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Sorry for running off and leaving Twitter Thursday half way into the night, but I got a bad dose of visual aura out of no where and had to head straight offline. Thankfully (so far, touch word, pretty please don’t appear now because I have tempted fate) it hasn’t happened again since and I only have the mildest of migraines - fingers crossed it doesn’t develop further.

So in other news, Charlie Bartlett - chuffing awesome film. Gav and I went to see it on Tuesday night thanks to Showcase Insider and I have fallen seriously in love with it.

No big deal? People love movies all the time? right?

No, not me. In fact it is very rare that I fall for a film - I am extremely hard to please and find myself indifferent to most I see. Out of every 10 films I see I’d say my ratio is 20% hate, 70% indifferent and 10% like. We went to see ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ the week before, a film that everyone in the country is raving about, I thought it was meh. The last film I saw that I like was The Simpsons Movie, the last film I saw that I fell in love with to the extent I have Charlie Bartlett - Drop Dead Fred - a film that came out in 1991, hah.

People ask me, what sort of films do you enjoy then? What was it about that film you didn’t enjoy? Didn’t you find that bit hilarious though? And the thing is I don’t know, because I am not a film connaisseur in any way, I don’t do critiques - most of the time I can’t explain why I do like something, or why I don’t, I just watch something and I either enjoy it or I don’t.

But I actually do see somewhat of a correlation between Charlie Bartlett and Drop Dead Fred, both are ‘Quirky comedies’ I think…so on that basis, any one got any film recommendations for me?

and finally, go see Charlie Bartlett already - but remember he’s my new best friend, not yours.

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Bwah, I am very happy that my blog entry about Walkers Brit Trips is currently topping the google listings for many related searches, such as ‘Walkers Brit Trips Haven’ and ‘Walkers Brit Trips rip off’ etc

Here’s the thing though, I am glad that didn’t work out…because yesterday I booked a 4 day holiday to Tenby for less money! I used to go to Tenby (it’s in South Wales) when I was a teenager with my family and a friend so I have a lot of happy memories. I always wanted to go back there as an adult but Gav was never up for it because it’s so far away compared to the sorts of places we usually go (about a 5 hour drive) - I am not sure why he agreed to it this time but I am not complaining. We are staying in our own little self catering flat, which is infinitely preferable to me than a Haven holiday park! When I say little, I mean little though..the place doesn’t even have a bedroom, just a drop down bed hehe. But it’s in a great location overlooking the main beach and harbor and a 30 second walk to the center of town, and it has all the basic amenities so I am sure it’ll be awesome

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Stalk me Sunday time, if you want to follow me over the next day or so just click the image below and you will be taken to a live view of my desktop!

May the 4th be with you (I so wanted to keep my webcam picture up until today lol).

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So, you may have seen me mention on Twitter that the holiday to Prestatyn has fallen through, here’s the shiznit. We were going to go to a Haven holiday park because Walkers have a promotion at the moment where you collect Brit Trips which can then be redeemed against certain things…one of the things you can get is ‘50% off selected Haven Holidays’ for 50 points - so after 2 recommendations for the Rhyl area, and a bit of research we decided that’s where we were going to go - Presthaven Sands Holiday Park in Prestatyn.

To make sure there wasn’t going to be any catch or hidden charges, I read the terms and conditions several times - only on Superior or Superior plus vans, OK. Only for 4 day trips that are Mon - Thurs, OK. Only between certain dates and excluding any bank holidays, OK - yup that all seems fine. So I head to the Haven site to check the prices - hurrah they have the dates we want available for £169 - now maths was never my strong area, but even I can work out that £169 with 50% off is about £85…right..right….riiiight?

So we login to the Walkers site and select the holiday, say yes we are sure, use our points on this…it says OK redirecting you to the Haven site now so you can get that baby booked - we refind it there, select our date, enter all our details, get to the payment part and…

…errrrrr? £169 - £85 = £164?? Wait accommodation £328.50? £164.50 saving? What?

I went through the process twice more and had Gav do it once just to make sure we’d done every thing right, we had….and after much head scratching I spotted something…two words….’Brochure Price’. No where on the walkers site does it say that the 50% is off brochure price and no where on the Haven site does it say anything about the web prices not being the same as the brochure prices, not until after you have committed to spending your points and half booked the holiday do you see those two little words, brochure price. So even though you have to book online, and no where on the Haven site does it tell you anything about the brochure price being twice as much, that’s what you get your 50% off of…a whopping saving of £5 off what you would otherwise have to pay without Brit Trips. Err, pass thanks.

Complete scam and rip off imho, they probably expect after spending so long looking it all up and deciding that’s where you want to go, most people will think ‘Stuff it’ and book any way, as Gav wanted to, well no chance - it’s misleading and they aren’t getting a penny of my money. I’d send an email of complaint if I thought it’d achieve any thing, but they blatantly already know it’s misleading. Bastards.

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In fact the whole day in general was a bit of a disaster area. As well as the holiday thing not working out, I got my girly time of the month and was suffering badly with it, we decided to go to the cinema after the holiday thing - otherwise we’d have just stayed home and been all miserable - but that means we had to pay for it, paying for the cinema is a foreign concept to us now we are so used to going to the free screenings and on the way there we almost got into a really bad car crash…thanks in part to a stupid twat of a woman clearly not knowing where she was going who switched lanes at the last second, stalled and then didn’t go when the green light said go bitch, go and thanks in part to this turning Gav into a road rageish twat who pulled out in front of another car in order to go past her - it missed us by approximately 0.00003 of a second.

If I’d died, I would have had to share my haunting time equally between both twat woman and twat Gav!

Ok that is all.

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Thanks for the holiday suggestions a few entries ago, we still don’t have anything booked but it’s looking likely we’ll be going to Prestatyn for a few days. I have my reservations about it though because a family holiday park is about as far removed from being my ‘cup of tea’ as you can get. I hate crammed places, I hate the thought of annoying 18 year old staff members being all bouncy bouncy - they call them Funstars for cripes sake, funstars, that’s like my worst nightmare, I hate noisy kids, I hate places that charge a fortune for things like drinks because they know they can and I am extremely concerned we are going to be basically stuck on a complex because there’s nowhere within walking distance to actually go, I Shall have to do some research - but we are skint so with 50% off a Haven Holiday it’s hard to pass up, and we did say we’d give something different a try this year.

What’s the worst than can happen?
~~has a flash forward 6 weeks and can already see the ranting blog entry about what a shithole it was~~

In other news, I think I am becoming a little obsessed with Twitter, I sort of didn’t understand it for a long time..but now I am getting the hang of things it’s a lot of fun (though I haven’t ventured into learning what ‘tweets’ are yet) and there’s actually a way to make money using it - there are several companies and the like on there that hold little contests, I won $30 last week with no effort! I need more people to follow and who are following me, so please go ahead and add me if you are on there and I will return the favour. I just wish that I could get Twitter mobile working, so that I can send updates when I am not at the computer, but each time I try to text them the code at the number they give…it just gives me an error and won’t send. Boo. I wonder if it’s meant for US carriers only, there doesn’t seem to be much information about that.
You might have seen me mention on Twitter Thursday that I was trying to beat my highest ever hit day on RealityTVFan.org but coming up 20 short, argh, but then I absolutely creamed it yesterday…beat it by over 250, woo.

Annnd finally, I have been working on a new blog the last week or so….it’s on Blogspot, which makes me feel a little dirty…I can’t remember the last time I had a site that wasn’t hosted by myself - but it’s meant to be a content blog that doesn’t need all the fancyness and I just don’t want any more bloody domains, I have too many of them as it is. It’s a UK bargain hunting site, you guys know I love my bargains and the like - so I figured why not share what I know? It’s going to cover mega bargains, cashback sites, free cinema going and free credit mainly. Oooooh fun. Check it out here:

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Here’s something that’s not fun - dropping a whole loaf of frozen thick sliced bread on your foot - can you say ouch?

Here’s what else is not fun - every one you know owning a Wii, having recently bought the newly released Mario Kart and all taking part in battles with each other online, when you don’t have one. Boo, BOO at you my Mario Kart owning friends.

Here’s what is fun though, Gav and I are going away for a long weekend for our 5 year anniversary at the start of June, yay. Due to issues and circumstances last year, I haven’t been away at all, anywhere, not even for 1 day, since November 2007…and that was only 2 shitting nights in shitty Blackpool, when I had a migraine. The problem is we have no where to go, aside from the fact we aren’t made of money, we have to go on certain dates as it’s the only time Gav can get off work, and we want to be there for the 6th and neither of us have been anywhere other than Skegness and Blackpool in several years and both of those are off the menu. So please, someone suggest a nice place to go…i’ve asked several places and still not come up with anything.
Needs to be UK, needs to be either North Wales, North West coast or Yorkshire/North East coast. I know some of you guys will have some great recommendations for me

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