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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People who take half an hour just for a yes or no question

Drivers who don’t indicate when changing lanes

The issue i have with oranges

Drivers who over take even though i’m doing the speed limit

Any spam

People who fight for the sake of fighting

Shops closing early on bank holidays

Over the top bank charges

Odd numbers, i don’t know what it is i just don’t like them

People who say “tinternet”

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.

May 4, 2007, 12:07 pm : The Guild Hall

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A little while ago i was in Plymouth with my camera. In the centre of the city is the Guild hall, i don’t know much of the building’s history but it has some amazing statues outside it. A lot of the time if art is left outside these days it’ll get vandalised, as will buildings, esspecially in city centres, but the Plymouth Guild hall seems to avoid this, it’s respected. Most of the statues are built too high to be damaged by passers by, but i’ve never seen any graffiti. There is one staute on ground level, whenever i walk past i see flowers placed in the leaves of the palm she is holding, and in her hands. I assume its a statue of Mary, she wears a crown and has a dove in one hand.

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.

March 22, 2007, 7:26 pm : A Deadly Threat

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….but so increadibly cute. Couldn’t you just hug this guy until your head explodes? which of course wouldn’t take very long.

*head explodes*

Oh, i had an after thought, i did mean the bear, not the presenter, just to clarify.

March 17, 2007, 4:02 am : New Hamster

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I know it hasn’t been long since i lost Scratch but i’ve been lonely without her and decided to get a new one today, well yesterday seeing as it’s 2am now. My sister and i went to the pet shop, my sister having been the day before and had chosen her favourite, when we got there they were all happily sleeping in a big pile at the back of the cage, with one occasionally waking up to walk over its sisters to sleep at the back of the pile. Soon enough though they started to wake up, hamster yawns are fantasticly cute by the way. There were two we liked the look of, the one my sister had picked out yesterday, which had white and cream fur and an all black one. We watched them for a while to see how they acted, if they looked friendly and so on, finally we decided on the black one, she seemed very sweet. The shop assistant fished her out of the tank and put her in a carrying box, which for some reason advertised bird food, she advised us on which wheel was best to buy, the one i had Scratch never liked, it didn’t look too comfortable.

We got her home, i’d already made up the cage so she was ready to go, i opened the box and put it in the cage, she wouldn’t leave it on her own so i tipped it up and she slid out. I didn’t pick her up as she had already been through a lot, she was obviously scared and the first thing she did was run and hide under the hay in a corner. She calmed a little after a while and i was able to stroke her a little but still didn’t pick her up. I left her to it and she explored her new home, she seems to like hiding behind her wheel, i was please to see her discover her food bowl and water bottle, i always worry a new hamster wont find them. She’s had a lot of fun running on the wheel, everytime i see her she runs and runs then a paw slips off the side so she stumbles, so she has to start over and then she just does the same over and over, it’s so funny and cute.

Of course being me, i had to name her after a pork product, so this little girl is Honey Roast Ham(ster).

March 16, 2007, 1:31 am : London

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Well i went to see my best friend for a few days, he lives in London which on the quickest trains (that run my way) is about 3 hours. I had a great time as i always do with him, even though i constantly feel like im a total burden to him and get on his nerves all the time. I’ve known him a little over 2 years and am just about starting to feel less of those worries around him, i’m comfortable with him, which is rare for me with anyone let alone a man.

We mostly spent our time on his computer Stumbling about the web or asleep, i had the second kebab of my life, this time with the chili sauce, was very nice, if also very fattening. There really isn’t much to say, neither of us are the kind of people who go out to clubs, we’re happy just sitting about, and all the better if there’s someone to sit about with.

But of cousre i had to leave sooner or later, would have prefered later but then i really would be a burden. I came home today, arrived a few hours ago and the first thing i did was spend half an hour on the phone to the very man i had left a few hours before. Right now my back and feet are hurting a lot and i’m very tired, so i better be off to bed.