New blog
http://arcane-gem.blogspot.com/Go, go, go!
If you want to, that is.
Or you could just stay here and look at the complete absence of updates.
*shrug*
Posted by Gem Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Flabbergasted!
Well, I didn't think it was possible, but it has actually happened. I've discovered a band worth listening to through watching Eurovision. Eurovision! That purveyor of cheesy Euro-pop shiteness. As I settled down to watch it I fully expected another round of the usual laughable cack that we get every year. Lots of yodelling and bonkers women with their off-key caterwauling. But then... out came Lordi! With their masks, costumes, pyrotechnics, and brilliant growly-voiced, thrashy-guitared delight of a song. I took an instant liking to the mummy guy (whom i've since learned is called "Amen") with his bouncing about all over the place. And the lead singer ("Mr Lordi") had big bat wings! Most excellent. I can't believe i've never discovered them before. I've now started acquiring all of their back catalogue of songs. I advise you all to go and listen to "Blood Red Sandman" this instant. That is my current favourite.Of course, you lot might well have heard their stuff long ago. In which case... why didn't you tell me about it? Hmm?
Posted by Gem Saturday, May 27, 2006 at 4:12 pm
Today is Star Wars Day!
Yep. May the Fourth be with you...*chortles*
I heard it on the radio this morning and I laughed all the way into work.
Posted by Gem Thursday, May 04, 2006 at 8:44 pm
I love Mike Dyson!
No. I've not developed a fancy for big, mean, scary-looking boxers who have a taste for gnawing on people's ears and whose name I've misspelled. "Mike" is what i've named the lovely new Dyson anti-allergy and anti-pet hair vacuum-cleaner I bought today. Oh, how witty I am! :PSeriously though, it's great. I love hoovering (I know that's a brand name, but I don't care. :P ). And it's a lot easier to do with a hoover that actually works properly. As opposed to the clunky old "Vax" machine donated by Celf's mum that i've been using for the past two years and which seemed to have a pathological fear of actually sucking up any dirt. I've spent a happy couple of hours hoovering everything that stayed in one place for too long. Zoom! Whoosh! And it hasn't half got some suction! I felt a lot like Jeremy Clarkson as I raced around the house yelling "POWER!". Although he usually prefers to drive a shiny new penis-extension / mid-life crisis of a sports car, rather than a shiny new cleaning machine. Plus i've got better hair than him. And no beer belly...
You know, I think i've been watching too much Top Gear. I've been subjected to endless viewings of it since we got our Sky+ box.
Anyway, yes, Mike Dyson is definitely of the good. You'd be hard pressed to find a cleaner house than mine now, I tells ya! Hasta la Vista, pet hair!
In other news:
I've got a toothache. Ouch! I think i'm experiencing the endless joy that is an impacted wisdom tooth. That would bring my tally up to two. Wheee!
Posted by Gem Sunday, April 23, 2006 at 7:28 pm
Wankers!
Why is there never anywhere to park my car in this frigging street? Every bloody day I come home from work to be confronted by a total lack of parking spaces in front of my own sodding house.Every. Single. Day.
I'm full of impotent fury. I (mostly, but not entirely) blame the selfish bastard family from a few houses down who possess three cars plus a fucking humungous Transit van. Four vehicles. Four! And seeing as there's only just room for seven cars out where mine is supposed to go, Mr and Mrs Selfish Bastard and their offspring take up quite a large chunk of the available space. And then when you consider that the people next door have 2 cars and most other people in the street have at least one car, is it any wonder that there's nowhere for me? I wish the council would realise what a joke the parking situation is around here and create some more space. They should just pave over the big useless expanse of grass in front of my house that has inexplicably become a football pitch despite there being an enormous playing field in the village. That would also solve the problem of my house being RIGHT BEHIND THE BLOODY BUGGERY "GOAL" and no longer would my evening be punctuated by the sound of footballs slamming into my front window. 2 very frustrating birds, one big satisfying stone.
Posted by Gem Monday, March 20, 2006 at 6:09 pm
Snow joke!
It's been snowing here for 2 days. I didn't go into work yesterday because the weather was so bad. I struggled through the slippery journey into work this morning, only for the weather to turn really nasty again and for me to ask if I could go home. I was only there about half an hour. Hehe. I have to take it as "annual leave", which is shit. But still, i'd rather be in the house with no more leave days left than stuck miles from home and buried in a snowdrift.
Quite honestly, i'm heartily sick of snow now. It was quite exciting yesterday morning, waking up to a white world. It was also rather bloody brilliant to be getting a day off work and going out to play in the snow. However, waking up this morning to find that we hadn't had a merciful and miraculous thaw overnight and that I was still going to struggle to get on with normal life dampened my enthusiasm for snow somewhat. Damned silly cold, wet, inconvenient, slippery stuff. And i've just looked out of the window and it's only bleedin' snowing again! Come on now! Enough is enough! I can't have another day off work.
I'm also less than pleased because i've just had a phonecall from Celf's mother informing me that she and the kids (Celf's 2 nieces and nephew) are coming to build snowmen in MY garden! My garden is gorgeous, full of pristine snow that i've been trying not to walk all over so that it stays looking picture-perfect. And now three kids are going to come tromping all over it and messing it all up. Grrr. Why can't they build snowmen in their own bloody garden? It's not like it's only my garden that's got any snow in it.
So, before my snow gets all churned up and turned into snowmen I decided to go out and take a few pictures, which are included here for your viewing pleasure.
I particularly like the ones of my snow animals ("Snanimals"). Everyone else builds snowmen, but I always like to be different.Again, I apologise for the rubbishness of the picture quality. I've still not bought a proper digital camera.
Posted by Gem Thursday, March 02, 2006 at 1:21 pm
Apple in your ear!
Which is my parents' speak for:Happy New Year!
Hope you're all having a good one, however you choose to spend it.
Myself, I've been all around my village tonight. In the midst of a huge band of revellers. We stopped off at various houses and had drinkies with the occupants.
(Not really how i'd "choose" to spend New Year, but I have to admit I had a good time.)
Then, just after midnight we went to see Celf's parents for a bit. Then I came home and phoned my parents. And now i'm sitting here in my PJs blogging.
I can't believe it's 2006. How 'futuristic' sounding. Surely we should all be living like The Jetsons by now? I always did want one of those robots to do the housekeeping for me...