Well the heat is still here and I am glad it is no longer cold and raining but the heat is really getting to me :O( I am barely sleeping at night and can't concentrate for long periods during the day so I am not getting much done yet I have piles of things that need doing.
The heat is so bad when I am trying to get to sleep - I think that is the worse for me because I can't breath because of how warm it is and trying to get to sleep and staying asleep (once I am asleep) is becoming a bit of a nightmare for me. I was going to buy a fan from the shops last weekend but it totally slipped my mind, I can see what will happen when I get one though. I can see the weather going bad again when I get a fan lol because that would just be my luck :op
I am behind on my coursework and I have been here many times before (read past posts and you will see what I mean) and I blame the weather and that isn't just an excuse that I am coming up with. I sit down to study and find I am too uncomfortable from the heat and I can't concentrate so I am hardly getting any done. I just seem to waste a lot of time sitting round doing nothing but listening to much but I can't seem to be able to concentrate or feel 100% right doing things I need to be doing.
I have about a week and 1-2 days to get all my coursework done so I can have longer than a day on my TMA. I don't know if I will manage to get it done in time (the coursework) but I will try my hardest as it is something I want to get done so I can get my TMA out of the way and have a couple of days off from that course just to give my brain a bit of a rest.
I was meant to be doing through A207 this week from book one but I just couldn't because of the heat so it is next week and it can't wait any longer as I will be starting a month after I was originally meant to start so I really need to get my head into it and get it done and the sooner the better. There is nine months worth of work to do and trying to get through a book a week will be a bit of a task but it is a must so I get to know the course again so I can then revise for the resit in October which I don't want to fail.
I still don't know if I should do S103, I really want to as I am sure I will hate having to wait 3-4 months to start my next course. This is the last time they are doing S103 so I don't want to miss out but there is so many other courses I want to do so I really need to decide a.s.a.p.
I'm missing having driving lessons, well learning to drive and I want some lessons. I maybe got 7 lessons worth from the 19 I did with the instructor I had and I think I won't need many more so could pass in 5-10 more lessons but I want to make sure I go with someone good as I want to pass so much because I want to get out on my own.
I am disliking driving with my dad because all he does is stress me out with his shouting and him saying I am too close to things when I'm not. I don't like his car either but I have no real choice in that as he isn't going to get another one anytime soon. I think I am more likely to get my first car before he replaces his car. I don't know when I will get a car but I know I would a new one (wouldn't we all) and I know I want a VW Golf GTI four door, but I can't afford that but anyway it is what I hope to get one day. I have seen the ad for the new fiesta and that is less than half the price I want so it is more attainable than the Golf so that could be what I get :O)
A busy week this week, the house is a major tip and needs some kind of spring clean performing on it and I got a good start on it today and tomorrow I shall do more as I want to get the house as clean as I possibly can as my dad is so messy and it is so hard to keep up with at times.
I have to read 3 books before the 1st August as I have a goal on my 43 things and it is to read 50 books in 2006 (not sure if I have mentioned this before) anyway I fell behind with being ill a lot and too lazy and spending too much time on MSN for a little while. So I set a little goal of reading 6 books by August and it was going OK to I slacked off in this hear and now I have three books left to read and I am almost half way through two which is ok but the books aren't small books so there is still plenty of reading in them. I don't want to start the third one until at least one is fully read and I have less than 100 pages left in the other one. I think I can do it in time but I will see how things go, with luck I will do it.
I will set the same goal to read 6 books in a month for next month as I am so far behind and will read 6 books a month till I catch up though I don't think that will make me catch up before the end of the year. I know if I manage to read 50 books in 2006 it will be the first thing I have stuck to and done in the longest time as I have been known to give up on things before so I will be proud of myself for managing to keep up with it. Next year I think it will be read 20 books in 2007 as I know I will have less time anyway and this year I thought I would set myself something quite impossible for me as I never thought I would manage to stick to it and so far I have read about 19 books which is a record for me in anyone year as it is :O)
On that note I think I will go and put my freshly washed bedding on my bed and read for half an hour and then hope something is on TV as it is way too warm/hot to sit here and type as I am sweating already.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
The night is still young
Well the heat is still here and I am glad it is no longer cold and raining but the heat is really getting to me :O( I am barely sleeping at night and can't concentrate for long periods during the day so I am not getting much done yet I have piles of things that need doing.
The heat is so bad when I am trying to get to sleep - I think that is the worse for me because I can't breath because of how warm it is and trying to get to sleep and staying asleep (once I am asleep) is becoming a bit of a nightmare for me. I was going to buy a fan from the shops last weekend but it totally slipped my mind, I can see what will happen when I get one though. I can see the weather going bad again when I get a fan lol because that would just be my luck :op
I am behind on my coursework and I have been here many times before (read past posts and you will see what I mean) and I blame the weather and that isn't just an excuse that I am coming up with. I sit down to study and find I am too uncomfortable from the heat and I can't concentrate so I am hardly getting any done. I just seem to waste a lot of time sitting round doing nothing but listening to much but I can't seem to be able to concentrate or feel 100% right doing things I need to be doing.
I have about a week and 1-2 days to get all my coursework done so I can have longer than a day on my TMA. I don't know if I will manage to get it done in time (the coursework) but I will try my hardest as it is something I want to get done so I can get my TMA out of the way and have a couple of days off from that course just to give my brain a bit of a rest.
I was meant to be doing through A207 this week from book one but I just couldn't because of the heat so it is next week and it can't wait any longer as I will be starting a month after I was originally meant to start so I really need to get my head into it and get it done and the sooner the better. There is nine months worth of work to do and trying to get through a book a week will be a bit of a task but it is a must so I get to know the course again so I can then revise for the resit in October which I don't want to fail.
I still don't know if I should do S103, I really want to as I am sure I will hate having to wait 3-4 months to start my next course. This is the last time they are doing S103 so I don't want to miss out but there is so many other courses I want to do so I really need to decide a.s.a.p.
I'm missing having driving lessons, well learning to drive and I want some lessons. I maybe got 7 lessons worth from the 19 I did with the instructor I had and I think I won't need many more so could pass in 5-10 more lessons but I want to make sure I go with someone good as I want to pass so much because I want to get out on my own.
I am disliking driving with my dad because all he does is stress me out with his shouting and him saying I am too close to things when I'm not. I don't like his car either but I have no real choice in that as he isn't going to get another one anytime soon. I think I am more likely to get my first car before he replaces his car. I don't know when I will get a car but I know I would a new one (wouldn't we all) and I know I want a VW Golf GTI four door, but I can't afford that but anyway it is what I hope to get one day. I have seen the ad for the new fiesta and that is less than half the price I want so it is more attainable than the Golf so that could be what I get :O)
A busy week this week, the house is a major tip and needs some kind of spring clean performing on it and I got a good start on it today and tomorrow I shall do more as I want to get the house as clean as I possibly can as my dad is so messy and it is so hard to keep up with at times.
I have to read 3 books before the 1st August as I have a goal on my 43 things and it is to read 50 books in 2006 (not sure if I have mentioned this before) anyway I fell behind with being ill a lot and too lazy and spending too much time on MSN for a little while. So I set a little goal of reading 6 books by August and it was going OK to I slacked off in this hear and now I have three books left to read and I am almost half way through two which is ok but the books aren't small books so there is still plenty of reading in them. I don't want to start the third one until at least one is fully read and I have less than 100 pages left in the other one. I think I can do it in time but I will see how things go, with luck I will do it.
I will set the same goal to read 6 books in a month for next month as I am so far behind and will read 6 books a month till I catch up though I don't think that will make me catch up before the end of the year. I know if I manage to read 50 books in 2006 it will be the first thing I have stuck to and done in the longest time as I have been known to give up on things before so I will be proud of myself for managing to keep up with it. Next year I think it will be read 20 books in 2007 as I know I will have less time anyway and this year I thought I would set myself something quite impossible for me as I never thought I would manage to stick to it and so far I have read about 19 books which is a record for me in anyone year as it is :O)
On that note I think I will go and put my freshly washed bedding on my bed and read for half an hour and then hope something is on TV as it is way too warm/hot to sit here and type as I am sweating already.
The heat is so bad when I am trying to get to sleep - I think that is the worse for me because I can't breath because of how warm it is and trying to get to sleep and staying asleep (once I am asleep) is becoming a bit of a nightmare for me. I was going to buy a fan from the shops last weekend but it totally slipped my mind, I can see what will happen when I get one though. I can see the weather going bad again when I get a fan lol because that would just be my luck :op
I am behind on my coursework and I have been here many times before (read past posts and you will see what I mean) and I blame the weather and that isn't just an excuse that I am coming up with. I sit down to study and find I am too uncomfortable from the heat and I can't concentrate so I am hardly getting any done. I just seem to waste a lot of time sitting round doing nothing but listening to much but I can't seem to be able to concentrate or feel 100% right doing things I need to be doing.
I have about a week and 1-2 days to get all my coursework done so I can have longer than a day on my TMA. I don't know if I will manage to get it done in time (the coursework) but I will try my hardest as it is something I want to get done so I can get my TMA out of the way and have a couple of days off from that course just to give my brain a bit of a rest.
I was meant to be doing through A207 this week from book one but I just couldn't because of the heat so it is next week and it can't wait any longer as I will be starting a month after I was originally meant to start so I really need to get my head into it and get it done and the sooner the better. There is nine months worth of work to do and trying to get through a book a week will be a bit of a task but it is a must so I get to know the course again so I can then revise for the resit in October which I don't want to fail.
I still don't know if I should do S103, I really want to as I am sure I will hate having to wait 3-4 months to start my next course. This is the last time they are doing S103 so I don't want to miss out but there is so many other courses I want to do so I really need to decide a.s.a.p.
I'm missing having driving lessons, well learning to drive and I want some lessons. I maybe got 7 lessons worth from the 19 I did with the instructor I had and I think I won't need many more so could pass in 5-10 more lessons but I want to make sure I go with someone good as I want to pass so much because I want to get out on my own.
I am disliking driving with my dad because all he does is stress me out with his shouting and him saying I am too close to things when I'm not. I don't like his car either but I have no real choice in that as he isn't going to get another one anytime soon. I think I am more likely to get my first car before he replaces his car. I don't know when I will get a car but I know I would a new one (wouldn't we all) and I know I want a VW Golf GTI four door, but I can't afford that but anyway it is what I hope to get one day. I have seen the ad for the new fiesta and that is less than half the price I want so it is more attainable than the Golf so that could be what I get :O)
A busy week this week, the house is a major tip and needs some kind of spring clean performing on it and I got a good start on it today and tomorrow I shall do more as I want to get the house as clean as I possibly can as my dad is so messy and it is so hard to keep up with at times.
I have to read 3 books before the 1st August as I have a goal on my 43 things and it is to read 50 books in 2006 (not sure if I have mentioned this before) anyway I fell behind with being ill a lot and too lazy and spending too much time on MSN for a little while. So I set a little goal of reading 6 books by August and it was going OK to I slacked off in this hear and now I have three books left to read and I am almost half way through two which is ok but the books aren't small books so there is still plenty of reading in them. I don't want to start the third one until at least one is fully read and I have less than 100 pages left in the other one. I think I can do it in time but I will see how things go, with luck I will do it.
I will set the same goal to read 6 books in a month for next month as I am so far behind and will read 6 books a month till I catch up though I don't think that will make me catch up before the end of the year. I know if I manage to read 50 books in 2006 it will be the first thing I have stuck to and done in the longest time as I have been known to give up on things before so I will be proud of myself for managing to keep up with it. Next year I think it will be read 20 books in 2007 as I know I will have less time anyway and this year I thought I would set myself something quite impossible for me as I never thought I would manage to stick to it and so far I have read about 19 books which is a record for me in anyone year as it is :O)
On that note I think I will go and put my freshly washed bedding on my bed and read for half an hour and then hope something is on TV as it is way too warm/hot to sit here and type as I am sweating already.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Billy Joel Concert 19th July 2006 - M.E.N. Manchester UK.
I was lucky to get to go and see Billy Joel in concert at the M.E.N. in Manchester last night. I had been looking forward to it since I bought the tickets (for my dad) the day they went on sale in April.
I had planned to leave here at 5pm last night but my dad didn't walk in from work till then so I was a little stressed as nothing was going to plan. We finally left at 5:30 and ended up in a load of traffic....
We called at McDonald's at Whitebirk and were disappointed to find out they had run out of all their cold drinks so we decided to not get anything to eat or drink there and ended up stuck in the Drive Thru waiting for a women to get her order which seemed to take forever but that might have something to do with the fact she got 8 loads of bags full of food :os
When we finally got out of the drive thru we made our way down the first motorway stretch and when we got off we went in another Mcdonalds drive thru and luckily they had drinks :O)
We get back on the motorway and my dad drives straight past the motorway junction we are meant to get off to get on another part of the motorway. That really stressed me as we were running behind time and I tell him to get off the motorway and he thought he knew better and drove right past. We drove on for another 10 minutes before we managed to get off the motorway and turn round. Then we are coming up to the junction we were meant to get off at and he drives past it again :os I was getting so stressed out at this point!! Then we finally get back to the right junction and leave at then my dad gets off early and missing the one we were meant to get onto. I felt like giving up and going home at that point as everything so far had gone so wrong.
We eventually get to Manchester and once we get into Manchester it is easy to get to the M.E.N. - we finally park up and walk to the M.E.N. It was about 7:20 then and I planned on getting there when the doors opened and in a way I was glad we didn't because it was so hot inside, I had sweat pouring off me which wasn't a horrible sight but I was so hot and stupidly had worn jeans even though I knew it was boiling.
After getting a drink and paying £15 for a program we made our way to our seats and I was amazed by my seats and how much I could see. I am so happy we got to sit at the back because we got the best view in the place and the stage wasn't that far away. We had seats 1 and 2 (again) which I like because we are sat at the end and don't have to be annoying and get people to stand up if we want to go and get a drink or go to the loo.
The show was due to start at 8pm and there were still people getting shown to their seats which I thought was really ignorant because if the show starts at 8pm you shouldn't be just getting to your seats.
About 8:10 Billy Joel's entrance music came on and all the audience went mad. The lights went off and then all of a sudden they went back on and he popped up onto the stage with his piano and started to play the intro to ANGRY YOUNG MAN!! The sound of the band was just amazing and the lights were amazing and the stage set up was absolutely amazing. There was no big screen but it really wasn't needed because you could see him no matter where you were sat in the arena.
- from the first song I knew this concert was going to be a million times better than the Elton John concert that I saw 6 weeks ago. I could just tell from how amazing the sound was and the light show was just something not to be missed!! - the Elton John show was really basic compared with this. Elton had a really rubbish stage that was badly set up and he only had a few lights and nothing special went on in his show. I think Peter Kaye may of been the highlight of the Elton concert as he didn't even interact with the audience and even threw a bit of a tantrum!!
Billy got such an amazing welcome from the audience and they were off their feet for him (unlike the EJ) concert. His band got the audience clapping along throughout the concert and it was a proper audience participation concert all the way through and that made it a lot more enjoyable.
Everyone was singing along too and really enjoyed it all the more. The light show in itself was a great part of the show with so many different colour combinations and many different things going on with the lights and they lit up the audience many times and just went all the way through the concert with amazing effects and styles to it. I loved the lights and were amazed by how wonderful they were.
The band were amazing too, they rocked!! It sounded amazing and nothing could fault the sound of that band. It was a really full sounding band and nothing was missing from the songs (music parts like the EJ concert). He has a 8 piece band, not all of them were on stage at the same time, who all interacted with each other amazingly and really stood out and complimented Billy.
The stage was brilliant. It was a round stage with many different parts to it. The most amazing thing about the stage was the piano. It came out of the floor (in the middle of the stage) and basically it moved around during in the concert (during in each song) it turned round so one minute he had his left side to us and then his right and then he was facing us and then had his back to us. So the people at the sides got him facing them at points and the people at the back of the stage got an amazing view too.
On some songs he doesn't play piano so it went back down under the stage and he would either stand and sing with a mic or run round the stage singing or up behind the back of the band there was a round walk way were he would walk along and sing and then on each side of the back bit there was a keyboard that rotated so some songs when he was at the back part of the stage (playing the keyboard) it would swing round so he would be facing the back of the audience or the side of the audience which I thought was pretty amazing.
He played the guitar on a few songs too which was amazing. Fully interacting with the audience all the time.
He did loads of amazing songs (all his songs, no one elses) and they were all amazing and all my fave Billy Joel songs, I can't remember the set list but I was happy with every song he did and was a little sad that he didn't do Goodnight Saigon but then again he can't do all his songs otherwise we would of been there for weeks ;O)
Peter Kaye was in the audience (front row) and has been to all his UK concerts so far. Billy talked to him a couple of times through the concert and was asking him if he had a private jet as he is always at his gigs hehe.
I am amazed just at how funny Billy Joel is. He had all the audience laughing everything he said stuff. He was making me laugh to the point it was hurting. He is very charismatic and had all the audience under his spell during the show - defiantly my kind of guy :OD
He was describing himself at one point (for all those who were too far away to see him) and he described himself as 6 foot 5 with a muscular body and chisled chin and long blond flowing hair lol :op
It was amazing and I wish I could go and see him again but don't have any more tickets. If I would of known he was going to be so good then I would of gotten tickets for another concert because who knows if he is going to come back again and if he does it might be years and years because the last time he played here (before last night) was 12 years ago :oO
He did Uptown Girl for those who know it from that cr*appy version Westlife did. Well Billy Joel is the original person to do that, he wrote it in the early 80s about a certain model he ended up marrying ;O)
He was saying it is really difficult to sing which I guess it is but all the audience loved it but the song that really stood out was Piano Man. Billy Joel is the Piano man so it was only fitting that he end the concert with it.
When he did Piano Man the audience went mad and sang it all the way through, he left the audience to sing the chorus alone and then the final chorus the band stopped playing and it was just our voices which was pretty cool. When that finished it was the end of the concert. I wish it wasn't but he played 2 and a half hours so we got out money worth and it was really worth every penny I paid for those tickets. He did many songs and it was just brilliant.
I give it 10/10.
Lucky for me and my dad we were very close to the exit so I grabbed him and dragged him out before everyone could get out because last time it took ages to get out because there was too many people trying to get out at the same time. It worked out well getting out then as there was hardly anyone out and we were out the building in under a minute and back to the car another few minutes later and the thing that took the longest was getting back out of a carpark onto the main road :os
It was amazing and I am still hyper about the whole concert and it is something I want to do again.
Billy Joel is amazing :O)
I had planned to leave here at 5pm last night but my dad didn't walk in from work till then so I was a little stressed as nothing was going to plan. We finally left at 5:30 and ended up in a load of traffic....
We called at McDonald's at Whitebirk and were disappointed to find out they had run out of all their cold drinks so we decided to not get anything to eat or drink there and ended up stuck in the Drive Thru waiting for a women to get her order which seemed to take forever but that might have something to do with the fact she got 8 loads of bags full of food :os
When we finally got out of the drive thru we made our way down the first motorway stretch and when we got off we went in another Mcdonalds drive thru and luckily they had drinks :O)
We get back on the motorway and my dad drives straight past the motorway junction we are meant to get off to get on another part of the motorway. That really stressed me as we were running behind time and I tell him to get off the motorway and he thought he knew better and drove right past. We drove on for another 10 minutes before we managed to get off the motorway and turn round. Then we are coming up to the junction we were meant to get off at and he drives past it again :os I was getting so stressed out at this point!! Then we finally get back to the right junction and leave at then my dad gets off early and missing the one we were meant to get onto. I felt like giving up and going home at that point as everything so far had gone so wrong.
We eventually get to Manchester and once we get into Manchester it is easy to get to the M.E.N. - we finally park up and walk to the M.E.N. It was about 7:20 then and I planned on getting there when the doors opened and in a way I was glad we didn't because it was so hot inside, I had sweat pouring off me which wasn't a horrible sight but I was so hot and stupidly had worn jeans even though I knew it was boiling.
After getting a drink and paying £15 for a program we made our way to our seats and I was amazed by my seats and how much I could see. I am so happy we got to sit at the back because we got the best view in the place and the stage wasn't that far away. We had seats 1 and 2 (again) which I like because we are sat at the end and don't have to be annoying and get people to stand up if we want to go and get a drink or go to the loo.
The show was due to start at 8pm and there were still people getting shown to their seats which I thought was really ignorant because if the show starts at 8pm you shouldn't be just getting to your seats.
About 8:10 Billy Joel's entrance music came on and all the audience went mad. The lights went off and then all of a sudden they went back on and he popped up onto the stage with his piano and started to play the intro to ANGRY YOUNG MAN!! The sound of the band was just amazing and the lights were amazing and the stage set up was absolutely amazing. There was no big screen but it really wasn't needed because you could see him no matter where you were sat in the arena.
- from the first song I knew this concert was going to be a million times better than the Elton John concert that I saw 6 weeks ago. I could just tell from how amazing the sound was and the light show was just something not to be missed!! - the Elton John show was really basic compared with this. Elton had a really rubbish stage that was badly set up and he only had a few lights and nothing special went on in his show. I think Peter Kaye may of been the highlight of the Elton concert as he didn't even interact with the audience and even threw a bit of a tantrum!!
Billy got such an amazing welcome from the audience and they were off their feet for him (unlike the EJ) concert. His band got the audience clapping along throughout the concert and it was a proper audience participation concert all the way through and that made it a lot more enjoyable.
Everyone was singing along too and really enjoyed it all the more. The light show in itself was a great part of the show with so many different colour combinations and many different things going on with the lights and they lit up the audience many times and just went all the way through the concert with amazing effects and styles to it. I loved the lights and were amazed by how wonderful they were.
The band were amazing too, they rocked!! It sounded amazing and nothing could fault the sound of that band. It was a really full sounding band and nothing was missing from the songs (music parts like the EJ concert). He has a 8 piece band, not all of them were on stage at the same time, who all interacted with each other amazingly and really stood out and complimented Billy.
The stage was brilliant. It was a round stage with many different parts to it. The most amazing thing about the stage was the piano. It came out of the floor (in the middle of the stage) and basically it moved around during in the concert (during in each song) it turned round so one minute he had his left side to us and then his right and then he was facing us and then had his back to us. So the people at the sides got him facing them at points and the people at the back of the stage got an amazing view too.
On some songs he doesn't play piano so it went back down under the stage and he would either stand and sing with a mic or run round the stage singing or up behind the back of the band there was a round walk way were he would walk along and sing and then on each side of the back bit there was a keyboard that rotated so some songs when he was at the back part of the stage (playing the keyboard) it would swing round so he would be facing the back of the audience or the side of the audience which I thought was pretty amazing.
He played the guitar on a few songs too which was amazing. Fully interacting with the audience all the time.
He did loads of amazing songs (all his songs, no one elses) and they were all amazing and all my fave Billy Joel songs, I can't remember the set list but I was happy with every song he did and was a little sad that he didn't do Goodnight Saigon but then again he can't do all his songs otherwise we would of been there for weeks ;O)
Peter Kaye was in the audience (front row) and has been to all his UK concerts so far. Billy talked to him a couple of times through the concert and was asking him if he had a private jet as he is always at his gigs hehe.
I am amazed just at how funny Billy Joel is. He had all the audience laughing everything he said stuff. He was making me laugh to the point it was hurting. He is very charismatic and had all the audience under his spell during the show - defiantly my kind of guy :OD
He was describing himself at one point (for all those who were too far away to see him) and he described himself as 6 foot 5 with a muscular body and chisled chin and long blond flowing hair lol :op
It was amazing and I wish I could go and see him again but don't have any more tickets. If I would of known he was going to be so good then I would of gotten tickets for another concert because who knows if he is going to come back again and if he does it might be years and years because the last time he played here (before last night) was 12 years ago :oO
He did Uptown Girl for those who know it from that cr*appy version Westlife did. Well Billy Joel is the original person to do that, he wrote it in the early 80s about a certain model he ended up marrying ;O)
He was saying it is really difficult to sing which I guess it is but all the audience loved it but the song that really stood out was Piano Man. Billy Joel is the Piano man so it was only fitting that he end the concert with it.
When he did Piano Man the audience went mad and sang it all the way through, he left the audience to sing the chorus alone and then the final chorus the band stopped playing and it was just our voices which was pretty cool. When that finished it was the end of the concert. I wish it wasn't but he played 2 and a half hours so we got out money worth and it was really worth every penny I paid for those tickets. He did many songs and it was just brilliant.
I give it 10/10.
Lucky for me and my dad we were very close to the exit so I grabbed him and dragged him out before everyone could get out because last time it took ages to get out because there was too many people trying to get out at the same time. It worked out well getting out then as there was hardly anyone out and we were out the building in under a minute and back to the car another few minutes later and the thing that took the longest was getting back out of a carpark onto the main road :os
It was amazing and I am still hyper about the whole concert and it is something I want to do again.
Billy Joel is amazing :O)
Friday, July 14, 2006
Only the good die young...
So what have I been up to? Hmm who knows ;O)
Well coursework is going well and am doing Buddhism this week, it is a strange one I must admit. It is very different from the other religions I have studied so far. I am not very far into it so I don't know how it is going to pan out but it is interesting me so far though it isn't as in depth as the other ones I have done!!
I haven't gotten my results back from my TMA (05) yet but I am not wanting them back anyway as they might put me off my next TMA. I know I haven't done that well anyway so I might as well prolong finding out my results for as long as possible though I do keep keeping my student homepage daily for my results.
I had another think about S103 and I really want to do this course and I know that I won't have the time but I want to go for it so I am going to do it and I must be mad but that's me hehe. So I was thinking if I get a little ahead on A217 and do my exam revision early then I can do my course work as soon as it arrives for S103. Then when my exams are over in October I can get really stuck into the coursework and with some luck do at least six months worth of coursework and most of the TMAs before AD317 starts in Jan next year. It is the only possible way that I can do S103 and it not infer with AD317.
I had a fantastic drive last Saturday for a couple of hours. I was driving my dad around to see clients and I so much enjoyed it though my dad doesn't really like being driven around and that's not just by me either as he doesn't like anyone driving him around. I love driving and I want to have some more lessons soon so I can take my test as I am dying to get out there on my own and go for a drive though of course I can't afford a car so my dad will probably have me on his insurance and I can drive his car but he is never in so I won't get to drive as much as I like. It would be nice to get out once a week on my own and go for a drive somewhere for an hour, knowing me I might drive a little further and end up in Coventry to see my friend Pete or even further and end up in Northampton where I can see my friend Ben or even further into Essex to see Miss Bignell ;O) Who knows. All I know is I love driving and I wish I had learnt when I was 17 as I have missed out on driving all these years and I think it is an amazing thing so I wish I had gone for it when I was 17 though I don't think I was into it back then and was more interested in music which I still am but when I was 17 I used to sit around all day listening to music all day and look at music books and watch music videos and that was my life then. I still listen to music all day now but I do other things at the same time which is a good job because I am always so busy with so much to do.
Talking about music I am about to go to my third concert of the year, on Wednesday, and I can't wait. It is the Billy Joel concert in Manchester at the M.E.N arena. It should be good and I can't wait. In fact right now I am listening to his latest album that came out on Monday, it is called 12 Gardens and is a LIVE album that was recorded during his 12 sell out shows at Madison Square Gardens in New York. It is an amazing album (hence the title of this blog) and I am loving listening to it, it is nearly over which is a good job as I have been sat here for the last 2 hours listening to it. I must get back to some study in a few minutes when the last two songs have finished, I can listen to music as I study but can't pay too much attention to it so I wanted to listen to the album properly before I did some more study.
Also it is good because there are some Billy Joel songs I haven't heard for years and years and there are also a couple I don't know so I am going to listen to this album at least once a day before the concert on Wednesday so I can try and get to know the songs better and learn the ones I don't know as I don't want to go to a concert when I don't know the songs. I like to know songs when I go to concerts as I think there is no point in going other wise. There are people who go and see bands not knowing many if any songs and I think that is really pointless because I like to sing-a-long if the artist gets them singing along........ When I was at the Elton John concert he never got the crowd going and I am not used to that having only ever being to Bon Jovi concerts before when the crowd stand up and sing all the way through. I did expect it was like that at all concerts so I was very shocked when I was at the EJ concert and no one stood up and sang along. There was a point when he did his last three songs some of the crowd sitting on the floor seating got up and sang and clapped along and that was it but it wasn't enough for me even though it was a good concert. I am hoping for a little more from the Billy Joel concert and I hope that my dad likes it a lot as I bought the tickets for him for his birthday present and they cost me a lot more that the EJ tickets.
I better get going now as this album is on it's last song and I have major study to do today so I shall bid you farewell ;O)
Well coursework is going well and am doing Buddhism this week, it is a strange one I must admit. It is very different from the other religions I have studied so far. I am not very far into it so I don't know how it is going to pan out but it is interesting me so far though it isn't as in depth as the other ones I have done!!
I haven't gotten my results back from my TMA (05) yet but I am not wanting them back anyway as they might put me off my next TMA. I know I haven't done that well anyway so I might as well prolong finding out my results for as long as possible though I do keep keeping my student homepage daily for my results.
I had another think about S103 and I really want to do this course and I know that I won't have the time but I want to go for it so I am going to do it and I must be mad but that's me hehe. So I was thinking if I get a little ahead on A217 and do my exam revision early then I can do my course work as soon as it arrives for S103. Then when my exams are over in October I can get really stuck into the coursework and with some luck do at least six months worth of coursework and most of the TMAs before AD317 starts in Jan next year. It is the only possible way that I can do S103 and it not infer with AD317.
I had a fantastic drive last Saturday for a couple of hours. I was driving my dad around to see clients and I so much enjoyed it though my dad doesn't really like being driven around and that's not just by me either as he doesn't like anyone driving him around. I love driving and I want to have some more lessons soon so I can take my test as I am dying to get out there on my own and go for a drive though of course I can't afford a car so my dad will probably have me on his insurance and I can drive his car but he is never in so I won't get to drive as much as I like. It would be nice to get out once a week on my own and go for a drive somewhere for an hour, knowing me I might drive a little further and end up in Coventry to see my friend Pete or even further and end up in Northampton where I can see my friend Ben or even further into Essex to see Miss Bignell ;O) Who knows. All I know is I love driving and I wish I had learnt when I was 17 as I have missed out on driving all these years and I think it is an amazing thing so I wish I had gone for it when I was 17 though I don't think I was into it back then and was more interested in music which I still am but when I was 17 I used to sit around all day listening to music all day and look at music books and watch music videos and that was my life then. I still listen to music all day now but I do other things at the same time which is a good job because I am always so busy with so much to do.
Talking about music I am about to go to my third concert of the year, on Wednesday, and I can't wait. It is the Billy Joel concert in Manchester at the M.E.N arena. It should be good and I can't wait. In fact right now I am listening to his latest album that came out on Monday, it is called 12 Gardens and is a LIVE album that was recorded during his 12 sell out shows at Madison Square Gardens in New York. It is an amazing album (hence the title of this blog) and I am loving listening to it, it is nearly over which is a good job as I have been sat here for the last 2 hours listening to it. I must get back to some study in a few minutes when the last two songs have finished, I can listen to music as I study but can't pay too much attention to it so I wanted to listen to the album properly before I did some more study.
Also it is good because there are some Billy Joel songs I haven't heard for years and years and there are also a couple I don't know so I am going to listen to this album at least once a day before the concert on Wednesday so I can try and get to know the songs better and learn the ones I don't know as I don't want to go to a concert when I don't know the songs. I like to know songs when I go to concerts as I think there is no point in going other wise. There are people who go and see bands not knowing many if any songs and I think that is really pointless because I like to sing-a-long if the artist gets them singing along........ When I was at the Elton John concert he never got the crowd going and I am not used to that having only ever being to Bon Jovi concerts before when the crowd stand up and sing all the way through. I did expect it was like that at all concerts so I was very shocked when I was at the EJ concert and no one stood up and sang along. There was a point when he did his last three songs some of the crowd sitting on the floor seating got up and sang and clapped along and that was it but it wasn't enough for me even though it was a good concert. I am hoping for a little more from the Billy Joel concert and I hope that my dad likes it a lot as I bought the tickets for him for his birthday present and they cost me a lot more that the EJ tickets.
I better get going now as this album is on it's last song and I have major study to do today so I shall bid you farewell ;O)
Thursday, July 06, 2006
TMarrggghhh and this weather!!
Well my mind was numb and not working and was it this heat? I don't know! but I so couldn't get my head into my TMA and I was stressed and not getting anywhere. So I sat and did my best with it and I know what I wrote is totally wrong and a load of rubbish and more than ever I really mean that and believe it. I just couldn't think of anything to write and didn't really fully get the question.
Anyway I submitted it online and now will wait to see what I have got. I know it won't be good but I was thinking that any points are better than no points even though I wish I got the question and could write a much better TMA than what I wrote because I was doing really well with my scores and was hoping for a higher pass grade on my final score for the whole course but that isn't likely if I do as badly on this TMA as I think I will do.
This weather is so hot and it is ok I guess but I am spending most of my days dripping in sweat, I just wish I had the time to get out there and enjoy it. I have had the time for the last day or two but I have got caught up with the tennis and reading so I haven't had any chance to get out there and enjoy it, I hope it lasts for a while.
I have been sleeping on top of my duvet for the last few nights with the window open and those who know me know I hate having windows open especially at night because of my fear of spiders. Anyway the window has been open and I have been sleeping naked on top of my duvet and it is still too hot, I actually think that sleeping on top of the duvet is bad as loads of heat comes off it but it is so comfy so I am in two minds about chucking it off my bed lol.
It seems to be cooler this evening so maybe I will be able to sleep in my bed or sleep with the window shut though with my dog huffing and puffing all night anyway my room is doubly hot :OS
I spent a day and a half reading a full book, I know a full book in less than two days and that for me is brilliant hehe. The book was Digital Fortress by Dan Brown and is one of the best books that I have ever read, it was amazing and well worth a read. It is about 500 pages long and too hard to put down for more than a few hours.
I have already started my next book as I am well behind on my goal of reading 50 books in 2006 so I have a little goal of reading 6 books by August and that was the second and I am on the third so it is looking good for me to read 6 books this month which I am happy about and I have plenty of time till Monday to get another one done after this one.
Next week I start going over the course I did last year, I am reading one book a week (from the course) for nine weeks and it is going to be tough going but I am motivating myself more and more and not spending as much time on the computer so I have more time for things so I think maybe I should have a little time table but not with do this and that at certain times a day but maybe a week timetable where I write what I have to do that week and of course if I get it all done I can have a little treat but it will just be good to get it all done as I am not the most motivated person in the world and waste a lot of time doing nothing so I am going to work on my motivation.
Anyway I shall go as I am not leaving the computer for the evening because it is soo hot and I want to go and read for an hour or so.
Anyway I submitted it online and now will wait to see what I have got. I know it won't be good but I was thinking that any points are better than no points even though I wish I got the question and could write a much better TMA than what I wrote because I was doing really well with my scores and was hoping for a higher pass grade on my final score for the whole course but that isn't likely if I do as badly on this TMA as I think I will do.
This weather is so hot and it is ok I guess but I am spending most of my days dripping in sweat, I just wish I had the time to get out there and enjoy it. I have had the time for the last day or two but I have got caught up with the tennis and reading so I haven't had any chance to get out there and enjoy it, I hope it lasts for a while.
I have been sleeping on top of my duvet for the last few nights with the window open and those who know me know I hate having windows open especially at night because of my fear of spiders. Anyway the window has been open and I have been sleeping naked on top of my duvet and it is still too hot, I actually think that sleeping on top of the duvet is bad as loads of heat comes off it but it is so comfy so I am in two minds about chucking it off my bed lol.
It seems to be cooler this evening so maybe I will be able to sleep in my bed or sleep with the window shut though with my dog huffing and puffing all night anyway my room is doubly hot :OS
I spent a day and a half reading a full book, I know a full book in less than two days and that for me is brilliant hehe. The book was Digital Fortress by Dan Brown and is one of the best books that I have ever read, it was amazing and well worth a read. It is about 500 pages long and too hard to put down for more than a few hours.
I have already started my next book as I am well behind on my goal of reading 50 books in 2006 so I have a little goal of reading 6 books by August and that was the second and I am on the third so it is looking good for me to read 6 books this month which I am happy about and I have plenty of time till Monday to get another one done after this one.
Next week I start going over the course I did last year, I am reading one book a week (from the course) for nine weeks and it is going to be tough going but I am motivating myself more and more and not spending as much time on the computer so I have more time for things so I think maybe I should have a little time table but not with do this and that at certain times a day but maybe a week timetable where I write what I have to do that week and of course if I get it all done I can have a little treat but it will just be good to get it all done as I am not the most motivated person in the world and waste a lot of time doing nothing so I am going to work on my motivation.
Anyway I shall go as I am not leaving the computer for the evening because it is soo hot and I want to go and read for an hour or so.
Monday, July 03, 2006
It is so hot!!
I can't remember what I last posted, I know I said something about spending the night with Robert. Make your minds up on that one but it isn't how is sounds and if it was I wouldn't tell you as some things I do keep to myself. He was a gentleman regardless of what went on and he will always remain a gentleman I think and they are really hard to find in this day and age.
The weather has been hot all weekend and I am not sleeping too well in this heat, all last night I was tossing and turning and was worn out and in need of sleep this morning but gave up trying to sleep after an hour. It was just way too warm and I have trouble getting back to sleep when I have woken up.
So I managed to catch up on my course work and I was happy about that and I had about 2-3 hours more to do and I got ill - the same I get all the time and I couldn't do it so had to laze around for a couple of days which isn't bad but I would rather not get sick at all.
I was meant to start my TMA yesterday for A217 and I couldn't get my head into it so planned on sitting down later in the day and doing an hour but that never happened and it was meant to be posted today. With this course you can submit online and I would rather post it so I have a paper copy with comments etc on but this time I am going to submit online as I have no choice now as posting it tomorrow isn't long enough.
So I managed to sit down and start it this afternoon and oh my this is such a difficult TMA and I am clueless to it and picked what I thought would be the easiest question but I am not too sure about that now. Anyway I am about 1000 words in to it or 900 and have at least 600 more to write and I don't know what the hell I am going to write as I have already stretched it out a lot.
I am going to read through the question a few times tomorrow and flick over a few areas in the books and hope something comes to me to help me get my marks up on the this TMA because what I have done so far isn't going to get me much as I am sure it is a load of total rubbish. I plan to finish it by tea time tomorrow and then submit it online and then have 2 days off from studying so I can have a break and clear my head and concentrate on other things.
The other night I saw my friend online after not talking since March, it was really good to see him as I have known him a few years now and we used to talk all the time. We used to talk all night until one of us would give up and go to bed lol. We had our ups and downs but we tend to get on in general though at times he gives me advice that annoys me but some of it he is right in saying but I won't be telling him that.
He is totally cool and I have missed talking to him though I think the break did us both the world of good as we got to a point were we annoyed each other too much and I wouldn't argue back anymore and would block him which annoyed him and I hope we don't get to that state again as I think at the end of the day we both have each others best interests at heart :O)
We talked again tonight and it was great, he went not so long ago to read a little before bed - a man after my own heart as I shall be doing that myself in about thirty minutes times.
Friday night as I was ill I just sat in front of the TV and watch Cruel Intentions. In fact I spent the day watching films lol. I watched Sister Act which I love lol I saw that at the cinema when it first came out and loved it ever since though I try not to watch it more than 1-2 times a year. I also watched there is something about Mary. I was forced to watch videos as my DVD player doesn't work :O( I miss it and I don't have that many videos so there isn't too much choice and I wanted comedy and those were the best choices at the time.
I have about 8 DVDs that I haven't watched and are unopened (I have seem the films before though) and I really want to watch them but can't. Well I won't watch my new copy of Bad Boys as I watched that with Robert the other week. My bestest friend Mr Eds send me Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels which I haven't seen and Black Hawk Down so I want to watch those too but I can't until I get a DVD player whenever that may be.
We finally got Sky installed on Saturday so I have been watching too much TV in the evenings which is bad. I don't watch TV that much and had a big break from it for ages but I keep going and sitting in front of the TV about 11pm and I will sit there for 2-3 hours which is bad as I like to be in bed before 1am especially during the week and I might sound boring but that is life I guess. I don't mind having one really late night a week but I like to be in bed anytime from 10:30-1:00am. I like to read in bed so that is the 10:30 bedtime so I can read for an hour, if I go after 11:30 I won't do any reading and will just sleep or try to go to sleep because at times it can take me forever to get to sleep. Then I need my 8 hours sleep and I am a happy bunny then.
Right I do have more to say but I am sweating and tired and am finding it hard to type or make sense so I shall give up for now :O)
The weather has been hot all weekend and I am not sleeping too well in this heat, all last night I was tossing and turning and was worn out and in need of sleep this morning but gave up trying to sleep after an hour. It was just way too warm and I have trouble getting back to sleep when I have woken up.
So I managed to catch up on my course work and I was happy about that and I had about 2-3 hours more to do and I got ill - the same I get all the time and I couldn't do it so had to laze around for a couple of days which isn't bad but I would rather not get sick at all.
I was meant to start my TMA yesterday for A217 and I couldn't get my head into it so planned on sitting down later in the day and doing an hour but that never happened and it was meant to be posted today. With this course you can submit online and I would rather post it so I have a paper copy with comments etc on but this time I am going to submit online as I have no choice now as posting it tomorrow isn't long enough.
So I managed to sit down and start it this afternoon and oh my this is such a difficult TMA and I am clueless to it and picked what I thought would be the easiest question but I am not too sure about that now. Anyway I am about 1000 words in to it or 900 and have at least 600 more to write and I don't know what the hell I am going to write as I have already stretched it out a lot.
I am going to read through the question a few times tomorrow and flick over a few areas in the books and hope something comes to me to help me get my marks up on the this TMA because what I have done so far isn't going to get me much as I am sure it is a load of total rubbish. I plan to finish it by tea time tomorrow and then submit it online and then have 2 days off from studying so I can have a break and clear my head and concentrate on other things.
The other night I saw my friend online after not talking since March, it was really good to see him as I have known him a few years now and we used to talk all the time. We used to talk all night until one of us would give up and go to bed lol. We had our ups and downs but we tend to get on in general though at times he gives me advice that annoys me but some of it he is right in saying but I won't be telling him that.
He is totally cool and I have missed talking to him though I think the break did us both the world of good as we got to a point were we annoyed each other too much and I wouldn't argue back anymore and would block him which annoyed him and I hope we don't get to that state again as I think at the end of the day we both have each others best interests at heart :O)
We talked again tonight and it was great, he went not so long ago to read a little before bed - a man after my own heart as I shall be doing that myself in about thirty minutes times.
Friday night as I was ill I just sat in front of the TV and watch Cruel Intentions. In fact I spent the day watching films lol. I watched Sister Act which I love lol I saw that at the cinema when it first came out and loved it ever since though I try not to watch it more than 1-2 times a year. I also watched there is something about Mary. I was forced to watch videos as my DVD player doesn't work :O( I miss it and I don't have that many videos so there isn't too much choice and I wanted comedy and those were the best choices at the time.
I have about 8 DVDs that I haven't watched and are unopened (I have seem the films before though) and I really want to watch them but can't. Well I won't watch my new copy of Bad Boys as I watched that with Robert the other week. My bestest friend Mr Eds send me Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels which I haven't seen and Black Hawk Down so I want to watch those too but I can't until I get a DVD player whenever that may be.
We finally got Sky installed on Saturday so I have been watching too much TV in the evenings which is bad. I don't watch TV that much and had a big break from it for ages but I keep going and sitting in front of the TV about 11pm and I will sit there for 2-3 hours which is bad as I like to be in bed before 1am especially during the week and I might sound boring but that is life I guess. I don't mind having one really late night a week but I like to be in bed anytime from 10:30-1:00am. I like to read in bed so that is the 10:30 bedtime so I can read for an hour, if I go after 11:30 I won't do any reading and will just sleep or try to go to sleep because at times it can take me forever to get to sleep. Then I need my 8 hours sleep and I am a happy bunny then.
Right I do have more to say but I am sweating and tired and am finding it hard to type or make sense so I shall give up for now :O)
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