self preservations and concussions
OK, I know I haven’t updated this in a while, and I apologise. But in my defence, I have 3 ½ weeks left till my exams, and so every spare minute I can I am revising…so that’s when I'm not at school or doing something Stargate related… *whistles innocently*
Went on the orienteering thing. It was pretty cool. Me and mum were on one “team”, and Judi, mark and dad were on the other. As we were doing this for the first time we decided that we would do the second hardest track there. I’m still not sure why we decided to do that. Anyway, Judi and co. went off running, intending to do it as fat as possible… yes I am aware that that is the point… anyway, they went at is with a vengeance, whereas me and mum decided that we would go at a more leisurely pace, I.e. a nice stroll around Gibside, following the route. Then we came to a section were the next point was about 1 km off though undergrowth, no paths in sight. So, because we have a combined sense of direction of non-existent between us, and no compass, we decided to omit that point, instead taking the path down to the next but one on the trail.
Of course, we get there and Judi decided to ring us to see where about on the trail we were, as they had had a 2 minute advantage over us. So we answered quite honestly that we were at number nine… we just dint say that we hadn’t been to numbers 7 and 8. She got slightly mad at that point, wanting to know how we half gotten ahead of them without them seeing us. So then mum decide to be a spoil sport and say that we may have missed a couple out. No, it was not cheating; it was self preservation, and a desire of not wanting to get lost, like we would have if we have attempted to get to the checkpoints.
If anyone was wondering if a concussion is as bad as people say they are, I can tell you now that they are. The cat was chasing a rabbit around the house, so in order to stop it killing said rabbit, I crouched down to pick him up, and stood up into the door handle of the lounge. And it hurt! A lot!! Of course this was about an hour before I had to go to school. So I was sitting in the lounge after letting the rabbit go, with a bag of frozen peas on my head. And I’ll tell you now… it did nothing! I still felt like sleeping when I got to school. Of course, if you’ve got suspected concussion, that is the last thing that you’re supposed to do, as you can lapse into a coma from brain trauma or something… Anyway, I couldn’t simply ask my dad to come home from work to look after me, as he was in Birmingham. So not only did I give myself a slight concussion, I did it when there wasn’t going to be anyone in the house with me until about 9 o’clock. Well, like they say, everyone has their moments.
So apart from that mini-drama last week was pretty routine.
Went to the metro centre with Ryu for some girl time out. Found ourselves on the same bus as Nashi, Jamie, Wayne and Sarah, who I haven’t seen in AGES! And then when we got to town it turned out that I knew another person on the bus. But hey, it happens. Went bowling, and I got better as the game went on. It takes me a while to get the right spin on the ball, but once I have it I do ok. Of course it takes about 7 turns to get the spin right, so it wasn’t exactly surprising when she sorta…whipped my ass. But then we had another game and I redeemed myself slightly by beating her. Which was cool. Then went to the laser quest thing next door to the bowling… that is serious fun!! There were us, and a family of 3 on one team, and then about 9 13 year old lads on the other team. Of course, because we were older, and there were more of them we let them win. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
Let’s see, what else? Um… oh, got my brother writing his own fanfic… I had nothing to do with it I swear! It’s a humour… I can’t write humour. Well, I can, but it’s always bad. But the fact that my 13 year old brother had me in fits is something. Yes, I know I’m going on about fanfiction again, but so what? I like it, if you don’t, well that’s your personal taste, and I’ll respect that. I’m not sure if he wants me to post it or anything, that’s his decision to make. Been thinking about maybe posting some of the stuff that I’ve written, but I’m not sure yet.
Countdowns:
First exam: 20 days
Prom: 24 days
Last exam: 57 days
Holiday: 2 months, 23 days
Exam results: 3 months, 15 days
Birthday: 3 months, 21 days
Went on the orienteering thing. It was pretty cool. Me and mum were on one “team”, and Judi, mark and dad were on the other. As we were doing this for the first time we decided that we would do the second hardest track there. I’m still not sure why we decided to do that. Anyway, Judi and co. went off running, intending to do it as fat as possible… yes I am aware that that is the point… anyway, they went at is with a vengeance, whereas me and mum decided that we would go at a more leisurely pace, I.e. a nice stroll around Gibside, following the route. Then we came to a section were the next point was about 1 km off though undergrowth, no paths in sight. So, because we have a combined sense of direction of non-existent between us, and no compass, we decided to omit that point, instead taking the path down to the next but one on the trail.
Of course, we get there and Judi decided to ring us to see where about on the trail we were, as they had had a 2 minute advantage over us. So we answered quite honestly that we were at number nine… we just dint say that we hadn’t been to numbers 7 and 8. She got slightly mad at that point, wanting to know how we half gotten ahead of them without them seeing us. So then mum decide to be a spoil sport and say that we may have missed a couple out. No, it was not cheating; it was self preservation, and a desire of not wanting to get lost, like we would have if we have attempted to get to the checkpoints.
If anyone was wondering if a concussion is as bad as people say they are, I can tell you now that they are. The cat was chasing a rabbit around the house, so in order to stop it killing said rabbit, I crouched down to pick him up, and stood up into the door handle of the lounge. And it hurt! A lot!! Of course this was about an hour before I had to go to school. So I was sitting in the lounge after letting the rabbit go, with a bag of frozen peas on my head. And I’ll tell you now… it did nothing! I still felt like sleeping when I got to school. Of course, if you’ve got suspected concussion, that is the last thing that you’re supposed to do, as you can lapse into a coma from brain trauma or something… Anyway, I couldn’t simply ask my dad to come home from work to look after me, as he was in Birmingham. So not only did I give myself a slight concussion, I did it when there wasn’t going to be anyone in the house with me until about 9 o’clock. Well, like they say, everyone has their moments.
So apart from that mini-drama last week was pretty routine.
Went to the metro centre with Ryu for some girl time out. Found ourselves on the same bus as Nashi, Jamie, Wayne and Sarah, who I haven’t seen in AGES! And then when we got to town it turned out that I knew another person on the bus. But hey, it happens. Went bowling, and I got better as the game went on. It takes me a while to get the right spin on the ball, but once I have it I do ok. Of course it takes about 7 turns to get the spin right, so it wasn’t exactly surprising when she sorta…whipped my ass. But then we had another game and I redeemed myself slightly by beating her. Which was cool. Then went to the laser quest thing next door to the bowling… that is serious fun!! There were us, and a family of 3 on one team, and then about 9 13 year old lads on the other team. Of course, because we were older, and there were more of them we let them win. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
Let’s see, what else? Um… oh, got my brother writing his own fanfic… I had nothing to do with it I swear! It’s a humour… I can’t write humour. Well, I can, but it’s always bad. But the fact that my 13 year old brother had me in fits is something. Yes, I know I’m going on about fanfiction again, but so what? I like it, if you don’t, well that’s your personal taste, and I’ll respect that. I’m not sure if he wants me to post it or anything, that’s his decision to make. Been thinking about maybe posting some of the stuff that I’ve written, but I’m not sure yet.
Countdowns:
First exam: 20 days
Prom: 24 days
Last exam: 57 days
Holiday: 2 months, 23 days
Exam results: 3 months, 15 days
Birthday: 3 months, 21 days
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You obviously weren't wearing your lucky socks bowling! Everyone knows you have to wear the socks!
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