Feeling better

Ok, i've come out of the depressed mood i was in yesterday. back to being annoyingly cheerful.

Today's genetics practical was really dull. It was the sort of thing that you did in year 7 science. Go around, and see if people can roll their tongue, can taste a bitter chemical on a slip of paper, see what direction their hair grows in, and what blood group they are. For 3 hours! Ok, yes, there are about 65 people in this practcal, but when you consider that once you know your answers you're just putting it into a table for everyone else to copy down, it's pretty dull.

But never mind. It's over now. Just another tally in the number of writeups that i have to do. Which i am off now to go do. Joys of joys!

Why is it...

...Everytime something seems to finally br going right, 2 things then go wrong?
Why is it everytime i finish something, 2 more things then need to be done?
Why is it whenever i seem to know what's going on, 2 things seem to knock me out of place?
Why is it that life is 1 step forwards, 2 steps back?

I would go into reasons behind this post, but right now i really don't feel like it. Sorry and all that, but sometimes things just ain't as easy to word as they should be.

It's Snowing

I love snow! We had about 2 hours of it around lunchtime, and then it was snowing again when i got in. Whhheeeeeee! *bounces around* I think i've had too much sugar. I can feel myself bouncing in my seat. God help the people who i have to sit next to tomorrow. I just know i'm going to crash.

Oh, i am going to be so busy in the next few weeks.
3rd Dec- Uni TKD tournament at Liverpool
5th Dec- Going to see a stand up comedian
10th Dec- Meal with dad's family
12th Dec- Biology xmas party
13th Dec- TKD grading
17th Dec- Break up/ come home
19th Dec- A-level certificate presentation evening
23rd Dec- Thin Lizzy Tribute band
24th Dec- Xmas eve
25th Dec- Xmas Day.

And between now and 9th Dec, i have to finish 5 lab reports, then another one is due in the day we break up. Does anyone want to do them for me?

Still don't know what's going on with my nana. It's bugging me. I hate this stage.

OMG, i'm so hyper! It's started snowing again! WHHHEEEEE!!!! Ok, going away to calm down.

Christmas is coming...

... The goose is getting fat.
Please put a penny in the old man's hat.
If you haven't got a penny,
a ha'penny will do.
If you haven't got a ha'penny
Then God bless you.

Feeling in a Christmas mood today. Went out to the Frankfurt market. It's a German christmas market that comes each year for about a month/6 weeks. And they've all got something from germany or german related things there. And it's so much fun. I went there yesterday with Amy for a look round, and then went back today actually buying things. Normally i try to ignore christmas for as long as possible and end up running round at the last minute getting presents. But not this year. This year, it's not even the end of Novemeber, and i have everyone's christmas presents. And i think i'm still in credit in my balance. Atm at least.

Got a taekwondo tournament at the weekend. Which should be extremely fun. Staying overnight in Liverpool. And i think it's going to be warmer there than it has been here for the last few days. And apparently it's going to get colder in the next couple of days. But we aint had any snow or slush or ice... we had a bit of ground frost last week, and the extremely cold winds, but that's as close as it has come to being winter here so far.

My nana on my mum's side is ill. I dont know what's wrong with her. They thought it was gall bladder stones, but a couple of MRIs and other tests later they've ruled that out. And my grandad has diabetes and arthritis. And lately it's been getting worse. To the extent that he hardly leaves the house now because it's so hard for him to move around. And now he's decided that he doesn't like the house that he's in at the moment. And as he's housebound, or pretty much housebound, as my nana can't drive, he wants to move to a house where he feels happy.

And I can understand that. It's just that last time they moved, which was only just over a year ago, they got really stressed out over it. And i'm a little worried that it's going to cause major problems this time. So yeah, i can understand why he wants to move, but i'm concerned about them. And yes, they can be complete pains, and seem to crticise more than compliment, but they'll still the only grandparents on that side of my family that i have.

I've been so busy this week. Thursday for example, i was out of the house for 13 hours. I was in uni for 6 hours. And will be again on Thurday. The joys of having a 3 hour practical before a lecture at 5. Still, it could be worse. I could be having 9-5 everyday, or 9-12 on Wednesday. I was clever and opted to do biology and not pharmacy. We got a change of parasitology lecturer on Thursday. He's apparently in a 60's band. And he took a jab at the pharmacists. Actually all of my lecturers did on Thurday. Ah well.

Geoge Best died. And i would go into a big debate over this, but i don't think it's my place to. So i wont say anything beyond that.

It's ironic to think that my job around the house this week has been to keep the kitchen tidy. Apart from today, i haven't actually used it this week. I've either had a share of a takeout that someone has gotten in, or i have eaten out. And yet somehow i still have money...

Or crap, no i wont. I've got my rent coming out next week. damn. And there was me thinking i was solvent for the next couple of weeks. Ah well. Christmas is coming. I'll probably be getting some money off some releatives. Oh, speaking of whom, i'm going to be seeing my dad's family in a couple of weeks. My nana (on his side of the family) has booked most of the family in at a nice hotel just down from where they live. It'll be good to see them all again, as i haven't seen some of them since, um, i don't know, April? That makes sense. I aint seen my Aunt since April of last year. Wow. Long time.

It's strange. I seem to be getting excited for christmas this year. My last few years haven't been the best for christmas's. But saying that nothing life altering happened aroud my birthday... ujnless you count A level results and moving away. Ok, family wise there hasn't been any majorly bad developments like there have been for the last couple of years. Maybe the run of bad luck has ended. Or maybe fate is going to wait a little longer before letting all hell loose. Guess i'll have to wait and see.


Small apologies to mamochan for the next bit...

Album- Shrek soundtrack
Album 2- Shrek 2 Soundtrack

Song- Garbage- Bleed like me
Song 2- Goodbye to you

Film- Shrek 2
Film 2- Empire records

Um, i think that's it for now.

apologies

I was going to update tonight. But I've had a shitty day, and now really really can't be bothered to. Sorry. I'll update soon. Currently heading on a chocolate hunt.

today

I'm not having the best day today. I managed to (somehow) sleep through my alarm. Kinda hard to do cos it's right next to my ear and goes off a lot, quite loudly. Unless of course i managed to wake up, turn it off and go back to sleep without actually waking up. Anyway, how do i know this? Well, my friend called me at 5 to 9, asking where i was. And i was thinking "what do you mean, where am i? why, what time is it? Oh, it's 5 to 9. And i'm in bed. Bollocks!" So yeah... didnt make it in to my 9 lecture... oops.

So i left the house, got to the bus stop without checking that i had change in my purse before leaving. And when i get there i realise that i have change... but i may not actually have enough. This day just gets better and better. I swear, about 40p of my bus fair was made up of coppers!

Made it to my second lecture though. And it was confusing! So i've been spending the last hour or so reading through it trying to understand what the hell it's going on about. And let me tell ya... it's NOT going well. End of the lecture, i move down the row cos Amy and Jeff and Gui were sitting the row behind me and i wanted to chat, and as i do so, Jeff leans down looking for his pen lid, and somehow Amy thought that he was going to kiss me! And yeah, he IS cute and all, but as far as i know he's taken. So we looked at her like she was insane. And then she kept accusing me of keeping "us" from her. So we spent about 5 minutes trying to convince her that we are NOT together. I dunno.

Went out for lunch with Amy in town. Which was fun. Got home at about half 1, looked to see when i was in tomorrow, and realised that i should have been in a lecture since 1. Not at home. Since starting uni i have missed 2 lectures, both today. Agian with the oops...

And now it is FREEZING in the house. The heating's on and everything, it just doesn't feel like it! *shivers in cold* I think i'll go put some gloves on... And curl up in a ball somewhere and wait for this day to end. Or watch a film. Hmmm... think i'll do that.

Tardy

Ok, so it's saturday, and i said i'd have this up thursday, so sorry about that.

And yes, i am aware that it means that i haven't updated all week but i've been BUSY! Started biochemistry this week... and in the first lecture there was one of the lads sitting 2nd row from to front at an angle so that he was in direct line of the lecturer fast asleep. Literally. His head was about half an inch from hitting the desk. Of course once we, "we" being me, Amelia, Rosie and Amy, noticed this, we kept one ear on the lecture whilst taking bets as to if and when he was going to hit his head, wake up or get yelled at. See... told you 9 starts are a bad idea...

Taekwondo on Tuesday night. Which was fun. i didnt pull/twinge/amputate/break my knee... first time for everything, right? But saying that i did have a faint spell. Y'know, one day i'll get through a tuesday session without causing some ssort of damage to myself... promise...

It's nice to know that people who hang out with you actually care about you, and don't just do so for the hell of it. And it can be anything, like sending a text, simple calling someone because they want to talk, making sure that you get home safe or offering a shoulder, y'know? And sometimes it's nice when they realise that you need what they offer when you haven't. It just makes moving away from home that much easier i guess.

Got another taekwondo tournament coming up forst weekend of december. Neil is currently trying to get everyone to take part in it, as its a university individual contest, as opposed to a club national team contest like the last one. I think i should unforseen injuries aside, be taking part in that one. It's being held in Liverpool, and it's an overnight deal, on account that Neil said he'd take us out in the evening and he, according to him, is a cheap drunk. Bless him. But yeah, that should be fun.

Course, with that happening that weekend, my nana's christmas meal thing the next weekend then coming home the weekend after, i have very little time for actually doing christmas shopping. Crap, christmas shopping! What the hell am i going to get people?!

Thursday we did a mycology practical. And it was really fun. We got back our air samples that we took form last week, and on one of the disks, the sample from a lift in the main building of the uni, was a fungal colony that one of the professors identified as being quite dangerous, especially to diabetics, as if breathed in by them at the concentration that we had it at could cause serious respiritory problems or even death. GREAT (!)... And this is in a LIFT! I think i'll just take the stairs from now on...

Taekwondo was pretty fun on Thursday. It was frigging freezing outside, but i had had a 5 lecture, so was already on site. So i thought what the hey, i have my stuff, i'll just stay in the warmth until the session starts. Only about half the club turned up. Maybe just over. Anyway, we were doing a load of curcuit training type things. But it was done as relay races. So there were ones like "run to this pillar and do 10 situps, then run to the next pillar and do 10 pushups, and then run the bottom of the room and do 10 squat thrusts and sprint back" That one hurt. But then we went on and had a leapfrog race, and a wheelbarrow race. And then we went on to do some kicks, the most of which were just for the hell of doing them. Like a running jumping side kick over 4 pads.

And then Neil decided that he wanted to show off and do 3 kicks in the air before coming back down. 2 were easy enough, it was one of the things that he had us doing. He was just going to put a turning kick on the end of it. Of course, the guy holding the pad for the turing kick would be in the most danger, as he'd be coming back down instead of being at the top of the arc. So he got the guy with the broken nose that has yet to be corrected because of the type of break it was to hold this last pad. And he's not allowed to take part in sparring at the moment incase he gets hit in the nose. So yeah, good choice there Neil! But I got through the session without fainting, almost fainting or hurting any necessary body parts.

Friday... Um, lectures. Boring, same old same old. Except i may have sorta kinda ate 2 bags of skittles in the last 2 lectures. With help, but still. And there was a chance that during the last lecture i got a litte hyper, but not obviously. I know, i know, wonders will never cease. Don't worry, as soon as i was out of there i became, ok, aconcerned friend cos one of my mates, who hadn't been looking all that good that day, said he felt faint, and so me being me walkeed him back to his place and made sure he was ok before allowing all that hyperness to take over. See... i can control it, for the most part.

Got in, only to find Helen as hyped up as i was, and without the aid of anything as far as i could tell. Until she mentioned that she had been waiting for me to get in to see if i wanted to go see Harry Potter. So yeah, saw that last night. Um, please don't kill me... And i wont say anything about the film at all... Just BLOODY HELL WAS IT MINT!!!!! *Gags self to prevent anything else being said on subject*

Lab reports. D'you have any idea how boring they are to write?! And i've got 7 to write up so far, and getting another at least 5, possibly 6 more before christmas. Joys upon joys. Anyway, got to get back tot them... they don't write themselves.

Kinda long, i guess... but not as long as i thought it was going to be. Ah well.

later

Um, well, i was going to write a long update now, but i got distracted, and now i have about 5 mins beofre i have to go, so i'll write it when i get home tonight. Right, ok, notice posted. I'm off.

Murphy's law

I love jeff's personal tutor! he has the same attitude towards Monday 9 starts as we do... Avoid at all costs! I dont think a lecturer has ever had an ovation, standing or not!

Yesterday there was a Taekwondo tournament. And due to unforseen circumstances... wait, no, just my stupidity, i couldn't take part because i still had my knee strapped up. Anyway, i was up at 6. AM. As in MORNING!! Get up, and there's a light on that as far as i know has never been on before. It's like an emergancy light at the top of the stairs, and i dont know if it comes on my movement or what. But anyway, it was on, and the alarm wasn't going off, so i figured it was ok.

And I was at the guild for 8. AM. Again as in Morning! So we're standing there for about 10 mins after 8 in the Freezing cold... but i had been clever enough to put on a few layers, unlike some people who thought tee and light jacket would be enough. Fools!... When Alan Neil finally decide to show up. In suits. Becasue they're black belts, and we're going to an event where other black belts are present, they have to wear suits.

Anyway, neil and, um, Neil, go and get the minibuses, and after a minute of confusion where we get into one only to be told that it isnt ours and we get onto a different one, we're off to Stratford. Seems like a nice area, the whole 10 minutes i got to see of it before getting to the spots centre where the tournament is being held. And we're in the trailing minibus, watching in surprise as the lead minibus decides that one bay and a little over the lines is too much like hard work, and precedes to set the middle of the minibus (which is about the size of the crammy minibus) over the + formed by 4 parking bays. And we're like "Yeah, cos THAT'S legal!"

Headed in to the tournament, and there are these kids, can't be more than 5/6... and they're frigging Black belts! And there was this one kid, about 7ish maybe, who was a second dan! Which is the second level of a black belt! So in theory we have to call these little kids "sir" cos they're frigging dans! It sorta depresses ya when you realise that these kids have been taught to a level that in theory they could kick your ass!

Got on with the tournament, and friends did well. The guys in the 10-7th gup band got broze while the gals got silver. And we got silver in the 3-1st gup lass group too. In the afternoon it was the black belts turn to fight, which cheered Alan up a fair bit, as he wasnt needed during the morning and had been a little, um, distracted, i think is the word. Anyway, we sorta, um... got our asses kicked in that competition, but what the hey, its all good fun at the end of the day.

Got back to the minibus's, and the one that had decided that + marked the spot had a parking ticket! Apparently out thought of "Yeah, cos THAT'S legal!" was the same as the stradford council! They had been fined £30! Have to laugh at that. Got back to Birmingham, and on the way realised that bar about 30 minutes we hadn't actually seen the sun all day. Kinda depressing a bit. But yeah, it was fun all in all. Played leap bus with the other minibus on the way back, and so beat their asses at it and got back before them.

Me, competitive? NO!

Got back, and turned on my light, forgetting that when i had done it in the morning it had gone. So no problem, switch on my desk lamp. Then find the bathroom light has gone aswell. Great! Murphy's law... or at least one of them. And then my phone decides that it's going to die on me unless i charge it, so i unplug the plug next to my laptop, curse, and spend a little time trying to find the plug i just let go of cos it was my lamp plug. Yeah yeah, i know, dumbass. Anyway, getting a new lightbulb tomorrow... if between us we remember to buy a box...

Think that's it... No 9 start tomorrow! My new physiology lecturer is great!

left

Emma moved out. Which, from my point of view totally sucks! She said she'd help me out with this year and stuff, be there if i wanted to talk, then stuff that i dont really know about happened, and she left for a couple of weeks, and someone came round over the weekend to look at the house and Helen told me that, and it was the first thing i knew that she was moving out.

So i asked Emma what was going on, and she said that she'd talk to me when i got back. So i asked her how about Tues, cos i had all yesterday off, only had taekwondo. And she said she couldnt do tues but we'd meet up soon.

Anyway, i go out to taekwondo bout 6ish and come back bout 9ish, and in those 3 hours she'd been back and totally packed up everything and had moved out. So much for not being able to do tues! and then she sent me a text saying that she'd come back to pick up her stuff, but i wasnt in, and she should have known that, cos she knew i had taekwondo on tuesday evenings!

And yet she's acting like its all a coincidence that i wasnt there when she came round! and then she said she wanted to give me a note! A BLOODY NOTE! That can fit under my door! I mean, seriously, shes gonna have to come up with a better excuse than i wasnt there for her not leaving it!

Pulled my other knee in Taekwondo last night. Come up with conclusion that it's hereditry, as judi, my dad, and nana all have weak knees. Looking into getting some knee braces, cos i dont wanna give up taekwon. It's getting extremely good. Still... this time it is kinda, well, mostly... all right totally my fault that i've done my knee in. I sorta twinged it on tuesday last week, and did the sensible thing and rested it and didn't train on it on thurs. And so i thought that with basically a week of not doing anything stressful on it, unless you count falling down the stairs then legging it for the bus, waling around in heels, dancing in said heels for a few hours stressful of course. Anyway, the long and short of it i pulled it, it hurts, and i am a dumbass!

Got out of a 3 hour practical early today. By about 1 hour 30 mins. And not because i had prior arrangements like a sports tournament or nothing... but because i had finished. It was on the computers, and had step by step instructions on what to do, and im having a really hard time trying to see how they thought it was going to last 3 hours. Saying that though, people were struggling with the task. Again. And asking me for help. Again. One of these days i'm going to say "Work it out for yourself!" Or something.

Ummm, not much else to say really... Nope, think that's it.

there and back again

Right. Sorry it's been so late since my last update. Been busy at Uni.

Went home for the weekend. And i didn't realise just how much i missed it until i was there. i mean, yes i was counting down the hours like, well, i do, from 3 days before hand, but yeah. And it's strange, i got home and realised i had missed my siblings. But it wasn;t until we were having lunh today that it struck me just how much i had missed them. Even the bickering that they do. I grew up with it, and it's been missing from my life for the last 6 weeks. So yeah, been missing them.

Didn;t get to see everyone i wanted to. Didn't get to the pub like i thought i might be able to either. Shame really. But hey, there's always next visit. Found a down side to the whole visiting home thing... You have to leave after a couple of days. Which really sucks.

Right. Going to leave this here. Can't think of anything to say.

i think of one later!... or not...

Went out on Saturday night. Was cool. mate from tae kwon do's birthday, which i found out on friday. We have some lectures together too, cos he does pharmacy, and we get some lectures together. Anyway, between cell and molecular and Physiology (don't you all wish you had my Friday afternoon?!) Gui, another of my friends in his class tells me that they're planning this party thing, and can i come? So then in the next lecture Jeff happened to be sitting between us so it made it a little hard to swap numbers! Anyway, eventually managed it. And he had no clue. Bless him.

So went round, and met his flat mates Lora and Andy, and was hanging out with them for a bit while Gui tried to get Jeff into the kitchen so we could have cake. So while being threatened to be gagged because of my giggle which we knew would give away that i was there, as he didn't know i was coming. He thought he would be asking me to join them when they were out. Anyway, we didn't realise just how quickly these candles burnt down... so by the time he had gotten into the kitchen and we had been given that all clear, the candles had burnt from being about 2.5 ish inches to about .5 of an inch. Still... it was worth it.

i have never been so glad i dont drink whiskey. After about 3/4 of a bottle of bells (DON'T BLAME ME!! I DIDN'T CHOSE IT!) Jeff decided that he'd have whiskey and milk. It's not enough that he's ruined perfectly good coke with whiskey, he now has to start on the milk. Still, it was pretty funny to watch. Though why he then decided to to a dance in my red leather jacket is stil illuding me. Ideas? Anyone?

Went out for a couple of drinks. Twas cool. Especially as i was the only sober person who was drinking. jack doesn't count, he didnt have anything alcoholic. Although, what with the 4/5 of a bottle of whiskey in his system, i am pretty impressed that Jeff managed to not throw up, or heck even act that drunk. And he remembered pretty much everything that had happened the following morning.

Yeah. It was a really good time.

Stupid bus divers!

Well... bus driver in particular. Is it me, or when you ring the bell, stand up and move to the front of the bus it tends to mean that you want to get off at the next stop and so the bus driver should stop. Yes? Well, this particular bus driver seemed to have been aabsent for from that lecture! Uni stop is the next one, get up, press the bell, move to the front of the bus, with another couple of people behind me, and he drives straight past the stop. And begins to move into the next lane across. So me and the lass behind me start to point out to the baka that we had actually rang the bell and wanted to get off. He did stop, about 40 yeards down from where we were going to get off, outside the fire station which is next to the campus. As in infront of the doors where the fire engine comes out of. yeah, cos THAT'S legal! What with all the signs saying no stopping at any time and yellow box and all! BAKA!

Tae kwon do was fun last night. Spent the most part sparring with each other because there's a competition coming up soon. As in 2 weeks. Ao we're practising for that. Spent some of the time spaaring with a first Dan. Which is a level one black belt. And i had the choice of him or a 1st Dan who is about 6" 4... ish, possibly 6"5... choices choices. But yeah, it was fun. i hurt like hell now. I'm pretty sure Neil's mission in life is to get us all to black belts or kill us trying!

Got someone coming round to look at my radiatior soon. There's a hole in the ceiling of the lounge... which happens to be where my radiator is... and last time the guy came round no-one had bothered to tell me and i was out. Which meant they couldn't get in my room to look at it. "FYI, not my fault!" Ah Shrek 2... gotta love it!

Right. Going to end this here. I think i've rambled on long enough.