing a copy! It was an independent film based in Glasgow and Las Vegas - I was an extra in one of the Glasgow scenes. The main guy is in a chicken suit being beaten up against the window of a cafe - I'm in the window...pretending not to notice!!! Chloe was one of the main characters.

Tom Baker(his last appearance, apparently!) and some other Dr Who types were there.

Got to see my first ST:TNG cast member in the flesh. Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar) was there and did a Q&A session. She spoke about her experiences, the rest of the cast and her reasons for leaving and the process that it took. She mentioned Wil Wheaton and mentioned the fact that he kept having to disappear to his schoolroom to do classes during shooting!

As I'm not doing panto now I'm going to take the oportunity to go visiting over the next few weeks. Although not too much - I did spend rather a lot of money this weekend....best leave the amount out of this I think!

Geekily Happy!

Well, I have finished my long week of work at the theatre - ended up doing 2 extra days to help out LX and the new Sound guy and am now completely shattered - mainly because the usual 45min journey to Cov has been taking 1hour 15mins - which means leaving here at 7:45am and getting back at about 11:00pm everyday :(

Still, tomorrow a day of fangirl heaven arrives as I toddle off to the NEC for the Memorabilia Show, Full of Sci-Fi, Comic stuff... but mainly - a RD cast Reunion!!! Am going to attempt to be cool, and shall probably fail miserably! :)

Happy Birthday BMMOC - 25 this month!!

Ah yes it's that time again. Today I spent 8 hours doing panto fit-up at the Belgrade. Tomorrow Iam their from 9am-10pm and Wednesday the same. (so I guess I should get to bed soon!)

It's been good getting back into the swing of things. There were some new faces around which was cool, and we actually managed to get quite a lot done. I have been given the option of Sound Op-ing for the actual show.... This is a pretty big deal and a whole lot of responsibilty (not to mention concentration!)I would have to live mix the band and the cast (somewhere in the region of 10 radio mics!) although the main thing is the "muting" - essential timing required!! ;)

Theoretically this should be fine for me...But I'm still not really decided. I have experience mixing groups and music from the ship, this is pretty different but would also be a good challenge and experience for me..hmmmmmm.....

The reason I didn't work the whole 9am-10pm today is that I had to go to the Birmingham branch of the MMOC (Morris Minor Owners Club) meeting tonight as it is the 25th anniversary of the first meeting this month --pretty cool. Especially as after the 3rd meeting (there's one a month) my mums water's broke and away she went to the hospital to have me - so it's kind of a poignant I guess! :S

Crazy Lights

Check out this - it's Brilliant!!!

[Edit] Since posting this link I've had loads of hits to my webblog! If you want more info on it then check out this link, there's a bit of a discussion but somewhere in the posts it explains how its done..and NO it is NOT animation!

In the last couple of weeks a few new things have come into my life.....

Exhibit A)
I've finally started my Tap lessons! Huzzah! \||/ I'm really enjoying them and seem to be quite good at it! This is where I go for my lessons, lovely cafe aswell ;)

Exhibit B)
I won this lovely instrument on ebay, and then had a fun 4 1/2 hour drive (there and back) to Sussex to pick it up! It was worth it though, it sounds beautiful. Well... I haven't played since I left school so it's not that great but it's fun!

Exhibit C)

This is Steven Blakeley, he's playing the newest recruit to Ashfordly's police force in "Heartbeat" at the mo (click on photo for link). He was also the lead in the final play I DSM'd at Uni and toured to Poland! I know this is not new to most folk - but in my defence, I have been out of the country for 11 months!!! Well done to Steve :)

I'm off out with T tonight to see a gig tonight by some folks called "3 Men & Black "(plus friends!) sounds good!