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Monday, May 14th, 2012
12:00 am	Noughts and Crosses Series - Malorie Blackman I remember that this series of novels was extremely popular when I was in high school, but for some reason or other I just never got around to reading them until now. The purchase of this series was a classic case of my “Well I’ll probably love them so I’ll just buy the whole lot at once” behavior, therefore as part of my new project to read all of the books on my shelf I had to read all 4. The first book is definitely the best – although also the most traumatizing. Basically a classic Romeo and Juliet style story but with commentary on racial hatred set in an alternate reality where being Black means you have a higher social economic status than if you are white. It approaches issues about racism starting with the issues people faced into the 50s right up until now, and I honestly believe the writing is incredible. The second 2 books are still pretty good, and very compelling. These 2 focus less on romance (thank god) and more on family values, and are basically a commentary on, the best term I can come up with is ‘sneaky racism’ when people try not to be racist but don’t realize that they still are. I am of course guilty of many of the accusations made in these books, and I love that I was able to learn from them and see what the world looks like when you’re not treated fairly. So all in all books 1-3, although completely traumatizing and stressful, were compelling, educational and beautifully written. Book 4. I just couldn’t finish it. I read the first 3 in 3 days. Boom boom boom. I thought “Wow! I’m getting through these so fast I’ll be finished in a week!” But book 4… agony. Where the first 3 novels were an interesting commentary on racism book  4 was a not so interesting commentary on TEENAGED ANGST. It might have got better as I got into it, but I instead chose to read a summary on Wikipedia, and now I just don’t care enough to go back and finish it. So my review is ‘blah blah blah who cares’ and let’s just leave it at that. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
7:26 pm	Evernight Series - Claudia Gray Out of all of the trashy young adult novels this is by far the least painful to read, which is probably the best compliment I can give it; it is, after all, a young adult vampire romance series. The Evernight series is a collection of 4 novels about LF Bianca Olivier and LM Lucas Ross. In an unexpected twist the characters are Vamp!LF and VampHunter!LM, set in a school designed for vampires to reassimilate to human life, which has surprisingly and inexplicably started allowing human students to attend. Another clever twist is the mythology surrounding vampires and ghosts in this series. The simplified version being that supposedly millennia ago, a man died who didn’t want to and through magic managed to separate death into it’s 2 forms Body and Spirit, the body became the first vampire and the spirit the first ghost (or in this series “wraith”). The vampires and the wraiths have been mortal enemies ever since, not for any particular reason, it just sort of happened that way, BUT Bianca’s parents wanted to have a child and so created one by mixing wraith magic with the creation of their child and so gave birth to LF vampire/wraith cross who appeared for all intents and purposes a human except for her occasional need to drink blood. All of these plot devices allowed for a relatively interesting read, at least in comparison to most YA Vampire Romance novels, but not by much. I remember when I read the first novel in the series I thought it was a one off, I got to the end and thought ‘wow, that was interesting and very satisfying I have no need to discover any more of their adventures because the situation is essentially resolv *turns page <THE NEXT NOVEL IN THE EVERNIGHT SERIES IS RELEASED MAY!!!> sigh*’ Yes, tragically it had been hit by the YA curse. It is of course now fashionable for all young adult stories to be released as a series of 400 page books, how do the publishers achieve this? They take a half decent idea and request that the author stretch it out, past endurability, to cover at least 500 pages, then they inflate the font, double the line gap size and then sell it to us gullable youngsters for 5 times the price it’s worth. Really, I should have seen it coming… At the end of the day, this story is completely ridiculous, ghosts and vampires and humans and vampire hunters all running around hating eachother and attacking eachother and holding on to ancient prejudices, it gets a little tedious, but the latest and last novel at least goes some way towards saying “You know, we’re all different, but couldn’t we all get along?” which is a nice sentiment to end on, so I would say if you’re into trash then this series is worth a read, but if you’re not into trash then… well this is still trash and you’re not going to like it. (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 29th, 2012
1:40 am	Crescendo (Hush, Hush Series)– Becca Fitzpatrick Disclaimer: It's currently 1:30 in the morning and I found that while writing this I wasn't 100% sure what was going on between the words in my head and the words appearing on the screen, so I may wake tomorrow and find that this is all just an incoherent mess, but on the off chance it's a half decent blog, I hope you enjoy.  Apparently ‘Fallen Angels’ are the new ‘Vampires’, but not really because as far as I know there’s only 3 fallen angel books, and besides, around the time that Fallen Angels came into fashion the Hunger Games was released and everyone went ‘Dystopia’. This should be some indication, therefore, at what point in my life I purchased this book - actually to clarify I bought ‘Hush, Hush’, which is the first book - some time before I read Hunger Games(and found out what good YA fiction is like). I then snapped up Crescendo from the book store the second it was released because I had some vague (and in hindsight, misguided) recollection that I’d enjoyed Hush Hush. I’ll review Hush, Hush first, so you have some idea what Crescendo is about, but seeing as I read it a while ago I can’t promise much in the way of accuracy. I purchased Hush, Hush around the same time as ‘Fallen’ (by Lauren Kate) because fallen angels were all in fashion and I was still at the height of my YA craze, I read ‘Fallen’ first, and hated it (see previous review) and directly followed it up with ‘Hush, Hush’. The plots of the 2 stories are essentially identical, LM treats LF like crap, and LF swans around feeling sorry for herself and falling somehow inexplicably tragically in love with LM. According to a series of complex rituals that I didn’t care enough about to try to understand LM was actually genuinely planning to kill (*ahem* “Sacrifice”) LF in order to become human (or something) but changes his mind last minute because he’s fallen inexplicably tragically in love with her, and at some point she sacrifices herself for him instead and it all gets very confusing but he comes out as a ‘Guardian Angel’ instead of a ‘Fallen Angel’ and gets assigned to her. Hooray! Now they can spend every minute together being in love! Or something. Next comes Crescendo. I remember reading somewhere that Hush, Hush wasn’t intended to have a sequel, so this is a brand new story on it’s own. Unfortunately this means a whole heap of plot devices need to be pulled out of no where and then shoehorned into the story via crappy exposition. The plot device was as follows, Guardian Angels are not allowed to fall in love with their people, so when she DECLARES HER LOVE to him and he says nothing, she throws a hissy fit and starts this teenage revenge drama that goes on for 450 pages. In and around this agonizing teenage angst is a plot surrounding the murder of LF ‘s father, now this part of the story is actually mildly interesting; I do love a good murder mystery after all, and the suspects are all various types of fallen angel, angel vessels and guardian angels, so the main character has no idea who to trust. Annoyingly any reader with half a brain knows exactly who to trust and who the murderer is and what all the other character’s motives and intentions are around 200 pages in, the main character is still fumbling around, making immature and terrifying mistakes for the next 200, while we have to sit back and wait for her to figure it out. *Sigh*. However, this is not actually my main issue with this book, all in all it could have been a tolerable read, if it weren’t for the fact that LF, in this book her name is Nora Grey, is a genuinely terrible person. So completely self-centred she can’t be bothered taking the time to figure out what is going on around her, instead she’d rather just angst about how it’s all so bad for her, AND the book is in first person from her perspective, so it feels like you’re trapped inside her head listening to this incessant monotonous agonizing about why people are being so mean to her. “My boyfriend isn’t texting me!” he’s an angel, he’s busy being on the front lines for God, “My friend can’t drive me home!” you instructed her to drive into a ditch, against her better judgment, until a rock pierced her tyres. SPOILER ALERT (not that you guys care but whatever) – at the end her boyfriend get’s OMG captured by the guy she just found out is her biological father and the father of the bitch girl from school that she hates (who I love) DUN DUN DUN, but I was so relieved I’d finished the book that I just couldn’t summon the will to care. Needless to say, when the sequel is released I’d like to think I will actually have the self control to not buy it. The End. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 23rd, 2012
2:51 am	Midnight rant about the Anti-Fanfiction craze I came across this article, http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/68332629.html, today, thanks to my brain being loud and uncooperative when I was planning on sleeping and deciding to go trawling through the internet instead. As a result my brain was then restarted in rant mode again. Now usually in these situations I would log into Yahoo! Messenger and hope my good rant buddy GG was online, she was, but she had to dash and said “Please leave a rant in my offline messages, I can’t wait to read it when I get back”. Unfortunately I’d pretty much made most of the comments I wanted to make, but then I figured seeing I was back on this blogging wagon, why don’t I write a blog to express my feelings about the attached article? (In all honesty, I just want to practice my writing of my ranting) 1. I do understand at some points where the authors are coming from, a common theme to their arguments is that their characters and their world exist in their mind and they feel weird when other people come along and mess with it. It was going to be part of my rant that, to quote a commenter on this very article, “If you want to remain the undisputed king of your sandbox, then don't publish it for mass consumption.” -imnotasquirrel But I can’t help thinking, in hindsight, that maybe if I had built a world in my imagination, and it was where I escaped to when I was feeling bad, and then someone came along and then reinterpreted it with bad spelling, and with terrible plots then I’d feel a little queasy. At the same time, however, the truth is that if you write a story that can honestly move people and really make them think, then your readers are going to daydream about the world you’ve built and the characters that are wandering around having interesting adventures and they’re going to ask themselves “Is character A really in love with character B? What if they were trapped in a cave together over night? What if one of them died unexpectedly?” and they’re going to sit down at their computers and write out their little wonderings and share them with the world, sometimes as comments and sometimes as full blown scenarios. That’s what the internet is for. Sharing. So to that one argument my response is this: I’m sorry that you feel that way, but you’re really going to have to learn to get over it. 2. The second argument that comes up a lot in this article is that the characters are ‘copyrighted’ and therefore no one is allowed to touch them. From what I know according to copyright laws, this means that 50years after the author dies you can pretty much do whatever you like. At this point I’m almost speechless, but not speechless enough to stop ranting. What the crap? Either they’re saying: a) You’re not allowed to even talk about my characters with other fans, because they’re MINE. Or they’re saying b) If you write about my characters people will read YOUR fiction instead of mine, and then I won’t be able to make money off of it. Let’s take another look at comment a, which I’ve mostly discussed in point one, but I feel needs to be expanded on a little here. At what point IS it acceptable to them for other people to be pondering the intentions and actions of the characters they have created, and to wonder about the past and future of the worlds they have built? Do they mind people on forum’s writing a paragraph or two of analysis of a theory? Do they a comment on a page of an in character quote a fan has created on the author’s behalf? According to this argument the above items probably are forbidden, but this is completely ridiculous, because the most fun about reading is sharing it with other people who liked it as much as you did and discussing WHY! And comment b, I don’t think I need to expand on how insane this point sounds to me, because it circles back to what is making me the most angry about the whole anti-fanfiction craze: The people who adore your work, who really care about it, and are genuinely inspired by it are the people who are writing these works. You know what? They’re not even taking it that seriously, they know they aren’t the original authors and they know it’s not going to replace your work as a superior version of the people and events you have created. Mostly all this work is, is a love letter to you and your story, and to have you turn around like a smart arse little school kid, snatch it out of their hands and say “No! It’s MINE!” is SO INSULTING I could reach through my computer screen and slap you in the goddamn face. That’s what this rant is all about. (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
8:07 pm	Strange Angels - Lili St Crow Mini Side-Note: On the ‘cheating’ update I also got rid of the ‘Circle of Nine’ book that I promised myself I’d read. I purchased this novel the first time I visited Australia while I was living in England, which would make me about 13 years old. The novel is a fantasy written for adults, and at the time I was still struggling with fiction at a YA level, so it was hard work. I managed to get about halfway through before giving up. The problem is I had selectively ignored everything I didn’t understand (which was most of it) and only remembered the creepy sex/soul sucking scene 10 pages before I decided it was too much for me. 2 years ago I went into one of those “Books only $5!” stores, where all the books are only $5 because they’re bloody awful. This book was one of them, so on the night that I gave up on Lauren Kate and threw it into the “I don’t care what I promised myself” pile I took one look at “Circle of Nine” and thought, well…. It’s only worth $5, and threw it in too. Now on to the review of Strange Angels by Lili St Crow I bought this series, again, during my YA binge approximately 3 years ago. It’s not one of the worst ones I bought, but clearly it’s not one of the best, because it’s in my Read-It-Then-Throw-It-Away pile. Being a series I only ever planned on reading once, it is difficult to remember exactly what happened in this series, but I’ll give it a shot. The over all feel to the novel is a bit of a Supernatural/Twilight fusion. Dru Anderson is basically the Winchester Brothers, except a girl who complains about how perfect her hair is at least once a page, she and her father move from town to town killing vamps until one day she’s home alone and her father knocks on the back door and OMG he’s turned into a zombie, it’s all very upsetting. She meets a boy who turns into a werewolf. Sorry ‘loup-garou’ because werewulfen are something completely different (omgwhocares), his name’s Graves and he lives in the Mall because he’s run away from his adoptive family and he’s totally a goth and like has epic black hair and black converse and EVERYTHING (sigh). Then this sexy vampire guy shows up, his name is Christophe (I’m not going to lie, I totally fell in love with him) and he’s centuries old and knows what’s going on all the time and never tells the main character and it’s all in first person so of course we never get to find out we just get to hear her constant angsting about being beautiful and half vampire and physically able to look after herself and having super powers and EVERY BOY EVER being totally in love with her. I really shouldn’t have been surprised. Blah blah blah, 5 books later they kill the bad guy and we finally get to find out if she picks ‘Goth Boy’ (that’s actually what she calls him, I’m not kidding) or sexy vampire boy. I’m going to spoil it at this point because you guys aren’t going to read it: She picks neither! And ripping off yet another pop culture icon she decided she needs to wait until she’s ready before she can pick one. To clarify, I’m referencing the moment where in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 7 that she explains to Angel that she’s cookie dough and until she’s cookies she can’t decide who her romantic partner is going to be. Except when Buffy did it it was CUTE and she also was talking about COOKIES. So to cut a long review short. This novel COULD have been worse, but I’d be a happy camper if it was a whole lot better. Dru wasn’t the most anti-feminist character I’ve come across in YA fiction, but by being an annoying whiny ‘non-conformist’ she was still in no way likeable or interesting. (Comment on this)
7:48 pm	Lauren Kate - Fallen I cheated. I’d say I’m not proud, but that would be lying, sort of… So you know how I said I would complete the Lauren Kate series? What this actually meant was that I would complete it up to the books I’d already bought, luckily, it was only the first 2. The problem is I hated the first one, so why did I buy the second one? I HAVE NO IDEA!!! Anyway, on my list of books that I had to read this one was going to be the toughest. The title is, hilariously, ‘Torment’. And it really is painful to get through. Painful to get through the first 2 pages. Which is as far as I got. Before I threw the book into the ‘Op Shop’ pile. Here’s the story of how I started reading it: I purchased the first novel “Fallen” around the time I was binging heavily on young adult fiction. Now I know what you thinking “You’re always binging on Young Adult fiction” but trust me, according to my bank statements, this is not technically true. I was binging on YA mostly between 2008 – 2009, anything purchased AFTER this was mostly sequels that I thought I would enjoy, because, hey, I read the first one didn’t I? I don’t remember much about Fallen, but I’ll try to say as much as I can to convince you all just how much I regret paying approximately $20 for it. You know how everyone hates Twilight? And you know how all the reasons are along the lines of, Bella is a terrible character and is reversing the positive effects of feminism in just under 1000 pages? This book makes Twilight look like the sequel to the suffragette movement. Where Edward is, when you look a little more closely, actually kind of abusive and creepy, the lead male (LM) in this was openly awful to the lead female (LF). She actively despised him, at least I hope so, it could just as easily been me projecting on to the 2 dimensional waif that the story was about. Somehow, somewhere near the end of the tale she figures out she’s his long lost soul mate from hundreds of previous, repeated lifetimes. All is forgiven, and she falls into her arms and lets him take care of her and do everything for her, because she’s basically incapable of doing it all for herself. Oh yeah and the point of the story is that he’s a fallen angel, or whatever. "FALLEN is intensely addictive 4 book series about fallen angels and forbidden love written by Lauren Kate. Soon to be made into a Disney movie." - From the book's own website. LOL. Also according to Goodreads this book has been put on the "Books to use as weapons" shelf. I like that. (Comment on this)
7:24 pm	Moving House. Again. So most of you know by now that I’ve moved out of my parents’ place. It did of course occur almost 3 months ago and therefore a blog is LONG overdue, but just because it’s overdue doesn’t mean I shouldn’t write one at all, does it? So here’s  a quick summary of how it came about: I came home from the beautiful Farncombe, Surrey, which I miss like a long lost sibling. I got a job at Wipro ( I don’t want to talk about it anymore than that) And Sigourney, her housemate Bess and I started looking for a 3 bedroom house somewhere around Melbourne close to the University (where Sig and Bess both study) and close to public transport so I could get to work. The competition was tough, with a capital OUGH but we did some slight stretching of the truth and got ourselves a dream town house in North Melbourne, I like to say ‘on Errol Street’ because TECHNICALLY it still is, and we moved in in February. I refused to organize some kind of furniture moving company, because they wanted to charge something ludicrous and my lovely Aunty offered to move my bed by strapping it to the roof of my car. Would you believe, it actually worked! The next day I was informed I was being let go from my job and I had about a month left (it’s a little more complicated than that, but this is the short version).  So that was great, at that point I started job hunting, so far no luck. It is now nearly the end of April and I have been unemployed for 3 weeks, and applied for about 10 jobs, been rejected for 3 of them, and still have a handful I need to complete by the end of the week. This, however, is not what this blog is supposed to be about. No, what I wanted to tell you all is about my New Years Resolutions, and how they have panned out for me, so: Get a lovely house in North Melbourne with Sigourney and Bess. Achieved. Don’t buy anymore books, I am only allowed to buy books when I have finished reading the ones I have. Not so achieved. I’ve bought 4. That’s 1 a month, BUT I have reformed this resolution into a more efficient and productive one, this is where the summary from above and the NYRs combine. On moving into my delightful North Melbourne house I purchased some furniture, it arrived just after Easter and with the help of my mother we have managed to move all of my things from my parents’ house to my North Melbourne abode. The great thing about all of this has been the process of throwing away (or donating) the things I own that just take up WAY too much space so that they can fit into my new furniture. This includes soft toys that aren’t old, (i.e. purchased when I was a child and therefore have sentimental value), cute or even good quality (and can be passed on to the grandchildren my mother has already started knitting blankets and collecting children’s books for.- I’m not joking). I’m getting closer to the point; I promise. I bought for myself, in my new home, 1 bookshelf. Previously my books were spread across 2 bookshelves AND kept in stacks on the floor. Needless to say they don’t all fit AND I have DVDs and CDs that are yet to have a home. So I have made the commitment to read the books I know I will only read once, so that I can finally donate them all to the op shop. So the point of the blog, now that I have come to it, is to review the books I am reading that are in my collection, and tell you exactly why I shouldn’t have bought them in the first place, or tell you that they were very very good, and could you please now take them off my hands. My list is as follows: Complete the “Strange Angels” series by Lili St. Crow Complete the “Fallen” series by Lauren Kate Read “Circle of Nine” by Josephine Pennicott Finally dispose of the “Obernewtyn Chronicles” by Isobelle Carmody There are of course plenty more, but they are my top of the list Have-To-Go’s. I will update the list as I go, because let’s face it I’ll also be going by “what I feel like” I may or may not also run these blogs along side the book club books we read monthly, watch this space. Thank you for reading my lovelies, It’s great to be back on the blogging wagon, Emily (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 18th, 2008
12:04 am	17 August - Video Blog Hello Everyone, just finished doing a rough (and by rough I mean tidal-wave-type-storm rough) edit of my first ever blog. I have to apologize about audio quality, I'm only using the iMic on my Mac, and it pics up a lot of annoying environmental noise. So I'm going to have to keep an eye on that in the future. Anyway enough rambling. I'm going to post these video blogs on Youtube, I was hoping I'd be able to embed them into LiveJournal, but it looks like for now that's not possible. Anyway I'm actually going to make these blogs private for now because I don't want Joe Public snooping around leaving nasty comments on my blogs for you lovely people, the only thing is that in order to allow you guys to see these blogs I'm going to need your YouTube details so I can add you to my contact list. So start posting details people! Love Ems (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
12:18 am	May 7th - Welcome to my loverly home! Today I'm feeling a great sense of accomplishment and at 4.30 in the morning - sitting in bed, really should be sleeping, I'm feeling very up beat - probably because I'm running on those last drops of euphoric energy that come once you've skipped your sleep gate, particularly euphoric as I have surrounded myself with very loverly music in the last few hours - Panic at the Disco, The Click Five and my musical mummy Tori Amos - without her I would be a PussyCat Dolls fan - and that would be a tragedy. So why am I feeling a sense of accomplishment and happiness today? Probably not for any particular reason - but I will tell you what reasons I have anyway. This morning I got to sleep in. It doesn't seem like much, but it's something I've gone without for quite a long time. I also woke up alone in the house, this may not sound joyful - but it gave me time to think about where I was in that moment - that sounds very arty - it's not meant to, but it's 4.30 in the morning - I can't help it. Oh dear, someone is a hyphen addict, I'm going to have to return to my standard comma love. I'm avoiding talking about my day and reverting to arty talk - where was I up to? Oh yes, thinking about where I was in that moment. I also was thinking 'I don't have to be anywhere at this moment. I can just go where I like. But I had a personal goal for myself - post those letters! I only posted 4 of 16 but we'll ignore that for now. I posted letters that I'd put off for months. And then walked home. It was very relaxing, and it felt like one giant tick - not a blood sucking insect, a big YES. and so for the rest of the day, I've felt a sense of accomplishment. Anyway - then I got home and had some healthy lunch - which is another thing I've been putting off for a while. Usually at TAFE I buy a couple of Dim Sims and that lasts me for the day until dinner - which I usually miss because I have somewhere to be - where only junk food will be available, or I will return to a small cold dinner. Now I'm rambling - I feel like I'm fishing for sympathy - I'm not, I'm just melting, I can feel it, melting into sleep - STAY AWAKE YOU HAVE TO FINISH A BLOG THEN I was online talking to people ( as you do) and Matt said he had to start handing out CVs to try and get a job, and he was putting it off - so I offered to go and boss him around - it worked, he handed out some CVs (he hasn't got a reply yet - but that's not the point) Then what - then we went back to his place to watch Alexander - I forgot how aweful it was - but I did very much appreciate the music - I didn't realise that it was actually so good - and all electronic! My goodness.... Then we watched A Series of Unfortunate Events - turns out I still know most of the lines of by heart - it's a very catchy movie. And now I really want to read the books again, but I have my pile! Ok - so that's about all that happened today - but it was a very good day - ok melting now, melting,,,, very.... tiireeeewrwajr;k Love Ems (Comment on this)
12:17 am	May 5th - A Disco Ball when the Head Lights Move It can get awful lonely in the black - Ok so right now while talking to you I am watching Serenity, yet again, turns out I know it pretty well as I appear to be quoting along with it quite joyfully. Matthew says that I should be working and that I feel guilty about not working - this is not the case. Although I do feel a little guilty about not updating my blog for a while. You know what I've noticed, no one's joined in with my title game! For months! No one tries to guess where the lyrics are from! But then I guess it's only a game that's fun to me. Now I am rambling. Partially because I have my attention split by the attention. Let me tell you about the bear that sits in my bed, it is the loverly bear that Jenny sent me for Christmas. I love him muchly, but as I was saying to Matt, a couple of times I've come out of the shower and found the bear staring at me, one time I freaked out and made him cover his own eyes, so that he wouldn't be staring so aptly. But then I kept thinking 'If the hand falls down now then I will know the bear is alive!!!' Luckily that never happened. However Matt suggests that if it turns out to be a female bear then the staring won't be such a problem. I disagree on the lines that it may be a lesbian pervert bear. OOO! Amazing River Fighting scene!!!!! This is awesome, I;m totally writing the blog by touch typing so that I can watch the River fighting scene at the same time. How cool am I? Anyway, back to the blogness - you need to know what's been going on right? Well I suppose I should start with TAFE - to be honest I don't know where I'm up to with you guys so I'll just talk about the important bits anyway. Well the course has got to the very interesting practical work section. So we have been doing many exciting recordingy things. Today we recorded an interview with a random Music Performance student. It lasted about 16 minutes and we edited it down to 6 in Pro-tools. It was awesome. Go Groupbies! Woot! Am I talking to Miranda now? Sorry, quoting favourite Serenity lines as I watch it. The Memory - it isn't mine and I shouldn't have to carry it Again, sorry. I'm thinking I'm getting better at this driving thing. Which is quite exciting, seeing as I'm going to have to go on some scary roads to pick the girls up from the station. Hey, talking about blogs and the girls - some of you will soon be getting about 3 blogs all about the same day from 3 different perspectives! Jenny and Kimmy have theirs, and then there's mine! Weeeeird. Oh yeah - did I tell you guys about my addiction? It turns out I'm buying more and more CDs per week from work - so far I've bought 10 in the last 2 weeks. My excuse is 2 of them are birthday presents, but the other 8 were pure self-indulgence: 1. Abbey Road - The Beatles 2. H.A.A.R.P. - Muse 3. How to Save a Life - The Fray 4. Life in Cartoon Motion - Mika 5. Rattlin' Bones - Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson 6. Hot Fuss - The Killers 7. Santi - The Academy Is... 8. Modern Minds and Pastimes - The Click Five Number 8 is my current personal favourite - hence the title - it is a new Click Five lyric (let's face it - it isn't a game anymore) Number 7 is because I'm going to see them when I see Panic at the Disco - the Academy Is... is the support act. Number 6 is to make up for the fact that I never bought it before. Number 5 I saw at the Corner Bar, so naturally I had to buy the album Number 4 and 3 I have wanted for a very long time - not to an obsessive extent, but they're nice to have around. Number 2 - Duh Number 1 - To add to my small but now ever growing Beatles collection - hoorah! Ok - the movie's getting so awesome I think that it is time that I sign off on this averagely lengthed blog. So I shall wish you all luck with your futures until I see you again. Love you all! Emily (Comment on this)
12:17 am	April 26th - The Devil's Inside My Head Find the artist! And then listen - because most of you probably don't listen to this genre and it's something interesting and new to try. Anyways - my fans have been calling and so, pestered blog writing artist that I am, I thought I must give them their fix before they start eating my good writing arm. Just kidding! Wow that was really mean..., don't blame me :( Bad day at work. I'd complain about the psycho customers but there were hundreds of them, and they all bleed into one and really, you just should have been there - it was insane. I thought I'd let you guys know about my super awesome new necklace that Ash bought me as a super early awesome birthday present - a replica of Anyanka's necklace from S3 Buffy the Vampire Slayer :D :D :D :D Mine was in a red box - but apart from that that's what it looks like - super awesome, ya! *Nods head enthusiastically* Also on Wednesday we had a recording of a band called Rainbird (I've given you a link to their MySpace there - just so you know, the songs we recorded aren't on it yet *glares*. But it was quite exciting - and I totally didn't freak out that I didn't know what I was doing - which was pretty awesome - and the teacher was an amazing help. And we had monkeys (other people in the class not doing anything that day) to go fetch food from the canteen for us :P (that was the best bit). Ummm - I think that's all for now - sadly - unless, did I tell you about my new obsession (MNOs as I used to call them). It's a TV show called Queer as Folk (the American version, not the UK version <Le gasp, blasphemer, it cannot be>) And it's AWESOME! Brian and Justin 4 eva111! w00t!!11111 Ok now I will go because I'm really tired and I have work tomorrow again :( and I'm not making much self (you see! self? I meant to write sense) even to my self at the moment (A/N - see before for example) so I can't begin to imagine what you're reading. On that note (literally - because it's a note, like a facebook no-, you get it...' Gnight Love you all! Mwa! Emsee Pies (Comment on this)
12:16 am	April 14 - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Ok so that title's an easy one, but really is appropriate for the wonderful tail I am about to tell you. Now I know what you're thinking: tail? She has made a homophonal mix-up? That's not very Emily at all, ah but you see it is because I was wittily using a pun to start of a story about today that I think you will much enjoy. First a picture: *runs off to put batteries in camera and take picture then load it onto computer then insert it into blog* This is my new mouse - Name? A tail if ever I heard one: Lucy: Now recently - I may or may not have told you - I decided to update my Beatles collection, why? - Because it was non-existent. Needless to say I am sooo glad that I did because the Beatles are awesome. I bought 2 classic albums to get me started: the White Album and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Favourite song - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Therefore, obviously first name of mouse = Lucy. Lorelai Lane: But then I was at home, and I decided to watch the Gilmore Girls - because I bought the entire set for $150, therefore I might as well watch the Gilmore Girls, right? and I thought - why did I forget to name the mouse after a GG character? Therefore Lorelai (after the 2 main characters - mother and daughter both named Lorelai) Lorelai and Rory (short for Lorelai) Gilmore But then I thought, but my favourite character is Lane! So therefore I added the Lane. Lane Kim - Rock and Roll chick! Yeah! Lois Lana: But then the multitude of Ls and the 'Lane' made me think of Smallville so I added Lois and Lana - obviously Lily: But then I thought - I have so many references! And not one of them is a Harry Potter reference! So what's a Potter name that starts with L? Finally - very finally: I named a plant after Gerard Way And I named my iPod after Tom Chaplin Finally there needed to be something named after someone from Panic at the Disco - so the Mouse's last name is Ross. Lucy Lorelai Lane Lois Lana Lily Ross That is all Love Emily (Comment on this)
12:16 am	April 9 - Things are shaping up to be Pretty. Odd. Ok, so I procrastinate, big deal, you guys are probably all doing it too, right? Also write now as I right ( :p see what I did there?) I'm being distracted by the bobbing and waving icon that is iChat (aka GoogleTalk on a Mac) saying 'Talk to me, Emily' by various lovely friends who are also wanting to read this blog. So before I start I'm going to write a list of stuff I'm going to write about so that when I get distracted I can come back to the blog and remember what the next paragraph is going to be about. AN - This list may be very very long 1. Panic At The Disco (duh) 2. Music in general - Australian Music for my lovely British Friends 3. Global Warming 4. Books I am reading 5. Weekend with Aunty 6. Television (I don't have a life remember?) 7. My Bedroom 8. My House 9. My love life (just kidding, I seriously don't have one) 9 (The actual one). Potatoes (No I'm not kidding) 10. My Hand - a tragic tale of Work Related Injury 11. Pictures I've taken for you lovely people but have spent 4 months avoiding loading onto Facebook. I think that'll do, it looks like it's shaping up to be quite a juicy blog Chapter 1 - Panic at the Disco Well you may have noticed I strategically (or perhaps not so strategically) managed to place their album name into the title of the blog here. It's not really all that strategic because I also managed to place an entire lyric into the blog title, I just changed the punctuation to suite the album title that is the new masterpiece 'Pretty. Odd.' by Panic at the Disco (now sans '!'). And as NME says, they still like to play with their punctuation, it's true. I have of course spent the last couple of weeks since it came out listening to it because it is so utterly awesome and recently the tickets went on sale for their show at Rod Laver Arena in August. Omg, I am so excited, thankfully I got Sigourney hooked, and due to some lucky circumstances her dad had access to the Pre-Sale tickets, so now we've got some pretty awesome seats (Unless it's standing, in which case we have some pretty awesome standing) unfortunately she was only able to get 2 and I'd asked her to buy 4 and she bought the other 2 from another section in the Arena, so basically I now have to break it to a friend from work that I unfortunately will not be able to sit with her. But I'm sure she'll be fine... hopefully :S Chapter 1.5 - I realise this isn't on the list but - Keane I love Keane, and I am uber excited about their new album they're recording. Keane fans check out their site www.keanemusic.com it's so odd, and so cool at the moment... ...Woah, snap out of it Ems, just had a Keane moment and somehow ended up on that site I mentioned...not sure how I got there so quick.... ...but I'm back now...so, Chapter number 2? Chapter 2 - Music in general and Australian music for my lovely British friends Look out for Little Red - for those of you who like the Feeling and/or Kaiser Chiefs they are the band for you. I think I might go see them at the corner hotel in a couple of weeks and on the topic of the corner hotel tonight that's exactly where I was, basically at HMV we were offered free tickets to see Kasey Chambers - apparently a country singer - and who am I to turn down free music? legal even - anyway, my boss and another colleague went with their friends and I went by myself (I know, I'm a loner) I pretty much sidled away from them when the music started because I didn't really fit in. The music was quite good - although I'd say the singer's voice was a little grating at times - but enough anal retentiveness about sound. I rather enjoyed listening to live music by myself, it's a lot like watching a movie at the cinema by yourself - people who have done that would understand. It's kind of nice to not have the influence of the audience around you. Blah blah blah Chapter 3 - Global Warming So my family have finally decided we're going to try to make a difference to the environment and I must say, I think we're doing a pretty good job. We've changed all our cosmetics to the environmental brands - as faux hippy as that sounds but whatever - I love the taste of the weird citrus flavoured toothpaste, it's lemony and sea salty (because that's what's in it) and I'm getting a teensy bit addicted to the flavour, I'll admit - being as vane as I am, I was a little bit worried when it came to hair products, and although I didn't have much luck with the Avocado flavoured conditioner, I've done well with the sea kelp, I do miss the silicon that's in standard conditioners, but apparently it kills plant life and as it goes into the water system that pretty much means I won't be using it anymore. I'm just gonna slot Chapter 8 in here instead - My House My parents have been busy insulating it because it turns out the insulation on this house is... to put it simply... shit. But at the moment we've managed to keep really good control over the temperature of the house without having to resort to central heating/air conditioning, so that's pretty awesome. Flitting quickly back to Chapter 3 Did anyone participate in Earth Hour? I did my best but unfortunately I went to a friend's house and their family was all 'Oh it won't make an effect because loads of other people won't bother - so we won't bother' and that pissed me off... a lot, but obviously I wasn't rude when I implied they were full of crap, just kidding, I didn't put it like that :P But yeah - it was an interesting experiment I hear. Chapter 4 - Books I'm reading So recently my brother bought '1001 Books to Read Before You Die', it turns out I've read 4 of them and considering the crap I read (I'm very honest with myself about these things) I think I'm doing rather well, especially considering only 1 of those was a school book (I've read Pride and Prejudice, Memoirs of a Geisha, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Catcher in the Rye from the list). So after flicking through the book I got the inspiration to finally get cracking on some classics so that I can seem like a slightly more pompous type of person, should the occasion arise that I need to sound pompous of course, and I am currently reading 'The Picture of Dorian Grey' not much to say on it as yet because I've only got half way, but so far so good. I also recently read 'The Chrysalids' by John Wyndham which I strongly recommend to people interested in Religion and/or Genetics. It's only short and it's completely awesome - what more could you want? Aside from all that there's a pile next to my bed (and by a pile I mean a scattering around the side of it) of books that I need to read soon, and I'll admit none of them are one the 1001 books list. In fact - as per usual Emily style they are all books for 12 - 16 year olds. And it is my firm belief that 18 still counts in that category, so... whatever! :P Besides it's Harry Potter, Alex Rider and Artemis Fowl (actually Eoin Colfer but that's just splitting hairs) the classic 3, so it's allowed. Also 'Northern Lights' is in the pile because I still haven't got around to reading it. Anyway enough about books but I have some quick notes to add to the end of this chapter before moving on. 1. Many of you may already know this but 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' the movie, will in fact be 2 movies. 2. The Hobbit is finally being made into a movie. Chapter 5 - Weekend with Aunty Last week I drove myself and my mum and brother down to the Great Ocean Road to visit my Aunty, not much to say about the drive except I had to take the Ring Road and... omg... AAAAHHHH I had a lot of fun messing around on Cubase with my Aunty's boyfriend, he'd recently acquired a drum machine and was got everyone to make a track of random banging and then played them all together... it was pretty awesome, I should see if I can get him to burn it and then I can load it somehow onto here, or maybe onto Myspace. I mean if I've got Myspace sitting around I may as well put music on it, right? What else happens? Me wonders... hmmm, not much, there was mostly just a lot of hanging out - so onto chapter... Chapter 6 - Television Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles - OMG Summer Glau is so totally awesome, I'm so sad the series is ending. Skins - for some stupid reason I thought the series had ended and I missed 3 episodes, so I've managed to pretty much catch up today (awesome) Kath and Kim - I bought the DVDs 5 months ago, and decided the other day that I really should get around to actually, you know, watching them. Supernatural - drool, who cares about the plot? Just kidding, it's nice to finally have another Sci-Fi/Fantasy show to obsess about, since all of Joss Whedon's stuff's been cancelled. Also a lot of awesome ex-Whedon actors/actresses appeared in Supernatural and as an obsessive fan it was just nice to see how they're doing outside the Buffy/Angelverse. That's about it I think... Chapter 7 - My Bedroom So I have some exciting events coming up for me - the ever so loverly Jenny, Kim and Anna are coming to visit me, special ME in Australia which means I have to get started actually finishing my bedroom - so far... nothing's happened - And my room keeps getting filled with furniture and books and CDs that have no where to go, while the spare room I'm sleeping in is still filled with boxes I've yet to unpack because really I have no where to put the stuff so what's the point.... So chapter 7 was pretty pointless I gues... Chapter 9 - Potatoes Yes that's right, potatoes. I'm fairly sure I've already mentioned the potato patch so I'll just fill you in on the progress, basically it rained LOADS the other week (I know, in Australia? Freaky!) and it made the soil just soft enough that my mum finished hacking it up and we've filled it with compost and covered it with mulch and it looks awesome, so next we've gotta get hold of some potato seeds/plants and plant them. Chapter 10 - My Hand, a tragic tale of work related injury :( It wasn't that tragic, to be honest it was kind of awesome, I got a break from work - albeit one where my hand hurt - and I got to where a bandage so everyone asked 'aww, what happened to your hand?' That was cool. You're probably wondering now 'So, how did it happen?' and to be honest I've told so many people and it's so boring I just won't tell you and then your curiosity will be much more amusing. Chapter 11 - I'll probably actually put those pictures into a Facebook album, but on the topic of pictures - Here's a few sites I got from the stumble button on Firefox that I think you guys would be interested in: Scott Wade's Dirty Car Art Gallery Mark Jenkins Street Installations And finally - pictures of Graffiti from all over the world - my personal favourite Well I think that's all folks - I'm sooo tired, and I think I've completely forgotten where I am and what I'm doing. love you all! (Comment on this)
12:15 am	March 21 - "I never gave a damn about the weather..." Name that lyric - but first I will give you the full one "I know it's sad, that I never gave a damn about the weather and it never gave a damn about me" Ok so, basically, oh my goodness, why haven't you guys been bullying me for a new blog! Also, omg i'm so sorry I still haven't done anything about your christmas presents, and it's Easter, I don't know what's wrong with me, something about wrapping paper and envelopes, and 20 christmas cards, I'm halfway there! But just think, sometime in the middle of the year you will be reliving the joy of Christmas thanks to me. But ignoring all this crap on with the blog. To be honest because I'm so lazy with blog writing I've forgotten all the stuff that's happened essentially in the last month, because after doing the maths I realise it has almost been a month since I last wrote a blog, so I feel like there's nothing to say, but I know there's plenty. Firstly can I just say that the month of March is actually my 6th Month of being here. Long long time. Btw, Australia sucks. We have to wait AGES for the new Panic at the Disco album! AGES! I wish I was in the UK again :( We don't even have the Feeling on the Sanity SYSTEM, it's a number 1 album for christ sake! GAH! I hate this stupid country. But don't get me wrong the poeple are lovely. I'm just saying that to cover my arse incase they read this.... I miss everyone back home like you wouldn't believe. I miss my gang of girly friends, I only have a few girl friends here, and I don't get to see them that often. Crap, ok, so I'm kind of in a bad mood right now, and I'm not entirely sure why... I should write about normal stuff... like... Push Over, I went to a big gig thing and saw a couple of local bands, I love Little Red, they were fully awesoem! You guys should look them up, for real. I'm so lonely people! Reminds me of Skins... hmmm.... You know what, screw my brother I'm going to watch Supernatural without him. My parents went away for the weekend, and now I'm at home alone with my brother who is in his bedroom playing on his Xbox, instead of hanging out with me. Oops, got distracted there. Mostly I feel very antsy today, there's nothing to do because everything's closed and there's no one to talk to because everyone's away, but I've decided to do some homework instead. You know I think I might be rambling and this is turning out to be a very dull blog. NO I REMEMBER SOMETHING I had a totally awesome day at work the other day I sold 9 add ons - no idea how, and then someone gave me a box of chocolates because I sent them to JB Hi-Fi instead of encouraging them to buy a $40 dvd from our store, and instead he managed to get it for $10 so he brought me a box of chocolates for a present :) how sweet! Then this 9 yr old came in, who was a total rock chick, and she was so awesome I loved her. I think that's about all the really cool stuff I can think of now. So I will go, I have lots of washing to do, I want the house to look loverly and clean today, although I had some trauma earlier when I saw a mousy ratty thing, but it was outside, so that's ok really. Ok, LOVE YOU ALL MWA MWA Love Ems (Comment on this)
12:15 am	March 6 - At TAFE Hello from Me and Matthew who is sitting next to me. I am bored. Matthew says this is not his fault. We are in a lesson learning how to open Microsoft Word on a Mac. I know how, therefore I am allowed to not listen. Yay for me, what a genius I am. :D Matthew disagrees with my sarcasm. Whatever. Now learning how to open a new file. I will go and die momentarily. Love Ems (Comment on this)
12:14 am	March 1st - If time flew like a dove NAME THAT LYRIC I'll be very excited if one of you knows the lyric - although it won't be entirely suprising if many of you don't. Anyway - onto the blog The last 3 nights have been UNBELIEVABLY eventful, and therefore I very much need to write about them, however I'm a little out of it due to tiredness, so it may be a bit rambly and might not make sense. Where am I meant to start? Oh yeh, I already told you about going out to visit Sasha at work... So the next evening I went over to Ash's place and he wanted to go out for coffee so we went out, and guess what?! At 11.30 on a Wednesday evening all the coffee places are empty. So we went home with a rather pissed off Ash. Tried to make him watch Greenwing, then he said 'Let's go to the 24hr Kmart'. So we left at about 1 and got there 1.30 and wandered around for an hour. Then we went past a stand of TVs for $180 and to cut a long story short, Ash convinced me that buying one would be a good idea. To be fair, I have needed TV for a while and the sale was almost over so I wouldn't get such a good one for such a good price if I waited much longer, but still... Ok, so 2.30ish in the morning we're wheeling a TV out to Ash's car and one arriving at it we realise it's gonna take a lot of work to get it in. Eventually it managed to squeeze into the back seat next to Linz. Then we had to stop at the petrol station so Ash could use the loo, however we got pulled over by the police, because they were bored, and we were weird enough to warrant a license check :P Lmao, aww, Ash was shaking so much! Anyway, then there was last night! So we were meant to be going out for a night out with Sasha, Ash's best friend and we did, but to be honest not much happened. It was a bit weird because Ash wasn't there for the first few hours of it because he had to work, so I felt a little bit lonely and I missed all of you guys. It was no spoons. Also I stupidly forgot my wallet (how!?) and therefore my ID, it didn't end up being a problem thanks to Sasha being a manager at the bar, but still, I felt a bit stupid. I don't even remember what happened! As we were driving home there was so much to blog about and I don't remember any of it! I didn't even drink... oh well. That's what kind of a night it was. Oh yeh! But I did get buy some AWESOME jeans from Jay Jays - There's the T-shirt I bought the night before the night before last night as well... I may need to make a close up of that and put it on my last blog. they were only $10 - that's cheaper than the T-shirt. I think that's all for now, today itself was relatively uneventful, I did a bit of gardening and went to the library with my mum, and now I'm watching Greenwing. I forgot how hilarious it was. Anyway, Good Night my lovelies! See you all again soon! Love Ems (Comment on this)
12:13 am	Feb 28 - Fully Sick Man Do you want to know an AWESOME fact about Australia? Ok basically, unsurprisingly, Australians have their own form of chavz, unfortunately I can't grasp the accent, but plenty of the people I've met take the piss by essentially starting any OzChav type parody with 'Fully Sick'. Lmao. Ok I guess it's one of those things where you have to be there. But still. Fully Sick, man. So I was going to quickly write about last night because it was funny and random. So Ash says 'Let's go grab some coffee' so I went round to his house and he decided 'Let's drive to the Pancake Parlour' because it was still open at 10 in the evening. Then half way there he says 'actually, let's go visit Sasha (his friend who works in the city) so he does a U-turn and we head off into the city. When we got to where she works there was a JayJays upstairs (only the best clothes store in the whole world) and so I bought a Fully Sick T-shirt. I can't take a photo of it at the moment coz my camera is out of batteries, but I will rectify that soon. Anyway, that is all. Love Ems (Comment on this)
12:13 am	Feb 23 - Happy Birthday Panini That's right, my Panini is now 9yrs old, she's going through her mid-life crisis in dog years, and so to celebrate has had a much needed make-over, her teeth cleaned and a mole removed, both of which were done under anaesthetic so she came home stoned. Now back to my story. I've completely forgotten everything exciting that happened for the last few weeks. Oh yeah, today we had a SHOPLIFTER! That I actually had to talk to. I was fucking terrified. Unfortunately he didn't get caught. Whatever, he was a total chav. My boss is going to be annoyed with me that I 'Didn't do more to stop him' but, whatever, he was twice my size, what the hell was a supposed to do? That's about it so far. Love Ems (Comment on this)
12:12 am	Feb 12 - Don't do this don't do that remember, mother knows best. Name that quote people! It's a good 'un Sorry about not writing this yesterday, it was mildly busy when I got home, but this afternoon I'm not busy because I, um, possibly forgot to go to FIAB.... I FORGOT IT WAS TUESDAY :( Oh no, now I feel all guilty :(. Anyway so I need to talk about the first day. It was relatively uneventful, due to the fact it's a new course and all the lessons are 'what you will be studying this year' lessons, not actual lessons. But I guess it's important to tell you guys what the people are like. When I arrived we were all meant to meet in this hall where they'd introduce us to NMIT etc. but it wasn't just the Music Tech people, it was all music people, both first years and second years, Business, Tech and Performance. I was sitting next to someone who was doing Performance, and I decided to tell him all about the Bob the Builder soundtrack I bought from the op shop the other day, and in respect to him he didn't disrespect me for it. I forgot to mention what all the people were like. When I first got there half of them (mostly the girls, I noticed) were really stereotypical University type people, who were trying too hard to be super nice, and just... blargh! They annoyed me because I suddenly remembered all the stuff I hated about school... i.e. the really fake people. Then we all got split into our classes and went in the class rooms. I somehow managed to get the seat in front of the teacher's desk, but seats are hardly permanent in this place. Anyway, we were given our timetables and I could tell that the guy sitting next to me was just doing exactly what I was doing, reading and re-reading his timetable just to look like he wasn't doing nothing. I found that because I didn't know anyone all I was doing to pass the time was obsessively reading everyone's body language. It was kind of fun, pretending to guess what kind of people they all were. Anyway, the guy sitting next to me, I thought 'Iron Maiden, Star Gate, doesn't talk much, but doesn't hate talking to people.' So I sort of stared at him for a second then said 'Hello...my name is Emily', he jumped and said 'Oh, hello' then looked away really quickly, I said "What's your name?"... Matthew it was, although for some reason I really want to call him Warren Lmao, I just freaked Alec out by looking at him and typing at the same time, back to the point. Anyway, he tried very hard after that to pretend he didn't exist. Turns out he, like everyone else in the class, is a complete nerd. The only ones that aren't really nerds, are the one's doing the course in order to fill in information about the Music Industry, when in fact they're more interested in Music Performance or Business. The teacher then wanted us to have an Ice Breaker session, at first he suggested the 'stand up and introduce yourself to the class' method getting to know everyone. But then he admitted that someone he knew once told him that that is the worst way to do it, because apparently some people don't enjoy standing up in front of a room full of people and talking about themselves. So we were given sheets with questions like 'Find someone who watches Horror Movies' so we were meant to walk around the room and talk to people. I didn't move from my seat, neither did many other people, for that matter. Anyway so I got to know people's names and interesting little facts, and then the next day, that is, today, I had some people to sit with at Lunch, YAY! Anyway, now I am friends with Gaz and Matthew, but I have the feeling that Matthew really annoys the other people in the class. Aww, he's such a nerd. That's about all for now, I think. Oh yeh, there was this guy earlier, who I passed on the street. He had half a six pack sitting on the floor at his feet and a bottle of beer in his hand and he was standing outside the chiropractors all drunk. Anyway I was walking past on my way to the video library and stopped me to ask for a cigarette. I was very polite, I said 'No, sorry' he said 'Where are you going?' I thought none of your business but still politely, and ambiguously said 'just to the store' and pointed vaguely. Then I started walking off, he said 'Hey, cutey, you wanna come with me' woaaaaah, boundary seriously just crossed 'No' I said and then I walked off without looking back. He yelled 'Yeah! Just walk off!' and I ignored him. Then I went home a different way. Anyhoo, time for Heroes! Love Ems (Comment on this)
12:11 am	February 10 - And here we go again You don't need to name that, it's rubbish but it's a song that's stuck in my head. I'll tell you what it is at the end, but it's a pretty common lyric so you probably won't be able to guess. I may think of a better game quote further on in the blog. So now I get to the intro of the blog, basically I just wanted to say that I am soooooo sorry the Xmas presents are taking so long to get finished, etc. I know I'm really really lazy. But I thought that since I'm so naughty for being lazy I better make up for it with another blog, and more regular updates, no matter how dull. I can't really remember what has happened in the last few days since I did this blog, but I remember what happened today and thankfully it was relatively eventful. I woke up nice and early to go to work, which sucks because I hate waking up, but I gave myself an hour of sleep in time for after I woke up, so that was ok. Then I went to work, nothing much happened. Before work I stopped outside 'My Chemist' (essentially Boots) and looked in the window. JLo Live was marked down, almost half price (YAY!) so I promised myself that in my break I would go buy it. Then I forgot to take my break. After work I bought 100 blank CDs for under $14, which is just over 5 pounds (this stupid keyboard doesn't have a pound symbol btw, and it's fucking shitting me). All the time I was leaving work I was thinking 'I'm sure there's something else I was meant to buy', another girl who works there said 'You'll remember when all the shops are closed' she was right, I remembered just as I was about to write this blog. The fucking perfume! Gah! And I don't know if I'll be able to get into Northland during shopping hours for a while. Poooooo. Anyway, enough of my petty whining. Ash and I finished watching Buffy today as well, and then we went to Nandos to meet up with some other people who work at Northland, they work at Hoyts (like the Odeon) and they were quite cool. And the food was very nice too, but not quite the same as British Nandos unfortunately. Oh I forgot, I found a video library card on the ground as I was going home, now I'm not entirely sure what to do with it, should I post it to them? Or just chuck it out? They'd probably get a replacement by the time it actually got to the store... I don't know, I was watching Evan Almighty the other day one Act of Random Kindness and all that bollox. Maybe I should just send the stupid thing to get it out of my life. Not that it takes up that much space of course... What the hell am I on about? Oh yeh, I should really be getting to sleep because I have my first day of TAFE tomorrow, and I kind of have to wake up early. I've just been watching Swordfish on my laptop to avoid going to sleep. And to pretend I wasn't procrastinating about going to sleep I did some washing, so I could say the movie was just to pass the time... :P Hmmmmm, I'm sure there was something else I was meant to talk about... oh well, probably not. Anyway, love you all! MWA MWA MWA Love Ems EDIT: Oh yeh, so I just realised I forgot to add a quote game, but I can't be arsed thinking of one right now, but I will tell you where the average one in the title is from: Paramore - Here we go again (Comment on this)