Moments and Musings

I haven’t posted for a while, so thought I’d better have a bit of a catch up. In the last few days I’ve been to an Avon party and a jewellery party (semi-precious gems). Both were interesting, but nothing really caught my eye, although I may have some ideas for Christmas pressies. I have invites to a few more parties but unfortunately I can’t make them as I’m already busy doing other things. I really need to find time to fit in a trip to the cinema though as I want to see ‘The Prestige’ and it's been out for a few weeks now. I also need to find time to do some Christmas shopping as I still have my stocking swap to sort out among other things.

Grrrrrr! My lovely new ipod froze on me on Friday evening on the way home from work. Bloody annoying to say the least - but according to the internet, not an uncommon occurrence amongst ipods. This meant I had to reset it. Luckily I’m not one of those people who changes the settings much so I didn’t lose any custom settings. At least if it happens again I’ll know what to do rather than having to leave it frozen for the best part of 2 hours (and before some wag comments - no it wasn't the ipod reacting to my overplaying of 'The Black Parade').

I really want to go and see MCR at Wembley (end of March) - currently looking for someone to come with me - anyone want to volunteer? Talking of concerts I am absolutely gutted that I have missed the tickets for Gary Numan's mini Telekon tour - he released the tickets while I was in America and it's completely sold out. I could buy from a tout but they are charging over double the original ticket price and with you-know-what so close I can't really justify the expenditure. For the same reason I stopped looking at the New Model Army tickets, although it would be fab to see them again as well. I'm really into going to concerts at the moment after Voodoofest.

Iain is currently still living at the pub. He has launched an appeal against his dismissal, so it appears he’s staying put for the time being (that and the fact he apparently has nowhere else to go). I can’t imagine he has a chance with the appeal, but I just hope it is all sorted soon as I’m eager to see who is coming into the pub so I can decide whether to carry on working there or not. At the moment it’s a close call and the choice of landlord will tip it. Obviously I’d like to get sorted before Christmas, but maybe they can’t do anything until the issue with Iain is resolved and Steve is back from holiday.

I really meant to get on with my cybercrop challenges this weekend. I received the Gryffindor mystery kit from Jillybeans Scrapyard and of course need to do the pre-crop challenge. Unfortunately this means real life scrapping for both challenges this time and I have even more trouble getting going with real life scrapping than I do with digital. Needless to say, the weekend has passed and the kit is still in its box, and the pre-crop isn’t even a plan yet. Can’t remember the deadline for them, but as I’m busy for most of this week it’s going to be a bit of a struggle to get them done I think.

Congratulations to Jo on getting her new car – looks very nice and is very flash with the heated leather seats etc. Very useful with the cold weather coming. I've had to make do with a new coat. Dennis Basso has a full length faux fur coat as a TSV on QVC today at a great price so I got one. Well, actually I got 2 because I couldn't decide whether I like the redwood mink or the white lynx best. I shall decide which one I prefer when they arrive and send the other back (or maybe both if they look horrid on me). Seems a bit extravagant maybe, but I haven't had a new winter coat for about 6 years, my old one is really beginning to look a jaded around the collar where it has been removed so many times for dry cleaning (or at least it would if I could find it - I put my winter stuff away somewhere earlier in the year and haven't managed to find it again yet *LOL*).

Oh yes, I will be posting the next holiday installment shortly.