Happy new year!

Hmm where to start where to start...I need to catch up with so much. Well let's start with something positive. I had to get into work really early on wednesday which I was not happy at. But it did mean I got to go home an hour earlier at 4:30. Win! Plus I had a customer who made my day that day. A guy in his 50s asked me about TVs and high definition and blu rays and I talked him through it. He said he was going to go away with all this information and take it in but then he stopped, turned around to me and thanked me for being so informed in my product research. He said it was really nice for someone my age to know so much. It was so nice of him to say! Hardly any customers are that nice to me, it made me feel pretty good for the rest of the day. It just shows age doesn't mean anything. Well, most of the time!

To contrast that, Yvette's daughter often comes in to see her mum as she works just up the road at a printers. I was talking to her but not in such a way as to put of customers. I was still keeping my eye out for people who may need help. But, rudely enough, an old-ish woman and her husband were looking for microwaves and she said, right in front of me and Tanya "There's two members of staff there doing nothing." Excuse me?! For a start, you haven't even attempted to even LOOK at us to show that you want help. Secondly, you've walked right past the mircowaves, they're at the front of the shop you moron. Thirdly, TANYA DOESN'T WORK HERE! She doesn't have a fucking uniform on. Silly bint. I was so insulted. How could she be so rude in our eyeshot? She was literally right in front of us. Bitch.

As it was orange wednesday it was time to finally see Avatar. Oh my God. If you haven't seen that film go and watch it now! Preferably in 3D. It's one of the best, if not the best, film I've ever seen. It's just beautiful and not just special effects wise. It's a beautiful story with amazing characters. I cried at some points in the film, it really touched me. And now of course, I desperatly want to be a Navi! Haha! Can't wait to own it on blu ray. It's an orgasm for the eyes. Eyegasm! Absolutly brillaint and no bad points to it at all. Next up I really want to see Sherlock Holmes as it looks bloody funny! Plus it's had very good reviews. Maybe next week eh.

Today was my second last day of work. I finish on Saturday. Thank Christ. I need to get some uni work done as well as some much needed rest. Creepy Charlie came into the shop today. I hadn't seen him in a while and thought I had avoided him whilst working here again but oh no I hadn't. If I hadn't spoken about him before he sometimes does deliveries for customers. When I used to work at Currys every Saturday, when he met me he took my hand and...well...didn't want to let go. It was very awkward. And when I finally had to leave the shop he put his arm round me and I really was very uncomfortable and wanted nothing more than for him to shop touching me. Reminds me of the other day at work when I was pushing a TV across the floor to the till and I said excuse me to a group of people, two men and a woman. As I passed them one man said "Did she just say squeeze me?" and laughed. All I thought was if you lay one hand on me it will end up wrapped around your neck.
Anyway Charlie managed to make me feel very creeped out again. He came right up to my face (I do like my personal space y'know) and asked how long I was going to be here. That was it really. Later on he came in and touched his hand with mine to let me feel how cold he was. Seriously, what is the need? Please. Do not touch me. You are not my friend!

Thankfully the day went very, very fast and I found out that my suspicions of two of our staff members having an affair were in fact true and my thoughts were right all along. It was pretty obvious really. I don't blame the lady in question anyway, her husband is an annoying git and doesn't really seem to leave her alone. Sometimes, these things are almost allowed in certain situations. I certaintly don't think any less of my collegue, why should I? She's an amazing sales person and a nice person too.

Now I am sat on my sofa with chocolates, biscuits and rum and coke, waht more could I need? I plan to, instead of going out, get pissed on my own sofa in my mum and sisters company and have some much needed rest. Day off tomorrow and I cannot wait to relax. My sister and I played LBP pirates of the caribbean levels tonight. Was much fun, loving the water feature. Need to play with some more water based levels tomorrow I think. I won't start uni work until I have finished Currys work which will be after saturday now. This year has been the best of my life so far. I want to thank my friends especially for making this happen. I got closer to the minions (Martyn's changed my life forever I think!), I got my confidence back, I feel like a totally new person, a better person. I am so much more happier than I ever was, even though I tend to complain in my blogs! I got good A levels and worked very hard to get into a university I am throughly enjoying. I've made some amazing new friends, namely Ellie, Lewis, Matt and Rachel, thanks so much you guys can't wait to live with you next year! I would like to give special thanks to Alex who has done so much for me I couldn't even begin to list it here. You are my closest friend and I love you dearly. Thank you. And although there have been bad times, such as the loss of Stew due his own idiotticness (though I can't say I won't miss him as we were once so very close) there have been gains such as new minion Holly who makes me laugh so much. I can't wait to see everyone in Jan again.

So to my old friends, my new friends, my minion friends and my family. Thank you all for being my friends. I feel truelly honoured and very lucky and yes I realise this is getting cheesy now but if you can't say it at Christmas/new year when can you say it eh? (Anyone who gets the slight referance in there is awesome ;)).

To a new year of blogging! Thanks to all that read about my oh so amazing life! :P

Minxy xxxxxxxxxxx

Busy, busy, busy.

My God it was busy in the shop today. Working never ceases to anger me. Especially when a certain someone tells you he will be doing fuck all but playing games all day with friends. Bastard! But yes anyway, the shop went mental today. We concluded this was because no one realised we were open at the weekend and therefore decided to bombard us on a bank holiday because no one else has to work...grr. There was a funny guy who came in early in the morning with a Halo game, the latest one. He was complaining to Kelv that he'd brought this game 3 weeks ago, he wrapped it up for xmas and there was no game disc in the box when his brother opened it. But he had no proof of purpose and was in a foul mood. Unless he could prove it was from here we couldn't do anything for him. So, instead of being reasonable and thinking of some sort of compromise he stormed out of the shop, throwing the game box across the room! I thought it was hilarious! How old was he?! 10? No, he was well into his fortys, probably older I'd say. Now, okay someone probably did make a mistake with not putting the disc in but it was still entirely the customers fault. One, if you're buying something for a present you usually keep the receipt in case it is wrong or not what they wanted or they already have it. Two, if it was the last one off the shelf would you not watch to see if the disc was put in the box or even CHECK before you wrap it?! Idiot.

We broke our record for sales today, 18k! Not bad for our small little high street shop. One customer I served wanted two TVs, one big one small, a computer monitor, a wii remote (which we'd sold out of), a mouse and an SD card. Phew that was one big sale for me! Graham, our area manager (I met him a week ago in his pressed suit and blackberry, eugh) still rang up to complain because we weren't doing enough HERO (i.e we weren't selling enough extra guarantees). We were rammed with people at the time and no one wants to buy anything extra at this point in time. They don't usually, let alone in a recession! Sigh. We had to use our discount in order to sell some.

We worked an extra half an hour until the shop was dead once again. We then left. None of us had had time to have a lunch break so me and Kelv were starving. So Kelv treated me to a McDonalds on the way home but I owe him a Costa coffee. Fair enough!
10 until 5:30 tomorrow...GROAN. I should stop complaining but meh. I blame the hormones and constantly feeling tired.

Boxing day

I worked that day. I was not in a good mood about it as I was still knackered even after having xmas day off plus I was afraid I was going to miss family members who were coming round in the evening. Luckily, this was not the case. We did have some bitchy customers though. I messed up because I sold a camera on xmas eve without telling them they needed a memory card. To be honest, they moaned and pointed the finger at me (how rude!) but I couldn't care less and I blame their own stupidity. I can't remember to tell people every time, I was running around like a headless chicken that day. Your own fault if you want to buy a camera on xmas eve, fools.

Kelv needed to leave an hour early so it wasn't too bad when I got home. My nan, grandad, aunt and uncle were there so I told them about my day. We had a partically long conversation about parents and grandparents who are so ignorant about gaming. We always get a parent coming in and buying 16s or 18s for their 10 year old sons. It's ridiculous. You wouldn't buy an 18 rated film for a kid right?! But that day we had a partically bad case when a boy tried to buy MW2 on xbox when Kelv refused him because he wasn't old enough. His mum, sounding quite cross, stormed over and said "Nope but I can buy it for him!". Kelv asked if she was sure because it's an 18 and very violent. She did not give a toss. And you wonder how these kids get online and annoy everyone? Well there's your answer. It was the most stupid thing I'd ever seen. All it is is ignorance. The parents don't take an interest in their kids interests so they just willingly buy what they want because it will "keep them quiet". Oh sigh. I giggled today about someone who brought Assaisins Creed for their 10 year old to Kim and Kelv. "I wonder if he knows that game has an interactive love scene in?". Funny times.

Anyway we had LOADS of party food to eat. My mum and sister made a fantastic gingerbread house and some reindeer cupcakes. Nom nom. Later on my cousins Claire and Ian came round along with Claire's boyfriend, Jason and their daughter Emma and baby Jamie. Jamie is very, very cute. My mum had brought him a book for xmas that made animal noises. He seemed to LOVE pressing the cat button! Probably because he has a cat at home! Well, half cat, half wild animal, literally! Ian had a go in my gaming chair and Uncharted 2 he seemed to like it. Dad is showing it off not me! He gets so proud of these things. I can tell he wants one for himself. Everyone stayed for a bit, the men were in the gaming room and the women were playing with the baby. Typical! Well I switched between rooms to be honest. But seeing Jamie just made me really want to see Martyn's Wren for some reason! Anyway it was quite funny when they all left because Jason went round with the baby and said "Who wants to kiss my baby?" so we...all did! Bless. And no, I don't want one, at least not for a very long time!

My auntie, uncle and grandparents stayed for a bit longer. We all played a Buzz quiz which was fun, I of course won. I'm too quick for anyone else! All in all, it was a good evening and it was surprisingly nice to see my cousins. Jason and Ian are quite cool I suppose. They are both game designers and Ian looks like a 6ft 3" Jesus and no, I'm not kidding he actually does! He gets called the Wizard at work...and you wonder why my family is odd! Well okay...you wonder why I'm odd!!! It's obviously in the genes somewhere...
Now I'm working everyday until friday then it's one more saturday of work and I'm done. I cannot wait to finish I am knackered from work and fed up of the customers. The money will hopefully be worth it. It had better be. Then I'll have to get on with Uni work, hand that in by the 14th and then I shall do nothing but game!

Merry Christmas!

Working xmas eve was not fun. I was an idiot and woke up an hour early for work (5:30) without even realising it until it was too late so that did not do my mentality any good. I had also been dreaming about Currys and I'm sure that cannot be good for me...
Work went pretty fast though, thank God. It was busy almost all day but I still did not have the time not patience for quips about getting mistletoe from Yvette's husband and the fact he was going to chase me out the back. Why oh why do I attract the weirdos...

After work I had a game of Resi 5 with Alex, we tried to do some professional but I was epically failing. I was tired and Resi was just stressing out even more. I felt like crying. In fact I did cry afterwards. Not because I lost or anything but because I was so very tired. I'd had about 5 hours sleep and was fed up with work. It's xmas eve. I want to relax. I didn't even feel Christmasy. I feel it less and less every year I swear. I wish I didn't. I really don't know why I feel like this. But, however I may feel, I still love Christmas.

At least I got a decent nights sleep last night but I still feel knackered and I haven't done much today! My sister woke us all up at 9am so I got up, grabbed my stocking which was lying in the hallway as always next to Chester (a big soft toy polar bear) and went into my mum and dads room. In typical tradition we sat and unwrapped the presents in the stockings together. I think one of my favourite little gifts was another voodoo keyring doll to go to my collection, a little vampire. Very cool. My sister got a handmade sackboy made by my mum! It's so cute I shall have to post a comparison picture at some point!

So we went downstairs, my dad walked the dog and Sami made me and mum tea and we all waited in our PJs for dad to return. When he did the gifts were assorted into little piles. I had three presents which were some earrings with smiley faces on from my sister, a bottle of Baileys from mum and dad and a really pretty, sexy set of underwear from my mum. Gifts I really was not expecting but very nice indeed. My sister got a pink DS lite so I knew I was going to get a big present too, my dad made hints...well I say hints but he basically said when he was driving me home from uni "You're going to LOVE your xmas presents!". So when it came round to opening my gift my dad went upstairs and got down a huge box. I'm not even kidding it was fucking massive! I had no idea what it could be it was the size of a huge TV or something! Well...I opened it and it was something I would have never expected. A gaming chair! It's epic! It has speakers just where you put your head and it is SO comfy (which is why my mum wanted to get me a chair of some kind). You can plug it straight into the PS3 and the sound comes out of the chairs speakers. It's got great bass and it really immerses you in the game, so much so it kinda blocks out any other background noise haha! You can also plug an MP3 player in and just lie back (and rock) on the leather chair and relax. I heart it! But I am slightly afraid the boys at uni will be stealing it all the time! Hehe.

After all the gifts being given out we had some toast to eat and all got washed and dressed before my nan and grandad came round for lunch. My dad wanted me to show him Fallout 3 and we had a couple of fights on Tekken 6 which was good fun. When my grandparents came round it was nice because I hadn't seen them for three months and they asked me all about uni. Xmas lunch was yummy as usual and we had all the trimmings, though I pass on sproats. When we were full we went and sat and watched some TV. Happy Feet was on which I'd never seen and that was quite a good film though I didn't get to see the end. Nan and grandad left and were left to watch Doctor who and the like. Doctor who was a bit mad but good I thought. I mean, how can I not love it?! I still don't want Tennnant to leave though. Ahh well.

So now I'm sat here, very tired but content. Although I really, really do not want to work tomorrow. I'm so tired, need more sleep! I hope I get another day off soon. I cannot take much more and tomorrow will be dreadful because it will be so busy and everyone will be complaining and returning stuff "You ruined my kids xmas etc..." Sigh.

Some good luck at last

Today I had to get up pretty early and I hadn't slept too well but somehow I felt more awake than usual. The shop was dead again. Opening early really is pointless but we have no choice. I was lucky today though. It started to snow very heavily and Kelv was so worried about being snowed in that we left early at abiut 12:30! I'm so glad we did get to leave because the day was going so slowly. Plus it gave me a chance to get on with some uni work and to not be too tired to play PS3.

I finally had a go on Modern Warfare 2 online today! I'm only rank 8 so far and the online was a bit laggy but it was good fun. Some lad who works behind a bar at a club my dad played for is asking after me. He wants to kick my arse online apparently. We shall see Luke, we shall see...

After dinner I went on Playstation Home as there was a discussion on the group to have a group photo together. And we did! It was a bit of a fail especially as some annoying people were purposefully trying to get in the way and one bloke thought it would be funny (as I was on the floor) to try and position himself so it looked like I was giving him a blow job. Well, it IS the only way he's going to get one so aww bless! Sigh.

After the fail of Home we game launched from there into Modern Warfare 2. The party system sort of failed but ahh well. We got our headsets on and it was me and guys playing a fair few games together. It was great fun. It's so good to be playing games with my friends again. I really hope an MGO game can get sorted soon. I haven't played it for 3 months!

I have to be ready to leave for work by 7:30 tomorrow but there is a small chance I'll get a phone call telling me I can't go in because of the snow. A part of me would like this phone call as it would mean I could go back to bed and then play Resi 5 all day with Alex. But the other part of me would at least go to work for a bit so I'd still get paid! Hmm. We shall see.

Booooring

Today at work it was deathly quiet. So quiet they sent Ray home at 12 and Liam home at 1. We were all bored out of our heads. Our sales were down by 50% compared to last year and it seems to be the same all across the region for the week. We're opening early tomorrow and I pray that it's for a good reason. I pray that it's not as dead as it was today.

I forgot to tell you about a funny customer that came in yesterday. I spoke to him for ages about TVs and blu rays. He was a bit annoying to say the least but it gave me something to do for 10 minutes. He started complaining about how long digi boxes take ages to load up and how they should state in the instructions that they take a while to start up. Sigh. Someone in impatient! Anyway he compared this to not being told you have to pull the pin out of a grenade for it to work. Erm okay... He then turned to me and asked me if I knew that. Oh dear...if only you knew, if only you knew...

It's also very funny when customers tell you about a better deal in another shop because we actually don't care. We're not allowed to discount. So, if it's better in another shop, go and buy it from there. Sheesh.

On better news, Rage against the machine got xmas number 1! I'm so happy. It shows campaigning does work and that xfactor doesn't always have to win!

Currently watching: Top gear

First day back at work

I went back to work at Currys today for the xmas period due to request of my ex collegues which is lovely to know and of course, I really need the money. But there are massive downsides. I'm working everyday for just under 2 weeks except xmas day and new years day. The most annoying part is I had a text from Marnie this morning, everyone is going out clubbing whether I can or not. Great. So everyone has made the decision without asking if I'm free. This means I can't go out because I'll be working early the next day. Some days I'll be at work for 9 hours. It's going to kill me. Even today my back was killing me because I am not used to standing up for long periods of time anymore. Plus today, even though it's the last saturday before xmas, was very quiet. The day dragged on for everyone. It's not a good sign.

But hey now I can tell you the funny things that happen at Currys! Yeah...don't expect too much from me. It was nice to know I'm not completly useless and that my old collegues actually asked for me back for the xmas period. It's always nice to be wanted. I was worried today that I would have forgotten everything and that I would be useless but because I'm now so confident in myself, it was fine and not hard at all. Phew. I've a bit of a lie in tomorrow because sunday is a short working day but some days, monday a least, I'll have to leave for work at quarter past 7 which means getting up at at least quarter to 7. SIGH. Boxing day will be a long day though. I HATE WORKING BOXING DAY. :'(

Coming home

I woke up at 10 this morning to get the rest of my stuff ready before my dad came. Lewis came round to hang out with me and Ellie and because he was helping Ellie take her things to the station. Alex couldn't pick up his coat yesterday so Lewis kindly looked after his coat for me for Alex to pick up later. My dad was a little later than expected so Ellie and Lewis left the flat before me. We had hugs goodbye and I think everyone was a bit sad to be leaving. Matt had already been long gone by this time and Rach wasn't leaving until sunday. And so I was left by myself until dad arrived.

I didn't have to wait long though. He helped me pack all my rubbish into the car. Those Mazdas really are Tardis's! It took a while but soon it was all done and we were off. We had loads to talk about and I forced my dad to listen to my new Robbie Willaims CD. We stopped half way for a sandwich at a service station as we were both very hungry. And sooner than I knew, we were home. It was weird. It still is weird. The house seems small. Probably because I live in somewhere where everything is huge. Ollie looked different too but it's so good to see him. It just feels strange being here after 3 months of well...not being here! I'm sure I will get used to it soon though and of course, it's lovely to be home.

I played some Resi 5 with Alex this evening and got a couple more trophies for him. He's almost caught up with me so we can get the platinum together because we know it would be freaking awesome if we did.

I'm really not looking forward to walk tomorrow, I won't know anything! I might be a little bit useless! But it will be nice to see all my old work mates and tell them all about uni. Though I might disappoint them as I'm not very studenty! With my lack of clubbing and getting drunk, etc. But hey, it's not about impressing people. Hmm 9 until 5:30...groan.

The last few days!

And so going home time and xmas is fast approaching. Yesterday I got up early to go to a couple of creative writing lectures (unlike someone!!!). It was a fun lecture because Adam was teaching, it will be great to have him as a tutor next term but I will greatly miss Laura. Anyway, once those were over with I walked home in the snow! Yes it was snowing! Ellie said it was going to and she was right! Snow, pizza hut and secret Santa...I knew today was going to be good.

Although when I got back to my flat I was rather hoping to chill out a bit before anyone came round. Unfortunately, Matt was waiting by my front door like an excited puppy because his paper mario had eventually arrived. Now I must admit, this did piss me off a little bit. You see the problem is I love, love, love people coming round but I would like to be asked first. So yes, I may have come across a bit cold with Matt because of this mood but ah well. I went and had a shower and left him to get on with whatever he wanted to do. I then sat at my computer bored until Lewis woke up and came round. I'd wrapped all my presents by then so I'm glad that's now out the way and I don't have to hide anything from dad on Friday!

I got a call from Alex that evening which made me feel a lot better. The problem is with me is that every so often I need reassurance that everything is okay and going to be okay. It's hard but I'll work around it, I always do.

Later on when we were all ravenous, Rachel came round and we headed off to pizza hut, carrying the presents and crackers. Pizza hut was practically empty so we sat down and ordered. I had a medium barbecue deluxe which I only just managed to eat. Of course the two boys were foolish and had larges. Lewis was a bit more sensible. He ate half then saved the rest for food tomorrow. Matt however tried to eat it all as well as having garlic bread and cheesy bites on his pizza! I think he must have regret it. Men, eh? Hehe. Whilst waiting for our pizzas I got all the presents out and they were distributed to whom they were labelled to. I got some "fucking Lego" (see arby and the chief for reference)which was star wars themed from Lewis. Pretty sweet! Matt got a pacman heat changing mug and a fireman calender (lol!) from Ellie. I got Ellie a mug which she really seemed to like so I was so relieved. Rachel got a Simon's cat book (look it up on youtube, very funny). And Lewis got a dead Fred which is basically a pen holder but it makes it look like you've stabbed poor Fred. I think all in all everyone was happy and secret Santa was a success! Bring on next year!

We all waddled home after having filled ourselves with pizza and collapsed in my room. Matt played super paper mario whilst me and Lewis watched some funny videos online and Ellie and Rachel chatted away. Rach, Ellie and Lewis were trying to convince me to go to Oceana but I explained although I really wanted to, I was in all day on Wednesdays and can't really stay up that late. I didn't really feel up to it either. However I did change my mind and just though "fuck it" so we all got dressed up apart from Matt who decided he'd just stay in my room. Again, I wasn't asked. So us 4 headed out with Lewis feeling like a bit of a pimp!

When we got to Oceana the queue was huge. It was a 2 hour long queue. We waited, and waited and waited for an hour and a half. By this point me and Rachel were kind of fed up and considering going back. In the end we left Lewis and Ellie together by themselves. I wouldn't have minded waiting if it wasn't so damn cold but my toes felt like they were going to fall off and they'd been feeling like that for quite some time. So me and Rach left the queue at about 12:30. We walked around to see if anywhere else was open but no where was so we decided just to head home and get warm in our beds. I said goodbye to Rach and knocked on the door so Matt could let me in. Thankfully he hadn't fallen asleep and he was playing paper mario again. I announced I was going to bed so he left and I went straight to bed.

This morning I woke up to my alarm at 8 but I was still tired even though I hadn't got to bed that late. So I decided fuck it, I really don't want to get up in the cold and listen to Brian for an hour. Or go to boring print journalism for 2 hours. So I thought I'd skip over those two lessons. Plus Alex is meant to picking up his jacket he left here the other day some time this morning. Though Ellie is hanging onto it for me just in case he comes later so he can pick it up from her as she'll be here all day. I have my first lesson at 1 so I'm only in for 4 hours today thanks to my own choice. Well, to be honest it's the last week of term and people have stopped turning up to lessons anyway so I doubt I couldn't possibly miss anything important. And anything I've missed from print journalism I'll hear in my seminar with the teacher anyway! I'm not looking forward to tonight though, I have so much washing up to do which must be done before I leave. I also need to pack and take out the rubbish. Sigh. But hopefully we'll all go out for a last quiet drink tonight at a bar or pub. Should be good.

Happiness/sadness

I don't know why we can never be purely happy. Well I never seem to be anyway. Sure, 90% of the time I'm happy and cheerful and not at all upset or sad but I guess that's because I push problems to the back of my head. When these worries finally come out, it can almost ruin a day of happiness. I guess I just worry if, ultimatly, I'm going to be chosen and whether all this investment of feeling is going to be worth it.

It's odd. I'm not sure why I feel like this. It seems to come and go every so often, this feeling. I guess I'm worried. And also, I'm going home soon, which makes me very happy but at the same time it makes me realise I'm going to miss people a lot over xmas. Hopefully Jen's thingy in January will be good and I'll get to see the minion again, which always cheers me up. It sounds like everyone is going to be able to make it, which makes me happy.

I have an exam today and I'm not in the mood for it. It's worth 35% of our overall mark which is just a little bit scary. It should be easy. We have about an hour to write a news story and half an hour to do some editing (or subbing as it's called in the industry). But still, it is scaring me ever so slightly. I suppose I had best leave my blog at this and go and get ready. I need to be in lesson before 1 because he's starting the exam then and I don't want to be behind.

Currently listening to: Evanescence- Good enough
"It's been such a long time coming but I feel good. But I'm still waiting for the rain, to fall, pouring life down on me. 'Cause I can't hold on to anything this good. Am I good enough, for you to love me too?"

Xmas shopping, done!

Yesterday, not too long after I wrote the blog, Matt got up. I was checking out the new, free, christmasy stuff in Home when he came round. We left for town soon after, I assumed Lewis was still sleeping. Me and Matt got all, if not most, of our shopping done which is great. I'm actually organised this year which makes a change! Even my mum was amazed. Anyway, one particular incident happened which was rather funny but also annoying indeed.

I saw some chocolates in BHS which were perfect for my dad so I went to buy them. The girl on my till was pretty young, my age if not younger. When she scanned my chocolates she asked if I was 16, I wasn't aware that there was liquor in the chocolates. I said yes and that I was 19 (almost said 18). She asked for ID and I thought she had to be kinding me. The only form of ID I had was an NUS card which SHOULD be acceptable ID and I'm annoyed that it isn't. It has my age on the front and a picture on the back, what more proof do you need? She took my card, unsure she was able to accept it and asked another staff member whether she could. I stood there explaining to her I was 19 and went to uni! She smiled at me, semi-embarassed, probably more so than me actually. I wasn't embrassed, just insulted. It's not nice for people to think you look 15! Anyway, she accepted it and I paid for my chocolates and got out of there. Matt thought it was hilarious of course, and so did I in a ridiculous sort of way. I found my mums perfect gift too so I was happy with that as I was struggling.

When I got the chocolates and stuff home, I checked the contents for alcohol content. THERE WAS NO ALCOHOL IN THEM! WTF. It made me even MORE annoyed. How could they have idiots like that working there?! Ahh well, she was young and I've probably been just as stupid as her, I probably still will be useless at work, so in a way, I forgive her. It did make it all the more funny though. When my mum rang up I told her the story, she thought it was ridiculous too. I didn't have a long conversation with my parents. Turns out my dad is coming on friday at 11:30am which is good. I want to get home asap but I'm not looking foward at trying to fit stuff in the car!

Driving home for christmas

This weekend has been a good one. Of course, I have got no work done but it's been fun. Matt and Lewis both slept over on friday night, we were up until 4 just lying down talking and even having a few confessions! Which meant we ended up waking up at 1pm the next day! Oops! So I forced the boys up and later on that day we went shopping for a bit. I got my friends presents all done but I still can't find my mum anything and I still need to pick up my bank card so I need to shopping today. However, I can't get in contact with Matt who was supposed to go with me! Sigh. Still, it's still early.

Last night was another late night so it's not surprising I haven't heard from Lewis or Matt yet, they seem to be useless at getting up. My room is freezing at the moment for some unknown reason. The radiator is on at full blast, no windows are open, yet I'm freezing?! What the fudge. So I've decided to sit here and wait until Matt texts me or something so we can go out. I don't particularly want to go out by myself for some odd reason. I just get lonely easily I guess. Plus Matt might be a bit annoyed with me if I go without him because he wants to find this place he's got to give blood next week. So I best hang on for a bit.

Only a short blog really, not sure what else to write about. I just really, really can't wait to go home. I will miss people, a hell of a lot but I also miss my parents and Christmas is the best time of year. I love it. Can't wait for our family to be re-united at last! Plus I love, love giving gifts (as well as receiving of course!). My mum and dad tried to convince me to not buy them anything this year but fuck off! I can't just accept gifts without giving anything back! I enjoy giving and I think I defiantly owe it to my parents, the people helping me through uni and who've bathed and clothed me for years. I think it would be damn rude not to. I'm not THAT poor you know. Plus, I'll be working like a fucking dog over xmas anyway so that better give me enough money.

Anyway, enough talk about giving and recieving. I'm off to play Tekken 6.
Currently listening to: Lady Gaga-The fame
"Fame. I'm doing it for the fame because we wanna live the life of the rich and famous."

Relax

Last night was another, very, very strange night involving Lewis and Ellie! I mean, not much happened I suppose, just more odd conversations-fisting anyone? And Lewis throwing Ellie's shoe out the window so it got stuck in the gutter. The solution? Taping the broom and mop together of course...Ellie has photographic evidence of some of this! Crazy times.

Well I went to bed about 2am but didn't get up too late the next morning. I was already semi-awake but what really forced me out of bed was Alex. He rang and started going on about a worry monster? A monster that would eat all my worries. Cute. Gotta love that guy, as Lewis said today "That man deserves a thousand high fives".
Print Journalism was canceled AGAIN, we're about 3 weeks behind work wise, so I decided not to go to Brian's boring 9am lecture and to instead catch up on some much needed sleep.
STOP. PIZZA TIME.
Sorry about that short interlude, was ravenously hungry! Anywhere, where was I...ahh yes so I skipped one lesson, the other was canceled so I only had to be at Uni for 1pm. I text Matt just before I left because weirdly enough, he wasn't on facebook or msn as he usually is. You see, we do the same part of the course so we always walk together and then sit together. I got no reply from him and I was going to be late so I just left.

I heard nothing until the end of the lesson, he'd over-slept. I'm starting to wonder why he's so tired recently. All he seems to do is sleep and eat. Seriously. He'll come round mine and because my bed is "so comfy" he'll fall asleep way too easily! It's crazy. He clearly needs more sleep at night and less during the day...sigh. Anyway, the lesson was about poetry which I usually hate but Meg made it fun and I rather enjoyed the lesson. I'm dreading the homework, I have to write a couple of poems and one of them has to start "Something I shouldn't tell you..." oh dear! Lewis suggested I do a humorous one in which the narrator is secretly a man! Haha! I'm not too good at humorous writing though, even if people say I'm funny. I think they mean funny in the head rather than with words.

I walked to my next lesson, a boring seminar which I hated and I was dreading as Beth would have looked at and marked the outline of what my feature is going to be about. I'm rather afraid she'll hate it and that I don't have a good enough sources. Well how am I going to get interviews from Infinity Ward eh?! Anyways...I got there, waited, I was a little early but I was the only person waiting for lesson. I then spotted a note on the door, saying it was canceled. Win. As I started leaving the uni, I put my phone onto loud, like I always do when leaving. Lewis had called so I text him back to let him know I was free. He rung me back. My metal gear theme tune ring tone seemed to alert (haha, get it?) some man as I was walking outside. Maybe he thought he'd been spotted. Lewis met me on my way walking home and said he'd forgotten his hard drive and left it in my room. I knew there would be a reason why he wanted me, lucky for him my lesson was canceled then. We got back to mine and he kept me company by playing Unreal Tournament 3 before I had to go back to Uni for and hour and he had to finish off editing his film.

Well I did go back to uni, but the lesson was cut short, another win as I was so hungry. People have had to read out their 750 word pieces out each week but 2 of the people reading weren't here, meaning the lesson only lasted half an hour. It's funny, I was looking through the short stories and monologues written and I found my neighbours work, Jon. He'd written something very personal, about him being too much of a party animal, drinking and smoking too much, the time he started vomiting blood (he told me of this, which is why I know it's true) and how really, he didn't know what to do with his life or university for that matter. I found it rather sad. He spoke of how he just follows the crowd and therefore ends up blowing loads of money, sure it's made him more self confident but he's paying a big price for it. I liked his piece. It was honest. I don't even know why he never turns up to lessons. he was at the creative writing lesson for an hour then left, then didn't turn up to this seminar. When I walked home, I saw him standing outside C block, smoking as usual but this time he was by himself. Part of me feels sorry for him, it seems he's not as happy as he always seems to be.

So I'm sat here, alone, it's a first for me, usually people are round here by now but Lewis is probably working and I haven't heard from Matt all day, he's probably sleeping again. It's a real shame Alex couldn't come round tonight, I could have done with the company.

Currently listening to: Tom Jones-It's not unusual
"If I ever find that you've changed at any time, it's not unusual to find out I'm in love with you"

In which I become a film star

Well that may be over-exaggerating it by a very large amount but yesterday evening I was the protagonist in Lewis' short film. It involved a bed and some hands and no it's not what you think! Basically, I was someone who couldn't sleep (thus I had to be in my PJ's) because of my over-active imagination. Every time I went to sleep I had these nightmares which involved something to come and get me, hands to be precise.

So Lewis got into director mode and bossed me, Ellie and Matt around for a while. I'm not that confident in front of the camera so I was a little scared because I'd never really done proper acting before and you know how much I laugh, I didn't think I'd be able to keep a straight face but I think I managed it rather well. So I had to get into bed, we used Ellie's bed sheets because mine weren't feminine enough!!! Matt was under the bed and Ellie was in my wardrobe so they could reach out their hands towards me without actually grabbing me. In the mean time, I had to "writhe" on the bed, like I was having a bad dream then sit up right suddenly and gasp loudly. Was very odd but I hope it all comes out okay for him because he was very grateful that I helped him out. Plus he was so focused last night, he said in his blog it took his mind off his situation at the moment which is really good, I understand how hard it is to put those sort of things to the back of your mind.

After all, I've been really worrying about something that is months away. It's silly but all I can see is me breaking down at some point which I do not want. But hey, things may change before then but I seriously doubt it. I have no idea when things will change. I hate having this doubt, it's a constant worry that I'm just going to be left behind and forgotten about. I really can't get it off my mind, I am paranoid. Sigh. Filming took this all of my mind for a while though. Which was good.

I woke up this morning and it was pitch black in my room still so I assumed it was still early right? Well I got a knock on my door and I assumed it would be the cleaning lady complaining about something. But no, it was Ellie. I was briefly blinded by the light before taking a letter off her which was a £20 cheque from doing my gaming survey! Get in! I'd completely forgot about that, I'm so glad I did it now. Easiest £20 of my life, well actually, I did do another survey before for £20 cash when I was 15 pretending to be 16, ha! Ellie told me the time, it was 10 minutes before I had to leave to walk to my next lecture!!!! FUUUU

I got there on time though, doesn't take me 5 minutes to get ready really and I munched a quick banana before I left so my stomach didn't complain through those 2 hours. We had a fire alarm that lesson. Being evacuated out of a huge 5 storey building when you're on the 4th floor is not fun. The sheer amount of people walking down the same outside fire exit stairs. I thought it was never going to end! I stuck with a girl who was in my class, we exchanged a few words and she seems like a nice person after all. We didn't have to wait too long to go back in but it felt like an age. It was just a drill as we all suspected but it was rather funny that I seemed to be the first person to hear the damn alarm going off. The teacher just ignored it until someone made him evacuate us. Ahh lecturers, gotta love them.

Just a small one...

Last night me and Lewis stayed up until about 4am just playing Resi 5, LBP and god knows what else, it's all a bit of a tired blur. Lewis stayed over that night because he wanted to get up at 7am to play animal crossing, beating Matt to it (don't ask!!!). So yes I was awoken by Lewis getting up at 7 to play animal crossing but I fell asleep pretty quick and next thing I knew I was waking up at 11am and he'd left. I then had a text from matt asking if we were going shopping now. I told him to give me half an hour as I hadn't got up yet. I got up and was about to get ready when the door buzzed, it was Rachel with her boyfriend Ian. I was kinda just stood there in my dressing gown so I let them into my kitchen whilst I went and got dressed.

I had breakfast as quick as possible as I didn't want to keep Rach and Ian waiting too long. As soon as I was finished we went and got Matt and off we went to Asda. Very cheap shop this week, all was good.

My day sort of ending up changing plan so Lewis came round and we played some games together for the rest of the day.

In absolutly excellent news, Matt (minion Matt) is engaged!!!! I'm so, so happy for them! Minion stag do? I think so! Can't wait :D Happy times

SIGH

Thursday was a horrible day. I was tired, falling asleep through my morning lectures and stressed out. We had our Journalism press conferance on the morning for a first lesson. I took as many notes as I could but it was hard. The story was hardly a story at all, an old lady had gone missing, it wasn't a crime she'd just wondered off. Great. I had uni all day until 5. I came home to Lewis and Matt sat in my flat watching Russell Howard on Iplayer. I watched that as I ate my soup and then announced I was off back to uni. It was freezing cold, I really did not want to leave my warm flat for that. But I knew I had to. Luckily there were a couple of computers upstairs free. If not I may have cried. When I was sat there doing my work, I looked around to see what other people were doing. The amount of fucking people on Facebook I swear!!!! It really pissed me off because there is a huge shortage of computers, you can look at facebook at home or bring in your own fucking laptop to look at it. How are people meant to print out their work if your browsing a social networking site. Some people are so inconsiderate. I've never even been on facebook whilst in the University! What's the point?!

Anyway, I did the story okay, printed it, posted into the essay box (why does the social science offices have to be on the third floor?!) and went home. I got home completly knackered and we had to get ready for Rachels' birthday. We prepared a cake for her that Matt had kindly brought, it was yummy. She came round and we sung her happy birthday and gave her her present, she loved it all. I'm glad she had a nice birthday, she's going to some kinky club tonight...can't wait to ask what it's like on sunday!

Matt took Rach to the cinema because he said he would but the rest of us stayed here because we'd seen Harry Brown and we were all so knackered, well me and Ellie were.
We spent the evening chatting and played Resi 5 mercenaries.

Today I woke up to someone calling me, it was obviously a buisness because of the number but as soon as I answered they hung up. I waited to see if they would call back but they didn't so I went to sleep. A little later they phoned again. It was Lloyds bank. Some cunt had attempted to hire a car for £1,700 and they were asking me if I'd made that transaction. I can't even drive! So I waited on hold for ages to get through to speak to someone but I had waited so long Lloyds made me hang up. They said someone would call me back but they never did. Great. I tried to ring them later on but again they were far too busy. I needed to get this sorted as I was very worried so I headed down to town with Lewis and Matt because Lewis needed something anyway. We called into the bank and basically they've canceled my card just to be safe which is obviously a good thing but now I have to wait until saturday for a new card and I desperatly need to buy some gifts online! ARGH! So I've asked my mum to help me out with that...dear oh dear. Things could not really get worse. Especially as I recently had bank worries! SIGH.

Lewis ended up buying Oblivian which is crazy hard, harder than Fallout 3! And we spent the entire way home talking about games as usual. We are too cool. So yeah, a pretty crappy day I just pray my mum can help me out. Oh and I got my birthday present from Bex, the new Robbie Williams album. I fucking heart it.

Currently listening to: Nightwish-Where were you last night?
"I'm here all alone, still I wait by the phone, the hours go by, what else could I do but to cry?"

Prepare for the future

Last night Matt and Lewis left early which was much to my surprise, I didn't really mind though because I had a book to finish. Lewis couldn't get to sleep though so he came back round after Matt had left. I sat and read my book whilst half watching him play Portal. He completed it that night! He was already most of the way through but still he did well. He loved the end boss because he wasn't expecting one as well as the end credits. They are the best credits ever.

I started the day off sleepily, almost falling asleep through some of my lectures. You see, if I'm actually being engauged in the lesson, I'm fine but if I have to sit there and listen...I fall asleep so to speak. After my 3 hours of lectures I rushed home to see if my package was there. I peeked through the window to see if my room name was written on the little parcel board and it was, yay! I asked for my parcel and the guy groaned, got off his arse and thumped my parcel onto the table like it was really heavy or something. Actually, it was incrediably light. Anyway I signed for it and as I was doing so, a lady there commented on how many parcels there were recently. Which is a stupid remark to make because it is christmas! People are probably ordering lots of stuff or getting sent things. I said I'd won mine in a competition and they asked about what I'd won. When I explained this huge box was for a video game, I saw why they may have been a little confused!

Anyway, I left and rushed upstairs to quickly open my parcel and have lunch in the 50 minutes break I had. I opened the parcel with my pathetic scissors with some differculty and just ended ripping the rest of it open with my hands. There it was, a little tin luch box with goodies inside! I love my little pip boy bobble head, he is so cute/creepy. I had no time to even put the disk in so I quickly nommed some toasted tea cakes and talked to Rach quick on msn then left to go back to uni.

The hour I had to endure of listening to a lady who'd basically been very lucky in her career of Journalism could not have gone any quicker. I was falling asleep by the end of it and just wanted her to stop talking. It finished. I rushed home, noticing the bright and nice sky and had turned to grey nad rainy...great. I noticed I had a call from Lewis so I informed him of what I was doing and as I was walking back, getting wet and cold, he called me again to say he'd come over to watch me play Fallout 3. I was just installing a very quick update when he eventually came round. Fallout seems to be a tricky game but I'm getting used to it and I love the whole free-roaming aspect of it. I can see it being pretty addictive. I like it already.

So yes, that's how I've pretty much spent my afternoon. Tomorrow is going to be the worst day ever and I know I always say that for thursdays but they really are depressing trust me. I have a press conferance in the morning for Journalism and then I'm at uni all day until 5. Then I have to go home and have something to eat and then GO BACK to uni to write an article on the press conferance to hand in before 11 the next day!!!! Such a huge piss take. Do not want :(

The countdown begins!

Huzzah! It is the 1st of December today! Which means only 18 days until my father picks me up in his Mazda Mx5 and we go home! Of course, I will miss my uni friends and seeing Alex as often as I do now but I cannot wait to see my friends back home and my family. I especially miss my dog, as sad as it sounds. Fallout 3 should be coming tomorrow too hopefully! It will be a struggle to do my work that day...

Today I had a late-ish Journalism seminar, thank God because I needed the lie in. It was a good lesson, I got to write a news story on Stephen Fry (whom I adore) and mine was good so it got read out in class! Hurray! I actually feel as if my news writing skills are getting somewhere. Give me the info, I can write it. It just becomes a lot more tricky when you have to find stories by yourself of course.

Now I need to read the second half of a novel called "Loitering with intent" for tomorrow morning. It is a good book actually! I am enjoying it more than I thought I would, love the main character, she's having an affair with her friends husband but shakes it off as if it's nothing. It then turns out this man is cheating on both of them and he is actually gay! A funny read indeed. I like the main character, she is ballsy.

A short blog today but not much to write about. Oh, my secret santa present arrived as did my sisters present, haven't looked at them yet, hope they're okay.

Saturday Roast

I was excited for today. I'd been playing Tekken all day (damn it's addictive) and it was nearing the time Alex would arrive to cook me and my mates a roast dinner. Alex arrived a little later than he said he would but as soon as he got here we walked to Sainsburys in the spitting rain to buy the ingrediants for tonight. It didn't take us long but I was exhausted by the time we got back, not entirely sure why. Matt and Ellie were already here, Matt spent most of the time on the Wii until he'd finished his Animal Crossing rubbish. I started doing the washing up, keeping Alex company as he cut up the veg. I gave Lewis a text and he came round. One thing me and Alex had forgotten was gravy mix so Lewis and Ellie kindly went to the corner shop to buy some.

When everyone was back we spent most of our time messing around in the kitchen, we were all getting very hungry and the roast smelt so good. It was really nice of him to do this for all of us for nothing more than the pure pleasure of cooking for us. I hope he is now in all of their good-books now! The roast in the end was bloody lovely. I don't think I've had a nicer one (sorry mum). I felt sorry for him later on when he told me he usually doesn't get that kind of apprciation for his cooking at home. If someone's made the effort, they should always be thanked! I think my mum felt a bit sad for him too when I told her, after all, I think she'd be upset with my dad if he did the same!

After completly stuffing ourselves we played some Call of Duty but Lewis was a bit too tired so we only had a couple of 4 way matches. We then went retro and played crash team racing before wondering what to do. Alex wanted to go to the cinema if anything was on but we'd missed most things by this time and I was too tired to sit through a film anyway. Alex then suggested we went to Blockbusters instead to look for a film, I didn't mind going for a walk so I took him there while the others played Super Mario Bros together on the Wii.

When we got to Blockbusters, they were closing so we couldn't really choose a film. Instead we walked home, I phoned Lewis and asked if they all wanted to go and get pudding somewhere. They all came along and the only place we could find open was Ben and jerrys at the cinema so we had some ice-cream and started to slowly walk back. Lewis was a bit odd, he was either feeling down or just very, very tired. Maybe a mixture of both but he went back to his flat pretty soon after we all got back to mine. Matt stayed but didn't want to play anything so he watched me and Alex play Spec Ops together. Ellie had a long phonecall from Tom so we didn't see her for the rest of the night either. So it was just me and Alex, running around the Favelas shouting "GET RAPED!", our new catchphrase, at the computer blasting our machine-gun pistols. Great fun and very funny! We got a few more stars too! Matt went to bed quite early whilst me and Alex stayed up until about 2am when he headed home.

So all in all, a good day. I'd accidently pissed off one of my friends due to my own stupidity though. Hope she's not too annoyed with me. Now it's just a shame I don't have much to look foward to this week! Need to get my arse in gear with more work :(

I have some luck at last :D

Wow. I just literally found out I've won the collectors edition of Fallout 3 for PS3! I entered a simple competition via twitter by shopto.net (great cheap site for games actually). All I had to do was email them my twitter username and I was lucky enough to get chosen! Me and Lewis are very happy. I've never played fallout before and Lewis loves that game, good times! Can't wait to try it. I also just looked up what "collectors edition" actually means. I get a lunchbox, art book, DVD and a bobble head figure! Fuck. Me.

Tekken 6 also came today, haven't had a chance to play it much but so far it's awesome! It's a really hard game but I will still get my kicks from it definatly. I've just spent the entire day gaming when really I should have been working but how can I possibly do that when I got a game in the post this morning?!
Showed Lewis Unreal Tournament 3 and I think he's found his new favourite game. We had some great, frantic, 16 bot matches! MONSTER KILL and RAMPAGE were commonly shouted by the computers awesome voice.

Last night me and Lew were up to 5:30am!!!! Playing resi 5 and Portal. He helped me get some trophies I didn't have, such as all the action figures because the last action figure can only be unlocked by getting an S rank on every level. Was pretty simples though. We also unlocked the infinite rocket launcher which will make the attempt to do professional with Alex SO much easier! Me and Lewis have already proven this since we did the last level (just to see how much the rockets would pwn Wesker) and got an S rank...ON FUCKING PROFESSIONAL! Actually insane...!

Tomorrow Alex is coming over at some point to play a four way MW2 match, some Tekken as well as make me and my friends a roast dinner. It's going to be such a good day, cannot wait!

Caught in a bad romance

Yesterday night was the oddest night of my life so far. But, I do now feel so much more bonded with my friends. This is why I love my uni friends, I can be so open with them yet I know they won't judge me and they'll be open back. I don't feel uncomfortable and I surprise myself how confident I now am with myself. Oh how I have grown! Back home, my old friends, as much as I love them, they were uptight. More so than my uni friends anyway by a long shot. I don't know whether it's their personalities or whether it's because we've known each other too long or something. But my uni friends offer me something new, something I needed, I'm glad I found them.

I'm really worried about a mate at the moment. I'm not saying anything because it's private to them but all I shall say is that I really, really hope things work out okay. My thoughts are with them.

I haven't been blogging recently, everything has been so busy but the good news is Alex is coming on Saturday to cook me and my friends roast dinner! Such a nice gesture and I am glad he likes my friends. He also wants to have a 4 way CODMW2 match, as long as Lewis is here this weekend of course! I hope so because it will be fun but if not I'm sure we can cope with just 3 people. I haven't had a roast dinner in so long and I'm drooling right now at the anticipation of a proper dinner, something in which I haven't had for so long. Going to be yummy and a great success I hope!

I also have a new magazine feature idea, after playing the third level of MW2 (which almost reduced me to tears) I want to do something relating to how far should video games go. This may turn out to be too much of an opinion piece but at least this is something I would enjoy researching and it's current so fingure crossed they like it.

I'm hoping Beth still has swine flu (mind you, feel sorry for Beth, she's lovely) because then I can have a nice short thursday again. I don't want to have to go back to the whole 9-5 thing...

Not sure what to say at the moment. My mind is not in a good place for blogging recently and the main things I want to discuss, I can't so I shall leave it here and do the last bit of reading I need to do before playing Fable 2. I'm also waiting to hear from Lewis. I hope I do at some point. It's good to have him back, we played the new super mario bros wii co-op mode last night and it's brilliant fun. Mario and Toad ftw :).

Currently listening to: Basement jaxx- Where's your head at?

MW2 fails at uni

My 19th birthday continues from my last post! To my surprise, Matt and Ellie had brought me a chocolate birthday cake! It was yummy, they sang happy birthday to me and I blew out the candles, no wishes though, don't believe in those. Later on, they took me out to the cinema, which was nice of them. Rachel came along too and I chose to see "A serious man" the Coen brothers film. It was classic Coen brothers style, absolutly loved it, was very funny. I recommend it.

Before I went to bed I decided to try Modern Warefare 2 online but...it doesn't work...it just spends forever loading "playlists" and never actually works. What a fail. I'm so disapointed. Has put me off buying it for a long time. My parents are coming up tomorrow though and are bringing MGS4 so I really hope the online on that works if I can't play MW2 with any of the minions :(.

Can't wait to see my parents and my sister, more present FTW and we'll probably go shopping and out for a meal, win! Need to ask my mums advice about a couple of money problems too...oh dear!

19!

Thursday was an interesting day. I'd been looking foward to it, not because I like it but because I couldn't wait for it to be over. I was feeling better by now and excited for friday, my 19th. A lecture had been cancelled too because our teacher still has swine flu so yay! Didn't have to go into the afternoon so I had a lie in and was awoken by the damn fire alarm test.

Later on I was in a creative writing lecture and I got a text from Lewis asking me what my favourite choclate bar was. I thought it was some kind of birthday present but it turns out he'd read my blog and wanted to buy something to make me feel better! Aww! I replied "anything wqith caramel in". He replied "good choice". After that lecture I had a presentation to do. We had Lucy instead of Beth as Beth is the one who's ill, everyone got to present theirs except me because we ran out of time! Phew! I hate my idea but have no idea what else I can do so I guess I'll just have to stick with it. In the last lecture of the day I had to read out my short story and the rest of the class would have to say what they liked and what I should improved. My story "Ben and the Playstation" went down really well! They really liked it and that made me put confidence back into my writing and I understand what to do to make it even better, yay! So happy by this point.

Then it was time to head home. I was starving so I put some pizza on straight away then put the PS3 on, there was an update (that took forever) so I left it downloading that. I started to read a book for next week when I got a knock on the door from Ellie and Matt. Ellie gave me some cards that were in my post box. Lewis then came upstairs and handed me a bag full of big Cadburys caramel chocolate bars! He brought 6 because he could only pay with his card and that was the minimum amount he had to spend!!! Crazy guy! But it was so sweet of him, I gave him a hug and thanked him. We went into the kitchen, then Rachel arrived, I could see something was going on here! I ate my pizza as we chatted about various things. After dinner I got a huge bag of presents! They'd brought me two huge tins of chocolates!!! I swear they are trying to fatten me up!!! They also got me the lonely island "incredibad" CD! Epic win! I also got cards from everyone, Lewis wrote loads of random funny quotes in his. On the envelope it said: "7 minutes...is the time it takes Laura to complete Resi 5". I liked that so much I've stuck it on my wall. If you don't already know, the 7 minutes is linking to something Wesker says, "7 minutes is all the time I have to play with you".

It was a really nice surprise, I have great friends :). The reason they gave me my presents a day before was because Lewis was leaving to go to Amsterdam in the morning for his film-making course. He's not coming back till tuesday! I'm gunna miss him! That evening we went to a pub quiz and epically failed. We were last place by quite a long way! Don't think we'll try that again...we were to only student team..sigh, student pub my arse. Matt came back to mine but only for half an hour before going to see New moon with a friend. I had an early night and just played Fable 2 for a bit as Lewis' xbox lead had finally arrived! It was nice to play it on a big TV, I'm just addicted to that game...

It was hard to sleep this morning, I was in a very light sleep kind of mode so I felt like I wasn't really sleeping if that makes sense. It was probably to do with being really excited. I knew Alex would be coming at about 9am bringing with him Modern Warefare 2, yay! I got a text at around about 5am from Lewis wishing me happy birthday as he was waiting to catch a train. I "slept" on and off until about 9am when I got a call from Alex saying he'd be here in half and hour. I had breakfast, got dressed and by the time I'd done that he was here. We played some spec ops together, was great fun, looked beautiful on the TV too. Martyn phoned and wished me happy birthday which was lovely. I opened Iains' present, I got two Tim Vine DVDs, yay! Going to have a laugh with those for sure. Alex then told me he was going to "kick my arse", yeah right! The first game was a very, very close match. Then he pwned me completly, then I him...I think we're too good for each other!

I then had a text from Matt asking if he could come over and play with me and Alex. Alex really wanted some more players for deathmatch and was gutted Lewis wasn't here for a four-way. So Matt came over and he started off poor but got better and better! Up to a point where he beat Alex! But no one can beat the Minx *evil laughter*. Anyway, we played that to a point where we were starving to we ventured out of get food. We went to McDonalds and got some take-away then headed back to mine and showed Alex the impressions show on iplayer because me and Matt love it. We then played some more Modern Warefare before Alex decided he really had to go and see his landlord about the damp in his flat, otherwise he would have stayed longer. Me and matt said our goodbyes and now I am typing this as he plays Rayman and Trash Panic! Such a good day, I got a bajillion birthday messages including a tweet mention from OPM themselves!!! YAY!

Later on Matt and Ellie said they'd take me to the cinema to see a film of my choice. I've chosen to see "A serious man" because I love the Coen brothers and it looks to be a very funny film. Should be good!

Fuck it

"I deserve nothing more than I get, 'cause nothing I have is truly mine."

That's pretty much how I feel right now. I don't know how Dido got into my head but when I thought of that one line I suddenly felt like crying. It depicted something I am feeling right now, something I've felt for a long time. But as with all problem, we repress them in foolish hope that they'll just magically go away or sort themselves out.

As you can tell, I'm not in a good mood. I would say it's due to me getting 4 hours sleep after playing Resi 5 until 4am with Lewis (again) but I know it's not that. I've been let down again. Okay, not completely and maybe I'm just being a spoilt bitch about this but for once, just for once, I would like something to be perfect. I'm not sure why this always happens maybe it's karma or just plain bad luck but things rarely go to plan. That's probably an exaggeration because I'm in a bad mood but hey. I've got to a point where I am fed up of just about everything. I can't be bothered with work or going out or anything. I was talking to Ellie about it earlier, I think we are both a bit homesick and she is missing her boyfriend a lot. We've come to the realisation that we're here to do work and the work, at the moment, is just too much. Sounds stupid I know but it seems to have hit everyone hard. At least it's not just me...

I've just come back from uni. I had something to print. There was one computer free, no one was logged in but as I sat down someone on the other side of the table said he was using it. For fucks sake, I wanted to print out one fucking sheet of work! I probably should have asked him if I could have borrowed it (even though it isn't his if he's not fucking logged in!) but I was so fed up I thought fuck it and walked home. If I had powers like Cole from Infamous, those computers would have been blown up then and there. So angry at the moment. Angry at someone I really don't want to be angry at. I keep telling myself it's not their fault but another part of me wishes they'd try harder for once, for me. I guess I ask too much.

I need to have a shower now, something I also can't be bothered to do. Then some creative writing work. I don't think I can go to Jon's birthday party thing tonight. I feel like killing someone and I'm very tired. Might just have an early night and hope that Thursday goes quick tomorrow. Which it won't. I have a presentation tomorrow and it's going to suck massive balls because my feature idea is shit. I can't wait to be ripped apart with criticism.

Currently listening to: Robbie Willaims- Deceptacon
"She said, well he's never been quite right and I know, we'll be stepping on eggshells tonight."
"I love you but I don't like you right now, is all she had to say."

The Minx is back!

Hurray! I finally have a PS3 back in my life! And the best part is, the online works! It's so good to be back :)

Sunday was spent going to ASDA then going to meet Iain at the train station. I almost fainted in ASDA again, so annoying though I think I was badly dehydrated...must drink more...

After that horrible ordeal I felt better after cooling down. I packed away my food at home and started off my walk to Kingston station to meet Iain. I seemed to time it okay as Iain was just waiting outside the station. I recognised him a mile away and waved to him until he spotted me. We hugged and I asked about him weekend and stuff whilst we walked back to mine.

When we got to mine I made him a cup of tea whilst talking about uni and Iains' old uni in my huge kitchen! We then sat in my room and for the rest of the afternoon played Mario Golf, tennis, house of the dead one and two and dead rising. Was great fun, especially Mario Golf and crazy confusing mario tennis. My parents rang while he was round and I spoke to them briefly whilst playing golf at the same time, multi-tasking ftw. Dad spoke about games and bargains as usual! I blame him for who I've become, even though I wouldn't change it for the world of course.

The time went so fast and Iain had to catch a train at 5 so we left just before. Before we left he gave me and present and card which was a lovely surprise! I gave him hugs but I'm not opening it until my actual birthday. I am resisting temptation! Luckily, after saying bye to Iain, Matt would be at the station anytime soon. So I hugged Iain goodbye and he gave me a quick peck on the cheek and he was off (little did he know it would be a 5 hour journey! Fail!). I waited around for Matt and he appeared, struggling to carry a shoulder bag, gym bag and TV box. Oh dear! I started off carrying the TV but I couldn't carry it very far. I'm very weak! So instead I took the gym bag which had wheels on so I could drag it along the floor. Unfortunatly, this meant I had to stoop over to drag it behind me and it kept knocking into my leg. Which is now why the back of my right shoulder is buggered. Ouch.

After much moaning in pain and panting up the stairs we got all our stuff home safe and up to the top floor of my flat. I made some dinner first as I was starving so we settled down and recovered before attempting to set anything up. Matt did it all himself mostly, I thought I'd leave him to do it his way because it's his stuff and it's easier that way. And well, the rest is history!

That night we watched the new Doctor Who on BBC Iplayer on the PS3, it was so good! Doctor got a bit power-hungry at the end though! Eek! And I can't believe we know have to wait until Christmas?! And I KNEW the Master would be back. I am glad though,he's a great character and John Simm is a great actor. Going to be so good!

So yes, I couldn't be happier that day. I got to see a good friend who I don't usually see all that often, I got some good news and I got a PS3 all thrown in. Fanstastic. Now I'm just wondering how I'm ever going to get any work done...

Good news everyone!

Matt sent me a text yesterday saying his parents knew he wanted to take his PS3 and HDTV so they packed them up all ready to go back with him! Epic win! I would have been happy with just a PS3 but it actually looking sexy on the screen is going to be a win! So now, I cannot wait until monday! Which isn't something you hear very often.

Lewis came over yesterday, still no plug so we won't get it until monday now. Instead we played Zelda and managed to complete it together. The last boss on that is such a glitch. You can defeat Ganandorf with a fishing rod and yes, I'm serious. It's rather funny! Lewis was so annoyed with the fact his plug wouldn't work he took a knife to it and tried to carve out the plastic bits that were stopping the plug from going into the system (it's rather hard to explain). Me and Ellie stood back when he plugged it in but as I suspected, it didn't work, or blow up for that matter.

Lewis asked what we were doing tonight. We hadn't a clue what to do so we decided to see what was on at the cinema. I was reluctant to go because of money but at the same time I love the cinema. First we stumbled across "Men who stare at goats" it didn't really appeal that much to me but then we saw Harry Brown was on. As soon as I saw it was Michael Caine, I was interested. We read the synopsis and all agreed we wanted to see that at 9:30pm. Lewis needed some milk and Ellie wanted to buy some chocolates for her aunt so we took a quick trip to the local shop. Afterwards, Lewis went home to have dinner as did me and Ellie. We met up later on to walk to the cinema. Luckily it had stopped raining but it was very windy. Lewis didn't seem his usual self. He was quiet and just didn't look right. I asked if he was okay and he said he'd just been speaking to an old friend he hadn't seen in ages so I guessed it was something to do with being home-sick or something. Maybe he is still worrying over his course, I'm not sure but I hope he's okay.

There was a huge queue at the cinema, thank God for trailers! I was tempted to get ice-cream but I didn't want to waste my money so I resisted the urge. When we walked into the screen, an Uncharted 2 trailer was playing! Why does the world taunt me? Everytime I go into ASDA they're promoting some sort of game over the tanoy! Ahh well, we sat down and watched some silly adverts followed by some excellent looking film trailers. Oh I love films.

Harry Brown is an intense film. It's about an old man, his wife is in hospital. He spends his days sat in the pub drinking beer and playing chess with his old friend, Len. They both live on this awful estate, a tower block full of yobs. Everyday he looks out his window to see a new crime happen. And it is shocking. The film really takes your breath away, especially when you see something like a man trying to defend a group from stealing his car. They beat him up, kicking him in the head, his wife comes out screaming at them, they run away to leave a sobbing wife trying to help her husband. His head is split open and there is blood everywhere. The imagery in this film is so strong and incrediable. It's hard to watch at times and even when the film had first began, I was very, very close to tears. It's horrible to think there are areas like that in Britain right now. I won't give away anymore of the film but I'll put it this way, Harry Brown is no ordinary old man. He kicks arse! And yet again, Michael Caine is brillaint. He doesn't have to say much but you get so much emotion from him. I would really recommend this film. Go and see it right now!

Lewis loved the film and wanted to be like Harry Brown afterwards, typical!! Ellie liked it too. As soon as the film ended, I breathed out and just went: "Fuck". It really was that intense! We talked about how awesome it was all the way home. Lewis came back to our kitchen for a bit and realised it was 12! Both Ellie and Lewis needed to get a train in the morning but Ellie would be back in the evening. We had some tea then all went to bed at 1. Lewis was still a bit quiet, me and Ellie still knew something was up but him being a man, wouldn't tell us. Ahh well, he's seeing Emily today so I'm sure he'll cheer up or talk things out with her.

I really need to have a shower! It's gone 12 and I'm just so lazy I haven't had one yet. So on that note, goodbye!

Currently listening to: Nightwish-Sleeping Sun
"I wish for this night-time to last for a lifetime. The darkness around me, shores of a solar sea. Oh how I wish to go down with the sun, sleeping, weeping, with you."

Looking towards the weekend

Yesterday my two hour lecture for Journalism was cancelled. I'm so glad I checked my Kingston email the night before! It cheered me up a lot because I hate Thursdays, they are like torture. I still had a 9am with Brian for Journalism but since he never teaches us anything I decided not to go. I'm not getting up for that guy! He always has stupidly long pauses in between everything he says and bores the hell out of the class. Some people actually like him. Seriously, they need to get their heads checked out. Last lesson he started getting all passionate about how "words are sacred", which is bollocks anyway. Basically, he was banging on about how we must be truthful and quote a person word for word. Funny that in Journalism we're being taught not to do everything a journalism does...

So yeah, I didn't get up 'till 10:30 that morning (God know I needed the sleep). I felt better for sleeping. Soon after I was dressed and fed, Matt came round to try out House of the Dead 2 and 3 on the Wii. It's quite good fun, it's just like playing the arcade version and the voice acting is hilariously bad! Lewis came round and watched Matt until me and Matt had to go to a lecture together. Lewis asked if he could keep my keys and stay here. I said sure and left him to do whatever he ended up doing. The Creative Writing lecture was very boring, I took next to no notes and me and Matt just ended up drawing James Bond snowboarding on a mountain when he was about to crash into a ram.

Next lecture was a seminar for Journalism. People were presenting their feature ideas and I was hoping I'd get some inspiration and thanked God I wasn't doing mine this week. Most of them were good ideas and now I have no idea what to do for mine. I want to do something related to Twitter, maybe explaining to readers what it is and how it's used. I was thinking of the title "Tweeting for twits"? I'll probably work around that some time this week or weekend. No one's going to be here this weekend again. Matt is going to his mums so he'll bring back his PS3 and possibly his HD TV. Though I doubt he'll take that in a suitcase on the train. Me and Lewis are happy with just the PS3!!! Especially me, I can't wait. I haven't played on in OVER a month! Lewis wants a PS3 too so he really wants to try the PS3 exclusives like Little Big Planet, Uncharted, infamous and he even wants to play with us Rocket Minions on Metal Gear Online! Maybe someday. Don't even know if the online will work. I doubt it since the Xboxs' online doesn't work. But we shall see. I may cry with happiness if it does work. Nothing to cheer you up like a PS3.

Lewis is going to see Emily this weekend and Ellie is going to her aunts tomorrow I think. I'm not too bothered but I hope the plug gets here today then I could play fable 2 all day! And more importantly, when Bossman visits on Sunday we could play Left 4 dead! he said he really wants to try it but the likely-hood of the plug getting here for then is decreasing...we may have to be stuck playing with the Wii! Oh dear...But no matter what we do, seeing Bossman will be great fun and hopefully it will de-stress me a little.

Talking about stress, Alex came round last night and he asked me how Uni was and I just started crying! I don't like crying in front of friends, it's horrible, but I probably needed to "let it all out" and I was glad it was Alex because he always makes me feel better. He couldn't stay for long because of the horrid weather but I was glad to see him at all. After he'd gone Matt and Lewis came back round. Lewis brought his guitar and managed to play and sing "Fuck her gently" and oh my God it was so funny! He's really good though, for a learner and his voice is rather good. So that cheered me up a little. I spoke to Ellie and Lewis a bit about how upset I just got because Ellie noticed I looked down. It's all okay for now. Next week should be better I hope...my birthday next friday!

Currently listening to: Tom Jones- She's a lady
"She's a lady, talking about that little lady and the lady is mine."

Only you know me

Started to walk to a lecture this afternoon when I had a phone call from Alex asking me how I was. I wasn't good and I told him how stressed I was getting about everything. He reassured me I was going to be fine and I know in my heart he's telling the truth but I felt like bursting into tears right then and there. But I was walking to Uni and I knew I had to keep it together so I somehow stopped myself. Maybe I need a good cry :/.

Got to my lecture and thankfully the lesson only lasted an hour because our teacher was nice and new that we were all rushing to do our news stories. I went to the library but all the computers were taken so I couldn't print anything out. I had no information for my news story yet either, so I went home. I had no work to do when I got home, due to lack of current story so I decided to wait and do it later and get a few quotes off my friend Matt about people stealing his food. Lame story I know but it was all I had at the time. Kim the day before said she had a story for me on facebook but she hadn't got back to me, even though I text her. Lewis called, he'd brought the first Fable on PC so he came round with his computer to show me. I was happy to see a friendly face to be honest. I went on facebook and yes! Kim had messaged me! She told me this horrible story about how her parents got attacked by 30 yobs not very far at all from where I live! Scary! It was a horrible story but a good one to right about. I didn't have much material but I was going to try and work with it after viewing the house.

We went down to view the house, it was just across the park so the location was good. It was however, right next to a school...which might make it a little noisy during the day. Anyway we waited in the freezing cold for the bloody guy to turn up. He was 15 minutes late! He was in a posh suit and stuff but seemed to know next to nothing about the house. Inside, it was awful. It was colder than outside but that can be expected because the heating wouldn't be on in an empty house. Ellie was pretty sure the house had some kind of damp which is never good. Also, there was no communal kitchen. Instead everyone had a mini kitchen in their rooms which would seriously be no good for anything but ready meals. I could not imagine cooking on those crappy, old, stoves with no desk room AT ALL. It was really, really grim and miserable. I really hope there are better places out there! I think I'd feel depressed living there. We all realised how lucky we were, although we complain about them, halls are fucking luxury!

After the house viewing, we had a pretty cool system going on. Me and Lewis were both occupying my desk with our laptops, he was playing Fable, I was working on my news article and stressing over it big time. Matt was using the TV playing Super Mario Galaxy. Welcome to the geeks pit! I'd finished my news article and had stuck it on my memory stick before we headed out. They were all going to the Cinema Appreciation Society to see "All about my mother", a Spanish film I'd seen too many times because we had to watch it in Film Studies and write about it in an exam. I pwned that exam, in fact I got an A in the section where I had to write about All about my mother! Lewis had also done film studies and he didn't even like the film but he thought he may as well go if everyone else was. I was going to the library to print out my work so when we got to the Uni we parted our ways.

Even though it was 6pm the library was still very busy. I went upstairs to the "quiet" section where everyone is basically silent, it's very unnerving but there were a couple of computers free so I printed all my work out. But, it wasn't coming out. The printer was jammed full of work people had just left. It took 45 minutes for my work to come out! But at least I got it in the end. I rushed home and now I'm sat here waiting for the others to come back from the film. Matt has promised to cook us tuna pasta bake again so that should be nice. I'm absolutely starving, they should be back very soon though. Fed up of hearing about Modern Warfare 2 though. I know I have no right to be but if you didn't have the opportunity to own it or even play it like me, you'd feel exactly the same. So I'm just going to wallow in misery for a while and pray that tomorrow is better. If Lewis' plug comes, it defiantly will be a better day.

Current favourite song: Robbie Willaims- You know me
"Only you know me. Since you went away my heart breaks every day, you don't know coz you're not there. You simply found the words to make a lot of feelings fade away. Only you know me."

Currently listening to: The Hoosiers-Worst case scenario
"You'd be happier instead if you'd stayed in bed. I pray one day I live to see break a smile."

19th nervous breakdown

And I'm approaching my 19th, ha! Well basically, my imending doom as I called it a few blogs before has caught up with me. I thought it might but not like this.
Yesterday we found out we have a news story that's due before 11am on Wednesday. A fair few of us did not know about this. So clearly it wasn't just me not listening, they really had not emphasised it enough. So I started panicing, thinking how the fuck was I going to find a news story in 2 days. Suicide would be easier!!! I jest. In my head I quickly thought of a couple of ideas (neither of which worked out)but luckily my mate Ellie came up with an idea later. Anyway he brought round our assignment work. I got 54 which is equivilent to a 2-2 (or however you would write it). Not bad I guess. The teacher was happy with all of our results. No one got a first and no one failed. But my news story didn't do well because it was a bit dull and I agree, it was. I didn't make it exciting enough and at the time I was pulling my hair out over it. I just wanted to get it written and printed. I'm not going to do any better this time with such a lame story idea but it's better than handing in fuck all I guess.

When I got home I practically spent the rest of the day reading as I have an entire book to read for wednesdays lectures. Lewis came round while I was reading but just sat there playing Zelda quietly so I could get on with work. It was nicer than just sitting in a lonely room I guess. I took a break from reading when I made dinner and afterwards had a chat with Lewis and Ellie. They were going to go out tonight but I'd said I'd stay in and do work as I was swamped. There was no way I was in mood either. Lewis was having second thought about wanting to go out himself but Ellie was planning to go out with Matt, Joe and Rachel anyway. We spent some time winding up Matt but he figured us out eventually. Was funny though. He came round along with Rach and Lewis went home to do some work. When they all left to go to the pub I went back to my room to read. Lewis was on facebook chat saying he couldn't do any work and was starting to wonder if the course he was doing was for him. I am starting to feel the same. Journalism as a course is a joke. If real Journalism is like this (which luckily, I don't think it is) I don't want to be a Journalist. Why can't we all be like Hunter. S. Thompson? Best. Journalist. Ever. Reality sucks.

Lewis really couldn't do any work and I was sick of reading all fucking day even though the book wasn't that bad there's only so much a girl can take in one day. So he came over in some sort of attempt to cheer each other up. Lewis didn't show it but I think he's as depressed/stressed as I am at the moment. Even Joe who also does my course doesn't know what to do withn himself. Lewis is seriously considering changing course or quitting uni for a year. I hope he doesn't quit, I'd miss him so much. He's an awesome friend, I might even go so far as to say one of the best I've ever had, beside from the fact he uses my stuff and doesn't wash it up! We played Super Smash Brawl for a bit and although I was having fun, I couldn't really get into it. We stopped and started typing in random words into Spotify and listening to the songs that came up. That proved for some very strange and funny music!!! I then made us some tea and was giggling because Lewis was spinning around on the floor like a loony! I placed a biscuit on his head and gave him his tea.

Matt had come home, he was on Msn so Lewis started talking to him like he was me. I thought it would have been damn obvious it wasn't me with some of the things he was saying! But Matt fell for it. Then Matt typed something about Lewis being hot or at least, attractive. Lewis was pissing himself laughing as was I! Lewis tried to tell Matt it was actually him typing but Matt wouldn't believe us! I sent Matt a picture message of Lewis sat on my laptop as proof because Matt didn't think Lewis was even round mine. Oh dear. Matt got all worried and embarassed about what he said which made Lewis feel guilty but Matt was just being silly as usual. Lewis didn't give a shit and really saw it as a compliment. Lewis said he tends to start hanging around with people he's attracted to anyway! Dear oh dear, what a mess. But still, it cheered me up enough to get a good nights sleep. In fact, I got two texts this morning and I didn't wake up to either of them which is a first! Nothing exciting unfortunatly.

Today I have so much work to get done, I might not even go to the film club tonight because of it. We're also going to view our first house today which is exciting but I'm far too pissed off, stressed and depressed today. I can't wait until tomorrow when this will all be over apart from the fact I have to remember 100 words and recite them in class on thursday. Somebody do me a favour and shoot me now. It doesn't help that no one is really being that supportive. I mention I'm getting stressed to someone and they just ignore it. I want someone to talk to for fucks sake! Even my dad just said "Oh well". I guess it's just a bloke thing to not give a shit sometimes. I know I have my uni friends but sometimes, that isn't enough.

Fireworks!

Yesterday night was fireworks night! Unfortunately we couldn't buy our tickets in advance (Ellie did but by the time me, Matt and Lewis tried to they'd sold out) so it was £6! It was also raining. Me and Ellie kept our spirits up and yes, maybe I would have preferred not to have gone and saved my money but Ellie had already brought her ticket so we were stuck. Someone had to go with her. So I decided not to complain and just enjoy it. But the boys thought otherwise. The whole way there they pissed and moaned about how wet and miserable they were. It got to the point where I told them to shut up moaning! For goodness sake, I'd never heard a guy moan so much (yes I see where you're going with that in your head, stop right there!). That didn't stop them though. God forbid what would happen if we took them camping!
The fireworks were good in the end. It stopped raining as the fireworks started! They were very pretty and me and Ellie were giggling even though we were both soaked to the bone. Plus, anything involving rockets is always good! We rushed home, freezing cold because of course we'd been standing stationary for a long time.

When we got home me and Ellie decided to look at student houses while Matt played Maple Story(sigh)and Lewis played Fable 2. We found a few potential places and spammed out emails to them all requesting viewings. Fingers crossed!

I got some more work done today. I really had the urge to start a game on Fable 2 as I'd played co-op with Lewis (the co-op is rubbish) and it seemed like a lot of fun. So I did my reading first then started up as a female on Fable 2. I think that's what attracted me to be honest, I don't think I would have played if I didn't have the female option. Odd but true. So as most of my female characters go in video games she ended up looking rather slutty, why is that? Probably because I can't dress like that in real life so am I filling out some sort of deep dark fantasy? Probably. That's what we do in video games after all. We love to play first person shooter because we'll never get to shoot a gun and actually kill something else. So yes, my character had pigtails, a corset and hot pants. So a lot of the villagers were attracted to her! And if I started "flirting" literally a crows of men, and some women, would form with love hearts above their heads. Hmm MGO charm dance anyone?

So anyway I played that for a fair few hours, Matt came round at one point and sat watching me whilst I was on a mission where I had to "seduce Alex". Ha! So I seduced this guy and in almost every mission you get a choice to be good or bad. I've found it's better to be good so I'm following that path. The good option was to marry Alex! So I did. I now have a husband in Fable...the funny thing was I got a family alert from him and what did it say? "Alex wants sex". I'm in the middle of a mission and you want sex?! Typical bloody men! Made me and Matt giggle.

It was 6 o'clock and even though I wasn't that hungry I thought I'd better make some dinner as I hadn't really had lunch! I made spaghetti Bolognaise with actual decent mince this time not 98p mince from Asda (never buying that shite again!) and decent, Lloyd Grossman sauce. It was very nice but the bacon and chilli sauce was pretty spicy! Matt started playing Zelda whilst I was eating. After dinner, Rachel came round to have a look at the houses we were looking at yesterday and I managed to cox Matt away from Zelda for a bit to be involved too. We had a conversation about it which moved onto holidays, which moved onto rape, which moved onto condoms...hilarious how conversation digress!

Later on, Lewis and Emily came round and got some tips off of Ellie so they knew where to look for student housing as they want to live together this year. I'm a bit peeved Lewis won't be living with us because he's a really good friend and I get on with him well plus he has a good taste in games. Maybe not console wise but he does want a PS3 so that's a start! And he loves Timesplitters as much as me! Always a win. In fact we have a lot in common but ah well. I can see why he'd want to live with Emily so fair enough and good luck to them I guess! I just hope he comes and visits once in a while.

Rachel left to do work, Ellie went to bed and me, Emily and Lewis played Brawl together on the Wii. Alex came round and took back his power cable for the Xbox that Lewis was borrowing so we can't play it anymore! Can't believe Lewis got the wrong cable, it's not like Alex's at all and Alex recons it's a fake and he should contact the seller and maybe even report them. Oh dear. Still, at least we know what a real one looks like now! It's just annoying no shops in Kingston sell them! Waiting for post takes forever and obviously you can't check then and there it's the one you need. So no more Fable for a while which is annoying as it was just starting to get good and oh, I'm beating Lewis Achievement wise now! Mwahaha! Only because I'm further ahead than him in Fable. After brawl we watched the new Harry Hills' TV burp on my laptop then everyone went home early. It's a good thing as I'm so tired. God knows why I stayed up to do this blog but it needed doing I suppose. I'm off to bed now before my eyes dry up.