Right, I've just been tagged to do this by  dwelian

So here goes:

Ground Rules: The first player of this "game" starts with the topic "5 Guilty Pleasures" and people who get tagged need to write an LJ entry about their 5 Guilty Pleasures as well as state this rule. In the end, you need to choose the next 5 people to be tagged and list their names.

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Ok, I know it's late, but on the off chance that anyone reads this tonight...for those coming to Edinburgh tomorrow ( Read more... )

The Red Cross has changed its rules!!! I can give blood at home again!!!!!!!! This is most thrilling.

The past two days have been absolutely lovely. Bryn and Paul are over from San Francisco, so yesterday, the two of them plus Sleigh came down to Edinburgh to visit. It was brilliant. First we had the best dim sum EVER, and then we went round to mine to laze around and chat. Eventually we roused ourselved enough to go get a couple of pizzas and ( Read more... )

I had heard about this storyin which a baby girl with spina bifida was flown from Iraq to Atlanta ( Read more... )

Oh my GOD, it is SO not about to be 2006! Is it? Ye gods. The first decade of the New Millennium is half over already. In another month, I'll be 23. My mid-20s are getting ever closer. I think 23 is the last year of early 20s. *Wail!* Ahem, sorry, I'll stop with the quarter life crisis now ( Read more... )

So I've decided that I want to go to Morocco at some point in the next few months. Who wants to come with me? Seriously, I know someone out there is wanting to go too.

Today I gave blood. I've always been one of those people who has no problem with it, and I've always secretly felt a bit superior to those people who get all woozy afterwards. Yeah, so today after I donated, I nearly passed out. Before I was even finished, I started feeling woozy, and as soon as they started unhooking the bag, it got really bad ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all have a beautiful day.

Tonight the Alphabet man did more to fill me with the faith in humanity and the joy of the season that Christmas should inspire than anything else has this year. Which is not to say that I've been feeling Scroogeish at all, but I have been trying to mentally play down the holiday. Anyway, so today I've been feeling very poorly. I think I might ( Read more... )