2010 in a nutshell =)

*Looks sheepish*.

Hello.

Shall I do my updates?

Jennifer Testa

Well, as you can see from previous updates, we sadly lost Manda’s mum to cancer. I attended her funeral with Chris and supported Manda. It was a really nice service and it was obviously really sad as well. In fact, I can’t believe it’s been nearly a year since she died already! Manda seems to be coping well and has got on with her life although not have her mum there in person for Christmas was really hard for her I think that’s what I was going to say on this.

Chris

I can’t remember lol. Does that make me a bad girlfriend? This was all the way back in June!

Work

I finished at Open Door but Jackie is trying to get me back there! I was told I hadn’t been allowed back because the guy in charge of payments knows me.

Birds

In May, we got an Avery with cockatiels and with Jack, that makes 8 altogether!

Glasses

I got a pair of Transitions lenses. Yep.

Weddings

This really should be the big one tbh. In June, my cousin Steven got married to Donna:

And in September, Martin and Stephanie got married:

Other things that happened (in no particular order):

Sadly, a few days after this picture was taken, we lost our beautiful boy. His health deteriorated rapidly, he fell asleep and he died at 2am. I regret not doing a separate entry for him as I don’t remember the exact day he died RIP old boy, we love you and miss you.

We decorated the bathroom (yes, that is a very bright pink):

Daniel’s 18th birthday:

Got pretty drunk on Jacques cider and brandy. Also had some weird wine stuff that looked like Rosé but tasted like red wine. Bluergh. We also let off chinese lanterns.

Infest:

Got to Bradford at around 8:30am and it was a pretty good weekend. I think we were a bit put out because it was all so different! On the Saturday, we weren’t allowed into the town centre because of riots. When we got to the uni, there was extra security and we could hear the helicopter over the city (which is about a mile away).

London Film and Comic Con:

This was a brilliant day!!! I met the Cigarette Smoking Man and the cast from Being Human! I lost my favourite belly bar though

Museum of London:

Our original plan was that Chris had a meeting with an employment agency in Farringdon and as it turns out, we went for a wander and discovered that the Museum of London was a few minutes walk away! So we went off and it was good! I’ve been there before and it was only the bit about Celtic Britain that reminded me of what it was like when I went there. The Victorian section freaked me out a little as it felt like I remembered what it was like. Chris described it as deja vu. The little Vauxhall exhibition freaked me out even more because it was so familiar.

Leysdown:

We went to the Isle of Sheppey the week before Halloween and it was good but cold. The sea was really high so the beach was closed. Dunican knocked his pint on my lap and I felt tipsy on lager for the first time ever. Um… that’s about it lol.

Buffy/Angel:

This year, I got back into Buffy and Angel in a big way. Collecting stuff and I have all the DVD’s now too. Loads of books! Buffy’s silver cross. Just finished the Buffy DVD’s and have a whole season of Angel left. I am sad about this. I need to get a big shelf in my room for all my stuff :p

THE HAIR:

White blonde, pink, fruit salad, pink and blonde, Katie Weasel, golden mahogany brown, Rod Stewart and now darker golden mahogany brown. My hair has seen a lotta colours this year.

Burlesque:

NotmuchtosayotherthanIhaven’tseenityet #badstan

Snow:

We had a lotta snow this year! On three separate occasions; January, November and December. If it had snowed like that at the same time, it would have been the same amount of snow we had in February 2009! It snowed the week before xmas and disappeared yesterday after a few days of ice rink.

Christmas 2010:

Nothing spectacular happened tbh. I got Jack the Ripper: The Casebook, The Titanic Experience book, loads of chocolate, Hello Kitty brush with my name on it, Buffy silver cross necklace, Snuggie, slippers, 2 china Geisha dolls, Buffy Watcher’s Guide vol. 3… um… I don’t remember what else lol.

I think that’s about it to be honest. 2010 has been a bit crap lol. Hope 2011 is better I’ve got a few plans tbh.

Do an 8-week pre-Navy training training course (I wanted to join the Navy but thanks to Labybloodyrinthbloodyitis, I can’t!

Start my Interior Design Courses with the National Design Academy. It’ll start off with Diploma then I’ll go onto Foundation Degree and then BA(Hons).

Finish learning to drive.

They’re my main goals!

But yeah. That’s all for now.

Tippy x

Weddings, weddings, weddings.

Weddings. What a weird word. Makes me think of wadding which in turn makes me think of Waddon. Um… anyway.

I personally don’t want to get married. Seems a very expensive and pointless way of signing your name and having a party. It’s way too much effort. Most marriages end in divorce these days because it really is stupid. Nobody (or not many people) looks at marriage as a way of committing to someone and really wanting to share the rest of their lives with them. I admire couples who do actually stay together through thick and thin (“for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health to love and to cherish till death us do part”). My mum and dad have been married for 33 years and they have been through so much together and they’re still together. They know each other inside out and I don’t think they’d be able to live without each other (they wouldn’t agree but they know as well as we do that they love each other). My nan and grandad have been married 61 years in May. 61 years! Amazing, isn’t it?

Steven and Donna’s wedding in June and I can’t wait! I’m really looking forward to it. Been looking for an outfit I wanna wear and I wanna wear something alternative and different (cos that’s just me). Probably something burlesque-y or gothy or something black with cherries on cos I have a thing about cherries at the moment. I feel sad now cos the stuff I want to wear will prolly be gone by then. The pair of shoes I found would go so perfectly too Just my luck, huh? We’re staying in the hotel where they’re getting married so we won’t have to go anywhere. We have to get there by mini bus dressed in all our finery but it’s ok cos it’s only Wandsworth and not Rochester so it’s not as far to go.

*Sigh*

Anyway. Gonna go now.

Tippy x

Ho hum and random stuff and things

Feeling totally emo, sorry. Luck doesn’t seem to want to be my friend this week.

I’ve lost nearly a whole years worth of photos because Chris’ HDD decided to jump off the top of the CPU and break. Oh bye me. Bloody waste of time if you ask me! There’s some other stuff too that I don’t really want to go into but basically, letting stuff get too much isn’t a good thing.

I have some good news though! Scarlett Jarvis was born at 22:55 yesterday evening weighing 9lb 8oz! After Kayleigh texted me yesterday, I was up until 5am and was awoken at 7am from a text she sent me, informing me of the news! I read it half asleep and having only 2 hours sleep! Haha. I woke up at 11am thinking that I had dreamt it! I was so happy! gonna go to the hospital to see them tomorrow as she’s coming home Friday morning. Also pleased that she wasn’t born on a Wednesday so she’s now “full of grace” and not woe which is nice as her mum is a classy young lady and someone that I love very much! <3

Dunno what I'm gonna write about now. Ooh yeah.

FRANKENSTEIN IN 3D! It was weeeiiiiirrrrrdddd! Kinda cool in parts though. The film was campy, cheesy, 1973 horror and was really funny and a bit porny tbh. Boobies everywhere. Actually, anything on TV in 3D is just odd. It works ok, it's not brilliant but cool all the same. I had to wear my glasses over the top of the 3D ones so I could sit further back and not in front of the screen, holding them on my face!

Onto something new now:

BURLESQUE starring Christina Aguilera and Cher! Started filming a few days ago and we're getting candids of Xtina on set already!!! She looks amazing! And there’s a video here.

Credit: XtinaWeb.org

I’m so excited for this film (mainly because I’m a stan)! Really looking forward to going to see it in the cinema! Mind you, I said that about Sex and The City and The X-Files but I never went to see them THIS I definitely will though.

I think I should perhaps add more to my about page? Kinda boring at the moment but then again, so am I! And so is this blog.

Been watching TrueBlood? I love it! it’s so good. And I love Stephen Moyer, mainly because he comes from Essex and greeted Steve Jones with “ello luv” in glorious Estuary English! Link here.

OMG! Not my boring weather man on BBC1! Guess what? He’s saying it’s raining in that lovely monotone drawl of his! HOO-FUCKING-RAY! Sorry. But still. Hello November! He has moved his hair so it doesn’t like quite as grey and dark grey Cruella De Vil-ish. RAIN. All like to be windy and wet. Wet and windy. Windy and showery. Sunday showers. Sunday fairly windy. *Sigh*.

Bugger all on telly… OOOOH. Angel is on Sci-Fi in 10 minutes. Hawtness.

Still got a headache

Ahhh, the end of Buffy. Which episode? I think this is where Kendra dies. Lemme go check. Oooh! Angelus! Sooo hawt. Hawter than Angel.

Becoming – Part One
Part one of two. Angel attempts to destroy the world by reviving an ancient demon, while Buffy and Willow race against time to restore the vampire’s soul. Elsewhere, Spike goes on the prowl, having finally recovered from his injuries. Supernatural adventure, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar

Bye Angelus Omg, I love Dru. She’s amazing. It’s finishing now and the Buffy/Angel love theme is playing. Buffy just found Kendra dead.

The Angel episode next is:

Inside Out
As Cordelia prepares to give birth, Angel discovers her link with the Beast is part of a conspiracy that has been manipulating them all for years. Meanwhile, Connor is forced to confront his dead mother

Ahh, Darla <3 I love her so much. I completely forgot that she was the first EVER vampire you see in the Buffy pilot until I watched them all. Bless her, she shared Connor's soul and staked herself to save him. My favourite episode of Buffy/Angel is the "Fool For Love"/"Darla" crossover. You learn a lot about Angelus, Darla, Spike and Dru. Amazing.

"Has Cordy been a bad, bad girl?" and the Magic 8-Ball says, "Definitely". Haha. I love Lorne. I really hope I honour Andy Hallett in my story. Actually, I hope I honour all the people who inspired my "gang".

Talking to Sandyodeeee on Twitter about Angel now What a great show it was. It's a shame that Joss Whedon could never match it with Firefly and Dollhouse

I love Wesley. I love his evolution. As he said, "my throat was cut and all my friends abandoned me". That's a good excuse to rebel Plus, Faith tortured him in season one so he had his reasons!

Poor Connor so naive.

OMG it's Skip! Haha. I loved him even if he turned out to be playing them. hahah. "Nobody comes back from paradise. Ok, a Slayer once…" reference to Buffy dying and going to Heaven! LOL. Oh Angel. So gorgeous.

Aww! DARLA! I love her. She was such a sad character. Always felt really sorry for her, especially when she revealed that she couldn’t remember her real name after 400 years of life. She was already 200-odd when she sired Liam and therefore turned him in Angelus. She was dying before The Master changed her and when Wolfram & Hart brought her back as human, she started to die again. Then Dru turned her back She’s trying to convince Connor not to kill the girl now.

Skip is telling them that everything happened for a reason to bring the whole story together. It makes sense when you think about it all and the way it happened.

Oops, there goes the girl. He didn’t listen to his mother! Silly boy!

Uh oh, Cordy has gone into labour and here comes Jasmine! (not my Jasmine though). CONNOR, IT ISN’T CORDELIA YOU SILLY BOY! Oops, there’s daddy! Angel is so much better when he’s pissed off. Kill him? yeah! Good luck Connor. He has 240 years experience on you. Yeah, go on Wes, shoot Skip! Wesley is so sexy when he wants to be.

Hey ho, there’s Jasmine. She was sooo annoying and only Fred could see her real face. Oh Angel, you noob. Don’t fall under her spell

Finished now! Gonna go bed in a bed. Tired.

Night night!

x