Dani's Journal

Happy belated birthday to haruechan!!! *hugs* Hope you had a wonderful day! :-)
Sorry I'm late. I meant to post yesterday but then... forgot. *fails*

And a Happy Birthday to arielen! Hope you're having a nice day too. :-)

In other news:

- Just finished watching last Friday's Graham Norton Show. Guests were David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Josh Groban and Jon Richardson (no idea who he is really *sorry*). It really was very entertaining! I laughed so much!! :D Loved David's stories about the "autograph under the shower" and his spleen with the socks ("David, you crazy?" *lol*).LMAO And I quite liked the song Josh Groban performed. :-)

- Looks like I'll get my new laptop back this weekend. \o/ FINALLY!!!! About bloody time, really! *lol* All in all it's been, um, I don't know... about 5-6 weeks?! *eek*

- Just one more week until Hugh Laurie now! *yay* I'm really getting quite excited. :D Apparently I'm going to meet up with maggi137 and fry_addict before the gig. :-)

I actually intent to update at least once a week, but apparently I can't even manage that... *fails*
But a miracle happened: I'm finally getting LJ notifs again! Woohoo! *lol* Getting loads of messages that were lost during these last few weeks now is a bit anoying though. Thanks, LJ. :p

A Happy St. Paddy's Day to everyone who cares for that kind of thing. :-)
Anyone here who celebrates it? I'm trying to think of some Irish/Ireland-related movies or TV shows I could watch later. Divorcing Jack, maybe? Father Ted? *ponders*
And I wore a green jumper for school today. :D No shamrocks though. *gg*

Speaking of school... We're in the middle of our 2-week test period at the moment. *eek*
Things aren't actually going too well for me. *sighs* Especially today's "Redacción de carta" (letter writing) as well as the "Specific Translation: German-English" yesterday were a complete disaster. :-( Spanish oral/interpreting today wasn't that great either...
As of now I only hope I somehow survive tomorrow (English interpreting *panics*) and the next week! All fingers crossed would be much appreciated. ;-)

Still don't have my new laptop. :-( It wouldn't boot anymore, so we had to give it back to have it checked/fixed. Hope they hurry, but it might take up to 3 weeks... Damn.


And in TV news:

The German DVD of Primeval series 4 will be released on 27 May. YAY!!! \o/ I'm really looking forward to that. :-) So I don't have to buy the UK version after all (I wouldn't have had a problem with that of course, but I already have the German releases of series 1-3, so... ;-)).

I'm halfway through Supernatural's season 5 now. There might be a slight chance for me to be all caught up before season 6 ends, after all. :D *lol*

And, after all the things I heard about it thanks to the FMM (Damn you! *lol* And I still wanted Eleven to win! *pouts*), I decided to give Community a try. ;-) So I watched the whole first season within 3 days (could have easily made that 2, but I had to at least pretend to be learning a little for my tests *lol*). I wasn't that enthusiastic about it at first, tbh. Didn't really think it was very funny either... But in the course of the season the characters have really grown on me. :-) I think my favourites are Abed, Jeff and Annie. And Troy might be up there with them soon, too. *g* But they're all great really.
And the paintball episode (1x23 "Modern Warfare") sure was awesome!! :D
Also, I just loved this scene. <3

Yesterday we bought my birthday present. \o/

Well, technically half of it is already mine as I used my gift certificate from work. *g* The rest will be my present from my family. :-)
We originally wanted to buy another one (an ASUS) that was on sales promotion, but then we saw this one. It was a little bit more expensive, but it has a bigger hard drive (500 GB) and a slightly better CPU. It was also a display item, so we got an extra 15€ off the price (yeah, not that much, but still better than nothing).

Unfortunately my parents took it home with them so I can't play with it yet. Damn. :p
But I'm looking forward to it! Guess it'll be a lot of "fun" to install all my old programs... *lol*


In other news: I'm already more than halfway through Supernatural season 4 now. Go, me! *gg* I'm really enjoying it! <3 Guess I'll have to start looking for season 5 & 6 episodes soon. ;-)

Oh, and a couple of days ago I watched "Burke & Hare" (the one with Simon Pegg). I liked it. I thought it was quite entertaining. Great cast, too. :-)

Seems like the DVD burner in my laptop might be broken-down for good now... Bugger!!! :-( It won't burn neither DVD-Videos nor data discs anymore. From one moment to the next, so to speak. I was burning a data DVD yesterday afternoon, and when I wanted to burn another one a short time later, it didn't work no longer. With neither of the two programs I use... WTF?? I have absolutely no idea why. I rebooted my computer 2 or 3 times, updated my Nero version, tried finding some advice on the internet - all to no avail. Still receiving the same error message. I'm really at my wits' end now! *cries*
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On a positive note: I received my "The Last Enemy" DVD yesterday. *yay* So I think I'll start watching that today. :-)
As you see, I'm slowly working my way through Benedict's filmography... :D <3<3