This polish disappointed me horribly the last time I tried it, but I figured I would give it another chance. On a bad nail day, even the most well-behaved polish will spill everywhere and refuse to even out, and you never know, maybe it was just me that day…

Now I’m sure: It’s the goddamned polish.

Two coats of OPI Dating a Royal and much, much swearing. Then a coat of OPI Fireflies in the hopes of salvaging my nails without starting from scratch. Then waiting forever for the nails to dry, as it turns out not even Seche Vite can quick-dry this combination. Then massive clean-up as there was blue everywhere.

Just to make sure I would be disappointed in every possible way, it started chipping on me the very next day. I hate this polish, and I’m pretty sure it hates me back.

If anyone out there want a free bottle of Dating a Royal, let me know. You can have it for the cost of shipping. Used for two manicures, may be cursed from all my swearing. May be cursed, period.

A random choice that turned out exceptionally well. Very subtle, yet a lot more interesting than plain grey nails.

Base is Orly Mirror Mirror. Pattern is from Konad image disk m57 and made with silver special polish.

Observation: I take too many photos from the plane. Photos from planes are mostly boring. And blue. Very, very blue.

Then again, flights are pretty boring, and there isn’t much to do apart from looking out the window. I’m mostly shocked I wasn’t told off for not turning off my camera until well after the turn off all electronics now or the plane will surely crash and burn point.

Having safely arrived in England, we went on to have a late lunch with the following charming young gentleman, as well as exchange christmas/birthday gifts.

See more thursday photos.

Friday was shopping day and nothing much worth taking a picture of happened, except this little kitty spying on me in the morning. I could theoretically have met up with Chris this day, but timing was not in our favour, so no wacky antics to tell about. Sadface.

Saturday we had considered spending in Wells, but decided on Stourhead Garden instead. We’ll have to come back here in summer for comparison photos.

See more saturday photos.

Sunday was birthday tiem!!, but I did grab a few landscape photos before the drinking began.

See more sunday photos, including a recipe for a drink that looks oh-so-innocent.

Monday we went to the roman baths in Bath. They say you should put aside 1.5-2 hours for the full tour, and that may be enough if you’re not as photo happy as the two of us. We had paid for two hours of parking before heading to the baths, and figured that would be enough—we were a little over half-way through when we realised we only had half an hour of parking left. Ah well.

See more monday photos.

Voxopolis is a “3D city engine based on Conway’s Game of Life” and is so very, very cool.

So, when can I use this to generate cities for my D&D campaign?

I arrived safely in Norway on tuesday, and I have lots of photos for you. Unfortunately I brought home a nasty stomach bug too, and once I stopped puking the nearly-inevitable plane flu hit me—not leaving me with much energy for sorting all those photos.

Oh, if only I had a bottle of Bruce’s Juice! That would surely fix me right up!

I’ll get back to you once my nose stops producing snot by the bucket-load.

I’m off to England again for a week, the main purpose being to celebrate cute boy’s birthday. Ever since the first time I had to wait for our checked-in bag it’s been my goal to travel with hand luggage only, and this trip we should be doing just so. My weapon of choice for this is a Smart Alec, a backpack I drooled over for about two years before finally deciding it would be worth the money. I’ve only used it for carrying (lots and lots of) groceries so far, so it will be interesting to see how it holds up.

Our plans for this trip includes the roman baths in Bath and the cathedral in Wells, so there should be some nice photos for you when I get back. With some luck I’ll get to meet up with several internet weirdos, too (Hi Chris!).

I will likely have little or no access to certain modern luxuries, so follow me on Twitter to watch me slowly go insane from the lack of internet.

I’ve gone to our Changeling: The Lost session with green nails for a while now, occasionally with Changeling-inspired nail art. This particular manicure is inspired by the Hedge, with silver butterflies and thorny vines on a dark green base.

Base is a single thick coat of Orly Wandering Vine. The vines were made using Konad image disk m61 and princess special polish in sour apple, and the butterflies with image disk m25 and silver special polish.

I would have preferred smaller butterflies with different looks, but at this moment m25 is the only disk I own with a butterfly. (I lie. There is a smaller butterfly on m66, I just hadn’t noticed.)

I have a bruised knee, I’m wearing a band t-shirt, and I have beer in my hair. I have been to the first concert of Hurra Torpedo’s 2010 world tour, and I have pictures!

In fact, I have videos!

There are plenty of other videos on YouTube showing off the wonderful insanity of Hurra Torpedo. You should go have a look!

Like I said, these guys are going on a world tour—their last world tour! Go see them while you can!

This is a post to see if posting from my phone works.

This software is horridscaly (what the Hell is my phone’s dictionary on about) slow, and I’m not impressed, but I guess it’ll do in a pinch.

Oh, a photo, too. That will be all.

I admit it. I’m not a big blog reader. When it comes to the available offerings in the blogging world, Sturgeon’s Law is very much in effect. Of the few blogs I do read, I don’t read everything. For most, not even half.

However, I will read everything The Ferrett writes. Even though he probably the most prolific blog writer on my short list by far, I will read everything.

Why? Because I do not want to miss out on gems such as The Ferrett on homosexuality.

That is all.