September 2006 Archives

Lately I've found that I'm far more environmentally conscious than ever before. There are small changes which I've made to my daily ways that, I hope, result in me having less of an impact on the world, ecologically speaking.

I'm going to list these, in no way as a self-congratulation, but because I want to see how else I could, with minimal effort of course (I am a lazy caring person, ok?), change the things I do, or do something new, to be more green.

At the moment, I:

- have two bins at work, one for paper recycling, because I go through a LOT of paper
- use Ecover household cleaning products and recycled bin bags (thanks to Ian for bringing these into our lives)
- use public transport, out of necessity though
- have the boiler off all the time, boiling the kettle for hot water for dishes (our shower heater is seperate, this is also done to save money on electricity)
- turn the tap off when I brush my teeth

Now this is a short list, and I want to know - how else can I change my ways? What do you do every day? What should you be doing that you don't, because, like me, you're lazy and don't want to carry a plastic packet in your handbag all the time?

I'm getting used to this CSS thing, slowly. I've added my old header - thanks for the note Wezzo - but it's really just a placeholder for the next one, when I find the time.

Work has been a tad insane lately, so bear with me as the blog changes slowly and as posts will probably be infrequent. This is largely due to the fact that after travelling many a mile to a printers to pass a magazine on press, being left waiting at 2am in an empty printing warehouse without any word of when the press would be back up and running, and after finally seeing and approving 2 sections out of 6, said printers decided to go ahead and make some glaring mistakes on 2 out of the remaining 4 sections.

It's not horrid, nor the end of the world, but it means I'm stuck trying to negotiate a compromise and assure various people that it's not going to happen again.

There have been some cool things going on, most notably my birthday last Tuesday, and Ian's birthday next Tuesday. I got three awesome gift parcels this morning - am now officially scarfed up for winter.

Welcome to my new blog! After one final time that blogger pissed me off, I have decided to join the almost throng of people who look to Adrian for all things bloggy. So yes, no longer with the blogger, now with moveable type, and my blog now officially costs me money, which I'm actually really okay with!

Things will change, links will appear, I'll probably cock it up and ask Ade to fix it (boy he's going to regret saying yes to this!) and hopefully I'll blog more often than I have been recently.

An addition worthy of a mention is the interesting bar on the right, which has a list of my del.icio.us links of strange weird things that interest me, so I'm hoping that there will be at least one new thing on this blog a day.

Right, I'm off to eat the cake my boyfriend baked for me - that's right, from scratch. It has been an interesting evening of teaching him the stuff he missed out on while he took woodwork and I took Home Ec. Sad thing is, he'll probably bake better than me!

We went to Dublin. Broken down here. My pics here. Ian's infinitely better pics here.

That's not to say it wasn't awesome, it's just that I've been spreading the Dublin love at work all day and frankly, I've said my quota of the word 'lovely' for the next two weeks.

We're listening to Live, which makes me want to say emo things like 'I long for better days', but really I'd be all pretentious by saying that, pretentious in the true sense of the word, because I'd be pretending that I ever owned a Live album, which isn't true.

My music tastes when younger are pretty embarrassing. My sister was so much cooler than me, and while I listened to and loved her Offspring, her Nirvana, her Blur, her Faithless, none of them were actually ever purchased by me. Nope, I came into pocket-money that permitted CD purchases only when I was into such classics as Limp Bizkit and Now 25! and other such embarrassing crap.

I've been reading raymi, can you tell? I have this horrendous tendancy to copy writing style directly after reading someone else's stuff. I have this idea to do '-stylee' blog posts, ie, 'this is my blog post in the style of...' and then write like that person after going through their archives for a good long while. But then, I might inadvertently piss off a particular blogger by this mickey-taking. Idea is officially dead in the water.

Monday and Tuesday in Plymouth. Wednesday at home, trying to catch up at work. Thursday to Sunday in Dublin.

Tough life!
Have also been pretty sick, seems like everyone is, though I may have got my cold standing in bucketing rain waiting for Muse to come on last Sunday - not the worst way to catch a cold. That worst way would be to catch it, boringly and without a good backstory, from your girlfriend. Sorry Ian.

More video from Leeds (last ones, I promise):

Panic! at the Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies

Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot

Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To