This night was flawless

The night I had been counting down for came and went. Taylor Swift's 'Speak Now' tour 2011! Was epic as predicted. Didn't sing as many songs as I hoped but was still amazing.

Starting to get a bit giddy and bottom shuffly while waiting....

We were so close to the stage but high up enough to still see.
See where that white blur is.... we were hanging over that bar waiting to shake her hand which I did!







Opened up with 'Sparks fly' which had explosions of gold sparks flying across the stage. Then sang mine, which had cartoons of Taylor and her love interest act out the song on the screen. Missed the funny documentary that they did last time but it was still very good.

Loved her dress while they sang, 'Speak Now', the background art was really cool to with its 50's glamor look. When she sang on the mini stage she was sooo close to us! And then she came round and touched my hand it didn't matter that my legs were being crushed against the bars I got to touch her!!

One of my fave songs was 'Enchanted' it was beautiful!

I think its needless to say I sang every song, only sat down for one, and stomped and cheered for the entire performance. Would I go again? Need you ask I'm already trying to work out when her next album is coming out then I will stalk the ticket pages and keep refreshing until they are for sale!

R.I.P Diana Wynn Jones

I was completely thrown by this news, I didn't even though she was ill. I thought DW would be around for ages and would write loaddddds more books. But looks like it wasn't meant to be :(.  I found out on twitter can you beleive? and she had only died this morning, thats how amazing twitter is.  I can't see it being broad casted on the news so otherwise I might not have known .  Reading 'Howl's moving castle' was what first got me into anime. It's one of my favorite books and favorite studio ghibli movies even though they take different directions there really great. Howl is such a great character he is a coward and knows it but never leaves his friends in danger, he can't be pinned down and is hopeless vain. But after all that he is a great guy.


Saying this I found some of DW other books a bit hit and miss. I read one book I can't even remember what it was called but it was so weird I got to the end and was still baffled to what the story was about. Then there were other books that were just 'meh, okayish' these were: 'A tale of time city', 'Dogsbody' and 'Eight days of Luke'. I'm sure there are more. Maybe she was just having a bad day, or maybe I was to old to enjoy these ones. *shruggs.

But others she  hit the nail on the head! Like the chrestmanci series which is epic and funny in its self. So I guess what I'm trying to say is when she wrote well she wrote really well and when she didn't she really didn't. (Apologizes I can't think of anything more literally fluent to express what I mean). I'm very sorry that she is gone from the world but hope now that she is at peace.

Excuse me, my leg has fallen asleep. Do you mind if I join it?

Work reached new levels of boredom. I had to count knitting patterns as we are stock taking today. Do you realize how many knitting patterns we have?? Thousands! After the first few I start to make stories up about the people modeling the knit wear. This couple are farmers looking for a lost duck ( White jumper flecked in grey with plait patterns on), these girls are sunbathing in the Antarctic ( knitted bikini (even I double take at that one), two women discovering they were lesbians (two boring grey cardigans( they had princess Diana haircuts and were looking at each other with simmering fire in the background), and it goes on. The one thing that worries me is that people actually wear these things!! There are people out there right now walking around in these eye saws, they probably cause traffic accidents. So in effect I would be doing a lot of people favors by burning them.

Only interesting thing was that one of the models looked like one of my friend's sisters and was using various facial expressions to try and make the knit wear look more acceptable and exciting than it really was. Needless to say she failed but it gave me a giggle. I wonder if the photographer ever shouts out, 'make it look sexy!'. How do you make knit wear look sexy?? I think in my mind knitted jumpers will always be for grannys, farmers and fishermen, and none of them are sexy.

The eggs have fallen out of my basket

Urghhhhh i think I'm in a bit of a pickle.  Looking around universities thought I'd found the one for me and neglected the others.  Keele seemed perfect what with me visiting last year and all the societies matching my needs I thought this is the one. Visiting today was a bit of a wake up call everything just seemed to be really dull and shabby. The lecturer for media sounded like a tired bee buzzing away buzz buzz buzz never actually making a point. Everything just seemed so blahhhh maybe it was just me. The premier accommodation is nice but you need a medical excuse to guarantee to get one. I've seen the standard rooms and so if I do decide to go here I will be faking life critically illness to get in. I know its snobby but there is no way on God's green earth I'm staying in that crappy excuse for rooms. I'm sorry but 2 toilets between 14 it aint gonna happen!

As soon as I got home I googled my other uni choice unfortunately the open day has been and gone. Oxford B is not on a campus so its spread out quite a bit :( which I'm not sure I will like.  The accommodation is ridiculously expensive so I dont know if its worth taking the chance???

The other uni is near my friends which is a plus and the last time I went the lectures where quite passionate about what they taught. When I visited it was pretty grim the inside was nice but the outside just made me depressed. So I'd probably commute from Lancaster, but its just so low on the the uni tables I wonder if it will do me more harm than good. The employment rate after 6 months is 57%. I mean thats not huge, I can't believe that the other 43% were sat on their bums they are probably really smart =_=.

So I'm kinda going round in circles, should I bite the bullet with keele and take the chance of being bored to death or go to Oxford B where I've never been and risk hating the isolation of not being on a campus. Or go to uclan be close to my old friends but risk not getting a job at the end of it?

HELP???

Barbie Syndrome

I have something to say and just wondered if anybody does this too. I'm not very good at expressing my anger only my sister has  experienced any physical punishment from me so this is the only way I can deal with stressful situations.

When I'm really annoyed with someone and can't think what to say I imagine that the person is suddenly turned to plastic and has shrunk to a Barbie sized doll. I then imagine that I have grabbed hold of their legs and am repeatably whacking their bodies against the window in my room. If I am REALLY p*ssed off I'll imagine I'm putting their heads in the door and repeatedly slamming the door until their heads pop off.

It doesn't even have to a real person, it can even be a person in a book that has annoyed me. See I'm not discriminative. My sister has started to spot the signs of this 'Barbie Syndrome'. Apparently I frown and get distracted and she'll say, 'You're doing it again! Who has earned your wrath this time?' So if you talking to me and I suddenly go quiet with a frown , beware I could be mentally tearing your head off. There, you've been warned!

Song: Valerie by the Zutons

To be old and wise, you must first have to be young and stupid

This week has been unexpectedly good. I was ummming and arrring about going to Lancaster for ages but on the 11th hour I decided to go and I'm really pleased I did. I needed to be somewhere that wasn't Hull.

The night out was good too. I did'nt drink a lot but I mixed quite a bit: 2 eggnogs, one red rum, one red wine and some champagne (which was given to us free by the Carlton). So yer if thats not a cocktail for a hangover then I don't know what is. But thankfully I was ok and spent the rest of Thursday in bed watching 'Sleepless in Seattle'. The afternoon I went to a place called Soupanover, which is a really groovy cafe that sells homemade soup. On the walls are movie posters form the 50's with some reference to soup and they play really relaxed Motown songs.

My Friend had this Pea soup this morning and even now my moth is watering as the taste is always amazing. *drrrrroooooooool*

It was nice to see everyone and catch up, but you still feel like a bit of an outsider since your no longer living the student life. I really miss it :( 6 months to go!


We also have a wii! This is really cool but I have a feeling that my mum and Naomi will soon bore of it how long shall we give them??

I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested!

The title is reference to the Bag Bang Theory, I've been watching a lot recently. Debating whether to purchase season 4 because it is just so good.

Not a lot to report, this week has been pretty slow. With my granddad being at home the stress is starting to show. I'm not sure what happened but i think my sister talked back to my granddad (just to be clear on this my sister and I never do this we have so much respect for him that its almost like an unwritten rule. I know this must seem child like but its always been like that). To put it blandly  my mum went ape sh*t and my sister had to stay in her room for the whole afternoon. He goes home in week so it wont be long before I can go downstairs in pjays in the middle of the day and watch movies without squirming if something rude happens.

Book wise I've finished 'the choice' by N.Sparks, inspired by seeing the notebook on DVD.  To be honest I was a bit disappointed. If anyone reads my blogg regular they will know that i usually dedicate a whole entry to a review but this drained me so much that I don't have enough energy. The book left me with the feeling of 'meh'.  Reading Sparks I was expecting a bit more magic after all the hype over him. The book had the feeling of it could have been written by any mills and boons author. I didn't care for the main characters enough and the apparent 'choice'  ( I wont spoil it for you) wasn't shocking, in fact its been used as a soap story line so many times its nearly cliche.   But I'm not giving up I'll give him another shot when I can get my hands on another of his books, as this was the only one they had in my library.

Also reading Chris Bradford's Young Samurai series. I read the first one a while ago and enjoyed it and it was a while before I read the next, and it was probably treble the amount of time when i read the next one. When ever I read these books I aways feel like I'm attempting to go in a cold swimming pool, (I'm not crazy I swear). I don't want to do it, but it will be fine once I'm in. I don't know why its like this, its almost as if I've forgotten how good the series is and don't have the energy to read it. Sometimes I have to trick myself into reading, like when I get into bed and the only book within reach is Young Samurai, so I'll curse and force myself to read it rather than getting out of my warm bed. Now that I've read the third one I assumed that it would be the last one, but to my horror I've found out there are 5 more after this! Poor Jack, he is never going to get home to England.   I also feel tricked, its almost as if I now have to read all of them. Grrrrrrr.

At the moment I'm trying to find  Dear John the movie on my laptop but it seems its not to be. I've seen it before but I just wanted to remind myself .

On my 35th square 109 to go.

Listening to 'With a girl like you' not sure who it is by but its from the Boat that rocked soundtrack.