April 16, 2007, 7:37 pm : Amazing Picture

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I’m the kind of person who likes to keep folders well organised on my computer, this usually means i have folders within folders within folders. Well today i decided to organise my My Pictures folder, it already had a few sub folders but not all things would it into the catorgories i already had. So i came up with a few new ones, then went poking about in the old ones to see if there was anything i didn’t want any more. One folder is called “beautiful”. There’s not much in it but i find one of the photos breath taking and i thought i’d share.

(Click it for full size, it’s ideal for a 1024×768 screen)

I can’t remember where i found this picture, if the artist sees this and has a problem just email me.

April 14, 2007, 9:38 pm : Sat in the Dark

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Well yesterday at about 4pm we had a power cut for half an hour, it wasn’t too bad, it was daylight still and we got to have take out because we wouldn’t have had time to make dinner for everyone. But now we’ve had a second cut and it started at 1.30am, the house is completely dark and everyone else is asleep.

Luckily i knew where my mobile phone was so i could click the light on it which helped me to find my lighter which in turn help me find the tourch i keep neatly under a pile of crap on my floor.

(Just thought i’d quickly say that the power nearly came back just now but then stopped again.)

Back on track though. Once i found the tourch it was safe to hold it while i lit the candles in my room and go check the fuse box in case that was all it was. Of course that was unlikely and here i am in the dark, my laptop only running on battery and writing a blog post on notepad. My battery is down to 2hrs20 and i don’t really want it fall much below 2hrs so i’ll stop here and finish later if i must, after all it’s not like i’m going to be able to post right away. After letting the people i was talking to online know that i had been cut off from them for a while i went too find entertainment, the TV is off, i can’t read by candle light and while i could have called a friend my aunt is next door and i’d already woken her up when i checked the power. Of course writing this is fun but i like to have background noise so i dug my mp3 player out of the bag i haven’t unpacked since i was last in London. The hamster doesn’t seem to mind the dark, she’s loving it really, i usually have the light on all night while she’s up and i know they’re nocturnal creatures, she’s just running her cute little legs off.

now i’m settled into the power cut i’m starting to worry about things. Should i wake my dad up and do something about the food in the fridge and freezer? should i leave my big tourch (i found a second smaller one on a key ring) out in the hall incase people wake up? should i be in bed like i had planned to be by now?

Well i guess if this power cut is goin to last all night there’s nothing my dad or i could do about the food. I’ve never seen anyone in this house get up at night and they wouldn’t know where i put the tourch anyway. And as for bedtime, i guess i better turn off the candles and blow out the laptop.

Just for an explaination as to why i took so long to actually post, the power came back on at about 12midday, nearly 11hrs after it cut out, but i had gone into town with my aunts and cousin. Then when i got home my sister wanted me to go to tesco with her. I got some time online when i got home but still couldn’t post as i had to get ready to go for a meal with my family. But now i’ve been able to sit down for more than 5 minutes, 20hrs after the power first cut, 9 after it came back, i’m finally able to post, and now i feel like falling asleep where i am.

April 8, 2007, 5:34 pm : Happy Easter

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Well, it’s time for yet another of the Christian holidays the whole country gets time off for. At least we can still say “Happy Easter” to people without the PC police raining down, and i get chocolate, which is never a bad thing. I slept in but my sister got me up so she could give me some of her egg, usually i’m annoyed when she gets me up, but i’ll forgive her this time. I don’t normally like holidays, while i’m at home most of the year anyway, the holidays tend to wear me down, i actually have to spend time with my family instead of just in my room. This year isn’t so bad so far though, maybe it’s because Christmas is still fresh in my mind, it wasn’t terrible either but its a much longer hoilday which means more time with the family. Of course, my aunts haven’t come to visit us from Ireland yet, i think they’re coming next week but i may be able to hide more then as it wont be the acutal holiday, maybe i can just start sleeping in the day and only come out at night.

But back to the important part. The Chocolate. Every year my dad buys my sister and i an egg, we have a £10 limit each and every year i spend the limit. This year my sister was working when my dad was able to go to the shop so she asked me to pick one out for her, but i had instructions, she didn’t want the ones with a chocolate bar, just something simple made by tesco. So i looked about and they had some nice big eggs within our limit, i know my sister likes dark chocolate but next to the dark chocolate egg was a milk chocolate brownie egg, it took some time but i know my sister loves brownies and i knew that i’d get some of hers as we always share. So i got the brownie egg for her and started to look for mine. I can say without doubt that Lindt is the best chocolate ever but it always costs a lot for not very much and there were only three choices, a dark chocolate one, which i don’t like, a small milk one with a tray of chocolates, most of which probably had nuts in which i don’t like and the egg hunt pack. I, of course, went for the pack, it had soild mini eggs, Lindor eggs, mini chocolate bunnies and 4 small eggs (about the same size as the other milk egg).

It is amazing! They all taste so good, not only that but because it’s not one big egg which i have to unwrap at once it’s lasting longer as i’m not forced to have it all avalible in one go. Of course, as i mentioned, we share our eggs here and when i opened the box i found there were 4 pop out and fold baskets, i made them all up and put some of the eggs and a bunny in each for each of my family. I still kept the most of it for myself but at least i won’t get the bad looks from my family for keeping it all for me.

I am, as you may have guess, rather odd, and also felt like finding out what the print on the foil looked like when it was flattend, apparently it’s like this:

Well i hope all have a good holiday.

April 1, 2007, 10:52 am : Feeling Low

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I’ve been feeling bad all morning, i’ve been awake all night and my mood just kept getting lower and lower for no reason. I still don’t know why i feel so bad, my eyes are still burning from all the tears and my nose is sore from cheap tissues. I was told to try to write what i was feeling down to help me but i’m still stuck for words. I’ve never had words for what i’m feeling, i can say if im sad or not so sad, which is about the total range of my mood (with some anger in between), but i can’t ever say why. Maybe if something happens right before, like someone say something bad about me, or i get bad news or have a fight with a friend, but a lot of the time i just drop for no reason and get stuck there for hours.

I’m not feeling so bad now, not great of course but not so bad, so maybe i could try to look at the things that made me stop crying. I guess i started to feel better when my best friend came back from playing his game, he talked to me in an IM for a bit then we moved to Skype. After a short chat there (we never say much to each other) he went to lie down and i decided to go for a shower. For some reason i started to clean the shower before i used it, which i never do, and then i just showered, the conditioner had just about run out and i had to shake it hard to get enough out. I got out of the shower and started crying again without reason, but it stopped soon and i haven’t teared up since so far.

It’s very strange i know but i don’t shower often as i never really go out and i really don’t like water, but when i do shower it can make me feel better, probably because i leave it so long that it feels like a weight off of me when i’m clean again, i don’t have greasy hair any more and my toes feel nice a cold afterwards. I know i’m discusting for not showering as often as i should but maybe it wouldn’t make me feel so good when i do if i did it more.

The person who suggested i write about why i felt so bad also suggested i could try drawing it, so i did, this only took about 2 minutes, so the quality is poor but i like how it turned out.