Purple Realm

I've become part of a test group run by a leading research company and Nokia. All I had to do was download a small application which'll measure what I do on my phone, and I get a £10 high street voucher every 3 months. Don't worry, it's kosher.

The uncle I lived with when Grum adopted me is coming to Leicester to visit her this weekend. It'll be the first time any of us have seen him in years. I'm glad he'll be seeing her.

I just cut about 7 inches off my hair to encourage it to grow. It's really lopsided. Mik's sulking a little.

I'm trying to purpleise my avatars and member pictures. I don't keep photos for long though. Still not satisfied with the current ones, but they'll do for now.

I'm waiting on preorders and stuff now - Fallout 3 Game Of The Year Edition, the second series of Big Bang Theory, and the fourth of My Name Is Earl.

I'm making lasagne tomorrow.

It's dawned on me that I've not written anything in the form of poetry or stories for a while... Guess there's nothing in there for now.

I don't like excessive compliments. It makes me very uncomfortable.

I got a couple of things in the mail today. A black and grey striped hooded top and a blue jumper-dress. I'm pleased with them, I really needed warm stuff. Especially love the hoodie.

I've been handwashing clothes lately - we only have communal laundry facilities, which cost a lot, make the clothes smell bad and often, your stuff is in danger of theft or ruin. I like handwashing stuff though.

I ordered a double bedsheet after last week's blunder - it fits great. The only colours were beige, white or black, so I got black. Every speck of dust shows up !

Watching Buffy over again. It gets funnier .

The guys that live in the flat above us seem to be doing some kind of work on their place... And it's after 10pm .

I need new slippers.

I'm tired and cranky, and most people seem to be really out of sorts lately .

I'm bored with this now

The fact there was no way to "no" every friend request in one swoop was bugging me. I had nearly 600 of the buggering things, and I had managed to get it down to 400-odd... But it took me about an hour and a half.
Well, thanks to Mini 4, I just got rid of all of those in about 20 minutes, by simply clicking "no", and as soon as the word "connecting" became "processing", I clicked to stop, then moved to the next "no", "connecting", "processing", "stop". 40 a page, reload, and 40 half-clicked people go bye-bye!
(I accidentally added 4, so hastily had to retract - sorry) but, yay!
I love Mini 4

It's been a good couple of days for candy :We were scheduled to meet Grum yesterday, but had to cancel, so instead we went grocery shopping. I was actually enjoying myself until about a million chavs entered the store .
Anyway, I'm rather a fussy chocoholic. I've been waiting for someone to invent a chocolate that I didn't think would ever exist - basically I wanted a chocolate with real orange peel and a cocoa content of 70% or above. I've found many in the region of 50% cocoa, but it's too sweet. Browsing the aisle at Morrison's, Mik pointed out a bar I'd not seen before, and, rejoice - there was my uninvented chocolate, invented by Morrison's themselves. (By the way, it's good.)

Today we managed to see Grum, and browsing in a small shop in her village, I find something else I've been looking for - a vitamin C candy that comes in little pouches of small fruit nuggets, which I found once over a year ago and have been searching for since. And it was really cheap! (Hello, cavities.)

It's been the average day at Grum's:
As usual, I have left Grum's premises with this week's new Poppy scratch. Cat is bloody crazy! Talked about everything and nothing, went for a walk together, laughed out loud so much my stomach hurts, and she's altered yet another item of my clothes. Seems she's always fixing or taking in some clothing of mine .

It's been an odd time for relationships:
Don't get me wrong, Mik and myself are just fine - it's platonic relationships that are all over the place lately. I've been engaged in a lot of quite deep conversation with various friends lately, and I'm glad for that. These things have been serious, soulbearing kinda things.. And I'm ambivalent about it, as some things are excellent, others are not. Family relationships are... Weird lately. Let's leave that at that.

It's been a good few days for mood lately:
A bit up and down, but mostly things are positive up there. Which I'm actually unused to . Whether it's a good patch or me maturing a little, I'm damn pleased about it. I do hope to resume Random Weekly Crapola at some point soon, as long as my connection stays this side of okay. Otherwise, picture uploading takes rather too much time and to be frank, it irritates me.

In short: I should be getting fatter but things are the opposite
Good times with Grum
Things are serious, important, but we can still play
I'm actually in good fooling .

Current mood: Positive, open, missing Kitty, special loves for people who should know who they are (yeah, deal with it, buddy...) and the same odd Kimmie loves to the rest of the people I like... As for the rest? Eh.

Why do so many people bury their dead in the "best" clothes belonging to the deceased? I don't find the dignity reasoning to be very sound. I mean, if I die before I get old, I'm not gonna want to be buried in dress clothes. Uncomfortable, uncharacteristic frou-frou crap. Hell no! I wanna be buried in my favourite clothes - My big Metallica tee and probably, my Spongebob pyjama bottoms , complete with Spongebob slippers. At least it's a bit more satisfying for those people who wish to think of death as a long, eternal sleep - I'll be dressed for the occasion .

And they can touch up my hair while they're at it, if they're gonna make me into their dead Barbie for a few minutes.

Seriously, back to the formal attire. Do people think there's a sign on the pearly gates:

No shirt,
No shoes,
= NO SALVATION!
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Perhaps it's just tradition. But since when has tradition been sensible? The British Monarchy - Figurehead, nothing more. Point? We're too pathetic to live without it.
The white wedding dress - Why would I dress in white, just because it's tradition? I hate white. Purple or black for me, I don't care what people think. The most important day of my life is not going to be spent with me feeling totally uncomfortable with myself and completely out of character the entire time.

*makes "blah blah" motion with hand*

When my time comes... Just don't make me into a doll. And bury me in a biodegradable coffin. Okay?
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By the way, the first of my museum posts will arrive here soon. When I can be bothered to transfer the photos from my PC to my phone to upload.