Nabbed this one from kateg123

So earlier I finished the Race For Life (yay me and my new shiny medal) but now I am soooooooo tired from doing so much walking when I'm not used to it

Note to self - Train more!!!

But I had a small moment of squee when I was in Dumfries because there is a shop near the hospital called Tardis Mini-Market. So of course I had to take a picture of it (which I shall put up later) for my own little squee fix.

Speaking of squee - OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last night was incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I shall say no more because I shall go into overdrive.

Nabbed this from </a></font></a>stopwatch_plz

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (The ful unabridged version as well :D)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

16 - not bad I think considering I'm not that much of a reader. About the only fiction I read now is fan fiction :D

 Impossible choice time methinks

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gayspy/a103849/david-tennant-vs-john-barrowman.html

I can't choose!!!

So here's part two of my thing from last weekend 

So....day one was pretty dull. I was by myself and still wondering if I should have gone to Abergavenny the previous night instead of staying in my hotel room.

I'm going to skip what I did prior to 6pm cos it's just dull.

I stayed in my hotel room testing out my video camera - that's pretty much it. 

( Here's where things start to get fun :D )

I have my hotel booked for this weekend (woot) so now I just need the train tickets sorted.

I also need to find a way back from Abergavenny to Newport after the gig on Saturday because I refuse to take late night trains. 

Create your own family sticker graphic at pYzam.com

Ash had this - I liked it so I did one.

My family consists of my daddy (who I miss so much it hurts sometimes - requiescat in pace), my mum (who is awesome and embarrassing all at the same time), my eldest brother (who has been a pipe band drummer for over ten years), my older brother (who is often likened to the Grim Reaper because of his apperance - I kid you not), me (I had to have a crown because I just have to) and the dog (who has quite a loud bark but is actually a big softie)

On a different note - today was the town gala. Spent it with my friends - good times - but now I have sunburn in my arms and nose - bad times. The previous night was the Cornet's Ball, where I had booze, bopping, more booze and me in a dress with my hair all done up nice

For those on my flist who don't know what this is then I shall show you this - one of my favourite videos on YouTube of the show and the Ollian (Oliver/Christian) story, which is the one I love.

I also love the song to death - so beautiful.

I've been doing a lot of these recently but here's another one. I got tagged by </a></font></b></a>kazmack so here goes.

The rules -  List 10 fictional characters you wouldn't kick out of bed (in no particular order) and tag five people to do the same.

OnePlusYou Quizzes and Widgets

It's tougher than it looks - I've got a sore hand now.

I nicked this from gwene

51% Geek

OnePlusYou Quizzes and Widgets

I'm not sure if I should be upset about that. I am a geek, but I'm not a geek at the same time by the looks of things.

To geek or not to geek?

		I will marry Jake Hendriks.
		After a wild honeymoon, We will settle down in Cardiff in our fabulous Apartment.
		We will have 8 kid(s) together.
		Our family will zoom around in a Black Veyron.
		I will spend my days as a Writer, and live happily ever after.

I was looking thorough my stuff from The Rift (cos it makes me happy and fills me with squee at having been so close to the pretty)

When I came accross this:

Nabbed this from </a></font></a>20hrsinamerica i cos it looked like fun really :D 
 
The rules are as follows:

If you want to play:
1. Go to www.flickr.com or Google Images.
2. Type in your answer to the question in the "search" box.
3. Use only the first page.
4. Copy the html and paste for the answer.

Here's my new problem.

The Cornet's Ball - v fun formal thing the day before the town gala - is next Friday (woot!)

The problem I have is that I have this kick-ass dress that I bought last year which would be perfect. But at the time I didn't quite fit into it.

I STILL DON'T! It's been months since bought it and I've lost over half a stone in weight *yay me for shedding fatness* and it still doesn't fit!

Read this:

http://community.livejournal.com/torch_wood/3337615.html?view=29882255#t29882255

I was having an okay day till I read that!

I get to do this now cos gwene  finally gave me a letter to work with (:D)

The rules are as follows:

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

1 - Amaranth - Nightwish
2 - Apologise - OneRepublic
3 - Adagio For Strings - Tiesto
4 - Ain't No Sunshine - Blue Gillespie
5 - Afterlife - Avenged Sevenfold

*dances* Got BG in there!