AHOY-HOY!

[clo_again]

Apparently that was once the accepted way to answer the phone. Much love. Am totally going to use it and see how many "WTF?" reactions I get.

In other news of happy-squeeful-LAST-DAY-BEING-NINETEEN, astonish killed me this morning with my beautiful Andy/Roger early birthday present, By Heart. Best way to wake up *ever*. Except I was *whimpering* inchoerently at the pretty at 8:30am and wow, my flat must think I'm insane. But the *pretty*! :D

I've already been to town and back today, to buy cake ingredients. Am making a birthday cake later on! With icing and pretty designs and I'm already worrying about temperatures and our dumb ovens but CAKEomg. Whee, cake-related-happiness! And pretty-birthday-present-tennis-slash-related happiness! General happiness.

And ack, I have about four minutes before I have to leave for the newspaper meeting this week but I will be back with comment-answering and general squeeing over the Murray vs Henman match that I ACTUALLY get to watch on BBC 2, because they're British players and we're allowed to acknowledge the existence of tennis when it actually concerns national pride. I couldn't care less that the BBC is horribly biased; I get to watch it! :D

To end on a random note, I never knew that you Americans spell tyres like 'tires'. Hee. :D Awesomeness.

Clo

Comments

[kindoftrouble.livejournal.com]

It's showing on BBC? That will surely be better than watching it on Eurosport. *is very, very excited!* The BBC does do good things like that though. Sometimes. When it involves British players.

[(Anonymous)]

No adverts, unlike Eurosport! :D It starts at 14:25 on BBC 2. Hopefully they'll stay with the whole match, though I can't see why they wouldn't. British national pride comes in handy sometimes - like getting such great coverage of Queens and Wimbledon. It kinda makes up for the complete lack of love for tennis for the rest of the year. :)

It's so nice to *have* another British tennis slasher to get excited about these things. Usually it's just me mourning that we don't get NBC and the Tennis Channel or being happy about getting to watch Murray in the Davis Cup. :)

[clo.livejournal.com]

Um. Ooops. That was me. :)

[kindoftrouble.livejournal.com]

No adverts is excellent! They drive me insane. Yeah, hopefully they will stay with the whole match, but BBC are generally good with things like that. Like at Wimbledon when things run long. I don't know what I'd do without their Wimbledon coverage, really. Probably go insane.

I get that, I really do, because almost all my online friends are American. I'm always the one mourning that we don't get Lost until a year after them or that we don't get the Tennis Channel (but we do get a golf one, which quite frankly, is just wrong. We should have a tennis one too) or various other non-American things. And yes, that was fun :D I had much excitement over that Davis Cup weekend!

[clo.livejournal.com]

Especially the every-two-second adverts they seem to have on Eurosport and Sky Sports. When recording to DVD I have to remember to press pause and record for *every* set of adverts, which quickly gets old. But the BBC were so good yesterday! Special program and everything. And I adore their Wimbledon coverage, except for the fact it has mee sitting in front of the TV watching eight or nine hours of tennis every day for two weeks. ;-) Queens was during my exams this year and I was only letting myself watch Andy's matches if I'd done enough revising. It was great incentive. :D

I think it's a crazy way of distributing TV shows -- I'd downloaded and watched the entire series of Lost months before it was shown over here. Not to mention how hard it is to avoid spoilers, mostly because they're so tempting. And golf channel! Which I'm made to watch because my dad loves golf. It's not fair; just because most of Britain doesn't think tennis is important doesn't mean all of us do.

Me too, I was glued to my TV all weekend. :D Though I was sad Roger didn't get to play Murray but they fixed that in Thailand so it all worked out. :)

[kindoftrouble.livejournal.com]

After the first time of trying to cut the adverts out of it while recording to DVD, I just gave up because frankly, it was too irritating and I kept forgetting to press record, so it didn't go too well. The BBC were really good, I was very impressed with them. And I'm just the same with Wimbledon, I did *nothing* this year for those two weeks. Literally nothing. Apart from the day I actually went to Wimbledon, which really doesn't count. I was glad all my exams were over before Queens this year, otherwise I would have been sad, but that would have been good incentive. Last year my exams made me miss pretty much all of Wimbledon, which I was pissed about. Stupid A-Levels!

Yeah, I downloaded Lost too, it's just insane how long it was before it was shown here. And I'm downloading season 2 as well, which will probably be shown here in 2010, otherwise I would just go and read the spoilers. I have no hope. I'm glad my dad doesn't like golf... although he does enjoy fishing. (He also likes tennis, which is good because he doesn't complain about me watching it.) Tennis is important and more people should realise this.

[clo.livejournal.com]

AAAHHH!! THE STOMACH!! THE PRETTY PRETTY STOMACH!!! Have you seen anything more lickable? Oh I have to slash this boy and *soon*. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

*snuggles* They're gorgeous. :D Thank you!

[scoobydumblonde.livejournal.com]

I just had a though. Tomorrow is your birthday, but by the time it's tomorrow here, it'll be... well, late there. So... even though I shouldn't, I will give you a choice. I can post your fic late tonight my time before I got home or I can post when I wake in the morning. Which would you prefer?

tyres? Looks like something you'd light on fire to start a bonfire or something with. Tires are the round things on cars and bikes and motorcycles. :-P

[liroa15.livejournal.com]

We've been known to use tires to light bonfires here, although it is technically illegal. And oh the stench of burning rubber.

[scoobydumblonde.livejournal.com]

I've been near burning tires. It's gross. *shudders*

[clo.livejournal.com]

Already answered this one. :)

*giggles* Nope, tyres. Tire is what you do when you've been rushing around all day and you're getting sleepy. ;p

[scoobydumblonde.livejournal.com]

:-P

*nods* Okay, yeah. That makes a good point. But we're right 'cause we're American so nyah!

[lillyv.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

If you lived in the states, this would be the "almost" birthday, since 21's our legal drinking age (is it 18 over there for you guys? Lucky S.O.B.'s), but since you're not in the states...um...well...it's still a birthday!

I am occasionally awkward and strange.

[clo.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

(Oh yeah. I don't even like going out drinking that much but I'd still be going insane if I couldn't do it. You Americans and your mad legal ages, how do you cope? ;) ) It's still something of an in-between birthday -- not quite the 'big' 21 but too old for the fun 18. But you're right; still a birthday! :D

Don't worry. So am I. :) (Inmate! ;) )

[liroa15.livejournal.com]

*feels proud of herself for a moment* Happy day before your birthday day! Just think, in less than 24 hours you can finally open that envelope. *nods*

[clo.livejournal.com]

You were on time but I'm not with my replies. :) Thank you! And I opened the envelope and it was all beautiful. *snuggles tight* You are awesome. The necklace is *gorgeous*.

[liroa15.livejournal.com]

Funnily enough, I got this and turned to sister and said, "what necklace?" and she said "the one that bought at Magnolia" and it slowly came back to me. But I'm glad you liked it.