The snow is back with vengeance! We had a good downpour of it from late November up until about maybe a week and a half ago, but lately it's been reasonably mild (i.e. 4 degrees Celsius (39F) with a wind chill factor bringing it lower than that, which isn't exactly mild!), but the past day or so just before the new cold front moved in, the chill ( Read more... )

The Christmas JSNI (Japan Society of Northern Ireland) party was yesterday. I completely and utterly stuffed myself full of takoyaki, yakisoba and okonomiyaki (as well as mince pies, cake and so forth). So yummy. Sumi-san, my Japanese teacher, also sent me home with a bunch of onigiri, which will make up my lunch today ( Read more... )

Bloody hell, it is cold at the moment. Past week or so we've been stuck between a day time high of 3C (37F) and night time high of -3C (26F). It was down as low as -9C (15F) in other parts of Northern Ireland, and parts of Wales somehow managed to get down to -17C (1F). We don't get a great deal of snow in Belfast city centre (where I live) as, ( Read more... )

Urgh, bad headache this morning. Went to bed with it starting, and don't think it was helped by having to chase Mog from my pillow (where she sleeps every night without fail; Toby sleeps at our feet like the dog-cat he is, and Merlin either sleeps on a blanket in the living room or on the chair in the bedroom as long as clothes are arranged on top ( Read more... )

Bugger it. Why are more and more manga being released in the bigger format (height of 21cm+ rather than the normal 19cm or so)? Yes, a difference of two centimeters is causing me grief :D I have my manga and anime bookshelf done in a way where I could fit as many shelves as possible. This means two rows at the top for anime DVDs (though a few nicer ( Read more... )

Really, LJ, isn't it time you implemented CSS for the bio section of profiles? Unless I'm seriously mistaken, there is no way to get CSS working (hell, I even trying to see if I could use an iframe!), which means having to code ancient no-longer-valid HTML. Now, I can get my head around tables okay (thanks to shitty email support *cough*Microsoft* ( Read more... )

Been going over my Japanese revision in preparation for Step 4 starting on the 18th (Saturday mornings again >_< I'm glad I'm don't drink much). Luckily I'm remembering most of it, but then over the summer I was re-typing out the notes in a concise and collected manner, so was essentially revising as I was doing that. Also spent some time yesterday ( Read more... )

...and getting worse at using Twitter :D

My hair is now all bright pink. For two days is was both light blonde and pink at the ends, but I just felt the blonde was far too light for me and couldn't be bothered going to get some darker blonde dye to make it work. I'm naturally a medium blonde and anything lighter just doesn't suit me.

And everyone ( Read more... )

I do need to get back to sorting this thing out. I just haven't had the inclination to post anything as everything has been boring business-y stuff lately, but then I slip off the radar and feel like no one knows me here anymore. Need to comment on you guys more. I always read my friends' page first thing in the morning with my coffee, keeping up ( Read more... )

Poor Moggie's just gotten home from the vet. Our local vet is running free geriatric (animals over eight-years-old; Mog and Merlin turned nine two months ago) check-ups this month, so as Mog was due a check-up (Merlin's fine until next May), we took advantage of it ( Read more... )