A nice, tidy wardrobe, that was one of my goals this week: mission complete. Hurrah! I don't really like tidying/organising/sorting, so I don't do it until I just can't live with it No More. Of course, this is a vicious circle; if I just did it a little bit all the time, it would never get to the super annoying "I can barely open the wardrobe door without things falling out" stage.

While I was at it, I also sorted through my chest of drawers with craft supplies (ok, we might as well call it by its real name, my Fabric Stash Drawers, seeing as 2 out of 3 drawers are full of fabric!) and 2 storage bins (more fabric + yarn). It is quite liberating to let go of stuff. I threw away 3 mixed large bags mostly containing clothes I haven't worn in ages or was in the "oh my god, what were you thinking!?" category. Letting go of that was awesome! Then there's a bunch of discarded sewing projects which are going to be cut up and go into my scrap bag + some bits and bobs that I think I will use in future swaps (no, they are not dodgy things the moths have had a go at!)

So now I can start the weekend with that weight lifted off my shoulder. Although, it feels like it's been weekend for several days, because my poor sweetie has been home from work the last 3 days. At first I was a bit mean, teasing him that it was the much-feared man cold. But the freezing while burning up yesterday would suggest otherwise!

Also, for you UK folks: I don't know if you remember that we went to see the filming of an episode of QI last year? Well, we did. And it was so much fun and we've been waiting (and waiting and waiting) for it to finally air and tonight it will! BBC 1 at 9:00 PM. I don't know if it was just more fun because we were actually there, but as I recall it, it was one of the funniest episodes so far. I guess we'll know tonight. And if you like QI, I really, REALLY encourage you to watch it. Seriously.

Labels: organising, telly

Ok, here's the short version of our outing to be in the QI audience yesterday: we stood in line for ages, but it was totally worth, because it was fricking amazingly funny! Stephen Fry wore a lovely green suit with a pink shirt (I think) shirt and tie. The panel was: Allan Davies (duh), Sean Lock (*swoon*), Ben Miller and Rob Brydon. This is for the F series so the topic was the future.

Here's the longer version:
As if standing in line for ages wasn't enough, at some point they separated the queue into two and the second queue was mostly people who got there later than us, they were let in before us. It seemed pretty arbitrary and was pretty annoying as well! But in we got, after having our bags searched for sharp objects etc. The security guy was trying to be Mr Funny. He wasn't so much...

I found it quite interesting (snort) that there were people of all ages and all walks of life in the audience. There was some rather posh looking people right in front of us in the queue, expensive handbags, shades and jeans - you know the type. Strangely, most people were white. I think I saw one Asian looking woman, but that's it. I wonder why that is. Is QI "white" humour?

While waiting for the 'show' to go on, we were looking at the crew (or whatever they are called on a tv set) preparing. There were also some telly screens which showed quite interesting facts about a 16 foot long carrot and how the hippo's sweat works as a sunblock. Then the warm-up guy came on and made people laugh. He asked if there was anyone from overseas in the audience and he then spoke to a few of those and most of his 'material' was stereotypes about their particular countries. Which I found not so cool. But maybe that's just me. And if you happen to watch this particular episode of QI and you see shots of the audience laughing, that is filmed during this warm up, not during the actual taping. I know this, because there were no cameras pointed at the audience while the chaps were on stage.

So Stephen Fry comes out, sits down and chats a bit to the audience and then he introduces the others one at a time: Sean Lock *swoon*, Rob Brydon, Ben Miller and Alan Davies. It was Ben Miller's first time on QI, but he seemed to fit straight in. And he's REALLY smart, he was explaining all these things about physics and whether 'nothing' can actually be.

Oh, I almost forgot! Just before Stephen Fry came on stage, they showed an extra that will be on the DVD for series 4. It has got something to do with the song about Peter Cushing that Alan Davies talked about in one of those episodes. REALLY funny stuff!

They were talking about how Rob gets mistaken for Ben and that sort of became the running joke though out the thing. There was a hilarious moment when they put their heads together like they were Siamese twins and then they looked at each other straight in the eye and kissed. To much whooping from the audience as you can imagine!

Oh jeez, I knew I should have written this all down last night, I feel like I'm already forgetting a lot of funny moments. Maybe I'll come back to it and add stuff!

Anyway, more that I still remember: Fry compared a 'sports' bottle to 'your mummy's teat', it transpired that Fry's cousin (a woman) used to date David Furnish (!), Sean Lock stopped the whole thing because he needed the loo! Fry showed Alan Davies some of the answers and he also spoke in Klingon and esperanto. Although those two incidents were not related. One thing he said in Esperanto was 'my hover craft is full of eels' to which Sean Lock *swoon* said, 'hey, I can say that in Danish'. Which he did! But it sounded like he said 'my hover craft is full of beer'*.

Ok, my brain is dying, must be the heat... But this was really great, if you get the chance you should definitely go. We just requested tickets for another episode!!


*Danish for eel = ål, beer = øl.

Labels: days out, geeky, telly

Today we went to another town so I could spend the vouchers Tony's parents gave me for my birthday for Hobbycraft. I got some embroidery floss, a hoop, some little bags to (hopefully!) help keep my floss organised, a pen for drawing on porcelain and a big (30!) tub of small ink pads and one Cotman half pan watercolour. Don't you just LOVE new craft supplies?!

We also went in some charity shops, but no treasure was to be found. For me anyway, Tony got some books. :-)

On Tuesday we are going to be in the audience for QI! It is first come basis, so there's a slight risk we might not be able to get in. but fingers crossed! I lurrve QI, one. because I love random facts and two, because it is REALLY funny! I would like to see any combination of the following on the 'panel': Sean Lock, Bill Bailey, Rich Hall, Jimmy Carr, Vic Reeves, or Dara O'Briain.

I'm meeting Tony after work (the filming is in the evening), but I'm going up to London before then. Not sure what to do, though. Maybe go draw dead animals at the National History Museum? Or see a free exhibition somewhere? Any ideas?

Labels: just stuff, telly

Last night I watched Project Catwalk - do you ever watch that? I sometimes seriously wonder why I watch it. It's not that different from other similar shows which I wouldn't want to be caught dead watching. So why do I watch it? Maybe because I'm hoping to get just a little bit of insight into their creative process. But there's rarely much of that. God forbid some real content should sneak into the programme; participants bitching about each other gets much better ratings... Also, I don't think the creations are particular interesting most of the time. But I suspect that (some of) the participants are chosen more for other reasons than their creativity...

So I distracted myself with a bit of crochet. I feel like making these into brooches. What do you think?

Labels: crochet, telly