fluffymark: (pompom)
What was going to be a relaxing empty weekend suddenly turned very full, in some very nice ways indeed, so I’m not complaining. *grins*. Friday saw a unexpected yet very welcome visit from my sweetie [livejournal.com profile] cassielalone and there was lots of snuggling. Plus last night I found what is now my new favourite London club, amusingly named Feeling Gloomy. A genius idea of playing all the songs with very gloomy lyrics and bouncy tunes, and it so works. And the goths haven’t found it yet. Wheeeeeeeee! [livejournal.com profile] taimatsu invited me along, and [livejournal.com profile] beingjdc kindly put us on the guest list, and we were joined in our gloomy bouncing by [livejournal.com profile] verlaine, [livejournal.com profile] the_alchemist and [livejournal.com profile] robert_jones. There was much silliness, including Live Gloom, an air-guitar band who come onstage and mime to a few songs, and also the incredible amusement that is [livejournal.com profile] beingjdc in a grim reaper costume. Heh! *smallsmiles* Despite the name of the club we enjoyed ourselves so much we stayed right until the utter end, something I’ve not done at a club for a very very long time. Pretty sunrise as I got home. Always a good thing. So yay for finding a new place to go out! *bounces*

A tale of pretentious student art-horrors )

Mmmmm I really need to finalize plans for the big Scandinavia holiday today *nod nod*. It’s snuck up on me, and yay I fly out on Friday morning for nice people, pretty castles, a festival and lots of arctic wasteland. Wheeeeeee! So looking forward to it lotsly. I owe many of you emails so expect a flurry of industrious activity from me. It’s almost all sorted now, and it’s going to be wonderful. I am bouncing with excitement! Yay! No feeling gloomy here (except I’m miffed that Sweden got knocked out of the football. Wah!) *plot plan*
fluffymark: (pompom)
I’ve been mentioning my Norway idea for months now, so it’s about time I did something about it. At the same time [livejournal.com profile] isobell has been prodding me quite severely to try and get to Lumous goth festival in Finland. Hence, a quick and nasty plan has begun to form, and now I’m splatting down a few ideas before I lose track of everything. Don’t mind me.

30 June Fly to Helsinki, Finland. Late afternoon train to Tampere. Meet [livejournal.com profile] isobell and friends and do the goth thing.
1 July In Tampere with more of those dreadful goths. How will I cope?
2 July End of Lumous. Travel to Turku with [livejournal.com profile] isobell.
3 July Day in Turku.
4 July Ferry to Stockholm, Sweden. Hopefully a chance to see [livejournal.com profile] livredor.
5 July Day in Stockholm. Train north to Kiruna.
6 July Train north to Narvik, Norway.
7 July Bus north to Tromsø.
7-9 July Hire a car and drive around the north. Maybe reach Nordkapp! Exciting!
9/10 July Fly to Oslo.
10 July Day in Oslo. Hopefully meet [livejournal.com profile] wunderbaum.
10/11 July Fly back to London.

Yes, it’s absurd. But that’s the point! Although any advice would be most welcome, as I don’t want to get stuck in the middle of nowhere!

And a few useful websites before I lose them:

Ryanair http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/
Scandinavian airlines http://www.scandinavian.net/
Blue1 airlines http://www.blue1.com/
Viking line http://www.vikingline.fi/index.asp?lang=en
Finnish trains http://www.vr.fi/heo/eng/
Swedish trains http://www.sj.se/
Norwegian buses http://www.nbe.no/nbeweb/index.jsp?lang=en

I’ll just let that simmer for a while in my head before I start throwing money at booking all that lot. It’s not going to be cheap, some of that. But it’s going to be fun. Anyone crazy enough to join me? No, I thought not.

Lordi WIN!

May. 20th, 2006 11:33 pm
fluffymark: (enthralled)
Oh YES! The world has gone unreal, and europe has found taste in music.The best eurovision party ever. We were cheering for Finland all the way. Fantastic! *yay*

Many thanks to [livejournal.com profile] ixwin, [livejournal.com profile] taimatsu, [livejournal.com profile] the_alchemist, [livejournal.com profile] doseybat, [livejournal.com profile] compilerbitch, [livejournal.com profile] inskauldrak & C (don't think I'm not going to gossip now. Ha!), the lovely Meg and finally our guest of honour, Kristo the Finn (who kindly translated all those little signs in Finnish that Lordi kept waving at everyone) for making it an amazing evening. *bighugs*

Next year it’ll be an ABBA tribute band in Lordi costumes. And a damn good excuse to visit Finland. *nodnod*
fluffymark: (doll)
YAY for web proxy servers!! *hugs proxy server* Our otherwise lovely ISP Zen cannot see livejournal today. Either one of them is blacklisting the other, or there's a routing error or something like that. When I realised what was happening, I tried cunning and ingenious ways to get my LJ fix. My first and rather insane plan was X-forwarding a mozilla browser running on the fluffhouse server. Which admittedly worked, but it was terminally slow! Ooops. So now I'm using a proxy server and YAY for I can read LJ again and the world won't end. *happysmile*

Sunrise is a special time. Streets are deserted of people and cars, and even central london is lovely and quiet. It's my favourite time of day to wander around cities, not just for the lack of people, but the lovely colours that everything goes in the cold light of morning, as a spectacular sunrise blows away all the hazy nighttime events and intoxications. The air is fresh and clear and everything is joyous, and it feels slightly illicit seeing morning after having stayed out all night somehow - like cheating the night gods or something like that. This morning, returning from [livejournal.com profile] the_alchemist and [livejournal.com profile] verlaine's place, travelling along the river past Waterloo and Westminster, heading eastwards with the sun rising over the towers of the city up ahead was something quite special indeed. That bit of London is incredibly pretty indeed when seen in the right light, and I'd all the time in the world to just sit and watch and breath in all the goodness. The rapidly brightening daylight made me so giddy I was dancing and singing with joy down the street. Ok, so maybe I'm a bit strange, but I now totally get the whole ancient sun-worshipping thing and am in awe of nature. Why not dance happily to celebrate the start of a new day - it's a thing of beauty! The pagan within me is very happy with today. *nods*

Thank you [livejournal.com profile] the_alchemist, [livejournal.com profile] verlaine for the lovely party, and happy birthday [livejournal.com profile] casby! Many pretty friends there, plus made a few new friends, sang the night away in the most FUN way possible (yay for Singstar!) and I genuinely didn't notice that somehow it got to be 5am and I've still no idea how. So much for getting the last tube home! Oh well, nevermind, I was having lots of fun. They have a lovely place and I need to visit lots and play Bridge and things, if they will let me (but I'm really not that scary at Bridge, am I? *makes cute face*)

I'm all covered in glitter and smell divine. I'm leaving glitter trails wherever I go. Oooops. Lush are lovely.
fluffymark: (fragile)
It’s a lovely day and I smell of gardening! But more on that later!

My TV is far too spoogly it scares me. Yesterday when I turned it on, it popped up a box onto the screen:

Software update detected. Do you want to download now?

Meep goes I. I never knew it did that. I never knew TVs could do that! I selected yes and it told me to leave the TV on standby for the next 24 hours to download the update. So now I’m all curious as to how it works. It’s obviously receiving the update from a digital broadcast over the TV aerial, but who’s sending it? What’s the update for? How secure is this? Could someone send me a malicious update? It’s all very strange! *scared*

I can’t seem to leave to house without exciting things happening. Just popped out to the local asian minimarket shop for goodies, and witnessed a shoplifting for the first time. I was just about to be served at the checkout, when the person behind me in the queue tried to sneak out of the shop without paying. Shopkeeper ran out of the shop in chase, and also about 6 staff emerged from out-of-nowhere (so it seemed) and joined the pursuit down the street. All very exciting. I got served by someone else eventually, and when i left the shop there was still no sign of any of the chasers returning, so the chase must still have been on. I wonder if they caught him? *wonders*

Anyway, gardening. The dynasty continues! The potatoes have been planted! Hoorah! Long live the dynasty! They’re hiding just behind the swimming pool (when did we get a swimming pool? oh, but that’s another story!) *yay*

The rose plant that [livejournal.com profile] cassielalone got me for Valentine’s day has flowered again. It’s very very pretty. This makes me happy. *soppy thoughts*

Will be heading out to [livejournal.com profile] verlaine, [livejournal.com profile] the_alchemist and [livejournal.com profile] casby‘s party soon, so hopefully see lots of you there! Shower first as I smell of garden. *nods*

Right, off we go ...
fluffymark: (fragile)
I'm not trying to avoid my lovely housemates. Really I'm not. It's just there's so many exciting things going on I'm reduced to skulking back home like a thief in the middle of the night, collapsing into bed with exhaustion and never seeing them! Finally, after far too many long slow trainrides and dodgy buses and the like at some ghostlike time well after 2am on a Monday night, when nobody else is out, I got back from a weekend-that-went-on-and-became-a-bit-more. *zonk*

Firstly, there was the Elephant of sensory overload, which no image or words can really do justice to, as it was an assault on all the senses (including those of wetness! Wheee splashy wet elephant!) So much of this oriental wizardry was dreamlike and I didn't really follow the story that was supposedly unfolding, but I didn't have to. It was just a weirdness happening right there in central london, causing chaos wherever it went. And sadly I had to wave byebye to Elephant and zoom off on a very-slow-train-because-the-mainline-is-closed-yet-AGAIN-AAARGH! to Cambridge for the social event of the year. *squeeee*

[livejournal.com profile] atreic and [livejournal.com profile] emperor both looked stunningly beautiful at their Wedding Ceilidh ([livejournal.com profile] evil_nick's photos). [livejournal.com profile] atreic's wedding dress is indeed a thing of much loveiness to behold, and spun nicely when she was dancing. I approve muchly! Squeees and bouncey congratulations to them both, and yay for many pretty people there! Somehow, and I've still no idea how this all works and how everything fits together, they'd conspired to arrange several of my circles of friends all under the same roof, causing me much joy. There was a reunion of sorts of Ardgour people, but also many goths, geeks and even dancers many who I'd not seen since my Cambridge days, as well as various randoms like [livejournal.com profile] yvesilena, who I'd not seen in far too long and spend much time hugging and squeeeing at. How do all these different people know each other? *mystified* Ceilidhs are good as they are a wonderful excuse to flirt outrageously with both close friends and complete strangers, although I'm sad we ran out of dances before getting to ask [livejournal.com profile] atreic for a dance. I enjoyed very nice dances with lovely [livejournal.com profile] ghoti, [livejournal.com profile] yvesilena, [livejournal.com profile] aiwendel, [livejournal.com profile] mirabehn, [livejournal.com profile] strongtrousers (oh random dance of doom!), [livejournal.com profile] medieval_bunny and [livejournal.com profile] deborah_c, who I hope didn't mind my overenthusiatic swinging *spinspinspin*, and then suddenly we ran out of dances before I ran out of pretty people to dance with, but there was still lots of cake, and it was GOOD cake, so all is forgiven. Maybe. I'd still like to flirt more. *wrysmile*

There was a lot of rain. This was a good thing and a bad thing. Lots of train rides and rain streaking down the train windows make me oddly happy, watching the warmly snug train race across the gloomy wet landscape. Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. It did kill my getting-out-and-being-sociable plans for Sunday, or maybe I was feeling overpeopled, but after being cruelly woken up by a zonky [livejournal.com profile] cassielalone heading for work, I spent a long time watching the rain splash down in the puddles outside and decided that warm-bed indoors was far preferable to going outside, and besides there was [livejournal.com profile] cassielalone's anime library of joy to tempt me to stay in. Yay for Noir - I now have an unhealthy crush on Chloe, to the extent of using interweb found images of Chloe at work today for testing purposes (yes, I now download anime images as part of my work ... how nice is that?? *squeee*)

Now, maybe I'm strange like this, but I have no problems in considering "just hopping over to Reading for the evening", even on a weekday, a perfectly normal thing to do. I've done it many times, and yesterday it was [livejournal.com profile] taimatsu's birthday, so it seemed a good enough reason to go again. Despite all the drama this always entails, as I only noticed late on Sunday I'd have no time to go home as I was travelling to work direct from Cambridge on Monday morning. I got a sudden shock when the train claimed it was not stopping at Reading and the first stop was in WALES or something, but it lied and somehow I ended up in Reading at just the right time, for lovely Wagamama goodness, and er ... a ... er ... film. Which will remain nameless, although it was so dreadfully bad it was actually really hilariously good. And you know, there was a trailer of the next Pirates of the Caribbean so maybe all is forgiven. *deppdrool*

And then, the train home cunningly timed to arrive in Paddington just as the tube shuts. You know that really annoying half hour between about 12:30 and 1AM where although there might be night buses heading out from central london, you'll be very lucky to find any night buses heading towards the center? Yes, well I got caught by that yet again and the journey home took a very very long time indeed. I is dead today. *collapses*

burning question of the day )
fluffymark: (Default)
So, just for a change, I tried out Tesco’s self-service checkout. And it felt surreal and strange. A delightful sense of childish joy waving food over the scanner with feelings of YAY every time it went beep when it finally found the barcode. It felt more like playing with a fun new shiny gadget than actually paying for things. Something was certainly missing from the shopping experience here. It even accepted a quick swipe from my Chip+PIN card without PIN or signature, which was somewhat disconcerting. Like, that’s all? I can walk out of the shop now? *meeep*

Am still coming down off the Ardgour-holiday high. It feels really odd eating meals all on my own. Or in fact, being on my own. I guess I’m missing people, and I’m looking forward to [livejournal.com profile] atreic and [livejournal.com profile] emperor‘s wedding ceilidh immensely now, so I can see all the pretty people again. Work doesn’t seem to be work at the moment, it’s just a place with people and things to do that doesn’t seem quite real. The mad window-attacking bird vanished while I was away, so that’s something. I wonder where it went? Will it be back? One of those unanswerable mysteries I suppose. *wonders*

Life is looking good. May is here (happy belated Beltaine to those who celebrate it), summer is spreading its first wings, and for once I’m enjoying the warm outdoors (I’ve just started filling the freezer with my summer survival kit of icecubes, just in case - too much heat and I go wah!!). Lots of people have been giving me chocolate (always a way to make a happy fluffymark) so I’m bouncing merrily. Oh yes, and I’m suddenly feeling rich - just got paid today, also certain people have finally paid back some debts to me, and I just had a peek at some investments and I’m laughing. A year ago I dropped a pile of savings into a fund with strong exposure to the Russian stock market, which has since skyrocketed. So, when do I sell? *excitedbounces*

Tomorrow is a polling day. For the first time ever, we’ve been flyered to death. I just scooped up the mountain of flyers that had been accumulating under the front door, and had a look what they actually say. Labour and the Lib Dems both launch into a scathing attack of each other, pointing out all the faults of their opponents, and say nothing about what they stand for, other than vague “make things better!!” statements. Respect appear to be subtly rebranding themselves from anti-war to anti-Blair, so they actually have something to campaign against (but it’s supposed to be a local election, surely? ah well). And the Greens are at pains to point out how much more green they are than any other party encroaching on their green-ness. All of which leaves me wonderfully confused!!! No sign at all of the Conservatives, BNP or UKIP here, I suspect all the right-wingers have gone into hiding. Don’t you just love election campaigns? *amused*

Anyway, just for the hell of it, a poll! *curioussmile*

[Poll #721886]
fluffymark: (enthralled)
A whole week of [livejournal.com profile] ardgour_2006 wonderfulness just happened. Ardgour House is a huge old mansion house hidden deep in the pretty Scottish Highlands, filled with a million bedrooms (or so it seemed), a swimming pool, a sauna, a billiard room, breathtaking views of snow-topped mountains and foamy waterfalls and (best of all) 22 wonderful exciting people to share the love with. *squeeee*

Our adventures in Scotland, which I fear will contain much use of the word SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE and YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY and lots of bouncing, so click here only if you want to indulge in a huge squeeeeeeee-fest. I want to marry the last week I liked it that much. You have been warned )

Photos, entirely of the outdoor prettiness, are now up on my gallery. They are THE PRETTY, so go look at them!

I’ve not read LJ in well over a week, and my friends page backlog is so long it’s scary, so please please point me at anything I should see. *nods*
fluffymark: (pompom)
Yay! I’ve been BUSY reorganizing my entire photo collection into an online album, and it’s now all available here. This includes most of the photos I took last year and due to being horribly disorganized never got around to putting online - Öland, Riga, Bratislava, Vienna, Budapest and Tranås. Also many dozens of previously unseen photos in older galleries, that have never been online before either. Plus all photos are now uncropped and are at available at full size with proper descriptions and thumbnails and everything (somewhat lacking in places where I’ve not idea what the photo is of *ooops*). It’s a good collection of pretties and I like it.

Jellyfish users looking for a similar album just give me a prod and I’ll set you up with one. Also prod me if there happens to be a photo of you there that you’d rather got removed. Although I’ve not many photos of people at all (shame on me!) so hopefully it won’t be a problem. Amusingly my album mainly appears to be an compendium of Eastern European architecture at the moment. Ooopsie!

Right, I need to finish off packing for that Scottish Adventure to Ardgour House, don’t I? *wheeeeeee* *excitedbounces*
fluffymark: (enthralled)
So, there I was, moaning about having failed to get tickets to the sold out Placebo gig at Alexandra Palace on Tuesday. It was the end of the world (yes yes, but you know, I’ve got to make it at least sound like I’m a drama queen here, work with me, ok?). Then [livejournal.com profile] 791point43 says she has a spare ticket, and I’m all manic and “mine mine mine!” so yay I’m going to see Brian on Tuesday and the world is a happy place again! Let us not forget why we are going- drool over the photos. Ahem. So, who else is going to stalk Brian with me?
fluffymark: (Default)
Go to Wikipedia and put in your birth date. Don't put in the year. Post in your LJ with three neat/important events, three births, and three deaths

Events:
600 - Pope Gregory I decreed that "God bless you" was the correct response to a sneeze
1568 - The entire population of the Netherlands - three million people - was sentenced to death by the Roman Catholic Church for heresy
1923 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun

Births:
1941 - Kim Jong-il, North Korean leader
1954 - Iain Banks, Scottish author
1968 - [livejournal.com profile] warren_ellis, British comic book writer

Deaths:
1391 - John V Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1332)
1898 - Thomas Bracken, New Zealand poet (b. 1843)
1917 - Octave Mirbeau, French writer (b. 1848)

Popes these days just aren't what they used to be. What happened to all the exciting popes?

I seem to be going fleet-walking (with duck-putting) on Sunday. This should be fun! :)
fluffymark: (buttercup)
It’s all woe woe woe. The drain has closed for the summer. They’ve closed my Waterloo and City Line (mine, I tell you, it’s all mine) until September. Meanies! Do they realise what horrors this will do to my commute? I am not impressed. I mean, there’s 2 stations and 4 trains. What in the world can they be doing that takes 5 months? They could bore a whole new tunnel in that time. Or any number of other things. In fact, I bet they are, and it’s all a conspiracy. Maybe someone is doing secret experiments sending rubber ducks through the empty tunnels all summer. Or they’re going dragon hunting, as the dragon might fall asleep when there’s no noises of trains. Or you tell me ... what is going on down there?
fluffymark: (buttercup)
Yesterday there appeared this pretty yellow bird on the ledge outside our office window. For some reason known only to itself it's been ramming the window at high speed all day, making a loud *bang* every time it hits the glass. Very pretty bird, but very stupid bird. We think it's either trying to attack, or possibly mate with its reflection. At first this was amusing, but then it got really really annoying and distracting ... all this *bang* *bang* *bang* all day long. We blacked out the windows this morning, but that didn't stop the stupid bird attack. It's still attacking the window. So, ideas, ingenious or silly, are welcome on how to stop this stupid bird annoying us all!

Devolution

Mar. 30th, 2006 10:56 pm
fluffymark: (enthralled)
Wow! This evening was [livejournal.com profile] happygoff‘s Devolution show, and it was very special. I arrived just in time for the warm-up, where Gothic choir N-chant, all dressed up in long hooded black gowns sang an eclectic mix of songs, including A Elbereth Gilthoniel. After an interval, we returned to find a dark room for the main event, Devolution. The only lighting was a circle of candles, and tiny torches given to all the audience, which we could point where we liked to see what was happening. We were arranged in a circle, and the choir (still in the long black hooded gowns) stood behind and all around us, providing a live human soundtrack to the actors in the middle. And there was lots of very artsy emotional writhings and bizarre and very sensual dancing, They covered a range of emotions, with chanting by the choir to set the mood. It was heavily audience participation, with lots of taunting and teasing, and getting dragged to the middle to be part of the performance (Remind me never to sit at the front ever again ever ever ever *aaaaaargh*). Overall very strange, but very nice indeed. *bounces*
fluffymark: (Default)
It was about a 20% solar eclipse from here. Well, I briefly caught a glimpse of it, and the sun looked oddly shaped, and that's about it. Wondering if anyone else got a better look at it? Or any other strange phenomena involving rains of fish and suchlike?
fluffymark: (pompom)
Yay! Today I had the pleasure of visiting the lovely [livejournal.com profile] mirabehn and [livejournal.com profile] evil_nick at their shiny little new nest in Datchet. But before I got to Datchet, I was distracted by something else. Most of you would know by know that I’m a bit of a castlephile, and it didn’t escape my notice that there is a HUGE ROYAL CASTLE just over the river from Datchet. The biggest of all in fact, and I’d not ever been there before. Shocking. So this morning I braved all the Russian tourists, and had a lovely wander around Windsor Castle. It’s not at all cheap, but it is The Pretty. Big proper castle-like walls, like castles are supposed to have. Mmmmmmmmmm crenellations *drool*. Ahem. All the flowers had just come out, as they’ve finally noticed it is now Spring, so the whole mound around the Round Tower was covered in pretty aromatic flowers. And lots of pretties inside too. Yay! Sadly chapel closed (as is Sunday) so I’d have to go back there to see that. But I really want to go back there, as it’s so nice there. Yay!

Then a lovely walk to Datchet, and [livejournal.com profile] mirabehn and [livejournal.com profile] evil_nick are both as lovely as ever. We discussed fun plans for Ardgour (which I am now looking forward to immensely!), and watched some Firefly and Yes Minister. Then we put on the Haibane Renmei soundtrack and played LOTR monopoly, always a splendid source of innuendo goodness. My Legolas was doing awful at first, and Elly was doing too well as she got lots of horsies and pimped them out. So me and Nick ganged up on her, and somehow I emerged to build huge fortresses all over Rohan and strangely ended up winning! Yay. I had bizarre banana flavoured beer, which was very nice, and Elly cooked lovely food and knows how to make me very happy as there was also yummy chocolate icecream. My plan is to visit them lots now, as they are both very nice indeed! *happybounces*

Ooopsie! Just re-read all that, and it's all too mindnumbingly enthusiastic. I seem to be stuck on the word "nice" rather a lot, don't I? I really must be having a good day! Dearie me :)
fluffymark: (worldwrong)
When you see this, post two anti-war songs...

This one forever haunts me every time I hear it. The imagery is harrowing and extremely poignant.

The band played Waltzing Matilda )

The following I will forever associate with the Iraq war. The day Baghdad fell, I had this song playing constantly on repeat in the background as I watched them on TV as they were “tearing the statues to the ground”. The rest is almost prophetic, but I’d say more like inevitable.

Lurhstaap (New Model Army) )
fluffymark: (enthralled)
My hair is shorter. It has also turned RED. Yay! I win! *manic bounces*

Strangely, I’m still in a sociable mood, so I’m going to Kryptorium tomorrow to chat and bounce and stuff. Actually, looking further ahead I’m planning to try out the latest incarnation of Electric Dreams at Turnmills on March 20th. I just want somewhere to bounce lots. oooh - maybe I should go to the Calling on Tuesday?

Also, the lovely [livejournal.com profile] happygoff is putting on a very special and unique event just down the road in sunny Stratford on Thursday 30th Match. Take a look at the flyer!
Professional theatre with Goth Choir live human soundtrack )
Tickets are very limited - if you want one contact [livejournal.com profile] happygoff.

At the moment I feel like taking over the world. Who wants to join me? *wheeeeee*
fluffymark: (pompom)
I've spent *far* too long playing with:

Six Degrees of Wikipedia

putting in random things like sausage -> Napoleon (goes via 10th Century + Poland)
or hovercraft -> Greta Garbo (goes via 1958 and April 15th)

Trying to find anything with more than 6 degrees of separation. Its NOT easy. Even things like quidditch -> astrosociobiology is 4 links apart, and hypothalamus to cirrus is 5 links. Please help - can you lovely people find any long ones? I've a horrible feeling Wikipedia is absolutely stuffed full of vast numbers of weak linkages, making long link-chains very rare.

In other news, am planning exciting and radical things about my hair. You can try and guess if you like, but you probably won't get it right. *secretivesmile*
fluffymark: (fairy)
First day of lent, and someone brought a huge and very yummy chocolate cake into the office. *lickslips*. Therefore, I am resolved to give up not-eating and therefore to stuff myself silly. Is this missing the point? *wonders* Last week I excelled myself in cooking vegetarian curry for *5* people and it was divine. I should do more of that. I like being able to cook again! *bounces*

Also - the brick of doom has been conquered. I have finished reading War and Peace. Finally! The epilogue is fascinating, isn't it? *nods* Now off to read something a bit ... er ... shorter. Probably with lesbians in. Or maybe my Norway guidebook (yes, I'm considering a trip to Norway as it appeals to my sense of strangeness!) Or something.

Postman has been bringing happy goodness this week. Firstly, a shipment from Japan bringing some Moi meme moitie goodness. Then a nice box containing Gin Truffles. And I'm expecting a big box of goodness from Amazon containing Chobits and Haibane Renmei and more goodies imminently. *happysmiles*
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