Wednesday, July 28, 2004

Phone Bill

Why oh Why can I not seem to manage to keep my phone bill under £100 per month?
I have managed to did it before but I just can't seem to manage to do it now and I really need to as I can't really afford to keep paying over £100 per month on my phone bill.
It costs me £26 for the contract and then another £7 for a text bundle and then £5 for the insurance. So that's £38 a month. I love testing and do that a lot so maybe if I increase my text bundle up one which will cost me £16 a month I might be able to keep my phone bill down a bit. I really want it to be about £80 a month and then try to get it down to £60. I don't think I will have stayed under £80 for this months bill and I am not even through half of my contract month. I'm keeping off it as much as I can and only phoning people if I really need to and I have limited the amount of text messages that I can send as they soon add up.
So I hope for it to be less than £100 this month and then less than £80 for the next 2 months after that and then £60 for the one after that. My contract ends that month and I am then left with the choice of keeping my contract or changing from ORANGE to another company or going on pay as you go. The good thing about pay as you go is you don't get a shock at the end of each month and have just less than 2 weeks to find the money. With pay as you go you can put £10 a week on your phone and then if it runs out you can only top up if you can afford to. I know if I go on pay as you go that I will try to only put £10 a week on the phone but I know that will not last me the week but if I say to myself I can only put £10 a week on my phone then I will not allow myself to top up until the next week.
I spend most of the time on the phone to my friend in Scotland and he doesn't seem to understand my need to cut done on my calls as it is costing me too much and I can no longer afford to keep it up. He thinks that I am being off with him when that just isn't true. Each month when I get my phone bill I can guarantee that 90% of the calls are to him and 85% of the texts are to him. I just can't carry on that way and I have told him but he gets in a really funny mood when I tell him that I have to cut down the phone calls and texts and he thinks that I am being funny with him. Then I give into him and phone him as much as before and I can't afford it as I am a carer for my mum and I don't have a wage coming in each week like he does so I can't afford to keep doing this. I have been telling him this now for months and I never seem to stick to it but this month in the past few days I have spent hours on the phone to him and text him many times and now I just can't afford to ring him. I can no longer afford to ring and phone my other friends and I feel bad about that now but that is because my friend doesn't believe how much I have to cut the calls down by. I have told him that I v=can't ring him for the next two weeks and to only expect 2 texts a week from me for the next two weeks. The only way I can keep in contact with him is via emails and I have told him that. He doesn't have a computer at home but he can go up to the Iibary and use their computers to log into his hotmail account and read his messages. But there is one thing that really annoys me about him and that is I spend ages writing him a email and he doesn't reply. That  really annoys me but emails is all he can have for the next 2 weeks and if he doesn't reply then he won't get one until he does. I know that may seem harsh but if he can't be bothod to reply to my emails when I have spent about 30 minutes writing them why should I bother to write more?
I have told him from now on when I get my minutes I can phone him once a week for 10 minutes and text him 5 times a week and email him a couple of times. He still gets to spend the most time on the phone with me than anyone else but as no one else was getting phone calls because I was spending all my money on the phone to him I have had to split up the time between my friends as it's not fare on my other friends that my Scottish friend is getting the phone calls and they are not.

Tuesday, July 27, 2004

Train ticket

After buying my train ticket last night and paying for it , it now looks as though I am no longer going for the days to Scotland like I planned. I now have a train ticket that can not be used and I am a little upset about it because I really don't have money to chuck away like that. I am going to put it on eBay but it is very doubtful that there will be anyone that wants to travel from Blackburn to Glasgow on the 13th August.
The reason that I am no longer going is because my friend arranged a weekend away to celebrate a friends birthday just before he went to Ireland this month and was told today that it's booked for the same weekend that I was meant to go up there. As he has paid £90 towards it he is going to go and I am stuck now with this ticket. If I only knew last night then the ticket wouldn't have been bought as it was only bought last night.
All is not lost though as I will be going away that weekend no matter what. I just need to think of someone else to go and visit and someone's name shoots straight to my mind. So I'm hoping to go and visit them instead as I will have so much fun with them and it'll be so great to see them as I am missing them. If it isn't at all possible to go and visit them I'm sure that I will find someone to go and visit instead but I do know where I want to go and I will NOT be buying another train ticket until I am 100% sure this time.
I did tell my friend that seen as he made the mistake and that myself and him had made our arrangements months ago that he really should try to get out of his weekend away but he's not even willing to try because he is worried that he will lose his deposit. But the thing is he's on 5 times the amount I'm on a year. I thought that he could pay me back for the money I have lost from the ticket but he's not even willing to do that.

Started to feel ill

I started to feel ill this morning. It felt like early symptoms of a cold. As I never get mild colds I was worried and at 13:30pm I took some night nurse as the last time I took it, it got rid of my cold within a day. Now there is a reason why it tells you to only take it at night time. It tells you that because it makes you really drowsy. I am having trouble now sat here typing this as I am very drowsy. I think I will go for a couple of hours sleep when I have finished writing on here. I have to take it as I have had about 3 heavy colds this year which held me up on course work and with a TMA to get my head around for TXR174 and tons of work to catch up on for T171 I can't afford to get sick.

Train

I shall be going to Glasgow to visit my friend James soon as I have mentioned before. I am looking forward to it and it is getting very close right now. I will be going up there on the train. I will be getting the 8:53am train from Blackburn. There is one change over and that is in Preston. I leave Blackburn at 08:53am and arrive in Glasgow at 12:19pm. I am not looking forward to being on the train for about three hours as I have been known to suffer from travel sickness as I have mentioned before. The longest I have been on a train for is approx. 90 minutes and that was just manageable. 3 hours is a long time. It does make me wonder what to do during that long journey.....Any ideas are more than welcome. I was thinking of reading but as I suffer from motion sickness reading whilst traveling isn't an option. Last one I sat and thought about a lot of things and the time kind of flew by. I wonder if it'll fly by this time or just drag on forever? The ticket there is only going to cost me £12.00, I have it already but as of yet I don't have a ticket back and it's looking as though I'm going to end up coming back at about 5pm so I will be getting back about 8pm. I'm hoping to get picked up at Preston but we shall soon see.

Monday, July 26, 2004

Change of Scene

I need a change of scene. I am sick of my day to day scene. I know that may seem a little harsh but it is true.
Being away at Summer School for a week has made me realize quite a few things.
I need more than a weeks break from my day to day life. I need a change of lifestyle.
I am considering all options at the moment as I feel I can longer live in the area and place were I live at the moment.
I'm thinking of what I can do to get away from where I am living where I'm living at the moment.
I just have the need to spead my wings and be more independent. I realized that whilst I was away at Summer School.
I am planning to be out of this house by March next year but I want more than anything to be out of the house not long after this years courses with the OU finish.
I have as much freedom as I need at the moment but I am starting to want more and more independence so I feel that it would be of the best benefit for me to move away from living at home with my dad.
I love my dad to bits and we are very close but we can be too close from time to time and it's too much as he does stuff for me and it gets to the point were I just don't want to do stuff for myself and that's really bad. After being away for a week and being in a situation were I had to do everything for myself I found that very rewarding and I want it to stay that way but it won't if I stay living with my dad.
I can't afford to move out if I am honest as I have no real income and I have no savings so I really have to start thinking of ways to do this and make some money quickly.

 


Packing.......

I have more than learnt my lesson about packing. I went away to Summer School for a week and I took a massive suitcase and a smaller suitcase. I could just manage to pick up the small suitcase but there was no way that I could pick up the large suitcase. It took to men to pick that up. Thank god these cases were on wheels but then I still have a struggle pulling the large case.
I packed so much as I really didn't know what I was and wasn't going to wear during my week away at Summer School button looking back I could of down scaled what I took with me.
I just did not know what the weather was going to be like and what was going to be suitable for class and such things. But looking back now I could of taken a smaller selection and washed stuff if I really needed to. Most days I had two outfits on so in theory I could of worn each one again as I was hardly spending any time in the outfits. It was nice having so much choice but it did get to the point that I had run out of suitable clothes for class as I had worn them and didn't take enough of them. I had to wear the same top twice which didn't bother me too much. I also washed some clothes as I needed a nice comfy outfit to home in.
It was good to have so much clothes because one day at breakfast I managed to tip a full drink of orange juice down me. I managed to dry it off a bit but then I had to go for most of the day smelling of orange juice but that was ok. The good thing was that I had so much choice to change into at the end of the day.
I did pack a lot of skirts so when the weather was cold and wet I couldn't wear them which was a shame as I had packed so many. That's one of the reasons I was running out of clothes. I was planning on wearing skirts a lot but that never came about. I wear four skirts during the week in total.
Anyway next time I will know how to pack for all situations and then that it'll not be to the point were I am running out of things because I will have something to chance into and not have tons of clothes.


Unpack!

So far I have been back home from Summer School for three days, this being the third day. As of yet I haven't unpacked. I did take my washing out of my suitcases and wash it and I also took my toiletries out but that is about it.
I have the time to do it I just can't seem to be able to motivate myself into doing it yet. I am planning on doing it today because it really needs unpacking as the suitcases are in the middle of the floor and the dog keeps tripping over them but then again the dog is always tripping over everything and walking into things. I'm sure that dog needs glasses   ;O)
If I was my dad then I probably wouldn't unpack for two weeks. I really should unpack as it's just being plain lazy not unpacking.

Men

Will the female population be able to ever understand men?
Will the male population be able to ever understand females?
I don't know the answer to that but being female I can say that females do try to understand males all the time but are we ever close to understanding them? I don't think so.
We think we are getting there but when we start to get close men turn round and say and do something totally different and put us totally off track.
Maybe we like men unpredictable. I know I like to be shocked by men, I like to be kept on my toes from time to time. By being shocked I don't mean anything bad as it's not a good thing.
I do try to understand the male population but it is hard and being in a male only environment I can see males in a different light to some females and all my friends are male which does help to understand them more as spending so much time around males helps me see things in different ways.
Do men get more complicated as they get older? From what I have seen I can say yes and no to that question. I guess that it really does depend on the person and what has gone on in their life and what they have been through. I feel that men become more confident as they become older and they are more experienced in things but sometimes confidence can be arrogance which is bad but that is only a small proportion of the male population. I am glad to say that I have only met a few of those men and I had a man in my life that was just so full of him self that it was untrue but I guess we have to experience things to learn from them and see the errors of our ways and try to move on from them.
Men are not all bad, there are some good ones out there, it is just sometimes they are so hard to find. But trust me they are there and not all of them are taken. A lot of them are single. Yes there are men out there that play on your emotions and pretend to be someone they are not but usually they are very easy to spot. Sometimes you have to learn the hard ways about these men but once you have been there they can be extremely easy to spot. But do listen to me when I tell you that each one is very different from the next one. They dress in different ways amd act and speak differently but they are so full of it that you soon will be abkle to tell that it is them that you need to avoid.
Men, we do need them. There is no doubt in that. Men are good things and not bad things and there are  very nice men out the in the wide world. Men are great and without men there would be no life as there would be no children to carry on the next generations. But men are good for more than one thing. Men are men and we love them.

summer school

Summer School
 
I had a truly amazing time at Summer School. I had the best time ever I must say.
I will not go on too much about it in this this mail as I just can not be bothod to be honest.
My time at summer school was filled with fun and hard work this year and I wish so much to go back to summer school for another week with the same group of people as the group of people I spent the week with were fantastic people that I hope to stay in contact with.
I am back now and I am slowly coming back down to earth but I would go back in an instant right now if I could.

Friday, July 16, 2004

Lucky

Lucky is so cute and does the sweetest cute things but he's so upset right now because he knows that I am going away. I bet people think that dogs are stupid and they don't understand things but Lucky knows I'm going away.
I told him today that I'm going away and I'm going to miss him and the dog started to cry and I was telling him that it was ok which just made him worse and he got to me as I then felt upset and sad and it brought a tear to my eye.
Last year I didn't really get the chance to miss him but I know that I am going to miss him waking me up in the morning and licking me to death and stuff until I get out of bed and let him out of the bedroom. He's so cute and adorable in the morning when he does that but there are also those times when I don't want to wake up and get up but he still dogs me and dogs me until I get up.
If I have my alarm set on my phone and it wakes me up I switch it off and put it back under my pillow and as I do that a little fluffy head appears on my bed and I know that it's not going to go away and it's going to lick me and rub itself on me until I get myself up out of bed. I'm going to miss that but also it's going to be nice not to be woken up when I don't want to get up. But I will miss my morning kiss and cuddle off Mr Lucky Lou Lar.
But I will be getting up at 6am every morning whilst I am at Summer School no matter what time I go to bed the night before as I have to get ready so that I can leave my room at 8am to go and get my breakfast and if the weather is nice have a sit outside for ten minutes before classes start.
So I will miss Lucky in the morning but he'll be fine as he'll be with my dad following him round everywhere and getting flithy and smelly but hey thats fine as long as my dad baths him ;O)

Thursday, July 15, 2004

Traveling

I am going to be going down to Bath University on Saturday morning. I am not looking forward to the trip down there at all because I suffer from terrible travel sickness. I get it really bad and I'm never sick but I do get very close. I go most of my journeys feeling very sick and I want to throw up all the time. My head feels really heavy and it feels like someone has got hold of it and they are squeezing it slightly. I feel so sick and I have to sit and concentrate for about 80% of the journey. Traveling is vert tirering for me and that is because I feel so sick for the journey and when I get out the car once I get there I am very disoriented and at sixes and sevensies. I feel better after a sit down or half an hour with a drink and a snack but I am not back feeling fully myself for about an hour or two. It usually depends on the journey and for how long I felt sick. I know this journey I'm going to feel sick most of the way and that is why I am not looking forward to it. It takes a lot out of me.
I am going to be very tired that day anyway because I am going to be getting up at 5:30 to get ready, I am leaving at 8 so I have to be ready by 7:45 so then the car can be packed and we can then go. So I am going to be very tired by the end of the day. The first meeting at the Uni isn't until four and once that has finished we go and have our dinner and after dinner we have our first lesson that doesn't finish until 9. And the lesson sounds really boring so I'm having visions of myself falling asleep in that lesson. I was planning a late night Saturday but because I know that I am going to be tired because of the sickness I am planning on returning to my room about 11pm if not before then so I can unpack a few things , read the introduction to the next mornings lesson and have a shower and be in bed by midnight. I know I will fall asleep almost straight away because of my travel sickness. But I am up at 6am each day so that I am ready to go for breakfast at 8am. So I think that night I will have the most sleep I'm going to have whilst I am at Summer School. You won't catch me having a nap during the afternoon either no matter how tired I get because I can catch up on my sleep when I get home.
Also don't even mention KWELLS to me because when I have used them in the past they have made me 10x worse with my travel sickness when they are meant to stop you from getting sick.

Weather

The weather is really getting me down at the moment. As everyone who knows me will know I do not like rain because of my hair and how it goes.
But you know it's summer right now and it would be nice if we had a really nice few months of weather. I have bought loads of summary clothes and skirts and everything but that probably has something to do with my happy in love girly mood that I am in and we all know why.
But me being in love has really influenced all my clothes buying. I have bought 5 skirts in the last month were as before I only owned three and I never wore them and if I did I never wore then out side the house. I have bought two really girly skirts one of which I told you about the other day and the other one is a 3/4 length skirt with big massive flowers on. The flowers are pink, blue, breen and yellow. It is a very girly skirt. I have also been buying girly tops as well. In nice light colurs were as before I use to buy mmost of my clothes in either black or dark blue. I haven't bought any clothes in that colour lately but I have bought about 7 blue tops. They are not the same top and they are all different types of blues anf they are all girly nice ones and pretty ones and sexy ones. So I was looking forward to wearing all my summer sexy girly clothes but the weather is preventing me from doing so just now as it is raining outside yet again.
I just want some really nice weather and I guess that I am not the only one that wants that. I want the sun to come out the birds to sing. I have that anyway when I wake up and all day long because I am in love with the man of my dreams. I could make in nice and summary inside because I am in the summer happy mood because I is in the love thing but outside I can not change the weather. It is only the weather that can change the weather outside. Please change weather.

Hairdresser

I went to the hairdressers yesterday and I really don't like my hair cut. My hairdresser took way too much off. I know it will grow back but I am very fussy about my hair and I am trying to grow it at the moment as well. It'll take about 4 or 5 months to get to the lengh it was yesterday before went into the hairdressers. It's not a big mess and it's ok and the style is fine it's just the length really. I paid £15 for it as well and she had done it in just 10 minutes. I didn't let her do my fringe because I do it myself and everytime she has done it in the past she has cut it too short and at a funny angle so I won't let her cut my fringe. I only wanted an inch off the back because I hadn't had a trim in about 4 months and it was very bitty at the ends so it badly needed doing and I wanted half an inch off the sides but she's done way more than that. She also shaped it round my face which I wanted but she did it shorter than I wanted as well as too much. She also added some longer layers which makes my hair look shorter and some shorter layers but she's added more to one side than the other. It doesn't look bad but it's just shorter than what I wanted and it looks shorted because of the layers. I just wanna grow it that's all and if she doesn't just trim it next time I go then I will change the hairdresser I use because I am trying to grow it. I want it longer because I can't have it natural because it's too short at the sides for the curls and they don't look right at the length it is at the sides. It looks ok at the back but would look even better longer as well so I am growing it for a year. I decided to start growing it in April so I will grow it till next April.

Saturday, July 10, 2004

Pink Skirt

For those who know me really well you will be so shocked at what I bought today but I saw it coming with the change in my clothes and change of attitude that's been going on lately.
I bought a pink knee length floie skirt today. It's really nice and it's kind of a cerise pink. It's nice and when I turn round it all kind of spirals out all over the place but thank god it doesn't go too high and show anything that I don't want to show. It just depends on how fast you turn round, I have been spinning round to see just how high it can and will go but thank god it doesn't go high enough to show things that I don't want to show. It's great running down stairs in it because it lifts up a little and looks really cool. In fact this skirt is one of my options for going to summer school in. It all just depends on the weather.
I can't believe how many skirts I have bought in the last month. I think it's up to 5 now as I bought the 3/4 length denim skirt with pink stitching, the mini ripped denim skirt with the nice belt, the white 3/4 length skirt with green, yellow and blue flowers, the grey sporty knee length skirt and now this skirt. I am shocking everyone but not as much as myself. I never use to wear skirts but now I am wearing them all the time and I'm liking them more than trousers when a month ago it was the other way round. I am so shocked right now. And I actually do go out the house in these skirts as well where as before I use to just wear them around the house because I didn't have the confidence to go out the house in them. I really love them a lot more than trousers and me saying that will shock people that know me very well as I would always wear trousers before and refuse to wear skirts but now all I do is wear skirts as I love wearing them. Today the weather was horrible so I couldn't wear one today and I didn't want to wear jeans and I wanted to wear my trainers so I ended up in my new black sporty pants and a sporty t-shirt and I really missed wearing a skirt. So when I got home with my new pink skirt I tried it on and I have had it on ever since. I had my new wellies on with it as well for an hour but I have since took them off and put my trainers on with my skirt. I think the trainers don't really go with the skirt but I am wearing them for now anyway.

Summer School

I am going to Summer School in a weeks time. 7 Days from now I will be in Bath at Bath University. At this time which is 9:30pm I shall be in the bar having a soft drink or two ;O) and having a laugh and hopfully a game or two of pool.
Ii guess it beats staying at home on a Saturday night sitting at the computer. There's nothing wrong with that and being in tonight has given me the opportunity to write a few more posts for my BLOG.
I know I haven't wrote any for a few weeks and my plan was to write one a day. Well it's not like I have been busy, it's just my lack of motivation for things at the moment. Well I really have to motivate myself at the moment because I have so much to do in so little time so I really have to motivate myself or else my courses are going to suffer and I am not willing to do that. I'm letting myself down by not being motivated so I will be doing course work tomorrow like a good student.
So Summer School I am looking forward to the solicalising part of it but I am dreading the course work and classes now because I am working through the course work for it and it is leaving me clueless and worried that I am going to struggle an awful lot at summer school. But I am going to work hard over the next week in preparation for it and I am going to work even harder at Summer School.
I have worked hard to save up for summer school as well so I am hoping I will have the money in time and the money I am hoping I will have for petrol money I am hoping I will get that as well or else that buggers my week up.
But it should be good and it's a week away and I really need a break right now and so far this will be my holiday for the year and I so need it as I need some space to be on my own and just sit back and think when I have the chance to do so. So I will miss being at home but I know I am going away to learn new things about the course I am doing but I will also be learning things about myself. I found that last year when I went away to summer school and it was great. In the last year I have changed so much it's untrue and this chance to get away and work hard in classes and spend time away from this environment will be a welcome break for the week. In some ways I wish I could stay on there for an extra week and relax and maybe visit some sites but there are things preventing me from doing so like money and such so I can't stay down there for an extra week but that's cool and it really doesn't upset me in anyway.
So Summer School here I come. Will it know what's hit it or will I know what's hit me?

Green Wellies

I had to buy some GREEN wellies today. They cost me nearly £9 from B&Q.
I really wanted some nice BLACK shiney ones but they didn't have any so I had to do with the dark GREEN shiney ones that I got from B&Q. They do have BLACK on them but that's just the soles.
I am a size 5 shoe and I thought that I would need to get my wellies in 5's but I tried 5's on and they were kind of loose so I tried on the 4's and to my astonishment they fit me. I was so shocked and surprised but I guess that wellies are a bigger size than shoes. I would never get in a size 4 shoe.
Anyway for nearly £9 they are only going to get worn just the once because I only need to wear them once so it kind of seems like a shame but I'm not going to wear them down the street or anything. I put them on for an hour today and they made me feet sweat but I was just getting use to them before I have to wear them to go into the river.