What’s that coming over the hill?

Well, I’ve been at home since Wednesday, and I’ve been to a property auction, been shopping three times, celebrated my mum’s birthday, taken Pom out twice and watched a bit too much Deal or No Deal. Oh, plus I’ve done a bit of reading.

I was fully intending to post lots of pictures (especially on my new jumper which I love to death), but the light here isn’t amazing, and my mum’s webcam really cannot cope, and everything is dark and fuzzy. So I may add pics tomorrow if I get the chance.

Andy’s been staying at the house for his half term but he left Monday, I’ve not been getting on with my housemate amazingly well of late, and I missed my family so much, so I had to escape. I have the week off uni (‘Reading Week’), but I already seem to be in demand: Richard’s just asked me where I am, work called me yesterday to find out if I could come in, and Sarah text me to ask if I could go over to her house to write our presentation on A Tale of Two Cities.

I have quite a lot to say but it may end up quite bitty, and so I’ll probably separate things into themed paragraphs/sentences like the English geek I am.

- I know I need to update the site badly; I’m waiting until I catch up with uni work before I try doing anything.

- I went to see a play with Sarah and Andy called The Caretaker. All I can say is, I will never willingly study Pinter. His characters say something. Then again, even more slowly (if that’s actually possible). Then again, louder. Then another character says ‘What?’ and the whole thing is repeated. I swear if you cut out all the repeating lines the play would be about five minutes long.

- I went to a property auction last night because my dad was selling a shop. Guide price was £175,000-£200,000, the bids went up to £132,000. My dad blamed it on the interest rate having increased the same day. I blame it on the auctioneer, a sneering, arrogant, semi-bald estate agent who was very rude and irritating. I wouldn’t buy a goldfish from that man, let alone a property. In no way did he even attempt to evoke trust, and why would you spend that much money on buying something from someone you didn’t trust? Anyway, he got more and more irritated as time went on and very little was selling, so it wasn’t all bad :P

- My mum is now 54! Happy birthday for yesterday mum :)

- OMG Britney’s divorce! Has been way overdue, and it’s the best news I’ve heard in a while.

- I’ve just finished updating the home PC – it now sports Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0, as well as AOL OpenRide (which is surprisingly nifty). I also updated (and ran) AVG Free, Ad-Aware, Spybot, CCleaner and the AOL Spyware and Computer Check Up programs. Unfortunately, though the PC is sparkly clean and complete with a new desktop theme and clean keyboard, I haven’t solved the problem I was aiming to solve. My sister downloaded Yahoo Messenger, and it installed loads of shit spin-off programs. So of course, last time I ran spyware and adware programs, it deleted a couple of core files of the Yahoo programs. So now error messages appear when the PC is turned on, and I can’t delete the programs. And like the shit that Yahoo is, I can’t remove it at all, even from ‘Add/Remove Programs’. I’ve even tried reinstalling all the Yahoo crap, just to uninstall it, to no avail. And the only fix I found with Google was one which no longer works. So I guess we’ll have to put up with it until I get inspired or can be bothered to look at it in more detail.

Okay, I’m off to make Christmas cookies (slightly early lol) with my family, so I’ll return comments from the last two entries tomorrow! :)

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15 Responses to What’s that coming over the hill?

  1. emciaaa says:

    Hi ! I find your “blossom ” By case :P :P
    I’m from Poland so I don’t speak English very
    well :D And you ? Where from you are ?
    Maybe we will correspond by e-mail ?
    Salute :) :):)

  2. Chau says:

    Haha about watching Deal or No Deal! I haven’t watched that show in awhile!

    Aww, sorry that you can’t post up pictures!

    LOL, I really need to update my site really badly also, but I just can’t!!

    Hehe, wow, your mom’s around my mom’s age! Hehe.

    LOL about Britney’s divorce!! I think everybody’s happy about that! I’ve actually haven’t seen/heard anyone sad about this news! Hahah.

    Wow, look at you being the techy person. Hehe. Glad you got a lot of stuff off of the PC! Hmm about Yahoo messenger, though… I have Yahoo messenger, not the latest version though, but it didn’t install any other programs with it… Hope you’ll be able to fix that soon!

  3. Britt says:

    Oh, so even though you don’t have any lectures you’ll still have a busy week. It’s the same for me though; I had the day off on Wednesday because all of my classes had been canceled, and all I’ve been doing that day was homework and revising. Isn’t that crazy?! :???:

    I hate Yahoo… it’s why I never use anything from there haha. It just installs those stupid toolbars etc that you can’t get rid of. So annoying!

  4. Emsz says:

    You have a week off? -.-” I want one too… Unfortunatly I’m in the middle of test week……
    I know what you need for the yahoo problem :)
    Ccleaner (no it isn’t a typo) and Hijackthis :D The last one you have to use carefully, ’cause it gets rid of everything if you don’t xD

  5. Alexis says:

    Thanks for your comment! =] You should visit disneyland one day(actually, week. =]). I love it there and I go just for relaxing, because it’s like against the law to be mad there. =] “Happiest place on earth”!

  6. Emma says:

    I miss my social life *cries* lol
    I’m not a big fan of auctions, they are too unpredicatable and I would probably end up spending everything I own not good lol. Wow clever you! have fun making cookies :)

  7. Zoie says:

    OMG You live in Nottingham!!, i do to lol i live in Bulwell Amazing :P i go to clarendon College, i saw some pictures of you and your friends at goose fair, it was wicked there lol :)

  8. Hristina says:

    Hey Jenni! I hope you had great days! I love shopping! Good luck with uni work! Happy late birthday to your mom! I hope she had a great one! “I wouldn’t buy a goldfish from that man” LMAO Good luck with removing programs. MMmm… cookies… Take care!

  9. Britt says:

    I realised it still said hidden-stars.org if you clicked my name, so it changed it to the right url… :wink:

  10. Britt says:

    Damn, my computer’s being soooo stupid. once again I changed it to the right URL – sorry for posting three times.:neutral:

  11. Rose says:

    Sounds like you’ve been productive. I hope you manage to get all the reading you need to get done though!

    Our computer has so many error messages when you turn it on, I could do with you coming round and having a look lol!

    Sorry your Dad’s shop didn’t do well at the auction, and sorry you’re not getting on great with your housemates. I hope things pick up soon!

    xx

  12. Ali says:

    Hey..
    How you doin?

    Wow.. you sound so busy.. hope it all works out.

    btw please check your email!!.. if you don’t have one from me then please send me one on agolian [ @ ] gmail.com on your current email and I’ll email you back..

    take care,
    Ali Xx

  13. Buckity says:

    CHRISTMAS COOKIES!! Yum! Want to send me some? -.^

    Britney really needed to divorced that Kevin F. guy… He spent all of her money… It just wasn’t right… I hope she creates a comeback CD like people are expecting her to. I used to be a big fan.

    =) Buckity

  14. Ida says:

    Happy birthday to your muuummm!!! =3

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