No Cake, No Big Deal

I can’t believe the amount of people who commented on my lack of cake (in e-mail too). Guys.. it makes you FAT. Wibbly bums and all! I don’t know, maybe it’s an American tradition to eat cake (no American obesity jokes here :p) but it’s just not that big a deal to me. I’ve only had.. uh, one birthday cake in my entire life that I am aware of. I mean, sure, I’ll be getting Karl to buy me some cake anyway, but that’s just because I’m a cake-a-holic with a belly to maintain.

Anyway, um. Oh bollocks, I forgot what this post was going to be about now. It was more important than cake! Never mind, I’m too amused by your cakey obsessions to scrap the post.. so I will just say that I whole-heartidly agree with Carly and think you should make some BellaBook awareness buttons (any size) for me to demand people use. Post ‘em here or e-mail them to me. Anyone with enough time on their hands to do so will be thanked with a big chunk of cake. I’m not obsessed with it.

cake cupcake fruitcake

Posted on: January 10, 2006 · Category: Misc

Birthday Business

I had a nice birthday weekend. :) It was arranged for my Dad to come and visit me, in secret. Unfortunately that meant he had to see my siblings too, who spent a large portion of the weekend shouting and screaming in competition with each other. It’s still illegal to kill off siblings. Damn! I didn’t have any cake either, darn it. I’ll have to get Karl to buy me some next weekend to make up for it. ;)

Anyway, got to spend a bit of time with him, whooped his ass at a few card games and pool (like snooker, only.. not.) He went back this morning thus I packed him a huge feast for his lunch and waved him off, telling him how important it is that he comes back soon.

I did very little computing/surfing over the weekend because of my family distractions — not that I’m complaining — it took my mind off BellaBook, which I’m incredibly anxious about. Nobody, not one person, has contacted me yet with a bug. For any sane person this would be reason to celebrate. Not me, I’m not sane! It just makes me more nervous because I assume that when someone does finally have a problem it’s going to be huge and unfixable and argh! I am such a cynic.

I’m still sick, believe it or not. Not majorly vomiting sick or anything, but I have the shakes today and a big headache, sore throat and a cough. This cold is a bit of a bar-steward to shake. :p It best be gone soon, I’m hoping to hear back from a job I’ve applied for. *fingers crossed*

I’ve been helping Karl get his website up. It’s a shame really — because he has a life and a job and doesn’t have time to publicise himself 12 hours a day like I do, people are less inclined to visit and miss out on his bloody wonderful sense of humour. Just check out some of Pet Hates.. he’s almost as grumpy as me:

I have no problem with driving or fog lights being used as manufacturers intended, but I have a MAJOR problem with “Mr Tiny Dick” sat on my arse, as I try to get from A to B without having him run into me, as he blinds me from behind/in front.

So, hmm, that’s my weekend in a nutshell really.

Posted on: January 9, 2006 · Category: Parenting

Randomness

All he wanted was a best friend…

I forgot to mention that I made a Katy fanlisting a couple of weeks ago. So, if you thing Katy is great you should check out Geekerific. Don’t you think it’s the most original name ever? And of course, you could always check out my fanlisting while you’re browsing about.

Oh, I have been adding things here and there to the site. I added a new theme a while ago that can be found via the site map / domain page. It’s surprisingly spring-inspired, which is weird given the time of year. There’s free forum/lj avatars from my own photos and other completely random and generally pointless stuff.

I’m off to see Harry Potter this evening. About time too! You know, one day, I might actually read the books…

I’ll probably be quite busy this week. I’ve more presents to buy (what the hell do I get my mum’s partner?), wrapping to do, rice krispie cakes to make, family/friends to visit, etc.. so, if I don’t remember to say it nearer ‘the day’: have a lovely Christmas everyone. If you don’t celebrate it, have a nice winter season or a groovy whatever-you-do-celebrate. Gosh, religion confuses me.

Posted on: December 17, 2005 · Category: Interwebs, Parenting

Nothing’s Simple!

I can’t have a crochet hobby without some wool.

Pretty obvious statement really, but a good point all the same. I went surfing for wool on the Internet yesterday with the preconception that I’d be able to find a website, specify whether I wanted thick or thin, choose a colour and have it sent. I don’t think you know how wrong I was.

I surfed into Kemp’s Wool Shop via Google. I wasn’t reassured by the amateur looking layout but they were using a 3rd party payment system and appropriate security/etc, so I decided to go further. Pick a manufacturer they suggested, and offered a drop down of 8 choices. Not too hard — even I can choose between 8 different options. Next was wool styles, and here’s where I expected to choose between thick or thin…

There were 56 wool style choices! Some of them didn’t even sound like wool at all. I mean, what’s “Supersoft 3ply” in wool-terms? Sounds like luxery toilet paper with added bottom-soothing balm to me. “Aran with Wool”? “Aran”? “Baby Aran”? I see no thick or thin there!

Safe to say, I looked at a few pictures and made an uneducated guess. Here’s hoping I haven’t spent £7.64 on a 3 inch piece of string and a snotty rag.

Posted on: November 15, 2005 · Category: Misc

Home from Holiday

I would say it’s good to be home, but it’d be a lie. :( I love being by the seaside, even in rainy Wales.

I know some of you are probably bored titless by holiday posts, so I’ve prepared a comment for you to copy and paste. Because parts of it are generated randomly by PHP, all comments will be different and therefore I’ll think you lovingly hung on every word It didn’t actually work because of my crappy weblog system (which will be rewritten) so here (and I’ll just pretend you read everything)..

Hii Jem!

I’m glad you’re home! It wasn’t the same without you.
I’m glad to hear you had a great time, your photos are just amazing!

[insert your name here]

Anyway, let’s go back to Friday. First was the early morning rush-packing because none of us packed earlier and I don’t know why. After getting everything packed into Karl’s Mum’s car we set off… 30-odd miles down the road someone coming the other way starts flashing his lights and doing a ’round-y round’ motion with his finger. After resisting the urge to do a certain other motion with my finger, I listened to Karl debating the sanity of this weird wave-y guy and then came to the conclusion that there was probably a speed camera-wielding maniac police officer further ahead or some dickhead driving too fast in the piss-pouring rain had crashed.

Unfortunately for them it must have been the latter because moments later we were over-taken by a noisy multi-coloured blur which I assume was a speeding police car. We watched lots of people turn around in the road and pulled in to consult a map — deciding to take a back road which, looking back, was probably a stupid idea… we almost had a crash of our own due to a close encounter with another car coming the opposite way on a single-lane road.

Arrive at the caravan after another few hours and unpack. Wrap myself up in a giant orange condom (waterproof poncho) for a quick trip to the beach where I collect a few shells, grab some disgustingly greasy fish and chips from a disgustingly greasy chip shop ‘salesperson’.

wall painting

Saturday was fun, we went to Portmeirion (where the Prisoner TV series was recorded) and that was interesting. The buildings were groovy and we went for a long woodland walk where I was crapped on, and where Robins performed tricks for peanuts. Alright, I lie, they didn’t perform tricks, but the cheeky buggers certainly didn’t hesitate to approach us for them.

Sunday.. we took a trip into Barmouth (oh, yeah, that’s where we stayed) Town and took a picture of “arousal cafe”.

arousal cafe

We popped in to the Centre of Alternative Technology for a bit of “you should recycle more” guilt tripping — funky chicken more walking and a bit of interesting education on clean living and the benefits of solar power/etc. There were some interesting chickens…

After what seemed like a never-ending journey we arrived home to discover that the electricity had been ‘tripped’ while we were gone and the two fridges and the freezer had been off all weekend. What little food was left from before the holiday was ruined, so we had to go emergency shopping.

So now we’re home. I have a new rainbow cup, some paintbrushes that Karl’s Mum bought me and a desire to go and run out into the sea. Not quite possible on the outside of Shrewsbury though.

Posted on: October 24, 2005 · Category: Parenting