A few days late I know, but here are a few words to brighten your month
Friday, May 11, 2007
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Munchkin tours 2007 - part 1
This will be the first installment of my holiday stories for the year, which will undoubtedly also include a couple of festivals over the summer.
The May bank holiday weekend was spent camping on the Gower. There was sun, beach, beer and far too much meat in the shape of barbeques and fry ups! (Obviously the meat itself wasn't in the shape of a barbeque - that would just be silly!) We talked, drank (in the case of the boys, before breakfast!) rode horses and played a game of throwing small rocks at a pileof bigger rocks to see who could knock it over, which was really far more entertaining than it should have been! All in all it was a lovely weekend, even if there was a minimal amount of sleeping on the last night, due it sounding distinctly like the tent was going to be lifted off the ground and carried somewhere by the gale force winds. It is nice to be back in my own bed though...
The May bank holiday weekend was spent camping on the Gower. There was sun, beach, beer and far too much meat in the shape of barbeques and fry ups! (Obviously the meat itself wasn't in the shape of a barbeque - that would just be silly!) We talked, drank (in the case of the boys, before breakfast!) rode horses and played a game of throwing small rocks at a pileof bigger rocks to see who could knock it over, which was really far more entertaining than it should have been! All in all it was a lovely weekend, even if there was a minimal amount of sleeping on the last night, due it sounding distinctly like the tent was going to be lifted off the ground and carried somewhere by the gale force winds. It is nice to be back in my own bed though...
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Happy Munchkin!
Today is a good day in Munchkin Country. The sun is shining, I have a giant mug of coffee in my hands (or rather on my desk - it's a little difficult to type while holding a giant coffee mug!) and I passed my dancing exams! I was somewhat annoyed seeing as I know I didn't dance my best in the exam, but having been doing dancing exams since I was considerably younger (although not much smaller) than I am now, I'm used to that - it's just what happens. But it can't have been that bad because I got commended (89%) in each of my latin dances and highly commended (90%) in my ballroom! So all in all, I'm a happy Munchkin today!
Now I just wait for the medals to turn up!
Now I just wait for the medals to turn up!
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
April's comedy calendar picture
Ok, I'm obviously getting really rubbish at updating my blog, since I haven't written anything on here for a month. Too much time spent on facebook maybe...
Anyway, here are Edward Monkton's words of wisdom for April.
Anyone else think he's been on something "special"?!
Anyway, here are Edward Monkton's words of wisdom for April.
Anyone else think he's been on something "special"?!
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Edward Monkton's monthly words of wisdom
This is what Edward Monkton has to say to me this month:
"The wonderful man was strong. The wonderful man was handsome. The wonderful man took you in his arms and made you feel exactly how always wanted to feel. That is why they called him the wonderful man."
I hope you've got a wonderful man, unless you are a man, in which case I hope you are a wonderful man.
"The wonderful man was strong. The wonderful man was handsome. The wonderful man took you in his arms and made you feel exactly how always wanted to feel. That is why they called him the wonderful man."I hope you've got a wonderful man, unless you are a man, in which case I hope you are a wonderful man.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Tell 10 to tell 10!
This is from a post I got on my facebook account, which if you've not signed up for then you should, because it makes organising things and generally keeping in touch much easier!
Basically, the breast cancer site need people to click on their website so they can donate mammograms to underprivileged women. It'll cost you nothing, because it's paid for in exchange for advertising. It's a really worthwhile thing to do, so please go to the website and click on the link, and tell other people to do it too!
http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/
Basically, the breast cancer site need people to click on their website so they can donate mammograms to underprivileged women. It'll cost you nothing, because it's paid for in exchange for advertising. It's a really worthwhile thing to do, so please go to the website and click on the link, and tell other people to do it too!
http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/
Thursday, February 01, 2007
My feet
Yes, this blog is in actually about my feet. Not in a weird, gross way though, in more of a "Ooo look how pretty" kind of way.
I was in a dance show a couple of weeks ago, doing ballet. It was my first performance in pointe shoes, seeing as I'd not even worn them for classes for about 8 years. In my first ballet class in about 5 years I was asked if I was going to do the show, and there was a mention of dyeing our pointe shoes red. This was really exciting as I'm really not a fan of pink, and pointe shoes are only made in pink, so I'd had a pink pair since I was about 16 or 17. But not anymore!
These are my feet in my now red pointe shoes! And yes I was standing on pointe while the picture was taken - none of this sitting down pretending stuff!
I was in a dance show a couple of weeks ago, doing ballet. It was my first performance in pointe shoes, seeing as I'd not even worn them for classes for about 8 years. In my first ballet class in about 5 years I was asked if I was going to do the show, and there was a mention of dyeing our pointe shoes red. This was really exciting as I'm really not a fan of pink, and pointe shoes are only made in pink, so I'd had a pink pair since I was about 16 or 17. But not anymore!
These are my feet in my now red pointe shoes! And yes I was standing on pointe while the picture was taken - none of this sitting down pretending stuff!
February's comedy calendar picture
As promised, here is the next installment of my comedy Edward Monkton calendar:
See, it's a good thing to organise and tidy, otherwise the law of straightness won't be observed, and the world will explode. And we wouldn't want that now, would we?
See, it's a good thing to organise and tidy, otherwise the law of straightness won't be observed, and the world will explode. And we wouldn't want that now, would we?
Monday, January 15, 2007
Don't you just hate it when...
...people are incapable of getting back to with an answer to a perfectly straightforward question?
...people give you no notice at all of something you "need" to do, which either takes a few days to set up, or can only be set up on certain days as a result of other things you're doing, and still expect it done today?
...you work your ass of trying to get things done, only to have nothing work, and then get told it's all your fault because you "must" have made one or more utterly stupid mistakes, despite the fact you know you didn't?
...you find you're working for the least helpful person in the world and can do pretty much nothing about it?
...you're shattered, frustrated and grumpy most of the time as a result of the above?
End of rant, for now. I hope...
...people give you no notice at all of something you "need" to do, which either takes a few days to set up, or can only be set up on certain days as a result of other things you're doing, and still expect it done today?
...you work your ass of trying to get things done, only to have nothing work, and then get told it's all your fault because you "must" have made one or more utterly stupid mistakes, despite the fact you know you didn't?
...you find you're working for the least helpful person in the world and can do pretty much nothing about it?
...you're shattered, frustrated and grumpy most of the time as a result of the above?
End of rant, for now. I hope...
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
The world's most comedy calendar?!
If you've bought a card for anyone in the last few years, I really hope you've come across Edward Monkton cards. They're fairly simple, usually black and white cartoon type things, with some kind of comedy verse or story. These no longer only exist as cards, but also as books, cuddly toys and much to my amazement when my friend, the crazy duck lady, gave me one for Christmas, desk top calendars! This is possibly the most appropriate calendar I've ever been given, as on the front of it is:
The text under the picture is:
When I am grown-up I will understand how beautiful it feels to administrate my life effectively. Until then I will continue to torch all correspondance that bores me and to dance naked over the remnants of its still glowing embers.
Now I'll freely admit I don't actually do this, but then I doubt many people would honestly say I was grown up either!
Each month of this calendar has one of these type pictures, and they make me giggle so much that I thought I should share them. So every month this year, be prepared to be updated with the latest comedy calendar picture. This is January's:
I hope this provides you with as much amusement as it does me!
The text under the picture is:
When I am grown-up I will understand how beautiful it feels to administrate my life effectively. Until then I will continue to torch all correspondance that bores me and to dance naked over the remnants of its still glowing embers.
Now I'll freely admit I don't actually do this, but then I doubt many people would honestly say I was grown up either!
Each month of this calendar has one of these type pictures, and they make me giggle so much that I thought I should share them. So every month this year, be prepared to be updated with the latest comedy calendar picture. This is January's:
I hope this provides you with as much amusement as it does me!
Monday, January 08, 2007
2007 POTW
I feel a need to go and sit in the corner and think about what I've done... It's the first phrase of the week of 2007 and I've only just round to it... Oops.
POTW this week is:
[object] made of cheese!
This has to be accompanied by an action reminiscent of mouse whiskers (i.e. having your hands next to face and wiggling your fingers). I'd also like to point out that it's not my fault, I didn't do it! Anna did it when she decided that cheesecake was cake made of cheese back in October. Since then, Tone has somewhat adopted this phrase, and uses it to refer to music, tv, the muppets, and pretty much anything else!
POTW this week is:
[object] made of cheese!
This has to be accompanied by an action reminiscent of mouse whiskers (i.e. having your hands next to face and wiggling your fingers). I'd also like to point out that it's not my fault, I didn't do it! Anna did it when she decided that cheesecake was cake made of cheese back in October. Since then, Tone has somewhat adopted this phrase, and uses it to refer to music, tv, the muppets, and pretty much anything else!
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Happy 2007!
Hello one and all and welcome to the new and improved 2007 version of Munchkin Country! Ok, the new and improved thing mught not be quite so accurate, due it being neither new or improved, but it sounded rubbish otherwise! Anyway, happy 2007 everyone! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year, filled with much food, friends and general shinyness. This year I will endeavour to keep POTW updated more regularly and to post more comedy pictures and/or videos as and when they come into my possession. I'm also going to try to complain less, especially about work, but we'll see how long that lasts...
There will at some point be comedy new year pictures, including me dressed as a reindeer christmas tree fairy with at least one drink in my hand (I spent most of the night with a drink in each hand, although they were very rarely both mine!). Until then, you'll have to find another way to amuse yourself!
There will at some point be comedy new year pictures, including me dressed as a reindeer christmas tree fairy with at least one drink in my hand (I spent most of the night with a drink in each hand, although they were very rarely both mine!). Until then, you'll have to find another way to amuse yourself!
Monday, December 11, 2006
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!
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!
Monday, December 04, 2006
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!
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!
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
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!
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!
Monday, November 13, 2006
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!
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!
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
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...!
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
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!
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!
Monday, November 06, 2006
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!
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!
Monday, October 30, 2006
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!
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!
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