29/09/10 - Going to experiment with some open entries.

I posted this almost a year ago:

Seeing all of the new F1 cars and going through testing results is making my heart hurt too, I *want* to be doing that, and I know that now I never ever will - this is not a new revelation either, I've known for a while that it was never going to happen, the shiny new things just make it suck a little harder all over again!

That makes me incredibly sad for the me the last year, and incredibly happy for the me now :)

I can't even pretend that I have anything sensible to say today, so instead have a meme from Tumblr:

iTunes Word Meme: Type these words into the search bar on your iTunes and list the first song that appears in the results.

happy: Happy - Ashanti
love: Let Me Put My Love In You - AC/DC
hate: I Hate Myself For Loving You - Joan Jett
light: The Killing Lights - AFI
dark: Dancing In The Dark - Bruce Springsteen
good: Any Good With That (The Mummy Returns OST) - Alan Silvestri
bad: The Bad Touch - The Bloodhound Gang
smile: Smile (Pictures of It Didn't Happen) - Amanda Palmer
cry: Cry - Angie Aparo
girl: Girl With A Pearl Earring (Girl With A Pearl Earring OST) - Alexandre Desplat
boy: Sexy Boy - Air
sad: The Saddest Thing I Know - Birds Of Tokyo
lost: Lost and Found - Adrienne Pierce
night: Why I Can't Stand One Night Stands - Catatonia
day: Daydreams - Adele
wolf: Werewolf Heart - Dead Man's Bones
robot: Robot Factory - Jimmy Eat World
dance: I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
time: That Particular Time - Alanis Morisette
life: The Life - Alicia Keys
death: Death Is The Road To Awe (The Fountain OST) - Clint Mansell

Hm, quite a good selection of the random stuff I have on my iPod, and highlights how many OST's I have lurking around on there; yet somehow no tunes from 30 Seconds To Mars, Muse, Darren Hayes, Johnny Cash or Placebo! 0_o Mystifying!

Seeing a lot of Kimi-related clothing woe on my Twitter feed :( This makes me feel guilty and sad, because I received mine with no problems at all. I ordered on the 11th, I got my tracking number on the 29th December, but my goods were signed for on the 26th. They did miss the first line off my address, and they did send me two instead of one (I only paid for one), but I'm pretty content. I'm also extra happy as it means I can send my spare to aitakute , once I get things weighed at the Post Office tomorrow.

Many orders seem to have gone missing though, and some people don't seem to have heard from them at all. I guess it was always a bit risky for Lotus to let an external company use their name on some 'extra' merchandise but I hope it doesn't put them off for good :s Specialist Kimi clothes are just too cool to miss out on in the future.

I don't really understand why people are complaining about the quality either. My hoodie is soft/fluffy inside, smooth on the outside, the lettering is not overly glittery and feels pretty good too. I haven't washed it yet, so I guess it has one final test to pass.

The only thing I can think is that the company were completely over-whelmed with how many orders they got and things have gone a bit mad for them. I wonder how many orders were placed with them and how many they were expecting. I hope you all get your stuff soon though.

I still can't quite believe that I actually managed to pass my driving test first time. It was a far less traumatic experience than I was expecting! I thought I was going to come out with some kind of nostalgic horror tale to share, but my examiner was kind of...different? He spent most of the time talking about his allotment and his brush with death a few years ago, it was hard to know if he was really paying full attention. I did get a brief rush of nerves about 2mins out of the test centre, which made me have a very light clutch foot - which was not smooth at the first roundabout we got to.

Today was my last day of using my taxi company though. Words cannot express how happy I am that I will no longer have to loiter about at work waiting for my taxi to come and pick me up. There were some nights where they just wouldn't pick up, so I would have to roam around the desks trying to chat lifts out of people which isn't a great way to get to know your co-workers. Such a shame that all of the pretty ones are really hard-working and very rarely leave at the same as me...

Anyway, my little Modus is going to be on the 7am ferry tomorrow, with my parents of course. My Dad wants to 'test' me as well, which I think is just going to end in tears and with him being stranded in the wilds of Oxfordshire. It is kind of an unfair proposal though, he used to be a Metropolitan police driving instructor.

The very lovely vixletthepixlet has been to visit a couple of times over the past months. Despite the fact that we went to school together, this is the closest we have ever lived to each other. We've become almost locals at the pub across the road but we haven't managed to get into too much trouble together yet. We did have a lot of fun at the Cotswold Wildlife Park a few weeks ago though:



Quite gutted over the driver announcements today. *hugs Vitaly*

Win!



They are so incredibly soft that it's unreal!

Seriously, I kind of tripped/fell off my bed (thank you iPod cable) whilst carrying an armful of MLP. I didn't drop a single one, or damage them, I did though punch myself in the chest and take enough layers of skin off my hand for it to bleed. Successful adventure!

I've spent the last couple of days scrubbing some MLP that I bought in a bundle, and that were a little bit skanky. I've kept two of them, but managed to get the majority of them up on eBay - taking advantage of their free listing day :) I've now confined them to a box so they can't attack me again!

Last week my Mum and I went across to Portsmouth, for a very belated Mothers' Day treat of lunching in the Tapas bar over there. We then went a little bit silly and decided to go for a boat tour around the naval & commercial dockyard. I do have a bit of a secret love affair going on with Royal Navy ships, especially as I got to attend the commissioning ceremony of HMS Albion when I was in school. Thank you CCF.

I was very happy to see HMS Illustrious looking not too worse for wear after getting her hull punctured earlier on this year. How can anyone failed to be impressed by the awesomeness of this ship?



( A few harbour scenesCollapse )

In some ways, it's quite a treat to live on the Island as the Navy like to play around in the Solent from time to time:



I was about to read "Stargate: The First Amendment" but now I have a hankering to read "Peter Pan" instead :)

Also, obligatory eBay link.

Featuring:

- My Little Pony
- Red Bulletins
- Doctor Who, Torchwood, Stargate etc books
- F1, Empire, SFX Magazines
- A couple of comics
- A couple of DVD's

Enjoy :)

Ok.

So what book have I read that features:
- A band of travellers/warriors/companions.
- Planets or at least territories that are very far apart.
- The companions may have been 'thrown together' or are at least an unlikely group.
- One member of the party is from a race/species/planet that is infamous for always being conquered, maybe something 'bad' always happens to the conquerors allowing for a new set to come along. The race/species/planet never make any attempt to fight back, and are always content to live/work with their new leaders - it's almost like they roll out a red carpet every time someone comes along to take over their planet.
- At one point in the book, where bravery is needed, the person from the 'surrender planet/territory' comes up with a suggestion, and one of the other characters (I want to say it's a girl) says something like "What would you know about it/bravery, you're just sitting there waiting to be conquered again", at which point the leader gives them/her a mini-lecture about how it takes "great bravery to accept that you cannot beat your enemy and to choose to work/live amongst them".
- There is something in the back of my head that is making me think of gully dwarves in the DragonLance books, and something else that is trying to convince me that it is a Dr Who fanfic (of which I maybe read about 3 of a year so I'm not convince!).

Any help would be VERY much appreciated as it is starting to drive me around the bend!