Phwoar

We saw this today on our way home, then went to Nana's for EPIC Christmas dinner!

:D

Pling

Right, so technically this broke the "every day in December" posting schedule. But I'll post one later on the 28th when the day is properly over too.

Today, my 19th Birthday was lovely.

Breakfast at 10ish with presents (those that were brought as some are still at home).
I got a collectable gold darlek.
Catching Fire.
Two other good looking books.
ZELDA Spirit Tracks on DS that is AMAZING (Thank-you James!)

M is doing a similar Birthday message trail hidden thing that I did for her too!

We went to buy a cake from M&S and got stuck in crazy traffic then went to the Cornmill (no surprise) for lunch.

Haze and I watched another episode of Misfits this afternoon and around half 4 we went over to my Auntie/Uncle/Cousin's for tea.

A well epic evening was held.

I'm tired now so I'm cutting this short.

NIGHT

Pigs in Blankets

Orrite?

I got my new mattress this morning! It's fabby.

Now we're at Grandad's for second Christmas dinner, and are watching through "Misfits" on 4OD.

It's fairly good.

I'm 19 tomorrow!

The web here is hit and miss so today's is a short message.

LY

Parents, Nana and Us.

Family time for Christmas is just smashing!



Marissa Mix CD was such a lovely non physical present.
XD

My Witches Wand is the BEST!
The T-Shirt Haze got me that says I'm a YouTube star! and it is FANTASTIC!
James bought me a hoody that feels like a hug.
Mum and Dad got me (among other smaller things) a printer and an umbrella that should never go inside out.
FANKS!

We watched the Incredibles, the Gruffalo and Dr.Who.

I HAVE SOME THINGS TO SAY:

(slight spoils)

Same lipstick? Lucy Saxon's pals had time to develop the potion but she still had his DNA on her mouth. Time fail.

WILFRED ftw

The Master's Super Jump? Qu'esque qu la craik?

Narration? whaaat?

Ooooooods!

Red chlorophyll for the red grass on Galifrey?

FOR GALIFREY!
Oooft, TimeLords!


So I'm going to sleep now, Leeds tomorrow!

xx

Putting things away.

That was what my day mainly consisted of.

That and half building an igloo.

We finally watched Labyrinth and it is fantastic.

Christmas tomorrow!
My Birthday on Sunday!
James on the 29th!

:D

Pribbles and Prabbles

The doctor I went to see this morning was so genuinely interested and helpful that I'm sure his optimism alone will get me better and stop me scratching!

Later on, after a lunch including pork pie (of which I'm not the biggest fan) that was good because it coincided with the first episode of series 3 of The Big Bang Theory. Hilarious.

Around 2 I went to town to see Caitlin and have a Christmas catchup. We talked none stop as I haven't seen her since, what 12 weeks ago (or more)! We had hot chocolates and then went shopping for her last minute gifts that included a roll for putting jigsaws on to store them away half done.

One of the many stories we covered is the amazing fact that she has met a real life almost example of Colin Singleton. She knows a girl who has only ever gone out with guys named Tom. Currently this girl is having problems deciding which of three Tom's she prefers!

I've just got a lift home from Cait's Dad and am about to, hopefully, watch Labyrinth with Hazel!

We only got 10 mins watched D: before we had to go do other things and eat tea.

I've spent since then sorting stuff in this old room of mine.

Ergh.

Bath and bed now.

Toodles!

Pasta

Man we had an early morning this morning, and by that I mean 8:30 without lying around in bed 'til 11.

It was snowing and looked ever-so pretty! But we checked online and it implied trains would be running late. So we set off earlier (James coming with me through to Liverpool).

I got hot chocolate and sat around while we waited to see if my train would pop up on the arrivals/departures board. After a while James decided he wanted hot chocolate so I stayed with my bags while he wandered off. He came back convinced he'd seen Bill Bailey!
On the station announcements we were pretty sure we heard "Will mister James Kirk please report to the blahdiblah" and that made us giggle for a good while.

Train journeys went ok without problems with changes or delays and my mp3 player kept me amused.

Home is lovely, I'm glad to be back even though I'm going to miss James horribly over the next week, I'm sure I'll cope as it's ever so busy and we do still have mobiles and the internet.

Taraaa

Pineapple

Is, in fact, the BEST fruit ever.

James would disagree and say bananas.

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Today we made the Banana-Mars(bar) cake. Or Banabar loaf as it should be called.
It took us far too long but was well fun and it should appear in my Hazelizabeth video at the end of this week.

We watched Wall-E properly without it skipping (or us falling asleep) and also I made my sexymac video which took altogether too long to film and edit. (I had a lot of thinking to do.)

I'm sort of sad that this is my last full day here with James.

BUT tomorrow I get to go home and see my family, and my new bed, and do some proper catching up that wasn't possible when they were all still in school!

The busy times start now.

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James just completed the free trial of Auditorium and is back to making Fantastic Contraptions!

Night Yo.

Psshawwch

Well then.

Today was well nice, even though I DO have this cold that is bugging me.

I sorted out coming home on Tuesday, because of the weather it's by train so I'm going to have to manoeuvre that with bags and such but it'll be fine.

We had this lush lamb dinner that James' Mum did, nomnomnom.

Also, we've finally caught up with FlashForward. NOTHING HAS BEEN ANSWERED.
This is the exact reason I refused to get into Lost and NOW look at it!

P.S. Blog title is the noise that taps make.

Pudding

I was going to write this while James was getting pudding but Jingle was in the room and wouldn't let me type.
Now that the sticky toffee pudding is eaten (and it was good) I'm free to tell you about our lovely lazy day.

I had a bit of an iffy morning, didn't feel 100% but I had a nap and was soon fine to sit and watch 5 full episodes of FlashForward. It was well good (hence why we kept watching).

That was pretty much it really, that and eating steak for tea.

WHEY!

OH also, today was interspersed with texts from Mum and Hazel who were keen to tell me about their day shopping and the snow. One text from Hazel read along the lines of "We have no front step, I repeat the snow is as high as the front step!"

We're going to watch Wall.E now so YEY!

Penguins!?

Today was well good.
We got up fairly early and James' Mum made us bacon butties.

We went to Liverpool on the train (only £2.80 return ;)) and went to try and find a cash point but it was cold and we didn't so we headed back to the station to meet his friend Lucy who was on the next train after us because she'd had a driving test this morning. She was well happy all day because she'd passed.

James is currently taunting the cat out of the room by offering her Chocolate pudding as such a distance that she follows it. :D

I digress. We then went on a wander but as it was close to 1 we went for foods. There was this amazing diner that had booths and juke boxes in each. Me and Lucy each had a chicken fillet burger and James had one with BLUE cheese. Look, I know it isn't like, fluorescent, I just felt the need to emphasise.

After eating we went shopping for last minute things and at one point we stopped to look at a market stall that this old dude with a massive Russian style hat on. He started telling us about the bracelets he sells with Mary's face on them and how there is a high demand for them now that the Cathedral stopped selling them. (Because people were buying them for the "wrong reasons".)

During our visit we spied a fair few penguins, big penguins all painted funky. Like the Manchester cows or the Bath pigs. OR THE LAMBANANAS!

Before we got the train back we popped into the The Walker Gallery to have a spy of a few bits of classic and modern arts.

Tonight (because it's James' Dad's birthday) we went for a meal out and it was GOOD. Nomnomnom.

So, anyway, we're just sitting while I write this and these two epic statements were made.

"Exclamationbang!"

"You don't even put Dad's with a catipul"

Perishing

Today it's cold.
Full stop.

Hazel sent me a picture message of the school yard covered in snow!
It's even almost snowing here, almost.

We got up fairly late today and just had cuddle time and then watched some Project for Awesome videos. It made me feel a bit bad that I haven't recorded one this year, but to be honest it's 80% (I think John said) about participating via commenting and rating.
ALSO, in other youtubely news, BARRYALDRIDGE is subscribed to me now. YEY!

This afternoon we got the train from Garswood to Prescot then got a lift from James' Mum to his Grandad's.
He was dead sweet and lovely and gave me a tenner for Christmas!
Also his Auntie Dianne showed up so I met her too.

Ooo! We're going to have stuffed peppers for tea and then, maybe, watch this thing on iPlayer called Perfect Creature. Should be good.

TOODLES!

People of the college variety

I got up fairly early this morning because I could hear my family rattling around getting ready for school. So I popped downstairs to say my goodbyes because later I would be getting a lift from James's Dad to his house.

They arrived at just before 11 and we were on the road soon enough because Chris was a little bit impatient.

:)

We had a nice (just under) three hour journey in rain and fog and whatever and ate sausage rolls.

Arriving at James' I was greeted by his more adventurous cat, Jingle. She was keen to be cuddled, unlike Belle who I've barely seen in comparison. They're lovely the cats.

James' Dad went out and so we just sat around all afternoon making up for the last few days... :)

Later on, when Lynn got in we had ham salad sandwiches (of which I can still sort of taste the onion) before we went to his old college to pick up his A Level result certificate and hang out with his "Bench Crew". It was quite surreal seeing Adam (a dude who has the room opposite me at Uni) there, but overall it was just a generally nice experience!

We walked to get the train back (spending £1.25) and then the 5 min walk to his house where we are now.

As I've typed this James has started playing his bass GEETAR along to Muse-y-ness
XD

Also I have Jingle to stroke!

:D

Pants

Being at home and inside all day doesn't quite merit an entire blog.

My inner musings aren't so inspired!

Yesterday I forgot to mention that I got ID'd for a 15 DVD. The Notebook. I'm nearly 19. FLM.

I've cleaned my windowsill and sorted a tiny bit of my room.

Mostly though I listened through a load of half heard podcasts thanks to the newer iTunes alerting me to them while I sorted my "My Picture" folder that was a shambles and is now only half a shambles.

I need to pack my stuff around and about so that I'm ready to go to James' in the morrow.

I live in a room that encompasses every year of my life since I moved up here, much of it needs sorting.

I look forward to that sort of!

Purchasing

Well today was just lovely.

I got up, was a bit drowsy but had a small chat with Hazel and Mum before they all trooped off to school and then settled in for a good long bath.

I quickly recorded my sexymacaroni video and left that to upload as I set off into town to meet Laura and Jen.

We did Christmas shopping then went for Chinese eat-as-much-as-you-like as we planned.
Dave also showed up and it was nice to see him for the moment he was there!

After more meandering and chat we headed to Leonard's coffee shop and I had a white hot chocolate.

:D

Hazel finished up at school and headed down so we could catch the bus home together, eat omelette and watch that Su-Bo program.

I'm sat on my bed now with a couple of videos loading (darn slow home internet!) and some mice to knit!

Good day!

Packing

I'm home now.

I intended to write a small blog before I set off and then write about today tomorrow.

Instead, the time flew and my tidying and packing was done, I was listening to Jon and lo and behold my family arrived!

We sat and ate tuna and sweetcorn sandwiches and bananas in my tiny room and then, out of the kindness of our hearts, emptied the recycling.

I've brought barely anything home with me compared to the stuff I have left in halls and my studio and yet it is definitely more than I could take back on a train.

I have this issue too with the Term dates, they say Friday the 8th is the first day of term... but there is no way I could get back for then unless I went on Saturday the second. Which is INSANE. Or I got the train and live from the crap clothes I left there until my parents visit.
OR I could just go back to Uni on the Saturday after ready for the Monday.

ARGH.

I'm having a kerfuffle about travelling to see James and him coming here too!
My parents are busy teacher types and only have 2 weeks off at all and although they do want to encourage me to have a life they also do need to have some fo their own.
Anyway, I'm sure we'll get it sorted and it'll still be an amazing Christmas!

My room is FULL of stuff that desperately needs to be sorted or thrown away.

I'm going to go to sleep after tea probably.

BYE

Perfect Birthday Present

James has been asking me for AGES what I want for my Birthday this coming 27th of December and this morning I finally realised that I would like the new Zelda DS game.

I say "finally realised" because it was this morning that it became the official "that's what I'll get Liz". I've wanted the next Zelda DS game since I completed Phantom Hourglass!

I've sort of half packed some things to take home, at least, I've sorted through the mahoosive pile of papers and books that I had.

There is someone on the floor above me playing their guitar fairly loudly.

This morning I rediscovered "Let them sing it for you" and a fair few lols were had.

Because it's only 13 days til Christmas and this is my last full day on campus, I'll be going over to James' soonish and we'll spend the rest of the day together.

There are things that need doing, like packing, but I can do that tomorrow morning, right?

:D

Someone remind me to check my post before I leave!

P-Floor

Well today we finished our first term by doing studies of our city!
It was actually fairly fun.
I've cleared out most of the stuff I've done so far so that when I get back it's a nice clean open area to work in too.

James and I (after eating steak for tea) went on an exploration up the Bowland Tower, all the way up to O floor where it stopped so there is no real P floor, but the blog title works in it's own strange way.
By the top all there really was was skanky walls and dead flies.
It was fairly creepy.

Now we're going to watch QI and Russell and it will be a good good night.

My feet are full of beef.
(in joke for old readers or Hazel)

Podcasts

The Pottercast and The Student Breakfast Show are actually amazingly inspiring for sorting out and vacuuming.

Although now I've just got in from a lovely 40min walk (and sit on swings in the park) with James and there is my new desk chair and all I want to do is spin in it and leave the piles of stuff.

Ok so I watched Waterloo Road and Buzzcocks.

We're going to cook soon, so there.
Tomorrow is the last day of term.

That's mental.

That's nearly ELEVEN weeks here.

Well, I need to decide what travels with me over the holidays, a month is such an odd time to pack for!

Chris' freezer tray full of water that AJ did last night has frozen. I REALLY want to see his face when he checks it after Christmas.

Anyhoosle. I have little else to say here today.
As in this is the end.
BAI

Prescription

Doctors at 9:10 this morning, got stuff that should sort out the eczema...
I neeeeed to stop scratching but that's the hardest thing because once I stop paying attention my fingers stray. Even keeping my nails short doesn't work!

In Art today we finished off out island construction.


This afternoon I failed to help James revise for his maths tests and then came back over to our side for Secret Santa!

It was cute and fun event that got us all talking.

I got a really lovely liquorice all-sorts looking bracelet and some biscuits and a hat. (From Roz because most people said!)

Roz got this toy horse from Tom and it's awesome, it had an apple and hay and fences and a trophy! It's sat in the corridor all cute and fun.

James and I plan to watch "Stranger than Fiction" tonight.

GOOD TIMES

PinE in the arse

Is there no solution?
Can I please have a non-spotty AND non-dry face back.

Right this moment I don't have any horrible dry skin on my face.

BUT by moisturising it I've allowed it to become spotty.

THIS IS A FARCE.

Right this moment I'm actually amazingly happy (except for my face but while I don't have to look at that it's ok).

Although I left my massive bowl of salad in James' fridge... and didn't get the washing done last night because there was no water on campus.

Crazy! So we cooked and stayed in and played Oblivion, obv.

Well we had a career talk instead of PinE today this morning.
It makes me worry, just because I've never yet had a job it mkes it seem as if I'm a massive life fail!

Ah well, my salad-y lunch and two hours painting made me feel better and then our Seminar made me feel better about this essay which, although I'll have to do LOADS of reading for, seems much more manageable now. I might do little sections of reading and writing for it while James is doing his crazy ass amounts of rowing training running!

Well, I'm going to cook now so night-o!

Please read this:

http://tommilsom.com/art-is-not-an-art-any-more-1076.html

Today we worked on our city islands and all that needs to be done now is for Bill to spray paint them!

Tonight James and I are cooking again.

It feels properly like Christmas season now that I'm about to wrap up the Secret Santa gift!

W00p!

x

Put your best foot forward!

So another day began with a lazy lazy (lovely) morning where I only managed to get to showering by about 11.

I know it's now nearly 4 but it doesn't seem like much has happened although I HAVE made some progress on my Art History notes that are to be typed up soonish.

Yesterday, after the whole "James got back from rowing at 6" debarkle we ended up not doing the stir fry and so we'll do that tonight instead.

James said (500) Days of Summer was his favourite of all the films this term.

:D

There are some fantastic bits of movie magic in there, just *thumbs up*.

Anyhoosle, I'm surprised I've now managed 6 days back in the blogging cycle though it upsets me to see that I don't get any comments any more, it might be because I'm just terribly dull now that I live more in meet world than here.

Piffle

Today started with a very lazy bed ridden morning and so actually started about 11 am.

I watched Waterloo Road and listened to TSBS podcast and THIS WEEK the questions were on WELDING!

Me and James are supposed to be cooking up a stir fry tonight before we go and see (500) Days of Summer.

He isn't contactable.

I'm going to go over there and maybe end up standing in the cold.

WHERE ARE YOU!?

In other words, today was great until now when I'm petrified of the invisible trains or possible river injury?

Most likely he's just in the kitchen without signal...

I came back to my room as there is no sign.

I'm going to hate this whiny blog in the future but right now I'm just worried!

Portmanteau

Previous to this current blog title I had

"P-window"

As I had asked James for a word that began with "P"

He said "window" and I thought it's be fine to add the P.

This reminded me of the story about portmanteau/cliffmas/wombination that I talk quite confusedly about in my latest video.

Today I spent from 9am til 3pm constantly in the art rooms.

James is defrosting some mince for our tea RIGHT NOW and we're going to go and see his friend AJ in a break dancing competition then sit and watch Russell Howard's Good News and QI ep 2. Maybe after that we'll play Oblivion for hours. It's quite likely.

Yesterday we saw "Adventureland" it was actually pretty good even though it makes me like Kristen Stewart even less. She's just a bit pathetic, not as an actress, just the characters she plays have this affectation of *insert imitation of behaviour here* mussing hair and half finishing sentences with sighs of frustration.

Right-e-o.

I'm off to enjoy le soir.

:D

Then

Perfectly Original

Yesterday afternoon, after I'd done some art, I went over to James' where he's cooked some mince and it was good and we sat and played Oblivion for 2 and a half hours and then we watched Black Books and for once the building was quiet all night and I had a very odd dream about Nana owning a B&B.

This morning I'm about to go to a PinE lab session and sit on the computers there while a guy fails to help me understand the statistics program SPSS and I just use Excel instead.

Last time (two weeks ago) I ended up googling to find out if there were any Muse tickets anywhere but they were all for Manchester or London and were ALL over £100.
DAFT that.

This afternoon James and I are going to take a good old fashioned Christmas shopping trip into town!

I just downloaded all the songs that Eddplant has up online for freezies. I really hope I get his EP for Christmas, or that Hazel does because I'm SURE she's put that on the list of ones she wants...

OH WHAT!?

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ARGH!

Oh right so I'm going to post this now before I go shopping.

Tales on that maybe tomorrow!

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Last night's Christmas meal was really good.
Apart from the fact that the "Seasonal Vegetable Soup" was, in fact, mushroom.

In my cracker I got a small plastic green crab... you know, the typical Christmas crab.

We also did a £1 secret Santa and I ended up with a big bar of Dairy Milk!

Omnomnom.

I'm still ever-so itchy. I have NO idea why but it's been weeks now, I know if I went to the doctor's they'd ask ifI could try eliminating anything that might cause it. I HAVE DONE!

The only thing I can think it might might be is the washing powder James uses... Maybe I should force him to wash all of his clothes through with my washing power from now on...

That'd be a right malarky, I'm sure he'd LOVE that...

GRARGH

ALSO, I have to persuade James to let me do some little bits of filming for Alan's new video before Monday because I think it'd be well sweet to be involved even though the song that it's in is sort of mournful and doom-y.
Hmmm, I'll think about it.

Right I'm posting early, right now in the morning.
I know this is the only way that I'll remember to post it as I could easily forgotten (and almost did last night!).

So, right, I had an idea for a video, I might film that later but I don't know I might just stay over in the art rooms for hours...
It's the open day today so we're supposed to stick around.

:D

Perhaps

Should I try to write every day in December?
I think so.

I mean, I miss this blog malarky even though it is quite a kerfuffle, especially trying to write one at the end of a day!

I've wanted the Johnny Durham RAWR! t-shirt since it came out and today I relented and bought it. With the December promotion it was only £11.60 in total.

Why must I be so impulsive? But then I've told myself it's ok, it's December now, it's like a small Birthday and Christmas present to myself as well as the fact that by not drinking and going out like most people here I have saved that much about 3 times a week that they all spend.

Although now it definitely means that I'm not going to splash out on the digital version of all three Jingle Spells albums...

Right, last night it was "Dorian Gray" at the cinema and it was fantastic and creepy and disgusting but awesome.

I really need to eat.
Bread and butter, good breakfast times!

Kay, I just got in from my PinE lecture and I've also picked up my first assignment.
I got the middle mark, which is ok, I mean, I need to work out referencing properly and be more straightforward rather than descriptive. (I've always had that problem though I can't stop writing as if it's an English essay D:) But for a first attempt I'm happy enough.

Right, now I need to eat and do some reading about equality before 1 then go over to Art for two hours and then the psycho seminar and then more Art because I need to sit and work on the sketch book and do some drawings of my building.

Then tonight it's the SSAGO Christmas meal... that means dressing up and I might even put some mascara on...

I'm wearing bright red tights and a red blouse today, I attired myself BEFORE I knew it was AIDS awareness day but it feels like I did it on purpose.