Festive phrase of the week

This will be my last POTW before Christmas as I'm taking next week off work :D (in case you hadn't guessed/couldn't work it out, I'm very happy about this!), so it seemed only right to have a festive POTW.

We seemed to be struggling to come up with something, pther than adding the word Christmas onto one of our other frequently used phrases until we came up with one a minute ago...

So, the Christmas phrase of the week is:
Baubles

In place of where we would generally use tiddlywinks (which is generally used in place of various swear words, and is sometimes alternated with the word turnips).

Have fun, and Merry Christmas if I'm not going to see you before then!

Phrase of the week

Once again I'm sat at my computer on a Monday morning drinking my coffee and attempting to recover from my weekend. It didn't seem to be a particularly stressful or hectic weekend, except for Tone not getting back from Wales until 10:40 at night on Saturday, so we didn't get to spend much more than an hour of our 6 month anniversary together (ok, not a big deal really, but I'm really sentimental about these things). I'm still slightly stunned by the fact that it's been 6 months since we got together - maybe time is running away after all...

But back to the important things - it's phrase of the week time! This week's phrase of the week is:
500 million [objects]

This has to be said in a Dr Evil style, with the little finger and everything, otherwise it's just not as funny. I've been doing this almost constantly since the middle of last week when I realised just how many bits of an experiment I was trying to do (30 instead of the 8 I usually do... not such a good idea).

I think I may now go and drink 500 million cups of coffee!

POTW

Ok, this isn't a phrase, it's just a word. Well, it's not really a real word either... it's something that got accidentally invented in the lab today when Hills thought I said this when I actually said something else.

The "phrase" of the week this week is: Meepery.

Seeing as it's not a real word, feel free to be inventive with your use of it! I can imagine there'll be a great deal of meepery here for the rest of the week, judging by the last couple of days!

That time again

Yes it's Monday, and that means that it's phrase of the week time!

This week's POTW is:

I'm right, and therefore I win!

This is something I've been saying for years. Not entirely sure why I started it, or how I came up with it in the first place, but that's not important. The only important thing here is that I'm right, and therefore I win!

Xav-cam

Ever wondered what a Frenchman on a dancemat on expert mode would look like? Well, here's your answer! This is Xav, my ex-flatmate on my dancemat at my flat warming party. Because obviously expert mode couldn't be that hard...!

An introduction

It's time to introduce you all to someone. Some of you have already met him, but for those who haven't I hope you're all excited! For those of you who have met him, this is him in his "normal" state (I use the speech marks because let's be honest, he's never going to be that normal!).

I'd like you all to meet.....

Mr Flat!

He's very pretty and shiny. This is my living room (fairly obviously). I'd like to point out that the cake box doesn't normally live on the arm of the sofa, but it made it easier for us to get to the cake!


This is the rest of the living room, complete with
smoke machine (the thing under the photos) and what's becoming an impressively large collection of photos of me and my friends, generally doing random things. The majority of them (at least the more recent ones) are on my flickr site, should anyone want to see just how strange some of my friends are!



My bedroom isn't currently quite as tidy as it should be, so you only get to see half of it, but to be honest most of the rest of it is taken up with shoes, so there's not that much to see!


The kitchen is really lovely - everything's brand new, so it all works (after the wachine machine incident anyway!), and while it does make it a bit of a nightmare if anything does go wrong, I love the fact that all the appliances are built in so they're all hidden behind cupboard doors, including the dishwasher!










And last but not least, the bathroom. It's shiny too, but again you only get to see half of it, although that's more to do with the fact that I figured you probably wouldn't want to see a picture of my toilet, rather than it not being tidy!




So that's Mr Flat, in his general state rather than when he's full of slightly odd people playing on a dancemat and playstation karaoke! And look, I do actually have tables - they're not normally covered with so much food that you can't see them!

Phrase of the week

It's phrase of the week time again! This week's phrase is something we started in our office. Hilary has a lot of plants. And I mean a LOT! There are plants everywhere! So, she became known as the crazy plant lady. Since then, Anna has become the crazy duck lady, and I've been called the crazy dancing lady. So, phrase of the week is:

crazy[object] person

I expect to see/hear many uses of this over the week. And Anna, make sure you post it this time! Otherwise I'll have to have words and make you go and sit in the corner and think about what you've done!

Flat warming party

Mr Flat is now officially warm! A big thanks to everyone who came on Saturday night, especially to Tone for being so lovely and making me a chocolate cake made of cheese (also known as a cheesecake for those of you who are being a bit less random than me and Anna) and for helping with cleaning up afterwards. There was singstar and dancemat, and a good time at least seemed to have been had by all. There will be pictures online soon, so check my flickr page for those. There will also (hopefully) be a video on youtube of Xav attempting to do expert mode on the dancemat - it was special! When I get round to putting these things up I'll post the links so you can all amuse yourselves by laughing at me and my friends!

Mr Flat is now just about back to normal. There's the odd bit of cleaning to do (as always!), but otherwise he's pretty much sorted, or at least to the extent that he was before the party. Although I did have to rearrange the cupboard slightly to make space for all the lovely wine that lovely people brought me!

Looking forward to the next singstar and dancemat party!

POTW me up

As with all of my Monday morning posts, it's phrase of the week time! This phrase isn't one of mine, I'm afraid. I may have got it from the Mighty Horseman (in fact I'm pretty sure I have), but obviously it's been adapted from I'm assuming the big pile of geekiness that is Star Trek!

This week's phrase of the week is:
[object] me up

I think my most frequent encounter with this phrase is while we're making lunch and I get told things like "cheese me up" (i.e. please could you put some cheese in my sandwich), but it seems pretty adaptable to more or less anything. While you all ponder the many uses of this week's phrase, I think I'll go coffee myself up! Have fun!

Phrase of the week

It's Monday and there's a mug of coffee in my hands... You've guessed it, it's time for another phrase of the week!

Apologies for not having done one for the last couple of weeks. Everything's been a bit hectic with moving into Mr Flat and trying to get the odd bit of work done here and there. But POTW is now back!

This week's phrase is: We're going to need a bigger [object]!
I don't know where this came from. I think it's from a film, but however hard I try I can't remember which one, so if anyone can enlighten me please do. But if not, just use it randomly during the week!

Moving house

I get to move into my flat tomorrow! It's very shiny, having just been completely refurbished, and is at the moment at least being referred to as Mr Flat. It's been 3 months since I had a "home" as such, so I'm really looking forward to it. I get all the stuff back that's been cluttering up my Mum and Dad's house/loft/garage since the end of June, I get to go shopping in ikea for shiny new furniture and I get to organise an entire flat!! It does mean though that I'm going to be spending all afternoon tomorrow and all day Saturday carrying stuff, which wouldn't be such a problem apart from the fact that I already seem to have hurt my arms/shoulders carrying stuff back from town at lunchtime. Hopefully a good stretch at the gym tonight should sort them out, otherwise tomorrow's going to be "interesting" (also known as painful). I may be in need of some sympathy by Sunday night. Having said that, knowing what my Dad's like, he won't let me or my Mum carry anything that's too heavy and will insist on doing it himself, and I'll have my lovely boyfriend to help too!

There will be pictures online once I've made Mr Flat pretty. Knowing my love of organising it shouldn't take too long, so maybe by the end of next week you'll all be able to see how pretty and shiny Mr Flat is!

This week's POTW

I'm afraid it's not a very imaginative phrase this week. In fact it's not a phrase at all, it's just a word. The 'phrase' of the week this week is:
Meep.

This is usually a response to something bad or confusing. Like when someone tells you something you really didn't need to hear, you respond with 'meep'. The reason this is POTW this week is that I'm moving house at the end of the week, and so everything is a little meep at the moment trying to plan and organise when I'm going to get various things done. Plus it's a Monday and that's usually more than enough reason to meep.

However, there is also a dance of the week this week. It's the 'I got paid' dance, which makes me happy!

Phrase of the week

I know it's a day late this week, but considering the week I had last week I'm hoping you'll let me off for that.

This week's phrase of the week is:
[object] is male/is being male

This started with computers. Meant to make our lives easier, but in actual fact are often far more hassle than they're worth. Hence they are like men, or at least they were when we started this and I was having one of my 'I hate all men' phases. I don't have them so much now, but things still get referred to as being male on occasion. It's not my fault, I didn't do it?!

My love/hate relationship

After another trip to the darkroom at work, it's occurred to me that I both love and hate the place...

Reasons why I love the darkroom:
* I can go in there if I'm having a bad day and need to get away from everyone for a few minutes, and I can guarantee that I'll be left alone
* I can sing and prance around, and no-one can laugh at me because I'm the only one in there so they can't see me. This is a big bonus for me, because I love singing and prancing around, but am also very self-concious so don't always like doing it in the lab when there are other people around
* It's where I find out if my experiments have worked

Reasons why I hate the darkroom:
* It's really boring - if I forget my iPod, there's nothing for me to sing along with or prance around to, and then there's just a lot of standing around which is really boring
* It's where I find out that my experiments don't work after all
* If I'm having a really sociable day, I don't get to chat to anyone for the amount of time that I'm in there
* It's too far from the lab, which involves much wandering around the department. It doesn't sound like much, but when you end up having to go there 2 or 3 times a day, it gets annoying

Hmmmm.......

Phrase of the week

Firstly, sorry to the people who were disappointed by the lack of phrase of the week last week. I was ill on Monday and Tuesday, and it seemed a waste to start a phrase on a Wednesday when it'll only get half a week. But I've now recovered, so phrase of the week is back!

This week's phrase of the week is: It's not my fault, I didn't do it!

Admittedly, when I say this it usually is my fault and I probably did do it. But it's much funnier when it's something you've blatantly done - it's not the same as lying, because you both know you did it and you both know you're just trying to be cute and/or funny by saying you didn't. Plus sometimes you can actually be cute enough to get away with it anyway!

I'm confused

The fact that I'm confused isn't generally much in the way of news. It happens quite a lot, often for no real reason at all. But this time it's not my fault (or at least I don't think it is). I never really got the Scissor Sisters - I don't know why, but their music just never really made any sense to me. And now they've gone and made it all worse by releasing what can only really be described as imitation 80's cheese! Can someone please explain this to me, or at least reassure me that I'm not the only one who's this confused about it!

Mighty phrase of the week!

It's time for phrase of the week again! I've missed it having not done one for the last 2 weeks - it's been sad!

The phrase of the week this week is something Anna and I seem to have adopted over the last couple of weeks along with the word 'mighty'. Phrase of the week is:
[object] makes me happy / [object] doesn't make me happy

I'm not entirely sure what started this (aside from me randomly saying it!), but the one that made us decide it should be phrase of the week was probably when we were shopping for a paddling pool for greenbelt, and we'd been to virtually every shop we could think of and couldn't find one anywhere. We were buying mighty soup (and other food) in Asda and found a huge paddling pool for £7.48, which made us happy! On the not so entertaining side, I unfortunately have an exam this morning, which does not make me happy :(

Mighty camping

Having just returned from a festival it seems only right to post some of the comedy events of the week, as otherwise I'll end up telling you all individually anyway!

Before we went, Anna came to stay in Bristol for a few days, and Anna and I spending any amount of time together always results in a certain amount of chaos. For example, we spent a couple of hours one afternoon in the museum, most of which we spent in fits of giggles as a result of comedy descriptions of things - one of the dinosaurs was described as "a dinosaur from Portugal" with no other information, and one of the parrots is actually called a "superb parrot".

Then we got to go camping for a week, which isn't as bad as you'd think when it involves a festival with bands you otherwise don't get to see at all. But it also involves buying food that you can make on a camping stove (i.e. with little more than hot water generally), so we thought that some cup-a-soup type things would be good for lunch. So we were looking for them in Asda and found some with such a good name that we had to buy them just for that - mighty soup! We then told someone on our team at the festival about them, and he started using the word mighty a lot, in a comedy voice, so we started doing that too and everything over the weekend became mighty something or other, much to our amusement (hence the 'mighty camping' title...).

As some of you will know, I'm not necessarily the most normal of people, which works at this festival as it seems to be full of very strange people. And while I can be relatively sensible at work when I have to, when I'm at this festival I'm most likely to be found with fairy wings on carrying an inflatable elephant. If you don't believe me, this picture is one of the official ones on the festival website.

This was taken at one of my favourite gigs over the weekend where due to being right at the front and jumping up and down with an inflatable elephant, quite a few pictures were taken of me and Anna, although in that one you can't actually see Anna because she's behind Ken (the elephant). Just be thankful we didn't have Nigel the giant rubber duck with us at the time too! There was a picture of one of our rubber ducks in the program too, which was taken last year. It can be really fun having the elephant to draw attention to you, especially when random bands then mention you during their set, although it turns out it can be a bad thing too when scary weirdos try to steal him in the beer tent and random teenagers hug you for no apparent reason other than you're carrying an inflatable elephant. Oh well, these things happen I guess. Next year I'm hoping that Tone'll be there to scare all the weirdos away for me like he does when we go clubbing (seriously, when he's not there I seem to have a habit of attracting weirdos - if anyone can explain this to me then please do, because I'd love to know why it happens!).

Part of the festival also included Anna building a 17 ft high sculpture which we played drums on a lot.

As much as I liked it I would have preferred not having to help carry 200kg of concrete! After all, I am only little...

There will be more pictures when I get round to getting them off my camera and I get Anna to email me hers. There may have to be some comedy captions to go with them...

Big wet fish slapping!

I'd like to start this post by saying that I didn't start this, it's not my fault. My friend Chris once suggested I should slap one of our mutual friends with a big wet fish to stop him working so much because he works absolutely ridiculous hours. I told said friend about this, and he has been suggesting recently that I slap someone else, who shall for now remain nameless, with a big wet fish. This has now become something of a commonly used threat for people who annoy us, so just imagine my amusement when Pete (the guy who I was told to slap initially) sent me this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5267392.stm
How fun must that be?!

Dancing penguins

After the horrible penguin-related incident in Texas last week I was really pleased to be sent a much happier penguin-related link. It also features a possible future phrase of the week! (Anyone else who wishes to suggest things for phrase of the week please feel free, the more people involved in it the funnier it'll get!)

http://www2.warnerbros.com/happyfeet/

Enjoy!

Phrase of the week

It's the first phrase of the week on my blogspot since the msn spaces error last week (and the annoying microsoft tech support people error, and a couple of other microsoft-related errors). This probably wouldn't make a lot of sense as a phrase if I hadn't just written that last sentence, but now you can see how it works!

The phrase of the week is: [something] error

This all started with the too many people in the kitchen error. The crazy plant lady only has a little kitchen, and 3 people in it at once seemed to be too crowded, especially when we were all trying to do different things at once. Hence the error. Since then we've had many errors, including the giggling too much to be physically able to work error, which in itself was caused by several other errors. I'd just like to point out that it's not my fault, I didn't do it!

Microsoft are not my friends

I hate microsoft. I really do. I swear they do very little except annoy me and make my laptop unhappy. Then they make me swear and/or meep. A lot. After installing windows updates this afternoon, word decided it could no longer insert references into my report until I'd updated that as well. I then have all the usual faff in our office of attempting to get anything printed, which believe me is a lot more hassle than it sounds. Then there's the issues of having to move onto a different computer which doesn't have the same version of office on it, so all the formatting goes haywire and you have to spend ages re-doing all the figures in the report. So seeing as it's just gone 6 on a Friday and I'm still working when I need to go shopping tonight for our cocktail party tomorrow and it'll take me the best part of an hour to get home before I can do that, I'm not a happy bunny. But on the plus side, our department's deserted by this time on a Friday, so I can turn the music up on my laptop and sing (fairly loudly) in the office without disturbing people. Well, there had to be a good side in there somewhere!

Welcome to Munchkin Country

Welcome to Munchkin Country. I've decided to set this up as a result of my seeming continuous annoyance at something that microsoft have done and are too stupid to either understand when you explain it word by word or to fix the problem. There I was, happily posting away on my msn space, when microsoft had to faff aroudn with msn spaces and broke them so that people can't put names on their comments anymore. You wouldn't think that's a big problem, but I seem to get a lot of comments from weirdos on my msn space, so I like to have some idea of who's saying what to me. Plus it helps me not to get so confused, which lets be honest, happens a great deal anyway, even without the help of the idiot people at microsoft tech support. So yay, I now have a blog spot, where I can continue to keep people updated with the latest phrase of the week and hopefully they'll be able to let me know who they are when they comment!

To those of you who had links from my msn space, I'll put them on here I promise. Just give me a day or two to sort it all out!