Snurched from x_erikah_x

Step One:
• Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 unlimited holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

• If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.

• Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ. so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two:
• Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

• If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.

• You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.

• There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

Abridged Rules:

1. make a wishlist of any 10 things you want and post it
2. if you see someone else with this meme and want to get them something then go for it

( My Holiday Wishlist: )

The most hilarious sporking of the worst badfic ever in the history of badfic:

How Not to Write Slashfic

Go. Go now. Read. Laugh. And then laugh some more. And then cringe. And then weep. And then laugh even more. In fact, better have an ambulance on standby in case you rupture something from laughing so hard.

OMG! I've just channel-surfed across the movie Innerspace on TV and made a stunning realisation.... The Cowboy in Innerspace is played by Robert Picardo!! With hair!! :lol:

How can I not have known this before?!! I love Innerspace and have seen it several times! Maybe I haven't watched it since seeing ST:VOY or Stargate?

I literally had been watching it for like 1 minute when there was a brief scene of The Cowboy (like a 5 second glimpse) and I thought, "WTF? Is that?! Could it be?!" and I had to race to IMDB to check and sure enough!

I'm stunned! Please tell me that everyone else didn't already know this? :lol:

So after the disappointment of losing the house in Bradford, I had come to terms with the fact that we'd lost that house and had started getting a bit excited again about looking at other houses - I spent Thursday night and most of yesterday looking at houses online (and getting a bit excited about some rather fab looking ones) and had booked 4 viewings for this weekend.

So this morning we go to the first house viewing and we've been there about 5 minutes tops, and are checking out the kitchen, when my mobile rings and it's the estate agents for the house in Bradford...

...and they tell me that the vendor has called them this morning and said they are now willing to accept our offer of the valuation amount!!

They've changed their minds, they've dropped the price, we can have the house! And for £40k less then we'd intended to pay!!

Wooooot!

So it's all back on again! And we may still be able to be in for christmas!!

Bye-bye to the lovely 5 bedroom house with annexe and huge garden.

Our mortgage provider's valuer absolutely will not budge on the valuation and won't raise it even a penny and the sellers won't drop the price. And seeing as we have no intention of putting ourselves into £40k of negative equity right from the start, we'll have to withdraw from the purchase.

*sigh*

I really liked that house.

Oh well. Back to square one - searching online for houses and weekends crammed full of house-viewings. :/

Snagged from x_erikah_x...

Rules of the game: grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence AND post these instructions in a comment.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST book.

The result:

"Pour in the orange juice and continue to cook for another 2 minutes."

Um... so... the closest book to me happened to be Annabel Karmel's New Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner! :lol: The sentence comes from a recipe called "Going Bananas"! :D

I'm feeling quite stressed and down in the dumps at the moment and am particularly finding all this house-buying stuff really stressful (as I'm the one having to deal with the day to day details of it - speaking to solicitors, surveyors, estate agents etc) and the stress has just gotten about ( 100 times worse! )

Why did almost everyone see something significant in their FlashForward? Why are nearly all the main characters experiencing a life-changing or portentious moment at 10pm on 29 April 2010? Why aren't more of them just reading the newspaper on the shitter like Stanford? :lol:

So I've been seeing a few adverts here and there for the new series Eastwick. It looked vaguely interesting - I recognised Jaime Ray Newman (Lt Cadman) and The Witches of Eastwick was a good movie (and a good book, for that matter). I had been thinking about possibly watching it.

Then I saw a fuller trailer for it just now... and OMG the Daryl Horne character is played by Paul Gross! Benton Fraser!! The scrummy mountie from Due South (one of my fave shows)!!

So let's see... a TV series based on a very good book/movie, starring at least one actress who I know is good, and starring the very lovely and talented Paul Gross... playing a charming bad guy! I may just have to give it a view.... :D

Today has been a momentous day for milestones! Not only has Aimee - finally! - managed to roll over (from her tummy onto her back) on her own for the first time, she is also starting to get her first tooth come through! My little girl is growing up so fast! :)

We've also had some fun and games and giggles on the playmat this afternoon. The ridiculous high-pitched noise in this video is yours truly making a pratt out of myself (and giving myself neck strain! :lol:) by repeating "Mama!" in a high-pitched voice (with accompanyiing silly headshake each time) - and all because it made her laugh! :lol: It's amazing to find how you'll willingly repeat something, a word, an action, over and over and over just because it makes your baby give that gorgeous giggle. :)

Am about to say farewell to my beloved Mazda MX-5 (that's Mazda Miata to those of you in the US).

( I love this little car )

Please take a moment to visit this website and consider making a donation - even a small one. Even a couple of pounds/dollars - every little helps.

Sophie Atay is nearly 2 years old and she has a life-threatening tumour. If she has treatment for it in the UK there is only a 20% chance that she will survive. However, there is a new treatment available at a hospital in the US which would offer her an 80% chance of survival. To give her this chance of survival, her parents need to raise around £500,000 to fund her trip to New York for treatment.

This is obviously a huge amount for any family to raise but thanks to the magic of the internet, it can be done - if enough people make even a small donation, together we can help save this little girl's life.

She desperately needs this life-saving treatment - please take a moment and donate whatever you can.

Thanks. :)

Saw this meme over at friendshipper's LJ and couldn't resist!

1. Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life.
2. Have your f-list guess your favourite character/member from each item.

Uhhhh... I have a looong history of getting fannish/slightly obsessive about stuff - TV shows in particular! So this list is pretty much a random selection of those fannish obsessions, off the top of my head.

( 20 fandoms )

OMG! It's official! We are moving to Bradford!

The vendors have accepted our offer of the full asking price and will include the ride-on lawnmower and will look to complete/move out before christmas!

We're buying a house! A 5-bedroom house! With an annexe! And a huge garden!

And we'll - hopefully - be able to have christmas in our fab new house!

Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!!

So they rejected our first offer, which is what I expected to happen. We did offer £15k under the asking price. The house has not long come onto the market and they say they actually put it on at £10k under the valuation... so they are looking for something closer to the asking price.

So after some discussion with hubby we have decided to offer the full asking price, on the condition that they look to complete/us move in before Christmas and that they include the ride-on lawn mower and any furniture they don't want to take with them (the property has a huuuuge lawn and they are looking to downsize so unlikely to need a ride-on lawnmower (these things start from around £1,500!) or e.g. 5 double beds! :D)

So now we are once again waiting to hear back...

We've just put an offer in on a house! Scary! :D

Just waiting now to hear back whether the vendor accepts... we offered £15k below the asking price....

*chews nails nervously*

So I'm new to Twitter. Very new. Less than a day new.

So... why do I already have 2 complete strangers following my tweets?

I have made 6 tweets so far and none of them are likely to be of any interest to anyone that doesn't know me (or anyone that does, for that matter! :lol:) so a) why would these people be interested in, let alone want to follow, what I am saying and b) given that I have no registered interests per se on Twitter and my tweets certainly don't reference any particular interests, how did they find me in the first place?

What's with the new 60s-stylee title sequence for season 2 of The Mentlist? I feel like I should be watching The Saint or something with those titles.. I'm not liking it...

Heee! Just stumbled across an episode of Two and a Half Men with Emilio Estevez in it! Aside from the randomness and amusement factor of seeing Charlie Sheen and his actual brother together in the show, the main thought that crossed my mind was, "My goodness, Emilio is *really* starting to resemble his dad!" :lol: