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And again I haven’t updated in a while. Shame on me, as usual. But darn, I just have no time lately, so much to do, not only at work, but internet wise. I just bought SincereAmore.com from the previous owner Ann, and I have fanlistings to finish and stuff….
Two days ago, I installed a new Q&A script, ’cause for some reason the old one gave me trouble on the new server, no idea why. The new one gave me some cookie troubles in the beginning, but I was able to fix it, so yay, no more error messages and a working Q&A script!

Come on! I know you want to ask me something! 😉

Heh, I thought I’d update you guys on what’s going on in my life. 🙂
So, first my trip to France…
I had an awesome time, met lots of very nice people, so great places, was stuffed with food almost to the point of explosion and drank very good wine, and lots of that! *g*
So getting up at 4:30 in the morning wasn’t all that fun, but the trip definitely made up for it. The exact details of what we did is probably a bit boring for you guys, so I’m not gonna type them up, but you can look at tons of pics in my gallery.
While speaking of the gallery…you might notice that I installed Coppermine here too now. I just like the script and what it can do. Makes uploading images a lot easier. Maybe I should start using it for Secret Obsession too? What do you think?

On Wednesday night I went to see the Spider-Man 2 preview, and what can I tell you? It rocked!! I totally loved the movie! And on my way home, I already wrote the fanlisting application in my head. LOL! I’m a nutcase. 😛
But really, if you haven’t seen it yet, please go and see it! I didn’t think that it could be any better than the first movie, and was sooo proved wrong! It IS better! Unbelievable but true. I loved it so much, I’m gonna go see it again tomorrow!
I loved how the characters, especially Peter showed so much depth, very nice 3-dimensional characters. The actors did a great job. And being a Peter/MJ shipper, the ending obviously was heaven for me. ^-^
The funniest scene ever was Spiderman riding the elevator with Hal Sparks!! I had to laugh out loud when I saw Hal, people around me gave me strange looks. Well, QAF is not known the wider German masses, since they don’t show it on tv here (what a shame). I just thought it was so funny that “Michael”, the comic freak actually met Spiderman. What a neat little coincidence. 🙂
Obviously the special effects were awesome too, though at some points Doc Ock looked a bit too fake, when he was climbing up those walls. But I can happily ignore that 😀

I think that’s all I have to write about now. Better get back to working on the two fanlistings I got approved for. Michael Mittermeier and Hugh’s Tony Awards performance.

Hah, yeah, I wish. 😛
I didn’t mention it before, ’cause I wasn’t sure whether I’d get a ticket, since I was off work for two weeks. Anyway, don’t want to confuse you any further by making weird remarks.
I saw the musical “42nd Street” last night! For free!! (Thanks Lufthansa for letting me go)
That was the first time I’ve seen it, and I was amazed. It is a really awesome musical, and I had a great time. All the dancing and costumes was great. Very loud and colorful, just the way I like musicals. Flashy! 🙂
The performers did an awesome job, and I really have no idea how they do that every single night, I sure would die. So exhausting, all that dancing.
2 days ago it was announced that 42nd Street will be dropped by the end of the year, which makes me glad that I got to see it now.
Rumor has it that this time, finally Elisabeth will come to Stuttgart, but I won’t believe it, unless I see an official statement. We had the rumor before, when Cats was dropped. But in the end it was replaced by Mamma Mia, which I thought was a bad decision, since it’s already running in Hamburg, very successfully. Why do we need it twice?
Oh well, I am gonna cross my fingers for Elisabeth.

I hope you won’t miss me too much the next few days. Tomorrow morning, bright and early (at 6:45am) my planes leaves for Lyon, France. I’m going there on a travel agency info trip and won’t be back until Sunday night. Hope it will be fun and hope even more that the folks there speak German or at least English, ’cause my French is basically non-existent. 😉

Have a nice rest of the week folks! *waves*

After I’ve been fed up with Netrillium more than once I decided to act on it, and found a new host. Beachcomber is what I’ve found and chosen, ’cause I’ve heard nothing but good things about them. And so far I have to say I’m very happy with them. They set up my account in no time, and were very helpful.
And you know what? I changed the nameservers at Godaddy one hour ago, and they have already propagated!! Just amazing!!

I installed some plugins on my blog. Please check them out on the right side. There’s a plugin that displays the most recent comments that have been made by you guys. And I also added some statistics about my blog.
As I find more useful stuff, I will most certainly add it. 🙂
A question to the other WordPress users: Do you know whether the threaded comments hack works with version 1.2? I’ve tried to install it with 1.01, and that didn’t work, and now I’m wondering whether I should even try to install it again, since they made a few changes concerning the comment pages. 😕 Anyone know?
Oooh, forgot to mention another little plugin. Everyone who comments will be linked under the post. 🙂
And since I felt the need for a new wallpaper, I made a new Hugh Jackman one. You can see a little preview on the right side in my currently section. I’m not sure whether I will release it, yet. Maybe I’ll do it when I make a new one and take this one down? We’ll see.

Something else I just remembered…I removed the tagboard, since some people were abusing it and I got sick of having to delete entries. Not even writing in bold letters that the tagboard is not a chat didn’t help. Some people are obviously too stupid, or too rude even.
And hey, I have a very neglected Guestbook, so if anyone has anything to say, please use that. Or even my Q & A Section 🙂

I just upgraded WordPress to the most recent version. Was about time, since I was still using 1.01 and they’re up to 1.2 already. 😛
I also integrated a blogroll as you can see on the right side under “Loves”. You’ll now see the links that have been updated most recently. A big thanks goes to CodeGrrl.Com for writing up the tutorial on how to add this stuff! 🙂 I don’t know what I’d do without this website! *bows to the script goddesses*
And now I’m gonna check whether the ping from my blog works. Please cross your fingers that I did it right. 🙂

Oh man, I really should remember to write in here more! I feel bad about forgetting about this blog.
But then again, I write more in my LJ, ’cause there are some personal things that I don’t want everyone to be able to read. Especially since my real-life friends and family know about my website…
So what can I tell you?
My first week off work is almost over and it went by too fast, but that’s not surprising. Everything that’s fun goes by more quickly. *sighs*
I haven’t done all that much, really. I uploaded new pics at Van Helsing Online, made a new layout and new screencaps for Secret Obsession, a new layout and moodtheme (which took ages to make) for my LJ and I started converting my fanlistings to Angela’s awesome Fanlisting script Enth.
Ok, looking at the list right now, it wasn’t even that little that I did during the last week…
A reason for me to do that much is, that TFL.org has been down all week, because of our crappy webhosts who obviously have no clue about anything! We moved to a new host and are waiting for the DNS to resolve so we can see the site again.
It’s so amazing, we asked people to donate, ’cause the server is of course not for free, and we had to find a way to finance it, and guess what! We got so much money from people, it’s amazing, and as Abby said, it’s already enough to pay for the hosting, for the next 5 months! I’m glad we have so many generous supporters. If you feel like donating and helping out too, please check out this link. Any help is very much appreciated.
Wow, this entry is full of links, don’t think I ever plugged that much in an entry before. 🙂

So you want to hear my opinion on Troy? I would’ve already posted something last night, but uuuh, I did need some sleep. 😉
I have to say that I really enjoyed the movie! It wasn’t the best thing since sliced bread, but it was certainly very good. I do say they should rename the movie though. “Brad Porn” is my suggestion. 😀 There were quite a few gorgeous Brad nude scenes, and I think I must’ve been drooling really badly. 😉 Very very sexy! Only those scenes are already worth watching the movie.
As for Orlando, I know some people will hate me for saying this but……he was the best person for the role of Paris. Paris is a stupid fool who has no clue of anything and all you can do is laugh about him for being such a stupid arse. Yup, Orlando was perfectly cast here. 🙂 Ack, I really really don’t like the guy. Don’t ask me why, he just rubs me the wrong way…
Since I’m still very tired (and I really don’t want to go to work), this is all I’m gonna say about the movie, well besides of course…

…the movie is very worth being seen! So what are you waiting for?

And wooooo! I just booked a ticket for the Harry Potter preview on June 2nd!! 😀

In a few hours I will go to the movies with a friend of mine to see “50 First Dates”, looking forward to that. And while we go there I will pick up another movie ticket that I reserved.
On Wednesday night (at 11:59pm) I will go see the “Troy” preview!! I saw a trailer when watching Van Helsing and knew that I just had to see the movie! I don’t care too much for Orlando Bloom (rather the opposite) but Brad Pitt….mmmmyammm! 😀
I actually wanted to see Van Helsing again tonight, but 50 First Dates destroyed this plan. But I will try to catch it again next weekend, and maybe even try to catch the English version at a theater a little farther away. So far they don’t have the movie on their showtime list though so I e-mailed them asking whether they plan on showing it anytime soon. Please cross your fingers for me that they will. 🙂

Anna….speachless…
I just came back from the movies and let me tell you one thing: VAN HELSING IS AAAAWESOME!!!!
Woops, sorry, didn’t mean to scream. 😳
But honestly, it was one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long time. And that’s not only ’cause Hugh Jackman looked gorgeous in it. Let me tell you, not many guys can get away with long hair, but Hugh definitely can! Yumm!
I loved the special effects of the movie, very well done! And the soundtrack! Amazing!
I do admit that in the end it got a bit cheesy, but I didn’t really mind that, even though it didn’t quite fit the rest of the movie. But I love cheesy, so I was fine with that. 😀 Some people around me started groaning (all guys of course) but I just thought “Oh shut the fuck up!” 😛
I really don’t know what else I can say about the movie, I’m horrible with writing reviews, so I’m just gonna tell you:

Go see the movie as soon as you can!!!

Personally I think I might go see it again this weekend. 🙂

P.s.: Complete strangers are fighting about who’s gonna marry me in my tagboard? LOL What has the world come to? 😉
P.P.s.: I think I will have to make a new skin for my page, huh? A Van Helsing skin! 😀