Well well well July 9, 2008

I had a really long nap today. It was wonderful. I love having naps.

I’ve been in a bit of a grump today. My moods sometimes reflect the weather and as the weather is very poor today, so is my mood.

I’ve been watching Time Team. I think it’s awesome. It’s made me really want to dig a large hole in my garden and see if there’s anything there. Not that there will be. I want to know what my garden and house were like before either were put there. I know there was a brook at the bottom of my garden many many years ago, but I want to know if people lived here. I don’t quite know how to find out. I will do though. I think I’d make a good detective. I think I might join the Historical society next year. I shall e-mail and find out what it is they do.

I read something that really annoyed me today. Someone wrote in on Teletext saying that everyone should ignore Psychology ‘cos it’s just full of people pretending they have all the answers and is pretending to be a Science when it’s an Art. I fully disagree with all points. I can’t be bothered to rant too much but Psychology has made some real improvements in peoples’ lives, so it shouldn’t be ignored. Some Psychologists may pretend they have all the answers but I certainly don’t. And the many others don’t. I know I’m only just training to be one, but I don’t think I will everclaim to have all the answers, I quite like that I don’t, it makes it more interesting. And I do think it is a Science. Just because it doesn’t have definitive answers and a lot of it can’t be proved doesn’t mean it’s not a Science. All of Science is based on theory and the theories change all the time, most of what is taught in Science isn’t actually fact. So if you go on that basis, then Science should be called an Art as well. But it isn’t. So there.

I also read people talking about bringing back capital punishment and that if young people and adolescents kill, they should also be hanged. That’s such a knee jerk reaction. Yes, why don’t we just kill everyone who does wrong instead of getting to the root cause of the problem, because it’s really working for America doing it that way. America has the death penalty. Their murder rates are still huge. We need to find out why younger people are getting into killing people and try and sort it out there. Capital punishment is only treating the symptoms, it’s not getting to the root causes. I agree that they should be punished if they kill, obviously, but we need to find out why they have and try and get them back into society and give them a chance at a better life. Just my opinion.

Nineteen Eighty Four June 12, 2008

Just finished reading it. I’d read some of it at GCSE, when we were doing preparation for our Room 101 speaking coursework. George Orwell = very talented. The book creeped me out somewhat and will probably make me more paranoid than I already am about things in society…i.e. I believe there’s a camera in the lamppost opposite the FPs. It’s amazing how forward Orwell’s thinking was for his time, like the Telescreens in the book…all around town and the Ricoh there are those television things being put up that can talk. I don’t like it. I don’t want us to turn into Oceania.

If you haven’t read it…but plan to and don’t want it spoiled…don’t read the next bit. Gives away the ending.

I find it weird how in the end he loves Big Brother. Despite hating him and knowing the actual truth, they torture him till he loves Big Brother. In the TV series of Big Brother it has been shown that they really don’t like BB at first, then as the weeks go on, they show a certain fondness for BB and it becomes the supplier of their needs, the ‘person’ they go to for comfort etc etc. I don’t really know where I’m going with that point…er… just that it links. Basically I think that people should just read the book, it’s very good.

I’ve got really far with the family tree…I’m back to 1777 now. There’s over 100 people in it. Genes Reunited is very good. Although I dislike it when people say “we are related”….when we only share one person in our family tree from the early 1800s say. I don’t think it counts as being related really.

I had a good dream last night…the FP and myself were going to San Francisco, on a mission (I don’t actually remember what the mission was but it involved bad people) and we had to climb up a this big mountain…until we reached this house (I don’t know why there was a house on the mountain….I didn’t actually say this dream made any sense) where the bad guys were and we had to fight them with swords. However the swords were only plastic…and we weren’t actually stabbing each other, it was just going through the actions until one person admitted defeat. The FP and I won. I was wearing a wonderful black cloak. It was a nice dream.

I really really want to watch Prince Caspian…..I’ve read it again numerous times, I can’t wait till it comes out, not long to go now. I’m looking forward to that much more than my results.

Buzzzzzzzzzzzz June 7, 2008

Bees, bees everywhere. Well they could be wasps….or hornets but whatever.

They’re not everywhere either, but they are harassing me in my room, they’ve picked the wrong person to harass seeing as I am terrified of them. There’s been 4 in my room, and I swear I can hear buzzing right now, but I think that might be my rather over active imagination. Maybe they’re all under my bed or something. Fucking bees. Sorry about my language but when I am scared I get a bit angry. Due to the bees it’s been a hive of activity here today (hehehe puns…I can’t help it) I wish them to leave me alone. The last one I saw had me screaming. I can’t help having an insect phobia.

Cloverfield came today, made me happy, I love it. Not as much as Narnia. No where near. But as films go it’s a pretty damn good one. I’ve watched it twice. I’ve also watched all of season 1 of Black Books and half of season 2, after finding it was free on 4OD. Also made me happy. Although I was disturbed by bees.

I’m going to buzz off now Hardy har.

Amazing May 26, 2008

Has been my word of the weekend. Today I even called my cheese pasty amazing. It really was though.

Today is my brother’s birthday. (And also Joy’s) We’ve had some extended family round….it was a yawn-fest. My family are nice enough but rather dull. (The FP, Baz and children excluded) And whenever we all get together everyone acts more posh. Especially my mother and my Auntie. But it has been good, I got cake…biscuits and sweeties. It’s been wonderful. The FP came round later with her family. Affaf is the funniest. At his nursery he tells everyone he has a sister called Freddie. He also has two imaginary girl ”brown babies” who were called Adam and Adam but are now the Two Michael’s. They only tiny, they fit in the palm of his hand and live in his shop. Freddie is on holiday.

I’m currently resisting the temptation to watch Prince Caspian. I shouldn’t have even watched it yesterday, I should learn to be patient, but it’s over a month away and it’s killing me! It’s the most amazing film ever. Seriously. I’ll do a proper blog about it when I’ve officially seen it….but gosh…I couldn’t sleep afterwards ‘cos I was too hyped up. Made me cry.

The only thing I don’t like about Narnia…the books mainly of course seeing as they came first….is that Peter can’t come back after Prince Caspian. Peter was always my favourite character…before I saw the BBC films…and the new movies. So I was a bit gutted when I read he couldn’t return. I didn’t really ever like Susan…so she didn’t bother me. I’m glad they all return in the Last Battle…although it’s terribly sad to think the next time you see them is when they have died

I was talking to Sir Sue last night, and I came to the Psychological conclusion that my love for Narnia might be a form of regression. I’ve always loved Narnia, from when I first read the books when I was teeny, to when I saw the BBC films (which I now think are truly awful, how I was ever impressed by them I will never know) and of course now with the movies and still the books. But seeing as my love started when I was a child and everything was much simpler and easier then, it may just be my brain’s (well….ego technically, but we shan’t go too much into Freud) way of escaping. Sir Sue agreed with me on this saying that she believed films to indeed be a form of escapism.

I don’t really care what the reason is really. I’m quite happy loving Narnia.

I’m going to the cinema tomorrow, to see Indiana Jones….or Iron Man. I want to see the former more than the latter but we shall see. Should be good anyways.

Rotten Sand May 22, 2008

Yesterday I was discussing the classifications of cakes and biscuits….and chocolate bars and biscuits. They’re all somewhat blurred. I do now fully believe Jaffa Cakes to be indeed cakes. Whilst looking for information to try and solve the mystery, I found a really wonderful website. Click here to go to it. It goes through many many different types of biscuit. My absolute favourite quote from that site: “The pale biscuit core quietly goes about its business, providing a crunchy vehicle on which the chocolate can ride.” This was a description of a Cadbury Finger.

As you can probably tell, I have nothing more meaningful to do. I will start looking for a job soon. Promise.However today I have spent the day trying to fix my broken computer….I believe it to be OK now, and seeing the FP after her exams. She has a bit of a smelly foot issue though….in that they smell terrible. It’s her shoes. The smell is like that of rotten sand. In my mind anyway.

I saw Affaf today also, he’s lovely. Although he made me read him “My Big Truck” over and over again. There’s not much of a plotline to that story to be honest, it never really climaxes, but the pictures are very engaging. Affaf told me he had a truck called Monty.

I ordered the Prince Caspian soundtrack yesterday. Well, pre-ordered. I’m very excited. QI and Jon Schmidt still have not come. The ‘rents come back from their holiday tomorrow. But I don’t think they know when their flight is or anything…as they instructed my to find out in the early morning and tell them. Jolly silly if you ask me.

I believe it to be Laine’s birthday.Many happy returns Laine!

 

Musings…ramblings…whatever you want to call them. May 20, 2008

I’ve just been looking out of the window.

It dawned on me when I was watching a tree blowing in the wind how beautiful the world actually is. I don’t always feel like that or even think about it. But it’s amazing.

 I love the way the sun breaks through the clouds, how it always shines through radiantly, like the perfect constant to today’s fast changing world. I love the birds singing, like it’s nature’s very own song, they seem so happy and content. I love how the trees dance in the wind, how the colour of their leaves contrasts so sharply and beautifully to the clear blue of the sky or how they reach up tall to the clouds.

Our lives, our possessions, our concrete messes…they all come and go. Nature…unpredictable, you can’t tame it…yet it’s the only thing that’s always constant. And is more beautiful than anything we can make. It will always be there. However much we abuse it, take it for granted, ignore it, it will always be there, standing strong and unmoved by our materialistic lives. It’ll always stand strong under us, over us and around us. Words can’t describe how wonderful nature is. It completely parallels with God. Well He did create it after all. But He’s always there standing strong. Awesome.

Maybe we’re living in our very own Narnia….but we’re all to bothered with convenience and material desires to stop and look at how beautiful and giving our world is, beneath the empty concrete shells we build on top of it and around it.

I feel truly inspired I want to go write a story….or draw a picture or write a poem.

Bored May 20, 2008

Is a Jaffa Cake a biscuit or a cake? I know it has cake in the title….but they live in the biscuit aisle. Well anyway, they are seriously the best biscuits/cakes ever. I love them. They taste especially good with Weetabix and milk.

Eurovision is on Saturday. I am a bit of a Eurovision geek, I think it’s awesome! Well until all the tactical voting starts and then I get annoyed. I definitely know we won’t win this year though with the entry we’re putting in. We should take note from the Ukraine’s entry last year and put in something like:

Mrs Doubtfire much? That’s what Eurovision is all about. Who’s hosting it this year? Serbia? Yes I think Serbia.

QI didn’t come today, I was most disappointed. I waited for the postman and everything. Neither did Jon Schmidt but I only ordered that yesterday.

Thus I end this pointless blog. Took up 10 minutes of the most boring day ever though.

 

 

Makes me cry every time May 18, 2008

Lifehouse - Everything Skit

You have to watch it all the way through.

I love it a lot.

Exam tomorrow. Last one. Hardest one. Nervous. But looking forward to it all being over. Yipppeeee

No Narnia mention.

 

Caution: Rant. May 14, 2008

Getting to sleep last night = impossible. I was perfectly comfortable and very tired but I just lay there, hour after hour. The more tired I felt, the more stupid my solutions to my insomnia were. One in particular, I decided that maybe I wasn’t wearing the right pyjamas and I’d be more comfortable in some others. Cue pyjama change in the dark. After a while of lying in bed in my new pyjamas, I decided they weren’t working for me and so changed back. I also discovered I had a hangnail on my little finger. I tried pulling it out making it quite sore so I decided to put some germoline on it. However I wasn’t quite sure where I left it. Cue late night mission to find germoline. After about 20 minutes of looking…in the dark with only my phone for light (I felt it inappropriate to turn on the light thinking it would make me feel more awake) I found it. Satisfied that the pain of my hangnail had gone, I lay there, just musing about things. In particular about a programme I had seen earlier about the tallest women in the world. As I am more tuned into the metric system, I found myself trying to work out how big 7ft 9inches actually was. First working out how much an inch was, then trying to make it into 12. I also had numerous debates with myself, eventually drifting off to sleep only to be awoken early in the morning by the front door slamming. Cue annoyance.

I am revising today. About the brain. It’s quite interesting but I’m often finding myself staring at my notes in a comatose like state. I spoke to Abbie yesterday and she is very worried about the impending exam. I am not at this current moment, I save my stress for the night before it would seem.

I read today, on Teletext, that some man from the Vatican says that aliens can exist and we shouldn’t rule out thinking that they’re out there and this doesn’t conflict with believing in God. I’m not sure what to think about that really. Is it being very narrow minded to rule out the existence of aliens? Is believing in them contradicting believing in God? I’ve no idea. I have to say though that the Vatican itself irritates me anyway, with their golden city and richness and praying to Jesus’ mum and everything else. I think they have a bit of a weird take on the Bible, I know they believe that Jesus is the saviour and everything, but all the extra….hmmm.

WARNING: RANTAGE

I have to rant.  When I was reading some of my Derren Brown book today, there was an advert in the back for a book entitled “Letter to a Christian Nation: A challenge to Faith” by Richard Dawkins. I want to know why people who don’t believe in God etc, try so damn hard to get others to stop believing and seem intent on trying to disprove that God exists. It’s like they really can’t hack that people believe in something, something that makes them happy. Even if they don’t believe in it themselves, they should just let it be. I know many atheists will argue that a lot of Christians don’t leave them alone and try and convert them, but atheists do the same to me and other Christians, always trying to disprove it. Like even nowadays, evolution is taught as straight fact, when it’s not been proved and the creation point of view is taught merely as philosophical in RE classes that no one likes. So before atheists try and tell Christians to leave them alone, I think they should leave me and my beliefs alone.

And, it annoys me, that the one faith that tries to be disproved more than any of the other faiths is Christianity. Just leave it alone!

And also, I was watching Flyleaf videos on youtube, and browsing the comments. They are a Christian band. This influences their songs. Yet the non-believers seem really offended by this and constantly argue that the meaning of the song is something quite different or abstract but is DEFINITELY not influenced by Jesus or anything like that. Some person even wrote about how a song, (which I interpret to be about God being all around, like a worship type song, mainly because the words are obviously to God and she mentions angels etc etc), was to do with Pagans and Gods. Why would a Christian write a song that sings about how good it is to have a Pagan God all around them?

End of rant.

ALSO: My William Moseley signed photo came today. It did, it did, it did. It’s hand signed! Happy much????? Rather!

Now I’m going to go finish off revising, oh joy.

Sunshine, lollipops, rainbows May 12, 2008

Exam = fine. Finished in a record time of 45 minutes. Left as soon as they minimum of 1 hour had passed. Hopefully did OK. 1 more exam and then this year is finished.

I’ve just seen the most amazingPrince Caspian clip….the Peter and Miraz fight, it’s very awesome and makes me very excited for the film. I was reading on teletext (yes I read teletext, so sue me) and there was some fanny writing in complaining how they’re not doing them in order. He should research before he writes in ‘cos actually THEY ARE. The published order is the order we read them in, they were put into a more chronological order after Lewis finished writing them all. He actually wrote The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe first (1950), then Prince Caspian second(1951) and Magician’s Nephew was written 6th out of the 7 books. So, technically, they are being filmed in order. I should probably tell that person that fact instead of moan about it on my blog, but I don’t want to, so tough titties. And anywho, who would want to watch the Horse and His Boy…it’s rather dull.

I looooove the hot weather at the moment. Although I wore factor 40 suncream today and my face still managed to get a little bit burnt. Damn my paleness. I’ll buy factor 50 tomorrow me thinks. Although Sir Sod will probably come along and end the summer, thus wasting my money. The nice weather brings out all the old people, like bugs. Most of these oldies are rather grumpy….but a very very jolly old chap smiled at me as I walked to town, I smiled back. I like it when strangers smile at you, it makes me feel happy.

I’m feeling very happy today. The family tree is coming along nicely. I also saw one of my friends from Spanish today, it was nice to say hello again.

The FP is not feeling happy today, so on behalf of myself…and….er…myself….I hope you feel happier and less stressed tomorrow, you absolute FP

That will be all.