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I have no friggin idea why, but I've been in a good mood since I woke up, especially considering I had next to no sleep and no particular good news. Even managed to tolerate the presence of and conversation with the incompetent one at work with almost a smile... and while bringing up yet another rota problem.

Sorta happy but also call me very confused. When I did volunteering, I was one of a team helping someone who had an array of illnesses, but amazing positivity with it, and described herself as 'happily confused'... I now understand better what she meant.. I think.

It was kinda like being Monday without the Monday feeling.

Professional eater of puppy dogs, baby heads and killer of grannies...

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Rented "bridesmaids" on DVD. Haven't laughed this hard in weeks. includes a maid of honour who gets smashed on pills and scotch, thinks there is someone on the wing of a plane, gets all her friends thrown off the plane and gets arrested. great laugh.

I started watching that last Christmas. Was sat between my mum and her boyfriend/fiance, and a bowl full of pretzels. After about five minutes, we subtly changed the channel to something more 'appropriate'. It looked pretty crap to be honest.

In other news, Hollyoaks = STUG is ON. They are the best couple since McDean back in the day. People need to start watching this soap.

OMASM. Radio presenters are like fruit. Matt is my kumquat and Scott is blatantly my orange.

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I think I was given Bridesmaids for my last birthday. We both love Chris O'Dowd from the IT Crowd (fantastic programme), but weren't at all keen on this. Didn't like Napoleon Dynamite much either. So what do we know?

Never seen Anchorman either!!!!! Eeek!

What rocks? Relatively long weekend. Boyf has to work on Tues though. Pfft.

'To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity'.

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Whilst on my bus this morning, saw the funniest thing. Lady with WILD long hair that looked as if it had been through a hurricane madly blowing kisses !! Then, I realised the guy who had just sat down on the seat in front of me was her partner (who had equally wild hair), and began blowing kisses back........ Guy then shouted to the driver: "Can you hold on a minute, mate? We've got some more love to show".

Driver promptly replies: "And hold up the bus service with your shenanigans? Not a chance". He promptly puts down his foot and the bus speeds off, leaving the lady shouting stuff after the bus.

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Got a new person to come and stay in the house with me, the cirsumstances that have lead to it arent great but it works out well for both of us so best just to make the most of it.

Should all be sorted out in the next couple of weeks, although no doubt I'll get all sorts of raised eyebrows when I say that it will be a female living with me now.

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My copy of Tenacious D - Rize Of The Fenix is here, giving it a listen. So far more like the D's eponymous 1st album and less like Pick of Destiny (which it quite squarely rips the p*** out of in the very first song). :)

Long Live The D...

long live ME, I'm sorry, I've poisoned your wine, for the good of the land!

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Ah good, an excuse to link to some classic D. :D

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So save the last dance

For me my love 'cause I

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Just watching BBC's Canadian Grand Prix Qualifying coverage (Highlights) and not only was the lovely Lee McKenzie doing the main presenting but in the opening video package/montage, they were playing Shake It Out. Win/Win/Win. It's like the BBC read my mind on how to make the perfect F1 coverage that I would enjoy most (not that Sky's coverage is impressing me anyways, only advantage I see is that it's live, but in live-vs-live I'll always choose BBC).

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Ah good, an excuse to link to some classic D. :D

<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_lK4cX5xGiQ" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe>

<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YaB66KFLECU" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe>

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YES! Think the new album is back to that standard too (seems I'm not the only one who thought the POD album was a bit of a dip for the D). Just saw the video for Rize Of The Fenix, looks like that will be a single, another great and creative video.

Infact, I'll post it:

Long Live The D. Quite a short album though, only 40-45 minutes, and some of the tracks are minute-long sketches again as they did so well on the debut album.

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It's like the BBC read my mind on how to make the perfect F1 coverage that I would enjoy most (not that Sky's coverage is impressing me anyways, only advantage I see is that it's live, but in live-vs-live I'll always choose BBC).

I have nothing against Martin Brundle at all, but Ben Edwards has made it way more enjoyable for me when I've been able to see it this season. I really miss his commentary on the BTCC but I guess we can't have everything.

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Same, Ben Edwards has really filled the lead role well, he was great on BTCC too, this feels like the natural promotion. Brundle is about the only other positive about Sky I can find, and even then, I'll happily trade him out and listen to Edwards and DC instead of Brundle and Crofty.

Lee gets to present a live race next time out too, think she did a great job on this weekend's highlights stuff.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Lady asking me "Do I have write a song before I release it?" Er... yeh, I would think so.

So, she then goes on a site (for music creation), and asks me, "What is a composer"...... then, she asks me "What is duration"? - she cannot fill in the box, because she has not yet written the song, so she then informs me "I'll fill in the boxes on this Site once I have written the song". :hahaha: - thank you for brightening my World this morning !!

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