Kindness

So today consisted of another trip to Leeds to see Grandad, cousins and co.
After the customary meal at the Cornmill we set off to visit out Autie Clara whose Birthday it is.
102
ONE HUNDERED AND BLIDDY TWO
She did say "I thought I was only 100"
Then again last week she thought she was 60.
When asked for her one wish as she blew out the candles on her cake she wished for a trip to the seaside.
If there is anything more heart breakingly beautiful than that sentiment please send it my way.
Awh gosh.
The cake was gooood though.

We offered to help at my Uncle's Camera/Art shop show set up thing as they had to transfer and set up their ENTIRE shop in the Town Hall rooms next door because of building works.
This took us ages but was relatively fun.
Some of the art work is just SUPERB. I can also put it down as work experience, helping to curate an art exhibition.

We went for a meal afterwards at a Chinese restaurant.
It was scrummy but SO filling.
The conversation was pretty great though.
It was mainly music, films, Uni and Cameras.
Which, granted, is expected.
It's nerdy and fun and I hardly get to talk to Tom and Matt so it was really nice.
Just as we were getting in the car I was trying to explain what I know about Youtube and Adsense but didn't really get it told properly.
Nevermind.
I wish I could make money from this.

I think I have a few anecdotes in draft texts that I should type up but I need to get this posted, if I can get any signal what so ever.

Last day of silly K blogs at least.

Kiwi

Right. My mp3 player is driving me INSANE.
I thought to myself right, lets finish converting the Wrock from silly iTunes mpeg4 to mp3 so that Zen'll play it.
Then half way through the songs it's now playing bits of other ones!

SERIOUSLY
During a MOM song there were bits of Remus Lupins and with Myrtle there was MoM.
I think it might be old and have been dropped too many times.
But I don't want it to die!

I've put on other music and it MIGHT just be the stuff I converted today. We'll see.
Hmm, there was no problem with elbow but then when I went back to Wrock there was no problem anymore.

Today I went on a pointless trip to close a bank account that Mum set up for me, I couldn't because, despite it being MY money, Mum started it so she has to close it.

While I was there I bought a RNLI duck though so that felt good.
I felt it was me being part of the Youtube Mystery Package thing. But not.

"He is my pain my sliver, a cinder in my skin, orphan child of James and Lily do you really think you'll win, I am your waking nightmare, the chill that soaks my spine, I'll fry your veins with venom, the boy who lived you will die."

I get lost in this song. I love it.

YOU ARE MY OBSESSION
A FIRE BURNING STRONG

It's powerful.

Bahzoom.
I was writing today but it was terrible so I stopped.

Kibble

Kibble: the bucket in a well.

I woke up and finished Bermudez today.

Heard Mum shout:
"Pooing in my garden... I'll have yer, go on, pshhh"
at a cat around 10:38.

Helped with the gardening.
Posted a letter.
Watched Truly Madly Deeply while I half sorted some beads.
(I adore Alan Rickman)
Read (and finished reading later) a really long fic.

Watched the end of Cars.

Became MONDAY on thesexymacaroni!
I'm part of a collab channel!
SQUEE!

Oh and right now, I'm going to sleep.

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Kakorrhaphiophobia

A fear of failure.

I had a hair cut today... it doesn't look different it's just neater. I didn't want anything drastic, I like it plain and long.
Hazel's looks really nice though, short at the back and long near the front.

There are quirks in the English language that I really like. The way we say "full stop" when Americans say "period" and yet both are used not only for punctuation but are used in conversation to mean something final, that someone is putting their foot down. There are no more instructions to follow.

Nice and simple?

I started Bermudez Triangle today, it's pretty good.

I'm going offline before I spend all night on again.

Kneazles and Krups

After previously feeling Wrock bereft I'm up to 148 songs, that's 7.8 hours so far :D
Although I think a fair few are doubles because iTunes confuses me.

BYRON
The club footed sherbet eating promiscuous scandal-mongering celebrity, he claimed women didn't have souls.
I wish they'd shown this program two months ago.

My day consisted of listening up a lot of PotterCast interviews and sorting through a box of photos and postcards.
Actually drawing something for once as well!

"OH Life, it's bigger, it's bigger than you, and you are not me."
Why REM, why must you stick in my head when I haven't listened to you?

Krank it back

So. You'll just have to put up with my "epic long blog syndrome"

Wednesday 22nd July. Word for word out of the diary I wrote because it's too much effort to photograph it all.

So, I have this notebook and I thought I should use it to write in the times I would usually blog. But in here it's going to be quite different because I have to think about how I'm going to write everything first time around so I have to slow down the writing process quite dramatically. There is no spellcheck and I have to try really hard to keep my handwriting this neat. I haven't written in an ink pen in forever and I thought such a fancy diary merited bringing one back to life!
I'm still home right now, it's 8:49am on the 22nd July 2009 and it is the day I travel to London to stand atop the plinth in Trafalgar Square as one of 2400 people taking part in Antony Gormley's 'One and Other'.
I've got to sort out and pack up my things.
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It's five to two now and we're on the train. It's even more difficult now to stay legible due to the jolting movements. We've just passed through Doncaster.
There is an oldish man in the 4th seat of our table wearing a rather snazzy suit.
Oh dear, I'm listening to my 'Wizard Rock' playlist and the Creevy Crisis have just come on. Oh, I don't mean to be rude, but they aren't very good singers. The music is nice enough but not enough for me to want to keep listening.
This ink is supposed to be blue but this pen was last black so it's only just becoming noticeable that it's blue.
Gred and Forge are just hilarious, one of the things I adore with Wrock is the utter FUN that it really is. Enjoying and loving things beyond a casual 'like' is the point of being a nerd. Enthusiasm to take something admirable and extend it.
I was reading SFX, the mag I decided to get for the train journey, for some reason the new doctor is 7 on the top 50 SF influency people and Tennant isn't on there at all! Crazy days.
My thought process is limited to thinking about the possibility of rain tonight. Grr!
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Travel scrabble @3.30.
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10:23 - We're watching Ugly Betty in our Travel Lodge room. It's room 321! I was just stood brushing my teeth and the shower was drip, drip splashing on my side!
Anyway, I guess I should talk through what's happened.
When we got to Kings Cross we sorted out the tube to 'Tower Hill', dropped off our bags, headed to 'Embankment', ate a chicken salad at Pizza Express, it was strange flavoured but still pretty good. I loved my desert though, ice cream with bits of chocolate fudge cake. Bad boy flirting on Ugly Betty.
When at Pizza Express I went to the loo and pretty much all of the locks were broken. Then Mum did one of the funniest things, when the hand dryer didn't work she stapped back and returned 'as if she were a different person'.
We were just in time to reach the 'One and Other' porta-cabin thing in Trafalgar Square at 6:20, I had to be there 1 and a half hours before so that was good.
They gave me a t-shirt, I was security checked and I put my things in the middle locker, the one with the PINK keyring!
I had to have an interview with the girl called Alex and I talked about how I found out about it and youtube and things.
They took a photo too and the camera kept making a strange squeaky noise. Oh and then I used their laptop to tweet. The guy who was up 6-7 came off and was so cool and enthusiastic. I got miked up and onto the cherry picker. I felt all wavery but as soon as I sat down on the plinth and pumped up the first balloon I was off making geometric shapes.
Well, triangle things, pyramids if you like.
I worked through the rainbow , even getting a cheer when it was blue after the green. During the hour I made a bird, dog, giraffe and flower for the audience and a flower for the woman after.
Caitlin's brother Simon turned up to watch which was really nice! My cousin Matt sent so many texts throughout! I was pps 396 btw.
Writing has gone downhill.
There was this heckler who was friendly enough, but a bit strange, called me "baby" and his "future wife".
The journey back down I was buzzing and we sat and talked to the people in the cabin for a while.
Someone, a few someone's tweets, were really sweet about me being nerdy and the "balloon monstrosity" which was obviously one of the bits I said loud enough when I was recording for hazelizabeth. I really need to go back and printscreen those tweets, and bits of my hour. I had a headache but it's all ok now. Just past 11 so I'm going to bed.
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Awoke this morning with Tom Felton song ringing around my head after a dream about super powers.
12:18 and we're sat on the train but TOT round the table we booked, for some reason our coach -D- is entirely missing!
Oh, it was out for maintenance and we've been relocated to G! A table so we can have our M + S picnic.

That's where the ink runs out.
That took over half an hour to type up!
That's insanity!
When we go away for our Swiss holiday I'll clearly have to condense the writing.
I haven't even told you guys about last night at "Opera in the Park" or the rest of today.
My arms hurt right now so I'll do that later!

SO, Saturday 25th we went to Temple Newsham to Opera in the park with plenty of family and friends.
After queueing for ages with our bags of picnic food and chairs (with Matt being told off for swinging the trifle when he wasn't!) we were released, along with 50,000 other people, into the grounds to stake a claim on a spot to sit till the sun goes down.
Just through the gates were some people with boxes, and a wheelbarrow, of... CRISPS!
For free, those big bags.
Being the sort of person, or people really, we all took hold of a bag.

Thing is, it didn't stop there, Haze, Matt and Dad went off to get more and came back with another 8 or so, a bag from the same company and around 15 oranges as well because someone else was handing those out!

Oh, I'm checking through my drafts in my phone to see what the best bits of last night were, one of them says "all the better for seeing you and hearing you" a quotation straight from Grandad... a bit scarily Red Riding Hood - esque but it wasn't sinister in reality.

At one point Juliet (who works with my Uncle Steven in his camera shop) was taking a photo and members of our group started saying quite loudly;
"That's a nice camera"
"I got it from an amazing camera shop in Brighouse"
"In Brighouse? I think I'll check out that camera shop in Brighouse!"
"There's a sale there on Monday"
"A sale? In a camera shop in Brighouse?"

This finished with someone, probably Matt, saying "this sparkling water is very alcoholic".

Another draft is "Porta urinal", that one speaks for itself.

Tom at one point said "I'm the worlds worst thrower". By itself this sentence seems neither amusing nor really pitiable and yet as it was related to the constant battle of orange throwing between him and Martin it was a fairly entertaining moment.

Later in the night I hear a distinct "bleh" noise from Hazel, accompanied by the words "that was me hitting the wall of orange" after clearly eating too much.

We managed to get out of the car park pretty quick after the whole night and were back at Grandad's for 11 ish.
We got a text of Matt, they got in at 12:12 because they were parked so far back.
BAHAHAH


WELL!
Today was a trip to the Cornmill for lunch. Somewhere my Grandad thinks is THE place to be and yet we managed to have Sunday lunch there in UNDER ONE HOUR.
Sitting around at Grandad's, going to visit Auntie Irene and Uncle Carl and then coming home.

Woo.
Oh and I'm going to thank Marissa here. There's 9 mins of Myrtle sending time left right now and my fingers are itching.

I wish there was a way to convert iTunes stuff to mp3 without burning to CD first!

Krum

There aren't many days of this month left. I'm sure L will have much more relevant words for titles.
I'm writing this before we go to "Opera in the Park" tonight because I'm not sure when we'll get back and if the internet will work then either because it's a bit hit and miss here.

Anyhoo, we came to Grandad's this morn so that we could have lunch with him.
We went to Morrison's.

Since then Haze and I have sat watching Banned/Funny/Stupid commercials on the tube and a couple of vlogbrothers videos.

I'm thinking this evening is going to be super fun as it's a massive picnic.
Seriously, I will type up the things from Wednesday.

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