Frugal Fresian's 2010 Adventures

beanielou

Where the weedge?
I is thick.

sashybo

beanielou wrote: »

Where the weedge?
I is thick.

* sticks head in* Glasgow *removes head and resumes lurking* :whistle:

tomtombeanie

flying_fresian wrote: »

Last week I was 1169 calories under the target set for me and burned nearly 800 in exercise (Just walking, nothing more exciting yet)

what do we think, regular readers? is she withholding something from us? ;););) :rotfl:

well done, fresian! it's amazing how walking does make a big difference - as i have discovered since being with dog...

mooomin

I'm enjoying the amount of time I'm getting to use the phrase "volcanic eruption stops flights" at work today

mooomin

Evening all!

Not a great day today in Fresian Towers - although I managed to get 45 minutes of overtime in this morning, I ended up going home sick as I had really bad stomach pains. Not sure what was wrong, but sleeping for two hours as soon as I got home seemed to do the trick. I'm still not feeling amazing, but a lot better than I was. I think that when I'm off next week I will need to make an appointment with the doctors (No, Beanie, I haven't done it yet. Sorry!!)

In better news, I have been passing my evening entering loads of competitions - I don't have time to enter all the ones on the comps board, so every so often I will do catchups - and trying to keep going with T0luna surveys. I got a really good one - because I had ordered pizza online within the last month, the survey company wants me to do the same again within the next week and they will reimburse me for up to £18 Free pizza for the Fresians :j I will need to make sure that I allocate that as my no-diet day! The thought of it is not appealing today, so that will be something for when I'm feeling better.

No other news really, no comping wins and the budgeteering is ticking over nicely. I did have to borrow £10 from someone today at work to get home as I was too ill for the bus. I have the cash to repay her on Monday though. I also need to go out and about tomorrow and buy a new mouse. Ours is randomly double-clicking which is a royal pain in the !!! for me, and makes gaming hard for Mr F. A little money taken out of the Debt-Free Pot, but happier Fresians all round.

Better go - more comps to enter before bed and I want to get a decent nights sleep as I'm meant to be doing more overtime tomorrow.

honeybear_2

Hi Ms Fresian

Hope you're feeling better today?

Wondered what you thought to Dr Who last night? I was less than impressed...

mooomin

honeybear wrote: »

Hope you're feeling better today?

Wondered what you thought to Dr Who last night? I was less than impressed...

Feeling much better, thanks for asking!

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I enjoyed Doctor Who last night, I always like a good Dalek episode! The bit where he was threatening them with a Jammy Dodger I thought was hilarious! I wasn't convinced towards the end when he was trying to stop the android exploding, I thought that thinking of the people you loved was quite cheesy, but reflecting upon it this morning I really liked it and here's why....

The Doctor kept focussing on the death side, remembering the pain and the suffering to get the android in touch with his human side, but Amy went for the love and happiness angle and won the day, something we saw in the previous episode too with the Starwhale. I think that she's going to help the Doctor to remember his more compassionate side and be less of the vengeful Doctor that David Tennant was in danger of becoming. Also, I'm very intrigued as to why she hasn't seen Daleks before and didn't remember them. They did the same thing with Donna but seemed to just make her a bit dozy and always missing things for various reasons, I think that something more sinister is happening which will change the timeline. I love thinking of things to come!!

Also, very much looking forward to next weeks episode with River Song and the Creepy !!! Angels. They freaked me out during the Blink episode and Mr Fresian is on standby to watch next weeks episode with me!

Hmmm....rambled on there, but I liked it!

mooomin

Need to stop using the Grabbit board. The only thing it grabs is my Mastercard

Still, two pairs of Swarowski (sp??) earrings for 50p each isn't to be sneezed at, and if I don't like them for me they shall go to other folk for Christmas.

Really bored today, yet not bored enough to do housework....

honeybear_2

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I know where you're coming from about next week's episode - I'm kind of looking forward to it yet dreading it!


Things I liked about the one yesterday were:

• the jammy dodger
• the return of the Daleks
• the weirdness surrounding the fact Amy doesn't know them

Things I didn't like:

• several glaring continuity issues, especially the side to face on shots of Amy & Churchill looking at the TARDIS - totally different expressions going on
• the Daleks - are they getting them from IKEA these days?
• Churchill - one of our greatest leaders as a lovable old duffer? I think not!
• the tone of the episode - felt it was really dumbing down

I'm still not sure I get what the point of Amy is either. So far she's not struck me as that smart or funny or interesting, & I think a Companion ought to be one of those

Ok, sorry, rant over

DedicatedDFW

Ooh! Those would definitely make fab presents! Any link as I can't find them on grabbit?