When I broke my iPhone and fixed it

Time for an anti-Apple rant yay! Okay so as we all know, Macs are terrible and PCs are supreme, but that's not what this is about. This is about Apple trying to charge me £140 pounds to repair a CRACKED SCREEN! AAaaghhh! Who let's this company get away with this? YOU. You do you dirty Mac user. You're probably viewing this on Safari right now aren't you? Go throw your hard earned cash at a shiny new iPad and enjoy the 10 minutes of satisfaction you get from pretending you have been shrunk and are using a giant iPhone to call people. Anyway back to the matter at hand, £140! So I was ALMOST duped into coughing this up, when I decided to have a look online for a cheaper third party repairer I discovered it was going to cost me around £40. Hmm, tempting. Eventually I found a screen and repair kit for under a tenner on ebay, teamed that with a Youtube repair video and VOILA! Fixed iPhone for £9.95! Ok sure it wasn't the easiest repair ever, I had to risk melting the device with a hairdryer and I'm pretty sure I still have glass embedded in my fingertips, but I did save £130...and my dignity.

When I remembered I had a blog

Wellity wellity wellity, haven't I been lazy..I mean busy. Very busy. So hi there it's me, what's happened since I bought that grill...well there was christmas. There was my birthday. There was some other peoples birthdays. There was the milk trance. There was the moment when I realised I had too much work to play Battlefield or Final Fantasy XIII (that was earlier today) so I guess you're all caught up on my happenings. Intriguing wasn't it? Good good. No but seriously I'll try get back here more often so you can all see how relentlessly exciting my life is. Hi mum! In the meantime play this game:

http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html

When I accumulated many consoles

Well I guess it was only a matter of time...I have finally gotten round to purchasing a PS3 (I know, first an iPhone, now a Playstation...my standards really are slipping) Oh what was that? Why didn't I get a slim? Why did I go for an old fat PS3 chugging along on it's last legs? You disgust me for even asking. Anyway, I finally am in possesion of pretty much every console that I have ever had a passing inclination for. My Xbox Live is 'Sofie V Graham' and my PSN is 'SofieVGraham' so go forth and add me so I can pretend I have more friends than I really do. I guess I'll go browse online for some nifty bluray dvd special offers now.

When I hadn't updated my blog in a while

So I haven't really been around here much recently, mainly because I have genuinely been rather busy! Work takes up most of my time most days, and after work I am usually roped into going to the pub (though not unwillingly by any means) so by the time I make my way home it's bed time. Surprisingly, after doing nothing but work at video games all day, if I ever do get some free time at home I tend to get right on the xbox and play even more video games. I like to think of this as 'research'. So really when you think about it I'm almost never off the job. How dedicated I am! Why just the other day I took on a bit of game history research in my free time by playing through sonic 1, 2, 3 and sonic and knuckles. Good work Sofie, well done! I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise to my eyes, which are suffering heavily under this screen-driven daily regime and spend most of their time glowing red and leaking all over my face. Sorry eyes. This isn't helped by my recent addiction to 'Flight Control', an extremely addictive iphone app game where you have to land as many planes as possible without letting them crash (look at me promoting apple! Dear gawd times have changed..) anyway, my line manager has been challenging me at this game and has even gone so far as to delete my high scores on one occasion, because obviously I'm better than him. Also I dyed my hair purple. Um...that's all for now.

When I realised how awesome everything was going

I'd just like to make a note on how gosh darn well everything is going right now. My job is sweet: I have FIVE game consoles on my desk at work which I NEED to play on almost a daily basis. The people I have met at work are awesome, they're just as far from sane as I am and in particular my dear husband Helen who works alongside me is just fantastic. She puts up with all the weird stuff I do, in fact she likes it just as much as I like her own similarly peculiar personality so we make a POWERFUL (if somewhat crazy) TEAM. Our bosses are ace. James, our manager, is such a great mentor and we're so lucky to be able to be learning from him cause he's so fun and friendly! On Thursdays the ice cream lady comes to our office to bring ice cream to our desks and I even got to attend a Q&A session with BOB IGER! (For those of you who don't know, Bob is the supreme president of the ENTIRE Disney corporation including ESPN and ABC and all that other stuff that Disney owns which is a LOT.) But whilst all of this awesomeness and excitement is being injected constantly into my system, I still miss my friends in Middlesbrough and it's lame that I didn't even get to say good bye to all of them properly because everything was so rushed, and most of them have been really supportive and they are happy for me which means a lot to me. So thank you guys. I miss the Tracey-Cakes...

When I attended three gigs in one week

In my first week of London I managed to go to three sweet gigs in one week. I saw TV on the Radio on Monday, Lady Gaga on Tuesday and the Super Furry Animals on Saturday last week. All three of these were fun but in VERY different ways. I have to say, at some points during the Lady Gaga concert I felt like she had violated my brain...in a good way...? The Super Furries and TOTR were much more down to earth in their awesomeness and there was even a guest appearance by Franz Ferdinand's Nick McCarthy, albeit a cardboard one...

When I thought my computer was haunted

We had an office boat party last week, up and down the Thames drinking and dancing. FUN. So the next day I was a little worse for ware and was a tad late for work. When I sat down at my computer to work I noticed the mouse kept moving off in silly directions. I sat and watched it for a minute as it moved around the screen all by itself, then tried to show it to people but every time I tried to show someone it would stop moving. It kept on moving around and I became rather freaked out and thought my computer was haunted while my colleagues looked on saying that I was just going insane. I typed in "Who is controlling my computer? Please move the mouse again." and the mouse moved again instantly and I almost leapt out of my seat, but my colleagues weren't looking then either. Finally, once I had almost convinced myself that I was in fact crazy, my manager revealed that it was him the whole time and that it was a prank for being late for work. He then pointed out that Bolt wasn't sitting at my desk and after searching in vain for him I got back to work only to discover later that Bolt was hanging from the ceiling by his tail. POOR MINI-BOLT! I had to climb up onto my desk to get him down.