only one thing to say....and no, i dont care if it screws up your flist...lol no cut!

...this match is goin on forever!


CMOM BEAUTIFUL RAFAEL!!!!



*jumps up n down*


2 wasted championship points....poor thing!

...i definately prefer march through to september..

You Are a Summer Person

You are energetic, outgoing, and active. You love to be out and about... hanging out with friends or getting things done. Summer is the perfect time for you to be as hyper as you want to be. In fact, during the rest of the year you feel half-asleep!

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you really love (and strikethrough the ones you hate!).
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.

NO LJ cut because books are awesome!


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien cant be doin, i managed the first 3/4 pages
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ive read most of it, ive got the complete works book so will get through them all one day heh
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (seen the film, does that count? heh)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen am readin it at the minute actually
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce</i>
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

cue time - 3:50pm (ish)

a police helicopter circlin right over our house...almost takin the chimney off...not exagerating...i was tryin to ignore it for half an hour n just turned my tv volume up...

then my brother knocked on the door, he'd only been down here not 15 minutes before it started, interrupting my DVD viewing...saying he'd come across loads of cops, cop cars, unmarked cop cars, and plain clothed cops everywhere....so..

me and my mum decided to go 'for a walk', i went out first, whilst she went to get changed, told her to catch me up and id just got to the top of our block (which is 6 houses length from ours to the top) and i saw a cop car coming towards me in the side street...didn think anything about it, as they slowed down to let another car through, til they pulled up at the side of me and asked 'you havent seen someone, wearing navy and a baseball cap, have you?' and i just said something to the effect of 'ive only just left the
house sorry'..

THEN mum appeared...as the helicopter was bogging off

and we then found my brother...who incidently was wearing navy lol so we knew why the helicopter seemed to lower down and eye him up hah

anywho on the way back home, in the same side street an unmarked cop car went past with two cops in it with the whole bullet proof vest garb on...gabbing on the radio..

fun.


Still not found out what it was about yet...

...

well nothing interesting to report...

my life consists of = going to bed around 3/4am, lying in til around 1pm, getting up, eating, watch tv, go to work, want to kill Derek (or at least pour bleach in his eyes), come home, eat some more, play on here, watch tv of some kind, then go to bed around 3/4am, lying in til around 1pm, getting up....see where im going with this? lol

and its gonna be pretty much the same for the next four weeks straight, oh what joy what bliss...don't you just love finishing work at 9pm? lol but at least its a little better than the last full evening job i had...(hours were 4pm till 11pm, now THEY sucked major corporate balls lol - especially on a friday, cos id then have to be up in time for the 8am-3pm shift on the satuday. Now that was ridiculous.)


Have you ever felt terminally bored? i mean, have plenty of different things you could be doing, but still felt like you had nothing to do, or nowhere to go?? Thats what im like at the minute...i mean i could be on here doing something, like playin on Tomb Raider or the like, i could play on my DS, PS2 or my Wii, could watch one of my 400+ dvds, read one of my many books, watch a variety of tv shows (some prerecorded), listenin to lots of music, finish at least one of the two cross-stitches ive started, go for a walk/run/bike, go out for a drink... and on the list goes...

and what do i unconsciously choose to do? sit around feeling bored...arent i a charm? heh ah whelk. That's life...you dunno what you wanna do until you cant do it...


*wiggles toes*






Anyway, me out of the way, how is everyone? What's goin on out there in LJ world?

...i wanna post all these, im cryin laughin...tis good heh

but here's one of them..

Make it look like an accident



then say someone made you do it...

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oh dear....lol




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Mmmmm how nice is Ryan Tedder? *blinks*

nyommeh. lol





I have a strange affinity to this video...dunno why...maybe its cos the song's so close to my heart lol *goes all sentimental* i love his voice...



*gets distracted by pic of Ryan*



Oh oh he's nice...heh

So here's one with me on from Monday's (26th) Darwen Festival



im the idiot on the left, on t'other side of the barrier...my hair looks red lol i think i was fiddling with a camera...

speak of the devil...just as i post it, up he pops.....

getting somewhere slowly i think...we'll see..


EDIT - sorta did, sorta didn...hmmm *jumps up n down n screams like a chicken on speed*

1. Your rock star name (first pet name, current car) – Parrot None
2. Your gangsta name (favorite ice cream flavor, favorite type of shoe) – Mint Choc Chip Crocs
3. Your Native American name (favorite color, favorite animal) - Silver Cat
4. Your soap opera name (middle name, city where you were born) – Mary Wigan
5. Your Star Wars name (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 of your first name) - Claje
6. Superhero name (2nd favorite color, favorite drink)- Pink Tea
7. NASCAR name (the first names of your grandfathers) – James Frank
8. Stripper name (the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy) – Island Vibe Chocolate
9. TV weather anchor name (your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a city that starts with the same letter) – 5th grade's how old? i aint american lol er...aaaah 10-11, ok... Purdy Preston
10. Spy name (your favorite season, flower) – Summer Rose
11. Cartoon name: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now) – Apple Socks
12. Hippie name (what you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree) – Crunchy Nut Cornflakes Weeping Willow
13. "Adult Film" star name (favorite holiday, street you grew up on) - Christmas (i still live there so i aint sayin the rest lol)

...that was an interesting night to say the least.


And so the saga continues on into today....so have to wait and see if he remembers it this time.



and considerin how bad i felt last night, no trace of any heavy head or hangover...WOO!

If you're on my friends list, I want to know 35 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, if you're more of a lurker, or if we already know everything about each other.

BE HONEST! Answer the questions in a comment, then repost on your own journal.

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Poll #1187157 Just for the sake of it...
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Am I really that annoying?

Hmmmm

i just had a few phone calls with my boss....

I'm staying at the job ive got till the end of this month...then im leaving..
to start another job at the place i did a couple of covers for when i first started last year...and i hated the place...:O hmmmm
thing is im only doin 2 nights a week, for the same hours im doin now, now heres the problem:

im gettin paid for 8 hours a week at the minute, for 4 nights..meanin im spose do 2 hours a night, i do about 40min a night...and still get paid for the full 2 hours...

at the new place, i'm gettin paid slightly more per hour, still only 8 hours a week..but i have to work the full 4 hours a night....and then i'm going to have a month of coverin for someone at 5 nights a week...(4 hours a time) and i wont be working alone...i like working alone, i dont have to worry about anyone else...
and ive also agreed to be the cover person (cos apparently everyone's got holidays comin up and they were gonna get someone else in specifically for that reason, but seeing as im losing my job at MHL thanks to the crappy housin market not payin enough they cant afford me lol) so....

but seeing as i need the money, i couldnt say no, but im still a bit....bleugh...i dunno if i wanna do all that...the whole point in leavin my last job at Number 15 was to get out of the cleaning racket, but alas im stuck in it for now.....


if im still doin it this time next year....someone please shoot me! ta.

Sooooo....day three...

Dayum its hot today...*turns to a pile of melted Dory*




The tshirt i designed and ordered for Edd's band showed up this morning




if you wanna see the rest...

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sorry...i just laughin at yahoo weather....all day its said its been sunny...n now whilst its quite calm, still n nice...its sayin this:

Even though its not over....ive got lots of pics already and not really gonna do much else...if i do, i might update lol tis just a shame i didn get any of the storm on camera...



Had a shower...original




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Oh dear.....the weather's out to get us lol



cos i got some nice clips of this electric storm we been havin for over an hour...i REALLY wish id got my camera out and not my sound recorder for the biggest bang...cos it did the whole 'giant fork down to a few feet away from my house' routine twas a loooovely blue colour and sooooo purdy...then cracked its whip like a fker! heh thats the BIG noise in Recording(2) and what sounds like white noise is actually the rain lol



all from my phone

ah haaaa:

Recording 2

Recording 3

Recording 4


im still recording a full length thing on one of my mp3 players....for my own person thingy heh hey i like thunmderstorms..sue me :P



hah 2 hours later...its sorta still rumblin..*pokes it*



Ok for those who, like me, go out and buy nature sounds on cd...and what you get if you buy one is 45+minutes of a thunderstorm and rain - get this one i just recorded for free:

Purdy Thunder and Nature (its a wav file)

So, ive decided to start this random Week In The Life Of Dory thingy...in pictures....

and today was a pretty borin one lol




I did 3/4 lots of washing...fun lol




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