Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Train tickets

I bought my train tickets online on Friday evening about 10pm and they have arrived today which I think is good.

They cost me £20.50 in total and this time I didn't get the insurance even though it is only £1 each way.

The train ticket up cost me £12.00 and the ticket back cost me £8.50. So the tickets were cheaper than the last time. If I wanted to go a week later the ticket there would cost me the same but the ticket back would of cost me £35.00.

I am hoping to back up for a couple of days early December as then I won't see him till next year so I want to see him once more before the end of the year.

I managed to get forward facing seats on the way there but on the wy back they are not forward facing even though I asked for them. Last time I sat in a forward facing seat because there was no way that I could travel backwards for three hours, I couldn't manage it for three minutes without being sick.

I found that coming back the seats are all facing backwards except for two at each table. So I am hoping that there is spare seats at the table and that if they are booked that no one will complain and sit in another seat as there is no way that I can travel backwards.

Visiting James......Again!

I am going to visit James......Again!

I really can not wait to go up there and I am so looking forward to it.
I am going in just over three weeks time and I am so excited about my visit up there.
This time I am NOT going for as long as last time. I am going for two days this time. I do wish that it was longer but he only has two days a week off work and I didn't want to go up for four days and end up being on my own again for 8 hours of the day and then only seeing him for a few hours on that day.

The funny thing is I am going up at exactly the same time that I went up last time and I am coming back down at exactly the same time as I came back last time.

By two days I mean two day. I am going up one day and coming back the next day.

I really am missing James and wish that I was up there now and that he lived closer but I am sure that these three weeks will just fly by and that it'll be here before we know it.

I know that I have plenty to keep me busy in the next three weeks. I have a TMA to finish today. Tomorrow I have course work to catch up with and then Thursday I have a TMA to do and submit before midnight. I then have to start my ECA. So that will keep me busy.

On top of that I have to do stuff around the house. We are decorating and I am doing the majority of that. My step dad is giving us paint which we will be collecting this weekend. But first of all there are little jobs that need to be done round the house before we can start decorating.

So I can not wit to go up there but I do have plenty to do to keep me busy in the mean time.

Change of dates

James is till coming to visit me but the date has changed.

I had a choice and boy what a difficult choice that was.
I had to choose between him coming down in the middle of September for about six days of him coming down at the end of October for about the same length of time.

As I have just said the date has changed you can guess that I picked the end of October. That is what I did, I don't know the exact days yet but as soon as I do I am sure that I will put them on here.

He is coming down for my step Dad's 60th Birthday party which is on the 30th October and is also going to be here for my Birthday as well.

In case you didn't know my birthday is on the 1st of November and this year I will be the grand old age of 22.

So I really can not wait to see him on those days as it should be fun and special.

I now have to save some money to buy a really nice outfit. I was thinking of a nice flowing skirt and a nice top to go with it and maybe a new pair of strappy shoes to go with my new outfit depending on (a) how much the outfit cost and (b) what the outfit is as I may have a pair that goes with the outfit already.


Sick

I have been sick for the past week. It is now Tuesday the 31st August 2004 and I am sat here feeling quite unwell and on edge and frustrated about my TMA for TXR174.
I started to get sick last week about this time and I didn't really know I was sick, I was just very run down and tired and just feeling unwell.
On Thursday I woke up with a cold and knew straight away that if I didn't take any Night Nurse I will be struck down with a heavy cold for the next three weeks.
I took Night Nurse and knew that there was going to be no way that I could do my TMA so I was so glad when I found out that my tutor Brian had returned from his holiday.
I then emailed him and asked for some achieve on my TMA as I am having the hardest time with it as well as struggling from writers block and at the same time I asked for a few extra days on it which he gave me, thank god!
I could then go to bed for the next three days. Some days I slept a lot but other days I just led there relaxing. I finally got back up on Sunday to start my TMA, well finish it, but I just could not find the energy as well as the words to do it. So I then sat back at the computer yesterday afternoon but all that came was about 200 words in total. I am really struggling with this TMA and I don't have a clue what the hell is wrong with me. When I am NOT sat at the computer I think about my TMA and I know things that I want to write and include but everytime I sit down nothing comes out and I get very frustrated. I am at the point were I can no longer concentrate for longer than 10 minutes and it really is doing my head in now as I know I can do it and I want to do it but the words are just not flowing.

I have now been sat here for a hour or two and I am trying to do this TMA as I need to post it tomorrow but the words are not coming to me yet again and I feel like screaming. I know I can pass this TMA but as you already know I want to more than pass. I now know that I can NOT do as well as I would of liked on this TMA because of my writers block. I know what ever I wtrite or do in this TMA that it is NOT going to be as good as I can do. I know I can do a lot better than the TMA I am going to be forced to submit. I really know I can do a lot better than what I am going to submit but the creative juices are just NOT flowing so I am just going to have to do it the only way I can do because of my writers block and I know it is going to be around a 40% score mark for me just because of this writers block and frustration that is going on. I know that I will NOT score over 50% for this TMA and it REALLY does sadden me because I know I can do a TMA worthy of 80%. I am NOT just saying that to sound cleaver or make myself out better than I am because I am the person with low expectations of myself. I am the one who knows that I am not the best and never will be the best at anything. I usually know what mark I can and will get and I am usually right. I am the person that doe put themselves down but I am the person who knows what I can accomplish and do and by putting myself down it saves me from having other people put me down and when they do I am NOT surprised as I already knew myself.
When I say I could get 80% I really know that I can get it but with the writers block and everything I know that I am going to score between 40 and 60% for this TMA. And I won't get 60% if I don't get my head together and get working on this TMA.

Thursday, August 26, 2004

What a nightmare!!!!!

I have two TMAs to do!!!!!!!!
One is due in today.......But I haven't even started it!!!!......I managed to get hold of my tutor who gave me an extra week even though he isn't happy about it!!!!!.....As I am meant to be starting on my ECA....He has warned me not to fall behind as that is the most important part of the course and CAN NOT be submitted a minute late......... I better get myself motivated and going as soon as I can as I really do not want to fail this course.

The other TMA is due in on Monday and I'm having problems with this one....I know what I want to write for the main bit of it but everytime I sit down to do it the words don't come to me.....I am at a loss of what to do right now......I wish that I had started it before my tutor had gone away as I could ask him the questions that I am stuck on....My tutor comes back the day before it is due in so I don't know what to do.......I have asked questions in the conference but I am still at a loss of what to do as my brian doesn't seem to be working right now and nothing is helping me to understand it more......I don't know what to do. I have to send it on Saturday but the thing is...It won't get there on Monday (the day it is due) because it is bank holiday Monday......So I really don't know what to do....I also don't know if I can have it finished by then!!!!!
I know I can probably do enough to just pass (if that) but I want more than that...I really do but my brain isn't working at all and I am really getting frustrated with it......I just wish I knew what was wrong with me...................aaaarrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!

Monday, August 23, 2004

60th Birthday party.

It's my step dad's 60th Birthday soon and my mum has planned a 60th Birthday party for him. He has NEVER had a birthday party so my mum is trying to make it extra special for him.
She has already booked it all. From the venue to the artists that she is having playing to the cake.
Well there is going to be two cakes. One for the party and one for the family only. I am making the family cake. It is a fruit cake and I have been told that I make the best fruit cake ever. I like to do them at least 2 months before they are going to be eat. They cost quite a bit to make...Including icing they cost about £25 to make and everyone loves them and always want more. I normally only make them for Christmas and sometimes as gifts for Christmas and I like to make them in September which is next week. I was making 2 next month anyway but now I am having to make three of them. My step dads birthday is on October the 31st but the party is on the 30th as that is a Saturday. So his cake will be made two months in advance. I didn't mention the fact that over the time I feed the cake with brandy. I personally don't like the cake but everyone else does and they always want more. So that is what I will be doing for the party.
I can't wait to go and I am hoping that James can come down for the party as I don't want to go to the party with anyone other than James. He might not be able to come down and that saddens me because I wanted to see him on my birthday. My birthday is 2 days later and I was hoping to spend it with James and I will be very sad and upset if he can't come down.

Started my TXR174 TMA.......

I managed to start my TXR174 TMA yesterday but I only got about 50 words of the introduction done.
I know what I am meant to do and I know what I am meant to write but everytime I sit down to do it the words just don't seem to come out.
I don't know what to do...It is almost as though I have writers block or something.
I know about 90% of what I need to do and I kind of know how I want to set it out and all that but the words are not coming to me.
It's Monday now and I wanted to have it done by Thursday as I need to spend all day Thursday on my TMA for T171 which is due in that day.
God!!!!! I just don't know why the words are not coming to me...I do have a bit of a distraction but that shouldn't be affecting the words and what I am doing but it is and I just wish that I can sit down here at the computer and for the words to come flowing out but they are not :O(
I am going to try again in a bit and if they don't come out I can do other things like work out how I want it all set out and get the other stuff together that I wanted to put with it and also keep looking over it as it might just come to me the more I look at it.
I know I can pass this TMA but I want more than a pass on it. I got 77% on the last one and I really wanted to get 80%. I know it is doubtful but I know that it is do able but if I can can do it is another story. I will be a little disappointed if I don't get 80% but if the work isn't up to that standard then I really can't complain. I am hoping to do a TMA of that standard but if I can do it we shall see.

Saturday, August 21, 2004

Power Ballads II - Track list!!!

Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody

Phil Collins
In the air tonight

Scorpions
Wind of change

John Farnham
You're the voice

Boston
More than a feeling

Whitesnake
Here I go again

Toto
Hold the line

Cher
If I could turn back time

Alice Cooper
Poison

Mr. Mister
Kyrie

Marillion
Kayleigh

Tina Turner
What's love got to do with it

Foreigner
Waiting for a girl like you

Marc Cohn
Walking in Memphis

Lonestar
Amazed

Richard Marx
Hazard

REO Speedwagon
Can't fight this feeling

Bonnie Tyler
It's a heartache



Prince
Purple rain

Meatloaf
Bat out of hell

Simple Minds
Alive and kicking

Belinda Carlisle
We want the same thing

Survivor
Burning heart

Babys
Everytime I think of you

Bad Company
Feel like makin' love

Nickleback
Someday

Gary Moore
Still got the blues (for you)

Journey
Open arms

Chicago
Hard habit to break

Roxette
Listen to your heart

Frankie goes to hollywood
Power of love

David Bowie
Life of mars

Nilsson
Without you

Moody blues
Nights in white satin


Friday, August 20, 2004

Scotland!!!!

I am missing being in Scotland so much right now. I wish that I was there with James right now but instead I am sat here now just wishing that I was there.
I know I need to be here right now to do my TMAs and finish my courses but when they are finish I think it is possible for me to go. Once my courses finish I have a month before my next one starts so maybe I can go up there for a couple of weeks during October. I think the only thing that could stop me from doing so is money. I don't have much money coming in and it seems that I am spending it before I even get it and at the moment I am having to sell my things in order to make any kind of money and now I am running out of things. The things that I have left I really want and need so I don't know what I am going to do now for money. I need to get some kind of part time job or something to make an extra £70 a week. If I had an extra £70 per week I would be so happy and I would be able to do more things and I would also be able to go to Scotland for a couple of weeks during October. It just makes me think what I can do to get an extra £70 a week. I don't know but I will try to think of things over then next few weeks.

I wish so much to be back in Scotland right now as it is such a nice place and where James lives is just so wonderful as well and to be there is what I want right now but it is not going to happen which saddens me but that is just part of life and we always can't get what we want.

Motivation!!!!!!!!

I am lacking motivation so much right now.
I am lacking it more than I have ever lacked it before.
I am meant to be doing my TMA for TXR174 and my TMA for T171 but I just can't get myself motivated to even look at them. They both need to be started and I really wanted to do the one for TXR as that is the one that is the most important.
I was hoping to have started it today but there is no way I can motivate myself to do it. I just do not know what the hell is wrong with me at the moment. I have been lacking in motivation for a long time now but it is just getting worse.
Last year I didn't lack in motivation and most days towards the end of the course I was studying up to three hours a day so it makes me wonder why I can not get myself motivated at the moment. I just wish that I knew why. I have to get myself motivated and do these TMAs and pass my courses. I want to pass so much and I have to motivate myself so I don't fail. I am going to read through my TMA today for TXR and start it tomorrow and that is a promise to myself. I just hope that I can do it, the TMA I mean.

Thursday, August 19, 2004

Power Ballads II

Whilst I was away in Scotland I bought some DVDs and a album. I bought Power Ballads II.
Since I got home Ii have played that album almost non stop as it is fantastic and there is only a few songs on it that I don't like but other than that it is a really fantastic album.
If you are into your power ballads I suggest that you get it as it really is fantastic, I just love it.
It has so many good songs on it and I will do a list on here later on of all the songs on the album. The album is about two and a half hours long which is great.
Also some of the songs you may not recognize by the title or the artist but once you hear them you'll love them. I was a little like that when I was looking at the names of the songs but once I got it home and started to play it I realised I loved them all.

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

James is coming to visit!

I am so happy because my friend is coming down from Scotland to visit me for about a week in three weeks time.
I really can not wait to see James and I say the sooner the better. Three weeks is going to be a long time to wait but I have things that I need to get on with. I have to do two TMAs in the next week and I haven't started them yet and I will be doing so from tomorrow. Today I am going to be doing things round the house. I have a TMA for TXR174 and one for T171, the one for TXR174 is more important than the T171 tma so I will be doing the most important one first.
I'm missing James so much right now it's unreal. I really wish that I was still up there right now but it is impossible as I can't afford it and I have my TMA's and course work to be gettingon with as well as tons of stuff around the house to be getting on with. So I did have to come back but I wish that I didn't have to come home until yesterday but it is cool that my friend is coming down here soon.
To save him money I am hoping that my dad will let him stay here, it'll be nice if he can stay here as then we will get to spend more time together. My dad maybe a little dubious about someone staying here again after the last person I had staying here but I will be asking him sometime today if James can stay and then try to talk him into latting him stay.
Now my friend is coming to stay I have to try to get some money together so I can go out and have a good time when he comes down here. I just got my fone bill today and I am going to be £50 short for that so when it comes out of y bank it is going to overdraw it but the week later I will have money in and it'll take most of that. That money would of been ok as James was coming that weekend and I would of had enough money to last me to the Monday when I got paid again. Now I won't have any for the weekend that he comes down and I am hoping that the stuff I have put on Ebay will sell as I really need the money. I have just some stuff on a 5 day sale so I am hoping that these things will sell. I will be taking pics of some other stuff later and put them on as well.
I now have to think of things to do when my friend comes down here, I am sure I will think of some things. I know that I want to go to the cinema one night as there are plenty of films on that I want to see. I went to see a film with James when I was up in Scotland but I didn't get to see the film that I am dying to see. I really want to go and see I Robot but my friend isn't really into it so I don't know what to do. He might go and see it with me if I ask nicely.
He did want to take me to a Rovers game if they were playing at home but at the moment it is looking like the weekend he's coming down they are playing away. I have never been to a Football match so it would of been interesting to go and see one. He was going to take me to a Rangers game whilst I was up in Scotland but he didn't think that I would want to go so we didn't end up going. I think that I would of wanted to go and it is a shame that we didn't get to go and see one.
I know for a fact that my mum will want to meet James when he comes down here and James doesn't have a problem with that at all. So that should be interesting and if we go at the right time he will also get to meet Dave as well so that should be an experience ;O)
Our town centre isn't too big but I would say that it has about the same amount of shops as Hamilton town centre has. I know that we don't have a pizza hut like Hamilton has but we have a Mc Donald's but no Burger king, that is up by Asda. So it should be really interesting.
I'm really going to have to get my thinking cap on about what to do and what to go and see whilst James is down here. It should be interesting to say the least and I am sure that we will have tons of fun no matter what we are doing. We might even end up at the Trafford centre as he has never been and it is only a train ride away. I would like to go but I will be sad that I won't be able to buy anything as I won't have any money. Maybe we could watch a film there :-)

Tuesday, August 17, 2004

My time in Scotland!!!!!

My time in Scotland was absolutely fantastic!
I had the best time ever, it was filled with fun and laughs. It was one of the most enjoyable times I've had away from home and I now hold a special place in my heart for Hamilton and the four days that I spent there. They were magical days that will stay with me forever.
I had so much fun and saw so many interesting things and have some nice meals but I think that was mainly down to the company. The company was great and I couldn't of hoped for better company :O)
It was an experience I can tell you that and I am so over glad that I went. I wasn't looking forward to the journey there but I survived it and wasn't sick and I was glad when I got my feet back on the ground. The train ride there wasn't too bad and I think it took only 2 hours 20 minutes. It got in 20 odd minutes early which was good and I was happy about that. I had to eat when I got there and I was glad once I had some food inside of me. The buses are strange up there as the driver is closed off in a plastic booth and you put your money in a coin thing, it's very weird as I have never seen anything like that before.
I think I could go on about my trip up there and what I did all day as so much went on whilst I was up there.
I know that I went up there feeling things for my friend and realized that I had stronger feelings for him that I had thought possible. I will tell you all about that in another one on here as I don't want to go into too much detain right now. I do know one thing and that is that no matter what happens between me and my friend that we will remain good friends no matter what. He is very special to me and his friendship means the world to me :O)

I'm back!!!!!

I am back from Bonny wee Scotland!
I had a fantastic time and I am sad to be home, I wish that I was there for a lot longer.
I had the greatest time whilst I was away and I am dying to get back there to see James. I had so much fun and Hamilton is such a big town with so much to see and do and I like it more than Blackburn as it has so much more to offer and I just love it.
there is only one problem about being up there and that is the accent. Most of the time I could understand it but at the same time there were a few times were I couldn't understand what people were saying to me. It was a good job that my friend was there with me as he acted like an interpreter a lot of the time for me. Some accents are understandable but there are some where they talk really fast in their broad Scottish accent. It was hard keeping up at times but I managed to do OK. I managed to spend all my money up there and I need to get it all back to my dad by next Friday and I am struggling a bit and I will have to try really hard to get it back to him like I promised as he needs it.
It was well worth going up there as it was so much fun and now I want to go and live up there as I loved it so much. I was saying before that I needed to get away from here and now I know where I want to go and be. The sooner the better I say and as you know anything is possible and if you want something bad you should go for it and try to get it. I want so bad to go up there and live as me and James are very close and I know he will look after me and take care of me up there.
On the first night I stayed in the Hamilton Town Hotel with was 10 seconds walk from the town centre. For a single room with shared bathroom it was £24 and with a bathroom it was £45.00. I booked a single room with a bathroom but when I got there with my friend they charged me £60 because they thought my friend was staying with me. The price included breakfast so in the end my friend decided to stay as it was a twin room with 2 beds. It was a ok room, nothing special about it at all and for £60.00 it was a bit of a rip off but I didn't complain as it was at the other side of the hotel and it was quiet so it was fine.
On the second and third night I was booked in Arron house which is a private B&B run by Mrs Bent. It is her own house and what a house that was, it was a really nice house with four rooms up stairs and her own separate rooms down stairs as well as a living room, dining room and conservatory for guests. I had my own bathroom which was on the landing next to my room. My room was a twin room again but it only cost me £30 per night and I thought that was a £30 a night well spent. It was such a nice, clean room with a fridge in the corner that was really nice and the bathroom was lovely as well. Mrs Bent was very trusting to say the least, I had my own front door key to come and go as I pleased and one day she went out in the morning and didn't return until 9am the next day. She left all the house unlocked and her part of the house unlocked and open with her tele on. I thought that she was on but I never heard her and when I heard the TV on at 3am I was a little worried. I was the only person staying in the house that weekend so she mush of trust me to go out for almost 24 hours and not even lock her room up. Her breakfasts were fantastic as well and I could never finish them and she kept bringing more and more for me to eat and I just couldn't manage it. On my last morning there she let me leave my suitcases there and take her house key with me, when I came back she wasn't in yet again and she has left me two packs of potato scenes as she knew that I loved them so much. I thought that was really nice of her and I highly recommend her b&b for a place to stay as it was lovely.
I will tell you about my trip in a while as I need to go and do a few things right now!!!!

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Things aren't selling

I have things for sale on Ebay and I need to sell them really bad but they just don't seem to be selling.
The prices are NOT too high and there are so real great bargains that I am selling on there but no one what so ever are bidding for them :O(
I need so much for these things to sell as the money is for my dad as I did promise him that I would have it back to him by a certain time.
I am going to be taking some more pics of things and put them on Ebay later on as I have some more stuff to go on and I will be having a look around my house today to see if I can find anything else to do on there. I found that clothes was the biggest seller for me last time but I think that I only have a few items to sell on there this time. I will have more items to sell when the weather changes and I have bought some more winter clothes but I won't be getting rid of all my clothes, just a few. I might even put my world famous (FC) GREEN wellies on there. Someone might want to buy them and I really can not see myself wearing them again but I might sell them and want them for something. I do live in a place were you go 5 minutes in one direction and you are in the country side so maybe I should just keep them just in case I do need them again.
I have put some stuff on Amazon also and I shall see if that sells. I have never put anything on Amazon before and I just thought that I would give it a go. So I put on some Buffy Box sets and a couple of books and if they all sell then I will have about £120 and then I only need to get together another £80. I am sad to see the Buffy videos go but as I don't really watch them I really don't see the point in keeping them. I don't have them all anyway. I only have up to and including season three when I loved the later Seasons, season three onwards. I am hoping that one day I will be able to buy them all on DVD as I do love Buffy. But saying that I haven't watched Buffy for what seems like ages but I do miss it being on TV. I am not sad to see it go even though I do wish that they had done two more seasons before the final season they did as it would of been great if Buffy run for 10 years but it's cool how it ended in the end. I do hope that they don't bring it back like they keep saying they will because I really do think that they took it as far as they could take it and they couldn't go back on the last ever season and they would ruin it if they brought it back. But hey that is just my opioion.
Anywayt I hope to god that all my stuff sells on Ebay and Amazon as I need the money bad. I am glad that I didn't borrow more but I wish I had more as my accommodation is costing me half that money and I have to eat as well so I won't be able to afford to go out much :O(

Addicted!

I have become addicted to buying stuff on Ebay!
I have been selling things on there as I need to get the £200 back to my dad that I borrowed off him but I keep looking at things and bidding ffor them because I really want them. I just can't seem to help myself and I need to help myself as I have three weeks to make £200 so that I can give it back to my dad. I promised him that if he leant me the £200 to go to Scotland that I would get it back within two weeks by selling stuff on Ebay. But I have been doing more buying than selling and I just need to stop. It is just that Ebay has so much stuff on that I want and like and I just want to buy it. I must admit that I am not going as high price wise as what I was but I am still bidding for things and winning them. I just want to be able to control myself and not bid on anything else. I have some things that haven't ended and I am trying not to bid any higher than I have already bid if I get outbid.
I am just addicted to it!

TWO TMA's

I have Tow TMA's to do this month, well in the next 10 days.
I am going to be starting my one for TXR today and just plan it out and do a kind of draft for it. I will be doing that today and tomorrow and when I get back from Scotland on Tuesday I will be doing my TMA for T171 as it is due in on Thursday but thank god it can be sent in via the computer up to midnight that evening so I will get that done in time.
The TMA for TXR is the most important one to me at the moment and the longer I have left it the longer it seems to get into it and I am looking at it with a blank expression right now but maybe that has something to do with the fact that I am not looking at it right now and I'm just looking at the computer screen ;O)
Anyway I feel as though I can't do as good as I did on my first one and I badly want to improve on it. My tutor (hi Brian) showed us one in class so would get an idea of what we needed to do in order to get around 80% in our TMA. I thought that TMA looked fantastic and if that's 80% I doubt I can do that. I would like to think I could and I have been saying that I want to improve on my 77% and I do but whether I can do that or not is a different story. I know that I will try my hardest to get the 80% I want but we shall see what I get for it.
For the TMA for T171 I want to improve and get a higher score than what I have already done for that course. I know that it is do able and I can do it. Even if I just get one % more than my highest score I will be happy but I want to get 14% higher than what I have gotten for that course and I will be spending two days solid on that TMA so I can get the marks I want. I know that I can do it I just have to try and try I will do. I will try my hardest to get the marks I want for both.

Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Been a while.......

Well.....It's been a while since I have posted anything on here. It's not because I couldn't be bothod, it's because we have been having problems with the broadband for over two weeks and it eventually went off for five days which just did my head in. Anyway as you can see I am back on now and glad to be back on. I only got back on last night late on so this is the first thing that I have done since getting on this morning because it was too late when I got on last night and I was just too tired to come on here and do anything. I'm so glad that I have managed to get back on as I have so much stuff to do and catch up on. I have fallen behind on one of my courses and now I have to catch up on it and take part in a OLT which I should of taken part in over a week ago but couldn't. At this time right now I'm not motivated enough to do it but I will start in a couple of hours. Thank god it is on, I was ready to kill NTL!

Bonny wee Scotland!!!!!

I'm off to Bonny wee Scotland on Friday. I know that it was looking as though I wasn't going but things have changed since then and I'm going again. I can't wait to go but at the same time I am very nervous and scared. Not too scared but I will admit that I am a little scared but that's ok. So I am off up there at 8:52am - well that's the time that I leave Blackburn train station for Preston train station. I then change over trains and have ten minutes to do so. I am a little concerned about the change over but I'm sure that I will be fine. I am going on a Virgin train and have reserved seats with forward facing seats. That's important that I am facing forward as I just can't travel backwards, so I made sure when they asked if I wanted forward and backward facing seats that I asked for forward. The journey is quite long and I hope I get through the journey ok as I suffer from bad travel sickness. The longest I have been on a train is 90 minutes and that was when I came back from Bath and that 90 minutes was enough. But this journey is 2 hours and 40 minutes which is over an hour longer than my longest journey. I just hope I don't need to go to the loo whilst I am on the train because the last time I did that it made me very ill and thank god I only had to stay on the train for another 5 minutes as I would of been sick otherwise. I know I will probably need to go a least once as in the mornings I do tend to need to go a lot because of the amount of liquid I need to drink :O( anyway that is enough about that subject. It's been a right pain getting the accommodation as well. I finally managed to find the places to stay but I took so long ringing back that the most impoprtant one went. I was staying in one for the Friday and Sunday and another one for the Saturday but because we rang back a couple of hours later to confirm the room for Friday and Sunday went. So we rang some more hoping to find a hotel for each night and we ended up back on to the women that was taking me for the Saturday, Mrs Bent. She said that she could take me for the Saturday and Sunday night and that she will find someone to take me on the Friday night but we have to ring back this morning to book it. Well my dad to ring back and I just hope that he has rung back, I will ring him to find out if he has. I have just ring him and he has rung her but she hasn't found a room and he has to ring her back tonight. I just hope to god that there is a room somewhere as I need a room and I can't afford the fancy hotels. I don't have much money as it is and if I have to pay for a hotel then I won'tbe able to do much once I get up there :O( even now my money situation is going to prevent me from doing too much :O( and on the Sunday James (the person who I am going to see) is going to work so I will be on my own till about 4pm or 5pm so I have to entertain myself for a few hours. So I won't leave my hotel till at least lunch time and that will be to go and get some lunch and maybe have a walk around on my own and see what Hamilton has to offer. So last night I bought my return ticket home and if I would of bought it during the day it would of cost me £13 but because I could only get on last night late on it ended up costing me £17 plus another £1 for insurance. So Again I am sorter on money by £4 because of the broadband being off and the train nots leaving as late as I want it to do and I will only be brought back to Preston because if I wanted to be brought back to Blackburn the ticket was going to cost me £37 which is another £20 for another 20 minute ride. If I would of gotten it back to Blackburn a few days ago(i.e. if I bought it a few days ago) it would of only cost me £13 in total for the whole journey. I now need my dad to pick me up from Preston and I got the latest train back so it was possible for him to come to Preston for me but he won't be happy that he's coming to Preston for me but he'll miss me when I'm away so he'll want to come and pick me up ;O) I just wish I had enough money to go out all the time but I don't. I have a certain amount each day and I also have to buy my meals as well :O( GOD!!!!!!! I am very nervous about meeting my friend because I have NEVER met him before and we are good friends and I'm just nervous and hope that I am the person he thinks and hopes I will be and I hope he is the James that I have gotten to know over the phone in the last year. I'm up early on Friday as well as I take ages to get ready and I need to make sure that everything is ready so that I can leave the house at 8:30 to go to the station for my 8:52am train. So the night before I want to be in bed for 8pm, I know I won't be but if I say that I want to be there for 8pm that I will probably be there for 10-11pm. I have been telling people not to ring me after 7pm as I don't need distractions and I will be rushing round like an idiot to get ready!!!