Happy Halloween!

Or Samhain, whatever floats your boat.


I am off to the local cinema club tonight to see this old horror flick called The Innocents, with Deborah Kerr. It is supposed to be what The Others is based on and sounds quite spooky.

Rachel's Halloween Party 2007!

Rachel is such a legend. She really goes to town every Halloween. This year, she wallpapered her living room into a scary cemetary, invited a load of drunken people round, and proceeded to throw a Halloween party that featured Pass the Parcel and Balloon games.. Great!! I baked some bat shaped biscuits, made Halloween rum punch featuring floating eyeballs, and some extremely potent vodka jelly that no one could eat. My outfit, as you can see above, was some kind of a red flame lady person. The person next to me is the hostess with the mostest. The inflatable pumpkin below is Sue. She had the best tights on but you can't see them in this pic.

Rachel sporting a very attractive mask.
I am flame girl, I will kill you with my orange cocktail.

The pic below shows the wallpaper that she decorated her flat with, awesome!!

Work

Yesterday, I flirted with the idea of becoming a Prison Officer, because that was the only job that wasn't in finance and I could understand what it was. I can see myself, plodding down dimly lit corridors jangling my keys while getting occasionally spat at by surly inmates. I could learn how to do stuff like the Vulcan death grip and one inch punch to control them. No? Can't see it? Well, maybe not. Maybe I will try to write a novel. I have read so many Mills & Boon ( I developed a fixation with the really dated 60's/70's ones a few years back, much to Nick's horror) - I reckon I could vomit up a few sickly love stories, no trouble.

Yesterday our house exchanged in the UK that we have been selling. It hasn't completed yet but it's great news that it's exchanged. Its a weight off our minds. My husband has already bought a new car in the UK to ship back to Guernsey with the proceeds, unfortunately it is not a Hello Kitty car, but a rather larger masculine 4X4, perfect for Guernsey roads! Not. It is very comfy though, and will so long journeys very well when we pop back over.

A cup of tea awaits for me.

I want this car SO badly...

My latest obsession has to be the Mitsubishi i - Hello Kitty edition. I might actually be prepared to kill someone to have this car. It has kitty shaped headrests!!! Who could possibly want for more? Seriously, if my budget could stretch to it I would definitely buy this car. At least my husband would never want to borrow it. I don't usually go nuts about cars but this is so Japanese and cool, I just love it.

Another day, another zzzzzzzzzz...

So, it's another quiet day in the office. Not so much for me, as I have several viewing appointments in my diary, but I am feeling particularly sorry for my colleagues who are office bound and wallowing in boredom. Some days the phone just doesn't ring, and some days it rings off the hook, and today is one of the former, unfortunately. I have just amused myself, while I am here in the office, by eating a smelly packet of spicy Wotsits. And now I blog for your dubious viewing pleasure.

I watched Spiderman 3 last night, on my own, with the end of a large bar of dairy milk. It was OK, but kind of a disappointment after how great the previous two films were. Tobey Maguire's face is kind of odd as well, he is getting a bit hamstery.

I went to the cinema the night before to see Stardust, which I absolutely adored beyond adoration into the realms of the psycho fan who might actually go and see it a second time... And on Sunday, the night before that, Rachel came around and we watched Lady in the Water, which gave me nightmares. There is a large evil wolf dog in it called a 'Scrunt' which terrified me. It hides in the long grass, lying in wait, and its back is covered in grass so you can't see it. The only way to tell that it's there is to hold up a mirror to it and you will see it's red eyes in the mirror. See what I mean!? It's giving me shivers just writing about it. I think it touched a bit of a nerve because it is very similar to the wolf Gmork in the Neverending Story, which made me scream out loud and jump out of my seat when I first watched it.

If I talk about this any more I am not going to be able to sleep tonight.

Avast Ye!

OK, enough Pirate talk. Dontcha find it is everywhere these days? I do. I was kind of cool, like Little Britain or Ali G were once cool, a very very long time ago before they were discovered by Clintons cards, but now I am getting a little sick of all this Pirating. Actually, I am a bit of a hypocrite as I am a Pirate on facebook. But still...

Life is good thankyou, with sunshine followed by cloudy skies, and intermittent rain showers.

I watched Breakfast at Tiffanys last night with Nick, as can you believe, he had never seen it! That boy, sheeesh. So in honour, I am having an Aufrey Hepburn kind of day, inasmuch that I don't look anything like her but I am wearing pearls and lots of black. And if I had to go anywhere or do anything important I would put some lipstick on to do it.

Tonight, I am going out for a tennerfest, er, again. This is only the third one I've done so far though, I am not a massive glutton. I am also wildly excited about going to the cinema to see Stardust some time next week. Nick is away for a while so I am going to do lots of girlie stuff while he's gone, this being one of them. I am currently reading Phantom, by Terry Goodkind, as well as Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, both of which I am enjoying immensely. That is my cultural round up!

I also have very sad news.... the little kitten, we found out it didn't make it. It was just so dehydrated and anaemic they couldn't save it. Broke my heart, it did.

Over the weekend, I loafed around, went to Sue & Lauries for a lovely BBQ on Sunday and also went to Lihou island as the house was open for a look around. Pics on facebook of the BBQ.

Sympathy please!

Hiya, so after my last post which was all lovely and full of outdoorsy goodness, I have been sick as a dog the last couple of days.... sore throat, reams of mucus, excessive tiredness and a very cloudy head. So I have been off work and watching lots of telly and reading lots of books.

But! I am back in work today, sniffing olbas oil and drinking barrocas. I spent the day yesterday making a photo album in the internet of our favourite wedding pictures, which took me around 6 hours! I had to have a serious nap after that. I have also been watching lots of telly, films including the Korean film Host (verdict: rubbish!) The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (verdict: rubbish, but strangely enjoyable) and Pecker (verdict: quite good actually). Also Ugly Betty, old episodes of Heroes and other similar such stuff. A very productive couple of days then! I finished the book 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter' which wasn't a patch on the TV series I'm afraid.

Cliff Walks, Beaches and Kittens

On Saturday morning, it was such a glorious late summer day of sun, so we decided to go on a cliff walk from Icart to Petit Bot and back again. We tromped across these cliffs...

And eventually ended up at Petit Bot beach. which by the way is a beautiful place...
And I introduced Nick to this cave, which I used to play in as a wee nipper. Spooky!
Nick had lots of fun making drippy castles out of wet sand...
And we rolled up our trousers and went for a cooling paddle. Then we pigged out on nachos and chicken wraps at La Tapitas cafe, but I didn't take photos of that.

On the way back to Icart we spotted this wee litttle fella all on its own in the undergrowth. We weren't sure what to do so phoned the GSPCA who told us to catch it and bring it to them...

I managed to catch it and then had to complete the 2 mile cliff walk carrying a wee moggy along with me. We got it to the shelter who told us it was severly anaemic and very underweight, and probably would have died if we had left it so yay! Go us! Saving baby animals. We called the shelter this morning who have told us that it is OK but will be at the vets for a few more days. I obviously wanted to adopt it but Nick put his foot down. But if it isn't claimed then my cousin could give it a really good home.

And here is an owl that I made out of sand to finish this tale. Twit Twoooooooo.

8 Minutes to 5

8 Minutes to 5
8 Minutes to 5
La la la la la la laaaaaaa
8 Minutes to 5

Come on I want to make like a seagull and get the flock outta here! OK..

7 Minutes to 5
7 Minutes to 5
la la la la la la laaaaaaa
7 Minutes to 5.

I could go on, but I type to fast and it's still 7 minutes to 5. Bugger. I am almost about to leave work, its a Friday and I have the weekend off with many exciting plans of doing SOD all and taking it easy.... perhaps with a couple of tennerfests thrown in. (If you're not from Guernsey you won't understand my cleverness there.)

Right, I'm shutting down.....

Have some baby pictures...

Hiya, here are some photos of my new second cousin, who I think is going to be named Harrison James Smith, although Nicky & Paul keep changing their minds.

I love the name Harrison, clearly because I love Harrison Ford, at least in his Star Wars/Indiana Jones days. And it would be Harry for short, which naturally again I like because it is Wizard-y.

I went out last night to the Mariners on the Bridge with Nick, James & Rachel. I was driving so did not really want to partake in any of the kareoke that was going down. Some of the folk in that pub take it very seriously. Anyway I left at midnight to come home but could not sleep very well. So then I get a drunken phone call from Nick and then eventually he comes home and I wake up briefly again at that point. So all in all I feel quite sleepy today. Molly did her usual alarm cat thing this morning with the yowling. She always sounds like she is being tortured the other side of the door but then you open the door and she becomes all quiet and pleased with herself.

I had a really nice chat to my sister last night as well, she seems to be doing so well looking after her twins, I can't begin to imagine how tired out she must be. Babies babies everywhere! Lots of my friends are having babies. Leni is also pregnant, due in December.

Currently I am loving Flight of the Conchords, check it out! They are awesome. On BBC4 at the moment but I am pretty sure they will make it across to BBC1 or 2 soon.

I'm going to die and go to Hell

Because I laughed at this HORROR until I was nearly sick. (It needs sound.)

In other news, it is really cold, rainy, autumnal day today. I am wearing a big Winter coat for the first time!

My cousin Nicky gave birth very early this morning to a healthy baby boy, 8lb16oz (!!) no name yet but they're both doing OK after a long and difficult labour. I was convinced it was going to be a girl and have been thoroughly proved wrong.

I am killing time, it's 9 minutes to 5pm, COME ON!!

Weekly Round Up

So, I have been spending far too much time on facebook these days. I think that it is a good tool, I have found so many people on there (145 friends and counting) and, well basically, we are rather quiet at the moment and it keeps me sane. Thank God for scrabulous. Anyone reading this fancy a game?

OOh I just made eye contact with a large man walking past my office. Accidentely. It was a little bit scary. He didn't smile or anything.

Nick is away this weekend in London with Steve, Molly & I are keeping each other company. She was singing her yowl yowl yowl song outside my bedroom door this morning, like a fucked up dawn chorus. I went out to the Swan last night but didn't stay out late as I have to work today and then tonight there is this BBQ party thing and I need my beauty sleep these days.

Highlights of the past week include going to the Claddagh pub on Tuesday night to catch up with Sue & Laurie after their honeymoon, and having Chris & Sonia around for dinner on Thursday night. I cooked seafood paella followed by a blackberry & apple pie from berries that I picked and apples that I scrumped! Yum! So I have had a nice week seeing lots of people, and the week is not yet over. I wish I didn't feel knackered though!

Bjorn has lent me the first series of Prison Break, as I have never seen it and a lot of people rave about how good it is. I will give it a go shortly, all I know is the lead guy is a fittie. Ah well I think I will go now and read some of my book that I sneaked into the office.

I'm so totally into Dexter right now.

I would like to say that I have just ordered the first series box set of this awesome show and I cannot wait for it to arrive. I've been watching it on the FX channel and I. Just. LOVE. it. It toally replaced the hole in my TV viewing calender that was left when I finished Heroes series One. Oh and relating to Heroes, I just saw a preview teaser of Series 2 and I just want to eat it whole in one big bite. Yeah, anyway I know that I am sad. I have no excuse.

Went out last night to Claddagh for some catching up with friends, Sue & Laurie have just come back from their honeymoon. They found the bench that we had bought for them and left in their garden as a pressie. And I'm off for lunch in a bit with Rachel, although I just ate some M&S pasta that was in the fridge. I have a little wee hangover, which always seems to be the case when I blog for some reason.

I've just read that paragraph back and I know that it is shit but I can't be bothered to change it.

My hair is frizzy, I have a slight headache and I'm restless. Have some sympathy.

This is Molly

...Chief thrower-upper, hair-depositer, poo-skidder, early morning waker-upper and generally downright smelly, cute, annoying and very fluffy feline. There is something a little sinister in her expression, a sort of "I may decide to kill you later"warning, but she wouldn't hurt a fly, or a spider. I have tried to get her to hunt spiders but she just fixes them with an evil glare before moving on. She is my little girl, sorry to get gooey, but there you have it.

Another weekend gone, and I am a la work. You can imagine it better now eh! So I can't spend too long here as there is stuff to be getting on with. We went out on the boat yesterday in the rough ocean waves, we were buffeted and splashed and Nick nearly sent me overboard at one point by falling over on to me. The waves were fairly large and choppy, and at one point we were going at the perfect speed and managed to surf them!! That was kind of very cool.

Backtracking, on Saturday we went up in a little aeroplane which was so great! I had bought my husband a trial flying lesson for his birthday and they let me sit in the back and come along for the ride. We went up the west coast of Guernsey before heading across the sea to Alderney. The sky was clear, the sun was shining and reflecting off the sea, it was an absolutely beautiful day and we had such an amazing view of the islands which seemed so small. Nick took the controls and did various manouvers, turning about, going up and down, speeding up and slowing down, it felt like being in a small mini in the sky as the inside is so small! I took lots of photos which I will try to put on facebook at some point. We flew at a couple of thousand feet, looped Alderney and came back along the East of Guernsey so that we could look down at our house. The pilot, Ian, was brilliant and I felt totally safe the entire time.

That afternoon we spent most of it at the Terrace drinking milkshake, before heading to the Boathouse for tea with a few friends. A lovely day.

Calculate how much WATER you use

Click Here to do a fun online quiz and see how mush of a wastrel you are. Apparentely we use 81 litres per person, per day, in our household, which is less than the National Average of 155litres.

Carbon footprint, blah blah...

My Shoes just Broke

Or to be more correct, my right sandal strap has untethered itself from the sole and is flappy wildly with every step I take. Which is annoying. I have only just discovered it and am debating whether there is 'just cause' to pop home and change shoes. My boss isn't in this afternoon anyway so I guess I could pretty much just do it. I can still walk, as they are the sort of sandals that have multiple straps, or 4, as I have just counted, but I look like an idiot.

I was very naughty this morning and stole two large cooking apples from a house I was doing a viewing at. I suppose that is scrumping, is it? Anyway I picked some blackberries the other day so a pie is going to be made, possibly tonight. This tree had loads of apples on it so I don't think they would really mind. It was quite a rural house and there was a very large cockerel following me around the garden, watching me doing my scrumping. It got quite brave and came up quite close until I stopped to look at it, that made it dash away, but as soon as I turned my back it came right up to me again. Quite cute, although there is something very 'Velociraptor'-ish about chickens which freaks me out a little I must admit. Too much Jurassic Park for my own good.

So I saw the Bourne Ultimatum last night with my Dad, yes it was good. I can't for the life of me remember what happened in the last film but it didn't really matter. Tonight we have The Holiday to watch which looks incredibly cheesy, we'll see. My Pan's Labyrinth DVD has just arrived and I'm very much looking forward to watching that again, it rocks. I also recently splashed out on 'Howls Moving Castle' which I haven't watched yet. And I am currently reading the book of Battle Royale which has just been released in the UK, translated from the Japanese. It is very very good, I love it.

Only 1 hour and seventeen minutes until lunch

Hello folks. I am at work and it is a Saturday. I have my fan wafting gently at my face as it is rather stuffy in my little office. Nick popped in a while ago and I gave him a full tour (I've only been working here 3 years, he never pops in!), all he kept saying was "its really dated". Well I guess I've been here for so long I look beyond the brown carpet and 70's office kitchen.

I am off at 1pm to meet him & Rachel for lunch. I need to stop eating dark chocolate digestives because I won't have an appetite. I had one a little while ago, I find the taste lingers in ones mouth for quite a long time with the McVities ones, not that that's a bad thing as they are my favourite.

Last night I was a complete lazy-ass and cooked a frozen meal and watched Night at the Museum, which, surprisingly, was much better than I thought it was going to be, chiefly because I didn't realise that it had Steve Coogan AND Ricky Gervais in it. Great! Steve Coogan was a Roman officer, he is such a legend.

I'm getting a bit paranoid sat here because I am basically in one large goldfish bowl and people outside can easily see in. Fortunately they can't see my computer screen, unless they have really good eyesight, I mean superhero level.

I think I might try to persuade Rachel & Nick to come blackberrying this afternoon. Joy!

Hello Again

Hiya, I am back for a chat. It's so silly, as soon as I think "I know, I've got a spare 5 mins, I'll blog something witty and profound" I sit here and my mind goes completely blank. What is with that? My brain is shy, or something.

I really don't have much to say, or much that I can say here about what is going on in my life at the moment, for fear of the 'wrong' people reading it, which is a shame. I should have kept this more private then I could have screamed and shouted about absolutely everything! Ah but no, decorum is undoubtably a good thing.

And weird! I have just had a phone call literally stalling my brain flow and it means I have to leave the office now, so cheerie! Another great blog entry...

Pics from Sue & Lauries Wedding

& the Beach BBQ the following day..

Zuh Zuh Zuh Zuh Zuh

... that is part of a reaaaaally annoying song by P Diddy or someone equally irritating. I'm also annoyed with Kanye West at the moment for slaughtering that Daft Punk song 'Do it faster make it stronger etc' with his irritating singy songy over the top bit. Boo to him.

I have had a great great great long weekend, which sadly is over, and now I am dealing with DIFFICULT clients with demands today. Work does suck sometimes really.

One of my old schoolfriends got herself hitched at the weekend which was great, a really beautiful wedding and epic reception on the clifftops of sunny Guernsey. The following day there was a chilled out beach BBQ as well, all in all it was pretty perfect. I am going to post some pictures to show you. They are all from facebook so if you are on facebook you have probably seen them already. Yesterday we took Jeannie out to Fermain and saw Chris & Sonia on thier boat as well, it was choppy, about force 4 so a bit splashy. Pics to follow...