Thrusters on full

Sea Patrol 3x13 - Red Reef

2009-07-28T06:38:32Z

The final of Sea Patrol was really quite awesome! With all the stuff they blew up, lots of gun usage, Mike being awesome and it was just really fun! So instead of trying to write down all my thoughts I'm picspamming it because I feel the need...

Gotta love Buffer stalking through the jungle after dodgy guys with his large gun...

I loved RO going through the dead guys bag and Kate being horrified at him. He looks like he's having a bit too much fun with it in the first cap...and I also love the fact that he put on the guy's jacket later.

I really did enjoy seeing Blair McDonough in this series, even if he was a dodgy guy (but he got a gun so it's not all bad).
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Just because the Hammersley is pretty and awesome

Mike just being awesome and looking out at sea

And we got intense angry Mike! Which is always fun.

Along with boarding party Mike! He really has far too much fun.

...very sneaky

RO and Bomber were also being rather sneaky

That is until RO almost got himself hit by the tanker

Swain got to play with a really big gun as well! And just generally be his awesome self.

And then we get Mike being all intense with a gun! Mike with weapons is always fun and a bit rare actually.

And then the oil tanker blows up because explosions make everything far more dramatic.

Mike then gets even more awesome and rescues Kate.

"You scrub up alright" Could you be any more obvious Mike?!

And then it ends with Mike being all awesome and captainy, I love how teamy they all are now.

NZ Horse of the Year Show 2009

2009-03-29T20:51:41Z

Here are some of the photos I took at the Horse of the Year Show on the 22 of March,I'm editing together a video as well but it'll probably take me a while to finish because of uni stuff.

One of the endurance winners doing their victory lap,

Landioso and Jody Hartstone in the Dressage,he's 22 years old!

They won it,

Doing their victory lap,

This was the Olympic Cup showjumping,first prize was about $200,000,
Black Boy and Anna Stephen,

Seremonie V DL and Ike Unsworth,

Sacred Hill Answer Back and Claire Wilson,

Likeable NZPH and Samantha Peters,this horse jumped this fence huge! The jumps in this class were massive as well,the biggest was 1.60m.

Swinger and Simon Wilson,

Koyuna Sun Set and Wendy Schafeffer,

Kahurangi Valentino and Catherine Cameron,

Suzuki and Bernard Denton,

Pico Bello! I love this horse!

Zibbibo and Maurice Beatson,

Vangelo Des Hazelles and Jamie Winning,

Copabella Haymen and Julia Hargreaves,

Lindberg Des Hetteyes and Samantha McIntosh,

Air Hill The Rajah and Sue Thompson-Brown,

Cheltenham and Brad Cunningham,

Ashleigh Drobbe Dan and Laurie Lever,

Right Royal and Simon Wilson,

Dunstan Forest II and Katie McVean,

One of the place getters in the speed pony class,this pony bucked pretty much the whole time,

The second round of the Olympic Cup,

Air Hill The Rajah and Sue Thompson-Brown,

Koyuna Ted and Becky Allen,

Zibbibo and Maurice Beatson,

Lindberg Des Heyettes and Samantha McIntosh,

Vaneglo Des Hazelles and Jamie Winning,

A video of that - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41PU71Rbrcc

The Winners,Peter McMahon (An Aussie) won with K.S. Genoa,they were the only ones to go double clear.

Peter McMahon on his victory lap,

crisper_critter @ 2009-03-22T21:31:00

2009-03-22T08:35:34Z

Last night I went and hung with Fiona and we watched "Driven" which is a very funny episode of NCIS, then we randomly decided to watch some X-Files because we hadn't for months!
At about midnight she thought it would be a good idea to drive down to Tally and put on his cover as it was raining and really cold but the gates to the Equestrian Centre were padlocked so that idea was killed.
We got back to the halls at uni where she lives and because it was a Saturday night and everyone with lives had gone to town the common rooms were empty so we took one over with Sea Patrol,it was so much fun! We got some odd looks from people returning from town though because no-one really uses those common rooms at that time of night...I ended up staying there until half past two and then drove back to the flat,it's really fun driving at that time of the morning.
Then I had to get up again seven and get my stuff ready and go back to Fiona's room at the halls where we were picked up by her Mum and went up to Horse of the Year.
It was a good day,I bought some joint supplement for Biddy and the cats and some more of the horse version as well for Joe,I ended up talking to the woman in that tent for quite a while just raving on about how awesome their products are.
The show-jumping wasn't as good as last year,it was won by an Aussie *boo* and there were hardly any clear rounds,I got 381 photos and videos now which will all need sorting through and cropping etc which I don't have time for tonight because I have to go and research information on octopus reproduction for tomorrow since I left it until the last minute.

But! I got to see Pico Bello! He was my favourite horse for years,he is so sexy,but he was sold to an Australian two years ago and has been in Aussie since but he was there today! So he didn't do all that great but I got to see him!

crisper_critter @ 2009-02-18T21:12:00

2009-02-18T08:18:57Z

~~Gah I just spent ages cropping photos and photobucket is in maintenance mode I can't upload them so I'll have to do that later, how typical.~~

Good things came in the mail today. I got a new card credit card! It's black and sparkly and pretty, I couldn't use my old one because they fucked up and issued me two and I don't think I ever got the one that actually worked. But now I have a working one, I probably won't use it much, only when I need to order something online and you can pay by bank transfer. Plus it only has a $500 limit so it's not like I can go mad with it. And the other bit of good news to come in the mail was from studylink saying that my scholarship for this year had been approved, so yay! It is so awesome, it means I only pay $1000 towards my study fees and studylink pays the rest. I still need to sort out my loan/allowance because I'm not going to be getting any money until that is is done but I need a letter from the accountant which hasn't come yet.

Cooked french toast for breakfast for me and my sister, was fucking awesome.

I also gave my saddle it's end of summer clean and pretty much packed it away, it's coming for a trip down to uni with me though because my mate wants to try it out on her horse.

My sister and I went down to the beach later in the afternoon with the dogs and went for a bit of a paddle in the sea...last time I will go to the beach this summer...strange to think about.

And then tomorrow I'll spend most of the day packing and perhaps go out to dinner,we'll see.

I love playing with this setting on my camera,

crisper_critter @ 2009-02-17T17:26:00

2009-02-17T04:37:07Z

Haven't updated in a few days because nothing updateable has happened.

I rode Chunky yesterday...no the day before and it was alright but he was nappy and gah I just can't be bothered having to fight with him at the moment, it's ok if I am in the mood but I'm kind of sick of it and I think he's bored of always just hacking up the same bit of road but ah well. And the weather has been raining so it's not the most inspiring weather to ride in.

I got a haircut today, it's short! I had pretty much half of it cut off because it had just gotten stupidly long and it was really annoying. So now it's so short that I can *just* tie it up and it's layered and shaped which is nice,it looks quite different though.

Also changed my layout,yay!

I'm watching Third Watch at the moment, I think I can remember this episode,I'm not sure...but Vibe is up to season six now which is when I started watching it. And I really want to see the 100th episode because back in the day at the hostel we had to go to bed at 9.00 and TW went until 9.30 so I only saw half, I might look up which episode it is and see if it's going to be on tv anytime soon. And I really love Carlos' hair in this season...I have a thing about hair.

While I was waiting for Third Watch to come on I was half watching the court shows on before it, and my god what a fucking waste of television they are. On Judge Judy the case was some woman who had taken her 6 year old daughter on a go kart ride and her husbands best mate had bumped into the back of their go kart and caused her daughter to hurt her neck and the woman was sueing him. Just WTF?! accidents happen it doesn't mean you have to fucking sue them, I don't think she won but then I didn't really care. It was so pathetic and just ugh.

Uh I'm going back to Palmy on Friday and I am kind of looking forward to it, especially just gaining my independence again really and I've just gotten bored of not doing anything.

EDIT - Oh god the guy playing the suicide victim in this episode is the guy who plays Randy on My Name is Earl...this is really odd. And another odd thing is the guy who plays the Dad of JJ's baby on Criminal Mind's has just started on TW and he looks so young! And doesn't have the amusing Southern accent that he has on CM.

Top Gear Live Auckland - 12th February 2009

2009-02-13T06:57:22Z

Here's my report for Top Gear Live that I went to see last night in Auckland, it'll probably get pretty long and contain a lot of photos and videos.

We arrived down in Auckland at around half past five and the show started at half six so we went to Burger King to get a feed and then went to the showgrounds where it was being held. My brother had brought his "I am the Stig" t-shirt to wear but he chickened out of wearing it because he thought he would look like a dick and as my cousin said to him "It would be like wearing a t-shirt that said "I am Jesus" and walking into church".
After battling through the crowds and waiting in line for a while we found our seats, our seats were in row B and to the left of the stage so we were really close and had a great view. It took quite a while for everyone to get seated as they had ushers directing each person to their seats so the show didn't start until about quarter to seven. There were some live ads to start with, one for Shell which involved a van lifting up and an F1 car emerging from the bottom of it which was quite impressive and there was also one for Ford Mondeo which just involved a Mondeo hooning around the stage.
And then Richard and Jeremy came onto stage, Richard was driving a Porsche and Jeremy a Mercedes. They introduced the show and explained that James May wasn't there as when they arrived in New Zealand he had disappeared to K Rd and hadn't been seen since, they had a photoshopped picture of him dressed up in a mardi gras outfit. They also joked about the Stig being a New Zealander and showed a clip of him chasing after some sheep and said that he should be called "The Stug" instead.
Greg Murphy then made his entrance onto the stage in one of the Greg Murphy edition Holden Commodores. It had a personalised plate of "Murf 01" and Jeremy gave him shit about that and said with a personalised car and number plate he must have the smallest gentials in the world.

Video of his entrance,

Jeremy and Richard,

Greg Murphy,

After this there was the "Top Gear Stunt Driving Team" which were four Suzuki Swifts which did some impressive maneuvers on the stage. Once they had finished they showed a clip of Jeremy driving the Peel 50 and then they went on to say they had a challenge to make a car even smaller than that and race them between themselves.

Richard's was some sort of childs bike mounted onto sandpaper wheels, Greg's was a suitcase which folded out,inside the suitcase was a pink bikini and some furry handcuffs and Greg joked that he had used James May's suitcase to make it. Jeremy's car was fashioned out of some cowboy boots,jeans and a shirt and it was a car that you wore, it also had a mini sort of jet engine to power it.

They had a race around the stage, it was three laps I think, Richard's car broke and the steering wheel fell off which caused it to just go around in circles, Greg fell out of his car and then tried to start it again without him in it and it shot across the stage away from it and Jeremy won of course. So Richard and Greg had to suffer their punishments for losing.

Richard and his steering wheel,

Richard's punishment was to have a motorbike jump over him and then be "parked up his buttcrack"

He didn't enjoy that too much,

They then introduced the "Colander of Death" which was a big circular metal cage which the guy on the motorbike drove around inside,it was really impressive! Greg Murphy's punishment was to stand inside the Colander of Death while the guy drove around inside.

Greg Murphy then removed himself from the cage and they introduced another motorbike which drove around inside with the first one but it got more impressive because they then introduced a 3rd and 4th motorbike and it ended up with four motorbikes all driving around inside at the same time,it was so nuts!

I'm pretty sure that after this there was a display by a Holden Commodore and a dancer with a stick, the dancer just did some moves while the Commodore drove around her as Jeremy said when they came back on stage "by adding a dancer we turned just a car hooning around into theatre". Then it was time for the cool wall!

Jeremy and Richard then went and stood up in the audience where Jeremy found Jesus who happened to drive a BMW. They had given out cards that were green on oneside and red on the other so you held them up to vote if a car was cool or uncool. I got confused and thought that green was cool and red was uncool when really it was the other way around. So they brought out a variety of nice cars including,

After the cool wall a drum set that had been made from various parts from cars was brought out and some drummer (his name escapes me) had a bit of a play on it.

They then introduced a new game that they had invented which was pretty much ten pin bowling using a shopping trolley. Greg Murphy got into the shopping trolley and the golf cart that was behind it was replaced with a Ford Mustang and Jeremy got behind the wheel....

After this they had the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car segment. They showed a little montage of various celebs going around the course,I got excited about the fact they had a clip of David Tennant yelling "speed up!" from when he did his lap. Then they showed more footage of a real time lap of the track done by attaching a camera to the car driving around it just so we could get a feel for what the track was actually like. The audience then did the lap which was done by using noise to accerlate the car and the red and green cards to turn it. Our laptime wasn't too great, Jeremy took a photo of a member of the audience to represent us (it was some women with a lot of cleavage), they showed us some other photos on the board and they were all of womens legs or breasts haha.

They then had a little car soccer game between New Zealand and England, Greg Murphy captained the NZ team while Richard was the captain of the English team and Jeremy was the ref.

The last segment involved the Stig, they showed another little clip of Jeremy trying to dodge the Apache helicopter and then the Stig came out and got into a Lotus Exige. He had to avoid the Apache Helicopter shooting at the car, this was done by having a 3D Helicopter (I'm stupid and lost my 3D glasses so couldn't experience the 3Dness of it) and the Stug drove around and there were explosions which was fun.

And then it was all over,

It was such a great show and it was awesome to see Richard and Jeremy in person.

crisper_critter @ 2009-02-12T21:59:00

2009-02-12T09:06:09Z

Ah it's been a long day.

In the morning I went down to Albany with my sister and one of her mates to go shopping. I went to JB and got me some Sea Patrol and then to Borders where I read Torchwood and Doctor Who books for a while and then I went to K-mart and got a little toy of Julian the Lemur from the Madgascar movie,I'm not sure why I got it...but it was cute and cheap! We left after that.

Got home and then turned around and went back to Auckland pretty much straight away because we were gojng to Top Gear Live,just got back from it and it was so awesome! I have heaps of photos and videos that I need to edit and upload but I'll do that tomorrow because I am about to crash and go watch Sea Patrol.

Oh and other good things which happened today; I can get a student allowance again this year, yay! It means I don't have to get a student loan which I wasn't keen on and also my papers this year have been confirmed so I don't have to be back in Palmy by Friday like I thought.

crisper_critter @ 2009-02-10T16:44:00

2009-02-10T03:56:31Z

It's raining! We haven't had real rain since before Christmas so its so nice to finally get some because we really did need it,everything was turning an unhealthy shade of brown. So it's been raining off and on all day which gave me a perfect excuse to stay in my pajamas all day and do fuck all.

On Sunday the weather was gorgeous and really hot so Chunky got a bath which didn't amuse him at all, the only time he stood still was when I cleaned his sheath,he enjoys it which kinda makes you feel like a pervert when you clean it but ah well that job is done for another year or so. He also stood still when I took a video,he just stared at the camera for ages which was kinda amusing,he thinks he's so sexy.

His "I am not amused" face,

This why I'm not supposed to tie him up to the wall,

Soapy pony!

Walking back to the shed afterwards,

Looking cute,

And of course he has to roll,

I was planning on riding him that evening when it had cooled down but we went over to our mates new house in Omaha for dinner. It was so good, they had been out scalloping in the morning and we had about 120 scallops to eat,yum! So that was good.

And that's about all that has been happening,I got my GPS in the mail today which was exciting, I really needed to buy one because I have no sense of direction at all so I will be able to try that out when I drive back to Palmy next week (!).

Oh and Top Gear Live in three days! So excited!

crisper_critter @ 2009-02-07T20:16:00

2009-02-07T07:31:34Z

Gah it has been so hot and it's going to get even hotter, it should be close to 30 degrees tomorrow which isn't too hot but it's hot for where I live. Although the sky was perfectly blue today and it did look rather impressive,but I have a feeling I may be spending a lot of time in the pool over the next few days.

I had to milk this afternoon because my parents went to their mates wedding anniversary party. I haven't had to start off the milking by myself before but it was really pretty easy,you just have to turn some taps and then push the big green button to start the milking machine. My brother helped me as well because I am a bit slow by myself but it didn't take as long and by the time my Dad came down the last row had their cups on and he finished off and hosed down which was good.

Then after dinner I took Chunky for a hack because I haven't ridden him all week and I'm glad I was feeling confident because he put up a bit of a fight. It started out okay but we got to the road and he decided to nap and then I heard a car coming so I stood him on the side of the road to wait for it to go past but they didn't slow down at all and Chunky was standing with his bum to the car so it came up behind him which freaked him out a bit and he was dancing around. And then he refused to walk forward again up the road and he reared (it was only tiny though) and kept trying to head for home but I won that little fight.
Ah we got to about the cowshed before we had our next big fight,he napped like a total bugger and didn't want to walk forward at all so after about five minutes of fighting I won that round as well and we managed to get the top of the hill just past the cowshed where I decided I wouldn't push him on any further and turned him for home. We had a good long trot up the road most of the way home but this hyped him up and refused to walk calmly up the drive,he was such a sweaty mess at the end of it.

So tomorrow I might just ride him in the paddock and perhaps do some jumping.

I really need to take and post some photos as well.

crisper_critter @ 2009-02-01T19:09:00

2009-02-01T06:18:08Z

I knew there was a reason why I don't ride when it's windy....it sends Chunky nuts.

I decided that I should actually do something day other than just obsess about David Tennant so I went around the farm and opened the gates so we could go up the race and then through the paddocks.

So I went and got Chunky and got on him and we started by spooking at the same place on the driveway that he always spooks at it and halfway down the driveway he decides to nap for home so I gave him a bit of a smack with the reins which he was offended by and responded by taking off in a pace. We got to the end of the drive and part way down the road okay before he decided to do his newest napping trick which is to go sideways in the ditch and then take off at a pace. But that was okay and we made it to the entrance to the cowshed where he decided that no, he didn't want to go down there. We had a massive fight about it which caused the cut on my finger to reopen and I started bleeding everywhere. I won though and we made it down past the scary pump and onto the race where we were joined by a botfly. I hate botflies so much as does Chunky, so this pissed him off greatly and he wouldn't settle down and just wanted to take off. We took the race home rather than go through the paddocks because the botfly was annoying him too much and he was spooking at everything.

So yeah, it wasn't as fun as I hoped it would be but at least I stayed on, it situations like that I usually jump off and lead him so I'm glad that I stuck with him.

crisper_critter @ 2009-01-29T20:19:00

2009-01-29T07:23:07Z

Gah I've been so bored the past few days and its really annoying me. I just have no urge to do anything and its bugging me so much.

I helped out moving cows to the run-off this morning and then after lunch I helped my Dad pick up rubbish and take it to the dump,such an exciting day.

I did ride though,I wasn't going to because I couldn't be bothered but I pretty much forced myself to and I'm glad that I did because it was fun :). We did some jumping and Chunky was such a good boy,but I have come to the conclusion that I need to change the position of my jumps because I had some close calls with the water trough,so yeah I will have to set up a different course for next time.

Some video stills...

crisper_critter @ 2009-01-14T20:49:00

2009-01-14T07:55:37Z

Took the Chunky beast for a ride this morning,he was not impressed because it was hot and pretty humid. I had planned to go for quite a long ride but that didn't really work out. We started with him deciding we should go down the hill but he started napping and I didn't want to fight him on the hill because it's twisty and steep so we went back the other way. Gah he napped quite a it but it wasn't as full on as usual and he also spooked at some people with a van. We got up to the neighbours farm and there was a tractor pumping out the shitpond and he was like "OMFG!" and I knew he would freak out if I tried to make him fo past it so we turned back for home again.
I did however make him go over the farm back home rather than the road,he wasn't keen on going down the tankloop because the pump was on and making scary noises but we managed to get past that.
Hopefully we are going beaching tomorrow,I'll lead him down because he is too unfit for me to ride him down really and I don't want to get sand all over my saddle,I want to go exploring and try and find the way out to the lakes because I have never done that before,but I will probably get lost. And I'm paranoid we all meet other horses because last time we did he flipped out and had a rearing and bucking fit for about 15 minutes.

Bones Picspam - 2x07

2009-01-13T08:42:21Z

My first picspam,yay! I watched this episode the other day for the first time in ages and felt like doing a picspam of it just for fun. My colouring may be a bit dodgy as I have never really done much of it before and the caps are all pretty random,there's quite a lot from the last scene though because I adore it. Screencaps from dj_capslock

crisper_critter @ 2009-01-12T21:56:00

2009-01-12T08:57:02Z

I've been working on my 2009 scrapbook post for so long trying to get the coding and everything right,it took me so long to get the cut to work and even then I couldn't get it exactly how I wanted but ah well,I think it's starting to look the way I want.

The farrier came this morning so that's one less thing for me to stress about. I took Chunky for a ride this evening,it had just rained though so he was all wet but ah well,he was pretty good,hardly any napping! But he was a bit jogging and at one stage he thought it would be a good idea to canter up the road. We went the farthest we have been on our own though which is good :) he felt kind of off though in trot....it was his left shoulder I think,but I'm not sure if it was because he was dicking around and so I was holding him back a bit or what,so I'm going to trot him along the driveway tomorrow and video it so I can have a look. I'm probably stressing over nothing but argh just as everything is starting to click it would be just my luck for him to go lame,I swear there is always something wrong and so I can't ride.hors

crisper_critter @ 2009-01-11T20:33:00

2009-01-11T07:41:17Z

I had a really strange dream last night, I forget where I was or what was happening but I was somewhere where there were heaps of people,there was some kind of event on. And I somehow managed to swap bodies with Jeremy Clarkson (I blame this on watching the New Earth ep of Doctor Who where this occured) so I was walking around feeling very WTF and James May walked past and said "Jezza" which I replied to with "hey" but it was my normal voice so I freaked out because I sounded all girly and James would know something was up. There was more but I forget and I'm not sure if I actually swapped back into my body.

Had a pajama day today and didn't really do much,I joined the abandonedplaces community today and I love it! Old and abandoned buildings really fascinate me,whenever I see an old barn/house I have the urge to go explore in it,but that would be trespassing,so I love this community already.

And yay the farrier is coming tomorrow!

crisper_critter @ 2009-01-07T20:28:00

2009-01-07T07:36:52Z

Ugh I'm sick and it sucks. I hate being sick in summer because the weather is all nice and you're stuck inside being all sick and having no energy to be able to go outside and enjoy summer but anyway yay for being drugged up on cold meds.

I took Chunky for a hack this morning and tried using the double inserts and I *think* it was better,he didn't nap until we got to the road and then he spooked a bit at my brother riding his bike,which is fair enough because he was in the bushes. I *think* the sweat marks were more even but I don't actually think I am riding him long enough for him to work up a good enough sweat but yeah it was still quite uneven, although I do however have a new plan! I found a NZ website that sells the thinline pads and have been reading a treeless message board and quite a few people use the thinlines with their saddles and find that they help so I'm going to try that, and they aren't too expensive which is a bonus. So as soon as the website lets me sign up I'll order one.
I want to take him down to the beach sometime this week but I don't think its going to happen because I probably won't have time and also his feet badly need doing,so gah got to get all that sorted. He has also ballooned from being in the side paddock where there are heaps of grass so I am going to be mean and put him in the front paddock with the cows haha.

And there are new Bones sides but they haven't been posted online anywhere *sigh*.

crisper_critter @ 2009-01-05T20:40:00

2009-01-05T07:45:20Z

Gah.
The napping was back tonight,I used both his treeless pads though,the normal and the physio and I don't think he liked the combination because he wasn't very happy and kept spooking when he has been quite relaxed the past few rides. So now I am going to try removing the foam inserts from the regular pad and putting them in the physio pad ( if I can get them in) because the sweat makrs did look a bit more even but then we didn't go for a long enough ride for him to work up a good enough sweat. He can have tomorrow off though.

And fuck I am so tired,I woke up tired and have been tired all day and it sucks! So I am going to bed early to see if I can catch up on sleep or whatever.

crisper_critter @ 2009-01-01T21:21:00

2009-01-01T08:27:09Z

It's 2009 and I find that really strange for some reason.

Ugh I am sunburnt so bad,I spent all day being a piping steward (I got to wear a badge with that on it,I felt special) at the Highland Games and so I pretty much listened to bagpipes all day and my god I am sick of them now! But it was so so hot and I got really burnt and I have a sun headache and ugh so I am going to go to bed pretty soon and watch me some House.

Took Chunky for a ride when I got home and he was a bit nappy but pretty good.

I'm sure I had more to say...

Goodbye 2008,

2008-12-31T08:39:50Z

I was going to do a 2008 picspam thingy but I'm too lazy.

I got my physio pad today,well one of them (I fucked up and ordered two from two different websites) so I tried that out tonight with Chunky and so far I am pleased with it. It gives more spinal clearance than the other one and when I took it off after the ride the sweat marks looked pretty even. With the other one he got sweat marks at the front and back but the middle remained fully dry. He didn't work up too much of a sweat but it was even which was my biggest worry,but I need to try it out a bit more before I am certain...haha its black though and my saddle is brown but ah well.
The hack went really well too :) we made it all the way down the drive with no napping! He usually goes a little bit down the drive and then starts napping like a bastard and I have to fight him the whole way down the drive. He did nap a bit on the road but it didn't take much to turn him around and getting going again. We didn't goo too far but it was really good :)

So its a good way to end 2008.

crisper_critter @ 2008-12-28T21:30:00

2008-12-28T08:36:41Z

I pimped my rat cage today,I was sick of how boring it looked,all it had in it was a hammock,rope and a constructable toy thingy which was pretty lame,so today I made heaps more little hammocks out of pink fluffy material,my poor boys! And added in the other level and made a kind of bride thing between the levels so the cage is much more full now and hopefully more interesting to them. The hammocks are pretty whorey because I just cut the material so there was two straps at each corner and tied it onto the bars,it works though and its cheap!

I moved the horses into the other paddock tonight,they were like "ZOMG GRASS!!!" and took off and galloped around for a bit,you would think I starve them,but there is far too much grass in there for them at the moment so hopefully Dad will shift some cows into there in the next few days as well.

And now I should really go to bed because I have been going to bed too late which means I get up too late in the mornings and annoy my parents.

crisper_critter @ 2008-12-27T22:35:00

2008-12-27T09:43:41Z

Gah I can't be fucked finding a quote for the subject.

I have a Dr Who mood theme! And it's animated and fun and I love it! And I really want to get a DVD of it but I want to wait until I have finished rewatching House because if I got it now I wouldn't be able to watch it because of my House watching so its better to wait,but I will probably crack and order it anyway.

I watched Casino Royale last night/today and I fucking loved it! So now I have gained a James Bond obsession as well...I really want to go and see Quantum of Solace again,my Dad was keen to see it so I might ask him...because now I will actually get it and be able to follow the plot instead of just drooling over James Bond.

Gah I am in a bitchy mood now because there is a thread on RR about Wintecs and everyones like "OMG I ~~love~~ my wintec it fits my horse so well!!11!!1" and I'm just like GAH because they don't fit the majority of horses! And I bet that the people saying they fit perfectly have no idea about it and think that it fits perfectly because they can fit three fingers in the gullet. I was going to rant about banana shaped panels and the curved tree but they won't listen or care so here is no fucking point wasting an effort on them.

I have been so unproductive today,I made a video of the horses but youtube is a dick and won't upload it because the song is copyrighted,so I uploaded it to megavideo instead which is pointless but anyway. And I also downloaded some Killer Instinct! It is so bad but that makes it fun,and that has been it really...I went for a jog/walk tonight and also spent a while grooming the horses but WTF?! how is it almost 11pm?! I was going to go to bed early,gah and I still need to watch House.

So I'm off to do that before I waste even more time,I am so tired and so was going to go to bed early,yeah FAIL.

This guy's wearing loafers. Aliens don't wear loafers.

2008-12-26T08:13:46Z

I think I am gaining a new tv obsession....Dr Who,haha it is so nuts! But I love it! And I love the fact that is British as well,I have only seen random episodes though so I really need to watch them all in order because I don't really have much of an idea of what is going on. They had a marathon of it all day on Prime but I couldn't justify staying inside all day watching it so I only watched a couple of eps,I think they were quite old ones though. I recorded the xmas special that was on tv last night because it had Adam Garcia in it and I have watched half of it so far and OMG JHDSGHFSDJL he had an english accent! ~~I have only ever heard him with his Australian~~ I lie I have heard him with an American accent in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (yes I watched it just for him),but I am used to his Australian accent so its so weird hearing him with a British one,but god that man is so fucking hot...so I partly want to buy the Season 3(I think) DVD that was the 2005 Christmas special on it..but I don't really have a spare $100 at the moment so um maybe another time.

Not really done too much today,it was so nice though! I spent a few hours grooming the horses and took Chunky for a walk tonight but he was being a spooky beast and was like "OMFG COWS!" "OMFG BIRDS!" So yeah....

...I'm off to find me some Dr Who icons...

It's a brush with a hose in it.

2008-12-23T08:19:50Z

LOL I'm watching The Castle with my sister at the moment,it's so funny! It pretty much just takes the piss out of Bogan Australians,it always seems to be on tv around Christmas time. Everything is made more funny by their accents as well.

Ah fuck,I went over to feed the horses before and Joe has having really big muscle spasms in his shoulder and hindquarters,his whole body was shaking,it doesn't help that I was late to feed them and they were wound up and the fact it is pissing down with rain but I freaked out. I have no idea what caused it (grass staggers maybe?) I went back to check three times and he has stopped spasming but didn't like me touching him. So gah its dark now so I'll have to wait until morning to check on him again,its probably nothing but I always stress over stuff like this.

We had our Christmas Eve church service tonight,its not Christmas Eve,they can't get a priest out then,but its kind of a tradition. We have been going to it for about 15 years probably. There weren't many people there tonight though and the church has no electricity, its a tiny little church and this is about the only time each year it is used. If I ever get married I want it to be there....but I'm not getting married so....but I had to do a reading from the bible,I haven't done that since I was about 12 and gah I didn't want to but ah well.

I love you more than penises

2008-12-19T08:53:17Z

Thank you Little Britain for the quote I was lacking inspiration.

www.ferndalehomicide.co.nz

Ah Shortland Street you never fail to amuse me, the other day Hunter managed to take some persons blood pressure by just feeling his pulse...such a basic mistake and the season final tonight was such a non-event,with Shortland Street the finals always seem to be over-dramatic or just boring and they always seem to kill someone off,can't they think of other interesting things to do instead? This year it was Ethan,I was scared Kieran was going to get gang-bashed because he is my fave and I had a feeling they would kill him off but Ethan meh that whole storyline I just didn't care about. I actually don't care about many storylines,I hardly even watch it anymore.

Today I managed to back and park the trailer with the ute! I'm pretty proud of that,I have never towed the trailer with the ute before and its a big stock trailer with a massive crate,it took me a while to back it into the shed but I got there in the end and it was fun(I may have been pretending it was a horse float,I have issues I know). That was possibly the most exciting thing I did all day,I spent most of it giving the house a good clean because tomorrow is our Christmas dinner and a few of our mates are coming around,so that is always fun but it means I have to socialise! I realised the other day I haven't seen some of the people who are coming for about a year probably,I used to see them all the time but living in Palmy for uni means I don't see them as often I don't make the effort when I come home because I'm too slack.

And gah I hate Windows Movie Maker so much,all I want is to make an animated icon of Richard Hammond from this weeks Top Gear and it keeps crashing everytime I try to import the video,I swear that software is the most bitchy thing ever,so I'll have to try that again tomorrow.

And I really need to make more animations/pretty things for my sidebar its looking a bit empty and sad.

Read less, more tv.

2008-12-16T06:04:46Z

I didn't update yesterday because I was being really lazy, I did fuck all yesterday anyway because the weather was shit. I did however amuse myself and write a pisstake of the end of year xmas newsletters people send out. We always get them from family and they make them rhyme which just amuses me...I wasn't aloud to seen it out with the xmas cards though because it was too offensive,we sent it to our mates though because they would think it's funny.....I hope.

Today I finished my Christmas shopping! We went to the movies as well and saw James Bond,I had no idea what was happening most of the time but I found James Bond really sexy for some reason...he wasn't even that hot! He was just really sexy,I have such a perverted mind.

And fuck! I e-mailed TV3 to ask when Bones was coming back on air and its "taking a break over summer" fucking bastards and they never e-mailed me back about my complaint about the music,but that was kind of a nuts/obsessive thing to e-mail them about so I don't blame them.

And I e-mailed this person back to order a saddle pad and they haven't e-mailed me back so I am stressing they didn't get my e-mail and might resend it...I just don't want them to think I am harrassing them,but gah it's better to harrass them to not have it work out I guess.