I. Music (BOLD THE ONES YOU LISTEN TO)
Acceptance. Coldplay. Dave Matthews Band. David Bowie. Foo Fighters. Hellogoodbye. The Killers. James Blunt. Teddy Geiger. Linkin Park. Muse. Ok Go. Panic! At The Disco. Peter Bjorn. The Postal Service. Timbaland. Jack Johnson. Norah Jones. The Fray. The Wreckers. Keith Urban. Michael Buble. Beyonce. Metallica. Massive Attack. Queen. Journey. The Cars. Supertramp. Tracy Chapman. Eurythmics. Sublime. The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Wu-tang Clan. Fergie. Sarah McLachlan. John Mayer. Jason Mraz. Justin Timberlake. Michael Jackson. Howie Day. Kenny Chesney. Carrie Underwood. Lynyrd Skynyrd. Neil Young. The Beatles. Brad Paisley. Tim McGraw. Keith Anderson. Taylor Swift. Blake Shelton. P. Diddy. Jay Z. Lil’ Wayne. Lil’ John. Three 6 Mafia. Nelly. Young Joc. T.I. Sean Paul. 50 Cent. Eiffel 65. Ace of Base. The Underdog Project. Dream Theater. Santana. Alicia Keys. Incubus. Victor Wooten. Ludacris. Gorillaz. Matchbox 20. Paramore. Taking Back Sunday. Eric Clapton. The Darkness. Weezer. The Eagles. Jimi Hendrix. Nirvana. Smashing Pumpkins. Theory of a Deadman. Tenacious D. Third Eye Blind. Metro Station. Motion City Soundtrack. The Rocket Summer. Something Corporate. Maroon 5. Billy Joel. Reel Big Fish. Anberlin. Mae. Jurassic 5. AC/DC. Hootie and the Blowfish. Electric Six. Outkast. R.E.M. The White Stripes. Hilary Duff.

II. Movies (BOLD THE ONES YOU’VE SEEN)
Pride and Prejudice. Glory Road. The Princess Bride. Goonies. Center Stage. Ocean’s Eleven. Seven. Newsies. 300. Robin Hood Men In Tights. Love Actually. Garden State. Donnie Darko. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. My Best Friend’s Wedding. Anchorman. Drop Dead Gorgeous. Wedding Crashers. Elf. Zoolander. Austin Powers. Clueless. Mean Girls. Hairspray. Moulin Rouge. Fight Club. Rocky. Pulp Fiction. What A Girl Wants. Kill Bill. Thank You For Smoking. Little Miss Sunshine. Requiem For A Dream. The Departed. Dawn Of The Dead. Memento. Office Space. Snakes On A Plane. Boondock Saints. Say Anything. The Silence Of The Lambs. Saving Private Ryan. Superbad. The Prestige. Just Friends. The Devil Wears Prada. Under The Tuscan Sun. Titanic. Steel Magnolias. Saw. Ace Ventura. She’s The Man. Because I Said So. Catch And Release. Music And Lyrics. Spanglish. Stick It. Step Up. The Fast And The Furious. Joyride. Halloween. The Italian Job. Crash. Must Love Dogs. The Bourne Identity. Meet The Parents. Dirty Dancing. A Christmas Story. Rudy. National Treasure. Sleepless In Seattle. Miss Congeniality.The Science Of Sleep. The Matrix. Everything is Illuminated. Good Will Hunting. Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Empire Records. Phantom Of The Opera. Lord Of The Rings. The Parent Trap.

III. TV (BOLD THE ONES YOU’VE WATCHED MORE THAN A COUPLE OF TIMES)
ER. Grey’s Anatomy. Saved By The Bell. Man Vs. Wild. Scrubs. South Park. America’s Next Top Model. Gossip Girl. Sex And The City. Friends. Dawson’s Creek. The Big Bang Theory. Seinfeld. The Office. Lost. Miami Ink. Made. Arrested Development. That 70’s Show. Family Guy. The Simpsons. Veronica Mars. Project Runway. Bones. Iron Chef. Alias. Pushing Daisies. Gilmore Girls. The Colbert Report. The Daily Show. Mythbusters. Avatar: The Last Airbender. Will And Grace. 24. House. To Catch A Predator. Whistler. Heroes. Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Unsolved Mysteries. 7th Heaven. Everybody Loves Raymond. Private Practice. Boston Legal. Bleach. What I Like About You. Reba. King Of Queens. Survivor. The O.C. American Idol. Days Of Our Lives. How I Met Your Mother. Boy Meets World. CSI. Law and Order. Numbers. Reno 911. I Love New York. Step by Step. Little People Big World. What Not To Wear. My Wife And Kids. Moonlight. Nip/Tuck. The Biggest Loser. Beauty And The Geek. Battlestar Galactica. Stargate SG1. The Inferno. Scarred. Wild N Out. Real World. Whose Line Is It Anyway? Trinity Blood. Dead Like Me. Dragon Ball Z. Futurama. Firefly. Ripley’s Believe it or Not. Medium. Star Trek. X-Files. Cowboy BeBop. Sailor Moon. My Name Is Earl. Six Feet Under. Dancing With The Stars. Degrassi. Greek. Glee. Secret Life Of The American Teenager. One Tree Hill. Doctor Who. Supernatural.

Doppelganger week ~ change your userpic to some~one famous you have been told you resemble ~ remember these are who we have been told we look like ~ not necessarily our own beliefs.

Copying from hazey_sunshine 

I may or may not review the films/books! Depends how I get on.




Films

Books
Dead Tomorrow - Peter James - Crime Thriller
Twilight - Peter James - Crime Thriller

Just want to wish you all a Merry Christmas! I won't be back online now until Boxing day, when I will be caning my credit cards in the online sales :) Hope you all have a great day. I started on the Bailey's last night so Christmas is well and truely here for me!

If you are in the UK you can get your ribbon from H&M, Gap, MAC shops and Lloyds Pharmacy.

We've booked a long weekend in Amsterdam for the start of November. Bit of a spur of the moment thing because we've both got time off work, so why not? We're going to fly from Lonon City. I flew from there once and I love it, you get fantastic views over London. Chris has never flown from there so he is really excited, being a plane buff. We are staying in a 4* hotel which looks lovely, and we got a really good deal. Can't wait!

My dad is having an operation on his back. It was originally supposed to be on Monday but at the start of the week my mum texted me and said that it had been moved to friday, so I booked the day off work, as I know I wouldn't have been able to concentrate. This morning I texted my mum and asked her what time the op is and she texted me back to say sorry she wasn't clear, it's NEXT friday. ARGH!!! I'm off next friday anyway. So I have a day off work now for no reason. Oh well, I'll make it a nice relaxing day. I'm going to pop into town and indulge myself in looking in Matalan, George and TK Maxx, and get something nice for lunch from M&S :)

It is sooooooooooo yummy and sooooooooo easy to make!

Ingredients
3 cups self raising flour, sifted (About 360g)
12fl oz beer (I used a Czech pilsner, because it was the cheapest Asda had!) (about 350ml)
1/4 cup melted butter (About 60g)

• Preheat oven to 190*c/375*f
• Use a little of the melted butter to grease a loaf tin
• Sift flour into a bowl
• Add beer and mix well
• It will be a gloopy mix which will not be like normal bread dough
• Put in loaf tin
• Pour the rest of the melted butter over the top
• Put loaf tin in a larger tray as the butter may drip over
• Cook for 45-60 minutes

Allow to cool a little before serving.

I got the recipe from recipezaar - I love that site!

NOMNOMNOM!!!!

 They're talking about Postmen littering the floor with their red rubber bands on TV at the moment. Some idiot from some anti-littering group wants postmen to be fined £80 on the spot fines if they drop their rubber bands! Crazy! If it wasn't for the postman dropping those bands outside my flat i'd never have any rubber bands! LOL. Postmen have a crappy enough job as it is, they're up at 4am and work 6 days a week FFS. I think they can be forgiven for dropping a couple of rubber bands.
I've found an article about it on the Telegraph website.
10 uses for the red rubber bands

 

 I have just discovered ice cream cupcakes from Coldstone Creamery. How nice do they look. Only available in packs of 6 though. Grrr. I'm pretty sure our hotels in Florida have fridges without freezers. Boo.

 Last night I cooked our favourite dinner. It was boneless ribs in BBQ sauce, mashed potato and corn bread. YUMMY! I decided to post the recipe here for two reasons. One is incase I lose the scrap of paper with the recipe's on and two so that other people can try it, if you want. It is tasty, I promise :)

Boneless Ribs

Pack of boneless pork ribs / normal ribs / pork steaks / pork chops / belly strips etc (Could do two packs and make extra for another meal or if more than 2 people)
1 cup / 200g Dark Brown Sugar
1 cup & 2 tablespoons Ketchup / 230g ketchup
1/4 cup / 4 tablespoons soy sauce
1/4 cup / 4 tablespoons worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup / 4 tablespoons whiskey
1 onion, chopped well

1. Chuck all the ingredients into a large saucepan and bring to a slow boil. Mix it all up, turn to a simmer, put the lid on and simmer for 45 minutes.

2. Take the ribs out of the sauce, wrap them well in foil and place in a baking dish. Put in the oven at 160*c/320*f for 1 hr 30 mins. Leave the sauce in the pan and leave to one side. 

3. Remove the ribs from the foil, place in the baking dish. Pour all the sauce over the pork and return to the oven for 45 minutes. 

4. Serve and eat.

Cornbread

280g Cornmeal
85g Plain Flour
2tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
2 medium eggs, beaten
150ml milk
425ml buttermilk

1. Preheat oven to 200*c. Butter the dish that you are going to cook the cornbread in.

2. Put cornmeal in bowl. Sift in flour and add bicarb. Mix in.

4. In a jug measure the buttermilk, milk and add beaten eggs. Beat all together. 

5. Add to cornmeal.flour mixture. Stir in. Do not overstir it as it will end up tough.

6. Pour into the dish and cook for 25-30 minutes.

NOMNOMNOM!!!!!

 Oh bum. I just posted a post to fatshionista  and forgot to LJcut it. Grrr. Now I'll have to keep checking if it gets posted and quickly edit it. Stupid me!

 I've given the bathroom a really good clean today and it looks lovely. I've got a coconut candle burning in there now to try to get rid of the smell of bleach! Boneless BBQ pork ribs for dinner, slow cooked ones, so they are in the oven, and i've just put in a batch of chocolate cakes. It is supposed to be tarte au chocolat but I didn't have a big enough dish so i've put the mix into cake cases instead - don;t say I'm not ingenious! Proper little housewife today - LOL. 

ARGH!!! I just went to check on the cakes and they've overflowed all over the oven! Oops. My cunning plan hasn't exactly worked. Oh well, might as well leave them now and then sort it all out when they are cooked. Blimey.

 We went to France/Belgium for a couple of days at the start of the week. Really loved Belgium - went to Ostend and Ypres. Belgium is so much like the Netherlands, which I love. We are definitely going to go back and explore more. Hopefully Brugges next time. I got this stuff:

It is spread which tastes like Speculoos biscuits! (They're the caramel flavour biscuits you get given with coffee in The Netherlands). It is GORGEOUS! I've been having it on toast for breakfast. I'm making some cupcakes this afternoon and I'm going to try to make some Speculoos frosting out of it, I'll just copy the peanut butter frosting recipe. Yummy!

 I've sold a ton of old clothes on eBay which didn't fit any more. It was a nightmare packaging it all up and taking it to the Post office, but it's finally done! 

I bought a bikini!! It is a bra type top, black with white polka dots which was in my bra size so it fits really nicely, and plain black boy short style bottoms. I tried it on and my husband was really impressed. I'm going to get a brown tummy on my holidays! LOL. I might post a pic of myself in it, but I'm not sure yet! LOL. 

 I was reading todays Daily Mirror and on the diets page I noticed the following equation (Theses pictures are not the ones in the paper, but ones I found)


 =  +  + 
Jam Doughnut = One slice of wholemeal toast with low sugar jam + a pear + Cadbury's low cal Options hot chocolate drink

Now, let's explore what's wrong with that. A jam doughnut IS NOT equal to that. As much as a pear is juicy and has it's place, if you want a doughnut that pear just isn't going to cut it. As for the one slice of wholemeal toast with jam - One slice of toast? Are you sure about that? And don't even get me going on the 'diet' hot 'chocolate'. I also know for a fact that for me the doughnut would be much more satisfying than the other 3 things, both physically and mentally. This is where diets that I tried failed. Because I would have the boring stuff. And then have the doughnut anyway. Oh look, twice the calories.

Finally, one thing they do fail to point out is that the doughnut also has alot more sat fat than the other three put together, but I guess it's only the cals that need counting, eh? Stoopid contradictory diets - it'll be the fat next week I guess.

I've got roast beef for dinner. With roast potatoes cooked in oil and gravy and yorkshire pudding and veg. YUMMY!

 

 I did 30 minutes on My fitness coach on the Wii this morning. It has half killed me! LOL. I'm all about the HAES.

 More scaremongering about the 'obese', this time from the Conservative country. Proof that the 'war against obesity ain;t going away regardless of who we have in government (although IMO there are many more reasons that that for the Conservatives never to get back into power).

This time it's all about Fireservices being called out to move obese people.

In one case, Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service was called on to move an obese patient from one hospital bed to another.

That poor person, or their family are going to know who they are. How disgusting to put that. The whole report is just grossly blown up out of all proportion. How many of those 'stuck' obese people are stuck for other reasons that their obesity? As for the stuff about deceased 'obese', alot of that is crap. My father works for a funeral home and is regularly called out to remove bodies from properties after the doctor had done their bit. He has told me of many people he has had to remove who were very large. Never have they had to call the fire brigade. I remember he told me of one man who weighed almost 50 stone. He and his colleagues managed to move him just fine.

There is even a little box to list a few of the cases when the fire brigade have been called out, to really humiliate those poor people. One of them was a 25 stone woman stuck in the bath. 25 stone (350lbs) is unlikely to be the only reason she was stuck in the bath. I know plenty of people in the fat-o-sphere who weigh that and more who lead perfectly normal, active lives.

While I am typing this the report about it just came on the TV. Apparently part of firefighters training is for them to practice lifting a 28 stone dummy (392lbs, emphasis reporters, NOT mine). Well, thats just shocking isn't it. Grrrr! When will the media stop using the 'overweight' and 'obese' as some kind of a freak show. I have to pay my TV license for this rubbish.

I'm not very good at dissecting these pieces and I have emailed the story to Kate Harding in the hope that she may tackle it as she'll do a much better job than me. But I am just so damn angry.

 Today I was going to buy these shoes which onceupon has, that I love:



But then I saw these ones and bought them instead, because they were £20 cheaper and I loved them. Also, I might seem a little less stalker-like considering I also copied her choice of foundation, and it might be all getting a little single while female! LOL.



These make me happy: 



It's a bit blurry! I bought them in France, they are shower gels. From left: Creme Brulee, Chocolate Fondant, Caramel and Tarte au Citron. They were about €1.80 each. They smell devine!

Can I just ask anyone who reads this who is in the States - can you get Piz Buin sun cream over there? We've only got 6 weeks till we go to Florida and I'm wondering how much I might need to bring with me!



Thanks!