My mum forced me to sip this honey and lemon crap.. It's AWFUL! It stinks of apple flavoured urine or something.. They should serve it to terrorists! It's vile!

I guess she can hear me coughing my guts up while she's trying to sleep. Very sure the guy next door can cos I was still awake way after 4am this morning and so was he, I could hear him talking. Probably plotting an evil way to shut me up permanently...!

After ditching the foul water, I decided to sip something nicer while Match of the Day was on. Vodka.

Oh and a bit of chocolate was nice too.

Robin van Persie's goal was absolutely.. wow.. and so was his little talking I'm a sucker for accents aren't I..

Saw a bit of Bastard too, and Freddie, and someone's bum. So, all in all, a good day of footballD

Today we went wandering around the Charity shops for a couple hours. We should’ve gone earlier as we arrived at Charity shop number 1 about the same time that football kicked off.

Jenni was at the Charlton-Arsenal game so I’d txt’d her beforehand to tell me when anything interesting happened.

“Ooh look! Freddie just ran onto the pitch” was the 14:35 message.

Ah she knows the kind of things I find interesting...

A couple of the charity shops were sensible enough to have their radio tuned into a football liking station so managed to discover that Villa and Chelsea drew. YES! Lots of Bastard viewing for me tonight! But most of the charity shops just had the local stations on so only got to hear 100 times that Saints scored in the 2nd minute.. Who cares...?

So I bought some Stephen King books as someone recommended I read them. I got one called Insomnia and another with a few short stories in called Everything's Eventual. I will start reading when I finish this silly romancey thing I’ve got at the moment..

I had a coughing fit in the British Heart Foundation. Oh I cannot wait for this cough to leave me alone. I was soo embarrassed. I ended up pretty much gasping for a drink. Luckily Woolies was just over the road.. aaahh..

Wouldn't surprise me if every customer fled for the door and the staff closed for a month to "disinfect the premises"

If i hear that George Advert one more time I will kick the telly.

Bloody annoying it is..

OK it's not, I just want to sing along everytime I see it. Which is too often..!

I'm 3 comments away from 2000!

YAY! ME!

So hmm.. Who will be the lucky person to help me reach my milestone?

Let's wait and see.

I suppose I've shot myself in the foot now, You're all going on comment strike!

It happens on eBay, my feedback was stuck on 999 for ages!!

I'm REALLY going out now.. bye..

OK we were meant to be going out at 10am. but it was raining so scaredy cat us stayed in.

Now, 4 hours later. we haven't done anything constructive (blogging isn't constructive??) and are only NOW going out.. despite the rain stopping about 3 hours and 45 minutes ago.

I could've been in bed all that time! zzzz...

I am feeling a lot better today, but I still hate getting up early on a Saturday. Especially when it turns out there's no need to.

Cough Cough Cough

It's keeping me awake at night. grrr.

Don't be so humble - you are not that great.

Golda Meir to a visiting diplomat

Smell-O-Vision.

All I know about it is that it was a big thing for some charity show in the 90’s sometime. Probably Comic Relief.

Anyway, I am thinking “Smell-O-Web” should be invented somehow, by some really intelligent geeky genious.

And then, all the perfume and aftershave websites can have virtual smelliness so you know what all the scents smell like.

See, they’d make packets more money!

Oh, I suppose I should explain why I think this is a top idea..

There’s a lovely article from the Evening Standard magazine that Jenni swiped from a train carriage, bless her, entitled “Stalking Freddie - The Ultimate Guide”

OK, It’s actually called “My London”.

But it discusses all the places that Freddie goes to hang out/eat/visit etc etc..

And one of the questions was what aftershave he wears.

So, I need to know how this Issey Miyake stuff smells like without forking out 40quid for a bottle of it.

Going into a fragrance shop would just give me a giggle fit...

Oh well.. maybe if I go to one of these Asian restaurants he likes so much, He may show me

My mum was bored..

So, last night, for some strange reason, I suggested she start a blog here.

And she has.

Oh dear..

You know already that I’m really sad so you won’t be surprised about my latest eBay purchase.

I won’t tell you how much I bid on it to secure my win

I have 5 of these things now.. 5 different ones, I should add!

They are lined up along my firewire drive.

I’ve had to put Bastard at the opposite end that Freddie's on as I fear something like this could happen for the 3rd 4th time otherwise..

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

Doug Larson

That’s how I feel. Very fatigued.. and sore throat has developed into a tickly cough. You know, the one that feels like you’ve swallowed a hair but deep down you know you haven’t really and the imaginary hair is taking up residence in your throat for the foreseeable future..

Did I mention the sneezing?

It hurts like hell to simultaneously sneeze and cough at the same time, as I discovered last night.

So join me for a glass of Benylin. Well I may as well.. It does say take 2 spoonfuls, 4 times a day.

It also says “May cause drowsiness.” Yes. Like I need to feel any more drowsy.

Time for bed says Cazza..

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

.. Criticise your mother’s kitchen habits.

We are one of those families who don’t spend an age preparing meals, the quicker it cooks, the better! Tonight we had one of those pasta meals that take 5 minutes, you just add water. And these Micro Pizzas that are surprisingly nice.

So being the lazy daughter I am (who does actually try and be helpful), I propped myself up in the kitchen doorway and pretended that I was there to help.

Mum had already added the pasta to a pan of water, she’d placed the saucepan on the hob that the majority of ordinary people would reserve for frying. I pointed this out to her but she just said “Well it’ll cook faster, won’t it!”

Hmm, yes it will take 4:30 minutes instead of 5. great..

It didn’t look like it was bubbling. “Is that water boiled?” I ask, Yes apparently it was.

She hadn’t turned the heat down so whilst I was getting a glass of water, I noticed that our lovely mushroom pasta was about to mess the entire cooker top.

I then told her to turn the heat down and put a lid on it.

I got glared at.

A couple of days ago we’d had a disagreement over saucepans, My mum keeps having to throw them away because they’ve been burnt. I got the blame.

You can probably see why I don’t agree with this.

Onto the pizzas, The box says they take 3:30 minutes. “Is that all?” My mum said.. "They won’t be cooked in such a small amount of time. I’m going to cook them for longer.”

I told her that I’d made them before and wouldn’t it be better to cook them for the time stated and then see what they’re like?

No. I got told to go away..

Aargh.. I still got left to wash up though.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

Humphrey Bogart

And another season of Lost is over. What's one supposed to do on a Tuesday evening now??

Channel 4 weren’t nice enough to tell us when the next series will show this time around.

There’d better be one!

We’ll probably be waiting for another year.. as punishment for getting this series so soon after the first one.

But, just as you've got everything figured out, they go and twist it up just a little bit more. Gah! I hope when all the questions are finally answered that it won't be so confusing that one can't get their head around the concept of it all..

I’m not saying anything else cos I know I lot of people had to set their videos and I don’t want to be mean and spoil it.

But Desmond is very fit.

YAY!

I usually worry over European fixtures. But I wasn’t worried about this one. We played well, Porto didn’t really do anything. They passed the ball a lot but no scares came from their possession. WOO!

Oh and Freddie played, even if it was only for the last 15 minutes. My mum was in the room when he came on and I said “Look, It’s Freddie!” And she said “Freddie Kruger?” Why do I bother really..? I just said “Yes, Freddie Kruger..”.

The ref was stupid but most refs are (apart from me obviously..). Two great tackles made by Rosicky and the ref gave a free kick for the first one and booked him for the second! Grumble grumble.. He’s definitely working for PoK.

Was hoping they’d talk to Alex Hleb after the game, but no. Just Henry. But that was fun as he was only wearing a vest..

Now I’m just wondering what Jenni did to William Gallas last night? I hope he isn’t too badly hurt.

Oh it was 2:0 btw

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rita Rudner

I managed to drag myself around my sister’s tonight to see her new flat “Just for a couple of hours!” she said.

5 hours later I’ve crawled through the front door.

I’m pretty sad actually, My sister has a lovely cat called Ollie, but her landlord has told her that he doesn’t want animals there so we were going to look after him. Mum told her it was a lot of responsibility for us and she’d be worried if something happened to him, and my stupid sis translated that to mean we didn’t want him so has given him to her friend instead!!

I was really looking forward to having a cat, he’s such a sweet, lazy cute little thing. :’(

Of course, I got roped into helping my darling sister unpack loads of stuff. She has so much junk it’s unbelievable! And there was me almost relishing another evening curled up on someone’s sofa doing nothing. Hah!

We went through all her jewellery, clothes, shoes, junk, and managed to fill up 2 bin-liners for the charity shop and the dump.

So I didn’t get a cat, I did get a beanie frog and a quote of the day book which I will bore you with every day for the next year.

Now I feel exhausted but not tired, if that makes any sense at all...

Someone decided it would be really really fun to throw a party at my old primary school. I’m guessing here it was the members of the “Sheva was a friend of mine” club.

So why was it me who had to clean up all the mess..? And why did I feel it necessary to remove my shoes before getting stuck into rubbish removal?

Nobody knows.. I ditched that task after seeing a rat scurrying out from under a table. And I woke up suddenly when I went to put my shoes back on and my feet ploughed toes first into rat poo!!!

Next up was a proper “Sheva was a friend of mine” bonding session. There were quite a few people involved (about 50!). Apparently we’d all been taking it in turns to cook dinner for the rest of the group and it was currently my turn.

I’m not the best cook so was pretty pleased when Sheva himself came to the door and offered to take us all out for dinner! Maybe he hadn’t quite grasped the purpose of our little ficticious club?

I think we had pizza. And while we were out, He also offered to take us all to Alton Towers!

Sheva, hun. We don’t like you now. So don’t throw your dirty Chelsea money around! It’s not impressive!

We went to Alton Towers anyway, but dream me didn’t like the impending roller-coaster drop so thankfully I woke up.

Still have the sore throat, and it has now developed into a sort of cough. Joy. Thankfully the headache has gone. Although it was still there during the night when I kept waking up. Grr.

So I went to Jenni’s last night, I won’t see her now til her birthday probably and then it’s only if she does something nice and quiet. i.e. no clubbing.. please? I’m such a mean friend..

I was pretty crap company and spent most of the evening laid out on her sofa with my eyes closed. I declined dinner and just had a crumpet (and chocolate biscuits) and that was all I could stomach. Wish every day was that easy!

By 9pm I was ready to drop but the taxi service my mum was watching Jane Eyre and refused to come and get me til it had finished so I moaned and complained for the next hour.

Was tucked up in bed by half 10. aww

My blog holiday took an extended.. holiday this week. But I needed to spend time with my mum and I wasn’t really in the right frame of mind to be a jolly commenter anyway.

I tried to catch up with everyone’s blog yesterday but I really couldn’t be bothered to read the 200+ blog entries I missed so. Sorry! I had a quick skim though but probably missed a lot of stuff that was vitally important!

I’m being punished for it. Today I woke up with a horrid headache and a lovely sore throat. Thank you very much.

I’m guessing losing at Pro Evo 5 times in a row does mean things to one’s head.

So, hope you're all OK? I’m going over Jenni’s in a minute. Need to spread the germs around! It’ll probably be the last time I see her as she’s going back to Uni this week.

... But I should've made it bigger!

Was just about to leave an awfully long and dull comment on adamantixx’s blog about books. But figured, unlike books, a picture tells a thousand words.

There are a few missing.. and a lot of the girlie books are absent due to being finished, I don’t usually put them back on the shelf when I’m done with them unless they’re really good.

Jenni, I want my Robert Pires book back, and the Di Canio autobiography! You’ve had them for AAAAGES..!

Hello Georgios Samaras. I very much enjoyed our first date today.

This is how predictable I am. Was just watching Match of the Day and this beautiful man kept appearing on the screen. I SMS’d Jenni to let her know of this delicious being, while It was sending, I got a message from her saying “Are you watching Match of the Day? There’s this gorgeous bloke that you’d like!”

Aah! My list will soon increase..

We were listening to the radio this morning and changing the channels frequently when my mum said:

Songs ought to be like poetry! Nowadays songs that are written don’t have any meaning to them what so ever!

When l was young you could listen to a song and the words had meanings to them. You could jig around and be happy, you could sit and wallow or you could sing along. Now three lines repeated over and over again make a song, and if you are playing a song in a car, all you can hear is boom boom boom.

Oh and another thing… they don’t even play the instruments themselves… and half the time when you see them on the television they are miming! Don’t know how you can listen to the rubbish of today.

I just nodded and wandered back into my room to finish listening to Liverpool thrash Sp*rs!

And it's slow. She's on dialup!!

And her keyboard is weird.

And i can't read what i'm writing!

And her mouse doesn't have a wheel on it.

And she leaves disgusting tissues. used ones. where you want to put your elbow.

And now she's moaning about my punctuation so

...,,,...,,,

Apparently I complain too much.

What I should be doing: Listing some more clothes on eBay.
What I’m actually doing: Avoiding eBay at all costs.

I got me a Rubik’s cube from a charity shop yesterday and am finding this much more fun than making a few quid.

A magazine has also found itself fairly near the computer and reading that seems a much more interesting activity than figuring out how much it costs to post a pair of trousers now.

Plus, people keep Blogging and I feel obliged to read what they’ve written.

And I’m absolutely itching to go play Pro Evo but that will just eliminate any hope of me getting any eBay work done so.. Did I mention I’ve been promoted? I’m in division 3A nowD

What I should’ve done is eBay’d the weekend away and then today I could’ve done all these things without any feeling of guilt..

OK. No more blogging or fart-arsing about.. I might be able to get half a dozen things on before 10pm!

Then I can drool over Mr Sawyer for an hour.. Oh yeah...

This was doing the rounds over the weekend. I nicked it from Ros cos she's a notorious thief anyway!

One book that changed your life.
Topsy and Tim. I probably wouldn’t LIKE reading if it wasn’t for those

One book you've read more than once.
Harry Potter 1-5. Will read book 6 again soon as well.

One book you'd want on a desert island.
Wikipedia in printed form

One book that made you laugh.
All of Bill Bryson’s books make me chuckle. They also
educate me!

One book that made you cry.
I cried buckets when Dumbledore snuffed it

One book you wish you had written.
I tried writing a book once and gave up. So none. I just admire people who actually have the patience to sit down and do it.

One book you wish had never been written.
Forever by Judy Blume. Not because it’s a bad book, but it gave me a filthy mind at a very young age..!

One book you are currently reading.
Chris Manby – Deep Heat. I can only read one book at a time! And I keep forgetting about it!

One book you have been meaning to read.
About A Boy. It’s been sitting on my bookshelf for years.. Yet I never choose it.?

I hate going shopping for new specs.. To me, they all look the same when they’re perched on their display stands and I am totally lost over which ones to pick, but it’s that time of my life again so off I went yesterday to try on every pair of glasses in the shop and have a complete stranger tell me how much/little each pair suited me.

An hour later we’d narrowed it down to 3 pairs so, as my prescription is just god-awfully fussy and strong, I just let the clever staff tell me which would be most suitable.

I remember last time I had to buy new glasses, I could only choose from about 6 pairs in the entire shop!

It seems they’ve become a little more generous now.

But it comes at a price.

300quid according to the message I got on my answerphone this morning!

It’s proving an expensive week for Cazza, What with lending my sister all that money for her flat deposit.. Oh well.. she came over tonight and gave me these!

I’ve never been given flowers before..! OK, that’s not entirely true, Zvone once ordered me a rose for Valentine's day but it arrived pretty much dead.

Now my sister is asking for my TV (I’m not using it anyway), and I’ve asked her to straighten my hair.. I feel I’m getting the wrong end of these deals..

I’ve been suffering from Idontfeellikebloggingorreadingblogsorcommentingonblogs for the past couple of days. Dunno why.. Is it something that just strikes you without warning now and again?

Obviously I read a few last night and then just thought “aah... I don’t wanna do this..!” No offense

So, I’ve just spent about 2 hours reading 100 blog posts according to my RSS reader..

I’m all up to date.

I will never take a blog holiday again...!

YAY!

Queen Yawnfest.

You'd think I was holding a gun to the bored tagger's head and forcing them to read. Bless 'em.

On another note: I'm a bit behind on Blog reading.. I'll try to catch up tonight, but it's another really yawnfesty day today. I'm off to a car boot sale in a minute, and then will be hiding under a table in the pub later as I don't really want to watch ManUre. After that, I'll be hoping for a rainstorm in Parmaland as Milan will be there.

Zzzzz...

aha.. the Yawnfestation has a double meaning. How clever.

Today was like being 17 again, minus the purchase of 20 packets of premier league stickers.

Me and Jenni used to love going to Southampton to just look around sports shops and laugh at the football shirts they sold. Actually, most of the time was spent searching for a France shirt which were surprisingly hard to find in 1999..

We also love to spy out fans from different clubs, Although, as she can actually see more than 6 inches in front of her, I'm not very good at that game.

Today we went hunting for the Football Italia mag which thankfully took about 10 minutes. Haven’t bought it for a few years but it’s always a good read picture book!

We leafed through all the other magazines though. As they all had ZZ pics inside it seems. Not fun for everyone

Anyway, as we both love Football Italia so much, we are thinking about taking out a subscription to spare ourselves a trip to town every month. Especially as, thanks to the stupid bus company, the last bus to Southampton leaves my stop at 2pm.. yes. 2pm! No joke!

I’ve had a little to drink so apologies in advance if this post turns into a rambly mess but I’ve had such a fun day. I also notice I’ve already strayed off the subject matter anyway.

So, back to the magazine subscriptions. Apparently if you subscribe, you get a free World Cup winners Azzurri T shirt, but there is only 75 of them.

Obviously we were very surprised to see a man walking around John Lewis with said shirt on.

On closer inspection, it seems that what the magazine actually meant was that THEY had 75, but you could buy as many as you wanted for 20quid each.

That kind of spoiled our excitement of the day then.

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