The great non-event that is the new year

31/12/07

So this year new year was just one non stop snail ride, consisting of eating some bread and watching re-runs of "have I got news for you". I'm not complaining, It wasn't a bad evening or anything. It just wasn't new year.

So Mario destroys the universe..........

06/12/07

....lol

So yeah I just finished the final boss on Galaxy so YAY!!! ^_^
I have to say that the final boss thing isn't actually all that hard. The run up to it can get irritating at times (evil lava tunnel), though It's still enjoyable. So yeah I guess that very end is just a case of quickly looking at exactly what you've got and using it. I'm sooo glad I completed it today since I'd only played it one other time in the last coupla weeks since i've been trying to concentrate on me essay n stuffs.
I think I agree with what dave said in his review, about how the lil story book thing is kinda disjointed and not really fitting in with the rest of the games story. But anyways, I'm gonna carry on playing. I'm sooo not gonna get all the stars, but there are a whole loada galaxies that I completely missed out. This actually meant that I only got to use two of mario's costumes once, and I completely skipped another, lol. so yeah, I needa go find them. Atm I'm kinda confused as to why the big L in the sky is there, but I'm hoping to find out at some point = )

EDIT: Oh dear, this entire post seems to be me rambling about a video game. not a good sign. lol

Trolly count: 20

So......what the heck can I type now

So after being almost internet-less for almost three weeks I can finally get online in me room, and you know what....I have no idea what to type. I could talk about moving in, the fact that I meet anyone else from my floor for the first 3 days, the people in chantry halls of residence (I'm in Hamwic). The three guys from me kitchen who I now tend to hang out with most, the fact that one of them was a total idiot two night back when he was totally off his head on cannabis and we all had to stand outside because there was a small fire in one of the kitchens. I could mention my trip to London, the fact that each day I'm getting to lessons slightly less late so eventually I'll arrive on time. (I know, shocking isn't it). I could go on about the evenings spent over at Pete's place with him and Alex, or about the Alpha course, which is really great. I could rant for hours about how much I totally love the lil church we go to now and how totally at home I felt there the first week. I could mention the freshers fair, and free beans and spatulas, or the bizarre student-e type things I've found meself cooking. I could thank me new church for all the food we've ben getting through it, and how amazingly welcome they've made me feel. I could have a real moan about just how noisy the halls get at round 2:15 when all the drunk peeps come stampeding in shouting and swearing having just been chucked out of the clubs. I'm tempted to mention watching "the Prestige" and "The Shawshank Redemption" and just how good they both were, or go into a mini rant about just how much I suck at Mario 64, but how I'm going to buy it for me Wii anyways. I could go on about all of those things, but I won't since I have no idea what to say.............

How to get a free tea towel

21/09/07

First off I now have pretty much all of me stuff packed up and ready to go. I think all I have left to pack up are me Wii (which I'm leaving till the last minute) and some pots n pans. I gotta have a (short) chat with dave on msn which was cool since I haven't been on msn at the same time as him since he left.

I knew that cloud and me mum were plotting something since whenever cloud rang up me mum would eventually get a hold of the phone and go off someplace else with it.Charlotte had told me that she n Gaz were gonna take me out to oxford or someplace, but it turned out that they were taking me to the oriental Buffet place at the Kassam. They'd got Emzy, Kit kat, Kezzi, Shelley and Liz to come a long as well as Gaz n tom. It was kinda cool to see them again. I spent most of the time talking to Liz, Shelley and cloud. I still totally adore Chinese food. sweet n sour in just the best, along with there duck and pancake thingys of course. I had more of an appetite than I normally do. Probably since I think all I'd eaten up to that point was a pack of me instant noodles and some kinda cereal bar. I ate a pretty much everything on me plate though so I didn't feel bad bout leaving anything. Some of us then had a random time eating jelly with chopsticks. I also got cards from most people which was cool. I also got
*a multi coloured cardboard box
*a dragon box
*some candy sticks
*a student cook book
*5 tea towels and a potato peeler
...oh how my friends love me. lol
After we had an inpromptu (is that even a word??) trip to the bowling alley next door. (Tom throwing the ball backwards and me getting 3 spares followed by 5 gutter balls. lol)
So yeah, over all it was a pretty cool evening so I guess a massive thanx goes to Cloud(and me mum) for organizing it all.

I guess the only downer on today was when I was looking at some of me mums old photo's on the computer and I stumbled across a picture of me grandad. I still know that he's a lot happier where he is now than he was when he was trapped here, but I still can't help missing him. I guess he's the family member that I was most similar to, and I felt as close to him as I used too with me Grannie. I know that he would have been so proud of William (and Joseph) and I really want to make the best of university since it's his money that's mainly funding it and I really want to feel that I would have made him proud of me.

"Pop up Dragon Destroys Carefully Construckted Pile of Wood"

13/09/07

So today consisted mainly of gettin more stuffs together for uni, and packing my many books into boxes to be stored whilst I'm away. In the evening I had a "freak out" moment, but eventually i calmed down and headed over to Andy's house where a loada ex-space peoples were getting together to just generally socialize and stuffs. I'm glad I headed over there since it did help to cheer me up. Everyone had Chinese takeaway to eat. They'd ordered before I got there, but they'd ordered plenty, and there was stuff I liked. (sweet n sour stuff and rice. mmmmmmm). A load of the guys were playing n-tropy which involves concentration (in the same way as jenga does). It was made a little difficult by the fact that a group of the girls were playing "pop up dragon" and they screamed whenever the dragon came up. It was a great evening though. It was cool to be able to chat to Peter, Emily, Emma and Andy and all the other peeps.

ROAD TRIP!!.......almost.

11/09/07

Cloud came round again today. She passed her driving test last Friday so she came round to give me a lil drive. All we did was drive up to Mac Donald's, but it was still cool for just the two of us to be able to drive up there. We brought take outs, and nicked a loada the "art attack" sheet things they've got out for the kids atm. When we just headed back to my house. We decided to watch a DVD whilst we ate, and we settled on watching "a Series on Unfortunate Events" since she's never seen it. She agreed with me that the "Happy lil elf" intro totally confuses you at the beginning, and that it's just an all out weird film. I remember liking it much more the second time I saw it for some reason. So yeah, after the film me and cloud had a go on excite truck. She picked it up really quickly. She always did great on stars (normally being higher than me) but I'm used the controls more so she'd often finish a few seconds behind me. We're a pretty even match though which is fun. I'm really gonna miss her when I go to uni. though we've both said we'll write to each other. (Neither she nor her boyfriend have the Internet, and she's almost as bad as me when it comes to texts).

In the evening I had my last space band practice which was kind of odd. It's still kinda annoying that I only really got to go to it for 6 months, and that I had to give up me swimming to do it. I still think I made the right decision though since I've totally loved being a part of it.

So yeah, the end of an era, is sneaking up on me fast, and I feel like there's so much I want to do before I eventually leave, but there's not enough time to do it. Life's just weird like that I guess.

LEEK ^_^

Ok, so after waiting aaaaaaages, I've finally seen me new lil cousin, he's now about 9 weeks old and he's massive. He ain't half gonna be tall when he's older. Also William has grown sooooooo much since I last saw him (which was before Christmas). He's got such an amazing personality and is just one of the sweetest lil kids EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really can't wait till I get to see the both of them again.

Back in Abingdon I gotta hang out with cloud for the evening which was ultra-great since I haven't seen her in what feels like an age. I haven't really been over to her place much since she started dating Gaz, since I always felt kinda odd bout it. I really wanna spend as much time with her as I can now though since when I head off to uni I'm not going to see her for months on end. = (

it's only been 2 years......................

24/08/07

Ok, so I'm just gonna say that I owe facebook an enormous thanx sop THANKYOU.. I mean, I spent a large amount of this evening just chattin to two people from fitz that I'd totally lost touch with for over 2 years. The first of them was Andy Phelan, who somehow seemed to have no only found me, but invited me as a friend. I was never amazingly close to Andy, but we were always kinda mates, we go ton with each other, and no matter how much of a cow I was to him at times he never picked on me or went out of his way to put me down. Seems like some Major stuff has been going on in his life since I last saw him (at out leavers ball), but he still seems to be doing great. Then, I was lookin through Andy's face book mates, and who should I come across but Helen Hetherington. I can't tell you how happy this made me feel. Helen was a totally awesome mate at fitz, one of those few people who could always make me smile, even when I didn't want too. She was one of the very few people that I was seriously peed off at meself over having lost contact with. She was away in America when we had out ball, and she moved to live with her dad somewhere straight after. I didn't know where she was living, Leanne didn't seem to know her new address, and that was bout it. I did once try to go to where she used to live to try and find out, but when I go there I realized that I wasn't sure which house it was out of 2 semi detached, and being the total wimp that I am I chickened out, but one of that matters now, cos I've found her again. we've spent hours chattin bout nothing in particular now, and I'm now totally beat, but I don't care. she's hardly changed, and it's just as if we hadn't lost contact for 2 years, it's just as east to chat to her as it ever was. The Helen's of this world are truly amazing. lol

*is a lil tired* ........zzzzzzzzzzz

03/08/07

Ok, so I've been away on guide camp for th alast few days so I've kinda got a lot to catch up on. I'll try n type it up 2-moz ( /more reasonable time today), although that may not happen since I'm headin off to new wine on sunday and I'm beat right now. I really feel like reading s'more of me Stephen Lawhead book, but I should probably go get soem sleep so as I can wake up at a reasonable time and and be at least semi concious for new wine. So yeah, I'll write more laters.

Where not to read a book

25/07/07

Recently we've been getting all the floods n stuff in Abingdon because of the insane amount of rain the UK's been getting recently. Today, I finally got to go down to the river itself with me mum and see just how much it's risen. We went our normal route, although this led to us wading through knee deep water for part of it. Twh water really has come right up

There's this one part area down by the river, right near the weir, where i often go if I want some time to meself to read and draw, or if I just want to get out of the house. It always relaxes me to just go and sit there watching the river. Now however the place that I tend to sit is under 2ft of water. Somehow I don't think that I'll be able to go down there for a while. I guess I'll just have to find somewhere else for the time being.

Another thing that I managed to do today was to erase me Zelda game from me Wii. I know that it's only a game and all that, and It shouldn't really bother me, but I'm still pretty cheesed off at meself about it. I was really enjoying it too, and now I've gotta go back to the start and it's going to take ages to get back to where I was before. No chance of any new fdiscoveries for a while then. Oh well. I guess there's nothing I can do except go over what I've done already, and try to get better at the game in general. *sighs*

cake and remote controls

I spent today at the Gilbert's baby sitting Alex (Alexandara) it was really nice to get outa the house again for a bit, for something that wasn't technically work related, and wasn't at Radley college. (although still in Radley). it was also great to see Alex again. I really can't believe that she is now 9. I still expect her to be 5. She's definitely growing up.

So yeah, whilst I was there I kinda helped her out with some oragami animal stuffs, before she decided to watch "click". I wasn't quite sure what I'd make of the film, and I found most of it quite predictable, although there was kinda one twist bout the mad scientist dude that I didn't see coming, all in all it was a very.....american.....film. Alex had never actually seen the last 10 minutes before, and so had missed the final major twist. We then watched "confessions of a teenage drama queen". I've actually read the book that this is based on at some point, so I kinda knew the basic plot. It was a typical "young teen girl" film staring Lindsay Lohan. I enjoyed it, but it's not exactly my style.

So yeah, the next thing we did was to make cake. I've been making loadsa random fairy cakes recently which turned out to be pretty helpful for today. One of he first things that we had to do was to wander down to her local shop to buy some eggs, cream and stuffs. I also brought a bag of fruit salad sweet things because I hadn't eaten them in years and I remember that I used to totally love them as a kid. As we wandered back we chatted aimlessly, ate sweets, and tried to make each other walk into trees n stuffs. Anyways, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages later we finally got around to putting the mixture in the oven, and it was finished just as Ann arrived home. We stuck the two halves of cakes together, and I headed off home with a mouthful of cake and jam. ^_^

SHREK!!!!!!......and soon and so fourth.......

16/07/07

So today started off pretty boring. I'm kinda trying to tidy up the lounge atm and it's taking an age. oh well. I'd taken a break and come one the comp to try n chat to Shelley for a bit, and was listening to some of the songs from the Shrek films that I'd tracked down on youtube when I decided that I may as well just put the film on as I continued to tidy up n stuff. I never got to watch it though because I ended up heading over to Alex's so that I could get i lift up to Dave's to play canasta with them (I'm still not quite sure what happened there, I just know that I ended up at Dave's rather that tidying up. *is much confuzzled*) So yeah, we played a coupla games of canasta. I won one (by pure luck), and I think that Dave won the next one. Throughout the game Dave had plugged his ipod into some speakers, and I was quite happy to find that there were a few of the songs from the shrek films on there, which was what I was going to watch the films for anyways. lol

We then had dave showing off his new resi4 Wii game that he's been telling me that I have to go see since he got it. It actually looked pretty good. I'm not sure if it's the sorta game that I'd buy and actually play, but I've got no problem with watching other peeps play it. It's not quite as bad as I thought it might be (although I still don't really like it when any of them loose their heads. yeugh).

So yeah, It was pretty fun just to hang out playing cards n stuff. I soooooo wish that I'd met all the cell peeps whilst I was still in school. oh well.

It's done WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

22/07/07

I've finally finnished me Teacher training course (lvl.1). I really can not believe quite how much paper work I had to do for it. It seemed endless, but at least it's over with now. As of today I can officially teach midgets not to drown ^_^

When else can you wear a cloak and not get laughed at???

21/07/07

So yeah. I have HP7. = D
recently I suddenly realised that this is the last HP book, and it's the only series that is getting the hype of a midnight opening. I haven't bothered to go to the last HP openings since I always seemed rather pointless/silly to me, but since this was the last chance I'd get to do it I decided to go ahead this time anyways. I ended up heading over to cloud's house with Alex to start with. Alex, Cloud n Gaz started to chat bout building/repairing Land rovers n stuff (as gaz sat at a sewing machine making the new seat covers, lol), and me and Tom just stood round talking bout a new game he's got for his PS2.

After a while we looked at the time and decided that we really should be heading into town. On the way there I simply had to run down and look at the lil bridge over the stream near Clouds house. Honest, I had no control over it. I really couldn't believe quite how high it was. Anyways, we then headed up through the lil wood bit and into town. Tom was wearing a cape thing, and when we got closer Cloud put one on too. She then handed me one and told me to put it on. SO yes, I wandered into the town centre wearing a cape. hey, quit looking at me like that. You knew I was weird before you started reading this post so you really shouldn't be all that surprised. lol. Anyways, my first impression upon arriving at the town center was of a few hundred people milling around, laughing and joking, and most of them wearing random hats or cloaks. Alex had to go get some money from a hole in the wall so that he could actually get the book, and a group of chavs started shouting bout Potter, (in a piraty accent which was kinda odd. Then again, chavs are a rather strange species). So anyways, I then put me cloak on (again) an we joined the que just outside bakers oven. Sarah, Kat and PJ were queing up too, and Pj came and chatted to us for a bit. Someone was also coming along with a kinda sorting hat. I turned out to be a slytherin. lol. They also sent someone along with a kinda sweet trolley thing that was giving out free sweets. Charlotte grabbed me a giant spider thing which was cool. At midnight everyone started to count down and on one they set off a few fireworks above the shop which was nice. Me and Charlotte then shouted "happy new year", and did our own mini rendition of "old man time". Between then and us actually getting onto the shop we also sang the Homer Simpson song (the one that goes along with the Flintstones tune), and just before we entered the shop we sang "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" which seemed to amuse the Lady dressed up on the door.

Anyways, at last we brought our books before headed off into the night clutching our treasures and leaving an expectant que behind.

Well, the broken glass was pretty.................

19/07/07

So yeah, today I gotta meet up with Liz, Shelley n Dave.

We started off lookin round some random shops. Me n Liz looked round primark at kiddie stuffs which was cool. Although I didn't actually buy anything due to a slight lack in the money department. Finding a whole in the wall soon sorted out this issue though.

Eventually we made it to the cinema to watch the 5th harry potter film, I have to say that although I did enjoy it, I was also a little dissapointed. The film seemed to skip great chunks of the book, and I have the feeling that it wouldn't have made all that much sense if you hadn't read the book to start with, having said that I did totally love part near the end where volly the teens and Dumbledore were running about and there was a loada shattered glass flying everywhere, I just found that part real pretty, lol


now, at this point ai was going to write s'mink else about the day, but the only not that I left to remind meself what happened was the word "quiet", and I haven't the foggiest what it's refering too. I guess it serves me right for leaving this post as bullet points for 8 months before writeg it up properly. There's a lesson to be learned here someplace.

17/07/07

Been feeling ill most of the day, totally stuffed up me uni aplication, and mananage to let down 3 really great mates. So yeah, It's been a great day.

A post bout the weekend,... well, friday anyways.

16/07/07

Ok, so as every school kid knows, the weekend starts on the Friday. So this friday was the day that me n me mum were both retaking out NPLQ's. I'd spent most of the day reading through me NPLQ ring binder.folder thing, basically cramming. It was basically a case of refreshing my memory, and trying to remember all of the new choking/CPR stuff over the old stuff I was originally taught. (I now have to sing "Nelly the Elephant" twice *shock horror* ).
At about 5:30 me and me mum finally headed over to Radley college to do the exam. I was insanely nervous about it because I knew that the examiner was going to be someone who I'd never met before so I had no idea what he was going to be like, or if I knew anywhere near enough to pass. It worked out ok in the end though. We did the manikin work first and I think that it went ok considering just how much some of it has changed since last time. I didn't do the baby manikin, but I did the other 3 resus things. We then moved on to do the questions and they actually went pretty well I think. the four of us kinda bounced off each other so when one person ran out of things to say in an answer, another would carry on with what they knew. Apparently this showed the examiner that we were a good team. After one of my questions the examiner accused me of memorizing the whole book which is odd since I've only been through it once, I just have a great capacity for useless information I guess.

So yeah, the questions went well. so well that we actually finished about an hour and a half early so we had to sit around for ages before we could go in the pool and finish off the test. It was cool that we got to relax a bit between the two parts. We had a quick warm up first, and then we started off with the timed swims, which I have to say are absolute killers. We also did all the other things such as land based rescues n such, and finally we did the one with the unconscious casualty in the Pit. I HATE with a capital H diving down into the pit. The sigh says that it's 3.5 meters deep (, but it lies, it's actually 3.7, but anyways......) and I always kinda panic when I'm at the bottom, this does mean that I can always do it really fast though so, yeah. This time was the first time ever that I've dived down there and not got some sorta mild earache, the problem was that I was so surprised by this that I actually inhaled a loada water and had to try really hard not to start coughing and spluttering as soon as I got to the surface. Apart from that it went fine though. Except that I totally messed up the splint tow the first time, but I did it right the second time so I still did ok. but yeah. I passed and I'm seriously happy bout it cos it means that I don't have to worry bout it for at least a year and a half now.

sleep working

14/07/07

I PASSED ME NPLQ. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really want to write about it now. but I'm pretty tired atm and I've got so much work set for 2-moz so I'd better get it done. but yeah, today was great n I'll guess I'll try n write bout it some othre time.

I now pronounce that I shall hencefourth be know as "Larry"

09/07/07

ok, so to start with I'm gonna say that I reeeeally wish I'd typed this up earlier since I've just kinda dropped into one of my "kinda depressed" moods for no reason. I'm gonna try to get across some of the enthusiasm that I had about the day earlier though since I still think it was pretty good, anyways............................

Ok, so today I had my second "swimming teacher training" course lesson like thing. To start with I'm kinda regretting trying to get an early night (asleep just after 1:00. *shock horror*) and I got almost 7 hours sleep, this is a good coupla hours more than I normally get so I've now spent the whole day feeling totally knackered. This week the session started at 10:00 rather than 9 which was a lil better than last week. We did however have to share the room with lots of spectators for several badminton matches that were going on on campus as part of the "Oxfordshire Youth Games". They weren't too distracting though so It was ok. this week we were learning all about back paddle/stroke.

This week was slightly different to last week though, in the fat that we actually had to teach some kids. I'd been stressing about it all week since we'd been sent off and told that we had to write 4 lesson plans. I was kinda ok with what I ad to do, the problem was that I'd never met the kids before or seen them swim so I had no idea what they were capable of.

In the end it turned out aright though. there were few *whattheheckisthatkiddoingOMGoodnessHELP!!!*. lol, but apart from that It went great, and I'm actually kinda looking forwards to teaching the kids next week. At least next week we're doing backstroke.

fresh coal on the bone

07/07/07

To day was pretty cool. It was my churches annual BBQ and I'd invited Shelley along, she came to our church Christmas party so she'd already been there once before and met most people, and she seemed pretty happy bout coming again. Personally I LOVE my lil church, it's real tiny, but it's just got such a great feeling of community about it. Also in the last coupla years a loada families with kids have turned up.
We've had a church BBQ for several years now and it's always been fun. Sittin outside, eatin (slightly burnt) burgers such, and just enjoying everyones company. We also have worship songs n such, and we always have some sorta quiz (where everyone tries, and fails to beat Angus's score).
SO yeah, it was a great day of just hangin out with the people I've grown up with = )

Paper cuts

06/07/07

Ok, so I spent most of today sifting through photographs over at Tanya's (one of my guide leaders) house cos I was making up a scrapbook/album for her Foster daughter (Yelena) to take with her when she moves into her new home on wednesday. (she's having to move because she's now eighteen.) A large number of the photographs were from the Florida trip which was kinda cool to look through again. I don't know how many digital photo's I printed out and cut to size, and to be honest I don't really want to know. Whilst I was sorting all this out Tanya was in another part of the house with Yelena so that she could introduce Yelena and her new carers to one another. I didn't really see all that much of them together, but from what I can gather it went well. Later on Tanya ordered a peperoni Pizza and gave me a few slices. I ate two, and then had another "cold" one later that I hadn't been able to manage the first time. I got quite a lot sorted out whilst I was there and came away with loads more pictures to sift through.

How can a day get so messed up, and yet throw you so many great memories

04/07/07

OK, so overall I don't quite know what to make of yesterday. A couple of really good memories have come out of it, but over all the day just left me feeling pretty negative. To start with I really badly over slept and no one bothered to wake me up. (Even though my mum knew that I had to be at college and my alarm wasn't working.) When I eventually opened my eyes I was already two hours late. No one else was home so I was gonna have to cycle. It was raining and I got halfway there before I realized that I'd needed to take some paperwork with me and I'd left it at home. As I left the second time my dad pulled up. He'd obviously been over at Fyfield since he was towing the trailer which contained our the lawn mower. I would have asked him for a lift, but I was in a real hurry and I didn't have time to wait around for him to take the trailer off and out the lawn mower back in the garage. Plus It would have made him feel bad. I left the front door open as I left since I knew me dad was home and headed off up to college again. When I got there I managed to see a couple of teacher and let them know that I was in college. I then went over to the library intending to go on a computer and randomly search the net, post on the forum, and randomly edit some pictures in photo shop.

When I go there however I found that the computer suite was actually closed, and all of the other computers were taken. In the end I just went to the loaf and brought some skittles and an oasis drink (,I had intended to get some chips too but i kinda forgot). I then headed out to the sit at the picnic table in the bus shelter like thing (,It was the only place outside that had a dry seat,) and filled in some more paperwork for me course. After a while Justin came over and we chatted for a while which was cool. He told me a little about the end of year boat party (that hadn't been on a boat at all), I kinda wish I hadn't been so stressed at the time and forgotten about it, but it still sounds like everyone had fun. I did pay for it, but I know that the money went towards giving everyone a good time so I'm not that bothered about it. At around 1:30 we both headed up to the Mac suite so that I could randomly alter pictures, and he could copy the last of his files onto disk before all our user names are wiped. He also ended up taking a loada random pics of me using the camera on the mac and going through all the different effects that you can use in camera mode. I looked awful in all the pictures, but that's mainly cos I wouldn't hold still cos I didn't really want to have me picture taken at all. I always look awful in photo's.

When it got to 2:00 everyone met in G10 to get their results. I went down there quickly to apologize to Roy and he said that he'd ring my house the next day. I really didn't feel like staying in the room whilst everyone was given their results so I just went back to the mac suite and just messed around with a pic in photoshop.

Once everyone had got their results they headed out. I then logged off and made to leave too, only to find that a group of them were sitting outside the back chatting and smoking. (the public area smoking ban came in a few days ago, and they all remarked on how they felt like they were back smoking behind the bike sheds at school again.) there was me , Helen, Charlotte, Christina, Anna and Justin chatting, and Matt stopped to say a couple of things too. Since I recently discovered that I can sign onto eBuddy (e-messenger) at home with out having to download anything, I decided that I may as well get a load of their MSN addresses since I was probably never going to see most of them again. I immediately lost two of them so I'm going to have to wait till Anna comes online and get them off of her. Christina then mentioned that a load of people from college were going down to the Kassam to go bowling (the first I'd heard of it). I said that I'd try to make it, but it was unlikely I would since I was going to have to wait around for a call from College. I also spotted that this was gonna mean that there was a chance that I wouldn't be able to make it over to Dave's house either, which kinda sucked.

So anyways, I then headed home. On the way there I cycled past "Big Chris" who used to go to explorers, and he actually smiled at me. I was shocked I can tell you. I've known him for just over 4 years now, and thats the first time I remember seeing him properly smile. maybe it was because I wasn't saying anything. So yeah, I was then cycling along, minding my own business when I passed Izzy. I used to get on with Izzy pretty well when we went to guides, but we haven't really spokes properly in years now. Anyways, for some reason I decided to stop n chat to her for a min which was cool, I found out a bit bout what she'd been doing in the past coupla years, whats she's planning on doing now, and I even got her msn too. I eventually got home, only to find that I'd left my keys in the door that morning and my dad had taken them, so I was now locked out. I had been planning on phoning Cloud to say sorry that I wasn't home, (we had be planning on meeting up,) but since I couldn't get into the house and I don't currently know where my mobile is I was kinda stuffed. In the end I just decided to go see if she was at her house and say sorry.

When I got there though I found out that she hadn't been able to make it over anyways so it was ok. I ended up just playing a loada games on their play station (2), I gotta play a random game of Lego Star wars with her brother which was fun, and I also gotta have a look at the 3rd Prince of Persia (two thrones) since I think they've got basically the same game (only under a different name) out for the Wii, I might buy it at some point, I dunno though. I don't recon it'll be half as good as the first game (which I loved) but it should still be ok. I love how the prince dude can do all the free running type stuff. Anyways, I ended up staying for some grub which was cool since I haven't been able to do that in a while. Also Gaz wasn't there the whole time so I just gotta chat to cloud on her own for a bit. It was still cool when Gaz turned up though. ^_^

Not in much detail but........

30/06/07

OK, so Nothing much has happened in the last coupla days. Except for the fact that My new lil cousin was taken home but he wasn't eating so they had to take him back to the hospital on Friday for a coupla of days just so that they could check that he was alright. They think that he might have had some sort of infection. The word from my grandma earlier this evening is that he's much better. I Still really want to see him, but I might have to wait a few weeks because the next few weekends all have stuff planned for them that can't be moved to another date. Tomorrow I'm starting my "Swimming Teacher Training (lvl1)" course thing. It's gonna carry over the next 3 weekends, then we have our test thing. I could have done it last year (when Kerry did it) but I decided not too since It was in the middle of the spring term. This time I didn't think that there'd be anyone else I knew doing it, but it turns out that Amira is doing the course too which is great. So yeah, I guess that's about it for now.

28/06/07

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Today in general

27/06/07

So this morning I didn't really do all that much at all. I just kinda lazed around the house. Last nights space band got me thinking a bit and kinda cleared me head up s'more. I then gotta go round Alex's place and had a pretty cool time. I managed to download the Internet channel onto my Wii. I'm glad I did that now since this weekend Nintendo are going to start charging people to download it. I still can't connect it up permanently yet, but oh well. hopefully will soon. I also downloaded the "everybody votes" channel which was cool. We then had a random look around on Zelda and I gotta look round a place that I'd spotted on my game and had been unable to get to. It turned out to contain a heart piece (which can come in real useful in the game). Alex also showed me a bit more, though I didn't let him show me too much since I didn't want to to spoil it. We then just kinda wandered around wastin time chattin till he got a text from Stella reminding him that they were actually supposed to be meeting up to go to Pizza hut. I then found out that I was going too (even if no one had told me. lol). Hannah would have gone, but she was having some kinda majour disaster with her prom dress and so was running around trying to sort that out instead. By the time we got to Oxford it was tipping down with rain, and since none of us had coats we just headed for the nearest Pizza hut. It was cool though. Looking back I can't really remember what we were chatting about really, but I had a great time anyways. Stella had her last exam today so she was in a pretty good mood. I hope I get to meet up with her again soon. So yeah. Apart from that, there's the whole cousin thing that I've already said a bit bout. So go read my last post if you don't know what I'm going on bout.

COUSIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

27/06/07

Ok, so I was just about to post about my day, but that can wait for a mo since I just found out even something even better from me mum. That is that as of 9:12 this morning I am the proud relation of TWO cousins. The first cousin, William was two a coupla moths back. The new cousin is another lil boy and they're calling him "Joseph Christian". I'm so exited and I really can't wait to see him. He's gonna seem so tiny now that I've got used to William. oh well. Like I said, I'm exited, but I don't really know what else to put about it atm. lol. so yeah, I'll leave it there for now and I guess I'll write more later when I actually know s'mink.

suicide cyclists

26/06/07

So today I had another driving lesson and I actually drove up to Oxford. I'm so glad that I got to have a few lessons before this. I only had a mini panic once which was pretty good for me. It wasn't actually as bad as I thought it would be, although I come to the conclusion that all cyclists in Oxford are lunatics with death wishes. Some of the roundabouts seemed a bit chaotic, but they had there lanes marked out on the road which helped. I was quite thankful for the 20mph speed limit in some places since I didn't really think I would have wanted to go much faster anyway. SO yeah, I haver to say that I'm not looking forwards to EVER driving in Oxford, but at least I now know that I can.

Got it sorted

19/06/07

Ok, so my final art project was originally due in for last Friday, but since I'd been finding everything so stressful, and thus hadn't fully completed it, my overseeing tutor had said that he could get me a deferral on the assessment. Today I went into college and we discussed what was going to happen. So basically I now have an extra two weeks to try and complete my project, which is fine with me. Unfortunately this means that I won't be displaying anything in our final show, but I was kind dreading that anyway. Luckily I think that the only person I actually told about it was Alex so I won't have to let too many people down by not showing anything. I know my mum would be disappointed if she knew about it. I'm not sure yet whether I'm going to tell my parents that I've got a deferral. If I do then I know that they'd be supportive, but I also know that my mum would continually nag me to work which is one of the reasons that I got so stressed to start with. I'll wait and see I guess.

So the gist of it is that I came away from the meeting with specific targets set for my project, and feeling a lot more positive about the course in general.

Just one of those perfect days

18/06/07

OK, so it's now Monday so I've left this post a lil late, but I really wanted to write about the Saturday just gone. Like I said before, I've been feeling really down recently, and I managed to totally break down on Friday. Afterwards however I just felt so much lighter, I hadn't been able to hide how I was feeling anymore so I'd felt able to tell people how I actually felt. Friday night I actually managed to get some proper sleep and i woke up on Saturday just feeling totally refreshed.

As normal I had to get up at 6:30 to get to me life guarding, but when I arrived I found that there were only 18 swimmers there compared to the 36-50 that I normally have to keep an eye on. It was so much more relaxing than normal. I then had to hurry back from work so that I could grab my bag and head over to Liz's house to meet up with her. I used to get on really well with Liz, but I've hardly been able to see her at all since last summer so we'd just randomly arranged to meet up and go into town to get some stuff for fathers day. I really enjoyed being able to just hang out and chat with her again as I'd really missed it. After we'd brought some stuff for our dads (laughed at a lot of cards and stuffed ourselves with fudge,) we headed back to her house. Only to find that *shock* *horror* her parents had gone out and we couldn't get in. We then just sat around outside for a bit looking abandoned before deciding that maybe we could try the back door. It turned out to be open and we were both greeted by Liz's amazingly cute dog. I didn't get to stay at her house for long though since at just as her parents arrived back at 12:45 I had to rush off on me bike again to get back to Radley college for me NPLQ (National Pool Lifeguard Qualification) training.

I got there just in time and I really enjoyed it. I got to spend 2 hours in the pool, sometimes practicing towing people, and sometimes just swimming round. The we headed upstairs and went over all the different CPR's that I need to learn. They've changed it quite a lot since I last took it so I'm gonna have to work hard to learn the new one and not automatically do the original one when I retake my exam. We finished of at 4:30 and I headed back to the house whilst me mum went back to Stanlake where her and dad are running a rally and staying in the caravan.I then just played on Zelda on me Wii for a bit and looked on a map on the Internet to find the house of one of Christ churches youth leaders (Andy). It turned out that he lives on the road right behind where one of me best mates, Cloud (Charlotte) lives.

Everyone was supposed to meet there at bout 7:30 but I was a lil late. I had a great evening though. I gotta watch everyone playing some really random games on Pete's Wii, I gotta have a lil chat to Lydia, and hang out with Dave and Alex. As well as this I got to play some kids games that I haven't played in ages, such as guess who, mousetrap (what is with the random bits of cheese), and descend. (which is such an amazingly fun game, that I had totally forgotten about since I haven't been able to play it in ages). Officially we were all meant to leave at bout 9:30, but in the end we were kicked out round about 11 after having played a quick game of Wii golf. (Which I don't suck at half as much as I used too).

Since me mum and dad weren't home I didn't really need to rush home n I just ended going back to Alex's for a bit. We just hung out chatting, listening to random music on youtube and playing random games on his Wii till I looked at the time and saw that I should probably be heading home to get some sleep. (although I actually stayed awake for a bit longer to watch the Dr who episode that we'd just recorded. it was a good episode)

All in all it was an amazing day. It was really packed, but there wasn't a single thing about it that I didn't enjoy. It was just one of those "perfect days" that will just stay with me, and make the world seem better when I'm down. So yeah, a random thanx goes out to everyone that I saw/spoke too on Saturday, for helping to make it such an amazingly awesome day. ^_^

In a good enough mood to post

15/06/07

OK, so I've been thinking about making a proper blog for a while now I don't expect anyone to read it (and atm I'm not to sure if I really want anyone too), but anyways, I made this blog and went to make my first post. I then realized that I had nothing good to talk about, I was really depressed and stressed at the time and I would have just spent the whole time moaning on and on about how unfair life is. Not a good way to start a blog.
Anyways, here is my official first blog post "Woohoo". So yeah, the last week has been really stressful and chaotic and I can't wait till Monday when more of the stuff will be over and done with and I can finally get a reasonable nights sleep again.This had been my worst week in terms of stress and just generaly feeling depressed in a long time. I've actually been crying in front of people which is really bad. So yeah, this weeks just been the pits. I'm so glad it's nearly over. Anyway, my next post should be a little more cheerful.