The heat of Summer Sunshine

Been over a week since I last posted anything on here so I thought it was about time I posted something seen as I am sat here.

Well since I last posted I have PASSED my theory test and I am so happy about that!! I didn't know what to expect when I went in and although I was very confident about the questions and rushed through them in under five minutes I was worried about the Hazard part because I had lost my Hazard disc but it all turned out very well and I was pleased with the result and it was such a relief to have gotten through that.

Last week I mainly spent the week working on course work and reading. I read a really great book called "dead until dark", it only took me about three days to read because I couldn't put it down. I loved it and I want to get the next in the series in the New Year and read it because I am sure I will like it.
The other book I read (which I finished yesterday) is "Dead Run" by P.J.Tracy, it was amazing. I couldn't put that book down either although I was ill and couldn't read much during one day I got it finished in record time. It was such a great book though and it was a great story and wasn't at all boring. It's the second P.J.Tracy book that I have read and they seem to get better so I can't wait to read another P.J.Tracy book and will get one in the New Year I am sure.

I am up to date with my T175 (technology course) course work and it seems to be going well, our tutor group was put into smaller groups and on Monday we had to take part in a online chat for part of our TMA (tma = tutor marked assignment) and I wasn't feeling too well but I made sure I was online for that. If I do some of this course each day I will manage to stay ahead with it and will be able to do the TMA next week which isn't due until 4th Jan but it will be good to be ahead and also gives me time to have over Christmas.
I am also right on target for B120 (business studies course) and I enjoyed this months work more than last months. I have to take part in a online activity before the end of Friday which I will probably do tomorrow whilst I am working on my TMA for that course. The TMA (assignment) isn't due until next week but I am hoping to have it finished and submitted on Friday. Then all I have to do on Friday is my first CMA (computer marked assignment) for T175 (technology course) which I plan on posting in although I can submit it online if I want.

I still don't have all my Christmas shopping done yet which is quite shocking for me but I still have things to buy. I have some more things to buy for my dad, hoping to get my mum to come over next week and go with her to get them. Am also going halfs with my dad for my niece and nephew's Christmas presents and I still have to pick something up for my brothers. I couldn't think of what to get them last weekend when I was out and about but I am sure I will think of something over the coming days that I can get them.
My mum asked me if i have done my wrapping yet and she was shocked when I admitted that I hadn't even started. By now I do normally have everything wrapped but I don't think time, alhough on Sunday I did start wrapping the presents for Caroline, Rich and Pete and finished them off this evening. I will have to post them at the beginning of next week to make sure they get them in time for Christmas.
Talking about Christmas gifts i have just bought my dad a DVD player and am waiting for it to be delivered. I don't know where he will put it, he will either put it in his living room or his bedroom so he can then watch DVD's in bed. I might buy him a TV/DVD wall bracket so he then can put his TV up on the wall with his DVD player and make more room in his bedroom - hmm what a good idea.

I don't know if I have said yet but my dad is getting me a TV/DVD player for Christmas for me to put in my bedroom. Me and my dad have our own living rooms and I have a nice 28 inch TV in my living room that my dad bought me last summer but I really want a TV/DVD player in my bedroom now so I can sit in bed and watch DVD's and then can lie there and it's OK to fall asleep. I never fall asleep on the sofa downstairs so it will be nice to lie on my bed and watch a DVD and of course it would be nice to cuddle up next to someone in bed as I watch a DVD hehe.
I picked out the TV/DVD player I wanted the other week and it's 21 inches and it looks amazing. I need a wall bracket for it, we do have some already but they only take up to 14 inches and it would be silly to put a much bigger TV onto it as it wouldn't hold the weight.

So all in all I am keeping myself busy although I am sure I have time for other things and could probably be a lot more productive but it's hard trying to be more productive at times. I am doing a lot more than I used to do and I will take each day as it comes and do more and more.
I like being more busy and it's great getting more stuff done as well as being up to date and even ahead on course work. I hope that everything managed to carry on this way over the next twelve months.

I have invited my mum, step dad and brother here for Christmas Day just like last year and I am really looking forward to it. I like to make a lot of the food from start and never buy anything frozen, it's all fresh and a lot of it's home made and so much more tastier. I can't wait for my Christmas dinner because it is the best dinner I have all year round and at Christmas I let myself eat what I want and fill myself on chocolate biscuits and chocolate log which I just love and would live on if I could hehe.
I have all my cards written and sent and just a few more to go, I hope my dad buys us a tree this year as it would look nice although I don't want a black one like my mum bought, maybe a pink one hehe.

Anyway this weekend is the same, shopping etc. I think I am going to get my TV this weekend although I can't have it yet but that doesn't matter as it will soon be Christmas and I can't wait.
I haven't made the Chritmas puddings yet because I need to start them early in the morning because they take 8 hours to cook, I might try and do them tomorrow morning.
I have one more Christmas cake to make and then that's all the Christmas things organized I think.

I got a lovely Christmas card off my mum this morning, I don't have many yet but I am sure I will get more over the next week.
Lucky will be getting a new bed for Christmas and some toys and some dog treats, he doesn't really understand what Christmas is but likes it on Christmas day with all the food. He runs from one end of the table to the other hoping that someone will give him some food and they always do. We always get his dish and put some of what we have in it and give him it at the same time and he eats it in like one minute and then it wanting more and is so cute.

It only takes a minute

WOW!! What a week it has been this week, well yeah what a week lol. I have been rushed off my feet lots this week with study and what not and have been fighting a cold at the same time - a cold being it is a half a cold and stays a couple of days and then I am OK, I guess it's better than having a full on cold because they are so bad but it I driving me round the bend a little having a bit of a cold here and there as I can't get much done when I am feeling like that and my head is banging.

As of yesterday I am up to date with T175 (technology course) and need to do a little each day to keep up to date. Now I am trying to catch up with B120 (business studies course) and it isn't going too well as I didn't get much done today but I was busy with other things. I want to have all the course work done by next Thursay so I can spend about 3 days on the assignment which is due the following week. I have looked at the assignment questions and they don't seem too bad which is something I guess, I just need to get through four weeks worth of course work in 8-9 days which is do-able but I do rush through some sections of it but as long as I understand it then it's all good.
I got my mark back for my first TMA (assignment) for B120 and I passed!! I am pleased about that because I didn't do my best on the question and rushed through it and then realized I had made a mistake and my mind was too numb to try and rectify it so I submitted it how it was and planned on making the points up on the next TMAs as they are worth more points but I don't need to. I would like to get more points on my next TMA (assignment) if I can, even if it's just one more point I will be happy.
I have one online thing to do this week for b120 and one for T175, so need to find the info I need in the appropiate book and then do it before the deadline.
Then Monday evening (11th) I have to be online from 7-8pm to take part in a group decision on something, not sure what but will read up about it on Sunday and write some notes for the live online chat on Monday.

Talking of courses today I got my first lot of course materials through for AA307 (Religion) which starts in February next year, it is level 3 which is the highest undergraduate course and I like the look of the assignment questions although I might not be saying that when I do them. There is 5 TMAs but one of them is double weighted and is 4,000 word limit which I don't think I will like doing. You only get the same amount of time to do it as a normal TMA (assignment) so I will need to try and get a little ahead on that course around that time so I can spend a week or two working on it. I never spend more than 2 days on a assignment for a ARTs course but which something at that level I can't afford to spend 10 hours on it, I need more like 40+ hours of hard work as I am determined to do well and pass it.

Course results for my exam are out on the 15th, it is all down to one question if I pass or not. I hope I do because then I can finish my degree at the time I planned by doing a level 2 and 3 course in 2008 but if I have failed then I will have to do a course in 2009 and not graduate until 2010 which isn't what I planned but life got in the way and certain people got in my way and of me working hard but as I have said that will never happen again!!

So today I have done loads of cleaning and there is loads more to do as I have let my cleaning routine go a little but I am sick of being the only one who cleans. I live with my dad who is messy and gets things out and never puts them back and the dog drops fur all the time. I do try to do half an hour a day and sometimes more but for the last 3-4 weeks I haven't done much except a quick tidy up here and there. Today I got the kitchen clean and the other rooms are tidier and I washed my bedding and some clothes but there is still more to go but if I do 30-60 minutes a day I should soon be back on top of it.
I also baked a Christmas cake, I should of done it three weeks ago as I like them to be 6 weeks old before I give them out because then they are proper rich fruit cakes that have been fed with brandy and iced. I personally don't like them but everyone else seems to love them and say they are the best cake they have ever tried and I like hearing nice compliments like that.
I have already got the fruit soaking in brandy for the next one and I will make that either Thursday or Friday and then I will make the next two beginning of next week and that's them sorted then.
This Sunday I will be making Christmas puddings, we made some a few years back and get one out every year and they are the most amazing Christmas puddings I have ever tried. In fact I don't like shop bought ones so I must make us some more as I said we have run out and there isn't any for this year, I don't think we had one last year but I can't remember.

I finished NaNoWriMo last week and am so glad to have finally got over the 50,000 word mark. Now I won't work on that book until next year and then I will set aside 30-90 minutes a week to work on it. I hope it is ready by the end of next year so I can have it published in 2008 if I can get someone to publish it for me.
With it being a true story I am hoping the ending is amazing and has a certain person involved but we will have to see how things go when we meet up in the new year...hehe I know some of you reading this will wonder who I am going on about and there is about two people who know who I am going about hehe... I am not saying names here but all I will say is ;o) hehe.

I had a good weekend, my dad worked Saturday so I got to lounge round the house all morning which was great. I didn't get much sleep and wish I had gotten more but I was ok. I didn't even go and have a shower till midday which was great and then I took ages to get ready as I just enjoyed myself and relaxed. We didn't get out till 3:30pm and then went and got some meat first before going into town and posting lots of post. I had aout 15 job applications to send off and my dad had his posting xmas cards to post and a few other things so we were in the main post office for ages. I was so hungry as I had only eaten breakfast and that was early morning so I was walking round very hungry. We did the shopping in the supermarket and then came home and I cooked the dinner before spending the night in front of the TV. I watched Strictly Come Dancing which I just love and Casutaly and then there was a LIVE Take That show on ITV1 which I watched and absolutely loved and then on ITV2 when it finished was their live concert from Manchester (that you can buy on DVD, it's on my xmas list now) and it was amazing!! I now love Take That, I wasn't really into them before they split in 1995 but I love them after those TV shows....they are great...no wonder Dan likes them. Talking about Dan he was at the concert and I saw him a few times because he was very close to the front.
Sunday I didn't do much other than some course work and then spend most of the afternoon and evening in front of the TV watching repeats of the Live Saturday Night Take That show and repeats of the Live summer 2006 concert, both of those program's must have been repeated 3-4 times that day and sometimes they were on at the same time but I flicked from channel to channel for the best bits and enjoyed it so much!!

This week will just involve me working hard on both sets of course work, house work, going to town for my dad, looking for more xmas gifts for people, walking the dog and trying to read one full book as I am trying to read 5 by the end of the year to reach my target of reading 25 books in 2006.
I will of course be on MSN tomorrow night (health, well being permitting) as it's Wednesday night and if all goes to plan my dad will be out like all Wednesdays so will be online from 7-10pm.

Only When I Sleep

Well here I am once again, I should be studying but I thought I might as well do this weeks blog because I didn't do it Sunday and now it's Wednesday, my this week is going fast I can tell you!!

Well basically last week I spent time studying and doing my assignment (tma) and I totally messed up on the assgnment. I wasn't enjoying B120 (my business studies course) and rushed through the course material (was running out of time) and then it gave me enough time to spend a few days on my assignment but I wasn't really in the mood to do it so just rushed through the question and at the last minute I realized I had messed up a little (well a lot) on the question and I went to rectify it and gave up after ten minutes. I know that really isn't the attitude to have but I was just so tired for working hard and wasn't in the mood. This tma (assignment) is only worth 10% of the overall Score for the course and the other three are worth 30% so I can make up my points on my next three. I do plan on working harder and longer on the next one no matter how tired I am.
Right now I am working on T175 (technology course) and OMG! I am behind. I was ill the latter part of last week and wasn't able to do any. Sunday I was meant to have a all day study session but my dad needed to get on my computer and work so I said he could have the computer to 3pm and then I want it to 6pm. On Sunday I was very tired so even when it was my time on here I was so tired I just couldn't do too much because I was simply half asleep as I sat here so I didn't get too much done but I did get enough done in the time I spent on it. It is a pain having 80% of this months course work online because the internet totally distracts me and I do spend way too much time browsing the net at the same time as me studying so don't get the work done as fast as I should be.
Anyway so today and tomorrow I am doing T175 and then Friday I need to have a look at B120 for the day because there is a online deadline for a activity in my course book and my answer to it has to be online by the end of Friday otherwise I will lose points. It is a total pain I will admit because I have online deadlines for T175 but luckily non of them are in this next week.
So basically I need to get through as much of B120 as I can possibly do on Friday and then Sunday will be split between T175 and b120 as they both have deadlines coming up for things. For b120 I have an assignment (tma) due the middle of December and T175 I have a CMA (computer marked assignment) and the first few days of January I have a TMA (assignment) due but need to get it finished before Christmas so I can take time off over Christmas and New Year and not have to worry about study. I want to take off up until the 2-3rd Jan and then I have to get back into my course work for B120 because there is another TMA (assignment) due in January. It really is all go I can tell you now and end of Jan I have a much harder course starting, don't know if I am sticking to my level three choice or do a level 2 course - that all depends on my course marks that I receive on the 15th December. I think I failed and if that is the case I am going to go for the level two course for sure.

I spent Wednesday evening and all day Thursday and Friday feeling rather unwell, it was horrible but at least I seem OK now although I am jus so tired all the time and when I do have time to sleep I don't get as much sleep as I would like because I keep tossing and turning and waking up and not getting back to sleep. My mind is just working over time at the moment and it is effecting my sleep patterns, I would give anything for a solid 8-10 hour sleep one night this week.

I bought a new duvet cover set from Next, I couldn't get the one that I wanted the most because they had sold out so I got another one. I did have a hard time picking it because there are loads of lovely duvet sets on the Next site but some are rather expensive and right now with all I owe Next I didn't want to spend £30-50 on a duvet cover set so was just looking at the cheaper ones and got a nice black and white one which I am yet to put on my bed but I will do once I get my new 3 in 1 duvet that I plan on getting.
I also bought a brand new pair of PJ bottoms that I have liked for a while but didn't have my size in last time I was in the shop. But lucky for me then had them online so I treated myself to them and in fact I have them on now as I sit here typing this. I also got a lovely pair of PINK slippers which I just love and are so comfy and I have them on too and they are keeping my feet nice and warm.
I was just on the Next site and was looking for a pair of jeans, because I could do with another pair of nice ones like I got from Next two months ago and I think this time I will go for the black ones. I was also looking for a pair of boots because I only have one day time pair which are smart casual and I got them from next, I have another pair which are smart casual but they are getting worn out and the zip doesn't work properly. Other than that I have a lovely pair ofkneww high boots from Next but they are very much day time ones and I am not sure if they even fit me anymore because my feet have strange habits as I have mentioned before.
I found a nice ankle pair of boots with a pointy toe and they have them in wide (f00t) fitting so I am going to order a pair of them and hope they fit me because they look amazing.

Well Saturday was a busy day....we left the house and went down to the sorting office inBlackburnn because I missed the postman who was delivering a package. Once we had done that I drove into town and went to my bank and put some money in and then up to my dad's bank and did the same thing. We then started to make our way to the butchers at chatburn but knew we wouldn';t get there in time so we then made a detour and went to my mums instead. Was there for ages and ages talking away, my step dads sister and brother in law were there and they are very funny. My brother also turned up so it was very busy there at one point.
Once we left there we went to the farm shop in Salsmbury and got some meat before we then started to make our way to Preston. We had to go to Preston because I needed to find the theory test centre before Tuesday so we knew where it was and how to get there, I had been on the route planned in the morning and had printed a route off so we had that and it got us there so it was all good. Then it was back to Blackburn to do the food shopping but we got in the wrong lane and ended up coming the long way back to Blackburn and by now it was 5:30,Ii had only eaten one piece of fruit during the day and my concentration was going and I wasn't feeling well. It was so hard getting acrossBlackburnn feeling that way and I told my dad he would have to drive home after we had done the shopping because I simply felt too rough and I could cause an accident driving the way I felt at that time.
We did the shopping in record time and were soon back on the road heading acrossBlackburnn to our house were we unpacked the shopping and started to cook the dinner. By now I was so tired and hungry - I didn't know if I wanted to eat or sleep the most at that point lol.
I sat in front of the TV with my dinner and watched TV till around 10pm before putting on my present that Pete had got me for my birthday - the package I picked up from the sorting office.
Pete had gotten me the complete 2 series of tru Calling on DVD and I was more than pleased with that, I love that show and to have 999 minutes of it (16 hours) more than made me a happy bunny :o)
I didn't get to bed until 2:30 and I don't have a clue how I managed to stay awake for that long because I was so ready to sleep about 7pm. In fact when I was sat in my mums house around lunch time I was trying to keep awake as my eyes were trying to shut. The night before I hadn't gotten much sleep but then again I hadn't slept much for weeks now and it is all taking it's toll on me.

I will be finishing my 50,000 words for NaNoWriMo today and will be glad to have more time to study. The book is a long way off being finished butIi have made the start and will work on it over the next 12 months and hope to get it published at some point in the future too although I won't let anyone read it until I am 100% happy with it.

busy week with study and everything else, I need to read another 4 books by the end of December to meet my 30 books in 2006 goal and need to clean the house and move my new furniture into my bedroom and make more xmas cakes andChristmass puddings. Also need to finish watching all of the 8 tru CallingDVD'ss and sort out xmas presents etc. Going to be busy but at least it is giving me something to do with my time.

Piano Man

Well here I am yet again, it's 10:30pm on Saturday night and I am so tired. I was going to go to bed but I don't like going to bed at this time so I thought I might as well do something so here I am writing this weeks blog.

This week has been so busy, I had a TO DO list at the beginning of the week and I didn't manage to complete it all. There isn't much on it to be honest so it isn't all bad which is something. I did get something out of doing a TO DO list, I got a lot more done than I would normally and I was a little more motivated than what I am normally.
I got everything important done and I did get distracted a few times and wasted a morning here and there and one afternoon but I think that was just tiredness taking over.
I liked being busy, I could be busy a lot more because I do have a lot to do. The only thing about working so hard during the day is most evenings I am too tired to go online (MSN) and talk to my friends. I've barely talked to Caroline for the last two weeks so I need to get online this coming week at least a couple of times, also emails during the day have almost stopped whereas there have been times in the past when we have swapped up to 50 emails a day. I can't do that anymore but a few emails a day would be good so I need to find time to do that as I have missed the randomness of our chats over the last few weeks.

I have got my theory test date through. It was booked online on Monday evening and it is on the 28th November and I can't wait, well I can but I want to sound enthusiatic about it hehe. It could go either way, a pass or a fail, it all depends on the day what questions I am given. I have a CD ROM for my theory and I did have one for my Hazard but can't find it. I have been practicing my theory daily and got 32/35 and 30/35 but I have gotten 28/30 a lot of times and seen as 30 is a pass and 29 is a fail I need to get my act together and revise more. I am doing 40-60 minutes a day (except today) and I will increase that next week and maybe do some in the morning as I sit here and check my emails and eat my breakfast. I can't find the Hazard CD but Caroline is sending hers up so I can practice with that because I will have the biggest problem with that I am sure.
Caroline passed hers last Monday so well done Miss Bignell :o)

Today I got some nice things for my birthday. I kept changing my mind about what I wanted off my dad and got a CD and then today I went out and I got a massive cup and saucer tea set from BOOTS. The cup is massive (the biggest cup that I have ever seen) and it had a tea infuser and loose tea in the set as well as two ginger biscuits which were eaten by my dad and the dog and I got a bite of one. It is well cute, it has pink hearts on the cup and saucer (not too many).
I also got a NIVEA gift set that has a shower oil, a body lotion and a lip care thing in it and then when I was looking at the products I found a gift voucher for nivea body care so I am happy though I rarely use nivea body lotion since I found an amazing one by another brand, but I will still use the voucher I am sure. The next thing I got was this candle set, vanilla candles, on a ceramic tray thing that is painted bronze. It looks amazing and smells amazing and I can see me not wanting to light the candles lol but that would be a waste not to use them and just having them looking pretty in my room. The next thing I got was a nice comfy pillow from BHS, they are £10 and I got one in Jan this year and just fell in love with how comfy it is and I love my pillow so I wanted another one because my other one is getting thinner and I wanted one for when that gets too thin.
I still have something else to come, I want a stereo of some sort for my bedroom but the one I wanted is sold out in all the shops :o( so I will wait and hopefully not pick something else because I need one as the one in my room really needs replacing because it doesn't work as well as it should and I love listening to music in my room.

I bought some Christmas cards too from BOOTS. A nice pack of 5 charity cards, I will need more but I g0t them for my closest friends as I don't have many of them and I loved the cards and also some money goes to Cancer Research so that makes them even morespeciall. Charity cards were on offer today so my dad ended up buying a pack too because they were two packs for £4 or £3 a pack so we saved £2.
I need to get wrapping paper to wrap my presents too and gift tags, ribbon and bowsAlsoalso need to get some of those gift boxes and shredded colourful tissue paper because I have a gift for someone that I want to put in a box to make it less obvious what it is hehe.

Driving today was hard, my dad's car keeps playing up and does things that makes it hard to drive. At the moment the heater doesn't want to work all the time and comes on and off as it pleases. So I drove to clitheroe today and waited for my dad as he went into the butchers and as I was sat there all the windows steamed up so I tried wiping them with a cloth and they kept steaming up and when my dad came back I started the engine and nothing worked so I was forced to drive with all the windows steamed up and can you imagine driving and not being able to see anything. At first we had the windows open but it was pouring with rain and wasn't helping at all so we closed them and the misted windows got worse so I was basically driving blind. I couldn't see where the lines where on the road or if there were any cars in front or behind and I was driving so slow. I managed to see shapes of buildings and some how managed to find my tIrn i need to take to get back up on the fast roads back towards blackburn. I managed to get onto that road without hitting anything and I couldn't see a thing, a few cars passed me as I tried to keep in lane even though I couldn't see anything at all. It did get a bit better after a few minutes but I got to a roundabout and only realized just in time to get in lane and break enough, it was scary. It cleared after about 10 minutes but the first 4 minutes were crazy as I couldn't see a thing. I think my dad needs to get a new car or something because it was too dangerous today and I could of hit another car or run off the road with not being able to see a thing.

I shall be bakinChristmastmas cake this week, actually two. I think I am making three and one willhalvedlfed so four people end up with cake. I was going to make four but it just costs too much in the end to do everything and to be honest I should of done them first week of this month but I have been rushed off my feet.
I shall be making home made Christmas puddings too which are the best, I will eat them because I love them but I won't touch the cake because I simply can't stand it lol. I spend weeks making them and looking after them and then I don't want any of them because I don't like them lol.
Christmas I don't know what I am doing, for years now I have wanted a full on famChristmastmas with all my family here and I do have the chance to invite everyone this year but me and my dad aren't sure about it. I have thought about it and it would be nice but cooking for 12 people is hard work to say the least, last year there was 5 of us and that was hard enough because we make a lot of home made stuff so we are always having to be in and out of the kitchen and I don't know if I want the hassle to be honest. I know that sounds bad and heck no I don't want it to be just me and my dad but there are times when I like to be alone. I know that sounds strange but I am strange lol, it's just that I am so used to being alone and even when I crave to spend time with others I also crave to be alone. Maybe that's just how I feel right now but I can see how the day would go because my brothers children will want to be at home with their gifts and not wanting to be here. Hmm maybe I will just invite my mum and step dad and brother again because then I have people here and company and then they will go and I can be alone so best of both worlds. I don't mean it in a nasty way because I would love to have company later in the evening I am sure.
One Christmas, maybe next, it would nice to have all my family together and have a mealChristmastmas day. Maybe we could book intrestaurantrant or something or a hotel for Christmas, something like that would be utterly amazing and something I should suggest because if everyone is up for it we could book it and pay for it throughout the year.
I may have mentioned what I want Christmastmas already but in case I didn't I am after a TV/DVD for my bedroom so I can lie in bed and watch a DVD or put my TV etc. I know I have my own living room and TV but it would be nice to have somewhere to go other than my living room and watch TV and maybe one day cuddle up with someone special and watch a DVD. I want to make my bedroom more homely and my dad is going to have it decorated and have a new carpet put in and I shall put the rest of my new furniture in the room too and put my new mirror up and fix my other that'shats on a broken stand. With a TV/DVD in there and a computer it would be amazing and with the new stereo I can see myself spending too much time in there lol.

Well I think I have gone on enough now, have some more things to do online and I might wash up and clean the kitchen before I go to bed so I don't have to do it tomorrow. I have an assignment to do for my business studies course tomorrow Ind i am not looking forward to it because I know it will take me all day (and maybe some Monday) and it won't be easy and will require me to look over a lot of the material again.

Oh another present I got is the new Scissor Sisters album, bought it on Play tonight on my dads account and shall have it next week.

Also bought sChristmastmas presents online this evening, still have loads more to buy.

Scenes from an Italian restaurant

Well here I am yet again and I am so tired but that's what you get after a busy day which finishes by sitting up channel surfing until 2am.
Today I haven't really done much but I am allowed one lazy chill out a week I think especially after how busy I have been lately. I have watched one of my fave films today AIR FORCE one and as I type this I have THE CRAFT on but it's on in the other room and I am sat here with the best song that I have heard this year on really loud. The song is by U2 and Green Day and is called THE SAINTS ARE COMING!! It is an amazing song and I just love it!!

Last week I was busy and I mean busy, most nights I was shattered and was in bed by 9pm although I would stay up and read until 11pm and then settle down for the night to sleep. I was actually falling to sleep really fast last week which is amazing because at times it does take me a long time to fall to sleep.
Well I managed to get my course work done in super fast time and get my assignment finished by 2:30pm on Tuesday afternoon and had it submitted just before 3pm that day. The course wasn't too hard to catch up on because it is the beginning of the course so wasn't very intense and I liked that. The assignment wasn't too hard either and I whizzed through that which I am pleased about and I was more than happy when I finished it and read it through. I finally got my mark back for it on Friday night and I got 73% which I am more than pleased about. Pete has done this course and he said he only got 53% on the first assignment so I was shocked that I got a much higher score than he did because he is the computer guy.
Wednesday I started my B120 course work a week after the course started and I was shocked by it, I really was because I haven't done business studies before I didn't really know what to expect. I am not sure if I fully get it but I am hoping everything will be ok. My assignment for that course is due a week on Tuesdays so I am hoping to get all the course work out of the way by Wednesday evening so then I get to spend a couple of days on the assignment and also then if I need to I can go back over the course work if I need any clarification for my assignment.
Talking about OU courses, I was thinking of doing A217 next year but I think I will stick with AA309 for next year and then go back to A217. I was worried AA309 would be too hard but I saw this years assignment questions and they don't seem that hard, they are very much in the style of A207 and A217 except a level higher so I am 90% sure that I will stick with that course for next year now.

This week on top of studying hard, I have been reading two books. Pyramids by Terry Pratchett and a book Pete sent me to read and I am really enjoying them both and hope to have them both finished by the end of the week.
Also been working hard for my dad with his accounts work and have some more this week coming up and with Christmas coming up I could do with all the money possible.
On top of that I am 25,00 words into NaNoWriMo and taking a break for a while, well until tomorrow. I haven't done any since Wednesday and I plan to get up to 35,000 this week and if it is possible I will be on 40,000 by next Monday. It is getting hard for me at times and I have a sore wrist and hand but I will get there in the end I am sure of it, 2-5,000 words a day is my target and it can and will be done. I will be glad when it is over on the 30th so I can break away from it for a while but I will be back on my book because this is my outline of the book I have always wanted to write "one day" so I will spend the next year working on it when I have time and maybe one day it will be published which would be amazing!!

Another busy week coming up, doing all as above but also need to sort out my bedroom which may take a while but it's something new to do that I don't normally do and it needs doing so this is the week to get it done. I also have a few other things to do so I know there won't be time for me to get bored and I hope that I don't get too distracted because that is one of my biggest weaknesses and I know I need to try and control that.
Need to also decide what to get people for Christmas, I do have a lot of it sorted out and some stuff but having the main problems with what to get my mum. I just don't have a clue and don't want to repeat what I got her last year so I am racking my brains to try and think of something that she will really like.

Got some passport pictures done yesterday and they didn't turn out too bad though of course they could of been better. I wasn't having a good day in that picture booth I can tell you. The seat wouldn't move down so I was having to sit at an arkward angle and then the picture kept taking after it said it had taken it so I kept having to redo it and I settled with the 5th attempt just because I had loads of other things to do and wanted to leave.
One of those will be used for my NUS card and I will be sending off for that tomorrow and hope to get it back before Christmas. People are having to wait five weeks to get it back but I hope I don't have to wait that long because I really want it and the sooner the better.
I don't have any plans for the other 3 pictures but who knows. I don't want to use them for my passport because I have to keep that for ten years so of course I want better pictures lol. Plus I am losing weight (12 lbs so far) and I don't want to have some pictures taken and then lose a lot more weight and look different in person than I do on the picture so I will wait until next March/April time before I apply for my passport.
Also when I pass my driving text (by March next year at the latest) I need more pictures for my driving license so I will have to have some taken again for that so with losing weight I am going to wait until I need the pictures.

I am going to be doing my theory test really soon and my driving lessons are starting withing the next month by the looks of it. I need to start revising for my theory and hazard perception test because I don't want to fail. I have CD ROMS for them so I am going to get them out and do twenty minutes a day on it to make sure I am ready because it will either be the end of this month or beginning of Decmember when I take it.

Tried my Chinese Cook book on Friday and made Honey chicken and Egg Fried Rice and it was super YUMMY! I can't wait to try another recipe next FRIDAY!!

Big Shot

So I sit here now when I should be studying but I am so tired after my weekend that I am still trying to wake myself up hours after I got up. I might as well make some use of this time and write my blog before hitting the books for a serious study session.
So yeah I got my course books for T175, finally after waiting five weeks and being messed around by SMS I finally got them delivered by Parcel Force. My tutor is only allowing me one week extension on the TMA which is a pain because that means I have less than one week to do 4 weeks of course work and a TMA so I have been hitting the books and working hard and lucky for me this month (the first month) isn't tough intense but it never is in the first month so it is lucky for me I guess. My progress is going a lot better than I thought it would and I am getting through more than I thought I would so I am pleased and it is looking like I will start and finish my first TMA on Wednesday and have it finished by the end of Wednesday because the first TMA isn't that hard at all which is a relief. So it will be submitted on Thursday the day my extension finishes so I was rather lucky with it being a light month and me having the time to put into it.
Then there is no rest for me because the business studies course I started on the 1st has the first tma due on the 21st of this month and I haven't even started that course work as I hadn't had the time to do so, so I then have two weeks to do the course work and a TMA and get it in on time. I don't even know if the course is difficult or not yet because I simply haven't had the time to look. It is only six months long so is more intense but with some luck I will be OK and manage to get through it and of course if I pass (should I say when?) I then have my points for my Certificate in Business Studies because I already have some points counting towards that so it isn't all bad.
Course wise next year I am still signed up for that level 3 religion course but I royally messed up A217 because I didn't go to the exam because of personal reasons and of course the reasons weren't good enough to be granted a resit so nin months of hard work and amazing TMA scores have gone down the drain and now I am further behind on my degree so I am not happy with myself. If I knew I was going to screw up so much I wouldn't of signed up for B120 and T175 and had done another level two course again next year. So I don't know if I should do the level 3 course or cancel it and do A217 again, I plan on doing A217 again because of failing it but should I do it next year or go for the level 3? I was thinking of waiting for my exam results for A207 because if I fail that (because I screwed up) then I planned on doing another level 2 anyway and then I would need to decide it I was doing A217 next year or another level 2. Anyway I will think more about that later in the year when I know what my exam results are.

I loved the weekend I had with my friends, I know I already talked about it in my last blog but it was an amazing weekend and of course I want another such weekend. I don't know when that will be but it won't be this year that's for sure. I have plans to see Pete next Feb anyway as my mum and step dad are going to Coventry for a 60th birthday so I can get down there free and then get a lift back home. I hope to go and see Caroline some point, we got on amazingly, it could of gone either way but we seem to get on and have a laugh so it would be good to spend some time with just her. Of course I would love to go down there before Christmas but that isn't looking possible at the moment because I simply can't afford it with Christmas coming up but we will have to see how things go, if not this year then hopefully early next year though it won't be Janurary because after Christmas I won't have much money plus there are two family members birthdays in Jan and then another one in the first week of Feb. That one in the first week in Feb is my brothers 30th birthday and by all accounts he is having some kind of party or something so I maybe can invite Pete and Caroline up to it and Rich if he fancys coming to so then we have plans for one of the evenings. I hope to go bowling too and the cinema and maybe another trip to the Trafford Centre hehe.

Last week I started NaNoWriMo and managed to write just over 10,000 words in two days and it is so tiring. I nearly went for 10,000 on the first day because I got over the 6,000 mark and throught why not?! But then I was so tired and my shoulders, arms and fingers hurt from all the typing so on the 2nd I made my word count to just over 10,000 and yesterday I took my work count to 14,000. It is so tiring writing a book and now I must study too which is tiring on the brain so when I have finished my study for the day my brain is already tired so I am finding it harder and harder to do the writing but I am not quitting. I am so far ahead that I can take a day off now and then like I did on Saturday but I am hoping to get to 20,000 words by the end of this week and up to 25,000 by next Monday if that is possible so then I will be half way through in less than two weeks and if I can get to 30,000 by the end of next week then that is just even better but we will have to see how things go over the next week or so.

Well it was my birthday last week and I enjoyed my dad. I didn't do much except chat away to my friends but then again my birthday fun happened the weekend before. I got an amazing thing off my mum and step dad that I just love and can't get enough of. My dad got my Meat Loafs new album that I had on for 16 1/2 hours straight that day and have since had it on so much because I simply love it. He is getting me two concert tickets to see Meat Loaf too and I have my eyes on 2 front row tickets that are for sale on Ebay at the moment. I would love to be front row for a Meat Loaf concert, I think that would be an amazing place to be. Other presents I got is something amazing from Lush off Caroline and some Chinese things off Rich which I really like and can't wait to use. Pete is getting me something when he has some cash, I don't know what he is getting me because he keeps asking me what I want and I don't know so I think he is going to get me something off my Amazon wish list so whatever it is will be a nice surprise :o) My brothers are getting me a lbum each, they were both short of cash but I will probably get them this week and can't wait because I know what albums they are because I asked for them.

Last week I treated myself to a few things. I didn't spend all the money that I had for the other weekend though a fair bit of it went. So I bought myself a album, dvd, 5 books and a MP3 Player. I have them all already though I am still waiting for the MP3 player, I hope it hasn't got lost in the post or the post man hasn't stolen it because there was a knock on the door from the postman the other day and I wasn't dressed so couldn't answer it and he never put a card through the door so it could of been my MP3 player and he has taken it. There was a card through the door a few days later but I think that is the Christmas present I bought for someone as that was due that day and I still haven't managed to get down to the post office to pick it up so I won't know what it is until either me or my dad can get to pick it up. I hope neither of them have been lost in the post because I won't be pleased if they have.
I don't tend to treat myself often as I rarely have any money because it tends to go on phone bills or on NEXT bills but no more phone bills for me as my contract ended except it is still on because I am allowed to use all my minutes up and I have about 150 of them left lol. My NEXT bill is only £60 this month because I have gotten it down but have just spent a few hundred so next month it will be at least £90 which I don't mind because you pay 10% and the interest level is very low and the clothes are the same price as they are in the shop. I plan on paying it off as soon as I can.

Right I now must go and do some study, then the house work, then some washing before sitting here and trying to get 2000 words done for NaNoWriMo. I think theI i will be shattered, well my brain will so I doubt I will be online yet again but it's only for one month then I will be back on more.

(The picture is Caroline and I)

Picture

The last post wouldn't post the picture I was trying to post so I will try yet again!!

~ Only the good die young ~

Hmm well here I am once again posting on this ere blog of mine. I think the last time I posted was about a week ago... a lot has happened in that time.
Well I was ill last week with a heavy cold, I felt dreadful and totally out of it, the worst day had to be Tuesday, I was saying all kinds of rubbish that day and just felt ill in general. A day or so later I did start to feel heaps better and in part that was thanks to the day and night capsules that I was taking by Night Nurse. By Friday I was feeling heaps better but I didn't feel 100%. Friday happened to be a special day too, you know, the day I had been looking forward to for ages and I couldn't wait for it to happen to be honest. I had three of my good friends coming up for the weekend!! Caroline, Rich and Pete!!
Caroline and Rich Arrived together and Pete arrived in the early evening, it was an amazing weekend!!
I was so nervous when Caroline and Rich arrived here on Friday afternoon but I wasn't as bad as I thought I would be to be honest. It was nice to finally meet them both and we were very quiet at first which was to be expected I guess....we do seem to say heaps more when we are sat at the computer and Caroline even made a joke about that.
I got some lovely presents off both Caroline and Rich, I was really made up about them and really like them. Rich's presents have taken pride of place in my kitchen and Caroline's have taken pride of place in my bedroom though I will soon be using them both up hehe :o)
Caroline seemed to like what I had gotten her for her birthday, I was a little worried but I didn't need to be as I picked 4 of the items off her wish list of Amazon so I couldn't of really got those wrong :o)
About 20 minutes after they arrived we went off to their hotel so they could check in. They checked in and then we made our way down to the Trafford Centre...the start of our long weekend!!
Got to the Trafford centre and set about our business of looking around the shops and my oh my there is loads of them and many of them I would of liked to have gone in but with limited time it wasn't possible for us to do so we went in a select few. I went there with a lot of cash with the intention of buying something expensive or loads of things but after my time in there (two sessions during that day) I only ended up with some books and a CD and a book for Caroline. Not what I had in mind because I got myself a fair bit of cash and wanted to spend it but nothing really caught my eye and I didn't want to buy something for the sake of buying something if you know what I mean.
For lunch (which was about 4pm) we had a nice pizza at Pizza hut which was really nice, I liked that a lot!!
After we ate we went and had another look in some shops before walking to get the Shuttle bus to Stretford so we could get the Tram to Piccadilly. We were stood for ages waiting for that bus and it was so cold outside and there was me in a this fleece jacket wishing that I had worn a coat lol. We had a laugh whilst waiting for the bus and took a couple of pictures which I will post over my next few blogs as your only allowed to post one picture per blog entry :os
got the bus into Stretford before getting on the tram, I must admit that I didn't really like that tram journey, I was being thrown around all over the place and I suffer bad travel and motion sickness so I didn't like it one bit lol. We eventually got to Piccadilly - rather late but at least we got there before heading back to the tram station to get a tram back to Stretford.
Once we got back to the Trafford Centre we went back in for some more looking around the shops before rich and Pete went off to put Pete's bag in rich's car whilst we had something to eat. Whilst they were away Caroline and I had a look around some shops before they came and found us. Then we made our way to Frankie and benny's for something to eat, it was nice in there and I had been looking forward to going there since I saw their menu on the net. I ended up getting a starter that I didn't like and thus wasting it lol... I can't remember what it was called lol...hmm maybe that is bad but it was horrible anyway. For my main course I had the classic cheese burger with fries and I liked that and ate a load of that and for dessert I had a vanilla milkshake which was really nice and tasty. It only worked out at £20 each which was a bargain I thought. Left there just after 11pm and made our way back up to Blackburn, came back to my house and found my dad drunk and passed out on the blow up beds that Pete was sleeping on over the weekend. Made plans for the next day, played with Lucky and then Caroline and Rich left to go back to their hotel.
The next morning Rich and Caroline came around just after 11am and we made our way to town for something to eat. We ended up in KFC and I didn't eat much, I mainly picked at the food.Ii was hungry but I just didn't feel too well from the day before from thetravelingg and the time I spent on those horrible trams. After we or should I say they?..Hadd eaten we had a look around some of the shops and then bumped into my dad lol. Then made our way to Vue cinema. We bought our tickets and then sat and had a drink. I had the most amazing milkshake that I have ever tried and the most expensive too I must point out, it was almost £5 for one!! But it was so nice so that kind of made up for the price of it hehe. Once we finished our drinks we bought snacks for the film and made our way in....we ended up seeing the new Adam sandler movie called click (I just had to check as I keep forgetting lol) it was so funny!! I wanted to see something funny and I wasn'disappointeded with that film. Once we left there we came back to my house for an hour or so before Caroline and Rich went back to their hotel to get changed for the evening. I then got changed after messing around for ages, I wore a really nice outfit that looked amazing and then we set off to meet Caroline and Rich at their hotel and of course I was driving and Pete sat in the front with me which was heaps better than having my dad sat with me shouting at me all the time like he normally does.
Got the the meal and only my mum and step dad made it because my brother got stuck in Manchester and my cousin didn't come because my brother couldn't make it. my other brother and his family weren't coming because they are saving so they can buy a house so it was just the seven of us. The meal went well and all the food was nice and the coversation was good and funny at times, I was so glad to have my closest family and friends together and everyone looked nice in their outfits too and my dad was well behaved for once lol.
Once we left there we all went up to my mums club house where she lives and had a drink and were joined by someone who fancies me....I don't want to seem rude or anything but if he is the best I can attract then I might as well become a nunn now lol....not that I am looking anyway as the person I wanted well the person I want isn't in my life anymore but that isn't for here.
Left there just before midnight and was glad because all the smoke in there was making me feel ill :os
Drove back via Caroline and rich's hotel and came home and went to bed!! Couldn't sleep just like the night before IuI i think I managed to get a little more sleep than the night before and I sure needed it. I woke up feeling so ill though :os It wasn't a nice feeling I can tell thee now. My head was banging all over and when I movedIiI i felt like I wanted to be sick. After twenty minutes of sitting in bed trying not to move I had to drag myself into the bathroom and into the shower, all I could think of was I didn't have time to be ill as it was the last day that my friends were going to be here. I sat on the floor of the shower for over thirty minutes and felt worried when I stood up and saw the clock, I hadn't put the clock back an hlikelIkI i was meant to so it was a hour fast but luckily I soorealizeded.
I managed to get ready and drink loads of water, I then went downstairs and took painkillers and had abig drink of troipicana and started to feel a little better which was good as it was so the wrong time for me to be ill that was for sure. By the time Caroline and Rich arrived I felt heaps better.
We went off to bowl down in the bowlplex inside the building where the cienma is. We had two games and Rich won them boIhI i came last on the first game by a few points and I was third in the second game. I would of loved to have had another game or two but time wasn't on our side. We had something to eat, played some car and gun games before making our way back to my house. Once back at my house we took some pics, said our goodbyes (hugged etc) and Caroline and Rich left us.
Then Pete and I went back down to the cinema for a milkshake hehe. I was driving and we called and got petrol on the way. We played car games again and gun games and then made our way back to my house so we could pick up Pete's bag, my dad and dog so I could drive us part of the way to Manchester. The traffic was not too bad but worse than we allowed for but we managed to get Pete to the train station 10 minutes before his train...hugs all around before Pete left us and we made our way to get something to eatIaI i was feeling sick which was a combinationtravelingling in the back seat and not much food during the day.
I was worn out when I got home, I just edited the pictures and talked to Pete for an hour when he got home. I then watched TV and went to bed.

All in all it was an amazweekendened!! It was great to meet Caroline and Rich and hope to do it again. We all got on as well as we do online, I did worry we might not but we all got on better than I expected which was amazing. I can't wait to see them again, it was just such a shame we all live so far apart. I must think of a time wIeI i can see them again, I will hopefully get to go and visit Caroline IuI i don't know wyetyItI i will have to speck to here about that. Would be nice to go and visit and go out maybe once and just sit and watch DVDs or something. I have plans to see Pete next Feb when my mum and step dad artravelingng down t0 that area for something else so that is easy. I hope to see Caroline before then but we will have to wait to see how things go!!!


i turn 24 tomorrow, it only seems like yesterday that I was 17 lol. I still feel 17 and I act about 14 so it is all goId. i may be an adult but I feel like I am 17 though at tiIes i do act older but not in a old person way. It's jIst i can talk to people a lot older than me and get on with them and they don't think of me as only being 23. I don't talk to people younger than meIas i wouldn't know what to say to them, I get on with people older than me and I think it that way.
Turning 24 tomorrow doesn't really changed anything for me, maybe it should and maybe it will but I don't know what that yet. I will have to see Iow i feel in the mornIng i guess!! All I knowIis i will be emotional but I always am on my birthday and I don't know why lol. I wonder if everyone is like that or if it is just me?!!
I have been looking at things in my life of late but I don't think getting a year older or having a different age will change things for me. Someone said to me I will be almost "mid twenties" and that never crossed my mind but what is wrong with being mid twenties? It is scary (for me now) to think my next big birthday is 30 but that is six years off right now but the way time flies it will be here before I know it if I am not careful!!
I don't have any expectations about tomorrow, actually I will busy and will be for the next month. I have my birthday funweekendened and am still tired from it...we all are from what I have been told by my friends!! But the tiredness is worth it after the fun I had at weekend!!

Don't ask me why

hmm I can't think of what I have or haven't said in my past posts because I am ill right now with a heavy cold. I do feel heaps better than I did yesterday but I am still pretty ill right now.

We had our new carpet fitted on Saturday and it looks amazing. We had to go out so we left the carpet fitters here and came back about 6pm and there was an amazing looking carpet on the floor. The dog loves it and keeps walking on it. It is really thick and the most amazing blue colour. When I picked it, it looked slightly darker than it is but it was dark in the place where we got it from so it explains it. It looks amazing down, I was worried it would be a bit too light but it is just right and I am more than pleased with it. It is a very thick carpet and under it we have the best underlay that money can buy and that is very thick too so it is like walking on air when you walk on it.

The decorator came and did the ceiling in my living room and it looks amazing. You can't see any of the joins and we are all pleased with that. The only problem is it shows up the dodgy wall paper so we have decided to strip the walls and have the whole room decorated in a few weeks time. Also getting a carpet because I have laminate flooring in there and it has been down about a year but some of it has started to go all dodgy at the edges so it looks bad so I said we might as well have a carpet put down on top of it. I want a nice warm feel in there like I have done with this room but I don't want the same colours. I think I am going to go with terrocoter and creams with maybe a red carpet like in here.
I have already picked a carpet for my bedroom. it is dark lilac colour from the same place that we got the carpet for the hall, stairs and landing though I love the carpet on the landing so much I was thinking of having a piece put in my bedroom lol. I have always wanted a nice lilac colour but now seeing that carpet I am very tempted by it.

I started to come down with a cold on Sunday afternoon and I wasn't pleased because I have so much that I am meant to be doing this week but can't do it because of being ill. I was so rough yesterday, I think that was the peak of it. So I got some day and night nurse capsules and took the night ones and slept for 10 hours straight. I am still worn out so with some luck I will get some sleep sometimes today as I only have two days to get back as much health as I can. I have some day nurse capsules in me now and will take my next lot with my lunch and with some luck I will feel ten times better than I do now on Friday. I won't be taking any on Friday as they have a strange effect on me and I don't want to be zoned out on Friday when my friends are here. With some luck I will only need some painkillers and they can pull me through the day. As long as I get my 8 hours sleep on Friday night I will be fine all day Saturday. Having a cold is tiring so I need to get as much sleep as I can each night otherwise I won't be any fun to be around at the weekend.

God I am tired :os

Was doing stuff round the house all day Sunday. Going through everything and sorting out the rubbish and getting rid of it because I have way too much junk in this house. I have sorted everything out in this room and my living room. The kitchen I will do next week and the laundry room so it just leaves the understairs thing which my dad can do by himself because it is all his junk under there. Next it is my bedroom, I need to go through my drawers as I need room for clothes and some of my drawers are full of paperwork and junk that I don't need or use so I need to sort all that out. Then it shall all be finished.
I was meant to be sorting the house out all this week but with being ill I don't feel up to it. Today I feel the best I have since Sunday but I need to do some cleaning with the bit of strength I have today, I know I won't last long because I feel rough and weak but with some luck I will have enough strength to get the rubbish out of here, vac and clean all the mirrors downstairs and upstairs and also work out where I want to put a mirror we have that needs going up somewhere.

I still don't have my course materials for T175 and my tutor told me I can access most of it online but I can't sit online for ages looking at the screen and want my books. I have had to ask for an extension on the tma due on the 2nd November because I am ill and don't have my books. I hope I get one because I don't have the energy to study right now but I should be OK to get into it on Monday. He hasn't replied yet so I am hoping he does soon and gives me one otherwise I am in trouble.

This weekend should be good. I am a little upset over something right now but I am sure my friends will cheer me up in two days time. I really can't wait and am trying to get as well as I can in the next two days.
Friday is going to be good as is Saturday and with no plans for Sunday anything could happen lol. It should be good to have my three closest friends here for three days, I wish it was longer but that is impossible. Maybe another time we can get together for longer.
I have my outfit for the Saturday night, well the top but I can't decide between jeans or a really nice pair of black trousers. I have tried the top with jeans and it looks good but as of yet I haven't tried it with the trousers. I will do that tomorrow when I am feeling a little better. The top looks amazing!! I will hopefully have a picture to post after the weekend of me in that outfit but all I can say now is it really rocks and was worth every penny.

Right I better go and try and use this little energy I have to do a little cleaning. I shall be back on in a few days, probably after weekend!!

Just the way you are

Well my many fans ;o) I am here lol.

I am really tired now (19:01pm) so if I make no sense or write a load of rubbish then I blame my tiredness and not my normal blondeness :op

I missed my exam on Tuesday because I had a banging headache and I was under revised on that because what has been going on in my life for the past few months. I am not happy about it to be honest because I did work really hard on it all year and was getting my highest marks ever. I feel so stupid for messing up this badly because a year of hard work has gone down the drain for what?!!
So it is the A207 exam on Wednesday and I have done not enough as far as revision is concerned and I am hoping to get some done tomorrow and Tuesday. I can remember a fair bit from last year but I hope I can pull this exam off so I haven't wasted two full years.
I am thinking of not doing my religion course next year and either doing level 1 Law or two 30 point courses, a French one and the other computing one I need to do at some point.

Less than 2 weeks to go until my friends are here and I am happy about that and I can't wait. It is a week on Friday which is easier to say. I have been cleaning the house today and some of last week. I am going through loads of things and chucking out all the junk and making it look at least a little bit better around the house as it is a tip even when clean but after all I have done today it is really looking heaps better now. There is still a bit to do over the next week or so but a hour or two a day and maybe more at the weekend will have it done in time and then it should be easy to keep clean and tidy if I do some each day like I used to do.

So I went to the dentists on Wednesday and it is such a nice place. I didn't know it was there but me likes it. I think there is about 6 dentists there and it is a big posh place. I was waiting ages to be seen and when I was finally seen they took three lots of X-rays and told me to sit in the waiting room. My dad was with me and he said that the time had almost run out on the parking meter and I said I shouldn't be long now and not to bother putting anymore money in it. I then said watch out for traffic wardens and if you see one run out and move the car. About a minute later I turn round and there is a traffic warden walking up to the car so my dad rushes out and as he gets to her she starts to put it in her computer and was nasty to be dad from what he said. I was sat watching and wanting to go out and have a go at her because he was only 2 minutes over and he could of been held up in there but she wasn't being nice about it. She then told him he had to get another ticket otherwise she would book him again.
It was totally my fault as I told my dad not to go and put some more money in so I said I would pay for it. My dad said that he would pay for it but it wasn't his fault, I really did think I wouldn't be much longer but I was another hour in total. There was only 2 minutes left on the ticket when we left the dentists and neither of us had any more change for another ticket so it is a very good job I got out when I did.
The news wasn't too bad or too good - it could of been worse. I need a crown because one of my teeth have died. It is one of my main front teeth so I am not too pleased about that because the crown might look really dodgy and fake and I don't want fake looking teeth but maybe it is my own fault for not looking after my teeth properly though she did say it looks like I have banged my tooth and that's why it might of died so who knows what made it die. I also need a couple of fillings and that is it so it isn't all bad considering the last time I went to the dentists I was either 18 or 19. She did say I have a couple of teeth that need keeping a watch on over the next 6 months but other than that I am fine.

I badly need some new albums me thinks, well I know I do as I need some fresh music. A lot of my CDs I have had for years and I haven't bought many over the last couple of years. I think this year I have bought maybe ten if that and most of them I paid for with Amazon vouchers. So I am hoping I get some for my birthday, I think my dad is getting me one or two with whatever else I am having and I think I will get one of Duncan and one off Barry so that is four CDS. I have a list of so many that I am after and would love about 12 of them off my list but we shall see what I get for my birthday.

My contract is finally up on my phone though it is still live because I still have minutes on it. I am very pleased with that. I have maybe 200 minutes left on and the way I am going with minutes lately I can see them lasting a long time so I could be on this number for a while yet unless they get annoyed with me and the amount of time I am taking to use them and then kick me off lol.
I have a O2 sim card ready and I already know my number for that. I think I might register it for when they kick me off so I don't need to go through all that on the day they kick me off. I won't be giving my number to everyone who had it now that's for sure. I am careful about who I give my number out to but there are one or two that have it and I don't really want those people in my life or being able to contact me via my phone so when I change over I will make sure it doesn't get passed onto them.

I picked a new carpet on Saturday for our hall, stairs and landing and with some luck it will be laid on Thursday evening which is great. It will make the house look heaps better with something on the floor. It has been a while since there was a carpet on there so it will be nice to walk around with nothing on my feet and them not get cold on the floor boards. The house is now slowly looking better, we haven't spent too much money on it because we don't really want to stay living here and only moved here because we were desperate for somewhere to live and this was the first place that came up so we took it. beggers can't be choosers and all that and that was the way it was. We do plan on moving next summer into a house that is a 100 times better in a area 10 times better than here and probably three bedrooms so I can have people come and stay etc which would be great.

Oh I went to Next on Saturday too after not going in one for like three months. I was looking for a nice evening top to wear for the night we are going out for a meal (28th October) and I have looked onlike etc but I wanted to look in person as it is easier that way and better to take it back to the shop. But I walked around for ages in the evening wear section and nothing jumped out at me. There was nothing and that isn't a joke either, I wish I was joking.
I got one top that is a nice lurex top and is a evening top but it isn't what I want to wear for the meal but the way things are I might be if they don't get anything half decent in.
I also got a pair of chocolate combat-ess trousers with a thick belt and I like them a lot but I don't know if they are me, they add weight to me when I wear them and non of my trainers go with them but I am sure I can sort that out by getting some from Next.
I also got a blue leather-look bag that looks really old and battered. I really like that and am probably going to keep it.

Thursday was a nice and interesting day, I met Sken after he said he was coming round he turned up and I was shocked to see him. He is a lot better in person than I thought he would be and I am not saying I thought he would be rough or horrible in person but he is heaps nicer in the flesh and that is both looks and personally.
I was pleased with who and what he is all about and the whole day was great, he was here for 6 1/2 hours and it went really well. I don't think I have ever been so relaxed around anyone in my whole life and I hope he comes and sees me sometime soon as that would be totally amazing I can tell you.

Zanzibar

Oh my, it has been almost 2 weeks since I posted on here, my mind has been all over the place so I totally forgot about it.

I didn't go to my A217 exam yesterday as I had a migrain. I had under revised for it too because I have had a major distraction in my life and one minute I am happy and then the next I am sad so I didn't get much done.
I might of failed my course because I didn't go yesterday and I am not too happy about that because I worked really hard on it this year and yeah the last two TMAs weren't done because of illness and other things but I still was doing rather well on and I just hope that I haven't wasted nine months because the sooner I get my degree the better I say.
I have a week to send a form in saying why I didn't do the exam and I hope they will let me resit otherwise I will not be happy.
The A207 revision isn't too bad, I done a bit but I remember all sorts from last year. But I am going to do some more reading of the bits that I plan on using in the exam and I have till next Wednesday to do that so I think I should be ok. The least I can do is pass that exam, I do have a good feeling about that exam but it is all down to the questions I get.

I had a job interview on Monday and I think it went really well. I am not sure if I have got the job, I would like to hope that I have but I think maybe not. It would be ideal for me and it is something that I want to do so my fingers are crossed but seen as I haven't heard anything yet I don't think I have got it.

Had the dentists today :os Hmm I need some work doing and not as much as I thought but I need a crown which I am not too pleased about. My dad said they put a tempory one on at first and I am not pleased about that and am going to change my appointment as it is on the 27th the day before my friends come up for my birthday and I don't want a dodgy tempory crown on so I will change it for the week after I think just in case I look a idiot.

On Saturday my dad accidentally broke the fride. We were defrosting it as it had a ice box at the top and it was forever freezing and there was a massive block of ice. So I turned it off in the morning and started to chisel away at loads of the ice otherwise it would of take 5 days to fully defrost.
We came home once during the day just after 3pm and then we had another go at getting rid of some of the ice. It was melting fast because of the helping hand it was getting. We then went back out just before 4pm as we had some places to go and of course I was getting to do more driving which I was happy about.
Anyway we get back and all that is left is one massive chunk of ice and I was about to chisel away at it when my dad takes over and with his first hit he hit that metal thing and all the gas came leaking out really fast. - that is it, the fridge was no more. I wasn't one bit pleased and I went mental about it as we had loads of fresh meat and cheese and so on and no fridge but my dad said it will keep cool for a day or two with the ice that was left in there.
The next day we went up to a retail park on Whiteburk and went in currys as I didn't want to go in Comet lol. We found a fridge that we liked and they didn't have it in stock so we picked the second one we liked and they didn't have that in stock either. So we picked and third and guess what?! They didn't have that in stock either or the forth one we picked so we were about to pick one we didn't really want to to get a fridge and my dad said it is pointless buying a fridge that we don't want so we ordered the original one we wanted and were told we couldn't have it till Friday. Neither of us were pleased about that and when we went to the checkout one of the managers was there and he told us if we have it delivered to the house and not the store we could have it on Wednesday so our eyes lit up and we asked how much the delivery was and it is £20 so my dad started to moan so the manager cut it in half so we only had to pay £1deliveryry charge and we came home very happy.
Foos hasn't been too nice since Monday as the fridge is warm so I haven't been eating much and am very hungry. Last night my dad bought two bags of ice from the shop to put in the fridge to keep things cool and keep last nights shopping cool in the fridge and they did well :o)
The fridge was delivered this afternoon and it is nice, I unwrapped it and put it in it's hole but it can't be turned on for 24 hours which is 3pm tomorrow but I will probably put it on at 9am which isn't too bad. Tonight my dad will get another bag of ice to keep cool what he is getting from the shop.

Saturday we got one of those blood Pressure monitors from LLyods chemists as they were on offer for £10 insread of £44.99. What a bargain. We actually only just remembered to pick it up on Saturday and we ordered it three weeks before lol.
It works a treat and my blood pressure is great, it is meant to be 120/80 and the one I did today was 113/78 and my pulse was 78, it never seems to be under 70 but I think that is ok.

My reversing is getting better with my driving. I love it, I have been doing a couple of 50 mile journeys on Saturdays and I like it so much. I was out in the dark the other night and I don't like that as much Iut i think that was my third time in the dark. The other two times was wIen i was going back from the M.E.N. arena in Manchester after the BiJoeljoel and Elton John concerts. We came back over the tops and that is mega scary I can tell you. I really need to get out more in the dark as I don't like it and don't feel too confident and I want to change that so I enjoy it as much as my daytime driving.

Anyway I must go, there are probably things I have forgotten about but I am sure I will post them on here at some point if and wIen i remember.

It's alllll about soulllll ;op

Well here I am yet again, I am so tired right now and am about to go to bed (10pm) as I have had a tiring day today and want to have a great nights sleep before getting up tomorrow and doing at least 6 hours study.

I am so tired right now that I can't remember when I did my last blog but I don't think it was too long ago, probably a week ago as I do tend to write them on a Sunday though of course it is Saturday night now.

The week has been productive in one sense but not productive in another sense. I have been doing my 4 hours a day of revision every day expect Monday when I did only 2 and Tuesday when I did none. I got none done on Tuesday because I wasn't in during the morning and I was so tired when I got back.
I am finding that 4 hours a day is getting me nowhere with my revision and I am not a happy bunny right now, my stress levels are up and I need to chill out other wise I will end up making myself ill.
4 hours isn't getting me anywhere in all honesty and my first exam is a week on Tuesday, oh how I wish I had started this a couple of months back. I was laughing at someone who started weeks ago and who was doing eight hours a day but I guess the laugh is on me because I am wishing I had the time to spend 8 hours a day on it because I really need it that's for sure.
I find too much longer than 4 hours I start to not take things in and I can't concentrate but I have no choice now to put in 6 hours a day and I can see myself putting in 10 hours next Sunday too because I am just so far behind and I have got about 15% done for A217 and only 10% done for A207. I am way too slow at reading and I need to dedicate more time to this and everything else will have to come second for me now. I plan to start at 9am most days and fit my six hours in between 9am and 9pm. It is do able to fit in 6 hours during those 12 hours, I do find that I can't sit and do more than 90 minutes a time but I do try and to have a break every 40-60 minutes other wise my mind does start to wonder.
I try not to relax too much in those breaks, I do try and fit in my house work and everything else I must do and I am also going to try to get out at least once a day with the dog as fresh air will be good for me and I can do with the exercise after sitting down reading all day, I can tell you that my shoulders and my neck ache a few hours into my days from holding the thick heavy books. I am forced to sit on the sofa and read as there is nowhere for me to sit that is comfy and where I can put my book. Here would be perfect if the desk wasn't so high and also if this chair was a little more comfy. I get backache and arm and neck ache from sitting here but I think that is all down to the height of this desk.
We have a table but that is full of paper work and the chair is so uncomfy, I so need to find somewhere to sit soon anyway as I need to be able to revise for 6 hours a day and I don't think I can manage that for too many days because sitting for four hours holding the books leaves me in pain so can you image 6 hours a day?!!

I am fully signed up for T171 after changing my mind so many times lol. I am such a total pain at times as one minute I wanted to do it and then I didn't and then I did but I changed my mind again and I have stuck to it for three or so weeks now and I am doing it and am all signed up and have the icon and conference on my desktop now and am a happy bunny. I wasn't as happy when I found out my first TMA (assignment) is due on November 2nd as I did have plans on taking two full weeks off study when I finish my exam but there is no chance of that now because I have my last exam on Wednesday 18th October and then I have a week to get about 3-4 weeks of course work done before my friends come up from my birthday, when they go I have a couple of days to do the TMA. I have seem the TMA questions for it and they are simple enough so they won't take my long to do and I shall submit them on my birthday. I don't plan on doing any study on my birthday, I may just spend the whole day in bed (with?? ... hmm well I know who lol but anyway ;op )....lol.
Then my next course starts on November the 1st which is my business studies course that I don't know too much about but am looking forward to it. This work load of two courses should be easy enough as they are only 30 point courses (I normally do 60 point courses) so I should have heaps more time than I do now which I am very pleased about. Maybe an hour a day and then that's it and won't have to pull any three day sessions because I won't fall behind if I do an hour 5-6 days a week...See I have it all planned hehe. I do actually plan on getting a couple of months ahead on them so then I only will need to do some work on them every now and then :op

I am not getting anywhere with those other books I have on the go and I can't be blamed because there is no way I am wanting to read anything after 4 hours of reading a day. I can see me not picking those books up until maybe November when I have my exams etc out of the way. But when I do I am going to be on a mad catch up session because I did set myself a bit of a target of 50 books in 2006 but that was before I spent half of the year ill. So I am maybe up to 22 books so I think maybe I should change it to 35 books in 2006 which is like more weeks than I have been well and I think I will do really well to read another 13 books before the end of the year...It will also be more books I have read in the past 10 years combined because I was never much of a book reader to be honest but this year I got into it and and do enjoy reading books. I won't be setting myself such a big target next year and might say 24 books (as I am 24 - almost) I think that is a better target as I won't have as much time for reading as I plan to have more fun and get out more in the next year as life is just way to short to spend it studying most of the time and in the house as much as I spend in the house.

today I went shopping...Nothing different there. I got to have my drive which I love and my dad said to me tonight"I don't know why you want to drive because all I do it moan at you" and that is true. He is always moaning at me about my driving when I am not doing anything wrong but it just doesn't put me off driving because I like it sooo much. There was one time when I didn't want to drive again because he went too much on at me but the week later I was fine and drove. I just can't get enough of it and I would love to own my own car but I don't think I will be getting one for my birthday, my dad said if he could afford a new car he wouldn't buy it for me he would buy it for himself. I just want a new car more than anything and I will get one some how one day I guess but for now I will have to put up with my dads car.
My reversing is getting great I must point out, I am mega pleased with it. I love my parking skills too but my reversing is the best, I have done it so many times today that I must be crazy but why drive into a space when you can reverse hehe :op
I was looking at laptops today as I am thinking of getting one. I am on here when my dad wants to come on here and he is on here when I want to be on here. I haven't been on here much for the last few weeks and for the next few weeks I don't plan on being on here too much because I don't have the time and I think that even when I do have time I am going to cut down and do other things instead. Anyway my dad and I get into disagreements about the computer as he bought it for me but he keeps saying it is his and moans about never getting on here so I can do without the hassle etc so I think I may get a laptop. I did look at desktops but I have nowhere to put one other than on here which defeats the purpose of this exercise. I wish I had a little space in my room for a little desk but I don't but anyway a laptop is perfect and I think I have picked the one I am after but am going to wait until after my exams and then I shall treat myself I think.
I was looking at Ipod Nano's today and that is what I am getting for my birthday now and I can't decide between the pink and blue one now lol. I like both as much and I must say I am tempted by the pink as I do like pink things now and then like my phone. I wouldn't want everything pink but the little things like a Ipod Nano would look good plus my male friends wouldn't want to borrow it hehe.
We bought a brand new keyboard when we were out today because the original one for this computer was badly worn out. The letters had all worn off the keys and the A had a hole in it. My dad wonders how long it will take for the letters to wear off on this one but we will have to see. It is a cordless one to and I like it and the keys feel good so it didn't take any getting use to.

Right it's 22:40 now, I can't believe this has taken me 40 minutes to type. So I think I shall go and have a nice drink and get to bed and hopefully I shall be asleep for midnight. I will admit that I am not looking forward to my 6 hours a day of study but it is a must and then if I don't get as much done as needed I will go up to 7 hours and then 8 but I won't do more than 8 other than next Sunday when I am planning on doing 10 hours if I can.