The Blog

 I'm made out of meat...

Sometimes I love the suggestions that appear in my search box. I start typing "I", and get "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas". And now that I think about it, I do want a hippopotamus for Christmas.

Don't you?

Labels: Hippopotamii for Christmas, random

GRUMBLES!...

You know, the correct next thing to say to this conversation:

You: What are your plans for today?
Me: Just cleaning up. The place is a mess.

is not "Okay", followed by a rousing three hours of street racing on facebook, and then an affternoon nap.

Labels: brothers suck, family, middle class mediocrity, random, rant

 Trying to Post Regularly...

I had a train of thought, but then I lost it...

I ordered the final set of the CLAMP in 3-D land toys this morning. They might arrive before Christmas if I'm lucky: one more present to open. :) I might even catch up on photographing them then.

I've got a draft of my yuletide fic, but I really dislike it and will be either scrapping it or doing a full rewrite tonight. I've only got three days to go, eep!

I've also realised I have entirely too many "draft" posts in blogger, usually consisting of a link that I intend but never manage to post at a later moment. So I'm going through the vault to see what can be rescued and posted over the next couple of days.

• "I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek" - a terrible song by The Go Go's, who apparently never grasped the finer points of grammar. One wonders if that was any influence on their "success". (Also, it means I get to use my 'daleks' tag again. I don't even remember why I have that.)
• DDR: The Musical - I love the idea of this so very much, even if the reviews say it's crap and the pictures are pretty WTF, because shitty Japanese techno makes me happy.
  (Curiously, the thought of an actual revolution through dance brings back bad memories from reading "The Worst Band in the in Universe"--GBase, I love everything you do, but that book was lame.)
• Bee Gees keep you Stayin' Alive - Heh, it turns out the song is just right for CPR, and you're more likely to save someone if you sing along in your head.

Labels: christmas, daleks, damn you CLAMP, DDR, Graeme Base, long live the revolution, miscellany, music, random, yuletide

You will be pleased to note...

...that I just paid my bill and will remain at this url for another two years. This is good.

If anyone has visited the site recently, you'll note a mess of broken links and odd formatting. Apologies, I'm working on it in what little free time I have at the moment.

And since I'm here I might as well blog this column and this video are my favourite web things from the last week.

Labels: chasing after butterflies and wishing I could fly, lonely-Cat, politics, random, retail therapy, still poor, wasting my life, web stuff

   Several things that are awesome...

The Ninja Turtles Cartoon Theme translated from Chinese (as a means of solving the "ninja teens/teams" debate)

Posterchild's amazing Weighted Companion Cube art

Oh, and I have my own room now, though it's a huge mess at present.

Labels: lonely-Cat, my room, random

   So, I'm allergic to cleaning...

No, really.

Pretty much since Honours when Liz had a spack with me owning furniture and decided that she was going to revoke my rights to half our bookcase by dumping half a bookcase worth of books on my bed while I was out one night (which I was sure I had blogged about but I can't find it anywhere) my room has been a mess. A big huge mess consisting of things living in boxes and piles and just generally being all over the place because I've been too busy studying to clean up.

So, when I bought myself the ikea furniture a few weeks ago I realised that I ought to go through everything and properly clean. So far I've filled two bags for the vinnies (uh, goodwill, I guess), thrown out several more and sorted all of my craft projects so that I might actually get some of them done. And I have a feeling that in a few more weekends I might actually have a neat bedroom, just in time to go away. :)

And it's so worth the effort even though I can't sleep properly and I can't stop sneezing because of all the stirred up dust.

My laptop's still dead though, which makes me sad. Question for the readers: Should I buy a new one (probably after the trip), or repair poor old Minako?

Labels: iCatherine, losing sleep, random, tidy-cat

   Today's Weird Thought...

Butterflies have the same DNA as caterpillars. Isn't that funky?

(I don't know why this has come as such a revelation, but it honestly only just occurred to me.)

Labels: chasing after butterflies and wishing I could fly, random, science