baddynono

baddynono @ 2009-10-26T08:47:00

2009-10-26T08:54:16Z

I slipped on the stairs yesterday.

My back is pretty sore today, but nothing seriously hurt.

Best Holiday Ever

2009-09-28T23:56:25Z

We just got back from an awesome long weekend in Paris. I will post more about what we did and saw in Paris when I am less sleepy, but the most significant by far is that whilst we were wandering through the gardens of Versailles palace Gwyn proposed.

I'm really happy. It seems I've never really given much thought to engagement rings and weddings but now that I need to, it's very exciting.

That was the fastest I've ever got rid of a salesman...

2009-05-15T13:44:39Z

Turns out if you answer in your dressing gown and cough a lot they don't want to stay to talk to you. He asked if I had 'that flu' so I said yes, he just gave me a leaflet and backed away.

I don't have that flu but I am quite poorly.

Musical!

2009-05-11T18:28:08Z

I'm going to try to get tickets for Les Miserables which is on in the Wales Millenium Centre in December and January. If anyone wants to come along too then give me a shout, if you can let me know whether it would have to be a weekend performance or whether you could make a Friday.

I haven't been able to find any prices out yet (so might be an idea to tell me your limit in case the cheap tickets go first) and I understand they are likely to sell out very quickly when they go on sale tomorrow.

I'll be trying to book some tomorrow so let me know soon if you're interested!

What's the best way to end a good weekend?

2009-03-15T22:49:16Z

Perhaps getting home and finding cat sick on the floor and in your shoe? And then having the cat just wee straight on the floor because he couldn't get in the litter tray you are changing.

On the plus side I have wooden floors and the shoe was my croc so it's all sorted now.

baddynono @ 2009-02-27T18:27:00

2009-02-27T18:27:37Z

Without the crappy bits of today, it would have been a really good day.

My cat smells nice

2009-02-26T13:42:42Z

He smells of fresh laundry... which makes we wonder if the basket of bedding waiting to be ironed is now hairy and smells of cats.

SNOW!!!

2009-02-03T11:52:48Z

Woohoo!

I was just about to get into my car this morning to see if I could drive out of the side road and was stopped by a man who had half abandoned his van at the bottom as he did the same and slid all the way back down the road, backwards towards the petrol station... then the snow starting coming down REALLY heavy so I gave up.

I love snow. It would be even better if Gwyn's workplace weren't being dimmys and telling people it's still fine to stay in work (he managed to get out before the snow got heavy cos he was parked further down). If you're listening dimmys - SEND HIM HOME, Pontypool is FULL of snow.

I'm now a professional dancer!

2009-01-21T21:23:17Z

Well... I'm not actually getting paid, but some people are paying to come and see me, although it's more of a charity donation.. but anyway - I'm bellydancing for a lot of people on Saturday! How exciting.

I'm currently debating whether to get my belly out or not, hmmm.

I'm quite pleased with how much I've learnt in the past year or so - I can now improvise like an amateur :o)

Wow

2009-01-12T19:32:06Z

www.comparethemeerkat.com

It really does compare meerkats :o)

baddynono @ 2009-01-07T14:31:00

2009-01-07T14:45:43Z

Had a pretty good Christmas and New Year's Eve

Got a blender for Christmas which has proved really useful so far.

Solved the age-old debate between myself and Lex (Gunn) which went along the lines of "but we're the same age, we met in this year, you can't have been too young to do the gathering battle... " when I realised I started larping a year earlier than I thought, which means I've been larping for over 12 years! It just doesn't seem that long ago, but then I will be 28 on Sunday (which I suspect will freak out those of you who remember me coming to visit you as a child!).

NYE party was fun and was a really enjoyable New Year's day too. But then I started getting really ill with a cold so the rest of 2009 since then has been a bit crappy. Speaking of NYE parties, it's an interesting side-effect of larp that you can hit random on a superhero picture generator and have almost all of the kit sat in your house.

Excited!

2008-12-21T15:15:42Z

Really looking forward to Christmas and seeing family and friends.

I'm not sure what's happening with the new year's eve superhero party - who is up for this?

Breasts

2008-12-10T17:41:18Z

Is it a coincidence that you don't see many meals using 'breast' from mammals?

Or is it that people would be put off by a nipple staring up at them from a plate?

Kitty adventures

2008-11-24T21:30:18Z

Our cats had their first adventure into the world outside our garden on Saturday. They seem to be getting more interested in going outside which is a good thing.

I didn't see them leave the garden so not entirely sure how they got there but when I popped my head out to call them back in I could hear socks crying from next door's garden. It's literally only a 4ft wall but he couldn't seem to work out how to get back and just sat there looking at me and miaowing until Gwyn went round to their steps and he followed him back round on the pavement.

Rico meanwhile, was happily investigating the garden 3 doors down.

Pretty sure socks is going to be an indoors cat. As I type this he is sat, stretched between my lap and the ledge with my keyboard on, deperately trying to convince me not to use the mouse or keyboard and to instead devote my full attention to stroking him.

Firefly

2008-11-02T22:33:31Z

Amazing.
Got shot more than ever before, drank whiskey, got dragged into an airlock seconds from death, shot Will, accidentally held hands with Stu, killed a lot of reavers.

Amazing.

baddynono @ 2008-10-28T22:44:00

2008-10-28T22:45:26Z

These are on our noticeboard in work - I think they're brilliant.

http://xkcd.com/435/
http://xkcd.com/245/

Hands

2008-10-06T14:14:27Z

My hands are sore from making fresh pasta :0(

But at least we have tasty lasagne for tea :0)

Yeay!

2008-09-30T16:52:35Z

nohotashes is all finished with his dissertation which means we can actually be sociable and do things again!

I'm debating what to do this weekend. I think there's a vipers event but I'm not sure I really fancy larping, I still have a bit of a cold.

It's been a while since we ventured East so maybe that would be an idea.

Why is it always The Archers on Radio 4?

2008-09-23T21:58:35Z

Rubbish

You know what you didn't need to know?

2008-09-10T21:08:43Z

Slugs are mostly made of EXPLODE! I discovered just now in my kitchen, in my socks.

I then discovered that kittens are made of yuck, but at least I didn't have to work out how to get the slug remnants into the bin.... eurgh

Does anyone know if slugs are toxic or otherwise a bad thing for kittens to eat?

Check out these guns!

2008-09-05T20:19:52Z

That's right I am officially the best at pressups!

Well, out of all the women in the RAF pressup challenge in Cardiff.... which so far is just me...

BUT I managed 31 in one minute and assuming the weather is so crappy noone else has a go then I could win a nano ipod. I am also currently first in their logistics challenge but I'm much less impressed about that.

Other than that things are pretty boring at the moment. Gwyn's finishing off his masters dissertation so he can't really do anything fun and having people round is too much of a distraction. He did make sufficient progress so we could manage a little time to visit people over the bank holiday weekend which was nice though.

The Gathering

2008-08-13T22:09:40Z

Currently debating whether to go or not.
There's loads of friends and in particular our group not going, we don't have any particular ritual plans, I'm still not feeling too well and I'm just not sure it's worth the money.

It would kinda be a shame to not go as we've just invested in a new tent and a trailer to transport everything.

Kitten photos

2008-08-08T13:47:45Z

The first two were on the first day we got them, Rico's grown into his ears a bit more now.

As you can see from this last one, socks is pretty good at hiding.

baddynono @ 2008-08-08T12:36:00

2008-08-08T11:58:07Z

Kittens are ace but a lot of hassle. At the first vet's visit for jabs I thought Rico must be really ill and was going to die when she said he had an umbilical hernia, turns out it's just something that they'll fix when they neuter him.

Vets also seem very expensive, I wonder whether we've taken them to a bit of an over-priced one as it's in a pretty posh area and so far we've spent £160 in 3 weeks. I would like to think that it'll be cheaper from here in but once they're 6 months it'll be another £110 for the neutering and hernia repair and I'm not sure if they'll need to stay in for a couple of days which will probably be another £30 a day.

Rico has now got a lump on his bottom lip which I think is because his canines are poking down too far and rubbing it. I think it's not too serious but because we really don't like the thought of them suffering in any way I'm sure we will be heading back to the vets shortly.

They are amazingly cute however and play football across the lounge for hours and come running to me when I call them (mostly when their food bowl is empty, but at other times too!) Socks likes to try and kiss my nose which is a bit weird and sometimes my mouth which is just gross. Rico knows how to get the bathroom door open which is nice.

We keep worrying that we're terrible owners though, they've both ended up shut in the cupboard under the stairs alone for a few hours in the pitch black - they were not impressed but they did stop trying to run in there for a while.

I'll try to work out how to post pictures of them on here at some point.

Attack Kittens

2008-07-11T17:39:16Z

Our house is now populated with attack kittens.

They do love you, but they show it with claws and CONSTANT requests for attention.

...they also don't cover their poos properly yet... but they are great :o)