Things I Love Thursday

New Glasses & Goldfish Top!

My glasses arrived today. They look so awesome. At the moment they're still hard to wear, but I'm getting used to it. They're "wear all the time" glasses so there are going to be a few people that have to get used to me having them. :D

I saw The Hobbit yesterday night. It's freaking amazing! I will try and do a proper post in the future :)

Hobbit Lego!

It's a bit weird that Tauriel and Legolas are mini-figures in the larger set. But it does say that it's "Special The Hobbit Trilogy preview set"

I can't wait to put it together. I still have some The Lord of the Rings sets to put together :D

Good Night :D

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone.

I hope everyone had a great day.

For my readers in Australia the above picture isn't a very accurate image of Christmas, depending it's the middle of Summer! But I couldn't go past an Adventure Time Christmas gif with Nebula background :D

This year was the first time I had to do multiple Christmas events. Lunch with Dad and his girlfriend, and then an afternoon tea/early dinner pool party with my mum's family. It was an excellent day, but I'm so tired now.

TOMORROW....

THE HOBBIT!

I can't freaking wait! I could of quite easily missed Christmas just so I could see The Hobbit a day early :D

ONLY ONE SLEEP LEFT!

Minecraft: The Story of Mojang

All Minecraft fans need to watch Minecraft: The Story of Mojang from 2 Player Productions.

The idea started as a Kickstarter that was able to raise all the money it needed.

It's now available to download from 2 Player Productions for $US8, or you can go all out (like I will do when I get paid) and buy the 2 disc special edition DVD for $US20+$US10 p&h (there are also t-shirts and the soundtrack from C418)

It has interviews from all the creators, youtubers and fans :D Lots of awesome behind the scenes and just general Minecraft awesome!

Any Minecraft mad fan (like me) needs to watch this movie.

Plus... It have Simon & Lewis from The Yogscast in it :D

Mini Picspam

You can now get packet Macaroons. They're Adrianno Zumbo macraoons and there was Salted Caramel flavour and Mango flavoured. They're $7.99 from Woolsworth.

Making another rainbow cake this weekend for Christmas.

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost need to make another movie together... now!

I want a pet chameleon :D

 Space is beautiful. I don't know if this is a legit photo, but if it is, I want to see it :)

 Everyone needs jars of lollies!

 That's Otter Nonsense.

2013!

I'm really excited about 2013.

Since we survived the "end of the world" yesterday, I have alot to look forward too. Including the new BBC series feature Professor Brian Cox, Wonders of Life. (video above)

Neil Gaiman has a new book out in June. The Ocean at The End of The Lane.  I'm very excited.

More study, including more Prac at a childcare centre.

PAX in Melbourne and a trip to Sydney with Alex in July. Very excited about this, even if I haven't saved ANY money for it yet!

And I'm sure there will be more awesome :D

Not Too Geeky!

Went to the optometrist yesterday morning, and the verdict... I have astigmatism. It's both short and long sighted, but luckily it's only very mild at the moment.

I thank my mother :D who has had astigmatism most her life.

But NOW I can wear glasses. I no longer have bad eye-sight envy and will now remove it from my about me page.

Am I the only person that is actually excited about having bad vision!? I'm so excited about being able to legit wear glasses! Yeah, I know, I'm a weirdo!

I ordered my glasses today. I needed Alex to come and help.
My mother said "Not too Geeky" so naturally I chose these...

Rayban for the win! I will have to wait a couple of weeks for them to arrive, and they're expensive... but I get a $100 Coles Myer gift voucher. Luckily I'm allowed to pay them off.

I'm excited. I know it's going to be weird for people to get used to. I'm going to get sick of people asking why I'm suddenly wearing glasses. I'm just going to tell as many people before I actually get them :D

Boycott Instagram

As of January 16 2013, Instagram will have the rights to sell your photos and personal information the third parties to be used for advertising. And guess what you can do about it? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! You don't get the chance to click yes or no on their Terms of Service, all you get is... if you log into Instagram, online or on your phone you're "ticking" yes. And the only way to "tick" no, is to do what I just did and DELETE your instagram account!

Goodbye Instagram.
I have decided to use Flickr until further notice. I've been using Flickr for awhile but have created a new account :D

I'm worried. Since Facebook owns Instagram, it probably won't be long until Facebook try this tactic. When that day comes I will be deleting my Facebook account as well.

UPDATE:
This morning, Instagram announced that they are going to re-write their Terms of Service and never meant for the ToS to be interpreted like that.

I don't regret deleting my instagram account. I may go back to using it, but have decided to stick to Hipstamatic and Flickr :D