17 Again

Welcome time cadets. You're probably feeling a little disorientated at the moment if you've just zipped on along from looking at Helen in 1999 so take some time to let your body catch up.

Feeling better? Great. Welcome to 1984, I hope the ride wasn't too bumpy. Once again, I must remind you that there should be no smoking, eating, drinking, video taping or flash photography whilst in the time machine. The first one because it's bad for you. The second two because they are bad for the time machine (crumbs and liquids can play havoc with the circuits). And the third? Well they're bad for me! It's enough that I have all this memorabilia - nobody else needs to have it too!

OK, so here we are in 1984. See that young girl, full of hope and optimism for the future? She's over there, posing prettily on that ugly barbed wire fence? OK, you can see her? Good. Well... that's me! Aahhhh... 1984... I remember...

My hair colour is... brown. Mousy brown if you prefer. Pretty boring and I've not thought about colouring it at this point.
My hair style is... long(ish) and permed. Oh, the perms! Why, why, why do I ever think having a perm is a good idea? I envision flowing soft wavy curls but end up with tight poodle style hair that takes forever to loosen and grow out at which point I do it all over again. Must remember to remind myself of this if I ever decide to have a perm in the future.
My favourite brand of makeup is... nothing really. I've never been one much for makeup. If I do wear anything it's a bit of mascara but to be honest I don't even wear that much.
My "fashionable" item is... that whole plain t-shirt under a more dressy shirt look. Basically what I'm currently wearing. You may not be able to see it from where you're sitting but this green shirt I'm wearing has a pattern of black gridlines all over it and the buttons are black too. I feel really good. Modern. With it.
My favourite outfit is... the one I'm wearing, I love the little ties on the ends of the 3/4 length sleeves. I love to dress up, I love colour but still like to pair it with black. Classy. That's me.
My favourite colour is... red. I know, I know, I'm not wearing red at the moment but it is red. I'm drawn to it like a butterfly to a flower.
I drive a... shhh... don't tell anyone but I haven't passed my driving test yet so I obviously don't have a car. I'm having lessons and hope to pass soon.
On a Saturday I go... in to town with my mum. We shop and shop and shop, well I say shop, we mostly just walk around the shops looking at stuff, then meet up with my aunts, uncles and cousins in a café or restaurant somewhere and have lunch. We'll be in there all day though.
On a Saturday night I go... either round to my boyfriend's house or he'll come mine and we'll watch a couple of videos. Sometimes we'll go out for a drink at a pub somewhere.
On a Sunday I go... nowhere special really. Probably I'll see my boyfriend again and go out for a drive perhaps?
Monday-Friday I go... to work. I work as a junior accounts clerk for a really small firm of accountants called Glyn-May, Bird & Co. Once a week I go to college on day release, I'm working towards getting my AAT qualification.
My best friend(s) is/are... I'm going to have to say Nick, my boyfriend. I don't really have many other friends. He's a 'bit' jealous and possessive you know and so I don't really have any friends outside of him.
My favourite place to go out is... the Grasshopper pub at Ashburton. My boyfriend dj's there sometimes and so I go along with him.
My favourite subject at school is... well, I left school last September, after just a couple of weeks in the 6th form, but it was physics.
When I grow up I want to be... happily married with a couple of children. I'm not sure about this career I've fallen in to, I suppose I'll just see how it goes.
My favourite drink is... pernod, black current juice and lemonade!
My favourite food is... roast. Chicken, beef I don't mind but my absolute favourite is roast belly pork. Yummmm... crackling.
My favourite shop is... Top Shop. It's cheap.
I want to marry... my boyfriend.
My favourite actor/actress is... a toss up between Tom Hanks or Kathleen Turner.
My favourite band is... Wham! George Michael is a girls dream.
My favourite TV programme is... Just Good Friends. Penny and Vincent are so funny.
The one thing I want to do but can't is... I can't think of anything off the top of my head. I'm pretty happy with life at the moment.
My most used mode of transport is a... bus. I have to catch one everyday to and from work. Sometimes my mum or dad will pick me up but not very often. So, it's the bus for me.
If I had all the money in the world I would... love to travel. I've not really been anywhere and there's so many places I'd love to visit.
I wish I could visit... America and see if it's like it is on the telly.
My favourite sport is... gymnastics. I was Devon's under 14s schoolgirl champion but stopped a couple of years ago as I was getting too old. Still love to watch it though.
This autumn I... don't know what I'll be doing. Life is pretty much the same at the moment. Nothing exciting happening.
At Halloween I dressed up as... nothing. We don't really celebrate Halloween in the country. It looks like it's big in America though.
I recently saw... Ghostbusters and thought it was... okay, not as good as it was hyped up to be. Everyone was talking about it and I'd built it up to be so fantastic. Felt let down really.
I am reading... Pride and Prejudice - again! Love, love, love that book.
The big newspaper story this year is... the minor's strikes. I'm not really following it much, it's boring, but it's all over the news.
The most dangerous thing I've ever done... isn't really dangerous, just stupid. I shoplifted some sweets from a shop near school. I was 12 or 13 and all my friends were doing it so I just did it too. I got caught. First and only time and I got caught. Probably a good thing though, except it didn't feel like it at the time because the school called mum and dad!
The furthest away from home I've ever been is... up to Cambridge to see dad's family. They all live up there. At the moment I'm in North Wales so pretty far from my home in Plymouth.

Ok, time cadets I'm sorry I wish we could stay longer but time waits for no man (hahahaha) and we need to move on so please strap yourselves in and get ready to travel forward to 1995 where we'll be able to catch up with Caroline and see what's she's up to.

We Are (Almost) Ready For Launch

Are you ready cadets? This is mission control. Please remain seated at all times. Keep your arms and legs inside. No smoking, eating, drinking, video taping or flash photography. We are (almost) ready for launch.

Be prepared to go on a journey through time, not space. Check in will be at 4pm tomorrow, Monday 30th November 2009, and be afraid, be very afraid. Warning: links may include dodgy 70s clothes, scary 80s hair, or 90s, well, can't think of anything too bad with the 90s so you may be alright with those!

Today

Let's talk playlists. Today I'm listening to:

• Crazy In Love - Beyoncé


• Happy Day - Tim Hughes


• Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) - Beyoncé


• Feeling Good - Michael Bublé


• Love Song - Sara Bareilles


• Low - Flo Rida


• Off I Go - Greg Laswell


• Umbrella (Christ Mix) - Coffey Anderson


• 7 Things - Miley Cyrus


• Toxic - Britney Spears


• How You Remind Me - Nickelback


• Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers


• Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol


• The Man Who Can't Be Moved - The Script


• I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas


• 1234 - Feist


• Another Now - Kate Alexa


• Big Girls Don't Cry - Fergie


• Flightless Bird, American Mouth - Iron & Wine


• Don't Speak - No Doubt


• That's Not My Name - The Ting Tings


• Hurt - Christina Aguilera

Quite a mix. Particularly loving 'Off I Go', 'Hurt' and 'Feeling Good'. What are you listening to?

Freebie Friday #2

Yay! At last. Apologies for the delay but I do have an excuse. In fact 78 of them. That's how many cupcakes I have made today. To say I'm physically exhausted is an understatement. Anyway, more on that another day.

This has obviously meant though that it's taken me longer than I thought to get this weeks freebie online and posted. But the wait is over. Welcome to Part I of my Kit's Kitschen digital kit.

Hope you like them. Just click on the 'Download Now' button and Bob's your uncle. Which for most people would be very odd but for me it isn't because I DO have an uncle called Bob!

Please let me know what you think of them again if you create something with them please post a link and let me see. Thank you.

Watch This Space

Freebie Friday #2 will be arriving later today.

This week and over the next few weeks I've decided to try out something new. A whole digital kit. Each week I will post a download link to different parts of the kit, which if you come back each week and download you'll eventually end up with a whole kit. I've not done this before. Finished a kit that is. So hopefully this will spur me on to do just that.

So what's on the menu this week? Some beautiful softly embossed dotted papers. Don't forget to pop back later today and check it out.

So...?

What's occurin'? I'll tell you what's occurin'. Gavin and Stacey. That's what. Ow, I'm not gonna lie to you... it's lush, it is... crackin'!

All of which will only make sense to those of you who've watched it.

Top Kit Tip Tuesday

I imagine there are a lot of you out there currently thinking, planning and preparing for Shim's Journal Your Christmas class. I'm right there with  you.

This will be my 3rd year of taking this class (remember you only pay for the class the first year and thereafter you get to do it again, and again, forever at no cost! FREE). However, I've not yet completed an album. I want to mumble in a very quiet voice here, as I am ashamed to say, that I've pretty much only kept up for the first 3 or so prompts.

But not this year. Oh, no siree! No, I'm not going to put undue pressure on myself but, thanks to Shim's Blogging for Scrapbookers class, I'm going to utilise my blog to help me. If I don't have time to sit down and create I know I will have time to just jot down a few notes or post a photo as a memory aide. That way I'll be able to go back over my posts and catch up as and when I have extra time. Clever, eh?

So, on to the point of this post. Digital Christmas kits. There are some great kits out there, along with some, shall we say, not so good kits! These are some of the ones I'm currently loving, in no particular order (just click on the thumbnail and it should take you to that store):









Some of those kits have some great add-ons too so don't forget to check them out too. And here is a bunch of other random Christmas/Winter stuff I just really like the look of: