15/10/05 I suppose I'd better apologise. In my vain attempt at living out a life that doesn't involve keeping a website, I seem to have neglected this little slice of the Internet. Please, hold all rotten tomatoes until the end. Despite the lack of updates, it has become apparent that this site, however silly and pointless it is, is nearing on 1000 hits. Admittedly this is a fairly minor achievement compared to some other sites, but seeing as POWD has no yaoi, yuri, hentai, porn, free games, free MP3 downloads, and it can't even be accessed by normal search engines, I'd say that's pretty damned impressive. My goodness, you lot must have been very, very bored! If the rumours sprouting around are true in that we will soon be having to pay for our MSN, then you may be seeing a little more updates such as these in the near future. In the mean time, be sure to check out my BLOG as it is more likely to be updated than this site. Until next time. Peace out bruvas. Safe. Word. 27/06/05 WOWEE! How long has it been? A very long time, that's for sure. I also seem to have missed my own website's one year anniversary. Nice. Just goes to show really. Anyway, on to more pressing matters. Seeing as I'm doing this while waiting for the first night to open, I feel I need to do this: GO AND SEE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS DAMMIT!!!! Now that that's over with.....I have nothing else to say. Hm. Now what? **EDIT** I don't know what to say, so Claire has volunteered. Keep it clean, dear: holla back anne. just wanted to be famous ***wooh stars..yes. i am officailly the only other person other than anne to talk on her ..pagey thing. so basically. ILOVEANNE. she rocks my blooming socks off. *keeping it clean* =D. yeah i love anne i love anne i love anne i love anne. it says so on my shoe =D laters xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxlove clairey 05/05/05 RANDOM UPDATE ALERT! RANDOM UPDATE ALERT! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Yeah! Guess what? I'm bored in Business again! So what better thing to do than rant about stupid things I like! Recently, most of you who spend most time with me will notice I've been going on and on about a certain series of books called "FAKE". I urge every single person in the universe to go out and read at least one because I have never, and I mean NEVER been addicted to a manga as much as I have this one. Nope, not even Ranma. If you need a manga as an example of perfection, this one would be it. Kudos, Sanomi! KUDOS! *bows to the almighty Matoh* In other news, I'm also becoming steadily addicted to Gravitation - mostly due to my falling in love with the music, but I managed to get hold of the series the other day. I don't think I need to explain myself. ALSO, snaps to everybody involved in the Amarillo video I did because it turned out brilliantly, partially due to you, partially due to some fantastically professional video editing XD and partially due to Georgia acting like an utter retard at a whim. Oh and Claire putting shit on her face for the sake of it. I LOVE YOU ALL! MWAH! Normality will resume next update. Hopefully. Probably not... 06/04/05 Hey all. I'm back from Lanzarote and my tan's already fading. Stupid English weather. It never seems to get it right does it? Anydude, not a lot to say except I'm going to do a shameless plug for Kiss Me Kate, which Jennifer Cox is going to be in at that theatre in Maidenhead I can never remember the name of. Helpful. Anyway, I'm going to see it on Friday and I'm sure it's going to be good so those of you who know what I'm talking about and can't decide whether to buy tickets or not, DO! I've also just noticed it'll be one whole year since I started this piece of crap on the 15th of May, so anybody with any ideas on how to celebrate that: LET ME KNOW! 23/03/05 Wow. Over 600 hits. You lot must be pretty damn bored! Anyway, I thought I'd update mainly to plug my own fanfiction, but also to wish everybody GOOD LUCK for the dance show tomorrow night. No way am I going to let all that editing go to waste! You're all going to ROCK! And I've got the proof on video XD I'd also like to say THANK THE HEAVENS the weather is finally clearing up. It was such a gorgeous day but I missed it coz I was in a theatre dancing. DANG BLAST IT! Oh well. Lanzarote is beckoning. I'm off on Sunday in case you want to know, and even in case you don't, I'm telling you anyway! 04/03/05 Thought I might as well update because I haven't in a while. See, I do think about my website now and again. I made a music video, but due to the wonders of technology, if I upload it to here it's going to take about an hour for broadband users to download even though it's only about 5MB. I know. I've tried. I'm planning on zipping it or uploading it to another account, but I can't be bothered at the moment. Oh yes, and I have a cold. Again. Roll on summer... 14/02/05 Yes, it's that time again! Valentines Day! A day for sharing the looooove! So, what can I do to celebrate this gooey day of luvvy dubbyness? It has to be something just so darn CUTE that it resembles everything and anything about Valentines Day and what makes it so utterly completely cutesy woo. Now what would that be I wonder? Hmmmmmmm... Oh yes! The perfect thing! The thing that captures the very ESSENCE of the fourteenth of whatever month this is! Awwwww! Would you just....I mean......isn't it SO CUTE! It just...it's eating its dinner and...awwwwww! 10/02/05 Very quick update seeing as I'm supposed to be researching production companies. Ugggggghhhhhh.... I've put up the thing I wrote when I was bored in the LRC, the main reason being that I will be pestered beyond mere mortal comprehension if I don't. It's a word document and can be downloaded HERE. 05/02/05 I have a confession to make. You know that video I promised you? You know that glorious new feature of editing masterpiece I said I would put up here? Well....I kinda screwed up....and...now...the file's too big....and...it...won't....actually...upload....anywhere *pauses for the stacks of rotten tomatoes to be pelted at her* But fear not! Screen shots of the dazzling film can be found on the gallery page. Anybody wanting to see the vid should contact me and I'll send you a CD. Not a DVD, a CD. It wouldn't even let me do THAT.... *wanders off, muttering under her breath* 29/01/05 Am I the only person becoming increasingly OBSESSED with the music from Gravitation and Cowboy Bebop? Anybody? *shrugs and listens to "Blue" repeatedly* Hello all. Screw freaking out about certain recent happenings that have been...err...happening like everybody else. I've been through them AND written so many of them this one is having less and less effect on me. I'm going to "move on courageously" like my horoscope told me to yesterday. Today it said "remove stressful situations from your life" so you know what? I'm going to! *throws various stressful thoughts and things out of the window* There we go. Right, onto the important stuff. Or lack thereof. There is currently a video (GASP!) in production as soon as I can get the damn thing working *shakes fist* Stupid-arse-won't-let-me-upload-cool-video-software! I've also got some screenshots and another Obsessed section to work on. There's also a couple of chapters of the Hostage sequel up on ff.net for those of you that care. And even for those who don't, it's up there anyway! Phew. Knackered. Going for a lie down. Night night. 22/01/05 There's a new "Obsessed" section up, and it's one of my faves. THE LION KING! YAY! Go visit at your peril. Also I managed to download the trailer for FF7 Advent Children and it is looking prehity superb, but I forgot to bookmark the page and the download's pretty big. Oh well. It's not that hard to find. If anyone knows where I can get a decent copy of the game for PC that would be greatly appreciated, coz I feel like I'm missing out on something here.... And furthermore, I got THIS from Emma. You need Windows Media Player...and preferably a room with no parents in it XD 20/01/05 Yeah hi. I'm sitting here in da LRC trying to figure out what the hell I've got to do for this assignment and failing miserably. So I thought I'd sit here and ramble on for a while. I went and put a link to the site I got my award from on the Friends' Links bit. It's a Yugi shrine run by a very cool person called Una. That's not her real name, it just sounds pretty. Hey Jen! You wanna say something? "not really apart from escappe from realitey" Ah Jennifer. Always a source of inspiration. Okay, I'm gonna go escappe from realitey for a while. Wake me up when something interesting happens... 13/01/05 Ah the beauty of the personal website and all its uselessness. So surreal, and yet so calming....and......full of beans. Yes hello. Welcome to the New Year albeit a little late. Not very much happening round here at the moment, probably due to not many camera opportunities, but I have a digital camcorder now, so I'll be mucking around with that. Just you see if I don't. And Happy Birthday Emma too, also very late, but I've got to keep up with tradition I suppose. Oh and by the way....MYST 5!!!!! OMG OMG OMG!!! I haven't completed the fourth one yet!!! 28/12/04 LOOKLOOKLOOKLOOKLOOK!!! Well, you know. I must really rock...either that or it got the sympathy vote. Anyway, to judge for yourselves, here is the award winning fic: FIC!. If you know nothing about YGO certain aspects are going to leave you slightly in the dark, but yeah, apparentely it's quite good. XD. *tries to exit room but head has blown up too big and won't fit* 27/12/04 A very merry Christmas to all. And a happy boxing day coz nobody ever gives it any gratitude. But anywho, on to more important matters....... I won an award! **EDIT** Make that TWO awards! *grin* "What for?" I hear you cry. "Shamelessly plugging shows? Being an utter retard at a whim?" Close - it's fanfiction. Yu-Gi-Oh fanfiction. I can hear your groans already. But who cares! I'm pretty darn proud of myself, so much so that I'm going to celebrate by shutting up! That way, everybody wins! 27/11/04 I've been working on another site for a while hence the lack of updates to this one. You can see the "work in progress" by clicking HERE. People at college will know what this is. Anybody else....well let's just say I'll be wanting a digital camcorder for Christmas! In other news, if anybody has any ideas for where to go for the panto this year, get in touch either via the forum or by emailing me. Oh, and "A Christmas Cracker" is having it's last two shows on Sunday at the Beck Theatre in Hayes, so if you wanna come see me making an arse of myself in a leotard, get in touch with them XD 06/11/04 The forum is up and running so now there's one more place to vent your angerous rage towards me. Also, for those of you who care, I have now been blessed with the wonders of broadband. This does not, however, mean updating this site is going to be any faster, I just feel like bragging about it XD. I've got loads more photos to put up from AGYG and random college ones, plus work has started on the new "Obsessed" section. Busy busy busy... 30/10/04 The poll has finally been updated so you can go a muck around with that. Also, now that Cyber Patrol has gone (more like been VANQUISHED! YAY! I have defeated my arch-foe!) I'm working on a web forum where we can all get down with our bad selves. I mean chat. Where we can all chat XD. 09/10/04 Just stopping by because I haven't been doing so for a while. Why? Because I don't really have much to report. I ran out of space on my account while uploading pictures and I can't be bothered to set up another one. The poll is also ridiculously out of date, so that might change in the coming...months. Keep going crazy with the GuestMap - it's fun trying to find all the entries seeing as Cyber Patrol has barred me from viewing the listed version. I am also frustratingly addicted to The Sims 2, so don't try and contact me for a while XD 08/09/04 Yo dudes, dudettes and possibly a few don't knows. Most of us have started back into educational establishments and so I don't have to bore you to death asking you how everything is going, please copy and paste the following into your email browser doohickey and delete as appropiate: Dear [Japanne/Annie/Leena/Freakazoid], I have started back at [school/college/odds farm park] and it is very [fun/boring/hard/easy/pudding]. One thing we have done is [watched a video/eaten a pie/written an essay/fed the chickens/graffittied the desks] and that was very [interesting/boring/stupid/difficult/excruciatingly unpleasant]. I hope you are having [a good time/a bad time/a boring time/an exciting time/death]. Please [write back soon/stop pestering me/send me some pie/stop having Fridays off]. [Love/hate/hugs/kisses/hate mail] from "INSERT NAME HERE" 23/08/04 Hello all. AGYG was a resounding success and OH GOD was it a laugh and a half. Hey! I rhymed! XD Jennie, Izzy, Laura...you guys ROCK. Laurence, YOU RULE. Piccies of backstage, random events and DA LUCOZADE CREW IN DA BALLROOM will be up shortly. As a result, I am now sitting bored at home after exhausting Jurassic Park - The Game. Oh, and to those of you who know what I'm talking about, a new chapter is up. The only problem is that Cyber Patrol has gone and locked me out of my own site, so if there are any problems or errors or me not ending the italics properly please please PLEASE email me because I...eheh...can't see it. 11/08/04 Call this update what you want. I'm calling it a shameless plug. Expect little or no updates for the next few weeks because I'm doing a show! No, it's not Joseph, it's a musical called "Annie Get Your Gun" and it's going to be AMAZING. The show dates are the 19th, 20th and 21st of August at the Beck Theatre in Hayes. So y'all come along. It has weapons!!! 07/08/04 It's ba-ack! Yes! The Caption Competition is once again up and running! The picture is taken from the magnificent prom, of which the photos can now be viewed via the Gallery. Italy was wonderful. Really hot and lovely when it wasn't thunderstorming. Plus I can now say I've been to Venice which is another thing crossed off my "Things to Do" List. Lunatics on the roads, but any country that invented pizza is okay in my books. 23/07/04 Welp, I'm off to Italy for a week. That'll mean happiness for some and an excuse to throw a party for others. This, of course, means that trying to contact me with anything urgent over the next week is a broken pencil. Pointless. Anything else you want to send me I'll be glad to accept, you just won't get a reply for a while. Enjoy swimming to whoever's going and to whoever's not...err...enjoy whatever it is you're doing instead. Ciao! 17/07/04 So I was wandering along the metaphorical motorway known as the Internet when I stopped and said to myself: "Hm...I haven't checked my email in a while...although I don't get much anyway unless there's a caption competition running or something". So I mosey along down to my inbox.......12 unread messages. 12?!?!?!? What's more each of them had the same subject: "GuestMap Notification". The moral of the story is: Go to the GuestMap for a really good laugh. Or cry if you're that sort. I've also put up a list of useless links. Not useless as in bad, but, you know...useless. They have no meaning. Kinda like this site actually... 10/07/04 The Gallery is now officially updated. For real this time - not some piddly little excuse for an update like last time. Mosey on down for a look-see dontcha know. Prom photos are on their way, but need a bit of "tweaking". 07/07/04 There's a new poll up. Go vote my minions! The results of the last question: "Revising hard, are we?" came out with "I am currently debating the pointlessness of this question" as the top scorer. Oh what an exciting lot you are. I've also...ahem..."fiddled" with the gallery page to make it more lovely and less confusing when I get around to putting more pictures in (and there's quite a few). This means of course I have solved the "50-file-limit" problem! Hooray! Okay so it meant I cheated a bit, but this is the Internet for goodness sake! Everybody cheats! 02/07/04 Well, I've put up what I've done, but I've got to figure out what I'm going to delete in order to put the rest up. I am NOT getting rid of the music. To view the new page, it's the newest one under the Obsessed section, or alternatively, you could just click HERE. In other news, I've also got some pics from Jen's party, so...yeah...I've really got to get around to sorting this "50 file limit" problem... 22/06/04 Annoyingly, FreeWebs non-premium users are only allowed 50 files on their bandwidth which I have only recently been made aware of. Therefore the newest Obsessed section is temporarily postponed while I figure out how the hell I'm going to rearrange it. Oh, and as a side note...NO MORE EXAMS!!!! WAHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! *blows one of those things that goes "bazzzooooo!"* 19/06/04 If you wait for a little bit to load, some music should be playing. It's called Blue Fields and is the "moving around the map" music from Final Fantasy 8. I don't own it, so don't sue me. The newest Obsessed section is almost done, it just takes a hell of a lot of uploading. 16/06/04 Yeah hi. Just letting you all know I'm still alive. Just. No real update. Just celebrating the fact that exams are nearly over and I'm kinda bored sitting at home. Thank god for the Internet - a place where I can vent my useless ramblings! I'm working on a massive...er...project...type...thing right now so an update isn't too far away. I'll give you a hint: it involves another computer game I'm obsessed with. Those of you with MSN IM 6 or above will probably have guessed by now. 09/06/04 I'd just like to take this opportunity to congratulate everybody for getting through that Maths exam. It was flippin difficult and that's putting it lightly. As a side note, those of you who are fairly sharp-eyed will have noticed a new link going up. And what's that written above it? "Obsessed"? Yes, against all the odds, I am going to put details of EVERY SINGLE ONE of my obsessions on this page as...I dunno...a little shrine to all that is great in life, beginning with Final Fantasy 8, mainly to keep Mark happy, but also because I haven't ranted about it for a while. Oh, and there's plenty more where that came from I can tell you...XD 05/06/04 Just a couple of new things. I've finally got round to putting Gemma's site on the Links page and there's a new List of Top Ten up. I'd also like to take the opportunity to wish a very good friend of mine a HAPPY BIRTHDAY for yesterday, though I promised I wouldn't say his name coz he'll get all shy and merciless. 03/06/04 Now this is a tad on the weird side even for me, but I have a website and I have to put SOMETHING on it. Forget guestbooks, forget caption competitions, this is what is known as "Lists of Top 10". Granted it's not the most original idea in the book, but it's something. I've got one up there to get it started, but more will probably be hitting the screens. You can send me your own, or ones you've found. Remember to tell me where you got them from though coz otherwise I'm in trouble XD. 01/06/04 After a quick test, I have realised that the brand spanking new form on the CapComp.....doesn't work. Also the picture is too small. In short, I've screwed up. My bad. This means that the Caption Competition is temporarily on hiatus until I can sort out what the hell I've done wrong. In the meantime, you can mosey around a bit. New bits and bobs will be popping up here and there including another competition at some stage or another. Excited? I know I am! Eheh. 31/05/04 As promised, a new CapComp is up and running. Be sure to read all the info on the page coz there's a new way of submitting them that I'm trying out. So go and clicky da linky my beloved guinea pigs. Also, don't panic if you see the site go through some unexpected happenings over the next few days coz I'm mucking about with new ideas. As a random note, anybody planning to see The Day After Tomorrow should go and find a better use of their time. It sucked. I mean REALLY sucked. You'd get more entertainment out of a sandwich. 28/05/04 The Caption Competition officially ended today (awwwwwwww) BUT a new competition starts on Monday! (yay) Until then, breeze on over to the CapComp page to view the winner. I will get a list of the best ones up as soon as possible. Oh, by the way, if anyone has any ideas for prizes, feel free to recommend, although I personally wouldn't mind getting chocolate XD Anyone who wants a car can go buy one themselves. Or go on the Generation Game. 24/05/04 Continuing my "let's see how many things I can tramp off Bravenet" spree, a GuestMap is now availiable for your viewing (and posting) pleasure. The Caption Competition will end on the Friday before half term, so get your entries in sharpish if you want a chance at the mystery(chocolate)prize 21/05/04 There is now a caption competition running! Clicky the linky and enter! There's a prize plus the HONOUR of the winner's caption printed on this 'ere website! Why are you still here?! Go now! 18/05/04 The friends' links page is up, as is the poll (not one you lean against, mind). I don't know if this is affecting everyone, but the gallery seems to have a mind of its own and only displays a certain amount of pictures at a time (namely all except 3, 5 and 6). Just so you know, it's getting fixed. Also, if anyone from OCR is reading this WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING? That Spanish listening exam was evil. EVIL! (you have to say it twice; it adds to the effect XD) 15/05/04 I have FINALLY uploaded all the pics onto the gallery from Tog Day. Just click on the linky thing. Also, there's also a poll currently under construction. Don't rush me. I'll get it done! *crosses fingers behind back*