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LJ was driving me insane yesterday, and I'm feeling a little disconnected simply because it's so much effort to make a comment, post etc when you have to refresh, copy, paste your words over and over. That's not including the times I forgot and saw the things disappear into cyber space. Cue much cursing from me. Last night I was so pissed off I gave up and watched the séance on TV which passed an hour. James was really into it and seemed a little gutted when the presenter said he'd tricked people. Anyway, I couldn't give up so did some research and someone suggested it might be a firewall problem. I use two firewalls anyway, so I've disabled the Norton one and it seems to be working so far *crosses fingers*

Last night wasn't helped by a visit from mam. I know she hasn't got much money at the moment, but coming down here after she's been out all day, standing saying she's had nothing to eat for days then talking food from Corey's plate saying she's starving isn't on. Nor is saying things like 'wow, I see food' when I give her stuff from our freezer/fridge. I'll give her stuff no problem, I buy her food when we get ours, but really any sympathy I have is washed away as she's out most days. It just doesn't add up in my mind. Okay, ending the moaning now.

It's Corey's half term this week, and really the person who gave him a magic kit for Christmas needs their head examining.Do you know how frustrating it is trying to make lengths of cord magically change length? There's been many tantrums and throwing of fuzzy balls in the turps house, and not just by Corey ;)

I'm seriously thinking about joining the JC ficathon which is insane as I have far too much to write as it is. Talking of that. How long's a ficathon supposed to be anyway? I know it's 1000 words and over but a lot of stories seem to be pretty short. So I was wondering if there's a vague word count most people use.

While I'm asking questions. Does anyone know of an online store that sells rainbow stuff? Kay's going to pride and she has her heart set on wearing a rainbow belt there. She found one but it's overseas and has no shipping prices and when we e-mailed they didn't reply. Somewhere in the UK would probably be best but right now I'll take anywhere as long as the shipping is reasonable.

To end I'm going to leave you with something James brought home last night. Some of you know he's a team leader at the inland revenue. His team wrote the following for him yesterday, so when you're on the phone about tax credits know what the advisors are really doing ;)

( poem here )

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I think I may have cracked the whole LJ problem. It took downloading new software, using spy ware and modifying my browser but it seems so much better. Plus if it goes wrong again I just think of goat burgers *g* It also appears that BT yahoo has a good browser that you can download complete with pop up stopper and parental controls, which is great. It's about time BT did something good, the money grabbing bastards. You don't know how good it feels to be able to actually comment and answer comments without refreshing at least ten times. It still bugs out sometimes but compared to the last few weeks it's perfect.

Putting on my pimp hat for a moment. jaciesplace has been a busy girl. First I want to pimp the comm she runs popcomm It's a place to discuss pop related things, recs etc and Jacie's a lovely mod, so you should take a look. She's also taken over the TrickC archive and really the world needs as much TrickC as it can get so go take a look

It seems I've also joined the JC ficathon, which yeah is insane. I wasn't going to but I kept seeing all these people from my flist join, and man I'm a god damn sheep. I did have to laugh at myself for the fact that when it asks for what I want I yet again asked for h/c. Am I predictable or what? I should just have a saved list saying I adore hurt, give me some comfort and I'll be the happiest bunny ever.