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Do You Want What I Want [29 Aug 2008|08:50pm] [ music | Eye Of The Beholder - Metallica ] Considering I only got to work three days this week, it has been an incredibly long three days. Looking forward to that lie-in tomorrow, yes. Today I have consumed 8 out of a possible 20 WW points, including supper (and a WW dessert!). I'm still exercising (did a Tae-Bo today). And I STILL haven't lost any weight or seen any change in how tight my clothing is. The hell? I know it takes six weeks-odd for real physical change through exercise, but you'd think after four days even a tiny something would be happening. *snarls* Now for some nice low-calorie vodka... 2 comments|post comment

Another Trip To Outer Space [28 Aug 2008|08:17pm] [ music | Thinking About You - Puddle Of Mudd ] Still having crappy sleep. Ugh. Forgot to mention I did rack up four miles at Ascot racecourse yesterday with G and A. I even ran for some of it! Walked today too. (Just to M&S to buy a new pair of trousers.) And I'm keeping the calories way down - not even close to the recommended WW limit. I've also resolved to give up Wine (during the week at least), having replaced it with a 25ml shot of vodka and diet lemonade - low on both calories and alcohol units. Nice. Unfortunately I haven't been able to lose any weight beyond the bad extra pounds I put on at the weekend. I am fondly imagining that this is because I am building up enough muscle to crack nuts with my thighs (and other body parts), but I suspect this is not the case just yet. Oh, well. Having died over the Supernatural S3 gag reel on YouTube (honestly, Jensen and Jared have raised the bar so high on the Hoyay with this one), my second discovery on actually getting the DVD today was a featurette on the Impala. Metallicar porn! Sweeeeeeet. I'll finish with that meme from Caz. ( Fillum shite ) 3 comments|post comment

Misery Party [26 Aug 2008|08:16pm] Sick today. Have also put on weight. Bah. That is all. 10 comments|post comment

Scoffage Meme [24 Aug 2008|08:32pm] [ music | Sitting Down Here - Lene Marlin ] As nickéd from MenleyNin. ( Read more... ) Plenty more things to cross off the list, I see. *schlurp* 9 comments|post comment

Geekeday [23 Aug 2008|08:33pm] I think this title is appropriate. [wink] ( Read more... ) 10 comments|post comment

It's A Lot Like Life [22 Aug 2008|07:05pm] [ music | Master And Servant - Depeche Mode ] Reasons To Be Disappointed: 1) I was hoping to meet friends for Geeke Trippage this weekend. But now am not. Wahhh! 2) Having discovered two most interesting albums while getting URLs for some music recommendations for TF my former boss (Seether's Disclaimer II and Puddle Of Mudd's Famous, the latter of which sees them back on form after the slightly patchy Life On Display), I got home only to discover neither is in the iTunes store and I've had to order them manually so won't get them until next week. Boo! 3) Every review I've seen of Clone Wars thus far (including word of mouth) has been crap. Watching something for the kids is one thing, but crappy animation is quite another. Augh! Reasons To Be Cheerful: 1) I can see my friends another time. Yes indeed! 2) I still have loads of awesome music (and will be increasing my collection next week). Whoop! 3) In a month (or earlier in some cases), I will be experiencing Total Joy as my long-anticipated TV crack returns. Heroes! House! Supernatural! How I Met Your Mother! Oh, dear lord, my brain might explode from the anticipation. Aaaiiieee! 4) I will be seeing Hellboy 2 (my most anticipated film of the year) tomorrow. Huzzah! 5) H is staying home this evening and has agreed to share a bottle of Wine with me. Sweet! 6) When I got home I discovered I was the proud owner of my very own Dr. Horrible T-shirt. Squeal! 7) It's a Bank Holiday weekend! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Have a fab one, me dears. 8 comments|post comment

Twisted [21 Aug 2008|10:23pm] [ music | Hotel California - The Eagles ] My plans for the weekend seem to have changed several times in the last twelve hours. Most confusing! Also, I seem to be spending my evenings as hungry as hell, but I'm trying not to hit my designated calorie limit. Especially as last night's cheese was a Mistake, despite me not going over the limit then, either. Tonight I scoffed a couple of potato cakes to ease the pangs, and that seems to have worked, but I really hope I don't pay for it tomorrow. Next time I'll just nuke some veggies, shall I? Also worked out a way to cut down on the alcohol and still have Wine every night: drink half a 200ml bottle Sunday to Thursday, with two bottles Fri - Sat instead of three. I'd still be a smidge over the limit, but not much. I just hope the remainder of the bottle tastes nice on the second day. (This was what put me off putting a half-empty bottle away before. I hate waste. It's so much more fun to be wasted instead. [wink]) 7 comments|post comment

The Conversion Has Already Begun [17 Aug 2008|07:12pm] [ music | Haunted - Disturbed ] I actually watched some BtVS and Angel today. True story. (It was "Fool For Love" and "Darla", after having read the LJ entry of one of my stalkees, who has never seen BtVS before and is now tearing through the show like a vulture on a carcass. It's such fun to see people discover things you like.) Still not very achieve-y, bar some basic housework. H went to a band-related picnic but is back home now. Uggghhh, I have to go to bed soon as I have work tomorrow. Not that I don't enjoy my job, but I HATE getting up early. And the signs of reducing daylight are increasing day by day. Yaaaarg. I think I'll watch a shitload of blooper reels now to keep myself amused while the minutes tick down. HIMYM has some great stuff, as does Supernatural. So long as you end up with tears in your eyes from laughing so much. My latest profile icon makes me grin too. [wink] Why can't blurty have a larger icon allowance, dammit? 10 comments|post comment

I'll Never Know Why [16 Aug 2008|10:40pm] [ music | Deceiver - Disturbed ] Stuff achieved today by yours truly: Nil. (H has put up his ninth fence panel and should be back shortly from a band function.) Spent most of my day finishing off some Quantum Leap S5 watchage, including the final episode. Yes, I cried buckets. Oh, that ending! So bittersweet. I am now rather drunk. (Although my spelling is horrifyingly good.) I am also very bored. This has thus far led to excessive eating and the playing of Spider Solitaire, but you know that next it's going to be more disturbing pursuits, like filling in the crossword with rude answers, staggering round the lounge caterwauling along to whatever's playing on the old iTunes or setting small fires. Anything's possible, people. Before I go - here is something for the NPH lovers who may not have seen this - Neil with Elmo on Sesame Street, courtesy of church_of_nph. Warning: CUTE OVERLOAD. Not for diabetics. 1 comment|post comment

Heard In The Avatar Household This Morning [16 Aug 2008|11:59am] TV: The British are coming! The British are coming! Me: Bugger that, I'm coming! Go on! Yes! Yes! Go on! Yes! Whoooo-hooooooo! (Er, we were watching the coxless fours.) (Hee. Coxless.) 6 comments|post comment

Only The Best Can Pass The Test [15 Aug 2008|08:31pm] [ music | Shine - Booty Luv ] I have had a Frabjous day. ( Big Nerdy Ramble - You Have Been Warned ) Oh, and I also have new sunglasses to replace my favourite pair which have been inexplicably lost. Two pairs: one black, one brown, as I am a Co-ordinated Bastard. Rock on! 7 comments|post comment

She's Gone [14 Aug 2008|08:19pm] [ music | Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles ] Re: the previous entry - I had no idea the St Ives I picked up was a facial scrub, hee. I just saw it in the Offers section and thought, "Ooooo, that might do." It probably is pricey for a body scrub for all I know, but it's so good to find something that actually works, you know? Read a review for Star Wars: Clone Wars which suggests it is firmly aimed at the kiddies. Not that this will stop me, being the juvenile twat that I am, but I will understand if others feel less inclined to watch. (Yes, Simon, I'm looking at you.) Besides, we will have Hellboy 2 either way, oh, yes, which will be worth the trip, I'm thinking. Work was funny today. I was running a set of weekly reports which are notoriously slow and system-intensive (they take between two and eight hours to run and frequently crash the server), and was told I'd have to stop as the US had called a halt to a certain set of reports of this nature, of which mine was one. Cue panic. How do I get this report to the customer? Then came depression and oh-dammit-why-can't-my-job-be-easy-and-why-do-things-have-to-change thoughts. Then came determination. Started trying a manual workaround using data from a different source (which also looked very different) and many hours later, had managed to mock up a version which wasn't too dissimilar to the current version and would be very kind to the system, but not very kind to me. In the meantime, one of my reporting colleagues, using the same data source as I, managed to overwrite the existing report parameters in SQL to do exactly the same report as the one I do currently... except that, using this different data server, the report takes... around four minutes to run. AMAZING. The man is a total star, people. Then came The Happy. And one more day till the weekend, folks! Sweeeeeeeeet. 5 comments|post comment

Random Pluggage [13 Aug 2008|08:41pm] [ music | Dreams - Miss Shiva ] St Ives Apricot Scrub is excellent. I've been looking for a nice, not too pricey body scrub which actually does the job and this one's just brill. No, they're not paying me to say this. [/end public service announcement] Ooooo, my back was sore today. I'm getting old, heh. Didn't go to Ascot for a walk either, as I was begged to step into the breach and help someone out for a management-related request at 4.30pm. I ended up leaving work at 6pm. Well, the brain got some exercise, anyway... 4 comments|post comment

Give Me Relief [12 Aug 2008|08:39pm] [ music | Silence - Delerium feat. Sarah McLachlan ] Hey, I've pulled! Er, a muscle in my back. I don't normally injure myself during Tae-Bo, but I did this time. Stupid balancing-on-one-leg-with-the-other stretched-out-at-near-right-angles exercise. Oh, well. Early to bed with some Deep Heat. I'm such an animal. Actually, I have this nice daydream I was having earlier involving yours truly and JDM that needs some fleshing out, so that can take up some time before I get some shut-eye. Needless to say: in this scenario we are both single and available and I am ravishingly attractive. We've just survived some public transport/supermarket/street riot trauma and feel the need to revel in how good it is to be alive and my hotel room is really not all that far away... Hey, that does sound good. Mmmmmmmmmm. OK, got to go now. Byeee! 5 comments|post comment

Still Here. [11 Aug 2008|07:41pm] [ music | Crash (Airwave Mix) - Johan Cyber ] Despite being rather sloppy in consistency, yesterday's meal was actually quite nice. We reheated and finished it off today, having suffered no ill-effects overnight. (Bar the hangover in my case, caused by the cava.) It's been a mixed bag this (long) weekend. There were things I wanted to get done that I didn't. Namely, getting to meet one of my LJ stalkees in London (unfortunately her availability was curtailed by work) and painting the bathroom door. However, I did achieve a few things too: I Polyfilla'd the crack at the top of said bathroom door and a gap at the bottom of that door's jamb, uploaded three months' worth of bank statements to the computer and gave the forsythia and ash a Vicious Prune, as well as doing some dead-heading in the back border. Plus, I made that meal (over two hours that took! Gaaah!), and motivated H to put up some fence panels, so I'll chalk up a couple of victories in the Anti-Sloth column. Back to work tomorrow. Yuck. Still, it should be mega-busy which, while stressful, will also mean the day goes by like a shot. Niiiice! Edit: Oh, dear lord. I'm watching Quantum Leap ep S05E16 and guess who's in it?! Argghhh, he looks so young... 7 comments|post comment

How Not To Make Lobster Crumble [10 Aug 2008|06:45pm] [ music | Given Up - Linkin Park ] Oh, yes. The How Not To Series is back. ( Read more... ) 5 comments|post comment

Yawn [09 Aug 2008|08:53pm] I'm ready for bed and it's not even 9pm on a Saturday night. Damn, I'm getting old. 2 comments|post comment

Now I've Seen It All - Just Take Your Hands Off Me [08 Aug 2008|09:42pm] [ music | Changes - Imagination ] You know you're out of sync with each other when you're doing your best bump-and-grind up against your other half and your other half is more interested in creating fake Alien-bursting-out-of-your-chest-under-your-T-shirt effects. It was funny when we looked at it in the mirror, though. Me: My heart's not on that side! H: You're Doctor Who. And you've just had a blowout. Me: *snerk* Strange and disturbing. Anyway, he's now practising his euph upstairs (and by which I mean euphonium, not euphemism, hur), while I carry on with my various internet-based fetishes. Another scintillating Friday night in the Avatar household, people. Have a good one! Oh, and because I'm bored and the devil makes work for idle hands... ( Taken from HIMYM: How it DIDN'T Happen in The Third Wheel, aka The Threesome, with additional references from The Goat ) 4 comments|post comment

Too Good To Be True? [07 Aug 2008|09:05pm] [ music | What Happened To Us? - Hoobastank ] Spotted: a photo of Christopher Eccleston looking eeeeeevil and hot . The Film: GI Joe: Rise of Cobra. Right. Ummmmm, yeah. During my WDer visitage last weekend, Simon told me of Dave's suggestion (or possibly challenge): to watch Star Wars: Clone Wars and Hellboy 2... on the same day. Geeke Double-Header! My dear boy, you are so on. As this particular outing appears to be taking place darn sarf (Bracknell or London, depending on interest), me gaff is of course available to them wot want to join me.... p.s. Grace, if you're looking to my blog as inspiration for "Britishisms", I really would not. I bastardize the English language like nobody's business (and there are plenty of Americanisms in there too!). 5 comments|post comment

We'll Pay The Price Once More [06 Aug 2008|09:03pm] [ music | Price Of Love - Client ] My workmate G (who tries to organize these walks after work on Wednesdays but most people have given up) wasn't in the mood to walk after work today, and neither was I, so it was a good thing we spurred each other on. We did four miles power-walking in just under 50 minutes; next week we're going to see how much we can shave off that time. Ate a bit too much when I got home, but at least it was all protein and veggies. Oh, and because I felt motivated again... ( Spoiler for Dr. Horrible Act III ) 2 comments|post comment

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