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Laptop recommendations, please! [Jul. 13th, 2009|05:26 pm] My cable has just finally pretty much died, I managed to get it charging again but I really don't think the it's going to last much longer. It's a shame because the laptop is in fine working order. :-( So I ran up to the laptop shop to see if there was any way of replacing just that bit of cable or if it was repairable, and immediately he just said no lol. I had a look at the laptops in there and a few of them caught my eye, I'm pretty much trying to choose between two (I don't know the model numbers, only the brands): Compaq. 1gb RAM, VERY good graphics card, 160gb (I think) hard drive, which is more than ample for me. £329 £286 HP. 4gb RAM, pretty good graphics card, 250gb hard drive. £429 £373 Any experiences with these brands, either good or bad? Or would you REALLY recommend another brand? (I'm also considering Dell but they cost a bit more than I'd like to spend) I'd like more than 1gb RAM but if Compaq are good, I might look into other laptops of theirs. Link 3 secrets|tell a secret

Now let me tell you about the ultimate chav... [Jul. 13th, 2009|02:55 am] We had THE funniest customer in a couple of days ago. She was your typical 'yeah wotevahhhhhh' girl, trackie sort of bottoms, cleavage everywhere, huge dazzling earrings, chewing gum and rolling eyes, the whole lot. I thought that was bad enough, but then she asked if we do batteries, and I said, 'yeah, what size are you after?' She proceeded to take a battery OUT OF HER BRA. 'Dis wunnnnnn.' Unbelievable. O_O Link 2 secrets|tell a secret

(no subject) [Jul. 13th, 2009|02:12 am] I'm going to go mad mad MAD soon. Guess how many hours I've worked this week. About 62. SIXTY-FUCKING-TWO. I always joke about how I'm going to be a millionaire in a few years, but I bloody hope I am with all the work I'm putting in. Surely it'll all be worth it in the end. Sigh. On a better note, we took £350 today. Our Sunday average is less than £150! And this week, apart from yesterday as it's the Uckfield festival so everyone was festivalling it up, has been pretty excellent. So hey, maybe it will all be worth it. But I really do need a break, and I have a feeling that's not going to come tomorrow. I'm actually preparing myself to be VERY ANGRY tomorrow. But that's another whole story and right now, I'm going to BED. :-p Link tell a secret

Who's touring in the next few months? [Jul. 11th, 2009|09:40 pm] [ grooving to | Philmont - The Difference ] I'm a bit behind with music news, and I just realised I've barely been to any gigs lately. I think the last one I went to was Fightstar in Portsmouth in May. I'm having withdrawal symptoms, I used to go to them every couple of weeks (and it doesn't help that Johnny Panic haven't gigged since December... or that I don't get in for free at the moment, hahaha). I've just received tickets to Jack's Mannequin in September, and now I've got the gig bug. So without going on every band's MySpace or trawling through a million pages of gig sites, tell me who's touring! Apart from the obvious ones like Green Day and Muse. Link 4 secrets|tell a secret

(no subject) [Jul. 8th, 2009|11:00 pm] [ grooving to | The Get Up Kids - Martyr Me ] Well, I've had a much better day today, that's for sure. For one thing, crazy lady didn't come into the shop. However, something else has cropped up now. My laptop cable has broken, luckily it still charges the laptop but it looks like it's been burned through or something (it's been like that for a long time, just we've had it duct taped up) and if I catch the cable with my foot or anything, it sparks. :-| So I'm really worried it's going to conk out any minute. But it should be easy to replace it, right? WRONG. I have to get a whole frigging new charger... which costs a nice £50. It's SO frustrating because I don't even need the damn charger, it's literally just the bit of cable before the bit that plugs into the laptop, but it's not detachable at all. :-( So I'm thinking of getting a new laptop instead but I'm not sure I can afford one. To be honest, I don't like this one much anyway. It's served me really well and I like that it has a huge screen, but I don't like that it means that it's not very portable because it's so heavy. The trackpad doesn't work so without a mouse it's useless. (not that I like the trackpad, but if I take it somewhere and forget the mouse... like I did the other day...) It gets waaaaaaay too hot after a few hours' use. And the speakers are bloody awful. In other news, I'm going through my music to delete everything I don't like any more. There's surprisingly little, I'm going through my 'Rock N - Z' folder and so far I've deleted about 20 songs out of 550ish (it doesn't include albums) and I've only got about 30 more to go through. That said, I still have 'Rock 0 - M' (628 songs), 'Pop' (401 songs) and 'Other' (116 songs), as well as any albums I may not like any more. 4,373 songs on iTunes, there's gotta be a few! But I'm finding soooo many songs I forgot existed. Blow It Out by The Features, anyone remember it? And who knew Skillet were so good! And I forgot I used to love Diamonds And Guns by The Transplants. :-D Ahhh. Speaking of which, I made a huge and very reminiscent playlist the other day, songs that remind me of 2001 - 2003ish. Bowling For Soup - Girl All The Bad Guys Want, Drowning Pool - Bodies, Blink 182 - All The Small Things, Green Day - Poprocks And Coke, Papa Roach - Last Resort, Marilyn Manson - Disposable Teens, Soil - Halo, Sum 41, Good Charlotte... oh, and Scooter - The Logical Song! Good times! :-D Link 3 secrets|tell a secret

(no subject) [Jul. 7th, 2009|11:12 pm] I'm so, so tired of life. I really just need a break. I'm actually tempted to go onto easyJet and just book a flight anywhere, just to get away for a day or two. I've overworked myself so much, Toady warned me that it would get to me eventually but the problem is, I can't do anything about it. There are things that need to be done at the shop, half of it he can't even understand, but there is always so much to do and none of it is getting done because all of a sudden there are ten more things to do on top of everything else. I can't deal with it right now, I'm just so tired. I have to do the accounts which haven't been kept properly up-to-date for over a month now. This is particularly important because the VAT return is due at the end of the month. But all of last week we had deliveries coming in, orders to make, things to tidy, and after this and that, the accounts didn't get done. I had Sunday off, my first day off in over two weeks, so screw that, I'm not going to do bloody paperwork on a rare occasion like that. Yesterday was also my "day off", but I ended up working for seven and a half hours, mostly tidying up. Today, I worked for eleven hours on my own. I can't handle it, it's so depressing knowing that even after all that, there's still so much to do. Tomorrow, we have a big delivery coming and nowhere to put any of it because the fucking tidying is nowhere near done, and on Friday... maybe I'll get the accounts done then. ( a big rant under a cut to save your friends page! ) In other news though, Sunday was AWESOME. The best day I've had off in a loooooooong time. Most of my days off, I just sit at home all day basking in the fact I don't have to do anything. But on Sunday, I went into Brighton to hang out with two people I travelled with in America, and it was really good fun! I met Kate outside Churchill Square and we had a drink before heading down to the beach to find Sam. It was reeeally good reminiscing about the trek, some amazing memories came back, haha! Kate had to leave shortly after, so Sam, her friend Sarah and I went onto the pier, I'd only ever been there once. We didn't bother with any of the rides as they are sooo expensive, but it was fun! Anyway, there you go. Every dark cloud has a silver lining and all that jazz. ;-) I think some sleep could possibly help. Link 3 secrets|tell a secret

Who's seen the Toolstation advert? :-D [Jul. 5th, 2009|01:56 pm] [ grooving to | Jack's Mannequin - Bruised ] MEGA, MEGA LOLZ. How awesome is the guy in the red shirt? Absolute dude! Link tell a secret

I've never seen so much online action at once. [Jun. 25th, 2009|11:35 pm] But it's totally shocking. I'm not even a fan of the guy, but even I'm bloody shocked! I've never seen Facebook statuses or Twitter updated so much in the space of an hour, nor had this many people on MSN at this time!!! Plus LiveJournal seems to have crashed. If it's true, rest in peace Michael Jackson. :-( Link 1 secret|tell a secret

A to-do list which is going to take weeks. [Jun. 21st, 2009|12:37 am] Blog about the flat! Invite new-neighbour-Dan round for introductionzzz and teazzz. TEA, not tease. Gosh, you're dirty. Tidy this table. Tidy the bedroom. [in the process] Tidy the upstairs of the shop. [done but needs a bit more!] Tidy the downstairs of the shop. Tidy the back passage of the shop. [done but needs a bit more] Tidy the stock rooms out the back of the shop. Clear the left aisle of the shop completely. Get the accounts up to date. Finish the shop's website. Update Mum's website. Post madamclaire 's bag, cards & badges. Open a joint bank account. Phone MP Sales and SUE!!! first thing Monday morning. Do some of the increasing amount of paid surveys building up in my inbox. Record a cover of something, probably going to do Fightstar - Paint Your Target. :-) That's a LOT of tidying... and a lot generally. Link tell a secret

NEW FLAT! [Jun. 20th, 2009|11:13 pm] [ grooving to | Demi Lovato - La La Land ] So it's about time I did a blog about this, considering we moved in almost three weeks ago! To be fair, for half of that I was without internet. ;-) In fact, I can't believe it's been three weeks already, it really only feels like it was about a week ago at the ABSOLUTE maximum. How strange. So let me give you a big tour of the wonderful flat! ( pictures pictures pretty pictures, yay flat! ) I love it here so far, we had SO many problems when we moved in though. Firstly, BT screwed up our Internet and the day after we moved in, Toady phoned up to discover that they had got our details wrong so in fact we wouldn't be getting it until the 9th. FRIGGIN' 9th!!!! We were livid, but it's not like we didn't have enough to be getting on with... I guess! Grrr!! Then the toilet was broken. Sadly I found this out when it was too late LOL. Anyway, so we got that replaced and in the meantime we also discovered that the shower didn't work, either. So we got that replaced, too. And luckily, because it was a "newly refurbished flat" when we moved in, we're getting the money back for both. :-D Then the dishwasher ALSO didn't work, and neither did the washing machine, but we managed to work out what was wrong with both of them so it was okay. It was just on top of everything else, it only pissed us off even more! Our lock has also had to be changed because it was really stiff, and we had to get an aerial booster for the TV because we couldn't receive various channels - including E4, which is one of our most-watched channels. Despite the fact we're on the fucking high street of a big town. Go figure! Oh, and we got a new fridge/freezer courtesy of Toady's parents, and the door bloody squeaked EVERY time you opened it, which pissed us off yet more hahaha. It's magically fixed itself now though. :-D I think that's all that went wrong. We do have the privilege of being able to enter all four flats of the building as well, because no one lives in any of them. So that's kinda fun! I love it here though, we're starting to settle in although it's still very weird not being at Toady's parents' house any longer. It's even weirder when we DO go there, having to knock on the door and then not being able to just grab something from the fridge and go upstairs. And then when we do go upstairs, it's really bizarre because our old room has nothing in it any more. Ahhh! Anyway, in exciting news, we have a new neighbour! His name is Dan, he's just moved into the flat opposite us yesterday and it seems like he's having problems as bad as ours... mainly that his water doesn't work!! Ridiculous, I wonder if, when anyone ever moves into the flats upstairs, they'll have just as many problems. Anyway, he seems pretty cool, he's quite young and I think we'll get on with him quite well! Yay! Link tell a secret

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