Matthew has finally realised I have a blog and that he can read it if he likes. I have a feeling he'll be stalking my entries. HEY MATT :D

Tomorrow's final christmas shopping day. Pretty much I just need a present for Matt's dad and a ton of wrapping paper. I have NO IDEA what to get Paul. I'm really stressing about it! I have nice things for Bev and Lucy but Paul's had me puzzling for weeks. :( It's Matthew's day off though so I'm hoping he'll help, fingers crossed. I might pick up some odds and ends for some friends, though I reeeeally haven't done the Christmas thing outside of family and Matthew. Everyone's poor at this time of year. I'm not expecting any presents really :P Also my friends are so damn hard to buy for - I set the bar too high last year by getting Alex that Miffy toy; I'll never beat that.

Was at a party last night and had a lovely time despite just about everyone being on drugs except me. The alcohol numbed my caring about it though so it was okay. I didn't realise how smoky that room was until this morning when Matthew mentioned it ("heinous" was his word of choice) and I smelled my dress - ugh. somehow my bra reeks of smoke too. ("cos your tits are smoking hot!" said mattyhall. hahaha) Well i had a great time nevertheless and it was brilliant to see people like Lollop, ollie, aids, matt etc etc who I haven't seen since the summer. good times!

turning 21 soon. what are we doing to celebrate?!

Collection 2000 Poptastic, Victoria Jackson and Yo! Sushi

So, the Poptastic palette followup I promised - yeah, it's actually pretty good! I have oily lids so it's hard to get eyeshadow to stick without a primer, but this stuff doesn't crease or fade unevenly, and still looks good after several hours. Says on the box it lasts up to 8 hours which is a lie, but it comes close enough. I like it a lot :)

So yesterday I got my hands on (read: Matthew bought me) some Victoria Jackson cosmetics. Allegedly I got stuff worth £210 for £30. I'd never heard of the stuff before so I looked it up online and found the website that is indeed offering the stuff I got at ridiculously high prices. There were also a lot of people shouting scam from the rooftops, and a lot of people on the fence. I don't think it's a scam, per se - they're probably just worth nowhere near £200.

I got a "survival kit" which has ten eyeshadows, five lip colours, a mascara, an eyeliner, a lip liner, two blushes and a set of mini brushes all in a little container. Also a colour collection in "peach" - two larger blushes, five larger neutral eye colours, and five lip colours which are actually quite good. I wore a brown eye shadow today and it's nice - feels smooth and silky and has lasted since ~10AM, so six hours so far. The lip colours are good too, I hate lipgloss and balm so I didn't think I'd like these, but they're more like lipstick. Not much staying power though. The blushes are far too bright for me.

I also got a bronze shimmer powder brush which I won't use... I get glitter on my face anyway from my eyeshadows, I don't need more!

The best part, mind you, is the brushes. I got one of each - powder, foundation, eyeshadow, eyeliner, lip liner, and eyebrow - and they're lovely. The foundation brush especially is amazingly soft and feels great. I've been needing a new soft eyeshadow brush and this one is just lovely. They're apparently made from all-natural fibres and will last forever so I'm pretty chuffed. Thankyou so much Matthew!

Yo! Sushi trip report: yummers.

I had five slices of tuna sashimi, two salmon skin rolls, two mini salmon rolls, two mini smoked salmon and wasabi rolls, two mini tuna rolls, some miso soup and for dessert some daifuku. Despite hating fish Matthew found stuff he liked - mostly chickeny stuff including some amazing teriyaki chicken that I wanted for myself. He had a chocolate mousse thing for dessert which was yum. It was a really awesome meal, I love sushi and can't get it very often so it's lovely to have a place like that so close. :)

Benefit mini makeover

I got accosted by a Benefit lady today while I was hunting for the Urban Decay counter. She offered to try some products on me and since I've heard pretty good things about Benefit, I agreed and sat down. Considering I'd put in minimal effort and was just wearing eyeliner and mascara and a bit of tinted moisturiser, I probably looked like a prime candidate for a makeover.

She started with that gal, a primer that can also be worn on its own, then put on some kind'a gorgeous which is apparently a foundation that works for every skin tone and adapts itself. It looked a bit cakey, but she put a lot on and I don't usually wear foundation this heavy. It does match my skin tone though which is an achievement in itself; I have very light warm-toned skin which is pretty difficult to match with drugstore brands.

She then put boi-oing concealer under my eyes; I think she used the wrong shade, because it was waaaay too light and looked a bit silly.

The eyeshadows she used were powders called snow bunny (white) and punk royalty (purple). All well and good, except she didn't use any primer on my lids! I have very oily eyelids and if I don't use a primer eyeshadow slides right off. This should have been pretty obvious. She didn't blend the two colours so really I wanted to go home and fiddle with blending, but of course by the time I got back most of it had slid right off. Boooo. :(

Finally (I thought) she put on bad gal mascara in brown. I actually loved this. True to its word it didn't clump at all and my eyelashes look awesome. Definitely something I'm gonna consider buying.

"You have lovely long lashes," she said.
"Owch," I replied, as she'd just poked me in the eye.

She told me what she'd used and I said thanks, she gave me a little catalogue thing and I said I'd probably be back. Then she decided it just wasn't finished without a bit of lipgloss. Now I hate lipgloss - I've never found one that's not sticky and gross feeling. Give me lipstick any day. I was willing to give this one a try though, and sadly it lived up to expectations - ugh. Not only sticky and gross, but lumpy too! I could feel every little bit of glitter. I can still feel it now! Not impressed at all.

Still, overall it's okay. I'd definitely buy the mascara, and probably the foundation and primer too. I've heard awesome things about boi-oing so I was a little disappointed with it - I might go back soon and try a different shade.



Now that's out of the way, I also picked up collection 2000's new poptastic palette, which has nine really cool colours. I might do a review when I've tried them all, but first impressions are that I absolutely love one of the greens, it's beautiful, and I now own not only one but two yellow eyeshadows. Time to have fun experimenting.

Tata.

billy talent

From I:

This Is How It Goes
Try Honesty
The Ex
Line and Sinker
River Below

From II:

Devil in a Midnight Mass
Red Flag (encore)
This Suffering
Fallen Leaves (encore)
Surrender

From III:

Devil on my Shoulder
Rusted from the Rain
Saint Veronika
The Dead Can't Testify
Diamond on a Landmine
Turn Your Back

:D


ben is hilarious and very much hates his ex. he also tries very hard to convince everyone he's straight, but i find that hard to believe. he's adorable bless him. he had swine flu! ian is a badass, his hair defies belief. jon lost weight and actually got kinda cute. aaron is still one of my heroes. they all seemed to have a really fun time and were definitely very into it, not going through the motions at all.

i got an awesome shirt.

i'm very happy.

Review: Primark "Saint or Sinner" makeup palette

Primark makeup. I KNOW, RIGHT?!

So I accidentally left my favourite Urban Decay palette at home and needed a few simple colours to tide me over until I got it back. I didn't even know Primark did makeup until I popped in there for Halloween costume stuff; I came out with the £2 Saint or Sinner palette and a 50p "blend and stretch" eyeshadow in black. Well, I'm only out £2.50.

The black eyeshadow definitely exceeded my expectations. It goes on very smoothly, light grey with the first application, then if you go over it it gets darker. I have much nicer black eyeshadows if I really ever feel the need to go goth, but as a eyeshadow base it works really well. It made a couple of my loose pigments really stand out.

Now, the palette. It's got a generous 10 colours:

Glacier, a sparkly white
Lavender, a VERY pale pink, also sparkly
Denim, a very very glittery silver-blue
Blossom, a coral pink with a little sparkle
Paradise, a shimmery green
Fudge, a sparkly copper
Midnight, a very dark navy with a little sparkle
Regal, a lovely sparkly purple
Liquorice, a matte dark grey
Galaxy, another slightly lighter grey with a few glittery bits.

Lavender and Blossom aren't up to much - Lavender is too pale and Blossom is just a hard colour to work with. Liquorice is boring. Glacier is OK for highlights and Fudge is an OK neutral or base colour, though I wouldn't wear it alone. Paradise is pretty nice, I guess. Galaxy is good enough but pales next to Denim.

Ahh, Denim. I actually love it. It looks fantastic just dabbed in the corner of your eye as a highlight. It's extremely glittery and shimmery and is a very versatile colour. I haven't tried yet, but I bet you could wet it and get a nice eyeliner out of it.

Midnight - this is equivalent to Urban Decay's Goddess shade, and to be perfectly honest I prefer it! Goddess looks beautiful in the pot but goes on very roughly and the glitter gets everywhere. It also doesn't look nearly as blue on eyes as it does in the pot. Midnight, on the other hand, delivers. It goes on smoothly and has much, much less glitter, so you don't end up with sparkly undereyes. It's a very very nice colour.

But my favourite by far is Regal. I can't describe this purple adequately - it's lighter than any purple eyeshadows I've seen before, and looks amazing. I like to pair it with Midnight and Denim.

Staying power isn't amazing, but throw on a little primer (I use Urban Decay's primer potion, works wonders) and it'll stick all day and probably most of the night too.

Not bad for less than £3.

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

I've been involved in a love affair with the Darren Shan saga since I was about 13. My mum took me to see a family friend and her sons; one of the sons thrust a book in my face and asked "have you read this?" It was a slim black book with "Cirque du Freak" in old-style circus writing emblazoned across the cover; from the first page I was hooked. I devoured all twelve books as they came out and though the finale was a disappointment, I still knew it was love. Even today I regularly pick them up and blaze through them.

They were practically made to be turned into a movie - dark, exciting, full of twists and turns and short enough that several books could be one movie. So when I heard that a Cirque du Freak movie was in production, I was unbearably excited. I followed the development religiously, and as details emerged I became increasingly concerned. Set in America instead of Ireland? John C Reilly as my one true fictional love, Mr Crepsley? Still, he looks okay, and Americanisation can't screw it up too badly. And it's got Willem Dafoe as Gavner, I'm sure he'll be good. And even though Debbie has been replaced by the mysterious Rebecca, it's got Murlough. He's pretty much as easy a character as you can get. Tunnels of Blood is one of my favourite of the twelve. They can't mess it up, it's impossible.

So I saw it today.

And I'm fuming.

They couldn't have made it worse if they tried.
First off, it was a complete deviation from the storyline. Now I can understand skipping most of the dull Vampire's Assistant part; we don't want to see Darren moping about drinking blood for an hour. Sam Grest was never an important character. R.V. was though, and he was entirely absent.

But Tunnels of Blood. The tunnels were absent, as was the blood - many stab wounds, but no blood. The whole thing took place in the Cirque and in the old theatre. Murlough was neutered, and also called Murlaugh for some reason - he was barely insane, and certainly wasn't a threat in the same way he was in the book. Yes, the showdowns with Crepsley were flashy and extravagant, but they sure as hell weren't exciting.

The Cirque itself was a bit of a mishmash: Cormac is now a woman. Mr Tall is Ken Watanabe. I hope they plan to make Evanna Asian too. It looked the part, but sure as hell wasn't right.

The writers committed the worst sin: they told, instead of showed. We don't need to hear a voiceover saying "I am obsessed with spiders. Steve is obsessed with vampires." Just show us that! Clumsy.

Speaking of Steve, his character was neutered and blooded. Instead of slowly becoming a twisted, revenge-obsessed wreck of a vampire hunter, he was turned into a vampaneze straight away, complete with purple eyes (why?). Darren, meanwhile, was fairly faithful - the narrator in the books was never the most interesting character, and that was pretty evident here. I don't have a problem with Darren's portrayal, though I fail to understand why it was necessary to bring him back to his family (then promptly make them forget it ever happened).

The actual conflict for Tunnels - the kidnapping of Evra and Debbie - was unnecessarily changed. Evra wasn't involved, leading me to wonder why, exactly, they bothered with his character. Debbie was replaced by love interest Rebecca, who was painfully irritating - not that Debbie was much better of course, but at least she didn't make monkey noises.

Back to Evra: this guy was the only thing I was entirely happy with. His characterisation was perfect and Patrick Fugit really looked the part. Once again though I don't understand why they put so much effort into making Evra good only to give him a much smaller part than he deserves.

I will admit that I was shocked at how much I enjoyed John C Reilly as Crepsley. While he doesn't actually look the part, he did a good job of giving Mr Crepsley the cynical, sardonic edge that was everpresent in the novels. By the end he really had made me believe in his portrayal. He was never going to be my image of Larten, but he did a good job with what he had to work with.

His scar was okay, though three of them (in a style far too reminiscent of the vampaneze mark) rather than one, and it was implied that Murlough had caused them rather than Evanna. Uncool.

By far one of the low points was Gavner. Now, I like Willem Dafoe. I thought he could be quite good. Gavner Purl is a grizzled, scarred Vampire General; however, in this movie he was a skinny clown-man with a paedo moustache and bright red lipstick. Wonderful. The vampires will just let any old fool into their inner circle, apparently.

And now for the worst sin of all: Mr Tiny. Now, Mr Tiny is explicitly described in the book, unlike so many other characters: a small, chubby man with glasses, grey hair and yellow welly boots. Not a giant fat bald bullfrog of a man. And definitely not a direct meddler, but a manipulator. Movie Tiny had a much more active role; he was no longer just an observer. He directly worked to make events happen his way, recruiting Steve into the vampaneze and trying to recruit Darren. No, having Mr Crepsley saying "you've favoured the vampaneze for a century" is not a good way to show that Mr Tiny is biased. By his very nature, he's unbiased. He simply wants destruction and war. He doesn't care who wins. His motivations in this film were completely skewed.

Darren Shan clearly put a lot of thought into his series, and it's clear he had very little input on what was done with his characters. It had a lot of potential, now wasted. I'll be very surprised if the next three get filmed. It's a shame, but if this movie is anything to go on, probably for the best.

:(

I'm really not good at this blogging malarkey

So I'm back in Nottingham now, and it's about a million times better than last year. Instead of crappy, falling apart, noisy halls, I live in a lovely clean quiet flat. The only thing I miss about Pevs is Adam and Gina. Never thought I'd miss those two-hour one-sided conversations about cricket, but there you go. (love you adam)

Honestly I'm much happier than I thought I'd be. I figured I'd be super homesick, but so far I'm okay. I miss my family but after the summer it's nice to be away from them. Most of my friends at home seemed to lose interest in seeing me (not looking at anyone in particular, oliver) so I can't say I miss them too much. I'm sure I'll see Matt soon and we'll go party. Maybe try and get Aids as well. (hahahaha) I miss Jess but I only saw her a few times this summer too. Wish I'd got to see Yallop before I left though :(

So really the only bit of Norwich I really, really miss is Matthew.
:(
I can't wait to see him on Friday. It's my grandparents' golden wedding so I have to go home for it, but not complaining - two big posh meals, a boat trip, and three nights at home with my boyfriend? Sounds like a plan to me.
It's just a bit weird being without him, after having spent pretty much the whole summer with him living in my room!
We'll cope, I know we will, it'll just take some adapting.

I went to City last night for the first time in months and it was such a fun night, I don't think I've had so much fun since the first time I went. I don't even know what made it so much better than other times. I was in a bloody good mood for some reason and only got sad when I got a little freaked out by a friend of a friend of a friend whose name I don't even know and went to sit in the basement to hide hahaha.
But yeah, fun times!

Uni starts again on tuesday and I get another year of Vicky. JOY. Looking forward to Psych with Ben though, that'll be fun as usual hehe :D

so yeah, overall (minus the matthew bit) I'm glad to be back here. Should hopefully be a fun year. :)

Haha holy crap

This was meant to be a semi-regular thing and now I've gone pretty much two weeks without a post. I guess it just shows how dull my life is right now.

Work: I did five hours this month. Five. Wonderful.

Uni: Going to Notts on Monday to sign my contract at bloody last. Still need to find £200 odd for my deposit, that'll come out of the old overdraft for sure. Looking forward to the move-in, it'll be nice to live in a tidy uncluttered place for once in my life.

Matthew: Lovely as always. We're coming up to seven months now; best seven months ever, srsly. Not seeing him til Weds though due to him going home and my aforementioned Nottingham trip. Booooo.

Today: Went to the shop with my dad and bought Waterloo Road series 2 for £6. Bargain. Nothing on the telly and don't feel like watching another episode so may well bring out CSI or Peep Show, which incidentally is starting up again in one week's time. Yeah this time in six days I will be halfway through a new episode of my favourite Brit comedy. :D

Speaking of Brit comedies Matt introduced me to the IT Crowd which I found hilarious, we watched two series in two days and now I need to find a S3 DVD somewhere.

I have been playing the shit out of Final Fantasy VII again; my first videogame love. Three days and I'm at the start of disc 2 and 17 hours in. Wahey. Can't stop playing but at this rate I'll have it beaten by Thursday. Might have to bust out VIII after all.

If anyone wants to hang out any time soon let me know, I'm totally bored and need stuff to do. Entertain me!

Chuh. This is becoming a less and less regular thing. :(

Went to work today! All together now: Yay! Work!

Actually it was OK. I got to play with some really cute kids. Rules state that I can't name 'em even though the odds of anyone from work finding this are next to none, but child protection is pretty serious stuff. I especially loved chilling out with M and S (har har); did not love carrying a screaming wriggling T out of the room so we could all go wash our hands for lunch. Two year olds, pssht. Working again on Thursday but that's it for this week.

Now relaxing on my bed with a cup of tea and a Double Decker for later. Mmmmmm.

Doctor's tomorrow for an asthma check and AT LAST a new prescription for meds. YESSSS sweet sweet salmeterol. <3

Then Leo's party on Friday which I'm REALLY looking forward to, it'll be awesome to hang out with a lot of people I don't really see much of any more.

Then Saturday I believe Matt is having a thing at his, hopefully I'll be going to that with Matthew but maybe not with Matthew depending on the hangover. I don't suppose he'd mind being left at home, he has WoW to keep him busy, though he'd be too shy to go downstairs alone to get a drink or food or... anything. I'd much rather have him come to the gathering but we shall see.

Sunday I don't think anything much is happening. Matthew'll be working and I guess I'll just hang out. Monday will be the same then - HORROR - dentist's on tuesday for a probable root canal OH GOD SAVE ME

I've noticed a disturbing trend lately.

Having spent a few days in the city lately, I've been taking note of cool outfits on other people for inspiration, and I've noticed something horrible.

Leggings as trousers.

The trend appears to be centred as part of the "uni chic" style - messy bleached hair, ballet flats. Usually this style features tracksuit pants and a baggy hoody, or a spaghetti strap top in the hot weather, but now it appears to have mutated into a long-ish t-shirt or, more commonly, a long shirt, with or without a belt, and leggings.

Or even worse, jeggings. (Leggings designed to look like skin-tight jeans.)


Newsflash ladies: NO ONE WANTS TO SEE YOUR BUTT... OR EVEN WORSE, YOUR CAMEL TOE.


Please stop this right away. Just wear a skirt or jeans, how tricky is that? Did you forget to put your skirt on this morning? I hate you.

Sorry for not blogging yesterday, I was with Matthew all day and didn't find the time. He's at work now and I'm just hanging out waiting for him to get back.

I went to the dentist this morning - so I probably need a root canal, and they're gonna take off my veneers and get rid of the tooth and give me nice shiny new crowns. Hmph. Would rather not thanks. £200 I don't have. Hopefully Mum will cover it. On the plus side, perhaps the crowns will look better than what I have now. And it'll be a relief to be able to eat on the right side without PAIN.


I'm loving Reuben's compilation, which arrived yesterday :D It's beautiful. I love the vinyl, it's signed and makes me happy. I'm seriously considering getting it framed. Well worth the £25, for sure.


I'm planning on applying for a driving licence very soon. I need real ID. :(


I don't really have anything else to say today :s booooring. tata.

Sunday

Sundays are pretty boring, there's never anything on TV during the day, so I've spent the afternoon (morning was sleep time) browsing SA and Facebook. Now I'm watching Friends and waiting for my tea. Epic, huh?

CSI Sunday tonight; five back-to-back episodes, though I've seen one. Sweeeeeet.

Matthew'll hopefully be here later on, depending on his train and stuff. He should be getting into Norwich any time now but he's going home first to get some stuff, since he's staying here most of next week probably.

I might have to work tomorrow but hopefully not. Matthew has a day off so I'm hoping to spend it with him, go into the city and stuff, will be fun as long as I don't get called in. Fingers crossed! Probably jinxed it now...

I have nothing much to say, just wanted to fill my requisite blog quota for today.

Oh, and no Reuben compilation but Joe has his so hopefully mine'll arrive tomorrow. And I need proof of ID for my phone contract but they want a license or a passport and I have neither. Bummer. Waiting to hear back.

Tata.

Man, I was so excited to log on and see I had a follower. Seriously. Hey Sarah!

So today has been average. I slept a lot, hung out with my brothers a bit, read the Daily Mail (worthless piece of crap), watched a lot of rubbish TV. X-Factor was a highlight. It's worse than ever. With the time they spend showing crowd shots they could've fit another ten auditions in there.

I'm watching CSI currently - only one episode on tonight, how lame. It is Las Vegas which is my favourite, so bonus. Everyone who's spoken to me lately knows by now that I'm on a huge CSI kick, so sorry if I bore you with it. I have no one to discuss it with; Matthew only watches it reluctantly when he's here and I insist.

Speaking of the boy, he's currently in London watching NFG, so I don't get to see him til tomorrow; I hope he's having a good time, but I'm certain he is. What is it, his ninth time seeing that band? And you think I'm obsessive about Reuben. Hehe. I miss Matt a lot though it's nice to have a bit of alone time and also I like being able to spread out and hog the duvet. Lovely.

I went to buy phone credit today and popped into the charity shop; came out with a pristine (!) copy of the Fellowship of the Ring, lovely, and a half-read (you can tell by how much the spine has broken, this one's broken up to around halfway through) copy of the Da Vinci Code - awful book, relying on cliffhangers to keep the audience interested, but after reading Angels and Demons lately I've wanted to re-read the sequel to see if it could possibly be worse. The guy behind the counter was loving it though, we had a nice chat - it's lovely when shop workers aren't zombies.

Now my new contract phone is on order - I'm a little nervous but it's purple and quite lovely :) so hopefully that'll all work out and I won't break it three months in or anything silly like that.

Back to Grissom and Nick. Tata.

Music is amazing.

I'm currently reacquainting myself with old favourites such as Fall Out Boy, From First to Last and Billy Talent, reminding myself of old times.

There's seriously nothing like listening to a song for the first time in ages and getting a rush of memory.

Fall Out Boy reminds me of the hours spent on MSN discussing the merits of each song and debating the video for Saturday with Joe; at one point he called me while I was at dinner with my grandparents just to tell me he'd spotted a vital clue in said video. Even years later Saturday is my favourite music video of all time.

Above all From First to Last remind me of high school and the time I spent on INO with amazing people like Erin, Amber, Nat, Chrissy, Leena, Sarah, Sock, the aforementioned Joe, Sam... I'm still in sporadic contact with some of these "internet friends"; I talk to Joe on Steam all the time and I have Sarah and Sam on facebook. Joe is the only one of these people I've met. Does that mean they're not real friends? I guess. They aren't my real life friends. I don't hang out with them. I rarely talk to many of them. But they're still my friends. Certainly in a class of their own in my mind, not in the same category as friends I can hang out with - but I still feel I know them.

Billy Talent have been a favourite for ages even if I rarely listen to them now; they remind me, oddly, of Ami and hanging out with kids younger than me while I was in sixth form. I saw them live with Ami and Nicola. That was three years ago now and still one of the best days ever.


I don't know if I want to listen to MCR, but I'm sure it's a natural graduation and I'll be reminded again of that MCR fansite I spent about a year on, from the moment it opened until our little group disbanded and everyone moved on.

Hey, I miss you guys. If you're reading, say hi.



Meanwhile I spend a lot of time these days listening to Lady Gaga, Emmy the Great and REM. Life goes on.

Daytime TV

Yesterday I moaned that it was too hot, and now it's cold and tipping it down. Can't it be cold but sunny? That'd be nice. At least I'm not sweating in t-shirt and shorts; wearing jeans and my feet are chilly :)

I'm having a day in once again having turned down the offer to work for three hours... what's the point? All the kids will be asleep and they'll have me cleaning the toilets.

I'm enjoying a bit of Jeremy Kyle... can't beat it. Thinking about busting out my new CSI DVD but not really feeling it right now. I have two episodes on Five USA to watch tonight and only the BB eviction to disrupt them - I'll be switching over at 10:35 just to see who gets kicked out but we all know it's going to be Bea. Then again I said that last week with "we all know it's gonna be Marcus" but look what happened there. To be honest I think I've watched one episode this week. It's just not fun without Freddie.

Just saw an ad for the new X-factor series which has got me looking forward to it. That'll be fun; I like the audition process, though usually I don't watch it after the first few weeks unless there's someone I really like.

Back to the rest of today - it's nice to just be able to chill but I miss Matthew; he's off to London tomorrow to see New Found Glory which I'm sure he will love. He's awesome enough to not complain when I insist on watching three or four episodes of CSI in a row, though he does usually use that time for Warcraft or Monster Hunter :) We all have our vices I guess and CSI is definitely mine at the moment. I just can't resist overstylised crime drama. Right now it's the only show I can't bear to miss; Casualty is another but obviously that's not on at the moment.

Quick congratulatory shout out for all the a-level results, even if you didn't get what you want you still deserve applause :) I remember my a-levels were pretty stressful though I still miss NDHS. I mean, nothing can beat two hours of Classics with Mr Everett. Many things can beat Dylan Thomas as read by Mr Mills, but I still miss it for some reason. I wonder if I'll ever go back there. When I do it'll all have changed - I mean it's already changed; Mr Mills is gone, Mr Snell has moved to Diss or somewhere, and the kids who are still there that I used to hang out with have forgotten I existed, allegiances have changed and switched and even if I did go back I wouldn't fit in. I should look forward not back, think of my uni friends and the friends I still have from the last few years, but the past was a lot of fun.

I recently took my tunnels out - my ears had reached a record high of 8mm, and I was a little bored and sick of worrying about them smelling bad. And they made it tricky to lie on Matthew sometimes since the metal one would dig itself into the skin behind my ear, ouchie. Now I feel a little empty and in need of something new; may treat myself to a new piercing when I get paid. Something fun in my ear since I'm not allowed anything else while I live at home. Still thinking about my next tattoo; I know I quite want a pair of nautical swallows, but where? I'm thinking one on each side, above where my Reuben birds are, so next to my boobs basically. Would mean no bra for a few weeks but that's not exactly a big deal given that fat boys have bigger tits than me.

This was a nice long ramble and I may write again later; it might replace my regular FB updates and tweets (www.twitter.com/jayalay).

I enjoy blogging.

That's right, I like writing about my everyday mundanities, and I don't even know if that's spelled right, which is a first for me. It looks right.

I've made some forays into the blogosphere before; one lasted a year or so and is public and still around... oh go on then: http://freixra.livejournal.com/ Okay? Please make note of the dates. I was very young. Now that's out of the way, this can be my serious writing tool for keeping my friends informed of my activities. Hooray!

I'd like to make this MY VERY OWN and customise it some more, but I'm not entirely sure how. I'm internet savvy but obviously not very blog-savvy. Pretty in pink will do for now I think.


Here's something I'm sure we can agree on: it's too hot. I'm sitting in my very skimpy jammies and I'm too hot. Maybe something to do with the roasting laptop on my legs, but we'll ignore that. Nighttimes are a pain especially when Matthew is here; we alternate between me half-under the duvet and him letting me have it, and him stealing ALL the covers at 4am when he wakes up and is cold. Weirdo. He is a human radiator, which is great in winter but in summer, not so much.

Anyway this blog thingamajig is distracting me from my beloved CSI, and I'm afraid I'd rather look at Danny Messer's face (although he is most certainly no Nick Stokes) than this text box, so tata for now.