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  <title>Liberate Your Mind</title>
  <subtitle>darktwinkle</subtitle>
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  <updated>2015-03-22T19:24:51Z</updated>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:darktwinkle:152173</id>
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    <title>Music meme</title>
    <published>2015-03-19T22:58:41Z</published>
    <updated>2015-03-22T19:24:51Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>Combichrist - Get your body beat</lj:music>
    <content type="html">Holy sh*tsnacks two posts in one day....this could break the internet :P&amp;nbsp;Then again I can never pass up a music meme!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nabbed from &lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="sillie82" lj:user="sillie82" &gt;&lt;a href="https://sillie82.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://sillie82.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;sillie82&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#39;s journal. I used the rules I remember from before - iPod on shuffle and write the first line of the first 20 songs that came on, no skipping! sidenote: I used my &amp;#39;Driving tunes&amp;#39; playlist (200+ songs) since when I tried the whole iPod a lot of EBM stuff came on...EBM isn&amp;#39;t big on lyrics. I also went with &amp;#39;first line of song&amp;#39; disregarding any sampling/spoken random bits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So anyone reading this want to have a go at guessing the songs these lyrics come from? I&amp;#39;ll post the answers as they are guessed correctly.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. There is just enough Christ in me to make me feel almost guilty&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2. Driving me on with the wind in my back&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;strike&gt;If you like to gamble I tell you I&amp;#39;m your man&lt;/strike&gt; - &lt;b&gt;Ace of Spades - Motorhead&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="jenniekitty" lj:user="jenniekitty" &gt;&lt;a href="https://jenniekitty.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://jenniekitty.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;jenniekitty&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;4. &lt;strike&gt;Yo listen up here&amp;#39;s a story &lt;/strike&gt; ~ &lt;b&gt;Blue (da ba dee) - Eiffel 65&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="sillie82" lj:user="sillie82" &gt;&lt;a href="https://sillie82.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://sillie82.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;sillie82&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;5. &lt;strike&gt;Let me tell you about a girl I know&lt;/strike&gt; - &lt;b&gt;Date Rape - Sublime&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="jenniekitty" lj:user="jenniekitty" &gt;&lt;a href="https://jenniekitty.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://jenniekitty.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;jenniekitty&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;6. &lt;strike&gt;It&amp;#39;s early morning, the sun comes out&lt;/strike&gt; - &lt;b&gt;Rock you like an hurricane - Scorpians&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="jenniekitty" lj:user="jenniekitty" &gt;&lt;a href="https://jenniekitty.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://jenniekitty.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;jenniekitty&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;7. &lt;strike&gt;Dear mother can you hear me whining&lt;/strike&gt; - &lt;b&gt;Welcome to Paradise - Green Day&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="jenniekitty" lj:user="jenniekitty" &gt;&lt;a href="https://jenniekitty.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://jenniekitty.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;jenniekitty&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;8. This time, taking it away, I&amp;#39;ve got a problem&lt;br /&gt;9. I am the one, I am the one that you need&lt;br /&gt;10. Great pains, I&amp;#39;ve gone to gang slang&lt;br /&gt;11. &lt;strike&gt;Play again?&lt;/strike&gt; -&lt;b&gt; Pong (terrorfrequenz remix) - Eisenfunk&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="jenniekitty" lj:user="jenniekitty" &gt;&lt;a href="https://jenniekitty.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://jenniekitty.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;jenniekitty&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;12. &lt;strike&gt;They call me &amp;quot;the leather apron&amp;quot;&lt;/strike&gt; - &lt;b&gt;Blood Red Sandman - Lordi&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="jenniekitty" lj:user="jenniekitty" &gt;&lt;a href="https://jenniekitty.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://jenniekitty.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;jenniekitty&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;13. Caught here in a firery blaze&lt;br /&gt;14. I am a bitch, How do you want me?&lt;br /&gt;15. &lt;strike&gt;The bass, the rock, the mic, the treble&lt;/strike&gt; ~ &lt;b&gt;Shut me up - Mindless Self Indulgence&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="sillie82" lj:user="sillie82" &gt;&lt;a href="https://sillie82.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://sillie82.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;sillie82&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;16. &lt;strike&gt;Now, as I lay here in the dark&lt;/strike&gt; - &lt;b&gt;My Funeral - Dope&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="jenniekitty" lj:user="jenniekitty" &gt;&lt;a href="https://jenniekitty.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://jenniekitty.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;jenniekitty&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;17. &lt;strike&gt;There&amp;#39;s no money, there&amp;#39;s no posessions&lt;/strike&gt; - &lt;b&gt;Between Angels and Insects - Papa Roach&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="jenniekitty" lj:user="jenniekitty" &gt;&lt;a href="https://jenniekitty.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://jenniekitty.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;jenniekitty&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;18. &lt;strike&gt;Break me down, you got a lovely face&lt;/strike&gt; - &lt;b&gt;Crazy Bitch - Buck Cherry&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="jenniekitty" lj:user="jenniekitty" &gt;&lt;a href="https://jenniekitty.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://jenniekitty.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;jenniekitty&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;19. I get we gotta run&lt;br /&gt;20. Let&amp;#39;s leave this for another time&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21. &lt;strike&gt;This is a song about the German clubs&lt;/strike&gt; - &lt;b&gt; tdzv - Faderhead&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="jenniekitty" lj:user="jenniekitty" &gt;&lt;a href="https://jenniekitty.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://jenniekitty.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;jenniekitty&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bonus was for the fact that I can&amp;#39;t work out the actual name for 20 (my ipod doesn&amp;#39;t agree with the internet)&lt;br /&gt;Also I love how 4 looks like it should roll into 5 - the songs couldn&amp;#39;t be any more different&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;ll be amazed if anyone reads this let alone guesses some of these :P&lt;/div&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:darktwinkle:152057</id>
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    <title>The Letter Meme</title>
    <published>2015-03-19T21:36:00Z</published>
    <updated>2015-03-19T21:36:34Z</updated>
    <category term="meme"/>
    <lj:music>Kant Kino - We are Kant Kino</lj:music>
    <content type="html">Looks like I&amp;#39;m still super lame at updating in 2015 too! *le sigh*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The letter meme.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="sillie82" lj:user="sillie82" &gt;&lt;a href="https://sillie82.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://sillie82.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;sillie82&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; gave me the letter &amp;quot;H&amp;quot;. If you&amp;#39;d like a letter, let me know. :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Something I hate strongly dislike:&lt;/b&gt; Haters,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Something I love:&lt;/b&gt; Hummous, Harry Potter (books/films/world/everything), Hot Chocolate,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Somewhere I&amp;#39;ve been:&lt;/b&gt; Harry Potter studio tour (x3), Huddersfield (lived there for 3 years while at uni), (Hed)p.e. gig,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Somewhere I&amp;#39;d like to go&lt;/b&gt;: Harry Potter world (Orlando, Florida).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Someone I know: &lt;/b&gt;Higgins, Rosy.&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;A film I liked: &lt;/b&gt;Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (the best of the lot)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;#39;H&amp;#39; was a rather difficult letter O.o all I can say is it&amp;#39;s a bloody good job Harry Potter begins with an H :P</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:darktwinkle:151703</id>
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    <title>A brief look back at 2014</title>
    <published>2015-01-03T12:57:54Z</published>
    <updated>2015-01-03T12:57:54Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>Emigrate - Hypothetical</lj:music>
    <content type="html">Needless to say I&amp;#39;ve been really bad at updating this (yet again). Here&amp;#39;s a quick look at some highlights of my 2014&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;January&lt;/b&gt; - London - Birthday trip - Wicked, Tower of London, The Globe, National Gallery&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;March&lt;/b&gt; - my 3rd trip to America - Boston, Ma (Anime Boston - Cosplayed Zell (Final Fantasy 8) and Misa (Death Note) )- and trips to Salem, Ma, Providence, Ri and Foxwoods Cassino, Ct &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;May&lt;/b&gt; - MCM London Expo - Cosplayed Louise (Bob&amp;#39;s Burgers) and random Slytherin student &amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;June&lt;/b&gt; - Download Festival ~ The Offspring, Twisted Sister, powerman 5000, Skindred, Rob Zombie, Avenged Sevenfold, Linkin Park, Status Quo, Buck Cherry, Crazytown, Volbeat, Aerosmith - to name but a few &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;August&lt;/b&gt; - Infest Festival - VNV Nation, Juno Reactor, Ashbury Heights, Xenturion Prime &amp;nbsp;- again to name a few&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;October&lt;/b&gt; - MCM London - Cosplayed my &amp;#39;cyber&amp;#39; version of Loki - Saw Daniel Radcliffe, the original red, black and blue Power Rangers and randomly the actor that plays Eric Pollard from Emmerdale (I don&amp;#39;t watch soaps) in Kings Cross  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;November&lt;/b&gt; - Thought Bubble - dressed as Cyber Loki again - met Al Ewing and Kieron Gillien and also got to hang around with Draykonis (or UnassumingPumpkin as she&amp;#39;s now known) &lt;br /&gt;- New car - traded in my beloved but starting to break badly VW fox (Jay) for a nice shiny new Renault Clio (I&amp;#39;ve named Jonty because he&amp;#39;s far to posh for me :P)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;December&lt;/b&gt; - Harry Potter Studio tour - for the 3rd time ^^ 2nd time seeing the &amp;#39;Hogwarts in the Snow&amp;#39; event&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ A low light was the ending of my favourite night club &amp;#39;The Wendy House&amp;#39; the place was briliant, full of awesome people, good music and within 10 minutes walk from the flat. I&amp;#39;d been going to it for 11 years. Still haven&amp;#39;t found a replacement :&amp;#39;(</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:darktwinkle:151433</id>
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    <title>2014 totals post </title>
    <published>2015-01-03T12:14:39Z</published>
    <updated>2015-01-03T12:15:43Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>Emigrate - Rainbow</lj:music>
    <content type="html">Here be my &amp;#39;totals&amp;#39; of 2014 post ~ deffinately traditional now :P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;2014&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Books read - &lt;b&gt;42 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Graphic novels - &lt;b&gt;12 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Fanfic over 10K - &lt;b&gt;14&lt;/b&gt; (one of which was 300K O.o)&lt;br /&gt;Art - &lt;b&gt;32&lt;/b&gt; (inclues Inktober but not Dr Sketchy&amp;#39;s)&lt;br /&gt;Stories written (finished) - &lt;b&gt;1&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Words &amp;nbsp;written - &lt;b&gt;10,008&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px;"&gt;Projects finished - &lt;b&gt;19&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Crochet - &lt;b&gt;7&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Knitting - &lt;b&gt;3&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Dreadfals - &lt;b&gt;2&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Cosplay items - &lt;b&gt;7&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;2013&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Books read - 27 (8 graphic novels)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Art - 10&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Stories written - 2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Projects finished - 5&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Words - 13,709 (next to nothing compared to some but kinda good for me :P)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 1.4;"&gt;2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Books read - 49 (31 novels/non-comics)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Art - 7 (not inc Dr Sketchy&amp;#39;s)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Stories written - 5&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Knitting projects - 2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Books read - 58 (40 novels/non-comic books)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Art - 12 (not inc Dr Sketchys)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Stories written - 1&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Knitting/crocheting projects - 6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;2010&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Books read - 27 (19 novels)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Art drawn - 1 (seriously I&amp;#39;m gunna give this up)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Stories written - 3 (completed, though one is a 127k first draft + 50k on Nanowrimo)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Knitting projects finished - 14&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;2009&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Books read - 42 (26 novels)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Art drawn - 2 (Why do I even bother with this catrgory??)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Stories written - 14 (Completed + over 50k on my NaNoWriMo fic)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;2008&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Books read - 44 (21 novels)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Art drawn - 2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Stories written - 13 (completed)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;2007&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Books Read - 77 (11 novels)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Art Drawn - 12&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:19.6000003814697px"&gt;Stories Written - 6 (completed)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:darktwinkle:151150</id>
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    <title>Its beginning to feel a bit like Christmas...</title>
    <published>2014-12-03T18:53:52Z</published>
    <updated>2014-12-03T18:53:52Z</updated>
    <content type="html">I might be getting a wee bit festive ~ I spent most of my work day visiting &lt;i&gt;a lot&lt;/i&gt; of wards including some Kiddie ones, most of which have their Xmas decorations up, the few radios I heard had festive songs playing too. Then I met my mum for lunch and she treated me to a trip to the German Market. Although no mulled wine was had (this time) it&amp;#39;s still an awesome place to visit :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My shopping is starting to get underway ~ though I&amp;#39;m struggling for ideas for the parents, both have festive Birthday&amp;#39;s (25th and 27th) too &amp;gt;.&amp;lt; ~ I&amp;#39;m hoping to start writing my cards and get the flat decorations up this weekend!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of holiday cards, see &lt;a href="http://darktwinkle.livejournal.com/150786.html#comments" target="_blank"&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; if you&amp;#39;d like one from me :) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m highly anticipating my &amp;#39;festive mood&amp;#39; to slide into place next Thursday when its HOGWARTS IN THE SNOW time! aka yet another trip to the Harry Potter Studio Tour :P</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:darktwinkle:150786</id>
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    <title>Christmas/Holiday Cards!</title>
    <published>2014-11-24T19:06:29Z</published>
    <updated>2014-11-24T19:06:29Z</updated>
    <category term="cards"/>
    <content type="html">Well look at this, &lt;i&gt;I do&lt;/i&gt; remember how to post. Sorry it&amp;#39;s been an epic while ~ I&amp;#39;ve actually been doing some fun things&lt;br /&gt;- Infest,&lt;br /&gt;- MCM London Expo (saw Dan Radcliffe&amp;#39;s pannel and some of the original power rangers)&lt;br /&gt;- Thought Bubble (got to see the artist formerly known as Draykonis again :D).&lt;br /&gt;- Got me a new car (called Jonty, since he&amp;#39;s a lot posher than my old car)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I&amp;#39;ve booked to go back to the Harry Potter tour again!...for the third time :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway catch up aside - the meaning behind this post... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~~~ &lt;b&gt;Tis that time of year again!! Holiday Cards!&lt;/b&gt; ~~~&lt;b&gt; Would anyone like a Christmas/Holiday card?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If so, please leave your name and address (I don&amp;#39;t mind posting internationaly) and I shall add you to the hopefully growing list, comments are screened.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As usual, If you&amp;#39;ve received a card from me in the past and you&amp;#39;ve not moved you&amp;#39;ll more than likely be getting one. If you have moved then the current occupiers of your old address will be getting one :P</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:darktwinkle:150775</id>
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    <title>Still here...kinda</title>
    <published>2014-07-20T17:16:30Z</published>
    <updated>2014-07-20T17:16:30Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">Wow, just wow ~ I&amp;#39;ve been incredibly awful at updating or even checking this thing lately (by lately I mean the last 3 months) normally I at least manage to check my flist. This time I failed at even that :(&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m sorry if I&amp;#39;ve missed anything important, but at this point I feel that going back and commenting on posts that are months old would be an odd/awkward thing to do ~ Please, please, please feel free to tell me about important posts you&amp;#39;d like me to look at or things you&amp;#39;d like my opinion on! I&amp;#39;m sure I&amp;#39;ve missed out on seeing some of the awesome things my very talented flist has created.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So yeah, sorry ^^ shall try to be better *determined face* &lt;br /&gt;I missed interacting with you guys! &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:darktwinkle:150368</id>
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    <title>Boston</title>
    <published>2014-03-18T23:58:31Z</published>
    <updated>2014-03-18T23:58:31Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Well I really kept up to the &amp;#39;update more&amp;#39; goal didn&amp;#39;t I? ^^&amp;nbsp;Here&amp;#39;s a bit of an update ~ can&amp;#39;t you tell that I should totally be doing something else right now *cough*packing*cough* &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m intending on posting some photos from my 2nd visit to the Harry Potter tour last November (yep I&amp;#39;m bad) and my kind of birthday trip to London back in January. Need to pick out my favorites  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Randomly started going to &amp;#39;Circus Skills&amp;#39; which is a lot of fun and getting less painful by the week :P My main focus is poi (which I can now turn round with without hitting myself in the face! so yaaay!) I do tend to prat around with a hoop sometimes too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And on Thursday I fly to Boston! *excited* Got 9 days in the states ~ planning on going on mini-missions (Foxwoods/Salem) we&amp;#39;re also going to Anime Boston while there which should be fun! never been to an American Con before. Haven&amp;#39;t been to an anime con in general since 2009. I&amp;#39;ve dug out my Misa (Death Note) and Zell (Final Fantasy 8) cosplays, quite glad they still fit, I appear to have lost weight ^^ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I shall be off to make a list of things I could do with not forgetting to pack/do before I go...or sleep, if I&amp;#39;m being honest it&amp;#39;ll be sleep...</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:darktwinkle:150055</id>
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    <title>Behold....</title>
    <published>2014-01-20T23:08:45Z</published>
    <updated>2014-01-20T23:09:27Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>Virgins O.R. Pigeons - Born in Sin</lj:music>
    <content type="html">...the poshest hotel I&amp;#39;ve ever stayed in!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was the place I was being put up in (not by the NHS I should probably add, they just paid my travel) I don&amp;#39;t think I like the posh interactions (seriously someone called me ma&amp;#39;am, I almost cracked up) the room however was pretty fab! and the food was realy nice. Though there appeared to be cushion obsession going on. It&amp;#39;s called Aviator and was next to a private airport in Farnborough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My Room&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2014/P1010435_zps518035fd.jpg" title="" fetchpriority="high" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2014/P1010436_zpsdf9b1990.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can honestly say I&amp;#39;ve never been to a place where they fold and seal the bog roll...every time they do the &amp;#39;housekeeping&amp;#39; O.o&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2014/P1010445_zps83c467bd.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also embroidered DRESSING GOWN ~ never been to a place that provides these either. Please excuse my face...I don&amp;#39;t take a good selfie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2014/P1010456_zps8ca3921b.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My View (and a private jet about to take off)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2014/P1010488_zpsbe6dbb3a.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Lobby&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2014/P1010470_zpse83048c3.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looking down from the 4th floor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2014/P1010480_zps1f79eaf6.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;a name='cutid1-end'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here&amp;#39;s some photos of London looking all pretty with it&amp;#39;s lights on&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2014/P1010500_zpsee5d887d.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2014/P1010503_zps33661f20.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2014/P1010504_zpsa9433e0a.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2014/P1010505_zps077a994f.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And King&amp;#39;s Cross....because I can&amp;#39;t not take a picture when ever I&amp;#39;m there ^^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2014/P1010513_zpsabe7d04f.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='cutid2-end'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of London ~ I&amp;#39;m going again on Wednesday. Tickets for Wicked have been booked and Cyberdog have a sale on *bounces* tis a good job I&amp;#39;m getting money for my birthday this year :P</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:darktwinkle:149988</id>
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    <title>London Calling...</title>
    <published>2014-01-08T20:05:27Z</published>
    <updated>2014-01-08T20:05:27Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>CSI</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#39;s calling twice actually.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Next week work are sending me on a residential training course to Frimley ~ will be passing through London to get there. Best bit about this one is that the hotel I&amp;#39;m being put up in is like &amp;pound;190 a night!...and I&amp;#39;m gunna be there for 2, also get breakfast and dinner (the menu looks expensive) :P anyone who knows me in rl will probably be wetting themselves at the idea of me in a super posh hotel, I know I am.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The second trip is happening a week later ~ actually staying in London this time&amp;nbsp;~ bit of a birthday treat to myself ^^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trying to plan some things to do while there that don&amp;#39;t require much walking/standing and aren&amp;#39;t too expensive, anyone any ideas/suggestions? If anyone&amp;#39;s got any suggestions for pubs/restaurants too that would be great!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also thinking about going to a show so main question and reason for this post ~ &lt;b&gt;Does anybody have any recommendations for a show (or two) to see while I&amp;#39;m in London?&lt;/b&gt; (gunna be there 22nd-24th)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;ve already seen &amp;#39;We will rock you&amp;#39; and &amp;#39;Rock of ages&amp;#39; I&amp;#39;m thinking Wicked but can&amp;#39;t decide ^^&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:darktwinkle:149545</id>
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    <title>Somewhat traditional New Years post</title>
    <published>2014-01-03T16:27:58Z</published>
    <updated>2014-01-03T16:28:56Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>Suburban Shootout</lj:music>
    <content type="html">List time again. I changed things up a bit this year ~ I changed the &amp;#39;knitting projects&amp;#39; to &amp;#39;general projects&amp;#39; purely so that I could include my dread wigs. I also decided to keep track of how many word&amp;#39;s I&amp;#39;d written as well as fic&amp;#39;s completed. I&amp;#39;m also debating making a note of epic length fic&amp;#39;s I read too, pretty sure I spend at least 2 months just reading fanfics :P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;2013&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Books read - 27 (8 graphic novels)&lt;br /&gt;Art - 10&lt;br /&gt;Stories written - 2&lt;br /&gt;Projects finished - 5&lt;br /&gt;Words - 13,709 (next to nothing compared to some but kinda good for me :P)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;2012&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Books read - 49 (31 novels/non-comics)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Art - 7 (not inc Dr Sketchy&amp;#39;s)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Stories written - 5&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Knitting projects - 2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Books read - 58 (40 novels/non-comic books)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Art - 12 (not inc Dr Sketchys)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Stories written - 1&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Knitting/crocheting projects - 6&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2010&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Books read - 27 (19 novels)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Art drawn - 1 (seriously I&amp;#39;m gunna give this up)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Stories written - 3 (completed, though one is a 127k first draft + 50k on Nanowrimo)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Knitting projects finished - 14&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2009&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Books read - 42 (26 novels)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Art drawn - 2 (Why do I even bother with this catrgory??)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Stories written - 14 (Completed + over 50k on my NaNoWriMo fic)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2008&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Books read - 44 (21 novels)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Art drawn - 2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Stories written - 13 (completed)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2007&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Books Read - 77 (11 novels)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Art Drawn - 12&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Stories Written - 6 (completed)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name='cutid1-end'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content>
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    <title>2013 LJ meme and a RL update</title>
    <published>2014-01-03T14:01:28Z</published>
    <updated>2014-01-03T14:01:28Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>Suburban Shootout</lj:music>
    <content type="html">Well hello there 2014! let&amp;#39;s start with a 2013 meme...one which highlights my dire need to get back on here more often ^^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;2013 LJ meme&lt;/b&gt; (nabbed from &lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="thilia" lj:user="thilia" &gt;&lt;a href="https://thilia.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://thilia.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;thilia&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) &lt;div class="" style="margin:0px 0px 5px 5px;padding:20px 10px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(84, 84, 84);font-family:arial, arial, tahoma, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-align:justify;line-height:18px"&gt;&lt;div class=""&gt;Open the calendar of your livejournal and post the first sentence of the first post of each month. That is your year in review.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;January: &lt;/b&gt;It&amp;#39;s time for my pointless lists post again&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;February:&lt;/b&gt; Wow it&amp;#39;s been awhile since I updated this thing ~ this time I shall blame, well me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;March:&lt;/b&gt; I&amp;#39;ve just had a week off work and actually managed to get a few things done&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;April:&lt;/b&gt; Birthday Wiki meme&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;May:&lt;/b&gt; We&amp;#39;ve actually had a sunny bank holiday and I still haven&amp;#39;t left the flat&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;June:&lt;/b&gt;  Harry Potter playlist meme&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;July:&lt;/b&gt;  N/A&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;August:&lt;/b&gt; &amp;nbsp;Wow has it really been that long since I last updated....whoops!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;September:&lt;/b&gt; N/A &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;October:&lt;/b&gt; N/A&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;November:&lt;/b&gt; N/A &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;December:&lt;/b&gt;  Wow, so I&amp;#39;ve really been MIA recently (like 4 months of recently)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;So yeah, can&amp;#39;t say I was LJ productive last year (10 post in the whole year, 10! bit shocked really) I think the issue is me, and my thinking that nothing I do is post worthy. I have been trying to keep up with everyone&amp;#39;s LJ and commenting where I can so it&amp;#39;s not soooo bad...hopefully ^_^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The end of last year got a bit stressful ~ I got a new job and it knocked me back more than I&amp;#39;d though it would. I still work for the NHS but it&amp;#39;s a (slightly) better band and a whole heap of new experience so yeah. I started mid December but had the interview in the October, got told I was a runner up and then got told I&amp;#39;d got it ~ bit of an emotional roller coaster really, added to the fact that I was leaving a job I&amp;#39;d been doing for 5yrs 5 mths so it was kinda scary too! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway ~ I&amp;#39;m hoping to be &amp;#39;better at LJ&amp;#39; this year (read have more confidence) which considering I&amp;#39;ve got 10 posts to beat can&amp;#39;t be too tricky eh? :P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope everyone&amp;#39;s having a great 2014 so far!</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:darktwinkle:149127</id>
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    <title>Christmas/Holiday Cards!</title>
    <published>2013-12-15T14:29:40Z</published>
    <updated>2013-12-15T14:29:40Z</updated>
    <lj:music>NCIS</lj:music>
    <content type="html">Wow, so I&amp;#39;ve really been MIA recently (like 4 months of recently)...kinda not sure how that happened. I&amp;#39;ll try to post a better update about recent events soon but for now...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tis the season! &lt;b&gt;Would anyone like a Christmas/Holiday card?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the answer is yes then please leave your name, address (comments are screened) and what it is you&amp;#39;re celebrating. They&amp;#39;re store bought cards but the doodling and the crappy handwriting will be mine :P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also if I&amp;#39;ve send you a card in the past and you&amp;#39;ve not moved you&amp;#39;ll more than likely be getting another one :P</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:darktwinkle:148895</id>
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    <title>Dread Wig # 2 ~ the black and blue one</title>
    <published>2013-08-20T18:39:17Z</published>
    <updated>2013-08-20T18:39:17Z</updated>
    <category term="dreads"/>
    <category term="photos"/>
    <category term="dreadfalls"/>
    <lj:music>Pendulum - Blood Sugar</lj:music>
    <content type="html">Wow has it really been &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; long since I last updated...whoops! &amp;lt;- though be honest, who noticed? ^^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any way I&amp;#39;m breaking the unintentional LJ silence to share a project I&amp;#39;ve recently finished. I am ridiculously proud of how this turned out (if you follow me on twitter you&amp;#39;ll know this already) I&amp;#39;m so impressed I can&amp;#39;t wait to wear them!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Behold my home-made dread wig! This was my first attempt at making double ended dreads, they were easier then expected once I found the right method&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/IMG_0259_zps36358c14.jpg" title="" fetchpriority="high" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;ve made this for Infest (this weekend) and although it&amp;#39;s been very time consuming I&amp;#39;ve found it relaxing, was a little anxious last week since all I had was a load of DE&amp;#39;s and a wig but the install went great :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gunna share more photos - before/after, wips and different views - be warned there&amp;#39;s a load of them ^^&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The original wig....it&amp;#39;s from my Amber Sweet costume&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="800" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/SAM_1606_zps4d8c5a44.jpg" width="600" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/SAM_1607_zps36846b0c.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&amp;#39;t have any photos of &amp;#39;the supplies&amp;#39; which is a bit of a shame but I do have some &amp;#39;in progress shots&amp;#39;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/SAM_1659_zps98171785.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The hair all divided up and ready to be dreaded. I used 4 different shaded of blue in total&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/SAM_1661_zpsa382ad67.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some freshly sealed DE&amp;#39;s relaxing on the living room table. Some of them aren&amp;#39;t perfect but I think that kind of &amp;#39;adds to the character&amp;#39;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/SAM_1786_zps905ecccb.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This is how I was storing them&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/IMG_0244_zps78155f52.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Correct number of dreads done! (I aimed for 50 DE&amp;#39;s and I think I got there) time to install!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/SAM_1787_zpsf29032c8.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cut the wig to a more manageable length and styled it a bit. I decided to add an headband to a) help the wig stay on and b) cover some of the hair so I didn&amp;#39;t have to install too many. I think it works :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/SAM_1788_zpsdfc02d52.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the dreads ready to be installed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/IMG_0248_zps056220ef.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/SAM_1790_zps9347da41.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About half way through ^^ Extreme Ghostbusters kept me company while I was working on this &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ta-da! Install complete...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/IMG_0252_zps09ee9c05.jpg" style="line-height: 1.4;" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...although it&amp;#39;s rather &amp;#39;back heavy&amp;#39;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hence the reason I tried to style it a bit so that more of the weight was &amp;#39;on top&amp;#39;. Half up half down didn&amp;#39;t work but half up pigtails seem too :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/IMG_0259_zps36358c14.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/IMG_0256_zpsf6889eb8.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/IMG_0260_zps3272a55f.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/IMG_0261_zps9cf75b3b.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And there we have it, the second dread wig I&amp;#39;ve made and by far my favourite...I just hope I can do it justice this weekend ^^</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:darktwinkle:148510</id>
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    <title>Harry Potter Playlist Meme...</title>
    <published>2013-06-02T15:59:04Z</published>
    <updated>2013-06-02T16:00:54Z</updated>
    <category term="harry potter"/>
    <category term="meme"/>
    <lj:music>Rammstein - Benzin</lj:music>
    <content type="html">So I was randomly &lt;strike&gt;procrastinating&lt;/strike&gt; browsing google and found the &amp;#39;&lt;b&gt;Harry Potter playlist meme&lt;/b&gt;&amp;#39; I figured why not and grabbed my mp3 player...some results were to funny not to share. I&amp;#39;ve included links to youtube videos for the curious ^^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;ve no idea who to credit for the meme :(&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=""&gt;&lt;span style="color:#030202;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Harry Potter Playlist&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=""&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#030202;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Put Your Media player on shuffle&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1. Overall Theme Song:&lt;/b&gt; &amp;#39;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZEpOUAuSGo" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Zombienation (v.2k5)&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#39; ~ Grendel remix&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;2. Plays when I see my friends&lt;/b&gt;: &amp;#39;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqsVs43o890&amp;amp;list=UUDthUrt0jCEH3H6tH1UTk0Q&amp;amp;index=15" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;I.D.O.L&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#39; ~ The Idol Dead &amp;nbsp;(I find this amusing since it&amp;#39;s my friends band)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;3. My wedding song&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMP2dvGFUlk" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&amp;#39;Night Surgeon&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#39; ~ Repo the Genetic Opera&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;4. Traveling song while camping&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPfwIJX9R5g" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&amp;#39;Issues&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#39; ~ Mindless Self Indulgence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;5. Song that plays when I destroy a Horcrux&lt;/b&gt;: &amp;#39;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr3x7tS__dE" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Here to Stay&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#39; ~ Korn (not the best for getting rid of something really ^^)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;6. Alarm that sounds when I enter hogsmeade&lt;/b&gt;: &amp;#39;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch_5_x1IUA8" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Slam&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#39; ~ Pendulum (not the best alarm, it&amp;#39;s got quite a build up)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;7.&amp;nbsp; Plays when the Order Of The Phoenix arrives:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsV500W4BHU" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&amp;#39;When Worlds Collide&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#39; ~ Powerman5000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;8. Plays during the battle of Hogwarts&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=239vHrwt8Rs" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;A.D.I.D.A.S&lt;/a&gt; ~ Korn (hilarious! when you know what the letter stand for)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;9. Plays when Voldemort dies&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeRsLPQannM" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;We&amp;#39;re No Here&lt;/a&gt; ~ Mogwai (a rather fitting, creepy song)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;10.&amp;nbsp; Plays over end credits&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqY2ZKa3ZHQ" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&amp;#39;I Believe in Blood&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#39; ~ Nachtmaha&lt;span style="color:#030202;"&gt;r (opening line ~ &lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"&gt;Have we seen the actual reality of a monstrous crime? Or merely an illusion? The product of a tortured brain ~ something tells me it&amp;#39;s not the end :P)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:darktwinkle:148350</id>
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    <title>Dr Sketchy's</title>
    <published>2013-05-06T19:31:11Z</published>
    <updated>2013-05-06T19:31:11Z</updated>
    <category term="art"/>
    <lj:music>NCIS</lj:music>
    <content type="html">We&amp;#39;ve actually had a sunny bank holiday and I still haven&amp;#39;t left the flat ^^ Instead I&amp;#39;ve been cleaning (in preparation of &lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-deleted  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="adelaide_rain" lj:user="adelaide_rain" &gt;&lt;a href="https://adelaide-rain.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://adelaide-rain.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;adelaide_rain&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#39;s return tomorrow) and working on my very first dread wig (am on to the second to last stage I think *go me!*)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;ve done a couple of those &amp;#39;guess the quotes&amp;#39; meme&amp;#39;s recently and I keep thinking that I should write my own, we&amp;#39;ll see. I did get round to updating the last couple of months of Dr Sketchy&amp;#39;s drawings though ~ &lt;a href="http://darktwinkle.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/dr-sketchys-march-2013/" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;March&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://darktwinkle.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/dr-sketchys-april-2013/" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;April&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April includes one of my favourite pieces from recent months...it&amp;#39;s been a month and I still think I&amp;#39;m proud of it ^^ hence the need to share it below :P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/scan0009_zpsb487bbb8.jpg" title="" fetchpriority="high" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope everyone&amp;#39;s been well, I keep saying I&amp;#39;m gunna try to LJ more and never get round to it, I do however read my flist a lot and try to comment :)&amp;nbsp;</content>
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    <title>Birthday Wiki Meme</title>
    <published>2013-04-19T22:23:59Z</published>
    <updated>2013-04-19T22:23:59Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>DJ 3rror - Future Friends</lj:music>
    <content type="html">Nabbed from &lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="thilia" lj:user="thilia" &gt;&lt;a href="https://thilia.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://thilia.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;thilia&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: &amp;apos;Helvetica Neue&amp;apos;, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.796875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Go to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ &lt;b&gt;24th January&lt;/b&gt; ~ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: &amp;apos;Helvetica Neue&amp;apos;, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.796875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;3 Events&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="41" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;41&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; &amp;ndash; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Emperor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="Roman Emperor" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Roman Emperor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="Caligula" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Caligula&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;, known for his &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccentricity_(behavior)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="Eccentricity (behavior)" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;eccentricity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; and cruel &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despotism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="Despotism" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;despotism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;, is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="Assassination" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;assassinated&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; by his disgruntled &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetorian_Guard" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="Praetorian Guard" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Praetorian Guards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;. The Guard then proclaims Caligula&amp;#39;s uncle &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="Claudius" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Claudius&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; as Emperor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="1908" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;1908&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; &amp;ndash; The first &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scout" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="Boy Scout" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Boy Scout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; troop is organized in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="England" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;England&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="Robert Baden-Powell" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Robert Baden-Powell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="1984" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;1984&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; &amp;ndash; The first &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Macintosh" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="Apple Macintosh" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Apple Macintosh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; goes on sale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: &amp;apos;Helvetica Neue&amp;apos;, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.796875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;2 Births&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="1949" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;1949&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; &amp;ndash; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Belushi" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="John Belushi" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;John Belushi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;, American actor (d. 1982)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;1958 &amp;ndash; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jools_Holland" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="Jools Holland" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Jools Holland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;, English singer-songwriter and pianist (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze_(band)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="Squeeze (band)" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Squeeze&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jools_Holland%27s_Rhythm_and_Blues_Orchestra" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="Jools Holland&amp;apos;s Rhythm and Blues Orchestra" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Jools Holland&amp;#39;s Rhythm and Blues Orchestra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: &amp;apos;Helvetica Neue&amp;apos;, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.796875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;1 Death&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="1965" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;1965&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; &amp;ndash; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="Winston Churchill" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Winston Churchill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;, English army officer and politician, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Prime Minister of the United Kingdom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="Nobel Prize in Literature" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Nobel Prize&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; laureate (b. 1874)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a toss up between Churchill, Chris Penn (actor) and Ted Bundy (serial killer) for &amp;#39;deaths on my birthdate&amp;#39; but I decided to stick with the theme of the week ~ deceased prime ministers&lt;/span&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:darktwinkle:147931</id>
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    <title>100 things ~ 12</title>
    <published>2013-03-24T21:05:49Z</published>
    <updated>2013-03-24T21:05:49Z</updated>
    <category term="100 things"/>
    <category term="photos"/>
    <lj:music>Traumatize - Comatose</lj:music>
    <content type="html">I really am bad at updating ~ I&amp;#39;m pretty sure the only reason I&amp;#39;m managing this one it because I&amp;#39;m supposed to be packing ^^ We (family and me) are having a fairly last minute trip to London tomorrow. Looking forward to a good few days ~ I&amp;#39;m dragging them all to Camden again :P ~ If only I could shift the last of this epic cold, seriously I haven&amp;#39;t ear ache like this since I was a kid  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway back to the blogging challenge I *might* have forgotten about ^_^ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2012/100%20things/012_zpsfbaf19af.jpg" title="" fetchpriority="high" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Date/time stamp: 30/10/09 13:04:04 ~ What you&amp;#39;re looking at is a couple of wrapped up statues! This was taken in Leeds City Square, that building is the old post office. I can&amp;#39;t remember why they&amp;#39;d been wrapped up. I seem to think it might have been to do with some &amp;#39;demo&amp;#39; that was going due to take place later that day, so it might have been to protect them. Or they could have been moving them or something. Either way I remember walking past and thinking that they looked rather silly, a photo had to be taken&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='cutid1-end'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope all is well with everyone!</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:darktwinkle:147467</id>
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    <title>New hair and Piercing # 23</title>
    <published>2013-03-03T23:41:25Z</published>
    <updated>2013-03-03T23:42:51Z</updated>
    <category term="body mod"/>
    <category term="photos"/>
    <lj:music>The Walking Dead</lj:music>
    <content type="html">I&amp;#39;ve just had a week off work and actually managed to get a few things done, the main thing being my car&amp;#39;s service and first MOT which ended up costing a lot less than I thought so I treated myself to an hair cut ~ the first I&amp;#39;ve had in like 22 months, I&amp;#39;m quite liking it, which is probably a good thing ^^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/SAM_0505_zpsf55e1cbd.jpg" title="" fetchpriority="high" /&gt;&lt;a name='cutid1-end'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/IMG_0017_zps4731132a.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;a name='cutid2-end'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Saturday &lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-deleted  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="winged_dark_elf" lj:user="winged_dark_elf" &gt;&lt;a href="https://winged-dark-elf.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://winged-dark-elf.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;winged_dark_elf&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; invited me along to a Tattoo convention &amp;#39;the Tattoo Tea Party&amp;#39; It was a pretty good day out. I wasn&amp;#39;t actually planning on getting anything done ~ I know I want a wrist tattoo but can&amp;#39;t decide what I want to get ~ but then I saw the piercing stall, &amp;pound;15 any piercing :P I really couldn&amp;#39;t resist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was a piercing that I&amp;#39;ve kinda wanted for a few years. Piercing #23 my Conch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/SAM_0526_zps4910a72e.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/IMG_0022_zps9a777948.jpg" title="" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;a name='cutid3-end'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&amp;#39;s the one going through the back, inner bit of the ear. I thought it was going to be a lot more painful than it actually was and it only hurts now if I knock it ^^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All in all I&amp;#39;ve had a good week off, shame I&amp;#39;ve gotta go back to work tomorrow</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:darktwinkle:147208</id>
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    <title>Still here ^^</title>
    <published>2013-02-28T00:08:29Z</published>
    <updated>2013-02-28T00:08:29Z</updated>
    <category term="art"/>
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    <lj:music>Chuck Season 4</lj:music>
    <content type="html">Wow it&amp;#39;s been awhile since I updated this thing ~ this time I shall blame, well me. I generally don&amp;#39;t feel that I&amp;#39;m very interesting/have anything to say that people might be interested in so I&amp;#39;ve just not bothered.....yeah anyway, I finally got around to getting back up to date with my &lt;a href="http://darktwinkle.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Dr Sketchy&amp;#39;s blog&lt;/a&gt;, so if anyone&amp;#39;s interesting -&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://darktwinkle.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/dr-sketchys-november-2012/" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Nov 2012&lt;/a&gt; ~ &lt;a href="http://darktwinkle.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/dr-sketchys-november-2012-the-thought-bubble-edition/" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Nov 2012: Thought bubble edition&lt;/a&gt; ~ &lt;a href="http://darktwinkle.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/dr-sketchys-december-2012/" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Dec 2012&lt;/a&gt; ~ &lt;a href="http://darktwinkle.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/dr-sketchys-january-2013/" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Jan 2013&lt;/a&gt; and finally &lt;a href="http://darktwinkle.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/dr-sketchys-february-2013/" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Feb 2013&lt;/a&gt; &amp;lt;- *icon choice is directly related to a sketch done this month*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;oh and my AO3 account is active -&amp;gt; &lt;a href="http://archiveofourown.org/users/darktwinkle/pseuds/darktwinkle" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I&amp;#39;ve only put a couple of fics on there for now, if I ever get around to finding a beta or generally enough nerve, I shall post more ^^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And on that note *slinks back off to watch the internet from a distance*&amp;nbsp;</content>
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    <title>Snow</title>
    <published>2013-01-21T14:56:13Z</published>
    <updated>2013-01-21T14:56:13Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>CSI: S13x11</lj:music>
    <content type="html">Leeds is finally getting it's share of the snow and luckily it's turned up in time for my week off work :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So in an attempt to feel a wee bit productive today I figured I'd post an update ~ Here's what the snow looks like out of my flat windows ^^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" title="" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/SAM_0328_zps59cb6a67.jpg" fetchpriority="high" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ My bedroom view ~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" title="" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/SAM_0323_zps783f9bda.jpg" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" title="" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/SAM_0324_zps8be0ea55.jpg" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ Kitchen view ~ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" title="" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/SAM_0326_zps7c289b46.jpg" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" title="" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2013/SAM_0327_zps4732ad9c.jpg" loading="lazy" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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    <title>New Year, not so new goals...and an even less new subject title  </title>
    <published>2013-01-02T22:53:59Z</published>
    <updated>2013-01-02T22:54:49Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Firefly</lj:music>
    <content type="html">It&amp;#39;s time for my pointless lists post again!&amp;nbsp;I was hoping to do this on the 1st (as is tradition) but LJ had other ideas ^^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;2012&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Books read - 49 (31 novels/non-comics)&lt;br /&gt;Art - 7 (not inc &lt;a href="http://darktwinkle.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Dr Sketchy&amp;#39;s&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;Stories written - 5&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Knitting projects - 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;2011&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Books read - 58 (40 novels/non-comic books)&lt;br /&gt;Art - 12 (not inc Dr Sketchys)&lt;br /&gt;Stories written - 1&lt;br /&gt;Knitting/crocheting projects - 6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2010&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Books read - 27 (19 novels)&lt;br /&gt;Art drawn - 1 (seriously I&amp;#39;m gunna give this up)&lt;br /&gt;Stories written - 3 (completed, though one is a 127k first draft + 50k on Nanowrimo)&lt;br /&gt;Knitting projects finished - 14&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Books read - 42 (26 novels)&lt;br /&gt;Art drawn - 2 (Why do I even bother with this catrgory??)&lt;br /&gt;Stories written - 14 (Completed + over 50k on my NaNoWriMo fic)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2008&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Books read - 44 (21 novels)&lt;br /&gt;Art drawn - 2&lt;br /&gt;Stories written - 13 (completed)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2007&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Books Read - 77 (11 novels)&lt;br /&gt;Art Drawn - 12&lt;br /&gt;Stories Written - 6 (completed)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='cutid1-end'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&amp;#39;t seem to have actually done anything in 2012, yet I don&amp;#39;t remember having much free time neither. Hopefully this year will be better across the board *fingers crossed* eh? &amp;nbsp;^^</content>
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    <title>Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!</title>
    <published>2012-12-26T16:09:31Z</published>
    <updated>2012-12-26T16:09:31Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Miracle on 34th street</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align:center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.4em;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m back at my parents for a few days and my laptop won&amp;#39;t connect to their wireless for some reason, hence the lack of an on time post ^^ am currently borrowing my mum&amp;#39;s laptop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope everyone had a great day yesterday, I also hope santa was very kind to you all too! Extra special *festive hugs* to &lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="sillie82" lj:user="sillie82" &gt;&lt;a href="https://sillie82.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://sillie82.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;sillie82&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; ~ I got here on xmas eve to find your card waiting &amp;lt;3&amp;#39;s it! :D</content>
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    <title>Couldn't resist...(again)</title>
    <published>2012-12-12T19:08:09Z</published>
    <updated>2012-12-12T19:11:40Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas eve/sarajevo 12/24</lj:music>
    <content type="html">I remember doing this for 6/6/6 so figured I needed to do it again ^^ the urge to write today&amp;#39;s date (don&amp;#39;t ask what happened to 7/7/7, 8/8/8, 9/9/9, 10/10/10 or 11/11/11 ~ I don&amp;#39;t know)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:1.8em;"&gt;12/12/12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;*cough* moving on...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christmas is almost upon us! and I&amp;#39;m actually feeling rather festive this year :D ~ The flat is decorated, most of the presents sorted and I was round at my mum&amp;#39;s one night last week trying to sort a bill out and managed to catch the infamous Coca~Cola advert &lt;a href='https://www.livejournal.com/rsearch/?tags=%23holidaysarecoming'&gt;#holidaysarecoming&lt;/a&gt;!! I think that helped. Looking up the brilliant &amp;#39;Snowman Irn-Bru&amp;#39; was the next festive step&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;lj-embed id="2" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tonight I&amp;#39;m planning on writing cards, wrapping presents and watching Home Alone, speaking of cards see &lt;a href="http://darktwinkle.livejournal.com/145952.html" target="_blank" target="_blank"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; post if you&amp;#39;re wanting one ^^&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;</content>
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    <title>Commission</title>
    <published>2012-11-30T14:12:02Z</published>
    <updated>2012-11-30T14:12:02Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>Combichrist - F**K that S**T</lj:music>
    <content type="html">A while ago the lovely &lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="sillie82" lj:user="sillie82" &gt;&lt;a href="https://sillie82.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://sillie82.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;sillie82&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;opened up some commission slots. I asked her if she&amp;#39;d be willing to draw a couple of my OC&amp;#39;s and she was!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sent her the best description I could manage along with some of my own not-so-good drawings and low and behold she created awesomeness&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/DarkTwinkle/2012/ColorSmall1.jpg" title="" width="300" fetchpriority="high" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Characters: mine, Art:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span  class="ljuser  i-ljuser  i-ljuser-type-P     "  data-ljuser="sillie82" lj:user="sillie82" &gt;&lt;a href="https://sillie82.livejournal.com/profile/"  target="_self"  class="i-ljuser-profile" &gt;&lt;img  class="i-ljuser-userhead"  src="https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.png?v=17080&amp;v=923.1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://sillie82.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username"   target="_self"   &gt;&lt;b&gt;sillie82&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How awesome it this? She also sent me the original (and bonus sketches) that is currently hanging in my &amp;#39;Corridor of awesome arts&amp;#39;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The characters are my own ~ Yorkshire and Jamie. They&amp;#39;re from my not finished fic that I started for NaNoWriMo 2010 ^^ I have some sketches I&amp;#39;ve done of them on my &lt;a href="http://darktwinkle.deviantart.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;DA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ Speaking of websites, I finally got my AO3 invite, I&amp;#39;ve made the account but haven&amp;#39;t mustered up the nerver to post anything yet (I suck I know ^^)</content>
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