Monthly Archive for February, 2007

100 people you wish you looked like.

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Jennie
on February 26th 2007
in My life and TV weirdness
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I watched 100 greatest sex symbols the other night. Well, I caught it from about number 40 or something. It turns out that Angelina Jolie is the greatest sex symbol… ever. Greater even than James Dean and Marilyn Monroe.

I’m not entirely sure I agree. I’m not denying that Angelina is a very beautiful woman and also had a certain unhinged quality which somehow seems to make her more attractive to the public, but come on. Greatest sex symbol ever?! Of our times, maybe, but ever?! Maybe I need a male opinion on this.

My big news is as follows. I was adopted when I was a baby (that’s not the big news, stick with me on this) and for the last couple of years I’ve been kind of loosely searching for my birth mum. Jonic and I found an address a while ago on 192.com which seemed to be my birth grandad, so recently my mum wrote to him to say I was looking for my birth mum, would he happen to know where she was etc.

Anyway, 8 weeks passed and I figured it’d been lost in the post, or maybe she just didn’t want to speak to me. I’d pretty much put it to the back of my mind for now. Then, the other day my mum rang and said they’d had a letter back. (That’s the big news, hope it isn’t an anti-climax…)

It’s just the strangest feeling, I’m really happy of course, but it’s also so huge I’m not sure I’ve taken it in. 20 years is a long time. Now I’ve just got to figure out what to write back…

Just thought I’d share that. Anything to make it seem more real is useful I think.

Who are you working for?!

Published
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Jennie
on February 24th 2007
in Food, My life and Videogames
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Jonic told me last night that I have nine subscribers to my blog. Nine! I thought only about 4 people were reading it, so I’m a bit chuffed about that.

I am also interested to know who finds me interesting enough to stick around, so if you don’t mind I’d love a comment or two. Obviously if you wish to remain anonymous I won’t hold it against you; it’s just to satisfy my curiosity.

My ice -cream maker hasn’t arrived yet, but I await it eagerly. I also ordered a Be-Ro cookery book (a British institution, for those who don’t know), which I’m very excited about. It only cost £1.50, which was nice.

Jonic and I watched 6 episodes of 24 last night. We’re on series 5, episode 13 now. Obviously it would be cruel of me to spoil it for anyone who hasn’t seen it, so I won’t. All I will say is that it is absolutely brutal, much more so than any other series. It’s incredible though, as usual.

Something pretty fucking huge happened to me last night as well, which I think is blogworthy (despite being pretty personal, something I’m not too keen on this blog being for fear of alienating those who don’t really know me). I think I’m going to give it a few days to sink in first before blogging about it though. Suffice it to say, after recieving said news I drank quite a lot of vodka and smoked about a million cigarettes.

More on that story later.

I am currently downloading Day of the Tentacle, which I couldn’t be more excited about. I haven’t played it since I was pretty young, I hope my fond memories turn out to be accurate and it’s not actually a big pile of shit.

I’m also compiling a list of video games I have yet to complete/start playing:

  • Twilight Princess (I’m on the last dungeon!)
  • Disgeaea
  • Final Fantasy XII (which I have yet to buy, but am very excited about)
  • Final Fantasy X & X2
  • Kingdom Hearts I & II
  • A lot of Pokemon games for various consoles
  • Golden Sun

I think that’s all of them for now, but I’m going to be pretty busy. I doubt I’ll have time for a job, so I’m going to have to start taking donations. Envelopes of money sent to my house would be much appreciated, as would food parcels and free clothes.

Is this even worse?

Published
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Jennie
on February 22nd 2007
in My life and TV weirdness
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I can’t decide what’s worse; the fact that we made up such shit answers to the Richard and Judy question-athon, or whether we were so rubbish on camera that they didn’t even show it.

Don’t get me wrong, I am relieved. I did have a slight hope though that I was actually fabulous on camera and that my appearance on TV would turn me into a national sweetheart, being presented with free things wherever I went. It turns out that I’m actually not even good enough for Richard and fucking Judy. I bet they reviewed it themselves and laughed at me. They probably kept the clip so they could laugh at ‘the little people’ at dinner parties with other pseudo-celebrities. Those bastards. Who do they think they are?!

Richard and Judy and their stupid faces

Richard and Judy, probably sharing a private joke at my expense.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s just mortifying.

Published
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Jennie
on February 21st 2007
in Superheroes and TV weirdness
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Well, I have highly embarrassing news.

Yesterday Duncan and I were wandering around York minding our own business when some youngsters from Channel 4 came over. Apparently they were doing a slot to go on Richard and Judy about some new show called Heroes (which I believe my good buddy Paul blogged about recently) and they were asking members of the general public questions. One question really: ‘If you could have any superhero powers, what would they be and why?’

Now, you’d think to two slightly geeky 20-somethings with a bit of knowledge about these things we’d have come up with witty, highly intelligent answers which would endear us to the nation and lead not only to fame a fortune but hopefully our own TV show. Sadly, no.

Our answers were as follows:

Duncan - ‘I’d probably be able to fly so I could fly around the world (unnecessary hand gesture) and turn back time like Superman.’

Jennie - ‘I’d probably be invisible so I could sneak around places, like locker rooms and also steal things.’

No word of a lie. I told the general population that if I could do anything in the world it would be to spy on naked men and steal things from shops. The worst thing about it is that was a complete fabrication - if I could have any power I’d have the power to change my appearance at will.

So, if you fancy a laugh you should most definitely tune in to Richard and Judy tomorrow at 5. I’m so mortified.

Diagnosis Murder today is about a man going around killing clowns. I think TV is getting weirder.

Oooh!

Published
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Jennie
on February 19th 2007
in Food
. 1 Comment

Also, I won an ice-cream maker on e-bay for £12 inc. P&P! How exciting. Soon I will be able to make my very own Dime bar ice-cream.