TV ate my life

I've had a very successful baking day so far. My work is trying to raise money for a children's hospice in the city centre, so as part of that we're doing various activities. Sponsored walks, raffles, and next week a bake sale. We're all bringing in something and selling it in the banking hall. I've made my favourite oatmeal cookies and a carrot cake. I doubles the batch of cookies, but it somehow seems to have made three times as many as normal, and the carrot cake looks good, though I haven't cut it open yet. With cakes, especially ones that are a bit tricky to make, I always have this paranoia they they won't be cooked in the middle when you cut it. I gave it a few stabs with a knife though and it seems okay. My task for tomorrow will be to put the frosting on.

Now, I'm going to write some fanfic. If I can get my computer to start behaving itself, that is. It keeps doing this thing where it insists it's got no memory left and starts closing down programs at random. It has plenty of memory, but just to be safe, I'm writing all my files to disk and deleting the things I don't use much. I really need an external hard drive. Or a new computer. When I put it on and it started playing up again, I was half tempted to just get in the car and go to PC world this afternoon for one. But I'll give it a brief reprieve and see how it behaves.

A Dog's Breakfast comes out to buy in September! How cool it that?! I can't decide whether to pre-order it now, or wait and see if it's going to be coming out in region 2 anytime soon first. But it probably won't be, so I guess I'll just pre-order it.

Talking of A Dog's Breakfast, check out this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG1vWJyT0Rc for David Hewlett introducing the movie at Glastonbury. Sort of.

I spent most of yesterday making cakes. The one I made for my dad's friend is pretty huge, so I hope there are a lot of people going to his party! My mum's is more normal sized and not yet decorated because I didn't have time. I guess I'll do that later today.

I start my new job on Tuesday, which is kinda exciting but I'm really nervous. I got my hair cut and re-dyed so I look less of a wreck, and I got my new glasses on Friday, which are sort of black with plastic frames (think 10th Doctor, but that wasn't the intention, I promise!) so that, combined with my nearly black hair makes me look really emo at the moment!

Anyway, today is my mum's birthday, and I have a cake to decorate and a present to wrap, so I'd better get on with that.

Hey, look. I'm online at a really stupid time again. That makes a change.
The grups have gone down to Hoddesdon for the night, so me and Jennie have the house to ourselves. So I don't have to worry about them turning up and telling me the time. Which my dad tends to do when I'm either up to late or lying in too long.
Giving in to the urge to actually do something for a change, I made a new signature pic for the message boards. Like?



It took me all of five minutes, all I did was add a bit of text to a picture. But I'm using it as my sig on the scifi.com message boards so as not to piss of the Sheppard fans too much. After all, I said I'd get rid of the anti-Shep one when the argument ended. It ended a while ago, though it did flare up again tonight! Put it as my sig on the David Hewlett board too.

Here's some big news - I didn't watch Nothing today! That’s the first time in a few days. Although I did put the DVD in and play the song on the credits a few million times. It is quite addictive. I wish I could get it not on the DVD.

Soooooo, gonna have to buy some christmas prezzies sometime I guess. Afterall, it's only a few days now, and I've got nowt for my mum, my sister, my brother or my friends. Only my dad so far. I suck at buying prezzies. For other people anyway. I have no problem buying them for myself - I know what I will like!

My neck really hurts, I can't make my chin touch my chest. I hope it's just from sitting funny and not meningitis or something. Maybe I should stay up in case I feel worse, or something. Probably just from sitting funny. And staying up will make me feel crappy, which will only re-enforce the idea that I'm ill. Think I'm becoming a hypochondriac? I hope not, that would suck.

So...what else to do before crimbo? Cards. Not written any cards yet. Good job I haven't got any to send to people by post, or it'd probably be too late. Well, technically I could have sent one to Klaus, Phillipa and Diana, but I didn't. Must E-mail them. Everyone else I can just hand deliver cards.
Also, I should totally make a chocolate log. I meant to do one last year, but I forgot. This year I will. It'll be fun. If it doesn't fall apart.
I should also try to remind my mum to make the christmas cake. She has been meaning to do it for about a month or more. Probably she'll remember though. I think
Oh, I should thank people for my birthday prezzies too, or Auntie Anne will get all pissy again. She's a bit of a misery head I think. Okay, that's a bit mean, but she's very my-dad's-side-of-the-familyish about thank you noted and prompt replies to e-mails and stuff.

Know what's going round my head?
'The universe is fine without us
We're just fine without them
So lets fly between our minds
Live in a place where we're friends...'

That song is so addictive! I really *really* wish I could get it!

That's all for now!

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