I think... I think... dare I even hope it...

You know what?

I think I just finished that painfully long mystery-almost-thriller-AU fic...

I think... yeah, I think it's actually, like... completed...

*looks dazed*

Not "ready for posting" kind of completed yet, but an "it has all the plot written, isn't full of random gaps and I actually worked out the ending" kind of completed.

*looks really REALLY dazed*

I didn't think I'd ever actually finish that bugger...

At least I think it's finished. The ending's a little abrupt, in so far as you find out whodunnit, and you find out what happens to the one what dunnit, but that's kinda' it. You don't get to find out what happens to the Hero guy. It just kinda' stops as the one what dunnit does what they do...
Does that make any sense to anyone?
No? Now there's a shock...
What I could do with now is someone who feels like reading a 53 page first draft version of it and telling me if the ending works... XD
Any takers, any takers?
*watches a tumbleweed roll by*
Thought as much...

And now it's 3am and I really should go to bed...

Little, LITTLE people

I think I'll be spending most of today up here... Not just because we have people coming over, but also because John's waltzed off to see TTT with Chris and Richard, and the first words out of JR's mouth this morning was a choleric rant at me about how John left the tree lights on last night.
And then that was swiftly followed by an equally choleric rant again at me about how John kept leaving the back door unlocked when he went out.
*strongly resists the urge to tell JR exactly where he can go fuck himself*

It really, really pisses me off when he does that. Not least of all because it has fuck all to do with me.
But he really picked the wrong day to bitch me out (Like there's ever a right day...) for something that I didn't do. I mean, John's not even here... like he can magically hear your rant if you aim it at me, because we're obviously interchangeable or something. Some kind of inferior and excessively stupid species, oh they all look the same to me...
*kicks him*
Bastard.

So I'm up here holding a grudge because just the sound of his voice is making me want to throttle him.
>.<


Now I'm just torn between using the Pissed off or the Moody icon...
Let's do both.

Current Mood: moody

hmmm...

Well if this is true... it could certainly be interesting.
On the other hand it is a report from The Sun...

Say whu...?

I'm listening to my cousin J's demo disk...
*shakes head* Why does every kid with a guitar always want to be in a band?

OK, lesse now... Mislead Youth is made up of my little cousin J and 3 of his mates, all of whom seem to be vying to be the most prominant part of the recording. This is a problem, not just cause with this kind of music your drums and bass are meant to sort of blend into the background and give it all body, but also because they can't seem to play quite in time with each other. They're only 17 so this is forgiveable, but they won't get far all the while they're each jockeying to be in the limelight.
And especially all the while they sound like they're having a race to the finish.
Some thoughts... 1) the recording quality is crap... really really bad. Even worse than NoYearZero. Then again it was recorded at Squirrel Hut Studios, which isn't so much a studio as a basement full of equipment owned by some other band's drummer.
Least said the better really.
2) there are 5 tracks in total, and numbers 1 and 5 are almost indestinguishable from each other by dint of the fact that they both sound like they really really want to be SUM41 but aren't.
Track 2 shows the most originality by far though the particular sound the guitars are making puts me in mind an awful lot of Suede, circa that brown album with the kissing figures on the front cover. Other than that it's not so bad though I gotta' say, much as I love my cousin, he's really not a very good singer.
Then again, the other guy is worse, so I suppose it's a good thing J's doing the vocals...
Tracks 2 and 4 leave me utterly underwhelmed and with intense listener fatigue (it's all the background static and the fact that they can't manage to play together... it makes my head hurt)
3) I now really have to listen to something that's been professionally recorded before I loose all faith in the music industry.
And finally, 4) why do people keep giving me demo disks to listen to...? I'm accumulating quite a few of them for no apparent reason. And unless record execs happen to be popping by my journal to read my whitterings about unhelpful muses and the progress of my latest fic then I highly doubt anything is going to come of it.
There's only about 5 people in my real life social circle and one of those has buggered off up north so I'm not even a central hub for word-of-mouth...
*ponders*

I could pretend that they value my opinion of course, but I highly doubt that's why. XD

From the mouths of babes and the aged

Granny: *surveying the kitchen* Doesn't christmas make a mess...
Me: *blithely* No, our house always looks like this.
Granny: Oh.
Mum: I tidied up this morning y'bugger...

the great debate

*dabs at self with a damp cloth* I seem to have dripped gravy upon myself... It's the classic war between bosom and napkin you see, as it's all very well having your napkin on your lap as ettiquet suggests, but my bosom acts as a shelf whereby all accidentally dripped gravy is intercepted before it can actually reach the napkin.
This is the greatest hazard of entertaining in so called polite society y'see... I do so love dinner with all the associated poncy accoutraments (How many sets of cuterly can we unpack and lay out before people get really confused and keep trying to butter things with their neighbour's knives?) but it ain't so great when eating things that drip XD

Talking vaguely of which, mum's decided to retire the dinner service. It's starting to get a little old (almost 120 years, give or take) so she decided that rather than risk breaking parts of it we'll pack it away and buy a new one. That way we can also get enough pieces to actually serve the numbers of people we entertain, as opposed to having 2 people with mis-matched plates like the last couple of years.
As a result, I have noticed various things while dinner service shopping.
1, why do all services come in either sets of 4, 6 or 8? I'm assuming people in general don't have many friends because the old service was 12 piece and we really need a minimum of 14. Looks like we'll have to buy 2 sets then or we'll never have enough plates...
2, they don't seem to come with serving platters any more. We had a set of 8 assorted size serving platters that matched the dinner set. A coffee set appears to have replaced the notion of the serving platter, but this is somewhat to excess if you have to buy 2 sets to make up the relevant numbers. You can always use double the number of serving platters but what are you going to do with 2 identical coffee pots? Other than vibrate around the room hyped on twice as much caffine of course.
3, Modern styling... they're either hideous or painfully expensive. There is no middle ground.
Well ok, some of them are both hideous AND painfully expensive but this is not what I meant. We're getting a new dinner table and set of chairs in the coming year with a sort of not-quite-gothic-classical-ish feel to them so we really aren't on the hunt for something that has gigantic green smiley faces on it... Call us picky if you will but it's just a stylistic choice.

Grattan and GUS both drew a hideous blank, mostly in terms of their selection being just plain icky so I may have to do the unthinkable and *shocked gasp* go and look in actual shops...

Oh, that's the other thing... due to the way courses are arrange we actually need more plates than anyone ever seems to be willing to include. Every single damned one of them lacks the addition of the Starter/dessert plate.
Dinner plates, check
Side plates, check
Bowls, check
Starter/dessert plates... no check
This is going to cause a problem cause there's really no time to wash up between courses...

Yep, I am going to have to go hunting in an actual shop aren't I?

still ramblin'

I'm still on the subject of crockery so feel free to skip...

( Boring waffle about plates )

And I swear I'll stop talking about plates now... at least until I find a suitable replacement dinner service or somewhere that sells the parts individually.

And hey, if anyone happens to come across a reasonably priced 70+ piece dinner service then lemme know...