I have been playing this song on repeat for the last week. It’s renewed my love for proper punk rock and inspired me to dig deep into my hard drive and rediscover some of the tunes I was listening to in the early 90s.

It’s from the Watchmen soundrack, which is a fabulous soundtrack by the way, if you like that kind of thing, and is a (loose) cover of the Bob Dylan song.

I’ve just, in the last 10 minutes, installed wordpress, imported all my posts, and uploaded and modified a temporary theme. AND IT ALL WORKED. Woot!

I should actually be having quality time with my child, so will make this a short one, but just wanted to make sure everything is working as it should be. I’ll redo my blogroll this evening, so if there’s anyone who’d like added (who wasn’t there before!), leave me a comment and I’ll tag you on. Apologies if any of my posts have content missing, I’ll go through them all once The Boy is in bed and check everything over. I need to sort a proper theme out, but I’m actually loving this minimalist one at the moment.

I’m planning on redesigning this shizzle over the next week, and have just bought a separate hosting package for it all.  Up until now I’ve just been pointing geekmama.co.uk to my other hosting account, and it was annoying me that I couldn’t do all the cool stuff I wanted to, with it just being a redirect.

Soooooooo, if this page disappears in the next 24 hours and is replaced with an empty generic looking blog, you’ll know why.  All my content will still be here, but will only be accessable via www.angybabi.co.uk/geekmama  for a day or so.  I’m not deleting anything until I know I’ve imported it all to my new domain.I do not trust myself to not lose the lot otherwise.

I’m so sad, I’m really excited about having something to geek about with for a while, haha.   I have no idea what the new geekmama.co.uk will look like, none at all, but that’s half the fun.

Look at me being a responsible blogger, doing my first Musical Monday in months!

This one is a bit of a cheat really.  I do love the song, but am posting it mainly for the video. I recently read the Twilight series of books, and thoroughly enjoyed them, to the point of obsession. I lost a week of my life as every spare minute was spent reading.  I know the books were written for teenagers, but as long as you aren’t looking to be intellectually challenged and concentrate on the story, they really are a great read.  I also went to the cinema to see the movie adaptation (before reading the books, I may add) and have become slightly obsessed with the actor who plays the vampire lead. He is a beautiful specimen the male form, it has to be said.  I feel a bit like a lecherous old woman lusting after an (eternally) 17 year old vampire boy, but he’s 22 in real life, so it’s all above board and legal in the real world.
Anyway, here’s the song, Paramore - Decode.  Yummmm.

Oh, and if you want to see more of Robert Pattinson, check out his recent GQ photoshoot. PHWOARRRRRRRR

I’ve just built a temporary desktop PC to tide me over until I can get a new laptop, so can finally get myself sorted and back into some kind of Internet routine.  The laptop I’ve been using since my beloved Gateway machine went to the big computer graveyard in the sky was AWFUL.  It had 6 letter keys missing from the keyboard, as my delightful child picked them off when he was a toddler, so I had to guess the letter and stick my fingers in a hole to type properly, or use a separate keyboard.  It was an 8 year old thinkpad, and SO slow.  It couldn’t run Tweetdeck, Photoshop, any messenger programs or even Flickr uploadr, and could barely run Firefox without freezing every 10 minutes.  This set-up I’ve just built (and am using now) is by no means top of the range, but the processor is fast enough to use everything I need to use in the meantime.  I’ll need to get a new graphics card, as my old one has blown, so will Ebay one during the week, and then I can get back into photo editing again, but for now I’m perfectly happy to be back.

This weekend has been spent shopping mostly.  I was getting to the stage that I was fed up looking at Callum in the same clothes he’s been wearing for months, so a shopping trip was in order.  I got him some lovely little tops from Mini-Mode, and some jeans from M&S.  I’m quite disappointed with the Next range this season, so left there empty handed - a first I think.  Zara have some lovely T-shirts in, but they are mostly short sleeved, so will wait another couple of months before stocking up on them.  I can’t wait for the nicer weather so I can put him in cut 0ffs and converse, *sigh* (me too, actually)

Tomorrow we’ve decided to be tourists in Glasgow, and go to the Art Galleries and Transport Museum, so that should be fun.  My camera battery is on charge as I type.  Cal has been a bit under the weather today (bit of a cough, and I thought he had the start of a temp this afternoon, but it didn’t come to anything) so it’s all dependant on how he is, but I’m looking forward to the prospect of some great Glasgow culture.

Speaking of cameras, did I mention that my lovely friend Emma sold me her Canon EOS350D DSLR camera when she upgraded a couple of months ago? I adore it, and can’t wait to start taking some lovely outdoor shots with it. I’m still very very rusty with it, but am having fun learning how to use it.  (Which reminds me, I must re-download the manual to this PC..) A lovely man that my mum works with gave me a telephoto lens to use with it too, which was really nice of him, as they cost a bomb!  I also have my eye on a prime lens for portraits that a couple of people I know have recommended, but that shall have to wait until the laptop issue is properly resolved I think.

I went to Manchester last weekend with my lovely friend Kelly, and met up with another 2 of our good friends - Emma (of bargain camera selling fame up there ^) and Suzanne - for a night out.  We met up with a load of girls from a facebook group we belong to and went for a chinese in The Printworks then onto the Birdcage drag club.  It was a great night.  My friend Suzanne has a beautiful little baby girl who we met for the first time on the Sunday, oh she is heart meltingly gorgeous.  I think we all fell in love with her a bit.  We also met up with Mel and Shelley on the Sunday too before Kelly and I jumped on the MegaBus back to Glasgow.  (Never travel by megabus, btw).

I have a semi-busy week ahead this week, have to do some things for my mum at her house on Monday, and am off to visit my friend’s new baby girl one day too.  (YAY, baby shopping!).  I think I’m going for lunch with one of the nursery mum’s on Tuesday too, and need to arrange to see my best friend as I’ve not seen her for over a month now, eek,  so busy busy.

Right, it’s 11.40pm, so that will have to do for tonight, I promise to update frequently from now on, honest!!

Byeeeee!

xxxx

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