December 4, 2007, 9:03 am : I’m back!

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I’ve been a little put off coming here recently because i didn’t want to deal with all the spam I had waiting for me. However when I get home today I will sort something to lower the spam levels (I had 313 waiting for me this time!) and will update on all recent goings on.
For now though, I will leave a hint for later below;

November 6, 2007, 8:03 am : 21 spam!

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Ok, I haven’t been about very much recently (will explain why later) but in the last few days the spammers have been hitting this post. I don’t know why, it does make me glad I have the comments set to needing approvle. I don’t see the point of spam, does it actually make someone money? Or is it just some guy with nothing better to do?

Oh well, doubt I could stop the worlds spam, I’ll just have to be annoyed.

July 19, 2007, 11:22 pm : Home and rested at last

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From last Friday, until yesterday, I was yet again in London with my best friend, Robin. Of course I’ve barely had 2 minutes to myself when I’ve been awake enough and relaxed enough to settle back in. My week away was both fun and stressful. Robin and I met up with a few other friends on the Saturday. We pick them up from various stations and eventually had a few drinks in a pub just outside St. James park. Robin and I left early to take two others to their train home from Paddington. We then slept for most of Sunday. Monday we met with a few less of the same friends, we went all the way to Essex to meet up and then back in to London to pick up two of their suitcases. We had a couple more drinks before heading our own ways. We were supposed to meet up again on Tuesday before the last people went home but were both too tired to go out so spent another day resting.
The whole week was stinking hot (and I really mean stinking). The tube is not very fun in heat, and neither was the train ride home. Of course once the train got into Devon I started to notice the big black cloud following us.
My sister picked me up from the station and we chatted about the week, what we’d each been doing, how the pets were etc. At this point I was smelly and tired and just wanted a shower and a nap, but upon getting home I was told the boiler was broken, so no shower, and the mess in my room the rabbit left was so bad I couldn’t rest until I had cleaned it. I then had to unpack and take my washing downstairs (I generally leave unpacking for a few weeks but the case was bigger than normal and couldn’t just be stored). And after all that, when I could finally lie down, which is when my second wind kicked in, I was still exhausted, but just couldn’t settle to sleep. I tried to play a game with Robin but it wouldn’t connect, so we chatted on Skype for a bit until I could finally sleep.

As for today, I was meant to have an appointment with my social worker, but I didn’t get up soon enough to drive my sister to work so I could have the car for the day. So I missed that and had to rearrange for next month. I slept most of the day and as soon as I got up I had to sort out the cages and my room. I of course, being me, forgot I needed to go out for more sawdust and had the guinea and rabbit out of the cage and bagged all the old bedding before I remembered. I had to make a quick run to Tesco for an over priced bag and rush back again to finish cleaning out. Once I was done with the cages, I had to vacuum the floor, which is something I’ve done more regularly since bringing Franc home (straw gets everywhere while she’s out of the cage).

After all that I was able to have a nice hot shower and get rid of that horrible sticky feeling from the hot days.

So finally I am done, I can rest in my own clean room where I feel comfortable. Of course, I do wish I could still be at my friends house, his company is better than any.

June 30, 2007, 6:54 pm : Doctor Who Finale

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It starts in 15 minutes. I hope its a good one, i’ve been so built up about it all week. Unfortunatly because of the weather my TV signal keeps going, with my luck it will cut out for all the key moments and i won’t have a clue what’s happening. Oh well, at least i’ll get to see the ever so sexy David Tennant and John Barrowman.

June 7, 2007, 3:40 am : On the Floor

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I steped on a little bit of plastic and it stuck to my foot, so i picked it up and it was a tab you have to pull out before the batteries of a “batteries included” item will work. I have no clue what it came from, but i guess it can’t be too bad seeing as obviously i did remove it.

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.

March 3, 2007, 5:58 am : Oranges

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I decided to have some oranges for a snack, it’s late, or early depending on how you look at it, but i was a bit hungry so went downstairs to get something, decided i’d be healthy so raided the fruit bowl. Got back upstairs and started peeling, the skin was very tight to the orange and difficult to get off, i think this is a good thing as when they do this they taste better than when they don’t, maybe it has something to do with ripeness. I don’t mind that, it’s ok if it takes a little longer to get to the fruit if the result tastes better, but what i don’t like is the yellow/orange mark on my index finger from the liquid bit of the skin, it smells like orange and makes my skin feel funny, i would wash it off right away but as i have another orange to peel id just be having to wash again after that. So i’m just sat here with a finger that looks like i’ve smoked all my life, waiting until i feel like peeling my next orange so my hand doesn’t have to feel scaley any more.

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I’ve just made a post about oranges havn’t i lol.