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.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Saturday, November 18, 2006
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.
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.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
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!!
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!!
Monday, November 06, 2006
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)
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