Saturday Summary

What I've Been Doing...

It's no surprise to anyone, that part of this week has been spent putting together a few of the major details for Girls Day Out which is only three weeks away (hurrah!) We've had a lot more ladies show an interest over the week, so I'm no longer convinced that it's going to be a huge disaster.

For anyone who has missed our plugging, Girls Day Out takes place in Leeds, on Saturday August 13th 2011 and everyone is invited. We're meeting at The Corn Exchange at 10am (Katie will be carrying a helium balloon, so if you see (or hear) a crazy lady with a balloon, yeah, that'll be us!!!). Then there will be lots of shopping, and lunch will (hopefully) be at the Red Hot World Buffet.

There's still a week to go, to let us know if you're coming or not, before we book a table, so get moving :D

The Event Page is riiiight here.

In other news, work has been crazy busy, hence the slight lack of many posts this week. 

Checking Out...

Anyone who follows me on Twitter might have seen me raving about this fantastic UK Bloggers Map, which lets you see where all beauty, fashion and lifestyle bloggers are located right across the UK. And of course, the most important part, you can add yourself to the map too. How brilliant is that?

Creator Hayley took the idea from Rose a la Mode's Style Bloggers Map, and I hope that everyone gets their blog on the map ;)

Reading...

I finished reading Gone last Saturday, and I quickly got into reading Hunger Games, which I had heard so much about from various people. To say that I got hooked to this book is a complete understatement. I started reading it Saturday evening, and finished it in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Intending to pick up the second book in the trilogy next week, and I'm now looking forward to the film eeee!! I'm also hoping to read I am Number Four, when the other half finishes reading it.

Watching...

"I'm Mike Loooooowrey!"

Michael Bay's Directorial debut makes it no huge shocker of my love for this film, but it's weird because I don't really have any explanation of why exactly I love Bad Boys so much. Well the rather yummy Will Smith may have had a little something to do with it, plus the chemistry between Smith and Martin Lawrence is just perfect.

I actually missed the first 30 minutes or so of this on Channel 5 the other day, but that's okay, it means I missed all the boring stuff right ;)

Listening to...

Distant Worlds is the concert that I'm going to in November, so last night, whilst doing work, I decided to belt out some tunes from the Distant Worlds album on Spotify. I don't think that I will ever bore of the music from these games. Nobuo Uematsu is just a living LEGEND.

What have you all been up to this week?

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Saturday Summary

What I've Been Doing...

I haven't really mentioned it in a while, but this week I've been preparing a couple of fun games for us to do during Girls Day Out. I'm worried that I've been making things a little too hard, or too easy (ARGH!)

If anyone is interested in coming to Girls Day Out, and hasn't expressed at interest, there is of course still time. 

I'd really love to have an idea of numbers by the end of July, but absolutely everyone is welcome to come :)

Checking Out...

Well, of course there's my confessional, over at Jane's Modesty Brown blog, which you can check out here, but I also played a little part, in a recent post of Liloo's regarding darn Twittascope, so if you have Twittascope and want to get rid of, or maybe you're absolutely sick of seeing other people's horoscopes in your timeline, then Liloo's post is most definitely one to check out!!

Reading...

I'm not a very fast reader, so I'm still reading Gone, as I was last week, but after taking photo's of Harry Potter on Thursday for yesterdays post, I am really tempted to read them all again...!

Watching...

I'm one of "that" generation that didn't grow up with Doctor Who, because it wasn't really much on TV during 99% of the 1990s and half of the 2000s, so I kinda bypassed it, and I really can not watch the new ones, despite how awesome David Tennant was, purely because I can't help feeling like it's incredibly "dumbed-down". 

I think that's why I really fell in love with Torchwood, because it feels like everything that I expected of Doctor Who. It's intelligent, with strong characters, great plotlines and not in the slightest dumbed down. 

So, you can imagine how excited I was to discover that it was FINALLY coming back, after two years. And it didn't even bother me that it was predominantly going to be "American".

And then I watched it...and....it SUCKED! 

It just does not feel like Torchwood anymore...I dunno, maybe it'll get better. We'll see I suppose.

Listening to...

Well I've just discovered that I have missed two albums by Plain White T's so I have been catching up on those...scandalous I tell you!! And very shameful. But thank goodness for Spotify!! :)

So that has been my week, what have you all been up to? :D

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Checking Out...

 Sarah from Sarah Sees All, has set up a great new forum:

Head over to the Beauty, Fashion, Lifestyle Forum and get chatting about all these beautiful, fashionable, blogging and life related. 

As Sarah points out, it's a much better way of chatting about the things we love, without being restricted by the 140 character limit that Twitter shoves on us.

Reading...

Gone by Michael Grant

The story of what happens when everyone aged fifteen and over just disappears, this really intrigued me, and I appear to be really zapping through this one! I'm definitely enjoying it, and don't think that it'll take me long to finish it :)

Watching...

Shameless USA

I know that a lot of people haven't really had a very high opinion of the US take on Shameless, but I've actually been really enjoying it. And yes, I say that as a fan of the British version too.

William H Macy has always been one of those actors that I've never really seen the point of. He's been everywhere, but never made that big of an impression in any role. But, as Frank, he seems to have his perfect role. Of course, he is absolutely nothing like David Threlfall who plays our Frank (I don't think anyone ever will be), but he plays a very different Frank, and I kind of like it.

I think that this one can be enjoyed, as long as you try to forget our version, which is kinda hard, I know.

Listening to...

Transformers: Dark of the Moon Soundtrack

If you didn't already know, I am a huge Transformers fan (I actually saw the first one at the Cinema four times...oh yes!) And the fact that Linkin Park always do the theme tune for these films, always feels like the real icing on the cake.

There wasn't really much of a soundtrack to this film, and Linkin Park, Paramore and Biffy Clyro were the only ones that featured prominently, but there are still some awesome tracks on this album.

There doesn't appear to be a score soundtrack for this film, which is a damn shame, because composer Steve Jablonsky (you might know his music from Desperate Housewives) has done a fantastic job with the films score, just like he did with the previous two!

What have you been up to this week? :)

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Saturday Summary

I've never done one of these summary posts before, but I was drawing a blank over what to blog about today, so I decided to do a quick one for you guys :)

Photograph by Hugo Burnand

• The photo above pretty much sums up what the majority of this past week has been all about. On one hand, I am very glad that the Royal Wedding has happened, as I was started to get tired of the media hype and all the press releases for some of the most ridiculous wedding-related products. The only product that I have been remotely tempted to buy has been this adorable doll from Momiji, and I am very tempted to pre-order this from here. 

Image by Momiji

• On the subject of weddings, this week has also been overrun with another, and that of my brothers. In four weeks, I'll be heading off to Turkey, but in the meantime I've been desperately trying to figure out what the heck I'm going to wear. Regular bloggers will know that I've picked out my dress, but I've also decided that I'm going to order a Lucky Dip from Temporary: Secretary for my jewellery, which rules out any "I can't decide" arguments, with myself.
• I've been really snowed under with work this week, which is great, because I love being kept busy.
• I've also been keeping myself extra, extra busy putting together ideas for a Secret New Business Venture, that I am hoping to launch later in the year. At the minute, it's all maybes and ideas, but I'm looking forward to perhaps taking my business down a slightly different path.
• I'm planning on getting my hair cut in a few weeks, for the first time in ages, so I've been looking through magazines trying to get some ideas together.

Listening to: Linkin Park - Meteora (Yeah, I've been having a good old trip down Memory Lane, this week!)

Loving: The official photos of the Royal Wedding. I have strong hopes that they stay together a lot longer than Charles and Diana. The little glances between the couple during the ceremony were so sweet, and I thought that Kate (and of course Pippa) looked incredible. Although, I wish she'd toned down the eye liner on her lower lid. It sort of aged her a little bit, which was unfortunate.

Hating: The Royal Family haters claiming that they waste all of our tax-paying money. All I'll say is: If you had your way, and we lost the Royal Family, we'd lose more money from the lack of Tourism, than the money we'd save not having the Royals.

What have you guys been up to this week? What did you think of Kate's outfit, and do you see a long, bright future for the happy couple? 

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