Leah Hallissey

11 Feb 2010

My friend Becky and I got hooked on Sifl and Olly when we were about 14 or 15. I was still pretty new to the internets and Becky somehow came across Liam Lynch’s creation. They’re somewhat insane sock puppets whose sense of humor (perhaps worryingly) is very much the same as our own.

We remembered them today and spent all evening looking through the videos on YouTube and trying to find somewhere to buy or download all the episodes from, but to no avail. If anyone has any idea, please let me know!

In the meantime, enjoy Baby for Gravy

16 Jan 2010

C-Mon & Kypski need your help to complete the music video for “More is Less”!

All you have to do is take a pic on your webcam making the same pose as the guy in the video and upload it using their nifty flash thingy, and then you can be in it!

3 Jan 2010

The Inevitable List

…Of Things to do in 2010

1. Get a job I enjoy - Surprisingly enough, I think it will involve translating German - something I declared my hatred for for many many years

2. Finish Tomb Raider - I’ve got stuck a few months ago and gave up - You will not defeat me Lara Croft

3. Actually use my Wii Fit - Another thing I stopped doing a few months ago - I was doing so well!

4. Learn some HTML or CSS - Or something else nerdy, whatever Rob thinks is more useful

5. Throw things away (or find clever places/ways to hide them) - Especially clothes I don’t wear because my wardrobe and chest of drawers are absolutely full

6. Move out - I’ve scrounged off Mummy and Daddy long enough

7. Spend more time being social - With my family, my Rob and my friends

8. Save up enough for a big trip - If not the Round-the-World trip we had planned, then America or Australia

9. Keep up with stuff - Be it people, podcasts, TV shows, books, the news…I’m always behind!

10. Stop being so reliant on my car - As much as I love it, we need to spend some time apart. Maybe when it gets a bit warmer though!

12 Dec 2009

36 Rules of Life

zadi:

1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

2. Don’t worry about what people think, they don’t do it very often.

3. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car.

4. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

5. If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you’ve never tried before.

6. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

7. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.

8. A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

9. For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.

10. If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.

11. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.

12. A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good.

13. Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.

14. Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.

15. No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes.

16. A balanced diet is a muffin in each hand.

17. Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

18. Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.

19. Junk is something you’ve kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.

20. There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.

21. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

22. By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.

23. Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.

24. Someone who thinks logically provides nice contrast to the real world.

25. It ain’t the jeans that make your butt look fat.

26. If you had to identify in one word the reason why the human race has not achieved it’s full potential, that word would be ‘meetings’.

27. There is a very fine line between ‘hobby’ and ‘mental illness.’

28. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

29. You should not confuse your career with your life.

30. Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.

31. Never lick a steak knife.

32. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.

33. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

34. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

35. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that deep down inside we ALL believe we are good drivers.

36. Your friends love you anyway.


via: dubliner:svnlto:somethingintellectual

23 Nov 2009

Me and Rob took part in the A Model Christmas Competition at the Bullring in Birmingham last week - you had to make a Lego character and…er…that’s it really!

This is my creation - my astronaut alter ego with her space parrot (I’ve named him Fred)

Me and Rob took part in the A Model Christmas Competition at the Bullring in Birmingham last week - you had to make a Lego character and…er…that’s it really!

This is my creation - my astronaut alter ego with her space parrot (I’ve named him Fred)

8 Nov 2009

Flights Are Booked!

When I finished my year abroad in Germany back in 2008, I thought I’d never ever ever want to go back. But now me and Rob have booked our tickets to go back to Cologne.

We’re going to stay with a friend of mine and hopefully make our way out to the countryside to see the family I stayed with out there. I’m so excited! We’re going to go to the Christmas market in Cologne and maybe Düsseldorf or Aachen, go to Saturn and Media Markt, the massive electronics shops (nerd alert) we loved, have lunch at Galeria Kaufhof….

I had some real issues at work sorting out the holiday time though. No-one had told me you can’t carry over holidays to next year, and the day I found out they took the boking system down. Then when it finally came back, there was no time available so the holidays people booked me random days! Luckily the head of my section managed to sort it all out though.

I’m so excited now! Beware an onslaught of photos!

18 Oct 2009

We met Ben Fogle!

We met Ben Fogle!

13 Oct 2009

No More Call Centres!

Argh!

I got out of work today and found I had two voicemails, both from agencies who’d seen my CV online and wanted to speak to me. I was really excited and as soon as I got in I started looking up the phone numbers to see if it was anyone exciting.

Both of them were temp jobs in call centres, or “not a call centre, more of a helpdesk”.

It’s clearly on my CV that I want to move away from call centres and into translation! One of them has said she’d keep me on file and maybe contact someone in Winchester for me, but they were both quite negative about having anything come up for me.

Back to the phones tomorrow then…

11 Oct 2009

Look what I got for my iPhone!

Paperchase is my favourite shop in the world. First of all they sell notebooks - an obsession I’ve had for many, many years. Second of all, the stuff they sell is always so cute. If IKEA (for furniture and food) had a Paperchase corner, I’d live there.

Look what I got for my iPhone!

Paperchase is my favourite shop in the world. First of all they sell notebooks - an obsession I’ve had for many, many years. Second of all, the stuff they sell is always so cute. If IKEA (for furniture and food) had a Paperchase corner, I’d live there.

4 Oct 2009

Oh Noes

I think I just became something I’ve always hated!

Today I bought skinny jeans and fake Ugg boots. I am ashamed, but have very comfortable feet.