I really suck at this blogging thing don't I..

.. because I don't have the energy to be creative and write something worthwhile today. Damn bleugh-ness!

C is for Cazza.

1. Famous Singer: Cilla Black
2. Four Letter Word: oh dear... Club
3. Street that you have been down: um.. I don't usually pay attention to street names. Commercial Road
4. Colour that expresses your mental state: Claret? oops
5. Gift/Present you would like to receive: new Computer please?
6. Type of Vehicle: Car
7. Things In A Souvenir Shop: Completely Pointless Junk
8. Boy Name: Carl
9. Girl Name: Carly
10. Favourite Movie Title: Coyote Ugly
11. Alcoholic Drink: Coke with something alcoholic in it
12. Occupation: Chiropodist
13. Famous Celebrity: Colin Firth (who, I found out at the weekend - went to my college, and was taught by my English teacher! oooh!)
14. Magazine: Chat!
15. U.K. City: Cardiff
16. U.S. City: Chicago
17. Fruit: Cherry
18. Reason For Being Late For Work: Car wouldn't start (sadly not an excuse I can get away with)
19. Something You Throw Away: Crap
20. Something You Shout: CAREFUL!!!

I've come to a rather scary conclusion. Well, not really but I like it anyway.

I was reading through some of my older blog posts and noticed a pattern in that I often moaned a lot about how I had a cold/flu/sore throat/felt like poo.

And then I stopped blogging for 85218 days. and have felt pretty good every single one of them.

I come back and within DAYS I get a sore throat/cough like thingy. It sounds like AJ has the same thing *hugs* (but only cos I can't catch it off you!)

I blame 'blog. It's a secret "germ spreading via the internet" experiment!

Today my mum and I decided to see what happens if you iron a receipt.

It turns a very dark shade of purple. Most interesting..

I was hoping to avoid the cameras by hiding behind a tree/pillar/ANYTHING but sadly due to the filming area being a patch of grass with nowhere to hide, I had no choice but to.. be broadcast live across the Croatian nation.

Sorry folks. Nothing of me on English TV.

Basically it was just a "So why are you supporting Croatia tonight?" thing. And Jenni answered that question, I just smiled and looked pretty for all the cute Croats who would be sat at home watching. um....

We watched the game at a pub in Chelsea-land that was bursting at the seams with red and white checkered people, yet somehow I managed to sit next to a girl! such a waste! although she was very nice (and extremely drunk) and kept getting me to shout this word that I have no idea what it meant extremely loudly. I ended the evening with a sore throat and humming one of the chants that sounded suspiciously like "DON'T GOOGLE" but I'll assume that wasn't what it meant.

I'll take a guess here that no one actually gives a shit about my awesome day with the Croatians. Sowwy England.

A new beginning.. the dawn of a new day. Cazza kinda returns. (damn peer pressure!!)

First of all, I'd like to apologize to anyone who is upset that I decided to have them purged from my friend list. invite me back. I was being ruthless. I know lots of people deleted me during my absence *sniff*.

Anyway, Thanks to EthelRed and Ros, I have decided to blog again. probably not as frequently as I did before but more frequently than I have been lately

And I promise it will continue to be as yawnfesty as it always was.

Any tips for redecorating? The purple is getting a bit boring.

Here is a brief summary of what I've been doing..

Still playing Sims, although now I'm also making crap for it too. Still eBaying, Still looking for a god-damn permanent job! Still loving football (players).

Oh and I live with my sister now. My mum has moved away to be with Blokey. another *sniff*

So.. buy me a drink and tell me what I've missed? don't be shy x

Although I'll have to sign off in a bit as I have to make myself look beautiful for when I'm on TV tomorrow. Aahh. What a way to come back eh?

That's my excuse, this time

Damn game. They should put a warning on the box about how it will suck the life out of you!!

Although, I am already aware of this...

Time to plan my latest soap opera style plots.

(I wish I really did live next door to Freddie and Olof...)

I've been to Pizza Hut tonight with my mum and my sister. Pizza Hut was chosen because my sister is still doing her "low-carb diet" and I wanted to annoy her. Actually, the main reason was because I felt like a pizza

But the evening was ballsed up by the staff's complete lack of being able to deliver an order to the kitchen or something.

We got our starters, and drinks. and we waited.. and waited.. and waited some more for the pizza, which never showed up. Well, not until we beckoned over Mr cute waiter man and asked (nicely) where it was.

Pizza arrived pretty sharpish. Pizza cost was deducted from the bill. (woo!) and suddenly, we just didn't feel like eating it. I don't know why. but we had a slice each and then my mum made up a story about having to go visit our Uncle Fred. Pizza was put into a box and as we were leaving, one of the waitresses came out with a complementary bag full of portions of Chocolate Fudge Cake.

So I won't launch into a Pizza Hut are crap speech, this time..

And I still don't feel like eating the pizza, What is WRONG with me??

Growl at cartlionel, f25 in the online list

Ah but the day has been pretty nice. It didn't kick off until 7pm when my sister came through the door with Kebabs and an IOU card. Not a kebab for her though. She chose today to start one of those low-carb diet things. Funny how she wanted a bit of my cake though

I got some cool gifts, One of which is a USB powered hamster in a wheel who runs as you type! Geeky! Haven't got that to work yet though. I think it requires batteries.

I also got a penny pusher machine! Except. It worked for about.. 5 minutes..? Back to Argos it goes. Oh well..

One of my lovely blogfriends sent me some perfume awww..

I even got a cheque and a phonecall from my Dad. WOO!

Yesterday was fun. There were 3 people at my "party". But we had a blast listening to cheesy music and watching Sky Sports News (how dare the evil Sp*rs decide to win in such spectacular fashion on my day!? Bastards!)

Depression of hitting my mid-twenties will kick in tomorrow I'm sure.

Best not write anything else. I've had a couple of drinks.. *hic*!

I'll just go spend my birthday money at Amazon.. what to buy.. what to buy?!

My PC must really hate blog. Was planning to catch up yesterday but it misbehaved for the.. 4840382nd time. The only program that I absolutely need and cannot replace decided to throw a hissy fit for no reason. Managed to fix it though, eventually, although I have no idea, how, or why it decided to break in the first place. Pffft

Today was more fun. I seem to have contracted a bug from somewhere and have spent the day throwing up and attempting to sleep. Next door has chosen this weekend to decorate their flat and all I can hear is hammering and drilling and other obtrusive noises that haven't helped me get any, much needed sleep.

I better not be ill tomorrow. It's my birthday "party" (in quotes because only 2 people are definitely coming) And I have to have my share of the cake!

Thought I'd blog something, cos it's the beginning of a new month, and I haven't been nagged to do it for at least a week.

I didn't mean to disappear, it just turned out that way, I wanted to take a few days break and the break went on. and on. and on. and on.

Soo... "Something"

This post has nothing to do with my upcoming birthday and my hint for expensive giftsD

Anyway, when I disappeared, I was on my way to a football match. It was fab (Except for a stupid Chelski player scoring, but APART from that..)

Whoop!! I'm blogging from MY PC!!

Except my 2 SATA hard drives decided to spark and emit smoke and no longer work??

What fun.

But Still.. Bye Bye slow PC!

and bye bye all my installed programs. Thank god I backed up important stuff on my Firewire drive eh?

Need to reformat now as PC moans non stop about not being able to find stuff..

But it's all speedy and quiet... so I'm a happy bunny!

Was hoping to be all happy and say "Oh look at me! I'm blogging from my fixed PC! and gazing lovingly at my new phone! and Arsenal thrashed Middlesbrough! and Freddie isn't injured any more!"

But...

I've spent the last.. 3 hours aiming a torch into my PC while my mum disconnected the dud PSU and reconnected the fancy new one (which isn't that fancy cos I ordered the cheapo version by mistake!) The *on* switch doesn't do anything anymore, so I assume we've done something wrong? No surprise there really.. But bless her for trying, cos I think she now has my sickness which I've thankfully shaken off now!

My phone hasn't arrived yet The Postman is probably having lots of fun playing with it. Or, The seller is being mean!

Arsenal drew with Middlesbrough.

Freddie seems to have disappeared from the planet.

And I haven't been shortlisted for a Bloscar? *sobs*

I'd better buy one of these then..

Nah not really!

I picked up some books and CDs today at a jumble sale at a school so.. should be able to occupy myself until Technology stops working against me

I mentioned to my mum last night about the lack of yellow clothing in my wardrobe. I thought it would be fun to dress in yellow next Tuesday when I go watch Brazil vs Portugal. *jumps up and down in excitement!!*

Her suggestion of "Oh! We could sew a lot of dust-cloths together like a cloak!" Was met with an odd look..

She went to some charity shops today in her lunch hour and came home tonight clutching a bag exclaiming "I've got you something YELLOW!"

Oooh!!

It's a shame it's got Carlsberg written across the front and a Liverpool badge on it...

Could be worse I guess..

4pm rolled around pretty quickly today. Was expecting a knock at my front door from my techy friend, all eager to get me up and running on my PC.

I waited, and waited a bit more.. and just for fun, I waited a bit longer.

No knock on the door

"Have you forgotten about me?" I text him. No.. but he got held up at work. and Now can't come and fit it until next week.

I won't be here next week!

OK, so I could be all patient and wait, patiently for.. a time in the future when he will be in the area and I will be home.

Or.. I could try fitting this Power Supply myself. I mean, The PC isn't working anyway, So I've got nothing to lose.

And.. I might learn something... right?

*Googles How to Replace a Power Supply for the insanely stupid*

I just need to know a few things, Will I kill anything if I don't do the job properly? Will it take longer than the 3 years that I've estimated?

My mum will help me. I'll be nice to her for a whole week in return for her screwdriver skills...

I just want to get off this evil, slow, ancient PC.. That's all.

Thanks to Jenni losing her phone, for some reason has made me go on a new phone finding frenzy.

I've just bought one of these on eBay... for... um... £195 [insert large amount of money here]

So.. yes.. now I'm terrified!

Other than that, I've been sleeping lots.. sneezing lots, drinking lots, feeling exhausted lots, aching lots and generally feeling like I've been flattened by a truck (lots).

And I've become a tea addict. Not a tea fan at all so this is pretty shocking news.

Tomorrow my PC will be fixed (hopefully!) so will Blog more. I hope. If I'm still alive that is.

I have the flu
Or something
It sucks
Woo

I seem to be drifting off into non blog-world.. I don't like it!

Anyway, still on my old PC.. new PC is still sick and needing TLC.

The last couple of days I've spent with Jenni as she is going back to London at the weekend. On Wednesday, we killed prostitutes with a chainsaw and shot people who looked suspiciously like Erik before carjacking a fast car and attempting badly to outrun the police.

Vice City runs on my old PC. whoop!!

In the evening, we watched us play the T Team, my mum was hovering about before the game started and suddenly piped up with:

"Tottenham Hotspur?? I thought you were playing the T Team!"

"We are.. That is the T Team!"

"Oh! I thought the T Team was Manchester United!"

needless to say, complete hysterics followed..

Another cause of extreme hysterics was earlier in the day when we were showing off our Croatian vocabulary to Zvone.

We'd already covered, hospital, lamination, shit, some weird technical stuff, and had moved onto animals..

Cazza: Slon
Zvone: Elephant
Cazza: Zirafa
Zvone: Guiraphe

At least Google has a bit of sense...

Yesterday I went to Jenni's and we watched Feverpitch. She cried. I nearly cried. Erik and Freddie are still love/hating each other. My sister is fast becoming a MySpace addict. Life should be back to it's boring, mundane self soon!

Another crops up as a consequence...

I am now staying logged into blogland by using Firefox instead.

But, Firefox doesn't want to log me into Gmail!

*sigh*

Decided to kill two birds with one stone today and do the ironing while I was watching the football.

Except, the first half I found soo engrossing, I didn't start ironing 'til the second half. Pretended my Tigger top was, in fact, Wayne Rooney's groin!

I think it's a good thing I didn't have a lot to iron, as I was leaping around the flat like a possessed elastic band by the end.. and could've been sporting painful iron marks had I had more creased stuff

In future, I will be normal and relax on the sofa

In other news, My sister, using the internet in her flat via someone else's unsecured wireless connection (mwahahaha) has signed up for MySpace. eeek! She better not write about me..!

I hate the dark. The only place I'm happy for it to be dark is bedtime when I'm in my bed and about to go to sleep. Any other time, and the dark is unwelcome and mean.

So I was a bit.. concerned.? earlier when I wandered into the lounge to watch TV.. I switched the light on and.. flash! Light bulb blew and the flat was plunged into darkness.

This would be fine, I'd usually just swear, and my mum would sort it.

But she's not here..!

So, ignoring my instincts to hide beneath my bed covers, I fumbled around for a torch and set to work groping my way to the electic meter thing and then flipping the switches until light was restored.

I'm soo proud of myself!

I still wish it had decided to do this in daylight (although, I wouldn't have had to switch the light on in the first place during the day.. duh!) OK. I wish my sister had decided to come around later than she did then. For two reasons. She could've sorted the lighting issue, and she wouldn't have been disgusted with me for still lying in bed at 2pm. (I'd been up for ages, listening to Chelski being crap but she didn't believe me!)

Anyway, MOTD now... I'll be back. Unless a real power cut sweeps down our street!

Oh look!! I'm still being logged out despite a ickle bit of tweaking. Will install Firefox in a minute, even though this PC loads Firefox, r...e...a...l...l...y... s...l...o...w...l...y... Aaand, it seems that despite my prayers, my computer boffin friend won't be able to come fix up my computer til next week sometime, I was soo hoping he'd come on Sunday, but naah. *sulks*

Jenni came over today, and we made a "movie" with my cam. It's on her blog. I'm not linking to it cos it's silly and embarrassing, so if you want to see it, You'll have to find it yourself. HAHA.

mm other than that, I have done nothing. My mum left for another weekend in Leicester and me and Jenni watched.. *whispers* RealmadridTV!. Bad time to watch as they were showing highlights of an RvN Hattrick. and the opposition having lots of sendings off. It wasn't that entertaining..!

We also argued over the correct way of making scrambled egg. and she kindly left a rather large bag of gummi bears here. mmmm!

Blog is enjoying logging me out every 5 minutes so if i'm not commenting, it's cos i'm tearing out my hair. I'm pretty sure it's the PC and not blogland but - nonetheless - It's making me swear. I'll have a tweak later if it keeps doing it.

Anyway, Recently, i went on a bit of an eBay Corinthian bidding splurge. My new Batigol one arrived today.

wrapped in a slither of bubble wrap, and put into this box..!

mmm what feedback shall I leave? especially as I paid for it him on 28th December!

Haven't been around much because my darling old computer decided to grind to a halt. Seems this week, technology is working against me. Probably on a mission to get me to do something else instead? Grumble.

I think I had a virus, I didn't bother going through my hardcore security routine as I'm only meant to be on this ancient thing for a while and didn't see the point. But, although i'm used to the speed of my main rig, I'm sure the keyboard on here should be able to keep up with what I type!?

Anyway, a quick reformat and the installation of a virus checker seems to have solved the problem.. so far. And, as my new power supply was delivered today, I should be good to go in a while, i.e. when some nice person comes to fit it for me cos I don't have a clue how to do such things..!

While I was shopping for said Power Supply, I decided to treat myself to.. a digital camcorder. Not a fancy one, just a little cheap thing. GOD! IT'S SO COOL! it's been permanently in my hand for most of the day and i've filmed myself running around the flat and pretending that I'm a salesperson for the clock on the mantelpiece, my lava lamp, and the teddy bear sitting on my bed.

mmm.. no, i wasn't really.. that was a lie. honest.

Need to find something else to do now. Oh I know! Read some blog posts!

*Puts cam on charge, out of arms reach*

1. When was the last time you shaved your legs?
I don't. I exfoliate with this posh Babyliss thingy.

2. What were you doing this morning at 8am?
Dreaming about my granddad looking at soft porn. It was weird.

3. What were you doing 15 minutes ago?
Checking my email.

4. Are you any good at maths?
Not particularly. I can add up. that will do.

5. Do you have any famous ancestors?
I don't know. Perhaps.

6. Are you mad at anyone right now?
Nope.

7. Do you know the words to the song on your MySpace profile?
I don't have one.

8. Last thing received in the mail?
Robert Pires

9. How many different drinks have you had today?
Water, and Orange stuff.

10. Who do you miss right now?
No one

11. Do you ever leave messages on people's answering machine?
It depends how badly I need to talk to the person who owns the answerphone.

12. Who did you lose your concert virginity to?
Peter Andre...

13. Do you draw your name in the sand when you go to the beach?
Nah, I don't really like beaches.

14. What's the most painful dental procedure you've had?
I had too many teeth when I was little and had to have 6 out at the hospital. that wasn't painful cos they put me to sleep but I was scared shitless!

15. What is out your back door?
I don't have a back door.

16. Do you have plans for friday night?
Nope

17. Do you like the ocean?
Looking at it, yes.

18. Have you ever received one of those big tins of 3 different popcorns for xmas?
No, I don't like popcorn anyway. It gets caught in your throat and you choke and die

19. Have you ever been to a planetarium?
No

20. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Hopefully married with kids. Joy!

21. Who around you has the most problems?
Everyone has problems and it would be wrong of me to say some people have more than others.

22. Are any of your great-grandparents still alive?
Nope. They died before I was born.

23. Explain your love life at this moment?
I'm in love with 2 people, and have to alternate my time between them because they can't stand each other.

24. Where do you keep your change?
In a pig that snorts when I deposit my money in him.

25. When was the last time you spoke in front of a large group?
At Uni. It's not something I like doing.

I received two parcels in the post today.

The first was another member of the Firewire Drive club. ie, a Prostar Corinthian going by the name of Robert Pires.

The other parcel was a Christmas present from Zvone.

No it hasn't taken that long to get to me, He only posted it on Tuesday the lazy git. (hmm, his present from me is still in my drawer...)

Anyway.. The present was.. GASP.. Colonia's latest CD. Colonia being one of biggest groups in Croatia. (I think)

They suck. Although, this album isn't quite as.. bad as the other one I have.

You'd think, considering they're Croatian, they'd be beautiful, but they're not really.. *sigh* No Goran Visnjic clones here.

Anyway, this, annoying song is the theme tune to Croatian Big Brother. It's called "Do Kraja" which means "Until The End" so.. er.. enjoy!

Well.. Aren't I an idiot..

Seems for the last.. long time, the link down the side, pointing to my Friends Of Ours blog has actually been pointing to "Fiends Of Ours"

Thanks for telling me!!

Haha... grrr

I'll leave it that way for a bit longer. It made me blush lots..

Arsenal Football Club is delighted to announce that Emirates Stadium will host a match between Brazil and Portugal at 8pm on Tuesday 6th February 2007, the second international friendly to be held at the new 60,000 capacity stadium.

Yeah, guess where I'm going on February 6th?

I've set up my ooold PC as Cazza seems to be incapable of not using a PC for a week or two.

My PC-nut friend came over yesterday with a spare PSU that he had lying about and ta-dah! he removed my old one, put the "new" one in and the PC booted up without complaint.

That should be the end of the story but, sadly it's not.

Despite the new PSU being more powerful than the old me, it doesn't have as many connectors or something and after my friend left, the PC started moaning about insufficient power and taking ages to do simple things like load Firefox or send an I.M.

So the PC is now on the floor while I go shopping for a really new PSU and while i'm at it, a new graphics card fan (apparently, that's what's being noisy in there) and a new dvd-rom drive. I'm confused already!

In the meantime, I'm on the slowest PC ever invented. (An exaggeration.) I'm surprised it's functioning at all considering it's not been booted up for 3 years..! But I've wiped it clean, installed Windows 2000, which didn't recognise any of my hardware, and managed to get it running, more or less. But, the sooner I get my REAL PC back, the better..

Except the thing that's broken isn't a can opener.

It's my.. COMPUTER!

It won't power up!

I've just had to press the power switch.. 25 times before it fired up successfully.. otherwise it's just doing an impression of a car that won't start on a cold morning.

My knowledge of the inner workings of a PC is pretty dire so.. I'm guessing it's a power supply problem..?

I fear I will have to resort to using my old, crap PC until some nice person comes along and fixes this..

Or, I won't turn it off ever again.