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Attack of the Roller Girls!

2010-04-03T14:12:00.000-07:00

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Tattoo Freeze

2010-01-20T10:54:00.000-08:00

I wrote this for my roller derby team's blog but I thought I'd share it with you!

On Sunday 17th January, the Blitz Dames popped down the road to Telford to the Tattoo Freeze convention to play their first bout of 2010. Tattoos and a day of derby you say? Was this the best day ever? Why yes it was!

A mini tournament was set up composed of half hour bouts throughout the day. With stiff competition from the formidible London Roller Girls league teams; The Ultraviolent Femmes, The Suffrajets and The Steam Rollers, the Dames decided to call in some help from their allies. Our roster was made up of 7 Blitz Dames skaters, plus 7 guest skaters from London Rockin' Rollers, Severn Roller Torrent and Leeds Roller Dolls to form The Blitz Dames Allied Army!!! (It was also the first time the Dames had had the opportunity to bout wearing our shiny new logo!)

(The Blitz Dames Allied Army: Bitchy the Killer, The Skatrix, Bruise 'em Banshee, Jack Attack, Violet Attack, Sleazy Rider, Roisin Roulette, Saintly Sin, Diamondback Belle, Von Bitch, Moxie Blitz, Cat A Sonic, Hooligal, Helen Fury and Frantic)

The first mini bout of the day was The Ultraviolent Femmes vs The Steam Rollers. In a closely fought match that turned the LRG inter-league expectations on its head, The Ultraviolent Femmes won with 31 points to The Steam Rollers' 28.

After a short break it was time for our first bout of the event against The Suffrajets. After a fairly good start, our jammer ended up in the box, allowing the jammer from The Suffrajets to get a 30 point jam. This left the Blitz Dames Allied Army trailing at the end with 20 points to The Suffrajets' 86 points. Ouch!

Next up was The Steam Rollers against The Suffrajets. The Suffrajets, tired from playing their second match in a row, caused The Steamrollers to win this bout 28 points to 60.

The Blitz Dames Allied Army then took on their second team of the day, The Ultraviolent Femmes. With blocks that were notoriously difficult for our jammers to get past, and some excellent jams from the Femmes' Kamakaze Kitty, the final score was 17 to the Blitz Dames Allied Army and 89 to the Ultraviolent Femmes.

The Femmes went from victory against us, straight into victory against The Suffrajets, winning their match against them 97 points to 12.

Our final round robin bout of the day, was against The Steam Rollers. After what seemed a promising start, The Steam Rollers secured a win with 88 points to our 21.

As the Allied Army and The Suffrajets had won the least games so far, we then went on to play them for third place in the tournament. The Allied Army fought valliantly, but determined not to be in 4th place, The Suffrajets pulled out all the stops and used their most effective tactics to break the 100 point barrier and win the game with 126 points to the Allied Army's 12 points, securing them third place in the tournament.

The final between The Steam Rollers and The Ultraviolent Femmes was nail-bitingly close for the entire half hour. With the team in the lead changing many times throughout the bout, it really could have been anyone's game. However, in the final jam, Fox Sake managed to clock up enough points for The Steam Rollers to lead them to victory. The final score; The Ultraviolent Femmes: 33, The Steam Rollers: 36.

(Raw Heidi for The Steam Rollers, recieves the trophy for the winning team. Photo by Teshi)

Although the Blitz Dames Allied Army didn't even get a whiff of a win all day, it was unanimously agreed to be a great day of derby. The atmosphere was both electric and friendly, with derby-types from leagues all across Britiain helping to organise, officiate, and promote roller derby!

The event also drew a huge number of fans from the tattoo convention who came along to see what all the fuss was about and there wasn't a time during the day when there wasn't a large crowd of people against the barriers, craning their necks to see oddly-dressed girls skating around bashing each other! It has to be said it went down very well with the punters at Tattoo Freeze.

The Dames all had an excellent day and would like to thank all three LRG teams for not going easy on us and making us up our game. It was a tough, challenging, but awesome event. We'd also like to thank Tattoo Freeze for having us there, and our allies from LRR, SRT and LRD for going into battle with us. It was an honour to fight beside you!

Snow and Skating!

2010-01-06T07:13:00.000-08:00

Recently I have been an NSO (non-skating official) score keeper at a mixed scrimmage hosted by my roller derby team....

Aaaaand made a snowman as tall as myself!

He is as tall as me! And then we went over the park and looked at pretty snow and went on swings and had a snowball fight.

New Years Resolutions for 2010...

2010-01-06T07:12:00.000-08:00

Blog Dated 1st January 2010

Ok here are the resolutions I made this time last year. I wonder if I kept any of them...

1. Pass my driving test.
Yep!!! I passed 31st January 2009.

2. Get a car.
Also done! I have a black fiat punto :)

3. Exercise.
I did this too :) I did yoga for a bit but it got boring and I did running too but that also got boring and I didn't like doing it when it was raining. I now have a stepper machine thingy that I got for a fiver off ebay which is cool because I can do sort-of running on that and watch episodes of things on my computer at the same time so I don't get bored or worried I'm going to get mugged :P
Oh and I also do roller derby.

4. Treat myself.
I did buy myself an acoustic guitar I suppose. That's about it.

5. Register as an organ donor.
This is done.

6. Go to a country I've not been to before.
None of the plans I has happened so no this didn't happen. It's a shame. Mostly it was because other people changed plans/didn't have any money/whatever and I'm too scared to go abroad entirely on my own just yet.

7. Be more sociable.
I think I just about managed this. I made new friends. I'm still more anti-social than most but less so than I was a year ago.

8. Cook more.
Yeh :D I cook once a week now for the housemates. And it's not always a disaster either! I think I've got quite a long way to go though before I'm able to say 'oh yes I can cook' but I'm getting there.

9. Eat and drink better.
Not really. I do drink more water than before but still not enough. I get nowhere near my 5 portions of fruit and veg per day. If anyone can think of easy/cheap ways I can integrate these into a day where I only tend to eat one meal then please tell me!

9. Eyes and teeth!
Yep I registered at a local dentist and had a filling in August :s I don't have to go back until next August now. I went to book an eye test but apparently I'm not due for one until February.

10. Surprises.
Yep :)

I think overall that was pretty sucessful. This year I'm going to try and stick with small, achieveable things again.

Here goes...

1. Pass basic skills for roller derby
2. Eat and drink better
3. Get new glasses
4. See the Northern Lights
5. Lose a stone
6. Get a hair cut
7. Learn to play 2 new songs on guitar and sing them at the same time

What are yours?

Happy New Year

2010-01-06T07:10:00.000-08:00

Blog Dated 1st January 2010

So on Wednesday night Sarah and I went to Harriet's for tea and gave her her leaving present and look lotsa pictures. Then we popped along to the Road House to see the last Captain Horizon gig of the year. I don't think the boys were that pleased with the gig but it was still pretty fun anyways.

Yesterday I had work (boo!). Came home, napped for 2 hours (weird for me but totally necessary!) and then went to Stu's (via the station to pick up Augustina) for the 8th annual buds' new year party.

My secret santa got me Lush bath bombs, gloves and a phone cover. Pretty cool :)

Drank a lot with 4 Alexes, 3 Stevens, 2 Matthews, 2 Jameses, a Sarah, a Harriet, a Jenny, an Augustina, a Tansy, an Arran, a Stu, a Russ, a Mike, a Raggey, a Misty, a Claire, a Josh, a Hannah and a Charlotte.

Sarah and I met Harriet's boyfriend for the first time and interrogated him :p We decided he's good enough to go out with her afterall.

Alex got really sick poor thing and I sent him home in a taxi with Josh and Hannah. Kept drinking and chatting until about 5am when I went to sleep on a sofa. Woke up at about 9.30am witha headache and decided to drive home in my pyjamas in my bare feet because I couldn't find my shoes... I am SO glad I didn't get pulled over...

Anyway I slept here for a few more hours, occasionally checking that Alex is still alive. I'm up and dressed and showered but I don't want to get out of my bed because it's too cold! brrr!

Festive Frolics

2010-01-06T07:06:00.000-08:00

Blog Dated 30th December 2009

Well Christmas was pretty good overall. I drove down to my parents' house in London on 23rd. It was quite snowy.

That evening I went with Tasha, Mandy and my mum to see Avatar in 3D. I really enjoyed it, I'd never seen a 3D film before. The plot is nothing new really, it's basically Fern Gully, but it was beautiful to look at.

Christmas eve was a lazy lazy day. I went to see my Nanna and gave her her copy of the Captain Horizon CD she bought. She likes 2 songs on there but the other two are 'a bit loud.' I think that's good for an 80 year old dear!

Christmas day was pretty traditional (for our family at least) in the morning. We (me, mum, dad, Mandy, Shaun and Darren) got up and had breakfast with a Christmas CD Bucks Fizz :) Then my nan's came over and we opened our stockings (contents: sweets, socks and toiletries). Then we opened our presents. I got books, some cosy jumpers, a DS game and some laces for my skates. :D Everyone seemed to like the presents I got for them too so that's pretty cool.

Christmas meal was weird. My family have taken to having Christmas lunch in a restaurant lately. Anyway we met up with my uncle, aunt, 3 cousins and their girlfriends to eat our festive foods.

In the evening we just watched Christmas TV. Which is again unusal in my family because growing up we always had huge Christmases with all the family around, but this year it was just the people who live in my parents' house, plus me and my Nanna.

Boxing day felt more like Christmas used to feel, all the family came over. My Uncle brought his long-bow (yes it's a real one) and target over.

I was better at it than everyone in my family except my uncle :) Woo hoo!

We all had a boxing day meal around the table in a traditional way.

And after that we all sat around singing and drinking and playing charades (I drank all my cider whoops!) and stuff.

My family also had a karaoke game called 'Wii Sing.' Unfortunately, none of us can, except my cousin Ceri's girlfriend Kerry. (yes they have the same name :P) Here's a video of my mum trying to rap, Kerry singing and my aunt dancing to the Pussycat Dolls.

Me and my Nanna were drinking buddies.

And that's about it for Boxing Day.

I drove back up to Birmingham on 27th. It took well over 4 hours, the roads were so busy. My maximum speed on the M25 was 15mph. Ugh.

That evening was the fundraiser for my roller derby team. Captain Horizon and Signify played and loads of my buddies, including Glenn and Steph and Arran who live far away came up for it. It was a bit stressful to start with (the cash machine ate my card) but I was so pleased with it in the end and got super drunk and partied with my buddies and roller buddies :D

The next day I had a lazy day, watched loads of Dexter, 24 and the Guild, then went to a mates house to watch The Day of the Triffids. I'm back at work today. It was freezing. It's snowing right now and I like snow when it doesn't effect me and all I have to do it look at it.

Tomorrow Sarah's back from Bristol (yay!) and we're going to see Harriet for the last time before she moves to Watford on 2nd Jan! *sob* Then we're going to pop along to the Captain Horizon gig at the Road House.

And of course, Thursday is New Years Eve which will be all kinds of fun and messy :D

Rock and Roll-er Derby!!

2009-12-29T11:41:00.000-08:00

Hmmm. Since my last update, I've had swine flu. That sucked. But other stuff didn't.

I went to see my first Roller Derby bout. It was in London and it was pretty awesome. It was my team Birmingham Blitz Dames vs London Rockin Rollers. We lost, but it was still fucking awesome. I love roller derby so much. It's not like other shitty sports. And not like other things where lots of girls get together and make a bitch fest. There's a real sort of camaraderie about the whole thing and if you're a roller girl you're pretty much liked by all roller girls, regardless. Anyway it was awesome to watch.

Hand slapping at the end of the bout :)

I took my Basic Skills test for roller derby. I didn't pass :s I still can't do most of that stuff to be honest. I was pretty sad about it at the time but everyone's been really nice to me about it and I have another chance to take it around the end of January. I don't think I'll pass then either. I don't really mind failing again now it's not such a big deal but if I pass then I'll be able to attend on a Tuesday evening as well and I'd love to be able to skate twice a week if I could. I wish I could practise more between now and then but I'm not sure I can. I don't know where I would go to do that :s

I've been hanging out with Sarah and Harriet loads recently. We call ourselves the Brain Trust :P Harriet's moving to Watford on 2nd January and I'm going to be very sad when she goes and the threesome is no more :( Sarah and I have been helping her prepare for the move. She's only 18 and it's her first time away from home you see.

I think Sarah is aaaaawesome. I bullied her into joining roller derby with me too :P

I've been getting a proper little social life lately actually what with Brain Trust and roller derby. Who'd have ever thought I'd actually hang out with girls out of choice? Weird. There's a real social aspect to roler derby too. I've been out a lot with girls from there including to an awesome houseparty the other week.

Sarah and I at the roller derby house party

I'm watching 24 while writing this so sorry if it's all disjointed...

Also, the Captain Horizon boys now have released their EP!!

I'm so fucking proud of them. They had a gig on the day it was launched and it was amazing.
You can download it at amazon and HMV and all kinds of other places. Or if you'd rather just stream it off Spotify then go ahead.

Aaand on 27th December Captain Horizon and roller derby are merged in an amalgamation of my favouritest things. The boys are playing a gig to raise money for my team! Yay! At Subside! Please come along!

I've also been to see Porcupine Tree. That was amazing. And Muse. Lots of captain horizon gigs obviously.

Alex got me a xmas stocking today. That was cute of him. It had cider and chocolates and sweets in :)

Um...

I think that's about it for now.

excitement

2009-11-04T13:16:00.001-08:00

ETA: I'm not competing in this. Just to clarify, I'm nowhere near good enough. But I am going! :D

Can anyone explain this to me?

2009-11-04T13:14:00.000-08:00

I was walking to my car in a quiet residential street in Sutton Coldfield a couple of weeks ago and a man was walking towards me with some papers in his hand. As he approached me he said 'Here's one for you angel!' in a very cheery voice and handed me a piece of paper and carried on walking.

I assumed the paper would be a flyer or an advert for something, but it was a plain A4 piece of white paper, covered in a handwritten message. It had been photocopied, so I can only assume all the other pieces of paper he had were the same.

I was really quite confused, and when I turned around, the man had completely disappeared! (dundunduuuuuuuun!)

Anyway, can anyone explain the writings on the paper to me? It reads as follows:

Reinforcement of Harold Godwinson's Presence in the Year 2009AD.

Edith Swanneck is still alive in the form of Christian Frances Coy

Harold Godwinson lives at the top of a steep Senlac Hill (Moss Drive)

80 yards away is Carls House (Housecarls)

40 yards away is King Stephen same century as King Richard Coeur de Lion

The Scotch are singing Happy Birthday (1066AD)

The English are singing it's a mystery tour (Shall lala mystery tour is waiting to take you away)

Finally there is Love in the air (Holy Relics?)

2009AD - 1000 = 1009AD

66 Years after the Birth of our Lord (1066)

In the sixteenth Year of our Reign.

H.G. Wessex

Ok I know who Harold Godwinson was, and therefore why Senlac Hill and 1066AD are relevant to him. And Edith Swanneck and to some extent Housecarls. I know who King Stephen and King Richard Coeur de Lion are. But that doesn't mean this makes any more sense!

What is the relevance of it? I mean, why do we nned to prove Harold II is alive today in Sutton Coldfield? Why the random Beatles lyrics in the middle? What's with the very dubious maths at the bottom? Why has the guy signed it H.G. Wessex? He's dead.

Is this some kind of riddle? An in-joke? An invitation to a scavenger hunt? Or more likely... the ramblings of a mad man?

Thoughts anyone?

It's been a while...

2009-11-04T12:12:00.000-08:00

Here's what's been going on with me lately then, seeing as I haven't actually said anything in here of substance since July!

I've felt a little bit braver about trying things recently. I joined a Roller Derby team! Birmingham Blitz Dames! Roller Derby is awesome. I'm not very good still, but I'm ok considering I'd never put a pair of skates on my feet until 4 weeks ago. I my skater name now. It's 'Nico Warrior' hehe. I wasn't sure at first but now it's kind of grown on me. It's quite fitting because my 'derby mum' is Queen Boudi-See Ya! so it continues the warrior girl thing. Plus Nico is the name of one of my favourite computer game characters from Broken Sword.

I wish I was already good at skating but I'm getting there slowly but surely. I don't really mind too much because I enjoy it and I don't mind landing on my face a lot because it's really fun. And the girls are really lovely and encouraging too. My league is playing the London team at the end of the month and I'm going down to support them and stay overnight and celebrate with the girls when we inevitably win :P I'm really excited to se my first competition! I've been helping out a lot with point scoring and penalty tracking when the bouting team scrimmage after practise, and that's pretty cool too.

I've made a couple of friends at roller derby. Two other girls started the same day as me Leanne and Krysta. I've hung out with Leanne a couple of times outside of practise. Once to go and see some bands and once to go to a roller disco (not to boogie, we just went to get some extra skating practise in!) Oh and she came to the Academy last night with the buds too.

I think I'm going to write a bit more about my new friend Sarah now because she just texted me and I thought 'aww, Sarah's lovely.' She is. Seriously. I just want to hug her all the time! She came to see Captain Horizon with me last week and before hand we had more long chats and found out more ways in which we are the same. From big, mental things to silly things like being a gymnast as a kid.

Talking of Captain Horizon (Alex and Josh's band), exciting times are afoot at camp Captain. Their EP release date has been confirmed as 11th December. It'll be available to download online from iTunes and Napster and places like that and you'll be able to stream it on Spotify and some shops will stock it too I think. Very exciting. The launch party is going to be 30th January too, but I'll let you know more about this nearer the time. They've been very busy gigging too recently and I've been popping along to all of those. I fucking love those guys. :D

Anyway that's all for now. If you want to see me and my buddies dressed up like silly buggers, I've put photos from Halloween up on my facebook so have a nose.

Hope everyone else is spiffy.

I'm bored

2009-07-29T08:23:00.000-07:00

I have a small scratch underneath the knuckles of my left hand. I don't know how I did it and I dont know how long it's been there.

Turns out I don't even know the back of my hand like the back of my hand.

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Bought my best friend's birthday present today. I'm worried it's shit.

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It is July and it is cold. How is that fair?

Nicky & Claire's Twycross Zoo Adventure

2009-06-15T13:08:00.001-07:00

Here's some pictures of when I went to Twycross Zoo with Claire on Saturday.

A chillaxing monkey

A prairie cat smelling for danger

Some capybara, the world's largest rodent. They are like massive giant guinea pigs

3 chimps investigating something

A very important looking lemur

A gorilla who was running around with a crate on his back to keep off the sun

A gorilla who was picking his nose and eating it

Elephantantes

Flamingoes, which actually look evil in real life, not pretty and dopey like you think they are

Chilly chinchillas

2 giraffes. The barrier for the side of the enclosure is not as far away from the cage as the giraffes neck is long. Cue terrified children getting a face full of giraffe face.

Kookaburra sits on the old gum treeeeeee......

An organ utan who was bored waiting for her baby to wake up

I also just got myself some tickets to see The Wildhearts. Rawr!

Also I'm going to see Pearl Jam and Muse!

Aaaaand I'm chuffed that Faith No More have been confirmed for Reading!

Glastonbudget Weekend

2009-05-25T13:47:00.000-07:00

This weekend was awesome. I think it's going to take about a week for me to stop being tired but still worth it.

On Friday morning I didn't have work and I made sure all my camping stuff was all ready and packed. Josh came home and was followed by Mez's Dad in the van and Claire, Whitty and Rob in Claire's car. We packed all our stuff into the van and Josh got in the van with Mez's Dad and I got in the car with Claire, Whitty and Rob. Then we went to pick up Mez and we drove (via Gregg's!) to Glastonbudget Festival!

Once we got there, we went to sign in. I was Alex's +1 so I was on the guest list and we got purple wrist bands so we could park and camp in the special bands' only area which made me feel very special (even though I'm not actually very special at all)! Then Josh and I set up a massive tent that we'd borrowed from the other house that we could use as a communal tent for if it rained (it didn't so that was a waste of time it turns out, but we weren't to know!) and Josh and Hannah's tent and then mine and Alex's tent. We called our camp 'Camptain Horizon'

We then met up with Maria who is the band's manager and she showed us some of the merchandise that she'd got. There were some T shirts and badges and stickers and Claire and I helped Maria set up a board to display it all that we can take to gigs and flog stuff :)

Then I popped in Claire's car again with Whitty and Rob and Mez and Mez's Dad and Josh went in the van and we drove into Leicester to the Pavillion where Captain Horizon were playing a gig that night. We'd been told to get there for 6pm, though when we arrived the promoter guy wasn't even there for another hour or so. We met up with Alex and Hannah there as they'd come there straight from work that day. Instead we had a nice curry and hung out being a cool bunch of people.

The venue itself was quite weird. It was basically in a park and seemed a little bit like it should have been a tea room (and probably was at one time I guess) but it had a bar and served curry and had live music.

Anyway the guys played their set and it was pretty good.

Then we went back to Camptain Horizon and ate and drank and were merry.

The next day Alex, Josh, Hannah and I had to get up really early as we went to Santa Pod to see the drag racing! We met Stu, Russ and Kelly there too.

It was pretty immense and they were so fast you could feel them before you could even see or hear them sometimes. Pretty damn cool. Even though they were too fast for me to get a picture of them!

We also saw some cool monster trucks!

And a
WWW2 memorial flight by a spitfire and a lancaster bomber and I can't remember the other one.

It was a really hot day and I got a bit sunburnt too. Whoops. But not as bad as Alex or Kelly. Josh and Alex went on a helicopter ride. I really wanted to as well because I think that would be cool but I couldn't really justify spending lots of money on that when I'm still nto sure about the job situation. So that was a shame. I wish I'd said sod it and done it anyway now because it sounded so cool.

We also saw a drag racer crash. He was going so immensely fast and then after he'd crossed the line it sort of span wildly out of controal accross the track and spun upside down a few times and I thought that's it. He's dead. No one could survive that. But he just got up and walked away! It took a long time for them to clean up the track and everything after that so it was all running quite behind schedule so it was a shame that we had to leave when we did because there was so much more to see.

But leave we did. Russ, Stu and Kelly went home and Alex, Josh, Hannah and I drove into Leicester to The Shed, where Captain Horizon had their second gig of the weekend. It rocked my socks.

They've played at The Shed a few times now, but that night it was pretty much packed with people. To start off with Hannah, Claire, Rob and I kind of wandered towards the front to watch them and we were the only people standing up to start with I think. Then about half way through I turned around and the whole room had packed out behind us with people standing up to watch them. And they were all getting into it too. I like gigs like that because even though I really like the band and really enjoy all their gigs, I quite often think that maybe I'm just quite biased because Josh and Alex are my best friends. But when I see other people enjoying it too I think yeh, I was right all along. They are awesome!

After that we packed up pretty sharpish and drove back to Glastonbudget (via a supermarket for booze and bbq stuff). We got back in time ot see the headlining tribute act for Saturday night who were a Metallica tribute act called Metalisha. Quite good I thought. I'm not a huge Metallica fan but it was pretty good. I was also asked to hand out some flyers to tell people to go and see Captain Horizon when they played their festival slot. But I wasn't very good at it :/

Then after that we went back to Camptain Horizon and Alex cooked us all a BBQ in the dark(!) and Josh got out his guitar and we all sang some Captain Horizon sonsg kind of acoustically which was quite nice and cool that everyone was singing, not just the band! Then some other sing-a-longs and we ate and drank and were merry and then went to bed.

Sunday was a stunning day weather-wise. And the day of Captain Horizon's first festival appearance! Pretty exciting. Got up, hung around camp until I got a call from Stu to say he and Russ and Kelly had arrived. Josh also got a call from his dad to say he'd arrived with his partner and her daughter, so Alex, Hannah, Josh and I went to the arena to meet them. We sat around in the sun drinking and such.

Then it was time for me to do some more flyering. I watched Stu do a couple and then I tried it on my own and I was better this time. Maybe it was becuase it was light so I could make eye contact with people and once I'd seen someone else do it (Alex and Hannah are lone-flyer-ers) it didn't seem so awful.

Then I went back to Camptain Horizon to have lunch. I managed to get Stu and Russ and Kelly (and possibly Josh's family?) back into the bands-only camping area (they only hd day tickets and weren't on the guest list so weren't really allowed there) but telling a huge lie to the security person that I was in a band and I was only a weak little girl and I needed them to help me carry my equipment for me. I didn't really seem to think twice about it but it amused some people so I'm glad I made people chuckle with my convincing lies.

I went back into the arena with some of the others for lunch. I ate a spicy chicken fajita and watched Chesney Hawkes! Haha! and an REM tribute band which were quite enjoyable.

Then wandered over to the BigTop tent where Captain Horizon were just about to set up. Helped Claire and Hannah and Maria set up the merchandising stuff. And then the band started to play. Me and the others thought they were just sound checking at first because they were on too early so we just kind of hung out near the back but then we realised nope, it was actually the start of their set and they'd pulled thme on abour 20 mins too early. That was a bit annoying because I'd spent most of the morning telling people to be there at 6.50pm. Grr.

Anyway to start with the tent wasn't very full. It was tricky because the act on at the main stage at the same time as them was (not Chesney as previously thought) but a The Who tribute band. It's a shame because basically the kind of people who would have enjoyed to watch Captain Horizon would probably want to go to watch The Who.

But once they started playing, people started to stop outside as they walked past and peer in and Maria went outside to usher a load of curious people in. Also Whitty has a radio microphone and he went running out through the crowd and also outside of the tent while singing and not missing a note to sing at passers by which drew a few more people in. Also there was a bar in the tent and even though some people only came into the tent to get a beer and intended to go back to see The Who Tribute or whatever, they all stayed.

After a while there was a decent sized crowd. It wasn't full but there were enough people to make it feel like they weren't playing to an empty tent. It was, in the words of Mez's dad, shit hot.

Also towards the end some guys came in with professional looking cameras and started filming the boys.

(yes, thatis Alex and Whitty on the other side of the barrier, rocking out in with the crowd! I think the camera guys were from the festival itself and were filming it for the website so if that video ever emerges I'll post it here for you and you can tell me what you think!

The set went down really well with absolutely everyone there. Everyone went mental during their last song. And when they finished Mez's dad was in absolute floods of tears.

After that we had a few celebratory drinkie poos.

We then all went on the bumper cars! I can't rememeber if I've ever been on them before but it was really good fun and (apart from initially not being able to work out why my car would only go backwards) I wasn't as bad at it as I thought I'd be. It was such a giggle.

Then we all went to see the headline tribute act, a tribute to Oasis called Oasish (I love the silly names tribute bands have. Pun-a-licious!) I initally thought oh I haven't listened to Oasis much in years I'm not that bothered. But I really really enjoyed it. What's The Story Morning Glory was the first album I ever bought so it was nostalgia fest time. Although they were stopped in the middle of Wonderwall because security said there was a girl who had fallen down in the crowd and been trampled. After trying to find her for what seemed like ages, it transpired that was all just a wind up. Some people.

Anyway we all trundled back to camp and got drunk drunk drunk (--er than we already were!) and sat around the BBQ to keep warm until we couldn't stay awake any longer and retired to our respective tents.

This morning we got up very early and did the tedious task of packing all the tents down, loading up the van and driving home. Even though I was longing for a bath and my own bed I didn't want the weekend to be over!

I came home and fell asleep pretty much straight away, before the van even got to our house with our stuff in. I was so knackered. I woke up, had a bath and found that my lovely housemates had got me some lunch. Aw.

Now I'm preparing to go back to work tomorrow. Yuk. It all seems so wrong to be going back to work after that!

Glastonbudget, Gigs and Greatness

2009-05-20T14:30:00.000-07:00

I know it's only Wednesday evening but I'm already getting excited for the weekend.

Friday:
No work! Most likely travel to Glastonbudget festival in Leicestershire with Josh who also has Friday off! Set up camp. Be awesome.
Upon arrival of, Alex, Hannah, Mez, Whitty, Claire & Rob, we shall pop along to The Pavillion in Leicester where Josh, Alex, Mez and Whitty (aka Captain Horizon) will play in a battle of the bands! Rocking out will happen.
Then we will go back to our camp at Glastonbudget and have giggles and sleeps.

Saturday:
During the dayAlex, Josh, Hannah and I are leaving Glastonbudget for the daytime to go to Santa Pod to see drag races and awesomeness like that. We are meeting Stu, Russ, possibly Kelly and some people Alex knows (including his dad) there. I have ear plugs. It's going to be loud and fast.
In the evening, Captain Horizon, me, Hannah, Claire and Rob are going to The Shed in Leicester for another Captain Horizon gig! Rocking out will happen.
Then we will go back to our camp at Glastonbudget and have giggles and sleeps.

Sunday:
Spend the whole day with Captain Horizon, Hannah, Claire and Rob at Glastonbudget. Stu, Russ and Kelly are coming too.
Hannah, Claire and I are doing merch for the band so if any one has the desire to own Captain Horizon badges, stickers or T shirts, check us out. We have them.
Captain Horizon are playing on the new acts stage some time between 6 and 7pm (I'm a bit hazy). Their set clashes with Chesney Hawkes! Oh no! He is the one and only. But I like Captain Horizon marginally better so they win out :P Rocking out will happen.
Then we will enjoy other acts, possibly unsigned bands, possibly tribute acts.
Then we will go back to our camp at Glastonbudget and have giggles and sleeps.

Monday:
Probably die.

If anyone can cram more gigs and high speed vehicles into one weekend I'd be impressed.

Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go...

2009-05-04T11:32:00.000-07:00

Tickets to see Green Day are £35? The first time I saw them I paid £16.50!

May the Fourth be with you

2009-05-04T08:00:00.000-07:00

This week I was a bridesmaid!

(I'm the green thing on the left :p)

It was my good friends Kate and Chris's wedding. I'd never really been involved in a wedding before that I can remember and it was a really fun day.

Also, instead of having a wedding cake they had cupcakes, and I made a few (about 80!) take a look.

The next day I went to Nottingham with Captain Horizon and camped out in their manager's garden.

Watched their gig then had some drunken revelry and camping out before returning to Birmingham and real life. Oh well. At least I have today to recover!

Captain Horizon @ The Old Wharf , Birmingham - 25th April 2009

2009-04-24T13:20:00.000-07:00

Come one come all!

Contact me for more details if you want. Entry is FREE!

And don't forget to vote for Captain Horizon to play at V Festival!. Do it NOW, voting closes Sunday 26th April.

It's getting gigtastic in here...

2009-04-22T13:37:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow I'm going to see AC/DC suported by The Answer. Should be a stonking gig. Looking forward to it a lot.
Also pleased that Faith No More are now playing Reading Festival. I was considering going to Download for the day to see them but now I don't need to coz I'm already going to Reading!

I'm also pimping again.

I want you to click here and sign up and vote for Captain Horizon on the Road to V (I think you might need to click 'become a fan' first). Basically if they win...by doing something (details unknown not necessary....) they get to play at V Festival. Cool no? The website wasn't really working before but now it is so GO!

Now. Do it now. Don't out it off bIecause voting closes at the end of the week do it now. Now. Do it. Do it now.

Prizes for those who do vote. Srsly.

In case you've had your head up your arse for the past year, Captain Horizon is Alex and Josh's band. They also happen to be my housemates and best friends so that makes them the best band in the world.

Anyway, they also auditioned for Glastonbudget on Sunday. It was a pretty fun gig and at the end of their set the organiser said they were exactly what they were looking for and basically said 'sorry all other bands that bothered turning up today, but these guys are in.' (OK not in those words, but seriously, he was happy and the others bands were shitting themselves having to go on after that!)

They've loads of gigs coming up so I strongly suggest you check out if they're playing anywhere near you and then pop along! It's fun. I promise. Check 'em on Last.fm if you don't believe me. *convincing nod and charming wink*

Favour time!

2009-02-10T13:03:00.000-08:00

OK favour time!

I want you aaasaaaaall to click here, fill in the form and click on Vote then vote for Captain Horizon.

They're taking part in a Battle of the Bands in Wolverhampton tomorrow but unfortunately it's far away and on a work night so drumming up support has been difficult (for me at least!) but you can support them without even having to get off your arses! Go, click and feel a little bit happy that you've done something good for someone.

Captain Horizon @ The Little Civic, Wolves - 11th February 2009

2009-02-05T11:08:00.001-08:00

Cars and Parties

2009-01-27T13:25:00.001-08:00

Here is my car. Checkit:

It's called Sharkey. :D

Also, I'm planning a night out in Brum for my birthday on 7th Feb to Subculture and I want you to come. Yes you.

I am The Stig

2009-01-23T05:49:00.001-08:00

I JUST PASSED MY DRIVING TEST!!!! :D

That is all.

Captain Horizon @ The Old Wharf - 31st January

2009-01-11T14:25:00.000-08:00

Hurry Up Bus!

2009-01-06T14:43:00.000-08:00

Hurry Up Bus!

Yep, getting to work has become an adventure these past couple of days.

Pimp My Friends!

2009-01-05T14:40:00.000-08:00

My friends Katie and Peggers are driving to South Africa in an old Land Rover to raise money for the Red Cross (quite how they've got the time to do this I'm not sure but I'm damn jealous!)

Anwyay, you can see how they're doing here and if you do fancy sponsoring them then then go ahead!

Also, if you've heard me whittering on about Josh and Mez and Alex's band Captain Horizon and thought... hmmm... I wonder what they sound like... Then wonder no more!

New Years Resolutions for 2009...

2009-01-01T16:04:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year to you all!

OK here goes with the resolutions...

I've tried to make them achiveable. It's so easy to feel like you've failed when you give yourself unrealistic things like 'come off antidepressants' because you're not giving yourself a chance. I'm also trying to be a bit specific so things are easier to achieve.

There's so much about me I want to change at the moment I think maybe putting them in writing and making them as new years resolutions might give me a bit more motivation.

1. Pass my driving test.
This has been my resolution for the past 5 years. But now I have a full time job and half my money doesn't go on Kelly anymore, so it means that I don't have the excuse for not being able to afford it if I fail this time.
Plus I've already got a test booked so I'm a lot of the way there and I've actually got enough time to fail about 3 or 4 tests and still pass within the timescale of 2009. Though if I do fail I will be gutted. Hm.

2. Get a car.
Obviously dependent on the completion of resolution #1. I had a car once. It was cheap but it went. Then it broke. I'm saving up for a good one.

3. Exercise.
I am lazy. That's just a fact. But I do want to change that. I'm aware stuff like this is not as easy for me as it is for some people and it's a lot easier to feel like a failure at it. But I'm going to at least try.
I don't like the idea of going to the gym coz I don't like the idea of people being able to see me exercise. I'm going to do running once per week. That's the aim. I'm going to aim to go running when the boys are at band practise to start with, that way I won't be missing out on anything at the house but also it will be a sort of prompt for me to do it. I may need to buy new trainers coz mine are a bit knackered but we'll see.
I'm also going to try yoga, if there's enough room in this bedroom :s I'm not sure there is but maybe. Kate sent me a book and showed me a good website to help me get started. I hear it's a good form of excercise for depressives as it gets your endorphines going but can also be relaxing.

4. Treat myself.
Having a very brief chat yesterday with Alex and Stu about the best albums of 2008, I realised I only brought 2 CDs last year. And one of those was a CD version of an album I already had on cassette :s I want to buy more treats fo myself like CDs and DVDs and clothes and stuff. At the moment I only really buy stuff when I need it. It's nice to get things you want once in a while too. I'm going to aim for one treat per pay day. I think that's fair.

5. Register as an organ donor.
I can't give blood coz of the meds I'm on but I might not be on them forever so I'm going to register as an organ donor. I think you all should :P

6. Go to a country I've not been to before.
I love it. There's already talk of going to California with Josh, Hannah and Alex and also Germany with Lucy. I've been to both those countries before but before the age of 3 so I didn't experience them really. I'm going to allow them I think if they did happen :P

7. Be more sociable.
This is a tricky one to actually achieve as a) it involves a bit of a change in my personality and b) it's not easy to measure. At the New Years party when I was chatting to lots of different people I left like a bit of a social butterfly and thought 'Why can't I be like this all the time?' All the time is a bit much to ask of anyone, but more would do. This may involve talk to people and going to places I wouldn't normally. I want to be less closed minded about who I like. I tend to automatically not like someone until I get to know them. I want to start off liking people until I'm given a reason not to.

8. Cook more.
I can't really cook :s I can do basic stuff like spaghetti and I can put a pie in the oven but the boyfriend used to always cook for me coz he was a chef. It's a bit tricky coz I'm always the last one home and I'm on the bus and whatnot so it's difficult for me to buy stuff, but I'm going to aim to make dinner once per week.

9. Eat and drink better.
First of all, at the weekend I'm going to get a big bottle and fill it with water and keep it on my desk at work, then I can drink water throughout the day without having to interrupt my work as I don't drink anywhere near enough at the moment.
I'm also going to aim for getting 5 portions of fruit and veg per day. I know it's not always possible because sometimes I only eat one meal a day and the content of that is often dictated by others, but if I aim for 5 a day and only get 2 or 3, it's better than what I get at the moment.

9. Eyes and teeth!
I'm due for an opticians appointment in February and when I go I want to also get myself new glasses, even if my prescription hasn't changed (which I suspect it has) because I don't like my current ones.
I'm also due to see the dentist in March and I want to go because I left it so long last time I needed a filling :s

10. Surprises.
I want to pick at least 3 special people and so something nice and unexpected for them over the next year. It might not be a big thing but I whatever it is will make them happy. I'm going to leave this open until opportunities present themselves.

For the sake of Auld Lang Syne...

2008-12-30T13:51:00.000-08:00

An update on the festive season...

I spent xmas with my family in London, it was quiter than normal I think. My sister wasn't around xmas day so it was just me and the parents which was weird.

I got money for driving lessons, a Nintendo DS off my sister, some clothes and CDs :)

I won't be around tomorrow so I shall take this oppurtunity to wish you all a very Happy New Year, I hope 2009 is great to all of you :D

Advent Adventures

2008-12-07T12:44:00.000-08:00

Hi all!

Well first things first, I'm doing ok on my new medication. It proper knocks me out but I suppose that's not necessariy a bad things, at least I'm sleeping now, it's just waking at that's the problem! the past two days I haven't woken up naturally, only when someone wakes me up! It's also made me very unco cordinated, especially when I first get up in the morning, it's like I'm drunk! It took me about 3 attempts to get the toopaste on the brush this morning! I've cancelled my driving lesson on Tuesday, better not risk that until these side effects wear off!

I'm feeling generally more contented though

Yesterday I actually managed to get some xmas shopping done! Alex and I went into Birmingham City Centre. I got presents for my sister and Shaun very easily. Also my mum too, though I want to get her something else small as well. I have to buy for my Dad still, Darren (no idea), my work secret santa and my other 2 secret santas (no idea!).

We went to the German Xmas Market and Alex got me mulled cider and he had mulled wine and it made me warm inside and was lovely.

In the evening Alex and I jaunted over to Rugby to have dinner with his dad, then the 3 of us picked up Adam (who was my surrogate father for the evening...) and we went to the Courthouse in Rugby to see Josh play with hisPink Floyd Tribute Band.

It was a proper family affair, as previously mentioned, Alex was there with his Dad, I was there with Adam, Josh's mum was there to see him, Hannah was there with her Dad, Jenny brought her Dad and Uncle, Mez came with his Dad, and I convinced Arran to bring his Dad along too. It was really really good. If you're into Pink Floyd or anything even vaguely like it I suggest you check them out. No one had a bad word to say about them!

Today I came back here, did some tidying relaxed a bit, and updated my Amazon Wishlist to make Xmas shopping for my family pretty much an exercise in mouse clicking.

Next week is going to be a busy one for me work wise, I have a lot of meetings etc.

In the mean time, I shall point you to this: CLICK MEEE!!!!

It's a sneak preview of Alex and Josh's band (ursaDomine)'s EP. I think it's swell.

I'm now off to arrange our group secret santa *stress*

sniggle

2008-11-11T15:17:00.001-08:00

I like to think we're a sophisticated bunch of young adults in this house.

Ahem.

Sky Drive

2008-10-14T13:11:00.000-07:00

We have Sky in our house now. I was a little nonplussed about getting it to be honest because I don't watch that much TV anyway. But Stu (housemate) wants it for the sport and is paying for most of it too so fair enough.

It was only an extra pound per month for other packages of channels so I wanted the documentary channels too :) I hope there's going to be a few good travel documentaries on and stuff. I'm also looking forward to being able to watch new episodes of Fringe and Lost on Sky 1, but aside from that I'm not certain I'll use it much. Anyone know of any good TV programmes on Sky that I might enjoy watching (don't tell me about repeats of stuff I know that :P)

I did enjoy watching Bruce Parry's Amazon in HD last night though.

There was a film crew at my work this morning. It was bizarre. They were filming us for an in-house DVD about management and interviewed me about career development and I blagged it as I don't really know how I want to develop my career.

They also took photos of us in cheesy poses on our office swivel chairs and made me do an awful cheesy thumbs up face. It has been threatened that this will appear on awful posters to go up in Council buildings all over the City. Ugh.

In other news I had my first driving lesson in nearly 2 years today and it went really well. I thought I'd be really rusty but everything came back to me quite quickly. She marked me 4/5 for everything she tested me on (5 being test pass level) and I was getting more confident by the minute...

...Until some bint drove into the back of me.

Seriously, my first lesson in 2 years and I get rear ended. No good. It wasn't my fault I hasten to add. I was stationary in a queue of traffic and she came hurtling round the corner straight into the back of me without looking and whilst on her phone... My driving instructor was very nice and it sounded a lot lot worse than it was. It was just a couple of scratches and the woman was very apologetic. Still. Shook me up a bit though. It's as if I'm cursed and doomed not to drive!

Said incident then made me late for my theory test, which was also today. They let me take it anyway and I PASSED! Wayhay!

I got 50/50 for the multiple choice bit and 63/75 for hazard perception. Ha.

I'm off for a sticky toffee pudding :)

You gotta take the power back!

2008-09-04T11:25:00.000-07:00

I got my electricity back!

The boys' bathroom has been leaking into the electrics and shorted everything out but apparently it's all fixed and good now. Just had a bath. Yummy.

I'm desperate to start driving again. Getting the bus for over and hour each way to work every day is killing me. Plus a trampy old man kept touching my hair on the bus today and freaked me out. No good.

This weekend I'm out at the academy twice. Once Friday for Helen's birthday, and once Saturday for Raggey & Misty's farewell whatsit. Shall be tired. :p

Electricity-less

2008-09-02T11:05:00.000-07:00

I've been spending a lot of time at Alex, Josh, Jenny and Hannah's house because there's no electricity in mine and thus also no hot water which is a pretty miserable state of affairs. Also I'm alone with Russ in that house because Arran and Kelly are off biking in Cheltenham until god knows when and Stu is working evenings this week.

My nose is cold!

Reading Rocked!

2008-08-26T08:17:00.000-07:00

Reading was amazing (as always) very lucky with the weather. My top 3 bands were Rage Against The Machine, Flogging Molly and the Manics. I'll upload photos when my computer is being less shit though it'll probably just be of me and my mates and of no real interest to anyone as I'm too short to actually get any pictures of bands (though I think I managed to get one of Phil Jupitus).

Reading 2008 here I come!

2008-08-20T11:23:00.000-07:00

I'm off to the Reading Festival tomorrow!

Very excited. It will be muddy as hell though!*

*I don't know how muddy hell is, I've not been there yet.

The July Adventure, aka, Dorset 2008

2008-07-29T12:35:00.000-07:00

This past weekend I spent on an adventure with Alex, Josh and Hannah. It was super fantastic and I will now to try to convey to you how fantastic through the medium of words and pictures.

☆ Decided we should visit Stonehenge. Then added a trip to Poole while we were heading in that direction so Josh could try out two amps in a guitar shop there. Then added Alex taking us to Chapman's Pool which is his favourite place ever. An ambitious plan to say the least..

☆ Ate Curry. Stayed over at Alex, Josh and Hannah's Friday night.

☆ Up early (some of us earlier than others) Saturday morning. Didn't leave until gone 10am. Decided to skip out Stonehenge due to time/weather and head straight to Poole.

☆ Got bored in the car...

☆ Experienced traffic jams...

☆ Arrived in Poole 10 mins before Josh's guitar shop closed.

☆ Josh tries out amps for at least 20 mins while Hannah and I get our pasty legs out in the sun...

...sort out what she's doing with her life and put the world to rights.

☆ We then hop back in the car...

...don stupid hats and set off looking for the nearest beach.

☆ Find a beach in Bornemouth...

..it's brilliant.

☆ Alex strips off immediately...

...the rest of us faff about doing the 'get changed behind a towel dance.'

☆ We go in the sea...

☆ We eat ice creams...

☆ And generally be beach bums...

☆ Spot The Isle of Wight...

☆ Get a text from Alex's family friends who are on their boat moored up in Christchurch asking if we want to have fish and chips with them on their boat.

☆ Say yes please!

☆ Drive to Christchurch and see lots of cool boats...

...meet these lovely people...

...and their dog Toby...

☆ Eat fish and chips with nice people on their lovely boat.

☆ Get nervous in front of strangers and start blathering on about entrails.

☆ Strangers don't seem to care about my psychotic ramblings and invite us to stay over the night on their boat!

☆ Say yes please!

☆ Josh finds a guitar from somewhere...

☆ We go to an 800 year old pub in Christchurch. I drink pear cider, then we return to the boat and sleep.

☆ Next morning I wake up to a very nice breakfast complete with ~~home made~~ boat made smoothies!

☆ Josh took photos from the top of the boat...

☆ VeryNiceBoatOwningPeople ask us if we would like to take the motorised dinghy out for a little trip.

☆ Say yes please!

☆ Set out on motorised dingy. Drive out of the harbour to a tiny little bit of beach.

☆ See there is a carnival and a raft race with people dressed up as smurfs.

☆ See the Red Arrows!

☆ Play in the sand.

☆ Return to the boat (I drove on the way back. Wasn't bad but was a little better than Hannah who nearly killed us all!)

☆ Josh, Hannah and I relax...

...while Alex packs up the boat...

☆ Then we walk into Christchurch and buy Thank you Port and Thank you card for VeryNiceBoatOwningPeople.

☆ Eat delicious omlettes & toasties and yummy milkshakes in a cafe called Kelly's Kitchen.

☆ Set off back to Birmingham, nursing sunburn all the way.

☆ Sleep in the car.

☆ Watch Top Gear at Alex, Josh and Hannah's house.

☆ Return home and regail my housemates with stories of my weekend!

25 Things To Do Before Summer Ends

2008-07-13T14:58:00.000-07:00

25 things to do before summer ends

Seeing as how I don't have an original bone in my entire body, I'll confess that I stole this idea from here. I only did 25 coz I can't think of 50.

☆ Go on an adventure with my friends
☆ Dye my hair again
☆ Finish reading the Nightwatch Trilogy
☆ Have a picnic
☆ Go back to Sutton Park
☆ Take a load of photos of me and my friends so that I can remember this summer in years to come
☆ Go for a walk in the fields near our house
☆ Investigate Sutton Coldfield
☆ Finish packing
☆ Start learning Spanish again
☆ Wear somethings pretty/summery/girly for an entire day
☆ Take a day or two off to just relax
☆ Climb a tree
☆ Start doing yoga
☆ Get up very early in the morning to watch the sun rise
☆ See Lucy
☆ See Zoe
☆ Go to the Reading Festival
☆ Talk to a complete stranger without lying
☆ Wear some shoes other that trainer for a whole day
☆ Go barefoot for a whole day
☆ Pick some flowers for the house
☆ Have a water fight
☆ Do something great for the Alexes birthdays
☆ Make a fresh fruit salad

Groovy...

2008-07-08T08:33:00.000-07:00

I can't remember if I've written about this before, but my friend Bryony (I say friend, I mean person whose blog I subscribe to. Though perhaps in this Brave New World that counts, who knows?) decided a while back to make a zombie movie on the internet. So the premise is that people from all over the world can be invovled in script writing and acting and make up and effects and whatnot and it will be broadcast online when it's finished.

Anyway we've all been chatting (and mostly arguing :p) about making this movie and what it should have in it and all sorts for a while now. But now the BBC have decided to make a documentary about the making of this zombie movie. I shit you not.

Check it out: http://www.bbc.co.uk/zombies

And watch the video too! And get involved. It's exciting.

It's like living in an episode of the young ones...

2008-07-07T10:27:00.000-07:00

Got my internets!

My house is big, I'm sharing with my boyfriend and 3 mates I've known for 7 years so it's all good, we're like a big family... in a way. I'm the only girl in the house which also suits me just fine.

It's a long way from where I work though so I get home knackered every day.

(Can't be bothered to number my blogs any more..)

Blog # 12 - Home Sweet Home

2008-06-24T11:48:00.000-07:00

I am still alive!

I now live in Sutton Coldfield. I have a housewarming/Kelly's Birthday on 5th July. Most people have better things to do though apparently.

I don't have real internet yet. Only shitty dialup and it's making me impatient. I will write more once that's sorted.

Blog # 11- I can't say where it is but I know I'm going home

2008-06-15T14:56:00.000-07:00

Since I got back home today I've spent my time packing up all my belongings. It's almost 11pm and I'm not done yet. It took me half an hour to scrape all the blu tac off the walls.

Just thought I'd write in here before I pack up my computer. God knows where I'll be living next time I get to write in here!

Blog # 10 - Get Happy

2008-06-09T13:49:00.000-07:00

What cheers you up when you're feeling really awful?

I want to make a friend feel less shitty. Help?!

Your Personality Type: The Sensitive Doer

2008-06-08T13:14:00.001-07:00

Your Personality Type: The Sensitive Doer

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Blog # 9 - Six Go Mad in Newquay!

2008-05-28T14:50:00.000-07:00

What a brilliant weekend that was!
Only in Britain on a May bank holiday could you nearly catch pneumonia and get sunburnt in the space of 24 hours!
Good beach, good campsite, good scenery, good surfing, questionable weather, great company.
(Pictured: Jenny, Me (aren't I short?!), Josh & Kelly (my boyfriend). Not pictured: Alex (my best friend) and Hannah)

Blog # 8 - A Shameless Plug!

2008-05-27T11:23:00.000-07:00

Just a quick shameless plug from me...

My best friend Alex and my other friend Josh' band, Middle England, are playing a gig on Thursday night at the Mono Bar in Birmingham. (Map here).

It would be outstanding to see you all there! They're really good! Check out their MySpace if you don't believe me. It's a fiver on the door but if you ask me nicely I can get you a ticket for £3.50 :)

Anyone who has to travel will be able to kip on my floor. Let me know!

Blog # 7 - Me, but on a good day...?

2008-05-21T12:06:00.000-07:00

I've been having that Berocca stuff for the past couple of days. When I was on my teacher training course people swore by it so I thought I'd give it a go. I was wondering what I would be like on a good day anyway.

So far the only difference that I've noticed between normal me, and me on a 'good day' is that on these 'good days,' my wee is luminous yellowy green.

That is all.

Blog # 6 - You Get Less for Armed Robbery...

2008-05-20T11:26:00.000-07:00

Today is me and my boyfriend's 6 year anniversary

Aw!

Blog #5 - Sun-Shining and Tree-Scaling

2008-05-07T13:35:00.000-07:00

These past few days have been the first sign for me here in UsuallyCloudyBirmingham that summer might actually be on the way!

Sunshine always cheers me up, It's tricky to feel sad in the sunshine don't you think? I didn't even mind too much that it was like a greenhouse on the bus home from work today. Though I can see it wearing thin after a while...

Anyway I've been playing out a lot in the sun lately. Yesterday I left work early and the boyfriend and I went to the park to play with a boomerang my friend brought us back from Australia. I wasn't very good at it but I did get a bit better before the end.

At the weekend I played out at Sutton Park.

Today was my first proper day at my new job/promotion. I like it, it's got a lot more variety than my previous job. And I get a bigger desk. I know that shouldn't really matter, but I do make a lot of piles of paper when I'm working hard

I've also been told I have to make a presentation about stats to people who do my job from all the other offices. I think they'll regret that when they realise I can actually barely count!

Hope you're all doing well

~ Pixie

Blog #4 - I Woz Robbed!!!

2008-04-27T12:45:00.000-07:00

We got burgled Friday night
i was at the pub (only drinking orange juice because I'm still on all the drugs in the world) and my boyfriend was at a driving lesson. The house was only empty for one hour. And we'd locked up and everything.

When my boyfriend came back from his driving lesson he couldn't get in the front door, his key wouldn't work, so he went round the back, at which point I got a phone call of him asking 'did you leave the living room window open when you went out?' I said no, which mean one thing... robbed!

My boyfriend had to get in to the house through out living room window (apparently that's how the thieves got out). I came back from the pub and my boyfriend gave me the damage...

They took the PS3 + all the games, the laptop, a mobile phone + charger (how thoughtful), 2 cameras and a friend's rucksack which they'd emptied, probably to carry the PS3 in.

We called the police, they were busy and so didn't arrive until 3am. They asked us questions, took down details of what was stolen and gave us a crime number to tell the insurance company (yeh we're insured, thank fuck).

Apparently the downstairs toilet window is a really old crappy design whereby, even if it's locked, you can bash the frame hard from the outside, the lock pops up and if you're quick enough, you can open the window. That's how they got in.

Someone came about 5am to dust the pace for prints. They wore gloves and apparently the police reckon it was probably just the local heroine addicts. Thanks, I feel a lot better now...

It's not really the fact that they took stuff from me that shook me up, I'm insured anyway. it's the fact that some shit has broken into my house and seen all my private things. The whole place was entirely ransacked, all my drawers were open, my underwear drawer had been rifled through, my bedside table drawer (which has some..ehm..private stuff in). They'd clearly rifled through all my medication to see what was worth selling/taking. It just feels really violating and nasty.

We were thinking of moving anyway, but I'm sure as hell going to step it up a notch now!

Blog #3 - Bonnie & Clyde vs Dracula

2008-04-25T09:28:00.000-07:00

Bonnie & Clyde vs Dracula

Bonnie & Clyde vs. Dracula combines the rough and tumble world of 1930's era gangster movies with the violent gothic atmosphere of a classic horror film. When a robbery goes bad and one of their companions is shot, Bonnie (Tiffany Shepis) and Clyde (Trent Haaga) are forced to seek help at a nearby mansion, home to the twisted Dr. Loveless (Allen Lowman) and his imprisoned sister, Annabel (Jennifer Friend). But Loveless has a secret. Deep in his cellar, the recently revived Dracula (Russell Friend) awaits...

Seriously?!

Blog #2 - I bought I Bought A Vampire Motorcycle!

2008-04-19T10:14:00.001-07:00

Last night a group of friends came over to my house (I share a house with my boyfriend) to watch a DVD that we'd been wanting to watch for a while. Kelly (the aforementioned boyfriend) and I eventually bought it off Amazon for a friend for his birthday.

The film in question was I Bought A Vampire Motorcycle.

It's a British film from 1990 starring Neil Morrisey as the guy who buys the vampiric motorbike. As yes it's as silly as it sounds. The reason we were so excited to see it, not only do we love to watch bad horror films. It was also filmed on the very streets we live on! My local is even in it! That was very exciting indeed. Though lots of things are when you've had a couple of beers I suppose.

I didn't get up until nearly 3pm today. I think I was catching up from all the sleep I miss out on during the week. I could have carried on sleeping but in my mind if you get up any later than the time kids leave school for he day, then that's a terribly horribly lazy day indeed.

So the boyfriend and I have pretty much written today off as a day of laziness. We just watched Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure, which made me happy, and now we are faffing about on our respective computerboxes, drinking juice and eating Easter Eggs (yes, still!) That's what weekends are about I reckon.

~ Pixie

Blog # 1 - The formal introduction

2008-04-19T09:58:00.000-07:00

I did just start writing a post, then I realised this is actually my first blog post here so I should probably introduce myself first.

I'm Nicky, though online I tend to be referred to as Pixie, it was a nickname of mine when I was younger and it's sort of stuck as an online alias. I'm 23 and I live in Birmingham in the middle of England. I suppose you can find anything else noteworthy about me from subsequent blogs.

I have a whole host of blogs all over the place, I sign up to these things and then get bored quite quickly. I have a Livejournal, but that's mostly private or friends only, so I have dedicated this as my public blog. *decisive nod*

Just for fun, here is what I look like:

I think that is pretty much all I'm going to disclose right now. If you have any questions just ask :)

~ Pixie