beckysharpe123

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:03:42 GMT

from mingsmommy :-)

Rules:
1. You can ONLY answer 'Yes' or 'No'.
2. You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someone messages or comments you and asks

Been arrested? — no
Kissed someone you didn't like? — yes
Slept in until 5 PM? — Yes
Fallen asleep at work/school? — Yes
Held a snake? — no
Ran a red light? — no
Been suspended from school? — No
Experienced love at first sight? — Yes
Totalled your car in an accident? — no
Been fired from a job? — yes
Fired somebody? — Yes
Sung karaoke? — yes
Pointed a gun at someone? — no
Did something you told yourself you wouldn't? — Yes
Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose? — Yes
Caught a snowflake on your tongue? — Yes
Kissed in the rain? — no
Had a close brush with death (your own)? — Yes
Saw someone die? — no
Played Spin-the-Bottle? — no
Smoked a cigar? — no
Sat on a rooftop? — Yes
Smuggled something into another country? — yes
Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes? — no
Broken a bone? — No
Skipped school? — Yes
Eaten a bug? — yes
Sleepwalked? — no
Walked on a moonlit beach? — no
Ridden a motorcycle? — No
Dumped someone? — Yes
Forgotten your anniversary? — No
Lied to avoid a ticket? — No
Ridden in a helicopter? — No
Shaved your head? — No
Blacked out from drinking? — yes
Played a prank on someone? — Yes
Hit a home run? — No
Felt like killing someone? — Yes
Cross-dressed? — no
Been falling-down drunk? — Yes
Made your girlfriend/boyfriend cry? — no
Eaten snake? — No
Marched/Protested? — No
Had Mexican jumping beans for pets? — No
Puked on an amusement ride? — No
Seriously & intentionally boycotted something? — Yes
Been in a band? — yes
Knitted? — yes
Been on TV? — no
Shot a gun? — no
Skinny-dipped? — No
Given someone stitches? — No
Eaten a whole habenero pepper? — No
Ridden a surfboard? — No
Drunk straight from a liquor bottle? — Yes
Had surgery? — Yes
Streaked? — No
Been taken by ambulance to a hospital? — Yes
Tripped on mushrooms? — No
Passed out when NOT drinking? — Yes
Peed on a bush? — Yes
Donated Blood? — Yes
Grabbed electric fence? — No
Eaten alligator meat? - no
Eaten cheesecake? — Yes
Eaten your kids' Halloween sweets? — no
Killed an animal when not hunting? — no
Peed your pants in public? — Yes
Snuck into a movie without paying? – yes
Written graffiti? — yes
Still love someone you shouldn't? — Yes
Think about the future? — Yes
Been in handcuffs? — no
Believe in love? — Yes
Sleep on a certain side of the bed? — Yes

books

Sun, 17 May 2009 15:35:39 GMT

Meme stolen from mingsmommy who stole it from justjeff :-)

"List 15 books that will always stick with you. And you're not allowed to agonize about it."

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Devices and Desires by P.D. James
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
Howards End by E.M. Forster
The Winters Tale by William Shakespeare
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Nemesis by Agatha Christie
The Theban Mysteries by Amanda Cross
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake

blah

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:57:08 GMT

I feel a bit bad for whining - there's plenty of people much much worse off than me - but I REALLY don't want to go into work tomorrow. My skin's reacted to a moisturiser that I was (foolishly) using last week, and I can't get rid of the blotches. I'm sure they'll subside soon, and I'm not quite at the "bag over my head" stage, but I don't look good. However, as I worked from home on Friday, staying at home tomorrow really isn't an option. Sigh.

Wow

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:52:31 GMT

I had some amazing news yesterday - some of the loan I made through Kiva has been repaid.
I didn't think it wouldn't be, but still, it's really restored my faith in the goodness of people, and not to sound too cheesy, made me feel very grateful for what I have. It feels great to be able to help someone without it just being a handout.

In a complete change of subject, unfortunately I think my very unwelcome visitors are back - I really don't mind rodents, but in their proper place (outside) rather than in my kitchen cupboards. I'm hoping that the droppings I found were ones I missed when I cleaned everything after Pest Control came, but I'm not holding my breath. Ick. Time to get the sanitising spray out again.

Hee hee...

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:26:10 GMT

I didn't want to hope too much, but wow, I'm so happy today!!!

fingers crossed for tonight!

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:26:53 GMT

weekends aren't long enough...

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:42:15 GMT

How can it be Sunday evening already? Granted, I've not done much, except for mammouth amounts of cleaning today (I tend to operate on an "embarrassment factor" system when it comes to cleaning, as in "how embarrassed would I be at the state of the flat if someone dropped round?) but I've still got to make my lunch for tomorrow and cook tea.

At least I'm off next Friday (will need it as I'll be up all Thursday night for episode 9x10). I'm getting ridiculously nervous about it (the episode) though. I'm going to be sad when it's over, but in some ways it'll just be good to know what happens - I can go back to having a life ;-)

The one thing I hope they don't do (apart from having Grissom and Sara not end up together, of course) is have a Frasier-type ending, where we just see Grissom going off, possibly to meet Sara. I'm sure they won't do that. They'd better not do that.

Sigh, back to watching GSR clips...

scary dead eyes

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:35:38 GMT

I love this - a clip that makes Bill O'Reilly look cuddly and sympathetic (but then I think anyone would look good next to the scary black hole that is Ann Coulter...

seriously, is this a send up?

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:26:06 GMT

I've just watched the Daily Show (we get it a day late in the UK) and saw this:

I can't quite believe it's not a Daily Show spoof - did this really air on CNN as a serious feature, or do they have a comedy hour? I thought CNN was meant to be relatively serious, and while I guess there needs to be some light and shade, this piece is so light it floats away.

I've also got to deal with a slightly delicate situation. I met a guy on New Year's Eve, we danced, had fun but that was it, and I'm not interested in him at all (he was the evangelical vegan who irritated me). He's now sent me a Facebook friend request. I could ignore it, but he's a member of the veggie group I've joined (and want to stay in) so it could make things difficult. I'm trying to think of a firm yet nice way of making it clear I'm not interested without lying and saying I've already got a boyfriend. Any ideas welcome!

grrrrr

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:47:55 GMT

Sigh, I've just had a really long and tiring day on top of virtually no sleep last night - courtesy of my neighbours' dog that barked practically every hour (not on the hour, that would be too freaky) but at midnight, 1.30am, 3am and 4am, and topped things off with a weird scrabbling sound on the other side of the wall at 5am (I'm in a ground floor flat, and my bedroom wall is their sitting room). My neighbours aren't pleasant; as I'm typing this they're having a very loud row, so talking to them about it isn't really an option. I have thought about going with a "I'm concerned that your dog might not be OK, and your house is so big you might not have heard it bark), but in a way I don't want their (considerable) rage turned on me. However, this can't go on. It's been like this since I moved in at the end of October, and it's starting to affect my work. I do have earplugs, but they're the foam kind and I find they hurt my ears (plus I have an irrational fear they're going to burrow inside my ear canal and burst an ear drum).

My council has a service where you can register a complaint about noise and then they investigate, but when I rang them today they were busy. I'm definitely going to ring back tomorrow, though, as I think I'll feel better once I've started to do something about it.

The one good thing is that their house is for sale, so they might be moving soon. However, in the current climate, and given the price their house is on the market for, I'm not that optimistic.

If anyone has experience in dealing with this sort of thing, I'd be really interested to hear about it - all help gratefully received!

taken from Cincoflex!

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:24:08 GMT

I'm surprised I didn't score higher in the dumb/dork/awkward category, actually...

writer's block

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:59:34 GMT

Every six months at work, we have a performance review - I'm sure most of you have something similar - and as part of this, we have to comment on how we've done against our objectives. I was meant to fill in this form today, and just kept on putting it off until it was too late to start it, and now I have to rush through it on Monday. I just find it really hard to do - not so much finding the evidence to back up what I'm saying, more the whole "I'm great, I am" tone that you have to adopt. I find myself writing incredibly convoluted sentences, full of over-complicated words I'd never normally use. I'm sure once deadline panic kicks in on Monday I'll be fine, but at the moment I feel the same guilt I felt as a student when I put off doing an essay. Sigh.

It also annoys me that I'm thinking about this on a Friday night, when I should have much better things to do...

Happy New Year

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:14:12 GMT

Happy New Year to all my LJ friends. I hope 2009 is full of love, peace and joy for you.

I actually quite enjoyed the club last night, and ended up not leaving till 4am (the key to staying up late seems to be not drinking any alcohol; you'd think I'd have worked that out by my age) and it was a nice event. What did annoy me a bit was one of the people I was with, who seemed to decide it was his mission to convert me to veganism (I'm a vegetarian). I'm sure he meant well, but his assumption that veganism is morally superior to vegetarianism (or eating animals) irritated me - it's just different, neither better nor worse.

Why is it that some people can't accept that what's right for them might not be right for others? I don't understand the motivation behind wanting to lecture others - except, I suppose, for that smug feeling of superiority it gives *snort*

d'oh!

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:52:37 GMT

I feel like a complete idiot.

I was in the middle of getting ready to go out, and was transferring my handbag contents to my smaller bag. I couldn't find my purse, despite looking everywhere, so rang my credit card company and bank to suspend my cards. Five minutes later, I found my purse on a cupboard shelf - I'd done that geriatric thing of picking something up and forgetting you've put it down somewhere. The slightly worrying thing is that I don't even remember picking it up, but I suppose it's because it's so automatic. I'm sure it's that rather than a "senior moment..."

New Year's Eve blues

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:10:52 GMT

I really don't like New Year's Eve. Apart from when I was little, I can't remember a single one that's lived up to expectations, which is probably the problem - the impression given is that everyone else is having a good time, and that if you don't, there's something wrong with you. Even when I've gone to specific New Year's events it's been a bit of a let down - for example, the fireworks along the Thames for the millennium that were practically invisible because of the fog. What I actually remember from that evening is standing around in the cold for several hours getting bored.

However, not doing anything for NYE feels a bit middle aged, and while my inner slipper-wearing, cat owning mad old woman would be quite happy not to do anything, I'm not going to listen to her and am going to give it another try - even though it's bloody freezing out and I'm at home now. I'm going to Whirlygig in central London, which does actually sound cool - it's described as a cross between a festival and a club, and very relaxed and friendly. The good thing is that if I don't like it I don't feel like I have to stay - I'm going with some people I don't know very well, so it's not like I have an obligation to them. Hopefully this'll mean I can actually enjoy it!

Sarah Palin hits - Daily Show remix

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:26:13 GMT

Just brilliant - would be even better if there was some kind of guarantee that she'd never ever be back though!

Aimee Mann live

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:12:11 GMT

I went to see Aimee Mann last night, and she was just amazing. Great between songs banter, brilliant versions of her songs, including this

wheee!!!

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:17:17 GMT

Can't wait for the CSI premiere tonight - from the previews it looks like it's going to be amazing, if really sad. I just hope the GSR works out in the end.

And completely unrelated, here's an amusing, US election-related clip from Real Time with Bill Maher

Kill Bill: Volume 1

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:34:21 GMT

I LOVE Jon Stewart.

www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml

I especially love the way he manages to be laugh out loud funny - and appropriately angry - about things like the budget mess. If only more of the news corps were as focused on the real issues rather than trivia.

Sigh...

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:28:27 GMT

I'm trying to find a flat at the moment, which is proving, um, interesting. I'm only really moving because my rent's about to go up by £40 a month, and that, combined with my hour and a quarter commute, is too much. In some ways, it's a good thing this has happened as otherwise I'd just have procrastinated - this has been on the cards since I moved jobs three months ago. The problem is, while I know moving is the right thing to do, I don't really want to leave my flat - I have a stream outside my sitting room window with ducks and swans - and I'm also not looking forward to the move, as I've a feeling that my furniture won't make it out in one piece (I've got a load of IKEA furniture). However, I'm not prepared to pay over the odds; my landlady has convinced herself that she can get about £100 more for the flat than I'm paying for it, despite there being no central heating, and she's gone past the point of listening to reason.

I'm also re-learning estate agent language - "cosy" means "tiny" and "with convenient access to the main road" means "on the main road". Still, once I've gone through the pain of moving, it'll be worth it - I hope.

Ummm...

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:34:29 GMT

well, I have absolutely no idea what to say (a first for me) so I'll start by posting some links and stuff, and see where I go from there