I came back Saturday afternoon from a trip to Dorset and the surrounding area. We stayed with family in a rented cottage for the first night and then with some old family friends from Singapore the second night. It was nice to see old friends and that but I so wasn’t in the mood to leave the house, add to that I get horrendously car sick in my dads car, I have no idea why, I think its just BMW’s they make me so sick even before they move - I’m fine in every other car! Still doesn’t stop me wanting one though!

The worst thing about staying with family was the suit of armour in the entrance hall/dining room, it was horrible! I kept thinking there was someone standing there! It had a sword and all! Apparently that came out for a sword fight on christmas day! :S

Ah dear, I feel this site needs some work! I’m off to Canterbury tomorrow but expect a nice new layout for the new year :)

Ah boxing day, a day for fixing all the broken presents and sending things back :) Oh and the DFS sale has started, again!

Did everyone have a great christmas? I sure did! It was a little lonely with just the three of us and really quite sad, for our christmas lunch, we had turkey but only a crown which was tiny. Still we do tend to go overboard with the present buying! Especially my dad! I got three cards this year, sadly, one from Rhys (no I’m not wearing the badges) one from the rents and a fucking massive one from Mark. It blocked out all the light in the room! *lesigh* he knows me far too well! Shaun the sheep DVD, Ratatoullie book, Maltesers, Cuddly Yoshi and the cutest softest little bear ever! Sadly my parents know me too well too, A James Martin Cookbook (chosen for the amount of pictures! I love James Martin but I’m also wanting to start on food photography so I’m collecting ideas!) Some electric scales (for which we have no batteries!), sugary sweet things which will be a great help for fuel on my lovely new wii :)

Ah yes, the most demanded console over christmas :) They ordered it from Germany so the instructions are foreign but who reads those anyway! At least the plug is British. Most of yesterday was spent in a small room with a 42″ tv and hyper parents beating me at tennis, I owned them at bowling though! They love the thing they kept coming in to play it all of yesterday and as I speak my mums jumping up and down owning the cpu at tennis!

They also bought me Zelda and Mario Galaxy, which I’ve hardly had a chance to play since they’ve been on it! I’m adoring both though until I get stuck on one. I’ve already managed to pull a muscle from zelda, I get all panicky when an enemy comes to attack me so I just shake both controllers until it dies! It took me HOURS to learn to fish though, I just hope its not a main feature of the game.

I suppose a game review will have to surface soon, but I’m off to see family tomorrow and friends the next so I’m gonna be cut off from my precious wii, least I have a DS!

I hope everyone had a good christmas and didn’t pull any muscles!

Merry Christmas everyone.

Steal youtube ideas much national lottery ads! (grrrr!)

I had a bit of a scary experience last night. I sat down to the computer after having avoided it the previous day (long depressing horrible making Han miserable/poor story there) and I smelt burning which after a while it got a lot worse. I look down at my laptop and out of the corner of my eyes there’s a small orange flame coming from the corner of my laptop where the power supply plugs in. I ripped it out and unplugged it from the wall but boy was I scared!

If my parents hadn’t bought me a stand for my birthday I surely would have set fire to my beautiful desk. (I made it!)

So today we went to the apple store - thankfully there’s one nearby now otherwise we’d have had to go up to London! Christmas eve I wasn’t expecting much but we were very lucky in that there wasn’t that much traffic or indeed people.

We went into the apple store and managed to get an appointment with a genius for fifteen minutes time! I told him about the power supply and that I’d been having issues with my battery for a while.

1. Its health suddenly went from 80% to 20%.
2. It doesn’t recognise the charger sometimes.
3. It cuts out at 40% battery when not using the charger.

He seemed to fill out a lot of paper work and tada new battery and power supply. I hadn’t noticed my battery was swollen and we all know what happens to swollen mac batteries! :S My macs from the batch that had all those problems a few months ago - I thought I’d escaped it but apparently not!

With regards to the charger the plastic had split and wires were protruding the new one I’ve got has a longer wire bit so here’s hoping it doesn’t split like my old one, if yours is split and fraying - get a new one!

But its all fixed now under warranty and yay for the three years coverage I took out!

After my little bit of excitement for the day its my time to say Merry Christmas to everybody and hope you have a good one tomorrow. Me I’ve seen the turkey for tomorrow and its the same size as the joint we had on Sunday for two, tiiiiny! Christmas is a sad affair in our family, its just the three of us - but we do buy each other awesome presents - I hope my rents like theres!

Depending on how you look at it mark and I had a pretty productive week. We had our anniversary dinner on Monday, rented some bluray (ew) movies on Tuesday which were amazing in High Def on 42″, We also rented the Simpsons game for marks PS3* which we’d completed by the next day. We also completed Ratchet and Clank - which if anyone who has a ps3 doesn’t have I command you to get, The story line is hilarious and the levels are amazing, especially the first. We went to Oceana on Wednesday too with a few people which was fun.

*note how I have to say the ps3 isn’t mine! I’m secretly wanting a wii :S! I despair of ps3 and crappy bluray.

Its three days till christmas, who can believe it! I suppose I’ve been so busy up till now I hardly realised to day! I’m gonna keep myself busy until christmas now by planning christmas dinner, mmm I can’t wait! Roast on Sunday, roast on Monday, roast on Tuesday and cold meat on Wednesday! mmmm I’m making trifle too!

Did you all like my chocolate banana cupcake recipe btw? mine were georgous!

New layout for christmas and hopefully consistent blogging. (pft!)