New Year

Day 183

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

And a toaster.

Smash!

Day 182

So we went to Tesco's today and I'm not going to lie but I think superstores are outdoing game shops. I got this today for £15 and in game shops they still want £30+ for it! It's really fun though, the animation is really good. It's really interesting to watch your little Mii run around playing tennis. Street pass lets you play other Miis as well so that'll be pretty awesome. Just got to hope that I find some people with it.

Boof

Day 181

This is Boofle, a present I got for Amy. He is rather cute and has a rather nice reindeer onesie which comes off and everything. Just a happy chappy really.

The Anchor

Day 180

Saw both Anchorman films today, I had never seen the first one but I have always heard people taking about it.. Memes based around it.. So I had expectations. Very funny. As is the new second one - very funny. I would definitely recommend going to see it, it's been out for a week but the showing today was sold out anyway. I like Brick.

Face

Day 179

So I don't like Christmas pudding and all that so I opted for a nice piece of sponge with a polar bear on it. This is the piece of cake I got. It's face. So sad.

Mini

Day 178

One of my Christmas presents was this little beauty. Mini table tennis! We're all pretty terrible but that's not the point.. The point is it's awesome.

Merry Christmas

Day 177

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Cat Math

Day 176

So my brother is home for Christmas. There are 4 chairs in the living room one of which is usually for the cat. Now there are 4 bums to seat - the cat gets displaced. He is now a chair arm kind of cat. He looks happy enough.

Dat Wind

So unless you have the best sound proofing and the dirtiest windows - it's is really quite miserable outside. Raining all day and windy as hell. It's crazy! I guess it's only strange to us because it'll happen only once every now and then in England. The thing I like is how the rain makes the puddles move; like tiny waves. It's pretty awesome and only heavy wind like this makes them do it. It's the exact same thing that makes the waves you see at the seaside. Boom.

Day 175

We got these in HMV. They're so awesome - we haven't tried them yet but assuming they work - awesome. They'll keep cold drinks cold and hopefully make warm drinks cold. That would be nice. Would mean you wouldn't need to wait for your beverage to chill in the fridge. And by the way - that's Dexter in the background. Season 7. Oh yeah.

Tree

Day 174

The presents are under the tree! Christmas is so close, excited?

Biccys

Day 173

So Amy just really fancied decorating some biscuits today so.. We went to the shops and got some bits and these are the results. She's going to make some more with melted chocolate and stuff so yeah. Awesome.

Icy pattern

Day 172

This picture is the bonnet of my old car, pretty sure I have shown something like this before but I really think it's awesome. From a very cold, wet and windy night nature makes this amazing pattern which is very artistic in its own right. Good guy nature sharing her art for free eh?

'Merica

Something strange about cats - they only seem to run away from things that aren't dangerous. For example, my cat will run from pillows, hats, irons, hoovers and cables. But when it's a car they just.. Walk a little bit faster. Something that could really hurt them they just pander slowly under a fence of into a bush. I don't understand cats. Y u so lazy?

Blog you later.

Day 171

So Amy knows a lady in America, they send each other a Christmas package every year and these came today. Swedish Fish candy canes! Swedish Fish are just tasty anyway and these are no different; they taste and smell exactly the same. Only difference is - these'll make your whole mouth orange. It's pretty cool.

Long..

So someone I like to watch stream - who only streams at night due to the country he lives in - has posted 10 hours of content on YouTube so.. That's what I'm doing. Woo.

Blog you later.

Day 170

This is a new drink from Mountain Dew, I first saw it in a petrol station and really wanted to try it.. Today I did. It is awesome. It tastes like an old sweet but I can't quite place my finger on it so.. Someone else drink it and tell me what sweet it is!

8th Season

I actually managed to record two videos of Isaac today. It wasn't the smoothing of runnings.. The first one I started and got half way through and then was attacked by a fly. It wouldn't go away. Bzzzzz! So I had to move somewhere else. Finished that one up. Started the second recording - phone call half way through lasting about 20-30 minutes. Sod's law! Just got to edit them. I'm pretty sure I am going to have across to a lot of quiet time this week so I might record in bulk then edit and upload over a couple of days. Maybe. We'll see how it goes. 

You. Buy me Dexter season 7 and/or 8. Thanks, k bye.

We had Pizza Hut for tea as we were out on the hunt for Christmas jumpers. Well Amy was. We had the usual pizza but tried the bacon garlic bread starter. It had bacon so it's just instantly good. Totes. It was so tasty, was nice to see our favourite Hut busier than usual. They're also doing this prize thing but you can't open the thing they give you.. You have to go back next year to claim it. There's a free car up for grabs so yeah! Plus you get pizza both times. Good.

Breaking Bad is just ahhhhhh so good! I can see why everyone hyped it up so much. Just can't stop watching - it's like chain smoking but with awesome tv and time constraints. 

Thanks for reading y'all. Blog you later.

Day 169

We were in Maidstone today and this had dropped in price so boom! We're up to date with How I Met Your Mother and we actually decided to watch some more.. 2 seasons down and 6 more to go.. That's a lot of TV but challenge accepted! 

Inconspicuous

I know it's a bit late for me to be jumping on the Breaking Bad band wagon but hell I am. I'm watching it through and I have pretty much watched 2 series already and it's so good. Just awesome. It's genius how it can from making you feel emotional for the characters to heart stopping action. I had been debating buying it on DVD as I had heard so much good about this but I never did incase I didn't like it. I still really just want to see what happens in Dexter..

I actually wrapped nearly all of my presents today. Only got little bits left. I got that horrible panicy feeling when u couldn't find one of my presents because.. Where else could it have gone!? Under a magazine - oh yeah. 

I'm back on my DS after a stint of not playing it.. I'm at the tedious points in the game but it's now quite rewarding so. Maybe I'll put my creations to good use one day.

Thanks for reading. Internet - insert cat picture. Standard. Blog you later.

Day 168

Cats are usually quite good at noticing things.. Like for example when my cat is sitting next to the door. He will notice as soon as you are near it because he thinks he's getting in. Today.. He was either ignoring us or looking at something - we couldn't see a thing. Who knows. Made him jump when he did realise we existed.

Candles

Day 167

We randomly lit some candles today rather than having the lamp on. We like to think the lamp is just that little bit more energy efficient than the light - candles are even better. No energy usage what so ever. And they looked nice - strange it was so dark, it was only 4:15!

166!

Day 166

This is a picture from the Summer of 2012 when the Olympics was on. As you can tell - I was obviously at the stadium and I just quite like this picture. So many people and for once not getting angry with each other. Awesome.

Some Penguins

Day 165 

Just penguins..

Fall Down

Day 164

So I shared Amy's lovely gingerbread house.. But obviously at some point we wanted to eat it. The moment has come and I'm afraid this is what it looks like now. It's like a buffet - you just walk past and snap a little bit off to chow on every now and then. It's rather  nice I must say, the icing is nice and the little balls are chocolate. All good. Looks a little sad though. 

11-12-13

I watched me some films today. Let me tell you about them.

So first I watched Sinister because I really wanted to go and see it in the cinema but never did. It was interesting and I could definitely see it being scary if I wasnt distracted and it being day light n'all. I like that horror films actually do research into the background of the horror stories they are showing. A lot of films just make up random stuff as and when it fits the story so that things make sense. Not that I want what happens in the film to be real.. The ideas are historically accurate.

I also watch Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. It was pretty awesome. The only thing that annoyed me which is a classic problem with action films is that the main characters get really hyped up and act all cocky.. Blah blah blah.. But then in most of the fight scenes they get beaten up a lot and win on a whim. When I watch an action film I want the main characters to kick some stuff like in Taken - he doesn't mess around. Just gets the job done. Still a good film though - I like how a traditional children's story was transformed into a more adult - quite gory - action film.

Thanks for reading peoples - blog you later. As always.

Day 163

A very old picture - not the easiest thing to see either. It was a universal 100 years cover with the app looking at King Kong. Pretty awesome - this is probably first when augmented reality was being used commercially. 

Done!.. Ish..

Day 162

So I had work today for the most part.. But after that we went to Bluewater and I got my final Christmas present! Woo. Now I've just got to wrap it all and I have this strange thing if either being really good at it.. Or horrendous and if I am doing well - I can't keep my motivation up to get it all done to a half decent level. This picture though was while we were eating at Nando's - I never remember the decorations being so extravagant but these are pretty cool. Spinning shining stars hanging from hopefully very strong metal string! Quite nice to look at whilst eating a medium chicken burger a sneaky slice of halloumi cheese chucked in.

The Binding Of Isaac #2 - Greedy Paws

Here's my second instalment of Isaac on my channel. You'll see this run is a Maggie run and has some similarities to the first but all in all.. Not as good. Or successful. See for yourself!

Strand Full Guide

Here is a full video guide to the game Strand which is a free puzzle game with multiple locations on the web. I played through on Kongregate as games include achievements on this website and I do like me some achievements. So if you find yourself stuck on this game - check out my video. It has time stamps to jump to the harder levels so you don't have to watch all the video. 

You can play the game here:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/ewmstaley/strand

Breakers

So I spent this morning floating around some breakers yards with my dad looking for a window switch for my car as it had broken. No luck.. So we thought we would just have a look at the wires to see if one was loose or something.. Turns out a tiny little bit plastic had snapped off! Fixed it with blue tac - because that's what we do. Man stuff. Screwdrivers. Yeah.

I also watched Cabin In The Woods today as it has been highly recommended to me by a lot of people and uhh.. Yeah. That really caught me by surprise. I really enjoyed it but I don't think it should fall so deeply into the horror category.. But I guess everyone's levels of horror are different. I was very surprised when all of these mythical and magical creatures appeared and started tearing the place up! Plus Thor is in it. By that I mean the actor who plays Thor.. Thor.

Thanks, here's a picture. Worth a thousand words so technically there is over 100,000 words on my blog. Boom. Blog you later.

Day 161

So I was just looking through my pictures and I forgot I did this today. One of the cars we wanted to look at was too high up so.. I just aimed my phone and spammed the photo button and managed to get some good clear shots. Unfortunately it's not what we were looking for so for now; this can act as a momento on here.

House

Day 160

So Amy really wanted to make a ginger bread house. So we did. It's not too big and it was pretty simple to make. The icing was a bit annoying because you had to keep it warm otherwise it wouldn't flow properly out the bag. Luckily I have warm hands so that wasn't too hard to do. I think I cut the hole in the bag too big as well but it worked. We have no idea how to eat it because as soon as you go for any of it it'll collapse so.. Yeah. It's a house. We added the Santa, snowman and tree though.

Oh the chocolate

Day 159

So we went to Maidstone today to do some more Christmas shopping, almost done. Only a couple of bits to go. O2 were doing a priority moment to get a free cracker with some chocolate in it and also a chance to win a trip to New York - it said it was out of stock. Luckily we ran into Tom's friend who said if you ask they actually had plenty in stock. So we went in - we all got one each. They said there's also another prize which was £50 voucher for Hotel Chocolate; where the cracker was from. So we went back to the car to put a load of shopping away and we opened the crackers. Amy got one of the vouchers. This was the outcome..

Z's

Say 158

It's only 11pm and I'm tired. This is a crazy feeling. I have a new video for YouTube all recorded and got the audio prepared, just got to check permissions etc. as for today's picture, here is a cookie teddy bear from Sainsbury's. Pretty nice. Crunchy.

It's Live

Day 157

My video is live! See, you can see stuff I did on your own screen. Other than my blog. It moves too.

My First YouTube Video

Thought I might share this with you all. I've always liked the idea of making YouTube videos and I've actually found a way with the software that I have available to me so.. Here it is. Hope you enjoy it, share it around and leave me some feedback about the quality and audio. This one is mainly about checking these things.

QuickTime

Day 156

So there is an application on the Mac called QuickTime which allows you to record the screen and audio picked up by the microphone. I've always wanted to make YouTube videos of some sort so at the moment I'm fiddling in iMovie to make an Isaac video so.. Yeah. If I'm happy with it I shall upload it and guess link you to it. If you're interested. 

Parcel..

So I sat in at Amy's for about 4 hours today waiting for a parcel.. That should have most definitely turned up as she paid for one day delivery after ordering it in the morning yesterday.. Nothing! All day! It's not so much the bother of it not turning up just.. That I had to stay all day. It's not a problem but it's the principle. 

It did give me a chance to watch This Is 40 which I really enjoyed. It was actually funny and the type of thing you'd feel uncomfortable watching with your parents.. That kind of funny. The oldest daughter in the movie did what I did and crammed the whole of Lost into a couple of weeks and I could relate to it and I found it quite strange.. And very unbelievable that she understood it first time. You have to watch it more than once unless you do research on the Internet. Or cheating. I call that cheating.

Thanks for reading peoples. Blog you later, of course.

Day 156

Amy got a nice little Simon's Cat Callander for school and this was the little tag that came with it. It's rather cute if I do say so myself! I also like the kitten. Kitties.

Good ol' game

So I knew I was getting close to the end of my Xbox live gold membership and I was planning to cancel it so I could buy prepaid cards from shops - it's just that little bit cheaper. Turns out I had a free month applied to my account which stopped the auto renew so I didn't have to call.. Funny how things work out. Last time I called I got stuck on hold for far too long! So I shopped around and Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's were all looking at £38. Still cheaper but not by much. I ended up going to Game which was a great deal. £33.99 for 12 months of live and Fable Heroes, Ms Splosion Man and The Maw all for free! Also 3 months access to some sports channels but I don't really think I'll need that.. I have no idea about sports. Needless to say that worked out rather well. I'm not sure how long this offer is going on for but.. It's worth it if you're coming to the end of your subscription also. 

Pen burst in my pocket. Dam. Yeah. Life.

I also cancelled my LoveFilm today - I really picked it don't get me wrong but.. I'm was basically spending £5 a month waiting for the series of Dexter and Walking Dead to go and I don't think that'll be anytime soon. Apparently Netflix have them so I might see if I can get me a free trial over there and see how that is. Who knows, all of them have different things. All we need now is one person with lots of money to bring them all together under one service - now that would make a ton of money.

I'm kind of glad it's cold, I get to wear my 'Russian' hat without feeling odd.

Thanks for reading. Blog you later peoples.

Day 155

Here is Squish in my hat. It's more on his shell than his head..

Filmy Goodness

Day 154

That awesome day where you get some new release sand watch them. I'd already seen The Heat in the cinema so I knew that was awesome. I'd had mixed messages about This Is The End but I loved it so. Yeah. Watch them both. 

Cheese

Day 153

So I got this from work on Friday because I thought it looked nice and I knew Amy liked it. It's a cambert with pancetta on top oven baked for 30 minutes. We then sliced up some French stick for dipping and stuff.. It was so good. So tasty. Not too healthy though so I think we'll wait a while until we have another one. This is only a Christmas one so we'd have to make it ourselves afterwards which would be more expensive.. Rambling on.

Bravely Default

Day 152

Bravely Default is a game out on 3DS on Decemer 6th and I've had the demo for a while now and I am loving it. Got about a good load of hours play time in it and I think it is something I will definitely look to buy in the full. It is even affected by the time of day and street pass populates a village for you. Really clever stuff and a complete new take on turn based RPGs so - I'm a happy man!

Thursday

Day 151

This is the look I get from my cat a lot.. Even when it's not my birthday.

Don't Clone Yourself

I mean don't subject yourself to the film Clone. I'm not saying it was bad but I think it's targeted at a very niche audience as it is a quirky film. The ideas put across in the film are also very controversial and might not be to some peoples taste. 

***SPOILERS***

Here's the basic storyline.. Two children meet until the girl has to move away. She comes back years later and they fall in love. He dies. She clones him, gives birth to him and raises him as his mother. Then when his.. Real mother comes to see him he starts asking questions. He finds out who he is. Then.. Naughty.. Hence the very controversial theme..

I don't think I'd sit down and watch it again but.. I guess it's something else I can say I've watched. 

Thanks for reading. Blog you later!

Day 150

I found it interesting that Siri has to specify that he hasn't tried spaghetti as a food type. I can't think of any other spaghetti in all honesty..

Total Recall?

So today I watched another two films. I am very much liking the sci-if section of now TV. There is a film with Matt Smith aka Dr Who which I may watch tomorrow. It's got a very strange storyline which lies on some awkward boundaries so.. Might be a bit awkward. I'll let you know. That films called Clone if you want read the story.

First thing I watched was Total Recall with Colin Farrell so not the original. I am a big fan of old films like this with the terrible effects - I love them. The Thing is one of my favourites. I was thinking they could do a lot with this given the new stuff we can do with computers. It was amazing. I really did like it and the action was fast and realistic and well acted - but they changed the storyline. Same character names, homages to the original - but they changed the story! I can understand why they didn't just make it as a stand alone film because they'd just call it a copy but.. Now it's not exactly a remake. Not sure where it really sits in the whole mix of things. IMDB gives the original a better score. Hm.

The second film I watched was Battleship. I was very skeptical about this as I didn't want to see it in the cinema because the trailer didn't do anything for me. I thought it was the new Transformers at first. I would like to revoke my skepticism as I did quite like it. It has the classic underdog story who comes into his own when a family member is killed.. And it tried to be too funny at some points.. But I like that the aliens were quite humanoidand you actually got to see them. Alien films sometimes hide them from you until the end and their design is somewhat disappointing so.. Yeah. The machines were badass too.

They killed Brian off in Family Guy. Why? Explain? 

Thanks, blog you later!

Day 149

So this fake snow.. Don't buy it. It's terrible. It doesn't really stick to the window very well, it runs everywhere. It's water based so it generally destroys stencils so.. Yeah.. Good for spraying the bottom of windows but it'll run on to the window sil.. And it sticks. Bleh. £1.

Oh, Despicable Me

Watched a couple of films today, first off I watched the most recent Underworld or Underworld: Awakening. I've always liked this film series and this one was another good addition. It felt quite short for some reason even though it was over an hour and a half long but.. It has sort of fallen into the classic storylines associated with mythical creatures - humans find out and ahhhh revolution. Although their twists make this story interesting because biological engineering comes into it to favour the opposing side of the main character. I just always wonder how they cast the children actors for films that are say.. 15-18+ because does that mean they shouldn't legally watch the film they were cast in until they are 18? Or is there like a PG version for them? Always wondered.. 

Secondly I watched Dread, the more recent remake. I'm not sure if I actually watched the original but some bits felt really familiar so I presume that was me remember the old film. I really liked it. It is no bars hold action and very bloody so not for the feint of heart. It was more believeable because I think most of the stuff that went on could really happen given the correct technological advances. Not that I would want this storyline to ever play out in the real world but.. You get me. That's one of the things I love about the film Watchmen - they only included things which were theoretically possible.

I like films.. 

Thanks for reading, blog you later.

Day 148

Also picked this up today because it's just awesome. Get it from Asda as it's £10 and has exclusive bonus features with it including three short films which are really quite awesome in themselves. Oh, Despicable Me.

Poofy

Day 147

My dad knows his stuff with puff pastry. He made this, it's an apple and raisen pastry. He said he also made done apple a d strawberry ones but they got eaten before I got back! He's been playing around with pastry recently and he's making some awesome stuff. Mr Chef.

Voice

Day 146

So I know voice recognition stuff isn't perfect but somehow my Xbox manage to hear 'Xbox search' and then this.. From our conversation. Not even close. 

145!

Day 145

I honestly can't remember if I've used this or not but I want to you use it again if I have. This was Lily, my sisters second dog. Unfortunately the pre-existing dog did not agree with it so it was moved to another home. She was rather cute and always moaned if you weren't giving her any attention. Apparently she's all grown up now but I haven't seen her since the last day we dog sat her. She always pee'd on the floor though..

Sad kitty

Day 144

As you may have seen yesterday, we've done done stuff the our living room. Cat don't like it. Not one bit. It took him an hour to walk across the room to his bed because of the rug. His eyes are always huge and he tends to stare at the fireplace like he's expecting something.. So now he has taken to this new spot. Super warm, quite quiet and he gets to surprise people when he decides to wander off. Radiator friends! He's that really dark bit in the middle.. Black cats don't photograph well. 

Mushrooms

Quite pleased with myself not to be too big headed. Had a load of left over mushrooms so me and my dad fried them up and they were all nice and crispy. I wanted something with them so., I microwaved some butter and mixed in some garlic salt and ta-da! Dipping sauce. I thought it was lovely. 

I also watched Pirates on an Adventure with Scientists. It was quite funny, obviously aimed at children so it didn't exactly choke hold my attention. It had the cheeky adult jokes in it but.. It was an okay watch. I'm also half way through Django Unchained and that - so far - is awesome. I'd heard many a good thing about it so I decided to give it a try and I'm very much liking it! I now understand why the actors were quite uncomfortable filming it due to the excessive use of a distasteful word. Hm.

Thanks for reading! Blog you later.

Day 143

So my mum and dad wanted a fireplace in the living room again.. So they went on Gumtree and found someone selling this unit with the electric thingy included for £30! Bargain. I like to think it looked quite comical across my dad's roof rack. The carpet is a new addition today - cat hates it.

Worked

I was at work for the day so.. Yeah.

Mr Tate cooked spaghetti for us today. It had the sauce and then chorizo, peppers, jalapeños, onion and I added some cheese. Tasty. I want more.

Yeah. Be amazed. Blog you later.

Day 142

I helped my dad take some stuff up to a relative and they gave us a case of this stuff. I'm pretty sure it's Swedish; it's a little out of date but I like it. It's also water so I like to think its healthier. I really can't stand sparking water but if it's flavoured I'm game.

Bug

So I presume most people reading this will probably be subscribed to at least one person on YouTube who is angry with Google+. I can understand why - didn't really effect me because I use Google+ to use Blogger. It is no where near as attractive to use as Facebook because everyone already has it - it's hard to try and jump in and be as successful. I agree it's not right for them to force on people but I guess they're just trying to get more traffic. Wrong way - but understandable.

I've recently been using Twitch a lot lately. Something more appealing about knowing its live.. As good as all the YouTube content is; some could be planned or set up with no real way of knowing but.. Live is live. No getting around it. I like it. I just find it strange that they can literally sit and play games all say and make a living out of it. Crazy.

I've recently downloaded the Bravely Default demo on my 2DS, it's a game by Square Ennix out in December. If their name is on it I generally trust it. There's only been two games from them that I thought were God awful but that's just my opinion. I will admit this was quite hard to pick up as there was no real tutorial; more just test it out see if it works. I have sort if got the hang if it but., obviously it's a demo so it's limited either way. 

Thanks for reading. Picture. Yeah. Blog you later.

Day 141

This little ladybird appears to have moved in to our kitchen for the Winter. He mainly sticks to the light fittings but other day I did see him wondering around the ceiling. He's quite content. Bit tight as he won't pay his rent but.. Yeah.

140?

With any luck this'll upload straight away because it's a tad annoying. Don't see why uploading from different places is such an issue - that's beauty of accessing your account from any device! But what do I know?..

Day 140

These pumpkins were inside the London Dungeons as we went at Halloween. I thought it would've been really awesome actually carve something like but they were all made of plastics for obvious reasons. As you saw none of mine came close to this but I can aspire!

Fails..

Day 138 & 139

I am not sure what's going on but uploading pictures seems to be a mo go at the moment so.. Let's see. I'm trying this on 3G to see if that works but I can't do it too often because of usage and what not.

Films

I watched two films today so let's get right to it.

Beautiful Creatures

See a lot of people said it really wasn't all that good and it was just trying to be a new thing like Twilight but.. I'm going to have to disagree. In all honesty I like most films though so don't take this at face value. I must say its nothing like Twilight, I can see why people might say that but it's witches and not vampires.. Yes there's a love story between two young people at the heart of it but there's a completely different reason for that being a problem.. And the characters were very well played although the accents were starting to play havoc on the old ears of mine but.. Otherwise a good film. Also based on a book so there will be more coming. It leaves at a strange point but if you've read the books then it'll probably make a hell of a lot more sense. I would recommend it; I don't like to listen to critics all the time because I've liked a lot of things they haven't.. And hated things which got majorly hyped. Oh well.

Life of Pi

Oh my oh my. I really really liked this, it was amazing. It's set up to be a story being told by the main character later in life which sets you up to know nothing can happen to him.. But they pulled it off well. The story was thrilling and I found myself thinking 'how did someone even think of this?' I've always wanted to write a book and if I had my name on something like this I would very easily manage to mention I wrote it in every conversation I ever have forever. I'm pretty sure it was in cinemas when lots of films were big on 3D because you can see a lot of scenes were specifically catered to watching in 3D. But it was beautiful and lots of it was done with CG as there's only so much you can with real animals especially with some of the stuff that happened. The CG was very good most of the time; at some points as with most films you can tell difference. I would 100% recommend watching it; I really liked it.

Since when did Facebook chat have them weird giant sticker things? Amy sent me some today and I thought she's sent me a picture at first but.. Yeah. So they're a thing. And it looks like some will cost money at some point - that to me just sounds like Facebook shouting for money but we all know they have enough.. They offered Snapchat $3 billion today; they got turned down though so ha!

Thanks for reading, blog you later.

Day 137

The reason I am including this picture today is because I'm pretty sure it's like a lionfish or something along those lines.. But in Animal Crossing it's known as a zebra turkeyfish which might be completely right for all I know. They have some gimick names for the fish so I am not sure on this.

Ice..

I knew it. There was a good layer of ice covering the entire car today.. And it wasn't nice. My hand was quite numb after that because of the ice spraying over my hand whilst scraping through it all. One side of my car has a fence alongside it which protects the car from the ice.. So it comes off very easily but then it keeps the sun off of it.. Which means it has a boat load of condensation any other time! No winning eh?

Made a nice pasta bake today; it was very nice. It's basically just macaroni cheese with bacon; and baking it just crisps the top up. It was very good, first time that we'd made one without using a jarred sauce. I like cheese. Shame it gives me headaches in vast amounts.

I like Christmas stock at the Coop. It's one of the only things that the Coop does that I really like and it only comes around once a year. They sell little boxes of fake Gullian.. The posh sea shell chocolates and cheap chocolate orange segments. Only £1. Or 90p with the discount but.. I do like me some of that.

Thanks peeps. Blog you later.

Day 136
Alligator. Look at it. Every time we've been in the aquarium this thing has been laying there. It might be facing a different way but.. It's always there. Under the light. I wanna poke it.

*If you're reading this then I still haven't managed to get the picture to upload yet.. Error message 500, 404 and 400 so.. Yeah.. If there's a picture here then yay!*

Mr Ben

The mornings of iced over cars seem to be ever getting closer and closer.. And I really am not looking forward to them. Probably going to end up deicing the car twice a day. Also with the car I am driving now it seems that it is very prone to the doors getting iced shut which I find weird but.. It happens.

So I extinguished my stocks of sweet chilli sauce the other day so I got myself self some more yesterday and since have already used on all meals bar breakfast.. Only because it would be socially frowned upon. Rice crispies and sweet chilli - I could totally see that being the thing. Just the milk ruins it.

I know this'll come across random a maybe slightly creepy but.. I've come to appreciate a sharp knife. Preparing food with a knife that is actually sharp is satisfying for no reason what so ever. It's just nice to be able to cut through something like a tomato without the skin holding it together just a tiny bit so you end up ripping it and getting your hands all juiced up. 

I think I'll stop here.. Reading back through that I am honestly just thinking 'why did I just type that' but I shall not waste it. At some point in my head all of the above seemed coherent and like a decent idea to share so.. Yeah! Blog you later.

Day 135

I know its a pain and it's sideways but for whatever reason on the Mac photo album it is upright.. Then as soon as I upload it to here it turns sideways again. I've tried it all four different ways and Blogger hasn't got any image editing tools, even simple ones like rotation so.. Yeah. Best I can do with this. 15 minutes is far too long for a picture. Anyway - it is Big Ben. Just pointing left instead of up. It's pretty awesome and I would say good reason not to own a fancy watch it you work in London.