Kathryn’s Blog

Amazon.co.uk – where the hell is my cd which has a shipping date of 15-16 of March but has yet to be dispatched!?

I just feel like repeatedly bitching of late…..

I’ve had to go back to work

Anyone who says stupid things like “Ohh I couldn’t wait to get back” deserves to be shot! The only reason I’m working is because I haven’t won the lottery…...you wait though….one day!

Fortunately I think I might be able to make April a bit of a write off – 2 days off flexi leave (we work “flexi hours” which simply means that you have a 7 hrs 25 day you can start work any time from 7.30 am to 9.30am and finish any time after 15.30 any time you work over 7hrs 25 you add to your flexi and any less you take away you can’t go over 21hrs 45 or under minus 21 hours. You can take up to 3 days flexi leave in a month), a week off at the end of the month. ‘twill fly by

Couple of things getting my goat…..

I posted the lyrics of a chapess called Jem a few weeks ago, the song’s called “They” pretty good song. The video involves her stripping off in a space ship a la barbarella and I have to say I was pretty disappointed. In much the same way as Britney and Christina it seems to whore to the lowest common demoninator. Do guys (as that’s who naked females are undoubtably aimed at) really buy an album because the chick in the video was unclothed (after all you don’t normally get the video with the album)? I seriously doubt it. It’s just a bit of a let down to see someone lauded as the “next big (talented) thing” stripping off in her first video.

Next…...

Someone using the phrase “dripping with leftist queer political correctness” in regards to a trek episode is all right (although I don’t think it’s “all right” in regards to anything) but my wondering why “small minded fuckwits ” watch star trek is worthy of disparaging comment about the extent of my vocabulary. HELLO!?Sometimes I wonder about people on newsgroups.

‘member by bitching about my CPU issues and thinking it fixed when I fiddled about with outlook express?

As it turns out the real culprit (or at least another culprit) is something called guarddog.exe (the version under my username) which has something to do with McAfee.

So if you’re having similar issues go to your task manage, go to processes, hit the cpu button, scroll to the bottom and see what exactly is taking up the most CPU space!

How do you think the music nazis feel about downloading an album when you’re buying it anyways?

well – if amazon would send the damn thing F

Went to see this at the cinema last night – not half as scary as I was expecting – should of gone to see boogeyman . To give it credit I totally did not see the twist coming!

They did however have a preview for Ring 2. It totally freaked me out, never mind Ashleigh who spent most of White Noise going “OH MY FUCKING GOD!” and didn’t sleep after the Grudge. Definitely keen to see it .

about something, think of two things.

Is what you’re about to bitch about:

1)hurting any one?

2)adversely affect your own life in anyway?

If you answer no to both of these then leave well enough alone. It’s none of your damn business.

You know what? sod it. I don’t give a damn!

Actually that’s not true, I do give a damn just not enough to make it worth the hassle. Someone else can take the knife attack, but don’t say I didn’t try.

You should buy this – Dishwalla – Dishwalla

I was reading a critique on someone else’s blog the other day. The criticism being that no one want’s to hear about your friends, childs dirty diapers and if you really wanted to blog you should pick a subject and stick with it. Pretty sound advice I thought. Unfortunately I couldn’t think of anything specific. So this is doomed to randomness

From now on my jobless git of a brother shall only be referred to as “my jobless git of a brother” and nothing else until such time he gets a job (and then it will be my “git of a brother who owes me money”) or pays me back my money (then it will simply be “my brother”).

Thank you for your time. Normal service may now resume

Well anyhow….my mother has been at us (me and my jobless git of a brother) to clear up the attic for some time now. It’s actually been renovated, access is up a set of stairs inside my mum and dad’s walk in wardrobe – if we could block it off it would be a great hiding place (yes I do watch too many movies ). This has just made it so much easier to dump stuff in. Plus any time the granny came to stay I had to go sleep on two old mattresses up there (comfy! – not).

So my brother decided to get started this week (probably because he’s a jobless git). My dad announced yesterday that he’d get a trailer so we can take all the crap away (by crap I mean childhood memories sob). Andrew had most of it done and Id spent the morning tidying my own room oblivious to what was going on till it was half way done. When I did realise I half heartedly “assisted” (really quite proud of my lack of help in that), however my dad failed to bring the trailer and after a week of fine weather it decided it was going to be windy n wet! HAH! Sods law! Got it this morning though, but by the time Id shifted out of bed it had all been taken care of Man Im a lazy bitch. ahem .

The amount of stuff that was removed was astonishing though…must of been about 15 black bin bags and countless boxes and it’s not like it was a really big space to begin with and I think there was a good few of my (romance) books (Um yeah not going into that), were carted off to the local charties. All that’s left is a typewriter (broken) and a singer sewing machine (broken). My mum was going to suggest that when she gets her new living room suite that the old suite go up to the attic….Er yeah…get the guys to cart up a really heavy three seater sofa….

Well I finally figured out my CPU issues – turns out there was something corrupted in outlook express! So it’s all good now – yay! I can game to my hearts content. Anyhow – if you use OE and have your CPU sitting constantly at 100% Im the person to speak to. To celebrate a little something courtesy of comics.com

Who apparently don’t like people doing that kind of thing so I’ll have to remember to update it

Right so….Ive had trouble playing yahoo games on this computer, tends to freeze in wot not and not let me in. Checking task manager I happened to notice that my CPU usage is pretty much solidly 100% (do you think that could be the reason eh) except when I first login – go figure, so this evening I have tried to figure out why. Basically went through the names of some the processes I wasn’t familiar with and checked them out to no avail. But it’s lead me to a program called trojan hunter. WHich hasmanaged to pick up all them pesky adware programs I thought Id got shot of. Going to try and delete those when it’s finished scanning, then use spybot and then adaware and after that Im out of ideas.

Our local radio station runs these “safety” (or safe ettay as one of the voice overs says) adverts which are getting increasingly silly. My favourites are…
“Are you male? Are you over 40? Then there’s more bad news” I’m not a middle aged male, but since when is being one a bad thing? (They’re going to die in a house fire btw).

Then there’s – don’t over take that dodgy looking lorry there might be someone carrying illegal fuel! (“He obviously doesn’t care about his own safe-et-tay”)

If you sleep naked but aren’t a nudist you’re screwed in the event of a house fire “no don’t put on your clothes – you’ve no time!”

Oh and apparently I’m a binge drinker because I take 4 cointreau and lemonades every thursday and will therefore suffer from a stroke and/or cancer because 4 drinks for women and 5 for a man in one sitting in binging apparently.

So any nude 45 year old men who like to have a couple of drinks on a Saturday after over taking dodgy looking trucks should maybe make sure they have a will!

but everyone else thinks you’re a bastard

If I should happen to become a mega rich but insane genius I plan to kill the following people:

There will be more

Dishwalla have a new album coming out!
YAY!
So does Rob Thomas (ex Matchbox Twenty lead singer)
Double Yay!
Now if I could only get this Vertical Horizon (I’m bidding on Amazon for a Japanese import) and if Evanescence could do some new stuff, I would be estatically happy.

Had a really bizarre dream last night. Basically I was in a computer game as Kathryn Janeway (sort of, mostly in dreams you just know you’re supposed to be someone or someone you see you know is supposed to be someone even if it doesn’t look like them), and we were in the middle of war (set in the streets of Half Life 2) against bunnies (which were actually men in uniforms but were supposed to be bunnies see explanation above).

Anyhow we were trapped between 2 ranks of the bunnies (who looked like men) with help supposedly coming so I decided to go to sleep in a house. Tuvok then came to wake me up and brought my face wash and conditioner (apparently a clean face and silky managable hair are important war situations), and took me to meet another army who were enemies but were going to team up against the bunnies. At this point I turned in Jean Luc Picard and declared myself a dignatary. Then I woke up.

I should stop reading star trek books.

www.dictionary.com
you can learn how to correctly spell all kinds of words, wouldn’t that be fun now!

BTW just a little FYI…brie and ham toasties don’t work so well – at least in the George Foreman grill. The brie gets too runny
I was not happy with the overall taste either (although that would be a personal thing). I’m also getting a bit sick of bread.