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Enough!

Lirae — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:14:05 +0000

We were forcasted to get around 4in of snow today. Instead, we got 1in of ucky brown sludge, with a nice “underlay” of ice. Brilliant.

The whole snow and ice thing was cool last week, especially when it was all fresh and lovely looking. Not so cool now though – it’s become increasingly ucky and dangerous and I’m probably going to end up breaking a bone or – even worse – spraining my other ankle too.

Snow Day!

Lirae — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:20:04 +0000

I’ve lived in Plymouth for 13 years now and during that time, I had only had one – yes, ONE – snow day. Until today…
(Although, when I was in College, we DID manage to talk our teachers into letting us go home at half day because of the snow…but that doesn’t really count.)

I got to work this morning – just got in the front door – to be told to turn around and go back home because of the bad weather. WOOHOO! SNOW DAY NUMBER 2!

I almost don’t mind getting up and into work for nothing.

(Oh yeah – HI 2010!)

Yum

Lirae — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:09:57 +0000

I finally – after almost a decade of wanting – got my labret pierced. This was a little over three weeks ago (I got it done on a Saturday).

On Friday, work decided they didn’t like it and they wanted me to remove it.
Long story short, I’ve been “hiding” my labret piercing by wearing a clear retainer but without screwing on the ball (until home time when, basically, I’ll do whatever the hell I please).

Earlier, I had my lunch and was sat in the staff room picking at my teeth with my tongue. I went to play with the back of the piercing, like I’ve been doing for over three weeks now, and…well, I couldn’t find the stud.

I must have swallowed it.

Wreck this Journal

Lirae — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:00:23 +0000

My mum and stepdad have allowed me to play with their digital camcorder, as long as I don’t break it.

So, my first ever vblog and intentionally-made YouTube video:

Alive and kicking, still

Lirae — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:12:01 +0000

Over the past week, I’ve been ruining my eyes and turning my brain to mush by watching horror film after horror film after horror film.
I’m also barely sleeping; having (bad, even for me) problems getting to sleep and I keep waking up randomly during the night, two or three times. This has kinda resulted in my brain feeling even more mush-like than it normally is. By the time I get home from work, I can barely string a sentence together.

I’ll be back when I feel less sleep deprived. Or on Monday, after I’ve gotten over Derren Brown removing my soul when I go to see him Sunday night.

Spam

Lirae — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:37:48 +0000

I migrated back to WordPress less than two months ago and I’ve already had nearly 700 spam comments.
I know that, to some people, this isn’t a lot of spam. To me, it’s a LOT; I think I only had around 10 spam comments between August and February, back when I was still rockin’ my own script.
That’s what, a 700% increase?

Last Monday, I decided to install the Bad Behavior^{^} plugin after it had been recommended to me by @abledragon^{^}.

It’s worked a charm. It’s blocked over 1300 “access attempts” (spam attempts?) and only 4 have gotten past that (and they were caught by Askimet). Needless to say, I’m really impressed!

Happy Easter

Lirae — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:25:36 +0000

I hope you are all having a great Easter and are currently gorging yourselves on all of your Easter eggs!
I ate a whole Cadbury’s chicken – oops!

A typical thing for me

Lirae — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:47:29 +0000

I sliced off a small chunk of my “swearing finger” on my right hand yesterday. I did it on one of the metal parts of the files we use in work. It didn’t hurt but it bled quite a lot and I have a disgusting little flap of skin hanging over it, which I haven’t got the balls to rip off.

This means that I am currently sporting yet another plaster:

Shopping spree!

Lirae — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:46:28 +0000

I went shopping yesterday. I intended to go in and get a couple of more tops since it’s getting too warm to wear my winter woolies. I also needed to pick up another pair of headphones since mine broke about a month ago.

I ended up getting the new headphones, a DVD (~~Out of Season~~ Open Season (oops!)), a handbag, 3 new hoodies, 9 pairs of underwear, 13 pairs of socks (where do mine keep going?!), 3 vest tops and 14 new tops. Oops!

On the left is my wardrobe before I put all of the new clothes in. On the right is my wardrobe after I had put all of my new clothes in. It’s starting to look quite full and a lot of my clothes were in my wash basket!

I also got Killer some new toys (a grass house and a wooden tube) but I don’t think he likes them very much, since he sat in his corner and sulked all night and just generally ignored them.

Just like old times!

Lirae — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:24:12 +0000

When I was in school, I’d spend my Sundays rushing through my homework.
When I was in Sixth Form, I’d spend my Sundays rushing through my homework.
When I was in College, I’d spend my Sundays rushing through my homework.
When I was doing my NVQ knowledge questions, I spent Sunday rushing through the last of them.

I came in today, expecting to see my assessor at 9:30am. I checked the time when I got to work (I didn’t have my Filofax on me when we made the appointment, so I had written it into my work diary instead), I checked the time of the appointment: 11:30am. That’s cool – two hours later but no biggie.

11:30am came. And went. Around 12-ish, I started getting worried about my assessor; she’s NEVER late and if she was going to be late, she would totally ring in to let me know. I decided to double-check the time and date of our next appointment before I rang her up all worried…the appointment is at 11:30am next Wednesday. I’d gotten the day wrong, the week wrong, the MONTH wrong and the time wrong.
D’oh!