20th June, 2008 (8:22 pm)
The Day With the Gifts (10)
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12th June, 2008 (8:40 am)
The Bit About Not Being Dead (21)
I’m not dead.
It just appears that way as I’m poorly bad and recuperating on the couch. This would be mind-numbing were it not for the fact that my birthday presents arrived early and I’ve subsequently lost my life to Rock Band.
Not only am I a guitar legend, I also now rock the mic - rock the mic RIGHT.
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30th April, 2008 (8:52 pm)
The Bit About The Non-Exorcism (3)
I sat tonight for two hours straight beside a vicar who did not - at any point in the proceedings - turn to me and attempt to cast out a demon from my soul.
There was one slightly worrying moment when I thought he was trying to anoit me with holy water on the sly, but it turns out he simply didn’t cover his mouth when he sneezed.
Apparently, my wickedness is still carefully disguised and robust enough to withstand prolonged periods of contact with men of the cloth. I think that deserves a congratulatory beer, don’t you?
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16th January, 2008 (10:07 am)
The Day With The Lie (7)
S was awoken by a nightmare last night. He doesn’t have them very often. Apparently a snake with “very very very very very very SHARP TEEF” was chasing him. I snuggled down next to him and told him that, actually, snakes were great. He was kind of doubtful, so I explained that EVERYTHING that began with a ’sss’ sound, including snakes, was awesome; snow, Santa, sweeties, Spiderman, SpongeBob and - hey! - S himself, too! That did the trick. With the instruction to dream about meeting Winnie the Pooh and Tigger in Hundred Acre Wood, he rolled over with a smile on his face and drifted right on back to sleep.
Here’s hoping he never discovers smack.
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21st December, 2007 (8:34 pm)
The Day I Upgraded to Ian (7)
So, as not to be outdone by all the cool kids, I've gone and upgraded to the knee-tremblingly awesome iMac.
Although I'm clearly jumping on a bandwagon, would you forgive me if I told you that I so needed a new computer? My tower PC - which is literally only a few days past it's second birthday - is on it's last legs. For months now I haven't been able to run anything from either my CD or DVD drives without my PC crashing, and then two weeks ago it stopped running my weekly virus scan, although bizarrely, not because of a virus but something to do with the pathways to the main and secondary drives confusing the poor thing (which PC World fucked up - remember?). It was temperamental about printing, and completely uncooperative when it came to syncing up my iPod. It's been like trying to drive a car without brakes. Impossible. And kinda stupid.
I'd been hankering after a Mac for ages. I grew up on one, did my entire design degree on one, and it was only because it was so impossible to work at home and in work on the same files that, about seven years ago, I switched to a PC (of course, today it isn't a problem, but it very much was then!). But with the advent of Leopard, everything that ever made me hesitate about switching back has now gone. It's the only desktop in the house now, but I can still use it to run XP as and when games and programs require it. How fucking awesome is that? Not to mention the space saved; I now have one plug in place of - ready for it? - four (tower, monitor, speakers, hub).
So my shiny new iMac - recently christened Ian - arrived at 3pm this afternoon, and he's all up and running now; my files are over, my videos and weighty music collection, and I've installed all the programmes I need save for Photoshop (and a replacement for MS Money, which I'll have to locate as I can't function without that!). I've even done the mighty mouse cheat and added back my right-click - heh. It's hard as hell getting used to where everything is - particularly the exit bottom being on the top left and not the right! - but it's been a bloody breeze, considering what you have to do on a standard PC to fire it up. I'm soooo chuffed. YAY!
This keyboard is pretty fucking small, though: my beautiful manicured nails keep slipping around the place. Sigh. It's so hard being a hot girl nerd.
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