So the last time I posted was... June. Er, sorry.

I'm posting because I have made some icons! I am hoping to do some more sets of icons in the coming weeks, I've missed doing them... So if anyone wants something in particular post a picture in the comment, I'll do at least one icon for the first 5 people. :)

Here are 8 icons of Leighton Meester (Blair Waldorf of Gossip Girl) from the GQ photoshoot. Comment, credit, use!

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Twitter is kind of amazing: I install and post once from TweetDeck, and by mid-afternoon three TweetDeck twitters are following me. I clicked on the stocks feed just to see what it looked like, closed it without doing anything, and now a stocks twitter is following me. AAAAAAAH STALKERS.

A couple of years ago mum told me she'd read a study or article on the differences between men and women in applying for jobs.

Apparently on a list of traits required, if a man sees about three things that he DOES fit, he will apply. If a woman sees the same list and there are two or three she DOESN'T fit, she WON'T apply.

Did anyone else read the same thing? I'd love to know where that came from, has anyone heard of it?

We have arrived safely in Auckland (omg FAR TOO MUCH LUGGAGE) amid mild chaos and a very long drive, and are now setting about the task of thoroughly enjoying the next week.

Excursions planned: dinner with Yvette's bff, meeting a few assorted others, visiting Waiheke Island, unpacking and repacking everything into plane-friendly loads, spazzing.

Mother is pretty upset, as one would expect... I am very sad to be leaving her behind. We are staying with Y's mum this week before we go.

Whoo for being homeless and unemployed, yaaay!

Father and godmother/aunt are to be fired: they gave my mother's engagement ring to someone else. So when my mother told me to ask them for it... yeah.

Yvette is of the opinion it's because I'm gay. I'm somewhere between that and hey, everyone hates my mother.

I'd like my engagement ring now please.

Noooooo I seem to have been sucked into the world of twitter.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, REN-FACE AWESOMEPANTS. WE LOFF YOU. *SMISH!*

MBV3D: In the words of the great veronamay, A+++ WOULD LOL AGAIN.

Would it be a spoiler for Friday The 13th to say that Jared's chest is pretty?

No, no it would not.

*gibbers in corner*

Ways in which Obama has broken the internet:

"Web traffic monitor Akamai said worldwide internet traffic spiked by over 50 per cent as people turned to the web in their hunt for news, pictures and video of the inauguration."

"CNN said it had served 18.8 million live video streams, far above its previous all-time record of 5.3 million streams on election day.

But that was no consolation for people who could not access the stream at all, as one Twitter user wrote: "cnn stream not available right as his speech starts. FAIL FAIL FAIL!""

"Mobile networks in Washington, DC, buckled as the millions of people attending the inauguration events and associated parties sent text messages, made voice calls and uploaded and streamed their own coverage and commentary to user-generated content sites."

"On Google's hot trends list, all 10 of the most searched-for terms were related to the inauguration."

TALK TO ME ABOUT BSG AND ALL THE PLOT POINTS AND EVERYTHING.

I need BSG icons.

Er... maybe I should use this thing more than once a month, wot?

nu_breed and I have moved into our new place (read: my mother's abandoned apartment) on Saturday, and are currently buried under a pile of boxes. If you're sending us anything, there's a mail redirect on for a couple of months (letters but not packages), but otherwise drop us a line. Today is disconnecting the internet (once the technician bothers to show up) and flat inspection, and then it won't be our place anymore. The new apartment has a horribly soft bed but is nice and very close to both our works, so.

On the subject of work, as I probably (hopefully) told you all, I was made redundant on the 24th and have signed up with a bunch of temp agencies. I have a job starting on Wednesday as a "Home Loan Specialist", which is I think is a fancy way of saying phone sales. Hilariously, this is in the same company (but not the same building) as Yvette works in. More on that later (no seriously, don't let me forget to post about it).

Did you know it's a bit hard to cook when all your food, spices and sauces are in boxes?

And poor Yvette came down with a cold just before we moved, so she's drugging herself up and hopefully on the mend... she's at work today with no voice, which is always a fun proposition. :P

All well in your worlds?

Dear flist,

I find myself with a surplus of pumpkin on my hands: in fact, about half a large pumpkin. Do you happen to have a recipe for pumpkin pie that is a) easy and b) involves fresh rather than tinned pumpkin?

Other suggestions for pumpkin related items are also welcome.

Yours sincerely,
Frances

Last night, John Key was elected prime minister of New Zealand. But in watching the coverage, nu_breed and I discovered something rather disturbing.

It seems that Mr Key may IN FACT BE... a Terminator.

( BEHOLD: )

JOHN KEY = ROBOT?

YOU DECIDE.

The US election as badfic in fanficrants.


I have a post to make about the NZ election, if I can find the right pictures to support it........

Post-election tidbits from Newsweek:

When he was preparing for them during the Democratic primaries, Obama was recorded saying, “I don’t consider this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, ‘You know, this is a stupid question, but let me … answer it.’ So when Brian Williams is asking me about what’s a personal thing that you’ve done [that's green], and I say, you know, ‘Well, I planted a bunch of trees.’ And he says, ‘I’m talking about personal.’ What I’m thinking in my head is, ‘Well, the truth is, Brian, we can’t solve global warming because I f—ing changed light bulbs in my house. It’s because of something collective’.”