...meet me at the fair....

Have been keeping up with my old and classic fims. Am currently watching "To Catch a Thief" and yesterday, watched the highly enjoyable "Meet me in St Louis". Love any film with Margaret O'Brien. Before that I saw a Picture of Dorian Gray. Which was not a lot like the book, I thought. Have recorded Bus Stop, so that will be next.

5 - 6 - 7 - 8

Yesterday I went to Step Aerobics for the first time. Now, I am hooked. I have to find meself a Reebok step and some dvd's to do it at home.

...but you can't push Willy round, Willy won't go.

Today I have planned...

• Gardening. In my tragic little life, I am quite excited about the fact that I have new seceteurs.
• Walking tonight. After my weekend of binge eating, I had better go back to my attempted healthy lifestyle.
• Watch all the things I recorded last night (Kingdom, Lark Rise to Candleford, The American Office)
• Laundry
• Cooking a roast dinner (see the healthy lifestyle doesn't even last a day)

Jumping on the Bandwagon

"fucking cats thers four blogs now witrh just fucking cat pics"

...was sent to my email address by the very lovely but gutter mouthed mrs meme weasley.

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jo-leeeeeene

My favourite Dolly quotes...

I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb...I also know I'm not blonde.

I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker.

I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade.

After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

If I see something saggin', baggin' or dragin', I'm gonna have it nipped, tucked or sucked.

If there's a heaven, I hope to hell I go!

I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.

It's when you treat people like freaks that you become one yourself.

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep

So far, this weekend, I have...

• Made chocolate cake
• Made chocolate and raisin cookies
• Been swimming
• Done a weeks shopping spending the ridiculous amount of £93
• Watched another Life on Mars episode ( I am dreading the day I have seen them all)
• Watched the goals come in on Sky Sports News
• Broken my new touchlamp that I got in British Home Stores
• Put a Stereoviewer up for sale on eBay
• Ordered a takeaway pizza for 7.30 this evening to be delivered

A lot of my life seems to revolve around food.

Handbags and Gladrags

Paramount are running the American version of the Office. It started from episode one....and what I need to know is....what was spilled on Michaels carpet exactly? And also, Hooters...I thought that was a made up place. Why would anyone want to go and eat there? Gross.

Sailors, fighting in the dance hall

I seem to be turning into a couch potato. (Or potatoe, as Dan Quayle would say). We have had Virgin media fitted and it comes with TV choice on demand. Meaning you can watch complete old series. I have watched Gillian McKeith bullying people into eating mung beans and now I am totally hooked on the Life on Mars series with John Simm and the very shaggable Phillip Glennister.

It makes me feel quite strange when I watch it, being set in 1973. I was 7 then (Younger than Mrs Weasley, obviously) and I loved the things they have in the series. Those looping cassette players that went in the cars. Party Seven. Men with beards on Open University. People smoking in hospital wards, hair that had obviously been set with hair gel and rollers the night before.... and the Trades Test Transmission girl. Those long floor ashtrays on stalks. Grants whisky. Little bottles of Babycham. Whizzer and Chips comics. Smitty perfume. And I especially adored the way Annie said that she likes to stay in on a Saturday night to make tapes.

I realise things weren't perfect in 1973. But they were a lot more perfect than they are now.

When I was younger, so much younger than today...

• We made Lizzy a cd for Christmas. It was probably her favourite present, as it contains songs like Barbie Girl, Who let the Dogs out, The Fast Food Song, and Is this the way to Amarillo. It is going to give me, however, a nervous breakdown.
• I am already stuck on my Zelda Phantom Hourglass game...and I'm on the first hurdle.
• I am also stuck on spreadsheets on my college course.
  
• We had Virgin fitted today, with a V+ box, so I can now record programmes on BBC4 when Stew is watching crappy Setanta Sports.
• I am feeling incredibly old.
• Half time and Spurs are beating Arsenal 1-0. You never know, miracles could happen.

It's behind you!

I took Dizzy to the Pantomime. I bloody hate pantomimes....whoever finds men dressing up as women funny makes me concerned for their sense of humour. There was the usual "Oh no I'm not!" lines and the "It's behind you!" line. I was pleased to see our local little theatre hadn't gone health and safety mad and banned the throwing out of sweets and chocolate, however.

Also, last week, I watched Hot Fuzz and found it highly enjoyable.

...and have just watched Night at the Museum. Ricky Gervais is a god.

It was a bizzarre Christmas...

• In fact, horrid really. I have had the most horrific flu/cold that I went down with on Christmas Day, and it is still going strong.
• Lizzys godfather hit his car, badly.
• A very good friend of ours cousin died Christmas Day.
• Stews mum is not coping with her spring bereavement very well right now.
• Normally I have my decs down by the day after Boxing Day, but this year, I have no energy, so they are still up.
• It is the first Christmas ever, that I've lost weight.
• It was really strange not seeing my mum in between Christmas and New Year.