- Kevin Rose. I am totally abusing my position and liberally sprinkling my posts on Shiny Shiny with his name, in the hope that he has nothing better to do with his life than Google his own name, find my posts, decide he has to meet me and then make an honest gosh darn woman of me.
- Amsterdam. Mainly because Diggnation is going to be broadcast live from there next week, The Next Web looks like heaven, and a little bit because I saw a documentary on the BBC this week entitled 'Should I Smoke Dope?', which I'm pretty sure was a rhetorical question with the answer 'no', but seems to have left me with a strange craving for a coffee shop. Despite the fact that I can not smoke to save my life. Seriously. It's embaressing.
- Getting excited about the internet again. Did anyone else realise how much absolutely fantastic and exciting stuff there is out there? Where do people come up with this stuff? My mind does a little implosion every time I try to quantify the brilliance.
- Twitter. I'm back in love.
- Crossing stuff off The List. I've done the tattoo, so there's only another 49 things to get done.
- The future. I always get like this in Spring. Some people nurture lambs orphaned by their mothers, I reassess career options.
- Podcasts. I now listen or watch my podcasts the day they get released, and then spend the next 6 anxiously waiting for the next one. I have even taken to seperating my iPod usage into my Video, for all my music, mostly for listening to in my room, and my Touch, for commuting and watching/listening to podcasts.
This is what happens in the Weaser household when it's announced the kitchen is being redecorated.
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i love Surrey
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I really wish I'd put 'see a psychic' on my 50 list, seeing as how that's exactly what I did do today which means I could *totally* tick it off.
I can't give away too much about what my future is - after all, there'd be nothing left to surprise you with if I did, but it was certainly interesting. I approached it with healthy scepticism, and I spent most of the time trying to work out which clues I'd given him which would lead him to make the deductions he did. Still, there were some spookily accurate assessments, and since it was a really positive reading, which confirmed all the decisions and thoughts I'd already considered, there was nothing to complain about. Leonie's was frighteningly spot on though, which was weird. Mine was more general '2008 isn't your year for relationships, you're too busy, don't sweat it, yeah, go ahead and buy a house' type stuff. I've got a whole cassette tape of the reading. unfortunately, I threw out my cassette player in 1997, so if I want to go and listen to it I'm going to have to go and sit in my mum's car.
One thing I almost managed to tick off my list today was the 'get a second tattoo' entry. In fact, I got all the way into a tattoo parlour and was discussing what I was going to have done before the tattoo artist said I should reconsider the size and placement. It's suitably geeky, I just want to find somewhere perfect to have it. I really want it behind my ear, but they tell me it's too small an area. There just aren't enough subtle and non-saggy places on the body, I've found.
26. Read Anne of Green Gables sitting in a window seat
27. Visit Prince Edward Island
28. Own part of a company
29. Have a long running personal video blog
30. Work in a newsroom
31. Have a dress made that I designed
32. Have an empty wash basket more often than not
33. Do the London to Brighton cycle ride
34. Go to Punk
35. Watch a sellout gig from the side of the stage
36. Be a muse
37. Buy a bra from Rigby and Peller38. Go to the Wellcome Gallery
39. Delete all the dupes from my iTunes
40. Discover Paris
41. Scuba dive
42. Sky dive
43. Put a note in someone's packed lunch44. Spend the weekend alone by the sea
45. Go to the Burning Man festival46. Get a psychic reading
47. Send in a postcard to Post Secret
48. Apologise to the ex-boyfriend who deserves an apology
49. Go about dancing, stay til the end and be completely sober
50. Own a pair of Christian Louboutins
2058. The year in which I've ticked off all of these things
- Have someone put on a firework display in my honour
- Throw a party with caterers
- Buy a piece of art for over 1000 pounds
- Buy a house in London
- Buy a house out of the UK
- Make jam
- Go on a spontaneous trip abroad
- Learn all the words to 'We Didn't Start the Fire'
- Have a arty and naked (or is it nude if it's arty?) photo taken
- Own a feature wall
Have one more tattoo- Paint each nail a different colour and keep them like that for a week
- Own at least a couple beautiful and charming children
- Successfully complete a fully functional and fabulous relationship
- Get a round of applause on a stage
- Open a rock band set by hitting the drum sticks with a 1-2-3-4.
- Spend a weekend pretending to be someone completely different from me
- Go to the gym consistently for six months
- Get a dog
- Learn to spend an entire evening in towering heels
- Give someone my number on public transport
- Learn a language
- Spend the evening drinking champagne on a yacht
- Go to Australia and New Zealand
- Go out all night clubbing and then go on to a Sunday session
26-50 coming shortly
This week, I have...
... skidooed. I believe that is the verb for riding about on about the third motorised vehicle I have ever been in control of. I can see why they won't give me a license.
...and went in an authentic sauna followed by jumping in an ice plunge pool in a lake
... this involved naked journalists
... sadly I have no photos of this
It was definitely the best press trip ever. In fact, it's sneaked into my 'Top holiday' list.
Please feel free to watch a video of dog sledding. Get really close to the screen and bump up and down on your seat, and it'll be like you were there. About halfway through, the bumps really kick in.
