Missing New Moon and Twilight Cinema

As I was trawling through the movie trailers on Phil's MacBook, I was exceedingly happy to discover that they've made one of my fave books into a movie.

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer is one of a series surrounding the life and love story of one human girl, Bella and one devastatingly handsome vampire man, Edward. Edward is rather appropriately played by Robert Pattinson - oh yes, he was Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - who I think is getting easier on the eye as he grows up ;) The books are quite fabulous, centering around the love story between the two unlikely teenagers, and their respective families. Edward's family are "vegetarian" vampires, in as much as they prefer to drink the bllod of animals rather than humans. There's lots of interesting relationships, drama, trauma, bloodshed, vampires, werewolves and sex. Read them. That's an order.

I do have three of the books, at least, I used to. I've just discovered that one of them is missing, and it's dawned on me that I haven't seen the middle one, New Moon, in a long time. CURSES. If anyone would like to make me a gift of this book, plus the fourth installment, I'd be very happy indeed ;)

Snip, snip, snooze

My undercut needs redoing. Any volunteers?

This weekend has been a most splendid one of much sleeping, much chilling, many dvds and lots of kitteh lovin'. Oh, and far too much food. Blergh. Going to exercise away some of the calories on the static bike and then have a very long, hot bath before The Boy comes over; he's been to his brother's Stag this weekend, and I've really missed him, even though he was only away for 1 night and 2 days.

I'm too smitten for my own good ;)

My Brighton Holiday, by Chloe Hall, aged 28

They say that staying in is the new going out, and the staying at home is the new going away.

Whether this is stictly true or not, I don't know - I think it depends highly on where you live - but for Phil and I, the last Bank Holiday of the summer loomed and we were both more or less brassic. So we did what anyone in their right mind would do - we decided to stay in Brighton and be tourists for the weekend.

As it was, we'd both taken the Thurs and Fri off work so we had a clear 5 days to chill and explore our town. We were going to stay at Phil's in his studio in the centre of town and generally pretend we were on holiday, staying in a guesthouse and trying to look at Brighton through the wide-eyes of daytrippers - and we did pretty well. We stocked the fridge like a mini-bar and filled the bathroom with miniature bottles of shampoo etc, packed our bags and met at the station after workon Wednesday - dead on 6pm. Strangely, it really felt like we'd both stepped off the train and didn't live here at all!

After we arrived at the "Guesthouse" we unpacked, and headed out to get some food. We then watched countless hours of Scrubs and ate junk food to our heart's content. I had a relaxing hot shower and used my favourite LUSH facemask, Brazened Honey. We had some wine, and then cuddled up and fell asleep.

I'm notorious for not being a morning person, but on the first day of our holiday I was up and awake and consious at the very respectable hour of 8.30! We had coffee and bagels in bed and then got ready and headed out into the town. Wandered round the less-crowded-than-weekend shops, walked into Hove and did a bit of charity shop shopping - got a wicked skull mug, an antique pill box, a teddybear and a funky space invaders vest all for £7!

After that, we were hungry, so we tried out the Vegetarian Indian Buffet, Bombay Aloo, that I'd been wanting to go to for ages. 20 dishes for £4.95! FABULOUS value and I'd recommend it to anyone. We sat and scoffed for ages, and my brother joined us after his Open Day at Sussex Uni. Later, afternoon tea in the Pavillion Garden Café and lounging around in the Royal Pavillion Gardens, smoking and chattting. It was lovely. Jake headed home and Phil and I headed to the Odeon to see what was on. We opted for the Dark Knight, such a great film. Apart from the very annoying exchange students talking loudly and sitting in the reserved seats, it was a good trip to the movies. Christian Bale and Heath Ledger - blimey ;) yes, yes, I know, he's a psycho agent of chaos with disfiguring facial scars and clown makeup, but hey, what can I say? Even the delectable Cillian Murphy makes a quick re-appearance and I was happy :) Vodka and Scrubs to round off the night.

The highlights of the Brighton part of the holiday were the trip to the Sealife Centre, deckchairs on the pier, chips on the beach, sending comedy postcards, late night drinking sessions and setting the world to rights, good home-cooked meals, wandering along the seafront and generally awesome couple-togetherness. It was a break that both of us really needed and we made the most of our free time together in every way possible ;)

On the Monday we set off on a train to London to meet the ever-lovely Cassie and Sean for a wander round and a nice meal at The Crown. Forbidden Planet beckoned and I managed to find myself a voice-changing Death Eater Mask and wand, reduced to £13.99. AWESOME! We then had a few drinks at The Intrepid Fox and after they left, we met up with Barney from my uni days and stayed and chilled with him until it was almost dark and we had to wend our way
home again.

Possibly the best holiday I have had in a very long time. Brighton rocks :)

Zombie?

Zombie fancy dress tomorrow!

Woooo!

What ever shall I wear? :)

Doom

I am so tired and bored, I think my brain is going to shrivel and fall out my ears.

GAH.

It's so unfair, I had such a brilliant holiday and felt totally relaxed and content, and now, I've been back in the office for a day and I'm already fantasising about time off again.

*sigh*

Ah well, it could be worse. It's Wednesday already thanks to the bank holiday, and I should have a really chilled weekend coming up. Phil's going to his brother's stag do down in Southsea, so I get to spend some quality time with my kittehs and chill in my now lovely house!

Threesome

3 way bloggery - I have kidnapped myself a Fox In The Snow and a Mr Awesomelies.

Wicked

Mr Lies has drunk absinthe and is now crashed out on my bed and Miss Foxxy is reading a copy of Bizarre.

I have an overload of things to tell you all in the morning...mostly about seagulls and shrinking goldfish, but hey

******** WARNING - Graphic Contents ********

Chloe + Becca + Gin + Scalpels =


Scarification Joy and Scalpel Love <3

Oh please, just f*ck off!

I hate my ex-housemate.

Normal service will resume once I'm calmed down.

Absinthe Massacre

Blah

I feel like shite today. My head aches, my neck and back ache, my legs ache and so does my throat. I'm one giant ball of achey.

I think I've probably been overdoing it lately.

Pride weekend was a blast, but definitely took it's toll, and this weekend just gone was another round of the same to be honest. I'd had a bad morning at work (working on a Saturday is never much fun anyway) so Phil met me on London Road and we went for coffee and a chat. Felt better after this, so headed back to his via the shops and vegged out for a bit.

Then, as we had a spare afternoon and very little cash, we mixed up a few batches of fake blood (in GREEN) and did a fabulous photoshoot in his bathroom. It was absolutely amazing fun. We did it with a view to adding to my Ultravixen portfolio and sending in an application to be in the
magazine! Didn't realise you could have that much fun in a shower ;) mwahahaha! Phil proved to be quite a wizard with the camera and no sooner had I posted a few pics up on Facebook than I had people asking when I'd had the shoot done and who my photographer was ;)

There's an other Slytherin themed shoot in the pipeline, so watch this space....

Anyway, after I'd cleaned the bathroom down and showered off the stickyness, we set about the serious business of drinking the rest of the litre of vodka we had from Becca's birthday, and decided to head to Legends for a change. Cheaper and a different crowd to Revenge. Jordy was there and we had a wicked night dancing and talking tattoos with people. Finally left at 4.30
and eventually hit the bed at about 5.15.

Good times.

Stayed in bed for most of Sunday watching Scrubs and snuggling. Fab. But I'm now feeling the end result of my excesses and think a detox is a serious must for the next few weekends! Until TRANSITION at the very least!

Dope

Just looked up Solpadol on my phone, to discover that it's prescription only, very strong, may cause drowsiness and contains codeine.

Ooops.

No wonder I feel good.

NO PAIN!!!

Blimey.

Those painkillers are the most incredible things I've ever taken.

Within 20 minutes the pain had gone and I feel positively perky now!

PAIN!!

I am currently sat at my desk at work with a vicious headache which is making my right eye twitch and my jaw ache.

I have a nagging suspicion that it's actually toothache which is causing a headache, but I am trying desperately to push that thought to the back of my head for the time being.

I've been given Solpadol by one of my friends here at work, and as disgusting as it tastes, I am happily gulping it down.

Now I shall wait.

PRIDE!!

Wow!

What a weekend!!

Pride was absolutely A-MA-ZING!

Probably the best one yet!

It was also Becca's birthday, my 3 years anniversary in Brighton and Phil's 1st Pride, so all round a brilliant excuse to get dressed up and wasted ;P

We had quite a household of people for the weekend - Jeremy (who decided he didn't want to stay and so left early Saturday), Jack, Bertie and Dany, Chris, Neil, John and my brother - as well as myself, Phil and Jordon! All good fun though. The weather let us down in the morning, with clouds and drizzle, but the crowds braved the rain and dressed to the nines anyway! Our group looked fab and a number of us were in costume; Jordon as an English Gentleman, Jack a Redcoat, Bertie and Dany as French floozies, Phil as a manga Chinese boy and myself as a Japanese Geisha. The theme this year was Pride Around The World - not the best one, but still good.

We caught the Parade at 12 on London Road just as it started and watched the floats go by while we danced under our brolleys and sipped wine and soda - how very civilised ;)

We joined the end of the Parade and marched the rest of the way to Preston Park. We then divided into groups and wandered around looking at stalls, riding the Chairaplane as is traditional for us, and then sat and chilled for a while and grabbed some food. By this point, the weather had changed for the best and the sun came out to play! We were joined by Barnaby and his entourage and much larking and drinking took place. Then it was off to the Popstarz tent for a dance!

We grooved away and took photos of eachother, drank more wine and danced some more. Eventually, we all ended up at the same tent and decided that it was time to head home for some proper grub and a rest before the festivities of the evening. Myself, Phil, Jack and Luke ended up going via the Caroline for a pint, as we'd promised Mia we would go in and say hi to her at some point during the day. It was lovley to sit down outside and chill!

Fast forward to the evening. Nice and relaxed after hot showers and some food, we sat around in the living room playing drinking games for hours. If you've never played "I have never" I thouroughly recommend it! We found out ALL sorts of strange and exciting things about eachother!

We finally headed out into the night and went on a mission for more booze, wending our way through St James' street and finally reaching the beach. Eventually, the guys decided to head to Charles Street for clubbing, but Phil and I were knackered from very little sleep over the last few nights and such an early morning. We decided to make a break for home.

Fell into bed around 5ish and watched Simpsons til we fell asleep at about 6am.

Brilliant.

There's nothing quite like Brighton Pride!