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New Blog

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:50:30 GMT

I might give up on this livejournal blog, I don't seem to use it much anymore. I bought the domain name Hyperism.com ages ago so I thought I might as well do something with it. Sooo here is my new tacky pink blogg!

http://www.hyperism.com/

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Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:58:20 GMT

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Abseiling was great I'd do it again i think. Didn't get very many pics of me, and none of my dangeling. Here I am just about to step over the edge.

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:04:52 GMT

Getting up at 4.45 on a saturday is evil! now it is one past 5 and in 29 mins we have to march down to the bus that will take us to Derbyshire opp north where I am meant to partake in a mass abseil event. http://www.mstrust.org.uk/news/abseil.jsp

Mostly annoying is that I am getting a cold...so drinking one cup of coffee to stay alive and one cup of lemsip.

Now I better poke Steve so he gets up.

Wish me luck so I don't freaze up when I am going down this viaduct!

thiefs!

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:20:45 GMT

again we have been burgled!

They must have come in by getting the catflap open and reaching up to the backdoor key, the took singstar, mics, and few games, my psp that had locoroco in it :( Seems very similar to what happend last summer so must been the same peeps. police have been here, fingerprinters have been here, we have called places where they could be taken to like cashconverters etc.

Door was locked last night and then when Steve got downstairs this morning he saw one of my garden shoes kicked to the site and went and had a feel at the door and it was unlocked. then came out in the livingroom and noticed the games missing and the singstar mics. then he came upstairs to wake me and tell me. I ran outside to have alook but we didn't see anything.

This is so bad, someone has been in here twice stealing and this time the broke in, last time I am guessing it was whilst we were gardening.

Steve also heard a bonk this morning so maybe that was them closing the door.

working on a sunday afternoon

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:36:08 GMT

ermm except it is morning!
Oh well!

Tomorrow we launch the Trusts new website, wooo. Still some work that needs to be done. So I am going to sit down as soon as I have drunk my first coffee of the day and do some work. I hope I don't have to sit the whole day, as the week has been pretty tough as it was and there is still tonnes of wedding stuff to do too.

I think I want to move the blog to somewhere else, livejournal is a bit annoying, hrmm i'll see about that when all this launching stuff is over.

So Next week is MS week, ermm or MS two weeks as MS Society got their week after ours. Anyhoo on saturday I am meant to go abseiling, I have been so madly busy I haven't even had time to think if I'll actually manage to do this or if I'll flake out, but we'll see I guess! It is Up in Derbyshire down monsal head viaduct.

Oook my coffee is nearly done with...sooo

okthxbyeeee

sleep you are doing it wrong!

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:12:58 GMT

Back in the UK, woke up to a lovely sunny day...ermm with the emphasises on day. Tried to set an alarm for 10, but the clock ended up on the floor when it started beeping, made a few more attempts to get up but it didn't work. Finally rolled out of bed 30 mins ago, looked at my phone, and it was 14.30...errr ok so there is daylight saving time to add to it last night but still...I have slept for over 12 hours, steve is still going...

I am even too late for lunch, so I am eating porridge and some rice cakes with Coffee and a glas of pepsi. And feel very confused.

But since the weather is so nice I guess I will go shake steve when this episode of Skins is over.

It feels a bit lonely here after hanging out with so many fantastic ppl in Seattle. That is the problem with Letchworth don't really know a lot of people here.

Will be busy at work tomorrow, and I should go back to the gym too, been used to going 3 times a week, so feel a bit lazy now, but with the sun today maybe I can convince him indoors to go for a walk.

ok back to my coffee and skins.

Flight of the Brits

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:10:06 GMT

MMM lovely smell of breakfast being made, last morning here in Seattle, we are leaving in an hour for the airport.

Hope the flight is all ok and goes as plan, going back via texas again, not sure how much security we need to do on the way back, as we are leaving the country and going back to old blighty again. I guess we'll see. Hopefully this time I will see more than just one cowboy hat.

So my first visit to the US and Canada was very nice, don't really want to leave. Mostly down to our lovely hosts, we have been very nicely looked after. I really liked Seattle as well, Vancouver was very nice but massive, almost too big, I felt overwhelmed and like an ant. I guess London is big too, but I know London by now so I am not too scared. London is my old grey prossie.

And now back to Letchworth and work. I have been checking the progress and things form here, and I guess things are moving along there are things that need to change but I guess that can wait to Monday. I'll try not to get stressed about it now. Got till the 14th of April.

Ok time to eat! I see you in UK next I hope!

First thing I do when I get back? Buy singstar!

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:28:42 GMT

my last day in America land. I have had sucha nice time. Been over to the border to Canada and back again. Today we were doing a twin peaks tour. Didn't go for damn good cherry pie and coffee, but it was nice to see it, twin peaks has always been one of my favorite things ever to come out on telly.

Now I am kicking Stevs ass in Sing star 90's on new kids on the block...oh yeah!

Screw Nature have another donut

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:18:52 GMT

Ohh Seattle, it is tres nice, have had some starbucks and seen some fish flying, and been up that pretty mountain. I havening such a great time. Been going through a cultural exchange of not so pleasant words, and had lots of good food.

Just recently I have been totally killed in singstar 80's but I did win the Erasure song...but apart from that I sucked baaaaed!
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America already!

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:49:14 GMT

Yes I am...going...now!

Steves parents are coming to pick us up in a few mins to take us back to theirs and then in the morning we will set off to Gatwich...then..houston (no time for stopping and eating some huge steaks with a stetson hat :() and the destination Seattle! Yay!!! I have only been planing this for years!

Hopefully next time I write if all goes to plan I shall be in the us of a.

My namea Helena I lahke your country I may stay yes? Yatsimash!

Robots in disguise

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:45:30 GMT

Oh and yesterdays discovery...well I thought they looked familiar but that was cause I have seen them in the mighty boosh. They opened for Numan.

Are Friends Electric

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:09:12 GMT

Or Gary Numa-Numa as we now call him....anyway...he was fantastic! He is going his 50th birthday tour and have been playing all the songs from the Replicas album. Now first off, I have always liked a few Numan songs here and there, I have seen him once before when he had the exile album out (i think that was what it was called) and he was playing with Sulphur. It got too guitarr wanky for me sounded a bit like he wanted to be NIN. That gig was many years ago, but I have never bought any albums or dived that much deeper into the music, but I have always liked his odd voice. And of course "are friend electric". When I first met Steve back in 98, we ended up at some Cafe down around totenham court road in the middle of the night, and this song came on the radio. I had never heard it before and Steve told me what it was, being a Blade Runner fan I liked the title and enjoyed the song. A few days later when I visited his house he played the song to me and I guess since then that has been our song.

On the day of the london bombings I remember the song coming on random on my MP3 player and I skipped it and felt guilty for some reason, got on the tube, and then got pulled of the Tube a few stops later, when we heard there had been some kind of explosion at kings cross. Not knowing what had happened I called Steve and found out he was at the office and ok. But before I got a hold of him that strange feeling that I had cut off our song was in the back of my head. Very silly I know, but that whole day was just very surreal.

Yesterday when Numan played that song I seemed to get some crap in my eyes, maybe some sand or something flew into the venue i don't know, but the tears started dripping :P

Sentimental stuff over. The gig was very good I enjoyed it, I was very happy we had seats instead of standing though as I was really knackered.

The O2 or the dome as it used to be was quite nice, we went and had some food first, at some burger joint, the chicken burger I had was very dry had problems swallowing it, hehe it got stuck at the back of my throat, but apart from that, it was ok.

Right now I need to do laundry, go shop, do some keywording, clean a bit and maybe go a bit of a workout if there is enough time!

oh and btw...how the **** could BWO not win!!! Why do the swedes always vote for the bimbo, have they heard how she sings??? Or are they too busy looking at her miniskirt and tits?

Open Door

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:58:03 GMT

My article about MS and Social Networking is out! http://www.mstrust.org.uk/publications/opendoor/0802_08_09.jsp had some good response on it already just today we had 22 more people join our facebook group!

Going to see the brain doc on monday, spent some time last weekend writing down my medical history so I wont forget any episodes. Hopefully he will be a nice enough guy.

Ohh and I think i have found a seamstress to start making my weddingdress. Couldn't find what I wanted in the shops so went and found someone to make it instead.

Am I only 3 weeks from going to Seattle now or is it 4? I should start stressing a lot of things that needs to be done before then at work!

Now I better go sleep..

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:18:39 GMT

Today I wrote a WWII Drama...well kinda...not really. But my frined started this blog where she rewrites spam into stories, and I though I'd have a go...it is much nonsense but oh so much fun

http://spamstories.wordpress.com/
Try it!

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:56:38 GMT

Oh no Camden Market is on fire!

Urgh

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:49:44 GMT

today I am feeling the love of self pity, not sure if it is my old friend fatigue or the meds I am on i guess the most likely reason is a combo of both, but I am feeling completly zonked, like I am not quite here, wandering around down town a bit i s daze like i was watching a film.

to make things more annoying I have a sore throat, a cold right now would be very no thanks. I have a lot to do at work and i don't really want to be both zonked and have a cold.

I guess if I maybe stay in bed tomorrow and take it very easy I should be fit for fight on monday...at least I will plan/hope for it.

Better have some dinner now, for some reason all I can think of wanting is crumpets with peanut butter and lots and lots of strawberrys on the side. Washed down with diet coke....i must be lacking in some minerals or something.

on a better note we petted a Bulldog down town today, he was ever so cute, drooled a little on my leg but it was worth it.

no...food, then maybe a film, last nits of meds and then bed, and hope for a more awake sunday.

Random Apicoectomy

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:23:27 GMT

so yesterday I went to the dentist with a toothache..and to make a long story (it started in 2001 with a botched up rootcanal filling) my dentist preformed a Apicoectomy and removed a root from my tooth. I was cut open, had the bone drilled into and the canal removed adn stiched up in less than 30 mins very confusing. http://www.dcendo.com/svcapico.htm

Today I am not in very much pain at all strangly, but I am so tired I guess it wore me out!

an impulse operation on a thursday afternoon...

Facebook and teh web

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:43:16 GMT

I removed the link to my lj from my facebook account, not sure exactly why, I guess I have been added by a bunch of old classmates and I wasn't overly keen on them reading about my MS. It is a bit of a strange subject to discuss with someone who haven't talked to in many years...

Not that I let it be that much a part of my life any way, but I guess it always will be however I see it.

In a few weeks time this article comes out in our magazine at the trust, that I have written about MS and social networking and such, I have put my name on it so I guess I will be outed then, but I think that is ok. I just don't want it to be everything in my life that is all...

Enough gloominess now I will go and cook some Curry!

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:25:53 GMT

woohoo I gots tickets to go to Seattle for Easter! woo and yay!

Mrs Me

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:30:35 GMT

First day in the new year! I had a very nice start to year or end to 2007 whatever you see it, Steve proposed to me in a very sneaky way. A few minutes to midnight he went and got this left over cracker that we had from xmas day and said lets pull this as we don't have any fireworks. In there was a Haribo candy ring, a bit strange I thought, and then he told me to read the joke/riddle bit and it said what takes 9 years to ask and just seconds to answer. Then he got down on one knee...and I said yes.

So I guess 2008 if all goes to plan I will be mrs Alexander!

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:37:28 GMT

24 more minutes left of 2007 in merry ol england! Happy new year everyone, hope that 2008 kicks butt!

No Hugs Please I am britt..err swedish..

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:17:36 GMT

Hrmm...Living with MS is really odd, I mean, the symptoms are so diffrent from time to time, that you never know what you are gonna get. I am still suffering from numbness, it has spread down to just above my knee. I can still walk around so I guess it is not really that weird, but it is Odd. But now I have encountered something even stranger, it is called "the MS Hug" and yes, it does feel like being tightly squeezed, or maybe like forced to wear a very tight corset. Yesterday it was quite bad, I mean I don't really suffer from any pain, I know some ppl have horrible pain when they get the "hug" but maybe it is because I have been taking Gabapentin for the burning pain that started last week. But it really feels odd and a bit panicky at times.

Life in my 30's

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:08:10 GMT

So I turned 30 last week, and almost like a "parcel in the post" as we say in Sweden I got a relapse. Very annoying. It is maybe not so bad as last years arms and leg episode, but rather strange and uncomfortable, as my left ribcage, stomach and side, is feeling numb and tingling, at times even like it burns. Yesterday I kept on thinking it felt like it was like I had had a skin graft and it wasn't even my own skin there anymore. Very odd. I don't think there is anything I can do about it. I will try and call the MS nurse tomorrow and see if she has any tips, but I think it is all related to this big ass man cld I got going at the mo.

Birthday was fun apart from getting sick. Spend it with some friends down at Garlic and shots in soho. Steve got me a Trip to Scotland i November for a week and I think that will be fantastic, and probably very cold. Need to get some good walking shoes for that.

No time for some Sudafeds and a warm drink I think.

x

LOLipop

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:04:27 GMT

Too Funny!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDqNaNlfifc

It's funny cause it's true!

Bad timing

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:20:50 GMT

Rain rain rain, and it is getting darker too...blah, summer is gone I guess.

Tomorrow I am off to Dublin for work, and I have been looking forward to it so much. Ofcourse faith or whatever has to throw in something to annoy me and made me wake up on saturday with vertigo again. It has stayed away for most of the summer, i think I had it last time in June. Yesteday I took some pills for it and thought i'd go away, but it came back again today and I swayed around like a drunk this morning. It is better now, but I just think the timing is so shit! I really hope that if i go to bed early and take my pills tomorrow that it wont be too bad once I get there. Ofcourse getting up at 4 am isn't really gonna work in my favour, but I hope I can lure the stupid fatigue away by napping on the bus and on the plane. If only my fizzy arm and leg will not act up I should be able to deal!

Ok Better go cook and do an online shop for food for next week and then off to bed...such an exciting life I live!