Comment and lets see how it goes.

I usually lurk on the edges of my fandoms because by and large they are mental. But sometimes fandom does good. It does really really good.

A few weeks ago after the Haiti earthquake one of the fairly high profile writers in the Twilight fandom started this thing. She asked authors from the fandom to contribute a short story, a chapter, or an outtake to go in a special compilation volume which would be made available to anyone who contributed $5 or more to the Help for Haiti campaigns. You could donate to any organisation of your choosing that was somehow involved in getting aid to Haiti, in whatever capacity.

All you had to do was make your donation then email the receipt to the email address she set up and she would email you a copy of the compilation. The potential (for example if everyone who followed her on Twitter donated $5) was to raise about $8,000. Which would have been HUGE.

At last count the total that had been donated was over $75, 000. 00 Over seventy five thousand dollars!!!! Its staggering, really.

This morning i recieved my compilation in my inbox and it's 1806 pages long! I recognise a bunch of authors on there whose stories i read and a bunch more who i'm sure i will start to read.

Its such a simple idea really and i'm so pleased its done so well. You can read about it here if anyones interested.

The power of fanfiction.

Theres alot on the news at the moment about the state of the roads, especially after 'the big freeze'. The number of pot holes around my area is crazy, sometimes you have to venture on to the wrong side of the road to avoid them.

I was just listening about it on our local radio station while i was driving home from work. Then as i was driving down the darkest foggiest windiest country road of my journey home BOOM. I hit the worlds biggest (probably not) pot hole. Scared the bejesus out of me.

I managed to get to Jess' house (about half a mile from the crater) just as my steering decided to say 'Ummm no thank you i think i'll stop working now'.

When i got out to inspect it my front tyre was all smooshed. Stupid pot hole.

My dad and Gary (Jess' owner) had to put my spare tyre on for me :-(

Bad times. Will have to take it to the garage tomorrow and likely get a new tyre.

I went to see Up in the Air yesterday. I've heard all the awards buzz and on the off chance it sweeps tonight then i wanted to know if it deserved it or not.

( It does... )
Oooo i need an Anna Kendrick icon!  

Laters X

I am still snowed in.

See...

My car is under there somewhere....



My neighbour trying to make a snow plinth of some sort...



More snow...

I am snowed in.

So another year then. Huh.

2009 on the whole, sucked. There was the magical 7 months of it sucking were i lived alone which made it suck slightly less but other than that, yeah it pretty much blew.

But other than that...

I met up with Shapes today, in Blackburn of all places, to go to an Indian buffet...nom. Tonight i'm going to Jenny and Nev's for New Year same as last year, except this year, i'm in charge of the dips. Crazy times.

I'm not going to dwell on whats happened/not happened in the last year. There's nothing that can be done about that now.

Look forward and hope for the best. 

And if all else fails, read fanfic.

Have a good one guys. Happy 2010.

I was sat at the traffic lights outside Chaes Chippy today and Ian from Shameless jogged past. Weird. By the association game (the rules of which were devised by my friend Emma when we were 15) this means i've met James MacAvoy. Awesome.

Also,last week i saw Gary Neville (who lives near by) coming out of Chaes with chips. There were also fequent Posh & Becks sightings there when Becks still played for United and was bff with GN. Its a hot spot!

/random

So i went to watch New Moon last night....

( my thoughts...such as they are )

So i was going to post about how overwhelmingly crappy work is right now and how epically lame it all is and, you know, how i hate everyone. But then i saw THIS.




Guys GUYS!. He CAN ACT (as well as look staggeringly handsome). I was worried. All his previous stuff he's played it crazy or random and Edward Cullen is, well.... anyway! A normal film! Where he's (sort of) normal! and it looks AWESOME! I'M SO EXCITED!

GUYZ i dont do this (too) often but i'm sorry. I have to. He's just so effing beautiful.

When i look at these pictures all thoughts of independance, a future career, they go out the window as my ovaries kick in to overdrive. I want his babies! Now i want them! Now!




( More there are more... )

Danny Jones just tweeted that hes in a pub on Blackburn road for an open mike night and its like...5 minutes from my house.

Ha! Sorry DJ i'm watching X Factor.

Epic crazy mad week at work. I've been covering for Marcus so as well as doing both our jobs this is the week everything decided to kick off and went to hell. I've barely sat down and was oft spotted running back and forth across the car park in a frenzy.
Didnt leave work until 7pm tonight. Lame.

I called at Morrisons on the way home and overheard this conversation at the check out

Check out girl 1: OMG you wont believe what i did last night
Check out girl 2: What?
Check out girl 1: I dropped my phone down the toilet. A £630 phone! But luckily it was insured...

Six hundred and thirty pounds??? For a phone? I bloody well hope it was insured and one would also want it to, oh i dont know, TURN IN TO A CAR at the push of a button for that amount of money. Who spends that much on a phone. Its a phone! Man alive, kids today.

Oh! Friday Night Lights started again. Snuck up on me without realising. I'm currently downloading but given my laptop speed and past experience....i'm expecting to watch it sometime next June.

That is all for now.

Tomorrow, after i get my hair cut, i am going bridesmaid dress shopping with Princess Vic and her court. I don't think i'm exagerating when i say this is going to be the most hideous experience of my life thus far. I am without a doubt going to be the most resistant, resentful and uncomfortable bridesmaid in the world all the while pretending to be happy and gracious. Eww.

Good times.

Until them i am going to pretend it isnt happening and possibly eat the rest of my Jaffa-crack mini rolls.

Oh yeah and Bones started again...

( Bones eps 1 & 2 )

This post did have an actual point and that was to say happy birthday to Amy! I hope you have had a great day.

Happy Birthday areasontofight

Today is my 3 year anniversary on LJ. Which means its been 3 years since i wrote my vezzy first craptastic Veronica Mars fanfic. Out of curiosity i've been looking back at my first few posts and man i was not a frequent blogger back then. I posted maybe 6 times in the first three months. I'm still not very consistent but i'm much better.

I remember literally having no idea what to do. No idea how to post to a comm, no idea what any of the acronyms stood for (for the longest time i thought FTW meant fuck the world. Heh). and no idea how to make LJ friends. I think one of my very first friends was evie_ohand i'm pleased to report we're still LJ buddies \0/

So 434 posts,134 tags and 37 whole friends later (who says i cant make social connections?) here i am.

Doesn't time fly.

Before my parents left for warmer climes i set them up a blog on blogspot.com so they could record their day to day activities for us all to read.

My Dad is the blogger of the two, having had his own Bird Watching blog for a few years. My Dad is also hilarious. Some of his posts are genius though generally themed the same; about his birdwatching and walking escapades.

Here are some outtakes from his latest entry about one of his regular walks:

The wetlands are veined with rivers and tidal creeks and I cross three bridges made from branches, planks and miscellaneous bits of wood. Bridge No.1 was a two plank bridge but for most of its length is now only a one plank bridge. It also has handrails with a tendency to crumble in your hand. No.1 is not much fun. Bridge No.2 is a two plank bridge in good condition and one can stand at its middle, eight feet above the mangrove swamp water, safe in the knowledge that the crocodile high jump record stands at only 2.50m - they never mastered the Fosbury Flop.

****

In the clearing is a sizeable Chinese Temple, along with a titchy side Temple, and these are, I would think, usually accessed from the river.
Like all good Temples, this one is equipped with candles, joss sticks and matches, and so I lit the same and prayed to the Chinese Gods for a Hanging Parrot. A previous supplicant had left an offering to the Gods. It was a bottle of local brandy (21RM from Ting & Ting) and proved to be no temptation. Had he/she left a tray of Tsingtao, that would have been a different matter.

For you non Asian Beer drinkiners Tsingtao is a Malaysian beer.

I will have to post some exerts from his entry about getting lost on the side of a mountain. Once i got over the sheer terror at what could have been, i managed to find it fairly entertaining.

He's not allowed to walk off the beaten path anymore.

This went around a while ago...then around again. So it makes sense that i'm just now doing it myself. Pars and courses etc.

<i>Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself.Tag 7 people at the end of your post.</i>

1. I've been to church in Norway
2. I've been to 4 African countries in one day (Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania)
3. I obsessively and compulsively cross my own and other peoples, t's
4. I've seen the Northern Lights
5. I walk someone elses dog
6. I'm never without my nail scissors kit
7. I read a phenomenal amount of fanfic. Its an addiction.

I dont tag, thats not how i roll.

I was having a chat with one of our Sales Managers Ewan who's last day was today (all my favourites are leaving :-() and i lost the ability to talk AND make sense simultaneously.

Ewan: I was in Italy a couple of weeks ago
Me: Oh! I'm going next year.
Ewan: Oh cool
Me: Yeah i'm going for my sisters marriage...wait, i mean, my sisters getting wedding.
Ewan: *looks at me like i'm mental*
Me: WAIT. I mean my sister is getting married there *phew*

Its been one of those weeks.

Right so i left off dreaming the sweet post McFly show dreams of a very happy fangirl...

*swirly sleeping montage*

Cut to me waking up at 8am. Ugh. But goddammit i had Anne Franks house to visit. And visit it i did. I walked up the canals to the house (mission of trek like proportions (in reality about 20 minutes)) and there was no line so i went straight in.

( of museums and locksmiths )

Home.Sweet.Home.