Hello all again, thanks to those who recall my existence – here I am again with another update…CRAZY!

I hope every one had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. Mine was pretty smashing – I got to spend the whole thing with my boy for the first year ever, he usually goes out drinking on Christmas Eve and I don’t see him until he’s sobered up the next day at any point between 2pm – 10pm! This year he decided to stay home and play with me instead, aww.

We spent most of our time doing a Simpsons jigsaw that I bought him, we’re so rock n roll.

New Years Eve was a bit of a washout, he had to work late and I didn’t feel like going out getting wasted with my friends so I just stayed home on my own – but that’s OK, I am not that into NYE – people try to hug you and stuff *shudder*.

In online land…Page Rank update a few days ago and I lost rank on most of my other blogs, but I got it back here and on RealityTVFan.org – my PRs were removed over 2 years ago now when google first started hitting people who did paid posting (I never did it here on Swaymyway.com but it got spanked by association!). It feels strange, I had long since given up any hope they’d give it me back.

I am also spending today working on a new site about TV, though I am not 100% sure what I am doing with it yet – I had the option to buy an .eu for 12p so of course I had to snap it up.

OK that is all for now. Byes.

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What’s this, a blog post from Starlet? Gasp.

I am not going to make excuses as to why I have not blogged, it’s just because I suck and have abandoned this domain. I am also not going to make promises that I will blog every single day from now on like a good little girl – because I wont.

So am I blogging now because I have earth shattering news? Nope. Same old, same old.

I will tell you about my online shopping trip from yesterday though – how do you like this. I ordered a watch and bracelet set, a chunky knit cardigan, a retro gaming tshirt, a personalised birthday card, 2 x leggings, a tunic type top, a nike long sleeved running top, a stig stress toy, a cubic zirconia letter keyring and a powerball. Total cost including postage – £16 – they don’t call me the bargain Queen for nothing. I will also get another £5 or so cashback on those purchases. Booyah.

I will also tell you that Thursdays episode of Survivor contained the most entertaining Tribal Council of all time – Russell isn’t a villain, he’s an underdog champion! There were so many classic moments – from when the smug Galu were spouting off about being in charge, to the moment Russell stood up. The Kelly’s face when she realised she was the target, to the stifled laughs of the Foa Foa Four. The rant from Laura about the merry hell Russell just raised, to the faux nod of agreement from Shambo who doesn’t want them to know she’s switched alliance. Brilliant! If you aren’t already watching it, get going, I command it.

ps. Free love to the first sway old timer who notices this post and makes a comment, let’s see who the best Starlet Stalker is

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I have logged in here and opened my write page several times over the last few weeks, but always given up — it’s like when you know you owe someone an apology and will have to give it to them eventually, but avoid avoid avoid avoid it so much that it just makes it so much harder.

I wonder if I will ever managed to blog regularly here at Swaymyway.com again, or if it’s really destined to just…peter out.

So updates, updates, updates…erm…I probably bought several more domains since the last time I blogged. That seems to be my ‘thing’ these days, buying and developing domains and then either raking in the money myself or selling them on. It’s a lot of fun, but also takes up 90% of my online time.

I didn’t even have time for the forum for while, but have become active again now so if you are ever missing a bit of Starlet in your life, you know where to go!

I lost a load more weight. Gav and I are still floating each others boats and I am currently super excited because Britain’s Biggest Loser starts in two weeks. I have watched the USA (I hate this season, what a bunch of uninspiring group they are!) and Australian ones for years, but the UK axed it back in 2004 so it’s awesome that it’s back

Ok that is all

Edit: Dang, I am so rusty I posted this as a ‘page’, then spent 5 minutes trying to work out where the hell the post I just wrote had gone and why it wasn’t appearing on my blog. Dur.

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I have been on a bit of a spending spree the last few days. First I ordered Wii Fit, I had been considering it for a while but after borrowing it from a friend I decided it wasn’t really worth £70 — but then I won a Laser Cosmos Projector that I sold on eBay for £75, so I figured why not?

Ended up getting it for £50 with discounts, so bargain central.

It arrived today but is not yet opened.

I am also on the verge of buying a new mobile phone, you guys might remember that I used to buy new phones all the time — I’d get bored really quickly and usually sell my old one and get a new one about every 6 months! I can’t remember how long I have had my current one, but it’s been a loooooong time for me, maybe even more than two years.

It’s now stopped working properly though, the buttons only seem to work half the time — so I have no choice but to get a new one even though I would rather not, I can’t find one that makes me fall in love with it so it pains me to have to get a new one just for the sake of it!

I have almost decided on the LG Cookie but want to wait until I have seen it ‘in person’ before getting it. I have never had a touch screen one before.

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In other news, any of you delightful graphically talented people fancy making me a header image for UK Bargains? So far I have paid two people to design one for me and paid 1 person with ECs in the Entrecard Market and they have produced…shit…so my budget is pretty much all used up, and I am now scrounging a freebie

I just want it to fit in with the colours of the template, be around 800×100 in size, have the words ‘UK Bargains’ on it and some sort of related image(s) such as shopping bags, pound sign (£), shopping trolley, browser window etc etc

Mad love and credit via the art of linkage both here and there for any one who can hook me up with something half decent.

Thanks

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Two blog posts in one day? it can’t be? Well, this is only my Twitter updates but still…it counts, OK!!

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I wrote this for FaceBook, but figured I might as well post it here as well..since I have not blogged again in over a month.

25 random facts about me, enjoy.

1. I am taking this stupid thing because every one else is doing it and I don’t like to feel left out.

2. I eat the same sandwich every day. Wholemeal bread, Salad, Chicken Tikka & BBQ sauce and once a week I treat myself to a slice of bacon in it as well.

3. I have the same extras with my sandwich each day and they have to be eaten in the correct order. 3 x Cherry tomatoes, 2 x fish sticks, 6 x pickled onions and 6 x grapes for ‘pudding’.
The correct order is Cherry Tom, half a fish stick, 2 x onions, half a fish stick, 2 x onions, Cherry tom, half a fish stick, 2 x onions, cherry tom, half a fish stick, 6 x grapes.

4. I won a Wii in November. I think it’s the only thing I have ever won in my life — unless you count the ‘Paint an egg’ competition I won at little school and the ‘Lazer cosmos projector’ I won a few weeks later.

5. Gav and I have known each other for almost 10 years now and have been together for almost 6 years.

6. I am still in touch with several people that I became friends with in the dreamcast chat room back in the 1990s. Tezz, Ian and Mark to name a few.

7. I run at least 12 websites, I think there’s probably a few more as well, I have lost count.

8. At 28 I think I have finally outgrown the need to buy every thing I can in PINK. Even though my ipod is pink, as is my phone, as is my DS, as is the laptop I desperately want….hmm…OK scrap that.

At 28 I still have a childish obsession with buying every thing I can in pink.

9. I will never dye my hair again after I had a hardcore chemical allergic reaction in 2005 that left me extremely unwell and practically bald. Despite the mess it left me in, it’s still quite hard to resist the urge as I have dyed my hair since I was about 14!

10. 25 random facts about oneself are quite hard to come up with.

11. I am still a reality tv junkie and watch shows from all over the world not just the UK. The Biggest Loser Australia is probably my favourite

12. I quit smoking in November 2006. First attempt. Job done. I put on about 2 stone though because I replaced the fags with food, doh.

13. I quit drinking in February 2007. I had a pint and a half of cider and black on holiday last summer and I had a sip of Gavs beer on Tuesday night just gone because he ordered a stella and it didn’t look like a stella. Other than that I have not touched a drop.

14. Can’t Cook, Won’t Cook. If it comes in a can and takes 10 minutes of occasional stirring I can just about cope with that, any thing else is Gavs department.

15. I think that a lot of people probably think I am a rude biatch because I don’t come across as very friendly. Well, it’s true I am not very friendly and I am rather anti social — but that doesn’t mean I don’t like you, it just means I prefer to be left alone

16. I am a night owl. Always have been, always will be.

I go to bed around 6am and get up around 2pm — a lot of people think (cough Christopher Gingerhead) this is fucked up and makes me a lazy bum, but my sleeping pattern is very consistent and healthy, it’s just at different times to most peoples.

17. HATE talking on phones, hate hate hate. I have made about 5 phones calls in my entire adult life. I guess it’s a phobia. I still get my mum to call places and pretend to be me some times, she makes most of my appointments for me. It’s not even like I just don’t like talking to strangers, I don’t like talking to any one — even long time friends and Gav!

18. I want to visit Australia one day.

19. I am ridiculously cautious with money, to the point of being a tight arse. I pontificate over every pound I spend.

20. I used to hate people who would correct others spelling and grammar and think they were losers who should get a life — now I find myself doing it and it drives me crazy, it is also rather dangerous as I don’t have the best grammar skills myself so make as many mistakes as the people I am correcting (in my head, I don’t correct them out loud!)

21. I hate the way that Americans don’t put an ‘and’ in between numbers. It’s two thousand AND nine, not two thousand nine. Thank you, please.

22. If I could have a magic zero calorie food that I could eat and eat and eat and not have it’s calories count — it wouldn’t be Chocolate, or muffins, or ice cream, or chips, or crisps…it’d be Lancashire and/or Feta cheese, mmmm cheeeese.

23. I always look at peoples pics on facebook, always. If you upload pictures or get tagged in an album — I am there, even if the album contains 100 pics and only one of them has you in it and I don’t know any of the other people. That’s really lame, I am not sure why I admitted that.

24. Is wondering if this is nearly over yet?

25. I would list ‘Shopping’ as my favourite activity.

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Good Day Sway fans!

Another month has passed since I last blogged and I sunk further and further into my new status as awful website abandoner.

The funny thing is that it’s not like I am spending less time online, or have the excuse that I have more important things to do — it’s just that I run so many other sites that somewhere along the way Swaymyway.com became low down on my list of online things to do.

I’d promise I am going to revive it, make it a new years resolution to blog at least a few times per week. But I’d be lying to ya

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So some general stuff.

Dreamhost confirmed they won’t be giving me a refund for the 6 months of unused but paid for hosting. It does state this in their terms and always has done so I don’t have a leg to stand on in terms of complaining — but I will be spreading the word to any one and every time I see Dreamhost mentioned that no one should ever prepay with them, you may save a few bucks in the short term but it’s not worth the risk that 1 month after you’ve paid up they decide their archaic servers can’t handle your website any more and ask you to either stump up for dedicated hosting or sod the hell off — then it’s goodbye to all that lovely cash you just paid.

Down with Dreamhost, spread the word dudes!

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In other news:

* I got a lovely Christmas bonus on Monday so I went out and did what any respectable woman would do — I bought a fancy party dress, some underwear and three pairs of shoes in the sale
* I can’t believe it’s Christmas Eve already, it has sure come by quick. I am usually way more excited than this.
* I am very excited that Celebrity Big Brother begins in just over a weeks time.
* This is wrong on so many levels:

Who starts their sale on Christmas Day? Come on now, Christmas day is for lounging in front of the telly, enjoying the gifts you have received, getting a little squiffy.

It is not for sitting at your computer browsing online sales. Is nothing sacred any more?

What sucks however, is the fact I will be one of the sad nacks who cannot resist the lure of the mighty post Christmas sale and will probably end up spending a good portion of my day online — curse you sale loving gene, cuuurrrssseee youuuu!

Love you all and hope you have a wonderful Christmas Season xxxx

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Hey my last post was post number 300 on this blog! 300! Crazy times.

My host move is complete now, all sites now reside on Hostgators server. I just went to cancel my dreamhost account but though I better check the FAQs first to see how I go about getting the 6+ months back that I have pre paid and about fell off my chair when I read that they don’t refund that — I am staying calm at the moment and waiting for them to confirm it via a ticket I just sent in, but if that’s true there’s going to be drama…how could they possibly charge me for 6+ months of service….that they have not and will not be providing me with?! There must be some mistake.

Have you seen the new themes on GMail? When I noticed the design change yesterday I figured there must be some way I could edit the colour scheme, but look as I might I could not find it — I logged on just now and saw a big note saying to go to the themes tab to change it, so whether I was being blind yesterday or they only just added it — who knows?

I have set it to the desk theme at the moment, I have a similar theme on one of my other Wordpress blogs. Though I think once the novelty wears off I will switch it to something similar.

Still, cool new feature. I love me some GMail

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Over the last week or so I have been moving all of my sites away from Dreamhost, we fell out after they couldn’t handle my Reality TV site and kept telling me I had to either buy dedicated hosting off of them or move it elsewhere! Pah!

I moved RealityTVFan.org right away, and it’s taken a few months but now that I am settled and happy at HostGator I have started to move the rest of my sites over.

It’s taken a while, but HostGator wanted $75 per hour to do it for me and there was no way I was paying that much!

I moved Swaymyway.com and my hostees sites, Always, Dolce, Framecodes, Walkinthepark, WDITY and UK Bargains, last night and am now just in the process of making sure everything works how it should be — so if you encounter any problems let me know

Just one my site to go now, but it’s an important one because it’s what Gav and his dad use for email! Eep.

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Well, we went to the big city fireworks display in Derby at the weekend and we weren’t all that impressed. It didn’t even compare to the smaller local one we went to last year. It’s not that it was bad, it lasted a long time and was nice, it just wasn’t very spectacular. Plus we got lost getting back to the car, what should have taken us 10 minutes to walk took us 40 minutes and then it took us another 30 minutes to even get out of the car park — this meant we didn’t get home until much later than planned so we couldn’t even go out afterwards like we were meant to.

Over all, a bit of a disaster!

Still, I always like fireworks…enjoy the pretty pretty pictures! These were taken before it really started to pour down with rain, as I didn’t want my camera to get wet!

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