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

The Truth and The Light

Aww, somebody searched for “tippystardust wordpress”. Hi whoever you are! Somebody looking specifically for me ^_^ I feel like I’m famous. I have fans.

Anyways, onto other things.

Wasn’t nice going home and realising that Princess isn’t there. At least when I’m at Chris’ I can pretend she’s still there. Sylvester looks so sad I can’t believe how quickly it happened. To be honest, I’m not thinking about it because when I do, I get sad.

Ffs, I hate Westlife. I honestly can’t stand them. I’ve never liked them, they get on my nerves. Just wish they’d disappear! They just sing cover versions now. *Shudder*.

So winter is setting in! 1st of December 2009 was a frosty one! She arrived on cue! I want it to snow, I love snow. Chris was ill when it snowed in February (pics here. There’s more in the link on the left of the actual day) so he couldn’t come with me when I went into the frozen wastes and on my exhibition! That was one of the reasons I took so many pictures (about 400 in all!). Carshalton was beautiful in the snow. The Grove looked like Narnia! So amazing. My SLR was in its element

My feet are freezing! Decided to wear my purple Doctor Martens so I can start wearing them in because I have to do it every year, mainly because my weight goes up and down so much! I had a pair when I was in infant school and I loved them so much. I used to wear them with my frilly socks! My mother is such an Aquarian. I decided that I was gonna buy an adult pair so I did! I took a pic of both pairs of my purple Dr Martens with my Polaroid camera!

Been watching my X-Files dvDVD’s! Gonna watch the last episode in a minute. I’ve got this and I saw it in HMV a few years ago (it came out in 2005) and it was always too expensive; they were selling it for £200! Well, Chris and I went to Sutton one day and I saw it there again and they were selling it for £70 and there was no way I was gonna miss out on that! It was weird seeing episodes I hadn’t seen since I was little (already mentioned before that I used to watch it before I could read properly – Martin used to read out “Paranormal Activity” and the info in the corner). We definitely used to watch it when it was originally aired going by the dates in the booklets. When I’ve watched all the DVD’s, I’ll do mini reviews on my favourite episodes from each season!

Anyway, ima go now. Paul O’Grady has made me feel dizzy!

Tippy x

Goodbye Princess.

In 1990, our cat Buckingham gave birth to two litters of kittens and one of those kittens was lucky enough to stay with us. She was named Princess because princesses come from palaces.

Princess led a charmed and happy life, being the oldest until today. Today, the queen left her throne to her son Sylvester.

Princess wasn’t the brightest bulb in the box but we loved her. She was clumsy! One year, she knocked over the Christmas tree! The amount of times she’d fall off the top of the cabinet. I remember one time when she got her head stuck in a hole in the curtain!

I remember:

As I was two when she was born, I don’t remember her early life very well. I remember when she had her two litters of kittens and the day we got her “done”. She wasn’t very maternal and her mum Buckingham nursed her kittens which consquently made her ill because she was nursing her own at the time. When we got the kittens, my mum said, “don’t go near her, she didn’t want her own kids.” They were scared of her (usually because she hissed or growled at them). We hope that she taught them something though. When my mum snipped off her matted, clumpy fur on her belly when she looked like a chicken. Her reflexes were still strong when my mum caught her skin by accident and she flew off my mum’s lap like lightning. She used to grab onto things when you picked her up. You’d lift her up onto the filing cabinet (because she was lazy and spoilt ) and she’d grab onto your clothes and you had to unattach her when you put her down. She got worse as she got older. She was still really strong because she’d push away from you and you could feel how strong she still was. I remember when we gave her the red Bacardi Breezer lid. She wore it right up to the moment my dad took off her collar. It was faded and worn after eight years. Sylvester lost his a few years ago, he’s never got on with collars.

The hardest thing will be never seeing her sit on top of the filing cabinet with Sylvester, waiting for her dinner. She used to do these strange silent miaows and she made these funny noises when she ate, probably because she had no teeth left My dad said “who decided that she was going to die on a day like today?” as it has been raining most of the day. I said it was typical of Princess as she always was a bit thick and she decided to be awkward I think Sylvester knew what was going to happen because he just wasn’t himself and looked really sad. He will be sulking for the next few days now.

To be honest, it hasn’t really sunk in yet that she’s gone. It all happened so quickly. It started this morning when her claw got stuck on the rug. Charlie picked her up and when he put her back down again, she flopped back down. They put her on the chair and she couldn’t move. She stayed there all day in the same position. She could stretch her legs but couldn’t move anything else. It was the kindest thing to do for her. They took her at quarter to three. My mum said the vet told her that because of her age, it was hard to tell what had actually happened to her. She said that it could’ve been a stroke and she was brain damaged or bleeding on the brain or even high blood pressure! The other week we noticed that she had a red eye, perhaps it was a symptom. I feel kinda numb at the moment and I don’t feel as if it’s actually happened. I just know that when it sinks in, I will be really upset and when I realise that she’s truly gone.

Goodbye Princess, I hope you’ve found your mum and dad by now. Tell Ruby and Dolly that I said hello!

Sleep well Princess. I love you.

RIP.