Oh darling people of LJ, I need some help.

My computer needs a DVD drive that isn't region 1. It's region 1 cause my darling other half decided to switch more often than he could count, and as such made it stick to region 1, regardless of my use of DVD Genie (which makes it so then you can switch regions all the time). My question is, if I keep the old drive for region 1, and put in a new one for region 2, would the computer recognise the new one as a new one, thus it has it's five switches, or will it go, 'Ha, no wai!' and make that region 1 too?

I am getting thoroughly pissed off at having to watch my stuff in Mark's room. Hi, let me show all the ways I'm dependent on this room for fucking entertainment! I didn't want to fucking watch the eps of Doctor Who where they reset Donna, but when I mentioned I wanted to watch a Donna ep, Mark grabbed the mopuse, closed things that were running in the background then, even after I said I didn't want to watch that episode, he needled me to put it on! I've had enough of not getting to chose.

Rach xxx

( My ranting on Twitter about NCIS ep Legends (Part 2) )

NCIS made me angry, but not as angry as when my computer suddenly decided it didn't like my portable hard drive any longer. It's ok, and all my data's there, but it doesn't work at home. At work, and probs at Mark's, it's fine. I still have my NaNo stuff (which I lost from the main PC when the computer got sent away to be "repaired", which it wasn't, it's still fucking around). But I've lost a load of my fanfics that I had saved to Word, and a load of my old Kathryn Janeway theatrical_muse stuff... I mean, I still have the LJ account, but it's the principle of it.

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Is it bad that I could remember the Welsh for principle but not the English? At least my shorts have arrived. If I have to shorten them... Meh. It's for under a tutu. Oh!

I've got a black and red tutu, but the stiching was going all wiggy, so I got mum to sew up the little hole that came from busted stiches and then I sewed on three black fabric flowers, you know, just to cover the join. It looks kinda lush. :D And I customised a top, just a line of sequins (I cheated, they were already in a row, I just sewed them on) and some lace (mum sewed that on; even my tacking is crap). So I'm going to a surprise party on Saturday (my cousin turned 40 either today or earlier on in the week), so I'm wearing a black and red outfit - black top (customised one), black and red tutu, black shorts, red tights with black fishnets over them (under the shorts) and hopefully my black Mary Janes (four inch heels with a platform that I used when I dressed up as an overweight Hermione - I had the tie when I couldn't find my "Slytherin" tie (my old school tie)). Hopefully it'll look cool, and I won't look like mutton dressed as lamb.

:: Looks shiftily :: deltadasher (my sister) is hopefully going as a pirate. I need her to go as a pirate, cause I won't have the confidence to dress up in that outfit cause normally I'm the one in jeans and a t-shirt, but the party is smart casual so... Yeah. Is that outfit (skirt etc) smart casual? Or just weird? @__@

And I need to find my hair dryer, cause when I wash my hair and blow dry it, it goes poofy, which rocks! :D

I'm almost tempted to go as Hermione now. It's not dress up, but I would look tidy.

Right, better get back to working properly. I just wanted to update as I haven't done so in ages (mostly cause the guy who had the net that Mark shared disconnected it without warning during Sunday night (into Monday morning) and tried to sneak move out without paying the gas bill he owes). Work.

Edit: Oh! And I've started reading New Moon cause Christopher Heyerdahl is in the movie version, and I have a bit of a, 'OMFG it's Todd!' squees for him. On chapter three and it was a slog. Oh well, I have something to read on the trip up at least.

:: Heddesk :: The minitop died yesterday. Yeah, my family get insta-fail points. Poor thing couldn't deal with me, dad, Jake and Ru on the net, and mum playing mahjong... Yup.

Parents have hurt Ru... Proper emotional hurt, so she's not talking to them.

It's chucking it down and I'm in my converse. Yup, I fail too.

I wanna make icons. Oh well.

Rach xxx

Song of the day: Lifehouse - You and Me

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Mark and I saw each other briefly today (about 40 mins) cause he was ill, and I was gonna be meeting Cheryl at 1:30 so we were both in a rush and poor thing was so ill.

Happy St Valentines Day to everyone (even if you don't like the holiday itself)! I got a really nice text saying 'happy vday sexy <3' which was really sweet! :D (Thanks monnie_doggett... I can't remember if I spelt your username right... :|)

Watched the school Eisteddfod. So fucking fun. I loved taking part at school and it was fun to watch without worrying about having to remember words or thining about the prelims that were on in the morning. Fun to just clap along to the disco dancing music (Teifi's was shit btw, but Dulas effin rocked. I think Shona had helped out cause she was had some of their outfit on for kicks and it fucking rocked!)

Got the buttons back on my taskbar... Then spent 10 mins trying to make my Media player into mini mode.

Periods are eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil. It hurts a lot.

Finished re-reading HP6 today... On the verge of tears when that person died (if you don't know who I mean, I'm not gonna spoil the book... although if you've not read the book and you care, where the hell have you been?)

Aber tomorrow. How they're playing a good movie!! :D

Rach xxx

Uh-oh. I think I've screwed up the home computer... It's running on 4-bit colours (the lowest!) and it's really slow reactions and I think it's virused... :| If it is, I'm in deep.

Rach xxx