June 25, 2008, 4:56 pm : It’s been a while…. again
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Lets hope I can get back in the posting habit this time.
I may have said, I’ve been in college since September on an art access course, which means once I pass I go to Uni. All of which should be finalised in the next few weeks, after which I will hopefully be a little less busy. And, of course, once everything has been marked by the moderator I will be updating my art site with loads of new stuff.
I really need to get all the finance stuff sorted out for my uni course, but I’m stuck until i can get a figure for what my dad earns. Student loans are scary, as is the idea of a student bank account and actually becoming a uni student. I’m sure though that I will document my demise well with updates here.
One thing I have managed is to add to my 80 things list, not really achieved any more but it is now 94 things. The new items on the list are mostly places to go or see, hopefully I’ll get the list up to 100 eventually. Here’s what’s been added;
81. Visit Easter Island
82. See Niagara Falls
83. Visit New England in Autumn
84. Go to the Grand Canyon
85. See giant redwoods
86. Go to the Great Wall
87. Visit Polonnaruwa (Sri Lanka)
88. Visit Tad Lo Falls
89. See the Plain of Jars (Laos) with a guide
90. Photograph Notre Dame
91. Go to the Rhine Valley
92. Visit the Giant’s Causeway
93. Visit Stonehenge
94. Visit Prague
I will add them to the original list too.
Well, next week i get to put up an exhibition of my work for the moderator, after that I will know for sure if I have passed. Until then I’ll just spend my time worrying, which I’m sure will be productive.
August 12, 2007, 5:43 pm : PostSecret
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I’ve read PostSecret every Sunday for several months now. This week the PostSecret video has been posted, and as per Frank’s request I will link to it here.
I am tempted to send a card my self, hopefully I’ll get the courage someday.
July 5, 2007, 4:14 am : Bunny Rabbit
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I had my day nicely planed out on Tuesday. First i had to drop my sister into work so i could have the car for the day. Then i had to go to the doctors office to pick up a letter, then back to town. I parked in the mall and walked the short distance to Blue Banana, went to the back of the shop and asked for my eye brow to be pierced. They told me the room was being disinfected but i could fill out the forms and pay then and come back at midday. It was a little longer than i had thought, but i went window shopping in the mall as i had planed to do after i got my eye brow done. It had been suggested i have something to eat before i went back so i had an early lunch then headed over.
Long story short, i bled, a lot. I’d had it pierced before but that fell out, so the new one went through scar tissue, which hurts as well as bleeds. But it does look good in my opinion, it’s purple and in my left eye brow.
I intended to spend the rest of my day doing art at my local Mind, i don’t normally go on a Tuesday, but thought i would for a change. Of course as soon as i got there i was told the art group was cancelled due to lack of staff and everyone had to be gone by 2pm, this was about 12.30pm so i decided to sit there and chat a little until 2 so i actually had something to do before having to pick my sister up at 5.15.
Of course, after i left the group i still had 3hrs to kill so thought i would go to the market at the bottom of town. This is where things went wrong in a very good way. There is a pet shop in the market, which i don’t like very much. I got my hamster there and still feel she was too young to have been sold. Another thing i dislike about it is the tiny cages they put rabbits and guinea pigs in. One of the cages is at most 2 foot by 2 foot and tucked under a load of other cages so it’s almost out of sight. In there was a small silver rabbit hardly moving. I did ask if she was ok in there and they told me she was fine, they just told me they sulk when in smaller cages, my only thought was, “of course, they have no space for anything else.” I thought a while about if i could afford to keep a rabbit and in the end i just thought i had to get the poor thing out of the tiny cage, if it then turned out i wasn’t able to look after her i would find her a good home that could. So i paied for her and told the shop staff i would be back about 4.30 to pick her up so she didnt have to stay in a(n even smaller) box for too long. I walked around the market a bit but that doesn’t take long so soon enough i was sat outside the pet shop just waiting. After a while though, the keeper came out to me and explained that the breeder had called and was worried about the rabbit, they weren’t well and wouldn’t be sold to anyone, the breeder was coming in to take them back and bringing two healthy ones with her. I said i would have a look at them and decide if i still wanted one (i was thinking that if they were the same sex they would both go in the larger cage so i would leave them, but different sexs i would take the female (so the temperment is more likely to be suitable with the guinea pigs). It turned out it was a boy and a girl, both completly black, netherland dwarf / lionhead crosses. They were beautiful, but i could only take one and the girl was kept aside for me. It wasnt too long from then until i had to get my sister so i got the rabbit box and walked back to the car. Securing the box in the front seat i drove to the car park by my sisters work and got out the bunny to hold while i waited.
She was late coming out, and in that time i saw an old science teacher come and go from the car park and even had someone mistake the rabbit for a puppy, but they still thought she was very cute. Finally my sister came out, but once she saw the rabbit she asked a bit about it then asked to take it in to her office to show some people how cute she was. Few minutes later she was back in the car and we headed home.
I think the rabbit softened the blow of the metal in my head, there were fewer comments on that than the new fluff ball. She settled in very well to her new home and is getting along great with Shammy and Connie.
So, here is the latest member of my furry family, Franc the rabbit:
And to explain the name, like with pork products for hamsters and cosmetics for guinea pigs, rabbits are named after money as males are bucks and females are does. Don’t worry, the logic works for me!
June 29, 2007, 7:40 am : Work, Work, Work
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Another blog! However will i cope with it all.
Oh well, another day at my art group ahead, better get dressed.
June 13, 2007, 9:44 pm : State Of Panic - Updated
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Well i’ve spent my day updating my art site, check out the news page to see what’s been added. I will be adding some more soon, just have to find it all and sort it out.
June 5, 2007, 11:15 pm : I’m so cool
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Just let me adjust my extra thick glasses before i begin
With my sleeping pattern yet again out of place i decided to go into town yesterday in an attempt to keep myself awake until it was a decent time to go to bed. That didn’t work at all but i did get a chance to do so shopping right when the shops were opening so there were fewer people about. There’s a shop in town called Blue Banana, not sure if it’s a chain or not, it’s one of those “be individual by buying the same as everyone else” stores. It goes for the goth market, or at least the stick thin goth market, but they also sell those little 1 inch button badges i like. I went in to buy a few more as i’d lost one and no longer had a even number on my bag, which of course i couldn’t have. There was a body piercing sign above the till and after paying for my new badges asked what the cost would be to get my eyebrow done. It was £27 and for once i could afford it. So, the girl behind the counter asked which colour and size bar i wanted, put it in to be sterillised and had me fill out the “i’m doing this willingly” form. Unfortunatly i’m honest, and put that i had a heart condition, they questioned me on it and told me to get a doctors note and any antibiotics i need to help me heal, so i have to wait a while but at least i can get it done. The odd thing is when i first had it done in London last year, i told them about my heart and they were fine with it, did it no problem, and it healed well after, it did fall out but that was my fault.Hopefully i can sort the note soon and get my cool purple bar in by next week Oh, and i thought i would put up a pic of the bag, the newest ones are the purple and two on the top, i must buy more.
The small version isn’t very clear, so click it to get the full 1984×2454 image.
May 8, 2007, 2:02 pm : Things that get on my nerves
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I will probably add to this in time, i get annoyed a lot but i’m far too lazy (and far too forgetful) to hold grudges.
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 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.
March 3, 2007, 4:40 am : hello
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Well, i guess i need to actually post. Maybe i should explain myself, i havn’t got a clue what i’m doing, i don’t know what i’m going to talk about but i’m giving it a go. Perhaps i’ll just talk about whatever comes to mind, and not actually have a defind subject, lets just see what happens.
I should at least warn people what to expect from me, i’ve never been great at English, so you wont be seeing great sentance structure, or even good grammer from me any time soon. I’m not yet sure how often i’ll be able to post, not due to lack of time, it’s more of a lack of ideas, not much happens to me, i really am very dull.
Now, i guess this brings to an end my few hours of trying to work out WordPress and finally working out my blog. So this is it.
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