Yarrkarping.com

That’s right, we’ve moved. Get with the program!

From now on, all new posts will be made at Yarrkarping.com.

Got both hosting and domain at One.com. So far it seems like a good choice. They’ve been around for a while, they’re cheap and stable. And I also get £50 worth of Ad-words from Google as a welcome gift!

Go me!

Let me know what you think!

And, my god, I’ve realised that I need to be more organised in tagging my posts. Right now it’s just a mess, I’ve got so many tags that’s only been used once and it’s just no consistency anywhere. Change inc! I’ll try anyway. No more whole-sentence tags. =P

I also think I’ve found an alternative to buying that phone, or Kev found it for me. It’s the SanDisk Sansa Fuze FM. It’s on sale!

Sandisk Sansa Fuze FM - Click to see more!

And oh dear, I love CDiscount.co.uk! they have everything, I think I shall start buying clothes from there. I saw shoes and tops that would definitely be more than twice the price if I were to buy them in Sweden. They do a lot of tech stuff as well, and wine! If they did food as well it’d be the perfect all-round shopping experience.

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

See that phone? Right there, yes that’s the one, the one I want. Isn’t it pretty? It’s all the rage and it’s got so many cool features and things about it that just makes it so appealing. I can’t say no, I can’t and I don’t want to. So why don’t I own one? Well, let me tell you.

I have been on the lookout for a new phone for a while now and I want one that’ll serve me as an mp3 player as well since I don’t have one of those at the moment. And I found this, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. It seemed perfect and with a contract from O2 it would only be £15 a month. I’d get 100 free minutes and unlimited texts to any network. Sounds pretty sweet, doesn’t it? Well that’s what I thought at least, so I went to O2 and told them what I wanted, we were about to finish the transaction, but then! Then, they tell me that they want a £200 deposit because I’m not a UK citizen. So I try ordering online. They now want a £100 deposit that would be refunded after 3 months because they can’t “verify my address”. Fuck that, thought I and went to a 3rd  party retailer, thinking I’d have better luck there. I was wrong. O2 stopped that transaction as well in the end. Now they wouldn’t let me sign up for a contract at all. I wasn’t even offered to pay a deposit. Apparently O2 are rejecting 90% of new customers that wants to sign up to a contract. I suppose they have a lot of people owing them money already.

So I thought, screw it! and decided to leave it for now. In the end I think it would be more beneficial if I saved up and bought the phone and got a pay-as-you-go sim. I’d end up paying less and I’d have more control over my phone bill. Or I could just stick with the phone I have and get a nice mp3-player instead. I really miss having one, so I’ll have to come up with some sort of solution soon.

I’ve not been doing that much since I last wrote… I was about to say, but that’s not true! I forget how long it’s been since I wrote. Me and kev went to Sweden at the end of January, to celebrate his belated birthday and to see my parents and friends. Family really. ^^ And we had a fantastic time! Just splendid, every bit of it.

And then just last weekend we had Valentine’s day. Kev took me out for dinner and bought me chocolate and then we went hom and drank fizzy wine, ate the chocolate and had a great time. And on Saturday we’re going ice skating! I’m looking forward to it so much! I haven’t stood on a pair of skates for at least 8 years, probably more, so it’ll be interesting to say the least.

But to the point, I’ve been tagged by Dade and I need to tell you 7 things about me that you don’t know, so here we go.

1. I’m a worrier – People have told me that I’m actively looking for things to worry about and I think it might be true. If, for once, I don’t have anything to worry about I make damn sure I find one; like the neighbour’s dog, or my holidays, my phone, or why not something that’s completely ridiculous to worry about, like an item in a video game.

2. I’ll try any food at least once – Pretty much what it says. I’m not picky and I like to try new things. I’ll try anything once and if I don’t like it I won’t eat it again. I’d like to think that I’d try insect-y foods, but I’m really not sure. Let’s say I would till proven otherwise.

3. I like horror movies – but I find them insanely scary. I love watching them and being scared, but I will get scared to the point where I’m so close to turning the TV off. I couldn’t watch one alone, I need someone to hold on to so I won’t crawl out of my own skin.

4. I’m scared of applying to translation jobs – It’s what i’m trained to do, but I’m afraid that I won’t be good enough.

5. Ventriloquist’s dummies scare me - Almost as much as clowns. Why do they have to be so creepy. I’m not talking Jeff Dunham and peanut here. I’m talking proper ones, you know the ones that look like children that look like grownups. And the mouth is scary! Why?!?! I’m convinced they’re really alive when nobody’s looking. And again, not like the toys that come alive and dance in children’s movies, nono. Not like that at all…

6. I love words – I really do. I could fill a page with just words no problem. I prefer handwriting, but typing works as well. Tag clouds fascinates me. All the words. They just look very appealing. In fact, I think I shall add one ot my blog when I’m finished writing this.

7. I’m pretentious - Obviously, this is something that I don’t like to admit, but I’ve realised that I am. When it comes to books, movies and music, I’m pretentious. Maybe not so much anymore because I don’t have time, but with all the above I’ve more than once read, watched or listened to something just because it’s considered cult or intellectual. Maybe everyone does this, but I’d like to be someone who doesn’t care about all that. In many cases though, I’ve found that I really like the thing that I bought just because. Does that still make me pretentious?

And that’s me done confessing. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading it because i’ve enjoyed writing it. A good comeback to blogging I think.

And I think that’s all. I really don’t want to write anymore.

I’ll be back when I feel like it. Hopefully soon.

Bye

I luff them.

I alos bought some tops.

I luff them too!

Edit: The shoes are from Sugar Shoes, the pink top from Hell Bunny and the other two from Primark.

/throw confetti

Christmas was awesome. As it turned out, my auntie, that was supposed to host the Christmas dinner, like she does every year, fell ill and so did her husband, so that was all cancelled. So for the whole of christmas eve it was just the family and lots and lots of food. We all got pyjamas in our morning present, so they went on and we spent the whole day moping around, being really comfortable and really well fed, slightly tipsy and very happy. We had a great time opening presents, eating and watching tv together, just hanging out with each other, which to me, is really what Christmas is all about. All in all it was a fantastic day and I’m quite happy that we didn’t have to be anywhere in the evening.

I got lots of money shaped presents this year, as well as some clothes and other things that would be easy to bring over here. I’m really happy with everything and I think the people on the recieving end of my gifts were happy as well. I finally found something for Kev as well. A really nice t-shirt from Esprit and  a whole pile of Lindt chocolate. I think he was happy with it. I also brought over a present from mum and dad; a pair of pyjamas for him as well, since that’s wat all the other kids in the family got. =)

So yeah, he got that on the Sunday (28th) after picking me up at the airport. I was feeling a bit woozy and warm, but I thought that was just due to being tired and travelling all day, but when I woke up on the Monday morning to go to work it felt like my throat was filled with razors and I’d lost my voice. The only noises I could produce was some kinda of crippled squaks and I was freezing to the point of shivering even though I was under the covers with a blanket on top and a cardigan on. So I had Kev ask his parents if it was ok if I stayed for the dau since I wasn’t feeling well, while I stood in the background ad squaked. It was ok. And then I realise I didn’t have the nuber for my work, so I could call in sick, but I managed to send an email, which I found later in the day, didn’t reach its destination since my contact at Adecco was on holiday. but I got a number form the mail telling me that, so I could phone in in the end. So I spent the monday nad the tuesday tucket into bed, sleeping for the most part and not having very much fun. I went from being really cold to being really hot and from having no voice to coughing like a mental until finally, on new year’s eve, my nose was so blocked I could hardly taste the food. But I had an awesome time anyway. In spite of my blocked nose the food was great and so was the wine and everything else that was served. We stayed on till about 4am and there was lots of drinking and dancing and general fun times. I’m so glad I was well enough to come along and enjoy it.

New year’s day was spent being hung over and taking it easy, lying in be and generally not doing much of anything. I did however do the first drawing in my new picture diary and I’ve started keeping as a new year’s resolution with Maja. How’s that going btw? ^^ I found it quite difficult to think of something to draw last night, so it all came out a bit worse than I imagined it, but I think the artist’s block will go away once I get into the routin of drawing a little something every day.

So the weekend progressed in a very nice and clam fashion. Kev was off as well and we just ended up watching a bunch of movies and things and taking it really easy the whole time. On the Saturday we went into town to have some things changed and to have a look at the sales. I found a Mighty Boosh book on the Woolworths closing down sale and then in a tiny little goth type store we found, I found a really cute t-shirt with pacman ghosts on it. I’m well pleased with those purchases!

And then on the Sunday evening Kev drove me back to Greenock in the rain. Once there we found that my boiler had broke, so I had to sleep in the cold tonight. Not very pleasant at all. I phoned the estate agent first thing in the morning to see if there was anything they could do to help me, and there was. They had someone sent out to the flat during the day and I had word a while ago that the problem had been fixed, so hopefully I’ll get home to a nice and warm flat!

Slight change of plans though, we’re not going to my aunties for dinner later in the evening tomorrow. Her and her husband have got the flu, so they won’t be hosting anything. A bit sad, that we can’t go there, but it’s also going to be quite nice to have a quite Christmas at home with just the family for once. I don’t think we’ve ever done that. We’re starting the eating tonight though, my brother is coming home and his girl friend is coming over and all the food will be ready. Nom nom nom!

And then we’re having more food tomorrow and then a big, massive turkey on boxing day. We’re having some people over then, so I suppose that will have to make up for the lack of people on Christmas eve. ^^