Leaving the internet to be "more involved"

... in the internet.

Tomorrow we set off to LONDON to be part of Summer in the City.
I love the fact Hazel and I come as a package, it will make it easy and good and fun and lovely.

I'm BUZZING and I have just got in the house from Caitlin's hot tub party.
Her friends are really nice and fun and chatty and we fitted 8 of us in a 5 person tub.

Hazel's results were epic win-age too!
She got 4A*s and 6A's which she is overjoyed about as it sort of beats my 7A*s 2As and a B because of my B.

:/

Not a single anecdote though has arisen from my lovely day.

Yey for waking up extra early tomorrow and not being back online till Monday.

PS, sorry but I haven't pre-written blogs this time.
I forgot!

how dare he
http://twitpic.com/fgtb7

Lycanthropy

The strain of blood that makes a werewolf a werewolf.
Not sure why that word is wedged in my noodle but it sure is.

I've just finished the 8th episode of Lilies it was so lovely and yet funny and dramatic too.
I adore that feeling when the DVD is all toasty from being in use although I have an irrational worry that it will damage it a bit.

I was asked some questions yesterday that I shall answer as to clarify the meaning that might have got lost.

The steering wheel clamp I mentioned is a lock that stops it from being able to be moved while it is attached. I've always assumed it's pointless because if someone is going to be able to hotwire your car they'll get through a clamp too.

A lady bird is, well, a lady bug.



The accommodation info did come through today, I got into Bowland college.

I've received FOUR invitations for ladslads.com today and I cannot understand why.
I'm not a homosexual man looking for another online.
How they get me e-mail and want to contact me is anyone's guess!

Well. Night y'all.

XD

Linda

Mum's friend Linda was over late morning and for lunch, it was nice to see her for a while and to know Mum had the chance to catch up with an old friend.
We chortled a bit when we found out she still uses one of those clamps on the steering wheel of her car.
She might be one of the few people in Britain to do so.

An hour of today's afternoon was spent watching our family footage of the year 1995.
Me with hair that stuck up from the static of a tent, Hazel's expressive eyebrows.
Thomas and I fighting over a ladybird.
My crazy high pitched voice as I bounced on a bouncy castle at the kite festival with Lucy.
Steph visiting our house and then Hazel's Birthday (2nd).
It was all so cute and memory ridden.

This afternoon/night we spent out at our Ranger leader Jen's where we ate veggie bol and cookies by the boatload.
I love our times there and it's sad to think soon we'll all be off to Uni and wont have our fortnightly Friday feasts.

I still haven't got any accommodation information from Lancs, a bit worrying if you ask me!

Lords

My Aunt, Uncle and cousin Matt are over as they were travelling back south from their Scottish holiday and we were a good distance to make a stop.

They've told us some fantastic stories about the people on the Shetlands who find the price of fish important and the scratching of a car bad enough to avoid the village.

There is no way to really sum up the camaraderie that we have when we're all talking and discussing, the atmosphere is just accepting and lovely.

Earlier in my day I shared final words about album art with Alex, I had to resize the images but that worked fine without screwing it all up!

Today was one of the most embarrassing of my entire life. I have balls to leave that video up online. If I'd cut out the horrible bits though it would have been dull and my entire life is programmed to entertain and make you laugh so you had better enjoy me making a tit of myself.

I really want to go watch some more Lilies but I fell asleep watching it last night.

D:

Well, right now I can hear a conversation about cameras, ironing and these really nifty bracelets Auntie Margaret bought me. It's accompanied by the background noise of Haze and Matt recording a video. I love our family, 4 of us are on youtube.

Well, night, if I have anything else to add I'd tweet it.

Languishing

I just like that word.

Imagine if your day started with a text like this from a girl called Jennifer…
“Imagine if you were a small rodent of approximately 3.4 inches”.
I should have know right then that today was going to be a very surreal but very good day.

I sat on my bed listening to J-Beef on the radio and heard Hazel's text get read out as she asked Jonstradamus to predict her GCSE results.
While his voice entertained my ears I was in the process of drawing the back cover for Alex's cd Parrot Stories...
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=8416175&id=742975067&ref=mf
If you're not my friend I don't know of you'll be able to see that but that's the version I like most but not the chosen one as it's style doesn't suit the front cover.
He's sent the plainer one to Alan so it's official.

The :D of my face keeps returning.

The other main portion of my day was spent searching/trawling my harddrive to find Durham memories for Rangers on Tues.

I just used the word "exactamundo" in an msn conversation with M, my world has gone crazy, I think I am clinically insane.

Tomorrow I have to film!

:O

Laughing in my dreams

So I started my day with an article, I read this response to "One and Other".

Recently I have been introduced to Charlie Brooker and have found him genuinely amusing on the two styles of show I've watched.

My response to him would be that I am aware others and believe I am someone who filled my full hour to a good use that didn't dwindle to shocked or confused silence ans shuffling.
Mind you, my talking was very nearly a Geordie voice over (bahahaha Big Brother!) I didn't dress up or get shell shocked after 15 mins, I limited my interraction so as to not appear rude but also not to get distracted and I enjoyed it without resorting to my phone.

I also left this response on the OandO blog today that was asking why we applied.

I applied as soon as I could, within the first fortnight of the applications opening actually, because I had been following the idea since it was as vague as "Gormley has been chosen to fill the Fourth Plinth next."

I had been writing an essay for my A level art exam which as a personal response to something important to me - I chose human form sculpture.

I live near the AotN and have seen The Field, both the Domain Series and Allotment, then Another Place and Blind Light (I thought this one was fantastic) more recently so focusing around Gormley's work, and researching his up coming projects, was nearly daily.

When more information was given, audience participation and a wide selection of possibilities suggested, One and Other was naturally appealing to my prior admiration and my desire to get involved.

I thought it would be great to be involved in such a movement, of an artist I admired and to be contributing in a positive way towards a representaion of the UK.

I've thoroughly enjoyed being involved leading up to my spot (July 22nd 8-9pm) and reading these blogs since about the hours that have been spotlighted.

Curiosity was key to my hour as I didn't know what I would create finally while I was up there but I think my balloon monstrosity turned out quite ok.





There is something strange about the way I balance the commenting of youtube videos (almost entirely from itiselizabeth) and making videos )only really on hazelizabeth.

This probably means to an outsider I don't make videos, because really, who reads the proper descriptions?

I'm not sure how to follow through with this thought so I'll just record it in that much simplicity.


Hazel and I enjoyed a walk Tesco so she could apply for a job and I could buy some foods for tonight. The sun was shining and I was shouted at from a car containing an old classmate of mine. Silly shoes have given my 4 blisters though. Really irritating that.

Ross invited Haze and I over for a get together at his with a load of others, ended up just being use three and Laura (for a bit) really but it was a fantastic amount of fun.
We'd made a chocolate slice that has raisins in but the raisins we used were practically grape sized!

I had some great future vid ideas from old school books earlier in the day, I MUST try to remember this as I owe myself a video really.

Playing boggle with Ross was not really as sidge as it was with Matt a few weeks ago but when he got xenon we were awed.

Following a good round of Boggle is difficult really... unless the game following is none other than "Harry Potter Scene It".
A dvd game and quiz that is both infuriatingly simple and difficult and is suggested to take merely 1hr. With the amount of digressions that arise with a full on Potter conversation our version took just under 2 hours.

To be won by Hazel when she identified a character after seriously only 4 letters revealed.

I just checked my e-mails before starting to write this and Alex has asked for another pic for the back cover of Parrot Stories. It;ll be nice to sit and draw that tomorrow.
I've heard a few demos of songs and they're rather great, I'm looking forward to teh full album now, Lex's and Tom's contributions are lovely.

x

Lilies

So far this morning (I started writing this at 11:30 and am going through to edit and title at 8:09) I have listened to Ross giggle in his sleep.
Been seriously freaked out by seeing a HSM3 poster on the ceiling then unreasonably relieved when I realised it wasn't my room.
Sat in the hall from 7:30 till 9 reading New Moon as it was the only book I could reach without waking Ross up again.
Woke Dicko up by accident to which he responded "you know when you wake up and you realise you're not in your house?".
And listened to Pink's funhouse on repeat.

You see, yesterday was results day and I was up pretty early to get into school for about 9:15 am. It was so very very strange walking into my common room to let Hazel film me opening the envelope.
It's strange because there is a column with the actual full final results then one with all the other bits for each module.
THREE A's, this means University!
W00p.

After we (Laura, Jen, Ross, Joanne and I) drove to meet Dave and Chris at the Chinese eat as much as you like. Which we arrived at at 11:25 and had to wait for it to open.
After we went shopping in the rain and I bough some cute raven earrings from top man and a computer game called Tropico (and the Tropico expansion pack and Tropico 2 all in one box) for £15.

I went with Ross to his Gran's so we could show her and his Grandad his results.
There are things you fear, awkward social situations, but this was nice and pleasant.
Round to Ross's before we went out for the evening so we sat and played "Spore" which is actually quite good. I curled my hair and we got ready as "Banana Man fan-girl" and "Robin Hood". I wish I'd got a photo of Ross, I know Sarah did.

We ate some left over chicken from the fridge and watched the end of Wizards of Waverley Place. Oh dear goodness me. I know now why the Disney channel is so resoundingly criticised. Ross knew the words to the episode.
This was made WORSE when the next show was this Sonny lass who sang a "check it out" song.

The night got better when Ann Black picked us up to drop us in town.
Laura's Mum nearly couldn't breathe as she laughed at what Ross was wearing!
We (Laura as Cat Woman and me and Ross) met Jen at the bus station (She was in an 8 year-olds Indiana Jones costume) and she automatically began to tell us the astounding story of being asked, while she waited for us, to put eye drops in for this stranger. She DID. This is strange in so many ways, not least because she was IN COSTUME!

We spent nearly the whole night in Lloyds just dancing and shouting and mingling and having a laugh.

We taxi'd back to Ross's for about 1:15 am.

WOO.

Back to today, after Mum picked my up from his house this morning we dropped off a card at Cait's and went to visit Nana.

I finally ate an apple for breakfast around 11:30 (or now, depending which timeline I was in on am on in).

I watched Hazel's epic MIKA video entry.

I was overjoyed with happiness that I was bought 3 balloons, Watchmen and Lilies on dvd.

I'm reading some blogs right now and talking to Peter.

Lunch was watching the Gadget Show because Haze was out in town with James.

Oh gosh, I just realised, I still have 5 book review blogs to write.
But it's only 2:36.
But it's Friday already and I still have over 100 videos in my inbox.
And Hazel will be home this afternoon to watch Watchmen.

You know what, Hazel is so darn fantastic and awesome.
She bought me a record of the Merchant of Venice which has the script in it too.
It's a "Modern Abridged" version having been printed/recorded in 1961...
I studied this play in year 10/11 for GCSE and have seen it twice.
I want to display the record as part of my wall decorations at Uni I think.

We watched Blackadder and Alan Carr 'chatty man' over tea because Mum didn't want to watch two and a half hours of gore!
Bleh.

I'm going to write a better list to see if this helps me get more done in the morrow.

Tata.

Little bit of information

In under one hour I'm leaving to go get my A level results from school.
After this I'm going to a meal with a few of my best friends in town.
Then I think I'm going back to Ross's to drop off stuff and get ready for the night out.
We're going out as "super heroes" just because we can, I've got a Banana Man top.

:D

I'm staying over Ross's as it'll make the taxi cheaper and it's closer to town so generally more simple.

Hence no blog till tomorrow.

If I can I'll tweet my results but I'm not sure if that function is working atm.

:)

Liz fulfilld her promise.

As promised here is a small (HAH not) telling of my recent holiday in SWITZERLAND.

This first thing you need to know is that it started very early on the 7th of August.
Our first train was at 7:42 am.

I just got distracted by a prepare yourself for uni leaflet.
Oh darn it's already 11:20 am. I'm going to type this all up now then hopefully get some photos into it.

While we were waiting for the train at Durham station Hazel revealed that she hadn't packed conditioner and Mum looked really dissapointed even though it didn't actually affect her at all!
Also we had a bag of all the "perishables" that were left in the house... about 8 bananas.
The EuroStar was at 12:29 and had so much leg room!
And these odd fold up tables (that once you've been in Europe for a week become the norm).
We had this nifty little meal because we were in First Class (oooh Great Rail Journeys (y)) it was BEEF.
We then swapped to a TVG train to Dijon (France) where we would spend the first night.
I did a very strange experimental water colour painting.

There was a coach to the hotel and Hazel and I were in room 512.

The flush on the loo was silly, you had to pull it up.
*shakes head in bewilderment*

On our travels we saw street ping pong. We tried to remember the other name for it, which is wiff waff although Mum was sure it was flim flam...

I was also very silly when I asked about breakfast: "Will it be pain au chocolat? or bacon au chocolat?" When I know I meant pain au bacon.
For dinner that night we had more BEEF, and for pudding a cheese cake that actually had a cake base and NOT biscuit.

At 9:54 Dad lost the game and ruined it all for everyone.

Walking to our room I said "My feet feel all floofy" to which Hazel replied "My feet are full of beef".

Our tour guide was a guy called Ian Gordon. He was Scottish.

The breakfast on Sunday morning was scrummy.
After another day of trains (Dijon to Bern, Bern to Interlarken) and a coach because there was a landslide before Interlarken and we had to get a shuttle coach and wait for ages in boiling sun.
Then Interlarken to Meiringen.

Our Hotel was Park du Sauvage and we were in room 443.
More beef for dinner after a welcome drink and a welcome speech from the manager who was dressed as Sherlock Holmes.
At these welcome drinks I was offered orange juice and Hazel, the wine. THIS IS NOT RIGHT. I'm the 18 year old.



We also had to order what we would have for dinner the next night, the option was "Poulard" even though EVERY other word was translated for some reason the chicken was left as the ambiguous chickenduck.



The view from our room.

MONDAY!

We went up on a funicular railway to the Reichenbach falls.
They were beautiful.



We (Hazel, Dad and I) came down the mountain on these fantastic things called "Monster Trotti" which will be in video and not picture form.

It was exhilarating!

In the afternoon we did a walk through Aareschlucht gorge! It was so amazing.

Poulard for tea.

TUESDAY!

Early morning for a train from Meiringen to Lucerne.
We had a bit of time to explore these nifty old bridges and a big Catholic overdecorated church!
Then we got a boat over to Weggis where we spent 2 hours in the sun, saw some sheep with bells and ate cake.
Back in Lucerne we saw a crying lion carved into a wall.

To "fill time" we walked and shopped and we bought new watches BUT this made us late for the train. Oh the IRONY!

We only just made it back on the next train to Meiringen for food at 7:30!

Melon and ham followed by veal then apple strudel.

I finally learned the names of some of the other folk we were travelling with.
Brian and Joan, a couple from Coventry and a cable car enthusiast called Linda who teaches in Reading.

WEDNESDAY!

Rothorn day.
I wrote a postcard for Caitlin and managed to avoid using the free internet computer booth even though I had time!
10pm train to Brienz for the rack and pin train up the mountain.
It was such a class view from so high up till the clouds came in.
We spend some time at the bottom after the hour down on the train and visited a carving shop thing and another.
I ate a chocolate covered, pretzel shaped biscuit as Hazel drank strangely constructed tea (look to video later).
Picnic tea from the co-op, it was the best shopping in there because of the amazing air con.

THURSDAY!

Early train to Interlarken and a series of 4 trains to the top of the Jungfraujoch which boasts to be "THE TOP OF EUROPE!".
There was snow, which was odd for me in August although not for the fact we were over 3000 metres above sea level. (3454 to be precise)

We even did a bit of sledging.
At about 2:30 pm we visited Grindlewald which was part of the journey back.
WHICH WAS AMAZING ON PRINCIPLE and pretty.

Dinner was lamb and meringue for pud.

Red Dwarf was on BBC Prime this night "This is SO happening!".
The only other all English channels were news (CCN and BBC worldwide) and MTV de which had German subtitles but American shows.

FRIDAY

Cable cars to the top of Planplatten, one of them we shared with Alison and Don who were in fact the cutest 70somethings ever!
He was an astrophysics lecturer, they're from York.
We were told it was going to be Macaroni for lunch which I was not looking forward to from the cheese direction but looking forward to just because I was missing my sexymacaroni's quite a bit.
I ended up with a tomato sauce anyway and a fruit salad.

We walked the last leg of the mountain instead of getting all the cable cars and saw a lizard!

We went to the Sherlock Holmes museum that afternoon and had another picnic tea and watched a show called "Freezing".

SATURDAY!

Was in our own hands so we decided to train it to Thun and boat it back.
Almost all the music that came up on random "Album of the Day" was youtubian and gave me internet cravings. Wrock, Trock, ALL CAPS, DFTBA, Milsom and Day. I mean REALLY?

I'm scared by the amount of footage this holiday leaves me to edit.

I properly finished 5 books on this holiday by the time I got home too (which I will probably blog about on Friday)!

I didn't diary SUNDAY or MONDAY because they were mainly train related.
We stayed Sunday night in Köln (Cologne) and the Cathederal there was awesome.
On Monday we went from Köln to Brussels to get the Eurostar and at 6:30 from King's Cross to Durham.

This is the holiday, it might look better in video but it might take you half an hour to watch the footage depending on what I decide to show...

27:50 when unedited and I don't want to stop the MoM to listen to my video...

OMGOODNESS
I am NOT happy with blogger, the photo loader is REFUSING to work.

If it DOESN'T work before 9pm I'm quitting this shebang and I'll come back and add the photos on Friday.
Why Friday you ask and not tomorrow?

Tomorrow is results day, I'll leave the house very early, maybe about half 9 and I won't be back in till, er Friday.

Lengthy re-immersion

This is a day and a half.

I want to make this a disclaimer right now.
I am sorry that today is not an account of Switzerland and that instead I spent most of today reading and visiting family.
I also managed to do no photo or video editing.
I only watched EIGHT youtube videos.
FAIL.


I've watched back and commented on all the sexymac videos and am systematically reading and commenting on blogs.
Still only up to Aug 9th ones...
*headdeask*

Still going, only three blogs left after approaching 3.5 hours.

My phone's just gone off, wonder what that might be.
It was Mum telling me to get the washing in as it was raining, despite a heatwave being predicted!

I just posted a massive rant in response to Marissa's latest blog about the possible Paper Towns movie.
Well not rant exactly, just ramble-y thoughts.

Banking. Is scary.
Important and intimidating.

Video watching is going badly, bazillions to go.

I edited and sent a 4 second clip to SitC too, I hope it ends up in the collab because we bought t-shirts.

We went on a visit to Nana's today.
My cousin and Uncle are up so we spent some time chatting.
She has a new massive tv and it's rather pretty, although the quality wasn't really what I expected.
When we're there there are often three conversations going on at once and it drives my head a little bit batty.
Also at one point Nana said "Do you notice anything else different?"
As our eyes scanned the room she said quite loudly and excitedly,
"I'VE HAD A PERM!"

OK so this is just a regular blog, SO WHAT!?

I will tell you our adventures but I have over 6 gigs of video footage to sort out too!
Till tomorrow when you should get a better description or I've been threatened to be eated by Ash.

Ooop!

Long, long last.

This blog comes from the real time fingers of ELIZABETH.

I got back today from our Great Real Journey to Switzerland via France and returning via bith Germany and Belgium.

I have a helluva lot of catching up to do IRL and online too.

154 emails.

So much footage and so many photographs.

Projects that need to be completed and people to talk to and arange with.

I met some awesome people and did some amazing things, went to some fantabulous places.

But there is a special feeling about being home.

Tomorrow I'll TRY MY BEST to write an illustrated idea of my entire trip and HOPEFULLY get at least one of my planned videos done.

Wednesday is more sorting but that should be getting back to and responding to the things I've been forced to ignore.

Thursday is results day, and I won't be able to blog till Friday as I'm spending the entire day and night out afterwards.
Might tweet though.

I want this to be a short note to say I'm back and that I'm going to be and that tomorrow will be pretty time demanding but also awesome.

Right.

Night!
and
HELLO!

Looming

Isn't that one of those beautiful words?

It's both sinister and gentle.

Don't ask me how it is, that is just how I picture it.

This post is for and should appear on the 16th, I think we travel home tomorrow so I will leave this as the last pre-written blog for now and soon enough I will return to the internets in real time.

This is a prospect that both soothes me and scares me.
Right now I am thinking a good old amount of days AFK will do my good, the thing is I know this will amount to a LOT of e-mails.

Last year when I took 3 weeks AFK for Outward Bound I returned to a measly 40 something emails.

No one had commented my facebook or myspace in my absence and I wasn't yet a blogger or fully fledged Nerdfighter (I didn't have a Ning profile that emailed me anyway).

This time I'm expecting e-mails for blog comments, from FanFiction, from both Facebook and the Ning and The Sparks and a few other things.

Oh and Youtube will be a right arse to catch up on.

In 10 days that's probably just under 100 videos...
I don't have time for that really.
It's fine when it's spread out but, ergh.

I think the 18th will be read blogs and watch videos and to hell with the bandwidth day.

xxx

Largely a fail.

You know, I always plan to do things, in advance, then sort of don;t even start.

Well, I thought I'd post a video on my own channel, instead I've kept up with hazelizabeth and joined thesexymacaroni.

This is all very well, I think I'm doing ok at this.

When I get home I'm going to try and film a music video for my own channel for one of the DFTBA songs.

I've no idea which yet, but I think I should experiment.

You know, right now I'm writing this on the 7th of August and we go on holiday tomorrow and I'm not that excited.
I bet I either come back really really happy or just mediocre.

The thing I'm most excited for is Summer In The City.

It should be very very fun.

If anyone who reads this is going (I doubt it, my reader base is small at best), then leave me a comment.

:D

Lobster

Third creature in a row!

Tom Milsom has never eaten one.
Neither have I.
But that's because I just generally don;t like fish and it would be a hell of an expensive experiment to probably find out I don't like it.

Though "Seafood" is an awesometastic song.



You can't beat Halloween costumes that look like this!

They manage to make something that is a bit, if not a lot, repulsive into a very very cute costume.

Kudos to them. It also helps that that child is undeniably cute too!

Lemur

Possibly my favourite animal.

I like to think this is the form of my daemon and patronus, perhaps even my animagus.



What could be cuter than that little critter.

I even have a toy lemur, none of the google images of toy lemurs are the same as mine though!

To top it off it is also the Radio Communication word for "L" in that alphabet.
Although that one is spelt "Lima" as in the place.

:)

Llama

I still know all the words.

Lion King

I guess that this too is a topic I wouldn't necessarily choose to talk about specifically unless, like today, I was pre-writing blogs and didn't really have another topic in mind.

I love the Lion King.
It's probably one of the first Disney films I remember singing along to and watching over and over.

I loved Zazu and his quirks, I cried when it was sad and laughed along with Timon and Pumba.

I have, still, the cassette tape of the sound track... which is pretty useless in this modern technological world.
Somewhere there MUST be a way to convert these cassettes to mp3.
I'm going to TRACK IT DOWN.

Also this would mean I could get the fantastic 'Radio Shows' that me, Caitlin and Hazel used to record.

Back to the Lion King.
A few years ago we went to see it in the West End and it was AWESOME on stage.
The animals were believable and the plot moving, the songs evocative.

Just one thing ruined the whole experience.

A whiney little American girl who just moaned about wanting "CAAAAYNDYY" all the way through and asked stupid questions like "did he just die?", "Momma, is he dead", "Why's he crying".

DJHFIAG~UDFOKG

OH, and we've sung the Lion King medley with choir, what, 3 times. It was so good every single time.

"Night, and the spirit of life, calling O--oh-e-oh"

Lipstick

I've never been one for lipstick unless it was part of a fancy dress costume.

To be honest though I didn't wear ANY make-up other than nail varnish till I was 14...

Lipstick is a really strange thing, it sounds like a good idea, but (on me especially) is atrocious as an "every day" style.

I always used to think I'd find 'my colour' and then that would be my lipstick niche. Now I realise it's probably not worth attempting, I'm not a girly-girl.

Vaseline is the way forward for moi.

Lables

On clothes come in many forms.

There are the ideas that the "lable", or brand, of clothes is one of the most important things.
I say it isn't, remotely.

Then there is is bit of cardboard or plastic that is attached with those little plastic things that has the price or the make of clothes on.

They can be really cool and I have kept a fair few of those in my time due to their message or the colourfulness of them.

One Emily Strange one I found from a while ago was both a label AND a sticker, which was well jokes.

I have one anomaly on my pin board which is actually an entirely cloth label from "casual wear denim co."

I'm not quite sure why I started talking about labels, seems that's just my thing.

:)

Lego

So, while I'm away I'm going to have blogs pop up about ideas and my theories and other things that I relate to certain "L" words, these words being the equal blog titles.

Well, here goes the description and associations with LEGO!

Man, this stuff has played a huge part in my life, it's one of those things that is a good sturdy foundational toy in my mind, every child needs to play with it.

I remember one art lesson and this guy, John, was sat near me and I looked over and he had drawn a wall like this:



Which is so bad I can't even find a picture of one like that online and I had to DRAW THAT MYSELF.

We all KNOW that THIS is how a wall is built.



Anyway, the story goes that I asked him why he was drawing such a rubbish wall, accompanied with the (at the time) joke of "it's a LEGO basic".

My face was like this : -_- when he said he'd NEVER played with lego. At 16!

Then there was the time in my past when we went to Lego Land Windsor as a family holiday, I was still tiny at the time but I remember it being SO fun. We got medals after panning for gold and I got a LL driving licence.

:D

Even in my "thesexymacaroni" video on Monday there is lego, my FAVOURITE lego.

I've made claims in the past of having lego hair...

The best thing I ever constructed was an ice cream van, it's WELL JOKES.

Well, those are my current musings on LEGO.

Tune in tomorrow for a different blog on an "L" word.

Lucas, Andy

I was surprised and gutted to hear the news that one of my friends from Outward Bound last year has died.

Andy was so fun the few times I spoke to him while we were there.

I'm all jittery now, I can't quite grasp it.

I've been packing and scrapbooking today.
I feel promoting my video is terrible in light of the news.

Sorry this is all.

(p.s, I've had blog problems with future posts, sorry if they showed up too soon)

Liability

I am.
That's right.
Everything I do seems to be wrong.
I've spent enough time online this month to double the cost.
POOP.
So now I'm even writing my BLOG offline.
Which is ok I suppose because I CAN do that.
But it totally scuppers my ability to watch Charlie Brooker.
That will just have to, well, not happen.

Today was our Great Auntie and Uncle's 40th wedding anniversary, that's Ruby.
So we went, you might have guessed it, to the Cornmill, again.

The very strange thing was that Uncle Carl wasn't feeling up to being in public so we celebrated HIS anniversary WITHOUT him.

Dad bought a new camera today, I would write more abou tit but I'm just getting general internet over with.

You know what, I've worked that darn thing out.
It's downloading music.
Sorry to myself and to M, no matter how much I would LOVE to be sent more Wrock, it is actually that that has boofed up the download limit.
fahgsgluwyhaulgsfufkjdsh

Then again, Mum, you should be glad I don't have iTunes/use it.

You'd have hell on your hands then.

Oh and to top it off Mum did a sat down impression of a horse moonwalking in the car today because it was mentioned on the Now Show.

le sigh

Lethargic

I do not feel up to the busy day that today promises to be.
It's 10:45 right now and I shall outline what I have to do today.
Film and edit TWO videos (which includes resurfacing some much needed lego).
Go shopping.
Pack.
All before we go see RENT this evening.

To add insult to injury, ok this phrase doesn't fit bit w/e, my feet are BURNING hot in these socks I've just put on.

A little known fact about me is that I don't like wearing socks around the house and if I'm going out I leave it till the last possible time to adorn my feet with them.
Today I put them on as I got dressed and now they just feel FAR too warm.

Another thing that's getting to me is the lack of arrival of our CDs from DFTBA... I have this FEAR that the paypal didn't work even though we got an email about it... I don't understand but I wanted Taking Leave to listen to in Switz and now I doubt that.

We went shopping but came home soon as we were all in one of those strange "I don't really want to shop" moods.

We watched the end of Talladega Nights the Ballad of Ricky Bobby, that was good.

Then I filmed end am about to edit TWO sexymac videos.
My one for next Monday is painful, I'm considering asking for it to be made private.

Charlie Brooker as recommended by Tom.

OOH RENT was awesome! Seriously, they did it so so SO well.

Night.

Late to post

Whoops! I've managed to leave only 10 mins of today to write this... not GOOD!

I'll go through the notes I left myself on here earlier in the day first.

"It's too nice you shouldn't wear it"
Yes, those were actual words from Mum this morning when she saw me wearing my new top. Her theory is that I'll wear it out.
THAT IS WHAT IT IS FOR.

Our whole house smelt of poop and farm this morning because of local fertilizer or some such doobery whatsit.
It was a bit skanky and even the smell of cake didn't cover it up for very long.

I finished reading The Host, finally!

I had time to write a good ol' email to my friend Rebecca who moved to Belgium 4 years ago.

We watched the first hour of Talladega Nights over lunch, twas funny.

So then, this afternoon I headed off to my friend Dave's house for a summer barbecue.
There was me and Jen and Dave, then his parents and sister, then Ronnie and Chinique and Charlotte and Cassie and this other girl I didn't know. Then Lewis, Chris, t'other Chris, Josh, Alex, Matt, Eggy and a guy called Paul who I thought looked a bit like Dr. Noise.
It was well fun.

We watched a bit of family guy, ate a lot of foods played on Buzz and Sing Star, went over to the park for a bit and sat around the dying fire in the back garden.

Just what summer is all about yo.

:D

Lardy arm

My fingers smell of rosemary, well they did earlier after I filmed my sexymacaroni video!

I got my bank account sorted today, we closed down my old one and I had a whole £18.65... that's now classed as "spending money" in my purse.

I had my last CC jab today, no cervical cancer for me.
It was over practically as I walked in the room then she was giving Hazel her first jab and she said her arm was too muscley. I heard this as "Liz, your arm has no muscle =lard".

There is this small fly in my room right now, buzzing round and round and round.
Grr!

¬_¬

I think I might switch off early and do some scrapbooking.
Yeah!

:)

Lots of little things

So... eeeh I'm in an odd mood as I write this right now. It's only 21:12 which is a fun palindromic time actually. I feel all refreshed and revitalised from the shower I've just had but all drained and tired due to the day and having just finished watching RENT.
Oh my goodness it was good.
I properly couldn't contain my emotion and I doubt it'll be any easier seeing it on stage on Wednesday.
The Gala crew always do FANTASTIC productions and I just know they aren't going to fail this one either.

In other news Hazel uploaded this week's video right here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybpgmr3D3pk

We also went shopping this afternoon after we'd got home from Leeds.

TKMaxx provided me with this huge, and ever so me, denim skirt with super huge pockets and then a smocky checky founcy top. Oh and a Banana Man dress top thing which is SO JOKES.
OH! Some hight top Roxy shoes too to go with a new Quicksilver rucksack (which is SO fair because my old red one I've had for FIVE years and it is KAY nackerd.
I got a top and skirt in Matalan also.
And some pants (knickers for all you Americans :p)
Although originally I went out looking for tights, shorts and possibly a top it was a worthwhile trip.

Thanks Mum.

I get to film a video tomorrow that ISN'T Hazelizabeth!
OOOOOOoooooO

Leeds

I managaed to sleep in till nine this morning which is rather peculiar for me but I think it was because Grandad had left the heating on all night making me far too warm.
THE FIRST OF AUGUST and he had the heating on.

I dreamt about meeting the Harry Potter cast (some of them again) and getting them to sign photos of themselves in a book/magazine I had.
Daniel Radcliffe lived up to how I imagine him even in my dream by ruining his page by cackhandedly scrawing across the enitre thing!

Well, Haze and I sat around watching youtube and reading and I did a charcoal drawing of a window.

We went to Morrison's for lunch but as Auntie M was "putting on a spread" tonight I only had a sausage sandwich.
We went to but some chicken for tonight and also ended up buying NINE DVDs for £15. Oh the joy of tripple box sets.

Hazel and I watched Stranger Than Fiction on my laptop. Will Ferrell, and Emma Thomson. It was a very very good film and the kinetic typography stuff in it was just awesome.

Went off to Auntie Margaret's around half 4.
After our meal of scrumptious food we attempted to play "The Qu Game" which was trying to make black and white lines across the board, it was pretty diabolical.
Then we attempted the Alex Rider: Stormbreaker game; an example of bad marketing trying to be like Cludo but with numbers. The instructions were too complex so we decided to have a nice sedate game of Boggle instead.
Best part of this?
Matt's attempts at words we wouldn't have was just making up his own.
SIDGE
and
WETHOT
being the two noticable contenders.

Oooo, back home tomorrow.

:)