Number 2

This is of me as a bridesmaid in 1996. My toy rabbit, Flora, was too. We had matching dresses. Nowadays, Flora is rather battered and has cateracts. Sad times.

The one underneath proves I've been a japer fo' lyfe. :D

Regards, x

No posts, old photie of Hannah.

Sorry. I haven't 'blogged' in SUCH a long time. It is mainly to do with James. He is ready to come home now, but I don't know when he's being collected, sadly.

So, here are a series of Hannah photies that I found whilst looking through loads of albums today.

The first of which, a beautiful dress.. and I've always been a drinker.. :)

James and Laura.

So, James is still dead, as far as I know. And I can't keep pestering my fam about what's happening with him, and they just get annoyed. Sadly.

So, on Wednesday will be a week since he went for repair, and hopefully we'll have heard something about him. Hopefully :)

So, James is my laptop. And Laura is Ellie's laptop. (James' bit on the side. They're practically related..)

Laura is less of a fail than James, but she still has issues.

:)

Ellie's Laura.

Well, sorry about the lack of posts, I know I said I'd blog lots this weekend, but it didn't happen.

So, this is a nice photie from Ellie's taplop of my piano concert, where we all looked lovely, and nice, and all that, and I'd just played a nice tune for being really nice.

:D:D

Time Outs.

I just planted a time out scavenger hunt type thing around my kitchen.

That'll make them last longer, I hope.

Some of them are pretty shady, I'll have you know.

Anyway.

(And yes, I do realise it is half 12, on a Thusday evening.)

:D:D

Headphones.

Earlier, I accidentally dipped my iPod headphone into a mug of tea.

I hope it's okay, and enjoyed the drink.

:)

Answer machines.

Sister spent literally 15 minutes trying to listen to a message on the answerphone, and trying to 'say 1' instead of pressing 1, on the phone, to get the message. It didn't work.

But was incredibly entertaining.

:)

I don't care.

Nope, I don't care.

111 posts.

I missed it! By 5 posts! Gutted!

Sorry about the recent lack of posts, I am very noonooish. And had a science exam.

Terribly sorry.

Regards, xx

Tea.

Is 'mazing.

Although, I always forget when I've drunk a whole mug full, and you just want another sip, but there's none left, so you can't.

Sad times.

Different computers.

It's entertaining being on different computers, and seeing what photies from the past are on all of them.

My laptop, James, has just all my music, and various musical sibeliusy stuff, and loads of pictures from after 2008 on it. (until it died. But, fortunately, it's all backed up on the terrabyte, yeah!)

My mum's computer has just got loads of her photies, and all of the old photies of mine from before James.
My dad's computer has loads of work photies on it, all of which are not that interesting at all. And then the occasional photie of old times. This one I found.

It is from the school fashion show in 2008. Pretty exciting :)

Planning.

I love when everything works out.

And I know everything will always be okay, because it always is.
(Another little life motto.)


So, when you try and plan something, but you just don't have enough days in the week to do what you really want, but it requires meticulous planning, because everything else gets in the way. Erm, yes. It's annoying.

The Past.

We should probably ignore these photies 'fo lyfe.

But, today I am on Ian Babes' laptop.
And these photies are on it.

That japer on the left of both the photies?
That is me, about 5/6 years ago.
What a japer.

:)

Big Bird.

Ahh, oh how I miss those days. (Nostalgic maize.. I heart Arcadian Babes)

When I went to see Sesame Street Live when I lived in America.
:D

"Big Bird is an eight-foot two-inch tall bright yellow bird. He can roller skate, ice skate, dance, sing, write poetry, draw and even ride a unicycle.It is believed that Big Bird is probably a giant canary."

YEAH. :D

Houses.

This is just an entire blog post devoted to a certain Alex McKenzie..

And a little bit about houses.
Everyone likes houses, right?

Very Old Days.

I'm just wondering if you remember these photies, Ellie..

And if you don't, I am eternally sorry.

:D

Arty photie.

To make up for the others :)

This was taken in Wales, somewhere. I think.
In 2098.

Maybe..

How arty.

Casual Punctuation.

It's everywhere I look!
How does nobody notice! :-

Painting.

This afternoon, my mum, Sister and I painted some of the hallway white.
In the end, it just turned out to be me painting, and my mum clearing up all of the paint that got everywhere.

It was fun.

Also, we ignore the green jeans and navy jumper. They are both from the past. :)

The top picture was taken BEFORE I got all painty. And when I say painty, I mean painty.

And the other one is when I got paint in my eye. Not fun times. :D

We do not question how I got paint in my eye. And also, why I looked like an old lady because my hair had been touching the ceiling so was white also.

Before the painting commenced, I was debating whether to just forget about A Levels and start a career in painting.
After, I think it'd be best to accept that I will never be a decorating genius.

Sad, sad times.

Reactions.

Blogger told me to add some reactions. So now you can tell me what you thought. How exciting. Thankies..

Limes and Haircuts.

It's been a very eventful day, one might say.
I've had a haircut. Which was exciting in itself.

Now my fam and I are making Key Lime Pie. Slimming style. The amount of moaning that Sister has made from grating the zest of some limes. It's incredibly entertaining. Also, it turns out, we only needed the zest from 2 limes, not 4. Baha. Anyway..

This is a free lime that they gave us in Manchester in the summer. I don't know what happened to said lime..

I guess I'll never know. :)

The Customer is Always Right.

Customer: “Excuse me, I sent a letter last week but it came back. Can you tell me why?”
Me: “Sure, do you have it with you?”
(The customer hands it over. It doesn’t take long to figure out the problem.)
Me: “Oh, okay. You’re going to need a valid house address to have it sent.”
Customer: “I did put the address!”
Me: “That’s an email address, ma’am.”
Customer: “Yes, and it’s valid. I checked!”

http://notalwaysright.com

Learn a Valuable Lesson.

I was at band this evening, and my friend and I went to the toilets. We were just chatting when a small child walked to the outside of the toilets and looked confused, and lost. Being nice people, we wanted to help the small boy, we thought he'd gotten lost, and was new, or something.
So, my friend asked the boy if he was looking for the boy's toilets. And he replied 'No, I'm a girl. I'm just a tomboy. Easy mistake to make..' And then ran off. We were in such shock, that we ran in the opposite direction. And felt incredibly bad for the rest of the evening.
So, if there is a lesson we should learn from this, it is that if you are talking to a stranger, you should steer clear of the topic of gender. Okay? :)

Co-incidental sell by dates.

When we were having lunch today, I realised my apple juice went off the day before my birthday.

We then proceeded to look at all of the sell by dates on various things we had bought, to see any of the others had coincidental dates. They all had one one, some of them were slightly more vague than others. I think it was a long discussion well spent :)

100th Post!

This is the hundreth post! HOW EXCITING!

:D:D

It's true.

http://iamawesome.com

Cakes.

Because I am always the one making the cakes, in 2008, on my birthday, Katie came round (and found me at the Joly's), with a cake, it was so, so nice.

I cried it was so nice.

Katie's grandma made the cake, and Katie decorated it. I absolutely loved it.

Thankyou.

Summer 2008.

James is still not back, so here is another photie I have found. We were in Wales, or somewhere, I believe, and look at me! I'm playing sport! Cricket, I believe. How surreal, and quite arty!

:)

Birdies.

I nice little photie of birdy friends, taken from outside Ellie's window.

If Ellie and I were birds, these would be us.

I believe that I would be the large grey one, if that is okay? :)

The Youth of Today.

I found this Christmas card just now. It's from this year.
Do people now feel that in order to relate to the Youth of Today, they need to address them as 'Yo'?

If so, Yo.

Disneyland Scrapbook artiness.

And in the same scrapbook, the art skills begun..

The green metallic letter R is my favourite. :)

Disneyland

Cue Maccabees song, that says something about Disneyland. And maybe a Hallelujah.

Anyway. I took this photie of a scrapbook I found that I did when I was 7. Even when I was just a wee nipper, I was a coolster.. Informing everyone of exactly how many horses there are on the carousel, spelling the word carousel wrong, my beautiful handwriting (and the fact that I still have to draw lines to write on..)

But, over everything, I most enjoy '(Emagine that)'. Emagine.

Bahana 2

I think this is a display of dedicated recycling of bananas, using both sides! Motivational motivational.

I was going to also post a picture of a banana. Then I realised the only bananas we have in our house are incredibly brown and speckly, so wouldn't have the same effect.

Sad times.

We can't have everything. :)

Banana.

If you bring a banana to school for an exam, you will pass.

A bahana, if you will.

That is all.

Cameras.

This is my fam's camera. I don't know why I find it so damn entertaining when it looks like this.

Although, there is one downside. When you forget about it, and leave it like that, when it retracts magically after a while, you get a large shock. *bsjfdhksh!*

Alex!

Revision!

Pen rage.

I keep meaning to revise, I really do..

But one of the main problems I have is losing my pen.

Writing is pretty hard without a pen, or some sort of writing implement.

This bit of the blog is about Alex.

He stuck a pen to my ceiling a while back, but when I lost my pen and looked at the ceiling for some help, it was always the wrong colour. So now, problem solved! I have a blue pen, a black pen and a pencil, all there. It's great, and incredibly handy. Thankies.

Hot water bottles.

Who'd have thought of such a nifty idea!

They are great.

I literally, never have them. But last night, I made one myself, and put it in a fleece. So, I had a nice fleece wearing companion in bed with me.

Typing in Gloves.

I just went outside to turn the heating on, and I couldn't find any shoes, so I just kept my slippers on and wore my dads.
It's still snowing.
I also took a photie of this beef icicle outside the hall window.
Massive!

Anyway. It's a bit chilly. Do you ever think when you're nice and toasty and warm in your bed, normally just before you have to get up, that you could never imagine being cold again? And then after, you are. Eurgh. That's just how it is.

Life with gloves on is twice as difficult as normal life.

Anyway. About that revision..

Back to Revision.

Anyway, back for a short while to RE/History revision.

I've actually got to go to school tomorrow! (Admittedly, it'll only be a 2 day week..)

Swans.

I am not an animal person, anyway. But I have a particular hatred for swans, and donkeys (that's another story..).

Whilst we were on holiday last Easter (the same Go Ape one), we went boating, on a nice lake.

I am not particularly brilliant at rowing, it involves coordination. So, it was incredibly difficult to not crash into anything, or fall over the weir (a particular hazard.)

So, we were just casually rowing, when a massive swan came up to us, and took a nice interest in our rower.. what's it called.. paddle! Is that it? Anyway. So, it liked that, and kept trying to eat it. And all the while we only had one OAR! It's an oar! Yes? Anyway. Oar. And we were just going in circles, each time getting closer and closer to the side, and a large tree. So, we tried to make it go away, and eventually we succeeded, but then it just came around the other side of our boat, and started eating me.

So, our problems weren't solved, I couldn't paddle because this massive swan was eating my coat, and I was terrified. Because I'm silly.

I think after that, even though we'd paid for about half an hour to an hour, we got out early. We couldn't take anymore excitement.

Anyway. I know they're the Queen's animals, and you can't kill them. I didn't!

I just don't go near swans nomore.

Go Ape.

Okat, I keep just posting photies of old times, but I'm hoping James will be back soon, so these days on the computer with lots of old photies are numbered (hopefully.)

So, this one is from last Easter, every year, we go on holiday with another family, who are all incredibly nice.

Last Easter, we went to Yorkshire, near Whitby. It was amazing.

We also went to Go Ape. We all had a go, even my mum, she was terrified, it was incredibly entertaining.

This is just me flying, on a zip wire. (Yes, I am wearing walking boots.)

Anyway :)

Rain.

I also found this photie.
It teaches you a valuable lesson- if you're ever caught in the rain. (This photie was taken in 2008 in Northern Ireland, it's always raining there..)
I know you're taught whenever you are a wee nipper not to put plastic bags on your head, but they make a good shelter.

That is all.

Bridlington.

I went on school wind band tour somewhere really exotic in 2008- Yorkshire.
Ellie and I are going on holiday with my fam to Yorkshire, near here, in the Summer.
It'll be good.

So here's a nice arty photie taken from the beach of the amusement park, it's just genners nice.

Music, lack of it.

Okat, because James has broken, it means I have a distinct lack of iTunes.

I have my iPod, but it's running out of battery, and whatnot, and I have a little speaker for it.

And I have my shoddy CD collection.
I've not got as desperate as to listen to Charlotte Church yet, though, thankfully.

Anyway. I think I'm going mad.

Unproductive.

Okat, well, today has been incredibly unproductive.

I'm dressed and all that, but haven't been outside the house. (It has been snowing all day!)
And I have played the piano for a fair while.

And then the came downstairs, and I think it wanted food. I'd forgotten about the cat.
It's not mine! (My cat ran away in 2006. We didn't get on.)

Anyway.

Sock Thing.

I now remember it's name. Sock Thing apparently for everyone else is a really easy name to remember. For me, however, it's ridiculous. Socky? Just, variations on it.

Anyway. Sock thing is a sock. And if you put your hand in said sock, 'it talks'. And it has buttons for eyes.
Sock Thing, I think, is originally from Kipper (an amazing program from the good old days).

That is all.

Morning

I have absolutely no idea of what to do today.
I have the house to myself.
And it's snowing. :)
I have around about 7 hours (and that sounded like roundabout) to do something really productive.
You know what, I'll just probably spend those 7 hours doing absolutely nothing.
Maybe a spot of blogging.

Farewell :)

Shelly.

Just an arty photie.
Of some shells all the way from Wales that Ellie collected.
How lovely. :)

Fossily.

The day I found a knitted ammonite in a shop on holiday, and then gave it to Ellie, was amazing.

Fossily is a he, and he is incredibly casual. He also likes listening to Mystery Jets on my iPod.

Twitchy, Cafe Nero.

Twitchy. That mouse thing, from Bagpuss. I was just casually chatting to Ellie, and then placed said mousey in her shirt. She didn't notice. It was brilliant.

Yesterday, just for japes, we met up with some other people who were supposed to be doing exams and school, and went to Cafe Nero for a nice hot chocolate. (Twitchy came too.) It was lovely.

Al (& Betty), Biology Times

In Biology a couple of months ago, we did plant cuttings. Ellie and I did an Aloe Vera, called Al, and a geranium, called Betty. The geranium failed, it died, and was a bit of a letdown.

But, Al, however, didn't fail.. when we first made him, he was a wee nipper, but now, he is nice and happy at Ellie's house. Ellie keeps him because she doesn't trust me with plants, as she heard the story about me killing my cacti.

We can't have everything.

Face Painting Japes

On Sunday, Ellie and I went over to Alex's, with some face paint. It may or may not have been out of date. But we can't have everything.
So, we were just chatting, and then we got the face paint out, and just wondered what to do with it..

The obvious solution was to paint each others faces with the face paint.

So, we did.
We ended up using pretty much all of the face paint.

The black/navy paint did not wash off, as such. So, we all had suspicious navy eyebrows, chins, general faces.

We took several pictures, none of them seemed to want to focus on the japer on the left's face. You probably get the gist.
(Who are the japers with the painted faces? I don't know..)

Good parenting.

Because I have been at Ellie's house for the past 2 days, I've witnessed amazing parenting skills.

I have never had my bed tucked in all the way round so I don't fall out..
The first thing I did when I got home was to tuck my bed in all nicely.
It was amazing.

5 day weekend.

Okat.. Because of not being able to go to school yesterday, because of snow, and because today and tomorrow are exam leave, I have a 5 day weekend. I'm not complaining.. :)

Although, I probably should start going to school sometime soon because my grammar is slipping. How exciting.

Ponies

Just before I start with the lovely photies from the weekend, I found this..
I'm on my mum's computer, and I hardly ever am, so I don't get the joys of finding such beautiful photies.

This one is of me at Rachel's pony party in 2007/8, when I had a white pony, and it wouldn't do anything I asked it to do. I very almost crashed it into the instructors car.

That is all. :)

Snowy snow snow

This is a nice photie of just outside the door, of a tree (one I have never noticed before) covered in snow, and icicles.. an icicle tree, if you will.

I just thought it was rather arty. :)

So, I am home now, after a lovely long weekend with my good friend Ellie.

We were on the way home around lunchtime today, when we got stuck in a snowdrift on the road, and I had to get out and push the car, and then the car got going and drove off.
I managed to get back in eventually, my mum said she couldn't stop. I think that was my excersise for the day.

We also went to Focus. It was a very exciting shop, we listened to the Kooks, it was pretty much deserted, we shopped for paint, and looked at lights, and bathrooms, and sinks, and whatnot.

Fun times. :)

James is dead.

Again.
I got home from a lovely weekend, to find that Sister had been on my laptop, James, and killed him. All he needed was some TLC! So, we're back to the beginning again on the laptop side of things.

Sad times.

Favourites.

You know you are incredibly bored when you start organising your favourite links.

I love Green Wing.

That is all. :)

Solitaire.

When I was little, my fam got me a game called solitaire. But it's not the one that annoys me so much on the computer.
It's a different, more exotic and exciting type. (See picture). You know all of those little holes? Well, it comes with marbles.. and you put the marbles on the holes. And Then you play a sort of leapfrog over the marbles into a vacant space.. I'm not explaining it very well. But, if I can find it, I will play it with you sometime. Marbles aren't an issue, I've found them again.

Clicking

Don't you hate it when you start clicking at something on your screen to make it go away, and then realise it is on your computer.. like a piece of dust.. or a spider.. or some chocolate, or anything.

It's so annoying.

Anyway

Holidays!

This year is going to be great.

Apart from the whole GCSE thing, obviously. But even that has upsides.. exam leave? Half days? (Admittedly, they will be for revision. But we can't have everything.)

Especially the Fab Five holiday.. if that happens. Which I hope it does.
And, Ellie coming on holiday with my fam and me.
Ooh, also Hungary with Orchestraa.
And Y-Not.

Yeaah!

Post-its.

I wonder what it was. :)

http://foundmagazine.com/

This is just a post about postits.

I remember when me, and my room were 'Romeltotted', we do not speak of these times. I think about 250 postits were casually placed around my room when I was asleep.

And post-its are so handy. The person who invented them must have been amazing. I mean, thinking of paper, with a sticky back! So damn handy!

That is all.

(Y) I also have thumbs up post its. Which double up as thumbs down postits. How handy!

More MLIA.

"Today my friend sent me a text saying 'What does IDK mean?' I texted her back saying 'I don't know'. Two minutes later, I got a text back, saying 'OMG nobody knows!' MLIA."

"Today in the middle of Spanish class, a girls bah started making a loud noise. Thinking it was a phone, my teacher asked to have it. She dug through her bag, and handed him a singing pickle. MLIA"

"Today, to help myself conserve money, I folded all of my cash into origami t-shirts so I wouldn't want to spend them. MLIA"

http://www.mylifeisaverage.com

Good times.

It is 1.55pm. And a Saturday.
My whole fam are at home.
And we're all not dressed yet.
And my dad is playing on the Wii, pretending to be a chicken.
As you do.

Hat of the Day

Okat, I know I didn't have a hat of the day yesterday.. I hope this makes up for it.

And, I admit, I don't exactly know what type of hat this is.
But we can't have everything.

(Hannah Murray, played Cassie in Series 1 & 2 Skins)

http://community.livejournal.com/skinsfans/796024.html

Ice Cream

I have just had some ice cream.
It was good.
I know it's winter :)

That is all :D

Jigsaws

Jigsaws = amazing.

You always think they are such a good idea when you first start.. you find the corners.. then the edges.. and for us, you then separate them into terracotta, grass, and general green.

But a slight issue was that we started said 1000 piece jigsaw at 11pm, and stated that we would not go to bed until it was finished.

We gave up at 2.30am.

After doing that much (top picture.)

Mission failed.
Jigsaw, abolished. Back in the cupboard, forever.

Anyway.

Broccoli.

Flora

I knew that from a young age, I was an artist..

This is a drawing I found that I did in 2000..
:D