mimu is doing really well! :) she's adorable and really loving. she's asleep next to me on the sofa at the mo :p she also gets on really well with charlie. they play all day and he loves her bum :p don't worry - he's been neutered! :o

since i haven't done a proper update for ages, here's a quick update on me! :) i got my degree and i finally got an interview for the pgce in art and design for further education! :) i got accepted the following day and i start on wednesday! :) i'm really scared but excited too. it sounds like the hardest course ever and i'm sure i'll struggle! :o at least i'm finally on the right track to getting to where i want to go! :)

dad's coming to visit tomorrow to show me his new car and of course, to see mimu! :)

yuriy's got his passport interview thing tomorrow too, so he should have that soon! :)

got one of yuriy's work colleagues coming to stay next week :p really nice guy, so that should be nice. it'll make a change anyway :p

and, just as important as all those things - i want chocolate :( do we have any? no :(

picking her up tomorrow night :p

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marquis86/3920816340/

just finished putting up photographs of current college art exhibition here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marquis86/

been neglecting neo for swap-bot recently, but it's good because i earn np but don't have time to spend them! :) i will get to a million again... grr!
really need to get my lomo fisheye camera out again now that the weather is brightening up again... i've got some charlie pictures on the current film that i can't wait to get developed! of course, charlie is cute enough anyway!
my beautiful stevie chinchilla passed away on friday night, so i've been feeling a bit blah over the weekend...
my bookshelves in this house aren't even full, which is quite amazing! in the past, my books have all had to be piled up on top of each other...
been thinking lots about next year's discworld convention and whether i can afford to go or not... i really want to!
we got sims 3, hehe... we downloaded it, but don't worry, we will be buying a copy as soon as it's released...
had pancakes... i'm actually in the mood for white wine, which is weird because i don't like it!
been thinking about making zines but i'm not sure if i'd be any good at it! mike perry has been inspiring me!
i'm still listening to the boat that rocked soundtrack at least once a day...
we're supposed to be getting thunderstorms tonight i think...
tried to use chox away lush soap as shampoo last night but it failed and now i have crap hair for the day...

yuriy says i can have his computer if he gets a new one...
my degree is so near to the end now... is it ok to say that i really like my work?! i would love to sell some in the exhibitions, but i really don't think they will! :(
the snowager never gives me anything anymore! and my favourite neopet got made invisible in a random event! not impressed... why did it have to pick my fave pet? grr! silly neo :(
had a good day at college yesterday!
anybody got any hints on how to make a house move as stressless as possible for a kitty?
i wonder if charlie would get on well with a sphynxy kitty?!
heard a lovely old story the other day about a guy in ancient china who bought 300 trees that had been tied so they would grow deformed, and then he untied them all so they could live naturally... he used his life savings to do it...
i have a strange urge to watch beetlejuice!
off to have a lush bath in 15 minutes or so!
ooo and i got 4 numbers on the lottery last night and won £50!
people coming to view the flat tomorrow morning, so need to spray the old 'garden fresh'!
found some jobs online today that i've requested application forms for! :)

i want some of those hello panda cookie thingies! :( did have very tasty strawberry cheesecake today though... i want indian food too.
still haven't got round to playing sims! :( i don't have time... when does the third one come out? i hope i have time to play it then!
my guild is getting very quiet on neopets! :( i don't really want to find a new one though because i like the few people still on there!
photos of our lovely new house can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marquis86/3486983842/ soo exciting, hehe...
got a new printer this week!
still reading 'the last empress' and it's very good, but everyone keeps dying! beautiful book so far though... i recommend it.
college is going well, but it's all very busy!
really need to get my lomo fisheye out again now the weather is nice!
the walk from pulborough station to the new house today was lovely, but then i realised i went the long and slightly wrong way round, so it may not be quite as lovely next time!
must get back into the habit of using incense in the new place instead of being lazy and just spraying 'garden fresh' in each room!
been getting back into animal crossing again recently!
re-discovered some gorgeous wool balls in the cupboard yesterday, so i really need to do something with them...

think it's about time for another entry!
reading a book about Empress Dowager Cixi at the mo and it's great so far!
i hate freaky factory (neopets game!) and it's ruined my daily dare :( why did i choose to challenge aaa?! i rarely get even half the score i need :( naughty tnt... i thought that site was supposed to be for children! :o grr...
i really want to start crochet again but i don't have time with all my other hobbies etc!
less than a month until i get more student loan! yay :) not that it will last long at all!
went to the isle of wight at the weekend and i did take some pictures, but yet to put them on the computer! :/
i'm hungry :/
still haven't played the sims for ages :( may as well wait for sims 3 now...
i've now run out of lush bath bombs and bubble bars! :(
i wish i had more areas to put a tattoo and a boyfriend that likes them :/
yuriy came to my russian class on monday night, which was quite fun! :)
received more yummy food from ash last week and trying to make it last longer this time! :)

wow, i haven't written anything here for a while...
saw the curious case of benjamin button just over a week ago!
waiting patiently for sims 3 to come out! at least if it's been delayed, i may have more time to play it when it does come out! i do hope it's good :/ i don't want it too change too much and i don't think it will! i haven't played sims 2 for ages :(
had a lovely lush bath today, although didn't use any bubble bars or ballistics! i bought a bar of 'hot milk?' the other day and it smells so good...
the people who live downstairs informed us that water is coming through from our bathroom, into their kitchen, so looking forward to moving even more now!
won 250,000np on 'kiss the mortog' game on neo a couple of weeks ago! very happy about that :) got a silver trophy and everything...
still reading 'do androids dream of electric sheep?' and enjoying it very much... it's not a long book at all, but i keep getting distracted by drawing, russian and neo... think i'll be reading the book my mum got me for my birthday next! that was nearly seven months ago after all...
nobody wants to buy my lovely little notecards on etsy, even though they're really cheap...
must go and have dinner now...
oh, and i'm surprisingly active on twitter, in case anybody else on my flist partakes - jay snelling or marquis86

i've got a new address book! :)
if you want christmas cards etc or you think i need your address because we write to each other or whatever, please send it to me somehow! :) this is probably the best way: jamiesnelling@gmail.com
hope everybody is ok :p

i got a new camera today and it's soo cute. it's a lomo fisheye 2, which is a nice cheap, light plasticy camera, but it does really fun things really easily! it has a button for multiple exposures and another for doing long exposures etc! and of course, it has a fisheye lense :) i just have to dig out a battery and film now! i know i have them somewhere, although the film may have expired by now...

we went shopping last night and got loads of yummy food, so i'm eating revels now... yummy...

college is going ok! this week is reading week, so i don't have to go in at all :) i had a meeting with a tutor i've not met properly before last week and i didn't like it much! she kept saying i was contradicting myself, but then she wouldn't let me finish my sentences when i was trying to explain...
but my work is fun anyway.

i have an urge to play sims now but yuriy will be home soon! i guess he's better than the sims anyway :) hehe! but i'm working tonight and tomorrow night and then i'm off to see my parents on thursday until sunday, so i'm not seeing him very much! i'm speaking like he doesn't read my lj (which he probably doesn't, but it's on his friends page), so 'i love you', hehe..
but yeah, sims...

ooohh and i signed up with http://www.abelandcole.co.uk to get a box of locally grown, organic fruit delivered every week! i'll get my first box next thursday :) i'm so excited and i'm not really sure why! anything to do with food just seems to make me happy :) anyway, the site is really good and i urge people on my list who live in the uk to go see if they deliver to your area!

me again! :)
can i ask another favour to anyone who has the time, particularly those of you who don't live in the uk! :) next time you're watching tv, could you write a list of the products/brands/companies that appear in the set of adverts? :p also, for people anywhere, including the uk, do you have any idea where i can buy foreign magazines or newspapers for not too much money?! :/ i'm sure this is quite easy for people who live in london, but i don't, so it will probably be some kind of online solution! :/
hope everybody is ok and thanks for any help in advance :p

could people on my flist please help me out? :p

can you think of the big brands that instantly come to mind when you think about the country you live in? like coffee shops, fashion stores, gas companies etc. also, any companies that you know are big in other countries? and of course, can you please tell me what you think of :)

forgot to post this before, but we're going to see the prodigy in december :p i'm so excited but i don't want to wait that long :(

want to see gogol bordello too, but i don't know if that's happening yet :/

went to london last friday to meet up with ashley whilst she's over from america for the discworld convention!
i love camden, especially the little shop with lots of kawaii goodies...
and i love love love lush...

we're going to thorpe park tomorrow :p we haven't been for almost a year, so i'm quite excited and we have a few friends coming with us to make it even nicer! :)

i got lots of sweets on friday! :) i ordered them from www.cybercandy.co.uk and they're soo good, hehe. the cinnamon tictacs and altoids are just brilliant! :) oh and mint patties are to die for, hehe.

and work! :) i like it. i got more calls last night, so the service seems to be getting back to normal :p i really do feel like an agony aunt more than a tarot reader most of the time... it's nice to be a friendly ear for people though! :) i do worry about some people but i'm not sure what i can do... i just try to give an honest reading and not put my own thoughts into it too much :/ oh well, at least i have a job i enjoy :p

i want tea but i'm too lazy to make it :(

so no one wants any readings this week? :o i haven't had a single call so far this evening...

pictures of our trip to the isle of wight - http://www.flickr.com/photos/marquis86/
tigers, monkeys, other animals, pretty scenery and model village! :) some are a bit blurry though...

so, we had a couple of friends over to play some games last night! :) then we decided to go to a club... there isn't a lot of choice in crawley, so we decided to try our luck at liquid! :o somewhere i vowed never to go! :/ anyway, so we went and queued and realised one of our friends didn't have id...
so after a £45 taxi ride to his flat and back to get his passport, we queued again! :) the guys got frisked on the way in! :o that doesn't happen in the clubs i've been to before... and then we pay and get in and get to hear the worst music ever at max volume :/ i pissed off a barmaid by accidentally splashing a bit of beer on her and then she refused to serve us :o
so we went to the other bar and eventually got served there :p one of our "friends" got pissed off that we took so long getting his drink and blanked us for the rest of the evening! :( but we braved the dance floor and at about 1:30 the music actually became pretty good for about 45 minutes :p the verdict: crawley people do look scary but they're actually alright - they just have no taste in music and will shag anything it seems! :/ the moral: don't go clubbing with shallow mates...

anyway! :) we made a half-hearted effort to get yuriy's room sorted out today. it needs some shelves, so we didn't sort it properly but it's much better than it was. it only took a month and a half! hehe :)
my mum and brother and sister are coming to stay for a couple of nights on wednesday! no idea what we're going to do! my brother wants me to show him how to run a neopets shop, hehe. we'll probably just eat lots, drink wine and watch kids films. oh and hairspray.
my brother and sister sound as though they're growing up too fast! my brother (7), is desperately in want of a girlfriend! well actually, his words were that he wants to find "the one". and my sister (8) has suddenly become terrified of dying... i even decided finding nemo wasn't suitable for her to watch when she comes to stay...