Honda is about to launch the next phase of it's advertising campaign during the idents on various Channel 4 documentaries. The new phase will feature several mini documentaries starring real people as they use their own Honda vehicles in some unique and interesting ways – each of the mini series of documentaries will have a wealth of associated content online that people will be able to access to get more information, extra video content, further articles and much more. The stories will include things such as a woman who uses her Honda ATV to help in herding her Alpacas. Take a look at the video below to get a better idea of what it's all about.

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The new campaigns have all been created by Wieden + Kennedy London (W+K), a huge independent advertising agency that has been around since the 1980s and are best known for their work with massive global brands such as Nike. The coolest part is that you can get involved and if you are the lucky winner of the competition available via the online hub you could be the next person featured in your own mini documentary series that will be shown to the entire nation during an upcoming channel 4 documentary – to qualify you simply need to show W+K how you use your Honda and they will pick their favourite from all the submissions.

Martin Moll, Head of Marketing at Honda (UK) said, ‘"I am very excited that our continued relationship sponsoring Channel 4 documentaries allows us to focus on our customers, highlighting their warm – sometimes quirky – personal experiences of Honda products either for fun or as a necessary part of their daily livelihood.  We hope that this campaign will unveil further examples from our customers, one of which will be nominated to be brought to life on TV for a final set of idents later on in the year".

Chris Groom and Sam Heath, Creative Directors, Wieden + Kennedy said, “We knew there were all sorts of people using all sorts of Honda products in extraordinary ways. A documentary format provided the perfect platform to celebrate them.”

How cool would that be? Having a little mini 'reality' TV show about you and your life? I am almost tempted to go out and buy a Honda myself just so that I can apply

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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.

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

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

I also feel I should disclose I have a total girly crush on the lovely Cheryl Cole — not in a sexual way you understand, she just makes me happy on the inside because she’s beautiful and sweet!

Dani has the worst set of acts, Cheryl has the best, some of Simon’s will do well because they are hot boys and Louis….poor Louis, why has he not retired yet?

Best performances of the night were Alexandra, who I never rated too much throughout the audition process and sweet little Diana who has a divine voice — though I did agree with Dani’s criticism that the performance with the hands was a bit..err..creepy.

Worst performances were Daniel, the guy who…let’s be honest…is only on the show because his wife died in tragic circumstances. He’s a cruise ship singer at best. And Rachel, awful styling, awful song choice, awful voice and just bloody awful attitude — I strongly dislike her. Also poor Scott, probably the worst performance on X Factor ever, good on Simon for admitting he made a terrible song choice for him and good on the public for giving the lad a second chance.

I also didn’t rate Laura too much, it wasn’t atrocious but the comments from the judges confused me as they were singing her praises and calling it the performance of the night. I think it was sketchy and her styling was way off…Cheryl made this gorgeous young creature look about 2 stone heavier than she is by pouring her into a dress that was clearly too small for her!

I was surprised by the bottom two, both of the girl groups. Neither wowed me, but neither were terrible either…except for Girl Bands name…I mean really, why did no one change that god awful name as they progressed in the competition? Based on their second performances I really felt like Bad Lashes deserved to stay — they are at least memorable. Girl Band should be renamed Girl Bland!

Overall, great start to the live shows

Oh no, wait…I don’t.

Yeah, no excuse…I have just lost the knack for running a personal blog, nothing much changes or goes on in my life these days that needs talking about, that never used to bother me…I could rant on for eons about nothing, but these days there are – to be completely honest – other things I would rather spend my time online doing, like playing bingo and working on my other websites that I make money from running *shrug*

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So here’s what I will talk about today, something that I do still have the ability to rattle on about….Big Brother!

I’ve been watching Big Brother UK and Australia again this year, and am eagerly awaiting Big Brother USA in at the end of next week. Big Brother Australia is nearing it’s end now, only a few weeks left, and I have to say that I have fallen out of love with it a little bit, the public have continually voted out the people I like the most, leaving an extremely dull final line up – Cherry, Alice, Rory, Ben – all nice people, but about as interesting to watch as paint drying. I adored Renee, Nobbi and Terrence but they all got evicted, because they actually had personalities. Brigitte is an awful human being, she’s entertaining alright but she’s a nasty, rude, spoilt little cow and I hate the fact her popularity means her bahviour is validated makes me a little queasy. That leaves Travis and Terri, I wouldn’t mind either of them winning, they stand out, the do have opinions and they have entertained me – but it’s a case of them being the best of a bad bunch, in any other series I doubt they’d have even been on my radar. Nobbi should have won, and he’ll always be the one I most remember from this year.

Big Brother UK is about a month in, and so far every eviction has gone the way I want it to…which is very unusual for Big Brother UK, usually I am the person who seems to want the opposite to everyone else – I loved Charley last year! Having said that there have only been 3 actual evictions, what with two people having got themselves removed for being discusting human beings – Alex for making ‘gangster threats’ and Dennis for spitting in poor Mohameds face.

Poor Mohamed indeed, he comes across as such a kind and gentle soul to me – his only downside seems to be that he’s a bit of a human dustbin who eats more than his fair share of the food – but the amount of hate and viciousness he’s had aimed at him for no apparent reason makes me really feel for the guy. I am hoping one of the gorgeous new girlies will fall madly in love with him and make him all better, or something.

I am currently strongly disliking Bex – horrible chav, Luke – nasty little stirrer (though he is funny), Mario – the fucking facilitator my arse and Dale – Like like like, um, like yeah. The kid is a moron of epic proportion.

I am completely indifferent to Lisa, Mikey, Rachel and Stuart – there’s a lot of wallpaper to try take down this year.

I am in love with Kat – she can be annoying, but she has a heart of gold, Darnell – there’s a guy who tells it like it is, Mo – Sweet kid, Rex – arrogant and cocky as all hell, but he has the right to be…I love his deadpan sense of humour and honesty.

I am yet to form an opinion on the new girls, since they have only been in the house 1 full day. Overall though, I am enjoying the season so far…hopefully that continues cos I haven’t been a huge fan the last few years.

That is all

I still have some tweakings to do, I have 100s of smilies to upload to my wordpress and codes to remember for their short cuts etc, because at the moment all my old entries are littered with :heart: :shrug: etc rather than images, doh. I also need to decide if the ‘Ask’ script is returning or not, at the moment I am thinking no, it had become a bit redundant and a pain in the bottom – but I still kinda like it so we shall see.

Apparently I don’t have the comment plugger installed correctly or something though, because I don’t see any of you commenters plugged. I shall have to look into that.

In order to ensure I blog on a regular basis I am going to have some regular features here at Swaymyway.com, such as Wordless Wednesday – where I will just post an image that is either interesting, or describes how I feel, what I am doing etc, no words. There’ll be Twitter Thursday where I will basically post my twitter feed here and resolve to up date it every time I so much as fart – a nice one for those with stalker tendencies! There will also be my weekly TV round up, where I will talk about anything noteworthy that happened in any of my favourite shows that week. FUN TIMES.

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In other news, my mummy looks like a mummy – literally, she had to have an operation on her legs today and she’s returned from the hospital bandaged literally from her toes to her hips, I shouldn’t laugh I know but she’s fine and is funny, bless her.

Today there is meant to be a super storm in the UK, the news and weather people have been going on about it for ages – I love wild weather, it’s one of the reasons winter is my favourite season, what fun is summer – hot, sunny, pollony = snooze. Winter is where it’s at, wind, rain, snow, thunder, lightening, fog, mist, ice, sleet = much more fun. It has apparently already hit the South of the country and Wales but hasn’t made it up North where I am yet, it’s raining a little bit, but that’s not exactly interesting – I hope it isn’t a big let down, usually when the UK weather people are reporting big things, they don’t happen, UK weather people suck ha.

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Ok that is all, see you for Wordless Wednesday!

Gav and I got along swimmingly, 8 days we were together…that’s actually the longest we have spent together in a long long while…I was worried we’d run out of things to say or start hating on each other, especially as he was off work so we were literally together 24/7, but it was all good, of course it was – we get on very well most of the time :throb:

We went shopping one day and I got a little cardigan in the sale, I have been after one for months mainly just to wear around the house but didn’t want to pay £15+ for one (yes, I am that cheap ) so finding this for a fiver was perfect, and it’s so nice that it’s already been worn out several times and isn’t just an ‘at home’ item, woo. Though I only bought that to cheer myself up after my beautiful snow boots that I mentioned in the last entry got cancelled due to stock issues, boooooo, I am still sore about that over a week later. We had a kebab one day, we went to subway twice, we had a Greggs chicken bake one day and we went out to eat in Weatherspoons one night with Jonathan. We went to the pub one night, we played a little golf and we were meant to be going to the cinema to see Juno with some free preview tickets I had got but I got the day wrong so we missed it. Oooops.

When I got back I got straight back into my usual healthy eating and working out, even though Gav was here and I don’t usually work out in front of any one! But I knew that if I didn’t hop straight back on the elliptical, it’d get harder and harder to.

I also had the most amazing item of post waiting for me to open, two in fact…one was a slight ‘windfall’ that I wasn’t expecting and the other is something I am going to talk about in my next entry, as first I need to go and do some serious thanking of some certain lovely SwayForum members :hyper::heart:

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In other quick news, it’s the Big Brother Celebrity Hijack finale tonight, it’s honestly been a really enjoyable series and makes me have some faith that BB9 will be better than the last few years have been. Nice housemates, interesting housemates, change in format, no Davina (sorry, but not a Davina fan), good celebrities, few arguments but lots of tension, lots of humour, the ‘right’ people have been being evicted for a change and there’s not been not toooo much manipulation from producers :thumbsup:
I am rooting for Jeremy to win, yeah he’s a bit of a mean twat but I like that in a guy, I like his sense of humour and he reminds me a lot of Gav to be honest…I’d also love to see Amy win, she’s strong and has that same sense of dry humour, she’s a girl who knows her mind but isn’t a bitch. I don’t want to see Nathan or Anthony win, they fit the ‘generic’ Big Brother image of safe, nice, boring, attractive guys who win because the teenage girls fancy them!

Please vote in this poll that I have up at RealityTVFan.org

Ok that is all.

So, Happy New Year you lovelies you. Gavin got off work early and drove up here, despite having to head back for work the next day and not having a day off in 2 weeks, aww :throb: He didn’t arrive until 11pm though, so it was too late to really do anything. So we just drove off up the way at about 20 to 12 and found a great contryfied lane to park on, then we got out of the car and watched the fireworks at midnight. It was pretty awesome, we got a really good spot because you could see for miles in 3 directions and the fireworks were going on for a good 15 – 20 minutes! Then it was back to mine for some mindless TV, drinkies, foodies and bringing in the new year with a bang

I have seen a bunch of people post about their 2007, the highs and lows and achievements and failures etc – I am not going to do that because 2007 was a bit of a nothing year for me, nothing great happened, nothing horrible happened, no major changes to relationship status, employment status, living arrangements etc. I have also seen a bunch of people posting their new years resolutions and I am also not going to do that, I don’t do new years resolutions – I feel like no one really means them when they make them, it’s just something to do because others are doing it, and that’s why most have failed within a month. I did however scribble down a few ‘goals’ I have set for my online endeavours over the next few months that I will share with you.

* Bring Swaymyway.com back to it’s former glory – It’s clear that in 2007 I abandoned this blog, taking that 2-3 month hiatus really wasn’t the best idea it turns out, it’s amazing how fast ‘loyal’ visitors disappear if you don’t feed them for a while. Though even before, and after the hiatus it’s obvious I haven’t been putting much effort into running this site. So bringing it back to it’s former glory will involve a) Making a new layout, no template…something I make myself. This current layout has been up how long? b) Getting traffic back up, so prepare for lots of return comments and social networking site widgets. c) Removal of all adverts except the banner ads. No one clicks on the adsense ads here any way, so I may as well remove them and concentrate on optimizing them on other sites instead. d) blog at least twice a week.

* Plugboard.org – as above. It has been pretty abandoned and left to run itself over the last year. The ads are more lucrative so will stay, but traffic needs improving greatly.

* RealityTVFan.org – Work to get more hits and research more money making opportunities.

* Create a new weight loss site. I am planning on registering a new domain to blog about my weight loss, honestly…it’s for the money, I won’t lie. RealityTVFan.org has shown me how easy it is to make an income online, setting up a site to make money – why didn’t I ever do this before? I’d never ‘sell out’ swaymyway and plugboard in this way, because they are ‘personal’ sites, they were never created with the intention to make money…but RealityTVFan.org was and it’s easy. I chose weight loss as the subject for the simple fact that it is part of my daily life, working out, eating right, trying to be healthy are all things I do every day – so it’ll be easy for me to blog about often, add content and as it’s a ‘journey’ constantly add to etc. I need to come up with a name though, I can’t think of any thing good…and even the not so good stuff I come up with is all taken, it’s amazingly hard to come up with any sort of weight loss related domain name that isn’t already taken. Any suggestions?

* Go to bed earlier. “That’s not online related you silly” I hear you thinking (yes, I can hear you think…beware!), but it’s the Internet that keeps me up until past 6am most nights…namely Bingo…since discovering free* bingo it’s actually become my main source of money, but in order to make as much as I do I need to play when the rooms are quiet…aka the dead of night. So although come 5am I am ready for bed and demanding I log off, when there’s just a few people playing and I am winning it’s hard to tear myself away, knowing if I stay another hour or so I can make $20 – $40.

And that is all.

The thing is I wish I could proudly now show off my beautifully wrapped presents and make people go ‘Oooh’ and ‘Aaaah’ in wonder, but I am officially the worst present wrapper in the world, plus I hate it, I hate spending money on things I don’t have to spend it on – but I’d willingly pay someone to wrap all my Xmas pessies and make them pretty. I actually tried really hard as well, I wrapped most stuff in my usual unstylish manner, but I took the time and care to do one for each person ‘properly’ with uber shiny and sparkly paper, ribbon, tags, bows etc – they still look like they were wrapped by a 5 year old. Oh well, it’s the thought that counts, right? :laugh:

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I also did 55 minutes cardio tonight, which adds to the knackeredness. But it’s surprising how easy it’s become for me, when I first got my Elliptical a few months ago, I could handle about 20 minutes doing a gentle plod along before dieing and stopping before I pass out. Now I can do 55 minutes going at it hard, and only really stop because I am bored or I have pins and needles in my feet :biting: Don’t get me wrong, it’s not ‘easy’ – that’s a bad choice of words, I sweat like a betty, I grunt and groan, I wail that I want to diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeee, but It’s easy to stick at it rather than give up at the first opportunity!

I had a slight blip a few weeks ago, where I inexplicably gained 3lbs – but that’s come off again within the last 2 weeks (+1lb) so that’s OK, though it does mean I have buckleys chance of getting down to the (mini) goal I had set myself to be before Xmas, unless I some how manage to lose 3lbs in the next 4 days – which isn’t going to happen, given it takes me about a month to lose 3lbs!

Oh well, it’s still going in the right direction, I feel I am making progress at last, I feel healthier….I just need to be very careful to not allow myself to go crazy over Xmas and New Year & make sure I don’t use it as an excuse to ditch the working out.

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In other news, any Reality TV fans in the house? This American writers strike is a brilliant thing for us reality fans huh? The Biggest Loser 4 literally just finished on Thursday and already season 5 starts in 2 weeks. Big Brother is having an extra season this year that starts in February. We are getting an extra celebrity version of The Apprentice and Survivor China just finished last weekend (Yay Todd) but we only have to wait until February for Survivor Micronesia to begin. Happy days.

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Ok that’s all, should I not post again before the big day…which given my current posting frequency I probably won’t…a very Merry Christmas to all of my lovely visitors, hope you enjoy doing all your God stuff if you are that way inclined, and I hope you enjoy ripping open all your presents and spending time with loved ones if you are a dirty rotten heathen like me xxx