Mischief Managed

I had an amazing holiday - so relaxing and in such a nice place. I got back on Saturday and got to spend my birthday with my family and my boyfriend which was lovely. Why did I have to go back to work? D: I fear that my newly relaxed state is going to be sorely tested tomorrow. Ah well. I had a lovely week and it was a really good break from work. I think I may have to cut back on the chocolate and booze now though as I seem to have expanded somewhat. Damn you France and your delicious cheese and wine!

In other news, there'll be new Merlin soon! Awesome!

I've been on holiday in Scotland for a week. Great week but I'm absolutely knackered now - straight to bed I think! I think I need another week in bed! Work tomorrow...

Yes, I am still around! I'm just up and down from Nottingham to Hull like a yo-yo at the moment. I've watched the whole first season of Dexter now - awesome show! Can't wait for the second series although I'm interested about where they're going to go with it.

I'm just finishing packing for my holiday to Italy before I go down to my friend's house for tonight. I'm off tomorrow! See you in a week!

I hope everyone had a great holiday! I've been rather absent from LJ
over the break - the boyfriend spent most of the two weeks I was off
work round at my house which severely cramped my LJing! ;) Actually, it
was really nice. He got me the Torchwood DVDs for Christmas even though
they weren't actually on sale until Boxing Day! I'm not entirely sure
how he managed that but I'm not complaining!

My friend has just bought a house, so for new year's eve I went down
there. We had a good laugh, drank lots and spent Monday afternoon
ripping polystyrene ceiling tiles off the bathroom ceiling while wearing
pyjamas! I've got the last two episodes of Torchwood to watch from New
Year's Day when I get home.

I'm so upset to be at work! Yesterday was my first day back for a
fortnight. Boo. At least I figured out how to post from work! (And
hopefully my company's sig line won't appear at the bottom of this
post.)

I'm not posting all my Iceland holiday photos now but I thought I'd put two of the fannish/geek related ones up because they amused me.

( hotel borg and a bad dog )

I've got a vox account courtesy of moonilicious - I'm over there as odycee too in case any one is interested. I probably won't use it much but it's nice to know I've got another backup (even if threaded comments aren't available) and no one can nick my username now! I've got four invites if any one is interested.

Ok. So I think I'm ready to go! My brother is giving me a lift to the airport early in the morning tomorrow so I hope I'm ready because otherwise I'm stuffed. I really need to go to bed now and get some sleep because otherwise I'm going to be a walking zombie. (and I did find my waterproof trousers so that's good).

I downloaded the new SGA earlier but haven't had time to watch it so I'll have to watch the first and second episodes when I get back next week. Exciting! I've been manically avoiding all the spoilers on my flist and it's been so hard!

Aaaargh! Just remembered to pack the toothpaste!

( brief Doctor Who spoilers )

I go on holiday to Iceland next Sunday! I've been terribly unorganised about it all (I guess I have been a little distracted for the past week, but that's not much of an excuse) but I think I'm mainly sorted now. I just looked at the weather forecast for Reykjavik - it's about 16 degrees there at the moment but the temperature is going to drop steadily all week until it gets to about 8 degrees on Thursday!! I'd better pack some thermals. Hopefully I'll get time to watch the new Atlantis episode before I go - I'll have to pray that I find a speedy torrent!

I've had a brilliant weekend. The fancy dress party was fabulous - we had Elvis, Dick Turpin, Al Capone, Tony Blair (with the most hideously frightening mask I have ever seen), Michael Jackson, two Helen of Troy, William Wallace, Jesus and me as Charles Darwin. Very very funny. Everyone had Jesus's beard on at some point and by 11:30 everyone had facial hair drawn on in eyeliner. Helen of Troy looked particularly fabulous with a tashe on. The house was gorgeous - an old vicarage - and there was even a computer hooked up to broadband! How great is that?!

I am very tired now. I've done some washing and unpacked and semi-caught up on the f-list - skip=140 guys? And that was excluding all the communities. There's no way I can possibly catch up on scarvesnhats and it's only been going three days! I've been reading everyone's Serenity squee too - isn't it amazing! I'm glad that I can discuss it now! It's almost seven months since I first saw it and that's a long time to keep all those spoilers in.

I'm currently in Cork in an internet cafe (with damn weird music) waiting around because my flight home isn't until half past eight this evening. I've had such a great week in Ireland. We've been so lucky with the weather - I've only got wet a few times. One of those times was because we were out walking in the hills and we had to ford a river a couple of times with bare feet. Very exciting! And then I went up to my ankle in a boggy bit when I put my boot back on. D'oh.

Needless to say it was all very lovely. Kerry is so beautiful. Meeting up with niannah was fab and it was great for her to meet my friends and to meet up with her friends. Amongst other things we went horse riding, saw some prehistoric tetrapod foot prints, went walking in the hills, saw lots of ancient settlements, castles and standing stones and rang some church bells. Last night we went out for birthday drinks in Cork which was great.

Whilst I was away, people voted in niannah's multifandom wordathon (and I popped online to vote too) and I came second! Very bizarre! Anna made me a banner:

( my banner )

I hope I haven't missed anything too exciting as I haven't the stamina to go back 3539475 entries in my f-list!

ETA: My two year LJ anniversary was last week - I can't believe that I've been hanging around here for two years!! Scary!

Aaaargh. I think I'm just about ready now. It's a good job really because I've got to leave for the airport at about quarter to six tomorrow morning. Yay Ireland! See you tomorrow niannah! I had the day off work to pack and do stuff - I did get all my washing done and get to the post office but as I'm my usual procrastinating self, I also made a load of icons.

They're quite simple Marauders icons made from pictures of a dog, rat, wolf and stag. If you want one, go ahead - just let me know if you take one and I'd love it if you credited me in the keywords/comments.

Preview: 04. 07. 11.

( mischief managed )