Rush Blog

So I am rushing around like a headless chicken right now, which is a phrase I truly want to poke fun at but don't even have the time to do so. What I will say is that what has gone down politically in the last 24 hours of modern Britain is blowing my mind. The Tories are in power? Really? Not to mention the Lib Dems are about to realize that they are only a pretend force in the all mighty government in which they have 57 seats.... God damn it, I don't even have time to get into this either.

In the next three hours, I have to make a cake, have a shower, rewrite a pitch and calm down enough to watch Lost. I am vowing to write an extra long, annoyingly opinionated, politically themed blog for tomorrow. You will be begging for it to end, I'll promise you that.

Lost is going to be great! I hope I'll be satisfied...that's what she said...no time...but she did...no time

Meryl xx

Black Wii Blog

I don't know how I have been bamboozled into thinking the black Wii is cool, but I do. It is exactly the same as a white one, only, well black. It makes me think of this documentary I once saw, totally randomly about Vodka. There was a vodka company who were looking to invest in black vodka, simply as a marketing gimmick. You see what they thought was, eventually people would come up to the bar, ask for some vodka and the server would say did you want it black or white. This is obviously a spin off from coffee, and to be fair people do ask for their coffee 'black' or 'white' but I'm just not sure if the same can be said of Vodka. It's just not an everyday purchase, well, except for a lucky few.

The Wii has been so heavily associated with white, even as an educated technology geek I let it fall into a Mac computer category in my brain. Plus the black plastic has got me thinking Darth Vader type of thoughts, and even I'm being tempted to the dark side. It will now mirror the other gaming consoles like the PS3, and looks a little less cuddly and Mario-like than it used to. I think I'm a just a sucker for new things, and this small change in colour is making me look at the Wii in a whole other light, which is ironic because Black by definition is devoid of light. - There is some reflection-ary humor there, you can thank me later.

Am I going to go out and get one? No, I'm not, but I'm sure as hell going to visit anyone that does. The bubble will burst pretty quickly I think, it is after all exactly the same operating system in a different casing, but I'm protective of my enthusiasm because it is actually a little cool. Apple have dominated the markets for years simply by colouring in their MP3 devices so why not let Nintendo have a try right?

So just a short one today, I'm typing on my phone as my computer is broken. Yes that does mean I didn't see the new Doctor Who yet, and people wonder why I'm cranky. xxxx

Jimmy and Beans Blog

So this weekend, two of the most amazing people in the whole world are having a party to celebrate their engagement. It is so exciting! This will be the first time I go to an engagement party where I can say I was there at the beginning of the relationship. Jimmy and Beans totally belong together, they are both huge amounts of fun, slightly crazy and a great team, best of all they got engaged in Figi, yeah I know, life is not fair.

This weekend is also mothers day!! So I wanted to take some time in this post to tell you about my mum. She is a little bit mental, and a complete nerd, but she is one of those people who laughs at everything. She likes to theme dinners, making sure the food and table are red for valentines day, green for christmas etc. She threw a plastic frog in the bath when me and my sister were really little, and shouted 'Frog' at the top of her lungs. She also used to feed us icicles that would form outside the windows in the winter. She let my sister keep snails as pets even though they used to slither away in the night and gets the names to every movie she watches wrong. She made great play dough when we were little (even though I always coverted the expensive real version that came in tubs) and she made sure that the house was full of fun all the time.

She is also a massive Trekkie. She has a picture of herself superimposed into the star fleet team, and went to the convention in America last time it was about. She loves the matrix, stories about murders, and lives on the internet, in essence she taught me it was OK to be a complete nerd, but you have to commit. She is also a fantastic mum, and I am very very lucky to have her.

Long story short I love you ma, and can't wait to see you on Sunday.

Hope you all have a great weekend! Love and kisses to all the mums out there.

Meryl


Special Shout-out to Grace who is the best mum I know, Tianna is so very lucky to have you!

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General Election Blog

So today is general election day for the British peoples. It may not be an obama-style event but its pretty exciting because it is pretty close. Politics in England is actually really fun, people are committed to their parties and for the most part the English are prepared to speak out against them if they think they are screwing up. Gordon Brown has already been described as the 'worst prime minister ever' but I think people are just saying that because Thatcher is going to die soon and making jokes about her would be inappropriate. They should just go all south park on her arse and make 'too-soon' jokes.

On a lighter topic, I didn't wear a jacket today, I thought today would be day 1 of not wearing a jacket, but now it is freezing cold and apparently it is going to rain. Really when I took the umbrella out of my bag I should have realized this act would be relayed to a satellite device, which would beam the information across to a tiny man whose job it is to burst clouds. It is one of those Murphy's law thing-a-ma-jigs, it sounds so cliche, but it does seem to rain the minute I take my umbrella out of my bag. There is also never a cab when you really need one. Oh and someone is always around when you need to pee behind a bush. This Murphy, sounds like he was really onto something. His life must have sucked.

America's next top model was good yesterday, thankfully Raina is still with us. It was nowhere near as good as lost on Tuesday, it was a super emotional episode marred only by my roommate chanting, 'are you going to cry' at me through the second half. He's such a compassionate soul. To be fair it was the only thing keeping me from having a little bit of an emotional moment, damn those lost writers they know how to get ya.

OK, love to you all my beauties.

Special hello to Zina, who should be working very hard so she can become a pip pip person... hugs and kisses Meryl x

 

ANTM Blog

So firstly how crazy is this sandwich? I found it so randomly too. I'm pretty sure I wasn't googling Rubix Cube Sandwiches but one can never tell.

Secondly, I feel very young today. On Monday I started a course entitled, 'Television and Situational Comedy Writing'. How bloody cool does that sound right? Anyway I went in knowing it would help me learn to format my sitcom, as well as give me an great spec script to keep on file to send off to become a free-lance television writer. What I didn't realize is that it was going to be one of the most creative spaces I've put myself in, ever. I like to think that you can glean material from anything you experience. Just sitting in an office you are able to come up with some of the most elaborate story lines ever. The small things that happen are what make a show relatable, and up until Monday I couldn't imagine a better place to derive inspiration that the big old wide world.

However, being in a room with ten other people aspiring to do the same thing, really gets the ball rolling. While being torn between amazement at these incredibly creative people, I felt an overwhelming sense of competition that I've never felt before. I'm not a massively competitive person, I've always been distracted by having fun to really push myself ahead, but here I was in a room full of strangers thinking, be funny, be funny!

The adrenaline was pretty cool, it certainly makes you think quicker, and more intensely, although I swear after class was done it took me a good hour to calm down.Why do I feel young? - Because now I have homework. Good old fashioned, do it or you are in trouble, homework. I kind of like it, I have to sit down in the evenings and get stuff done, I'm starting to feel like I'm going to have to get my mum to sign off on it or something, lol or was that just for when you were in trouble? Either way, this time around I am going to take it more seriously, no copying someone else's on the train, and no my dog ate is style excuses when I get to class. As long as I have a ruler and a pen I should be good!

But the name of this blog is ANTM blog, and that is because today is Wednesday, and after work I get to go and hang with some lovely ladies and watch America's Next Top Model. My favorite to win is Raina, she is definitely the best one, but that never bodes well for them, Tyra is a bit of a tart for controversy so the normal ones tend to go first.

Alright hope your week goes well, and don't forget Mother's day is on Sunday so if you are going to buy gifts do it soon or face the consequences

peace

m xxx

Pub Quiz Blog

I have been moaning about wanting to join a pub quiz team for just under a year. Now it looks like my dreams are coming true. Less sarcastically put, I made a new years resolution that I would join or create a pub quiz team. Why? Because it combines two of my favorite things, quizzes and pubs.

I'm pretty good with trivia and very good at drinking, and the challenge of doing the two things at the same time was too tempting to give up. Now if I was still living in London, finding a pub quiz team would be as simple as finding a pub, but here in Canada it is more a niche group thing.

Thankfully I found the following website. http://www.tpql.com/  It is for the Toronto Pub Quiz League, yes league. Now after a moment of wondering if I really could 'play with the big boys' I e-mailed the creator of the site and asked if there was space for a new team, when it started, how long the league was and bla bla bla. And I got a response.

So there is no space for a brand new team (damn you procrastination) but there are spaces for spares, and by George I think I'm going to do it. If any of you lovely people care to join me please visit the website, just think how fun it will be to answer questions and win money, or answer questions get drunk and win money. Ok so it may be answering questions and getting drunk and not winning money, but even that sounds like a laugh.

Ok love you all, you beautiful people. Gosh darn your all so beautiful, enjoy the weather xxx

Baby Foal Blog

Hello Baby Foals? This is micro-pigs....you win.