Waking up at 6ish on Sunday felt like a sleep in, after 5am on Saturday. Sok and Rachel had both stayed over and I had to fight very hard with myself to not be grumpy at everyone. It may have felt like a sleep-in but after the huge Saturday I was still exhausted.
I wore short pants and big socks with my boots for Sunday so I didn't have to worry about the mud getting on my pants. We went out to Fraser's dad's and I broke my no-macdonalds vow because Gorram it I wanted hot breakfast! I wanted pancakes! They were disappointing!
The filming on Sunday was totally awesome. Everyone was focussed, onto it and very professional. We flew through takes, starting at about 7.30 I think and we had all the main dialogue done by 11 I think. After filming the pick-ups Norm had requested and the sound effects of mooks screaming I was out of there with Rachel, Sok, Luke and Debs. We went back to Indigo City with all the footage from the morning and I crashed out on the couch in the sun. I have to say I was feeling pretty useless on Sunday afternoon, my head was spacey and every little thing was funny. I totally failed to remember who camera Mark was and was totally unable to make decisions *unless* I was in the editing room.
I got to make the decision about whether the soundtrack was rocky or less rocky. I chose Most Rocky, and that seems to have been a popular decision.
Lots of silly banter on Sunday and it was exciting to get the news from the set as more and more people came back. The stunts did turn out most awesome and if I could have any wish it would be to have a second unit: another camera and sound set-up so that the stunts could have been filmed on Saturday while we were busy up the road with the lead actors. Aaaaah blissful second unit dreams.
When Steve and I were called down to edit I have to say the rough cut that Matt and Norm had put together was so good I felt there was very little that needed to change. Steve had some ideas that turned out to be really useful changes, despite my skepticism. I don't think I was very useful as an editor this year but I did get to tell Norm "Render, render it now!" which lead to the safety cut being released at 5.30pm with plenty of time to spare.
I cried when we watched the safety cut through on the big TV with the rest of the team. Partly because I really find the performances moving, partly it was joy that we'd made such a good film that would make it in on time and partly just because I was exhausted and the pressure got to me.
All Sunday afternoon people would say to me "Are you alright?" and "Are you okay?" I know they were expressing concern because they care about me but I started to get paranoid that my face held an expression of horror! Like maybe I was wandering around looking so very exhausted and freaked out so people really thought I was going to freak out.
I freaked out at about 5pm. My stomach did its thing, and it was not pleasant. After the safety cut was gone and we did some more polishing on the final cut I could feel us getting the time pressure stress. Norm had to keep saying "It's alright, we've already handed something in." Which did help.
I almost couldn't believe it when we knew that the good version was handed it. Those glasses of Pol Clement were much appreciated.
I had quite a nice sleep on Sunday night, I suppose that getting it in on time meant there was nothing for me to beat myself up over. I did dream that it was super important for me, Lee and Morgue to get a set of about 6 props lined up in the correct order. We were in the cottage on location and there was no one else around, just us three trying to decide if the coconut should be on the right or left of the bowl.
PoF: bed
CO: screening tonight.
Friday Lee and I have Maverick's pizza and kumera chips for dinner and sat at Norm's waiting to hear about the genre. Putting the TV on for the Campbell Live coverage of the start of the competition was a good idea because they told us the elements over that!
Then we had a moment or two to wait and Regan called to let us know our genre. When we heard it was a monster movie the entire writing team pretty much went "Hell, yeah!" and then we got into the whole writing process. Somehow it was harder and took longer than the audition session did. I'm not sure why, although Lee and Svend were both sitting in, which meant the number of people there wasn't as low as it could have been. Mostly I think the scope of what we could do seemed so wide.
Lee and I left at about 11.30, having nutted out a basic plot, all the characters and the beats for the scenes. I was feeling pretty confident about directing, but I was worrying some about the casting (would Luke step up to the main character challenge?) and the location.
Saturday we woke up ridiculously early and left for Indigo City. Regan had crashed over at our place so she was there much earlier than she needed to be! There was lots of people arriving and getting excited and cursing the rain and sorting stuff out. I was really glad that people were on top of what they were supposed to be doing: props and costumes all got organised without me being consulted which was frankly awsesome. It meant I could focus on my understanding of the script, the motivations of the characters and what shots we needed.
Did some rehearsing with the actors and Lee and Steve had heaps of valuable input as well. Then we headed out to Fraser's Dad's place in Titahi Bay which had so many perfect perfect locations for shots and a little cottage available to be our base of operations and was just generally so damn perfect that the rain that fell on and off all day didn't even really matter.
Actually, I never got that wet. Early on I established myself as the Important Person Who Holds the Umbrella Over the Camera. It was a big umbrella, so it fit me under it too. That combined with my layered clothes, big fluffy coat, scarf, hat, big boots and warm socks meant that I was warm happy Director. I did feel very bad for the poor actors who had to suffer through the rain and mud and cold and look like they weren't.
More tomorrow. I am scatter brained and shattered.
PoF: slackie trackies
CO: still got a sore throat.
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Contrary to popular belief I did not stand over Norm saying "Push the Button! Push the button!" I stood over him saying "Render it NOW! Render it NOW!"
This weekend has been a sort of delirious rush of cold, rain, monsters and lots of mud. My sleep wasn't too bad, I got home late Friday after the writing and had early starts both days but since all our scenes were exteriors we couldn't shoot into the night so after seeing what the rough cuts of what we had I was allowed to come home and start falling asleep at my normal time.
I'm feeling very drained now but the best and most important thing is that we made an awesome film "Monster Hunter IV: Beyond Repair" and we got it handed in with time to spare. We sent Morgue (Mr Meltyman the monster) down to the Embassy with the 'safety cut' at 5.30, and then the finished version left at 6,40ish. We watched it through so we know the sound is fine and man, it looks good.
Once again I am astounded at the lengths my friends will go to for a common goal. Our team was a natch bigger this year, notable additions were the stunties, but it still felt friendly, co-operative and wonderful. There were no 'buried in bananas' shots like last year but all sorts of problems with the mud.
I'm not sure I'm making much sense at this point, I am exhausted and sleep deprived, but I wanted to sort of expell this stuff from my head as much as I can so I can get to sleep easily tonight. I've had a couple of glasses of bubbly and am feeling rather calm.
I have a sore throa; hopefully after my day of rest tomorrow it will go away.
PoF: trapeze girls and trackpants
CO: getting some sleep
I am surprisingly calm today. This is because yesterday's ball of tension is now diarhea. I love my body, it copes so well.
I am excited and nervous and I'm going very shortly to check the nzrag bb to see what's the happy haps and I'm going to check the official website 48hours and see what the latest genre list says.
I wonder what we'll end up making? There are genres that I dread and a bunch that should be super hoopy fun. Fingers crossed anyway.
My cellphone is currently charged, en-moneyed and off. Come about 6pm I'll turn it on and be all ready to recieve important missives from V and Sok at about 7.10. The launch is going to be on Campbell Live on TV3 at 7. If someone could record it for me that would rock, as there's a possibility that Sok and V will be pictured in their Jenni's Angels tshirts.
Hmm. Off to email my Mum so she watches the TV3 launch.
PoF: Emba stripes on top, new shoes and OTK charcoal tubes on the bottom. Plus a skirt.
CO: 48 48 48 48 48 48 48
The 48 hour film competition is this weekend.
I am nervous. I am stressed and nervous and my belleh is reflecting that. The good news is I'm not woozy today, just ditzy.
I am breathing deeply (when I remember) and concsiously relaxing my body (when I remember) and trying to get everything I can done in advance.
I also have PMT so I keep wanting to cry about nothing much. I slept alright last night but I keep waking up face down, neck at an odd angle an my teeth clenched. Lee specially got up early this morning to practise for the weekend so I started reading about 20 minutes before my alarm too.
Tomorrow: even earlier I think. It's just a bit of acclimatisation, it should help for Saturday.
Uglies is very very good and it keeps surprising me and I really want to know how it ends.
PoF: Sourpuss armwarmers
CO: 48 48 48 48 48
Today I am a space cadet *whoosh!* into the stratosphere. I woke up 5am ish after a 48 hours film anxiety dream wherein Steve was working on another movie at the same time and all these tall men from the other film were hanging around and getting in our way. I woke up frightened that I would throw up and actually having strange rushes of saliva up my throat which I had to keep swallowing down.
I managed to calm down which seemed to help a lot, although I felt like crap when the alarm went off and after woozing through my shower and getting the shakes from the cool air I got right back into bed and didn't get up again for quite some time.
What I did do today was buy workout clothes. It was because I needed to go out and get something for lunch and I didn't want to walk so I thought I'd drive and then I thought since I'd be out I might as well take the car and buy the trackpants I'd seen in supre on Saturday. Then I went to Glassons and bought a slim line hoodie and the other Breast Cancer tee I wanted. I was in a very strange frame of mind, spaced out and somewhat singleminded.
My supermarket doesn't sell rolled oats. It sells Allison Holst brand "wholesome oats". I stared at the bulk bins for a wee while trying to see if there were plain old rolled ones, but I had to go for the wholesome ones instead. Odd.
I watched Dr Phil and dozed on and off until about 3pm then I got up and made wholesome oaty cookies. They are packed with sunflower seeds, dried apricots and coconut, not to mention uhm, sugar and butter, but they should be high energy for the full-on weekend. I intend to have them on location with me so snacks can be had between takes. We won't have the same surplus of bananas as we did last year and I suspect they'll actually be missed.
I have also done dishes, washing and lots of reading. I finished May Bird, (ended pretty annoyingly- leading straight into the next book with no resolution) and started one called Uglies by Scott Westerfield which is about a future where at 16 years old everyone undergoes an operation to become pretty and moves into a different part of town to have constant parties. The main girl is just a couple of weeks off the operation when she meets a girl who doesn't approve of the whole system and runs away to an alternative society.
In tone it's very similar to Feed, which I loved, although the pace is a little slow. Hum, want to read Feed again.
PoF: new workout clothes for sitting on the couch, under the duvet
CO: sleep, cleaning, 48 hours, not panicking, being useful
I am hyped for the 48, although I managed to do very little last night. I had plans for cleaning, brainstorming about genres and all sorts of other useful stuff.
Instead I went nuts with the icon factory on lj, watched the Corpse Bride and talked to my Mum. I did manage to organise getting an airbed off my sister so more people can crash at our place on the weekend if they need to and making a bag with all the hair and makeup products I can donate to the cause. So, the night wasn't a total wash, it was just washlike.
I am battling my way through May Bird and the Ever After which is touted as being similar to Neil Gaiman's Coraline. It is similar, but it's also similar to a bunch of other stuff I've read and I'm finding the whole thing kins of meh. I want to finish it, because I want to know what happens but it's pretty predictable and not that involving, which is disappointing for a story about a girl trapped in the afterlife.
I'm pretty moody right now, I think it's the impending weekend and the stuff I feel I should get done prior to it.
PoF: Purple stripes and jeans skirt
CO: 48
I went shopping on Saturday and got some new DVDs which made me very happy. I also bought a new top and that's all I spent money on so I was very good and virtuous.
Ema's party on Saturday was really nice and mellow. The drinks were rather stronger than I had expected and meant I got rather tipsy rather fast. I did get to wear my white strapless Gold Coast dress again which I was very pleased about.
Sunday was Yum Char - Da Vinci Code - 48 hours meeting. Very busy!
I didn't much like the Da Vinci Code, I wanted it to be a smarter movie than it was. Also, not that much was actually to do with Leonardo Da Vinci so that was unexpected. I haven't read the book so I didn't know any of the plot twists going in but I did predict them all before they happened on screen. I found it to be disappointing all up.
The 48 hours meeting was pretty poorly attended, I mean, I know some people told me they weren't coming but I was expecting a few more faces. Nothing to worry about as long as everyone comes through on the weekend. We're pretty organised, but it actually makes me more anxious (I think because if we're takig it so seriously it's more Important and more scary.) Plus the time's really flown by and I can't believe there's only a few days to go!
Maverick's pizza for tea was DElish! I am so getting that again this coming weekend. Early to bed last night as I was feeling pretty shattered, but then as soon as the light was out I started obsessing about 48 hour film comp and bizarrely, cosplay. Why do I always obsess about cosplay in the middle of the night?
Today I am too cold.
PoF: Striped arm warmers
CO: 48
I've been busy.
The weather has been consistently cold all week, but my sock-dreams purchases have kept me warm. I love my long socks. Today I am looking cute with a trademe purchase pleated denim skirt, pink and black super stripes and my black wrestler boots. I need more super stripes, so I will be ordering from sock-dreams sometime soon. Again.
The weekend after this one is the 48 hour film competition so this weekend I shall endevour to clean the house some and do all the errands that need doing that I won't be able to next week, including visiting my sister hopefully. Sunday is busy full with Yum Char, movie and meeting.
I am very sleepy. I got quite exhausted after the college promotion yesterday and then people hung around for a while after High Society, which was lovely and meant I could get my washing done and hung out, but meant I couldn't get an early night.
Tonight we have exciting new TV to watch and then I am looking forward to sleeping. I will sleep in tomorrow! Booya!
PoF: super stripes
CO: sleep
Last night there was an earthquake. It was huge, but centred so far up North and off shore that it wasn't strong in Wellington. It did however, go on for ever. It was the sort of earthquake that never ended but I hovered sitting up in bed waiting for it to get *really* big so I could get under the doorframe.
I think I said "Is it *still* going?" about three times, so there you have it.
I watched Ice Princess again last night because I was Teh Moody Crazy woman. Lee went out to quiz without me and I had a bath. And watched Ice Princess, which is much better than Goal!
I have another evening home alone tonight, I think I'll get some scrapbooking done. Possibly have another bath. In a couple of hours I get to go to the Children's Book Awards which will be fun and swanky and followed by wine and nibbles. Quite excited actually. I am wearing my Fin pants in order to look a bit swanky myself.
PoF: Fin pants. Nearly warm enough to lose the polar fleece too!
CO: socks
Woo! Woo! I shouldn't have chased my lunch sandwich and mandarin with candyfloss!
I couldn't help it though, I'm reading Jacqueline Wilson's new book Candyfloss and I wanted it.
Went to Norm's last night for a run through/audition for the writing for the 48 hour film competition. It was great fun, we wrote a silent film about a deaf prisoner (Frazer) being interrogated by two people, one scary (Debs), one more sympathetic (Giffy or Sam). It had some beautiful shots in it and some very cool moments. Bleak ending though.
It was good because I felt like it was a movie I could direct. I feel my confidence growing as the 48 grows ever closer. Big meeting this Sunday.
It is very cold. It's not quite so bad today because there is sunshine, but the air is still rather chill. I don't like waking up any more.
News? I have no news.
PoF: pants
CO: candyfloss high
Those people who don't like pictures of cute animals? Don't read any further. Hey, if you don't like pictures of cute animals, why are you reading my blog? I mean, what are you? Heartless? Evil? There's nothing for you here! Ahem.
I told people about Numo the hedgehog at Ema's the other day, mostly to take the conversation away from jar kittens.
Anyway, check out cute overload for adorable pictures of fluff. There is a whole area for hedgehogs, which lead me back to the motherlode:
Numo. Tube addict, kitty krawler and all round awesomely cute guy.
Teh Love!
PoF: sock garters keep my super stripes up! Rose and charcoal super stripes make my legs look long.
CO: numo
It's OMG so cold today. I don't know where this global warming is, we only had two weeks of actual autumn and now we're in winter.
I spent yesterday afternoon asleep on the couch under a duvet. Last night I put the heater on in the bedroom. Lee stole the sheet off me last night but Lee hates having sheet. He was so cold he wanted it!
In other news. The food show was so great, all that gourmet meat, delcious chocolate and every pesto company in the world ever meant I was a happy Jenni with a full stomach. We had the organic New Orleans style seafood gumbo we bought there last night. Lee complained that there wasn't enough seafood in it, but I pointed out that the amount of organic seafood available is probably rather low.
I did some scrapbooking last night, got a few more pages done on the wedding album so that felt good. Lost the thread I was using for Zephfi's quilt so did one square with a pale pink and then got sick of stabbing myself and stopped.
Chelle and Jase's party was a lovely low key mellow evening catching up with some folks I haven't seen in ages. Rachel was looking awesome in her renovated skirt, fishnets and big clompy boots. I was dressed for warmth not style and wished I'd been more adventurous.
I need more short skirts. Having lovely long socks means I want to be able to show them off. I go to look on trademe.
PoF: Grey stripes. I am tempted to try an outfit with as many different stripes as I can get. I can get a lot. Someone should have a Fruits fashions party.
CO: the cold.
I'm in fine singstar voice tonight, topping my best ever scores in a few favourite tunes. Including Hoobastank which Sokky and Rachel hold the top three scores in. Damn singers.
Lee also turned in an awesome Robbie Williams in "our song" uhm, Kids. Well if Giffy and Beau's one is Tricky, we don't mind doing it for the kids. Come on.
Lee has given me his old creative nomad to use in the car, having modded his flash phone to hold lots of songs. I am deeply appreciative of not having the same song everytime I start up, even after just one day. I put all my Tori onto it, and got rid of some of the stinky stuff I don't care for, although there's more to get rid off. Stoopid Zwan.
I have Winds of Change by the Scorpions stuck in my head. In particular
"Let your balalaika sing what my guitar wants to say"
Such an awesome hippy power ballad. I really find myself liking it, it's one of those weird ass songs I came to love during the 10-11pm Total request hour on 91am on what? Thursdays nights? As a moody 17 year old. I can thank that same hour for loving the following:
Devil Went Down to Georgia
Fire Water Burn (uncensored)
The Power of Love (Frankie Goes to Hollywood version)
Piece of Shit Car by Adam Sandler
...and a bunch of other things, I forget. You remember anything else in particular sok?
Anyways. An evening of wearing my sock garters and I love my super stripes more than ever.
Night all.
PoF: sock garters, super stripes and legwarmers over the top! I am teh Style Queen!
CO: Taaaaaaaaaaake meeeee! To the magic of the moment on a glooooooory night! Where the children of tomorrow dreeeeeam awaaaaeeeeey....
PS: OMG! New Lost! OMG! New Veronica!
I have been encouraged to continue inventing words. Just see if you can stop me now!!
Heh.
Roleplaying last night was good, although it left me feeling sort of dissatisfied, at the time I thought it was because my character was a screen presence of only one and therefore didn't have any major developments. After thinking about it some more I actually think it's because not very much time in game had passed. The Jo part of the story probably took about 20 minutes "real time" and although the others were stopping angered slayers from storming a building and escaping madness to become super-demonic...those things would have only taken about twenty minutes.
I don't know why this is an issue either, although I think of Buffy episodes as covering at least a day in most cases and sometimes several days. Maybe I felt we weren't being very true to genre?
Steve pointed out that I didn't get the conflicted emotions interactions that I normally do, so that probably compounded it. (Although dude, if I don't get fucked up relationship stress I feel disappointed??? Way to roleplay healthily, Jenni!)
On the positive side of things (and my own random reaction aside) there were some truly amazing moments in game last night. The one that sticks with me, and probably always will is the invisible girl moving through a huge skyscraper full of bezerker slayers trashing everything and everyone they meet, smoke is everywhere and that's how we can see the invisible girl. The song Mad World is the only sound over the chaos.
Seraph's description of his slayer Charlotte becoming demonic was quite frightening and the image of her loping with giant mystical claws over the roofs of London is truly chilling.
We also had some hilariously terrifying boyfriend/girlfriend stuff with Jo kidnapped by an evil version of the empath demon and the evil double of Svend's Rebecca kidnapping Jo's boyfriend Randall. She made him listen to Celine Dion! She stole my $800 leather pants! So evil.
Point of Fashion: cold.
Current Obsession: chocolate
Lee and I made up ridonkulous names for each other last night, and then giggled at the awful. I can't really remember them now (I don't want to put them online for you to read) but it was hilarious.
Anyhoo, I was thinking about the awesome fun of the Matt and Luke are 60 party on Saturday* and how I felt drunk, even though I had drunk nothing. Some of this is just me picking up on the vibe of the people around me, becoming hyper and having silly fun. I've done that a bunch of times, so I thought it was the explanation....but then I realised I'd had Pepsi with dinner.
Now I haven't had caffienated cola for a while. It's been ages and ages. I tend to not drink caffienne because it's bad for me, so that would have hit my system kinda hard. Maybe that's why I was all hyper.
Actually when I think of it, the person who asked if I was drunk was basing it on seeing me hug Debbie and nearly fall down, but that was totally Debbie's fault. She pulled me way off balance. It wasn't me at all, I swear!
I finished Sil last night and it was really exciting at the end there. I'm not sure about the gender thing she brought in. Are female tuis really that much smaller and weaker? I just don't know. I have also finished Fruits Basket number 14.
Point of Fashion: pinks and purples
Current Obsession: I had a chocolate fix cookie for afternoon tea and am typing faster than EVER before!
*Joint birthday parties should ALWAYS have blindfolded pinata battles between the birthday people. ALWAYS.
So. Monday again huh? Well, let me tell you something about Mondays. They suck ass.
Fortunately it's an alright Monday that has sunshiney goodness and I feel pretty refreshed from last night's sleep despite being woken at 4am by Lee sitting up, nudging me and saying 'buh?' before slamming back down in a deep sleep.
I dreamed and dreamed. I've been remembering all my dreams this week (although this morning's one...it was to do with singing, a singing performance with lots of people watching. Like a kareoke movie starring a boy who liked to perform as a girl. Odd.) and it's been pretty nice.
On Saturday morning I dreamed it was my sister's wedding again but instead of her actual husband she was marrying this 8 foot tall cricketer. He was wearing his cricket whites for the ceremony and he was just really, really big. I also disapproved of him for trying to come on to me, but my sister wouldn't listen and married him anyway. Stoopid giant cricketer.
I pretty much spent the whole weekend in the creation of giant squirrels. I hope to finish them tonight. You know when you've been working on something so long you start to hate it? Yeah.
Pictures can be found on my lj. That's from this morning, there's an earlier picture in the entry before that, too.
This weekend has exciting food show happenings. I am looking forward to the food show. Just 4 1/2 work days to go! Oh, and I'm working Saturday morning too. Huh.
Oh and I read a heap more Fruits Basket on the weekend. I'm up to number 14 now, and I'm making myself finish Sil first. Sil is really very well written, and quite involving, even if I find it a little twee.
PoF: long woolen stockings
CO: sunshine
Fruits Basket number 10 arrived this morning! I love fishpond so much!
New Veronica Mars was...spoilers. My meeting last night was quick and I listened to some Singstar Rock tracks on the way home and then made Lee sing 'Dakota' by Stereophonics with me. It may be my new favourite song, it's damned catchy anyway and I was singing it inside my head all night.
This morning I *really* didn't want to wake up. Really didn't. Tomorrow shall be sleep in day extraordinaire!
I've finished Princess Diaries Seventh Heaven and am now reading furuba, and Sil. I'm ambivalent about Sil, it's very well written and that makes it enjoyable to read but I am aggressively non-interested in the subject matter: It's about tuis. The main tui is doing experimental singing for the big song contest, and I just can't really bring myself to care.
I may have convinced Lee to take me to Sione's Wedding tonight. I guess I'll see how tired I feel when I get home, but I really want to see the movie so...fingers crossed.
PoF: frumpy ugly grumpy
CO: furuba
Animation night went well last night, there was a certain level of appreciation for Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! in the group, and I know I enjoyed it and that's the important thing.
I thought I was coming down with something yesterday afternoon, my throat was sore all yesterday, but my delcious sleep last night seems to have staved it off. My throat is threatening to be sore again, but isn't doing it.
I have another meeting in Kilbirnie tonight, which is something of a pain but will be the last one, so I can't complain. It shouldn't take too long either. Then it's Friday and then it's Saturday and I can sleep in! Yes!
This weekend I have very little planned. Nothing during the day times except squirrel construction and just Matt and Luke's party on Saturday night. Sleeping in shall be mine!
PoF: comforting clothes
CO: impending weekend
I'm singing that song again
"New things, new things la la la la-la laaa!" (It's to the tune of "No king, no king la la la la-la laaa!" the Hyenas sing in Lion King.
I just got Sandman Number 5 - a Game of You the new edition with a pretty cover and the volume number on the side and Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! on DVD. Yays! So, I will I think, show at least one of the Yoko! shorts tonight, just to see how people respond.
Also, the pony I won on trademe got posted yesterday afternoon, so that should be here by the end of the week. Now, it's the first pony I've bought since The Great Pony Inundation of my birthday so it's really not that bad. Plus it's one that I had as a kid and regret giving away, so I was always going to buy it if it became available. She's a white brush and grow called Bouquet. Her mane and tail are a kind of vibrant orange and yellow, real pretty. (Erk).
Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing her again.
Other news? Svend and C are teh slackers and forgot about roleplaying last night, so instead of finding out what's going on with Jo and Bax we played singstar and two rounds of Buzz: big quiz. Steve kicked all our asses both times and Seraph learned that you should really listen to the round's instructions if yu want to make any points.
Still can't quite figure out how to make singstar into an rpg.
PoF: Suburban Pirate Queen
CO: Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! and the excitement of the new stuff. Plus socks coming! OMG!
Yesterday was another day when I came home feeling awful. I had dinner and then Lee got sick of my moaning and made me have a bath. It was a brilliant idea because it took away my neck and shoulder pain and made me feel normal.
I even made a start on the giant squirrels.
I have this inclination while singing The Veronica's song (4ever) on Singstar Rocks to say the wrong words. In particular two places:
Veronicas: C'mon baby we ain't gonna live forever
Jenni: C'mon baby we don't wanna live forever
Veronicas: I wanna spend the night with you
Jenni: I wanna spend my life with you
The second one is a kind of adorable Freudian slip about being married I think, but I'm not sure about the first one, it's a definite difference in the meaning of the line, but I don't know why I keep saying it wrong.
I beat Lee at Buzz: big quiz last night, for the first time, and possibly the last. We'll see.
PoF: trademe bunny top and braids
CO: busy busy work work
The weekend was busy, over too fast like always. We stayed in on Friday night because I was just so exhausted. As soon as I got home I ran a bath, Lee came home and was very confused: I usually wait til after dinner!
I baked a delicious cake and a disaster ginger crunch. I shouldn't have left it in its baking tin all night, and it seemed to have too much butter in it. The cake was a banana cake with milk chocolate and marshmallows on top. So good.
On Saturday I stayed in bed as long as I could, reading Epileptic and putting off cleaning. Then I did some cleaning, dishes and basically got ready for my family birthday celebrations. Family came, hung around. It was nice, although I found myself wanting a nap more than anything else! Played a round of Buzz: the big quiz and then Scene it! which is a rather good DVD board game.
Workmates party on Saturday night was fun, I didn't end up wearing the Cindy Lauper dress for two very important reasons: 1. it was too tight in the waist. 2. it doesn't cover my butt. Yeah.
So I wore my jeans, legwarmers and a black lace singlet with a ruched cropped singlet over the top and a black lace band in my hair. Lots of bangles and funky eye make up and I was fully 80s.
There were salsa dancers at the party which was pretty fun, they taught us a basic meringue and it turns out Lee is way taller than me, and that matters for salsa dancing. Huh.
Sunday was Retail Heaven Armageddon. I wore my favourite funky clothes and saw lots of friends. I also bought too much stuff. Now have no money until I get paid again. Eh-heh.
On the up side, I got four new plushies, heaps of Full Metal Alchemist on DVD, heaps of Fruits Basket manga for $10 less than fishpond sells 'em and a couple of pencil boards. Jasper Morello on DVD which we will watch on Wednesday I think. I am very happy and I have the cutest pink elephant beanie in the world ever. I am so ridiculously pleased by my pink elephant....
I kept waking up in the night, stoopid period mucks up my body temperature. This means that I didn't want to wake up with the alarm this morning. Ah sleep, how I wish I could indulge you.
PoF: boring
CO: money