And so my 2010 Highlights blogs come to an end! I am so very sad.
Lady Gaga
Not that I've ever been to many, but this was the best concert of my life! Beforehand was quite fun too - Kerri stealing Claudia's phone then eating a MASSIVE bit of chocolate cake in one bite so that we wouldn't have to pay for dinner, lol! *coughcoughcoughcoughcough*
"We are Semi! Precious! Weapons! Do you like my boots? We are here to introduce you to the one person in the world we love more than ourselves - LAYDEE GA-GA!" Lololol the warm-up band was so very mockable!
I will never forget how we went to the bathroom after that, just before Lady Gaga actually came on. I was at the sink when the girl beside me just turned around and asked, "Do you want some fake blood to put on?" Never before have I been propositioned in such a way!
Then it was time for the GREATEST SHOW EVER! I will admit - I wasn't really sure if I was going to like it, because back then I knew all of Gaga's hits but I wasn't that into her music, and I was worried in case it was a really vulgar show. But I needn't have worried in the slightest! It was amazing in every possible way - her outfits were unbelievable, I really loved the living dress from So Happy I Could Die (even though Claudia and Kerri were both more transfixed by her shoes, but anyway...), the sets were awesome, the dancing was class, her voice is PERFECT live - and when she spoke to us between songs, it was such a good message, which I wasn't entirely expecting either. But I agreed completely - you shouldn't change who you are for anyone else, be proud of who you are because you were born this way! Ever since I have been a massive fan of Lady Gaga - I'm proud to be a little monster because she really is an incredible woman!
Musical
The musical this year was Joseph, or "Jophus" as it was dubbed by Mr Cowan. The soundtrack to it is completely amazing and very random, I love it! This was made better by a really good orchestra this year. Of course, because of an entire week of snow, the rehearsals were WAY behind schedule, but the whole thing went pretty well anyway! As always, I was on lights, which was made difficult by Mr Howes and Mr Cunningham BOTH making impossible requests, Mr Howard being absent, and all of the lights deciding to BREAK.
The box-controlled lights were flickery. The tracker was "pathetic" - quote Mr Cunningham, that's pretty bad. The UVs didn't pick up the sheep. The strobe, which we spent about an hour wiring up (and then knocked over all the scenery) was unused. And the smoke machine failed on one occasion too!
But we got through it, despite more snow at the very end which even managed to get the after-party cancelled, and I really enjoyed my last school musical!
Of course, this was also the period of time when James started his oh-so-cryptic letters. On the Thursday night, knowing that another letter had gone up, we ran outside to find 3G signal so I could look his blog up on my phone and we could read it, then basically had seizures when we found TWO more! And of course we spent the entire show that night speculating about them, it was fun!
Christmas
Christmas this year was... different. Granda was in hospital, so half of Christmas Day was spent there with him - we were only supposed to be there for an hour or so, but then the car wouldn't start due to the cold, and my other Granda had to come up to Newry with jumper cables, which meant we were there for way longer than anticipated. Not the best way to spend any day, let alone Christmas.
But then there was yesterday - that absolutely crazy day when we played Harry Potter Cluedo (and discovered that James has a special bond with mandrakes), baked cookies (and discovered that blue food colouring just doesn't work), and played a LOT of Twister (and discovered that my legs are prone to just seizing up). It was probably the best day of the Christmas holidays, for me! Despite the facebook hacking -_-
There were a few other good points, of course: watching lots of random movies, snow, sledging, getting completely addicted to Degrassi, doing Jordan's Christmas shopping in Newry, and MANY games of foosball - it was all very Christmassy, and just nice! Yay!
New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve was also the first night of Cafe 180 this year - quite a lot of us attended, and I was also scribbling furiously due to my blogging duties! But the big deal was afterwards...
CONTAINER PARTY CHEZ LE CLAUDBECK!
I don't think I'll be forgetting exactly what I was doing at the start of 2011 (watching a poster fall down and talking about, er, stuff), and then basically spending the whole night talking about, er, other stuff. The atmosphere in the container apparently induces openness, and conversation topics that otherwise would never ever be mentioned? At any rate, it was a brilliant night! And I got home at 2, if anyone's wondering >.>
2011
Who knows? But bring it on!
Further 2010 Highlights
Thursday, 30 December 2010
Almost done! I considered putting all the rest into one massive post, but I figured it would get boring. Instead, this is a shorter post, and there'll be another short one tomorrow! Then it'll be 2011...
SU Weekend
Every time I think of the SU weekend, the first thing that comes to mind is ADAM'S DRIVING TEST! Aka best photo challenge ever. We created this story at about 3 in the afternoon - that was also the time at which I properly woke up that day, after being rudely awoken an hour early, telling everyone off and apparently frightening them (that made me laugh so much), going back to sleep, and then going around Bow Street Mall half asleep.
To Save A Life! That was such a good movie, Sarah and I were freaking out in case our favourite character died - and he almost did!!! Then our team came second at Cluedo... good enough.
Sleeping arrangements were an interesting factor of the weekend. My airbed deflated more times than could possibly be counted, though it was still one of two ships in a sea of lava... and Adam brought a TENT!
Oh, and Pizza Hut on the last day was brilliant, with everyone having a drinking competition due to the free refills, lol! And then listening to K-Pop the whole way home... in John's car. Still not sure how that happened.
So yeah, in conclusion, the SU weekend was both great craic and really encouraging, such a brilliant experience!
Merlin!!!
Very few people understand my fascination with Merlin, but the fact remains that from September to December, I was completely captivated by it. (We won't mention that at this time Glee was also captivating me illegally, with one episode in particular making me go "!!!", because people might get angry if I wrote spoilers for it.) However, this year Kerri started watching it too! And I think she understands my motivations for watching it. And shares them. Have I ever mentioned that I love Irish accents? Oh, not to mention that I really liked the plot this season, the finale in particular was stunning! But this is obviously irrelevant when one considers GWAINE.
Snow Days
I don't remember ever having snow in November before - let alone enough to get us off school! However, this year we had a massive snowfall, which was also present through most of December, which basically screwed up everyone's lives =D
Let's see: it made me get into a car accident, it kept us off school for about a week in total, it threatened to demolish the musical, and it meant that the hill outside out house turned into the best place to go sledging EVER! Because it was basically just pure ice so we zoomed down at faster speeds than you can possibly imagine! It was such awesome fun that we even kidnapped Jordan one day to play at it some more (after doing lights on our DAY OFF), and she agreed that sledging is fun. Yay! We also went to Spelga. Which was good. And I wore snow boots into school one day, then we got cake because there were so few of us xD
SU Weekend
Every time I think of the SU weekend, the first thing that comes to mind is ADAM'S DRIVING TEST! Aka best photo challenge ever. We created this story at about 3 in the afternoon - that was also the time at which I properly woke up that day, after being rudely awoken an hour early, telling everyone off and apparently frightening them (that made me laugh so much), going back to sleep, and then going around Bow Street Mall half asleep.
To Save A Life! That was such a good movie, Sarah and I were freaking out in case our favourite character died - and he almost did!!! Then our team came second at Cluedo... good enough.
Sleeping arrangements were an interesting factor of the weekend. My airbed deflated more times than could possibly be counted, though it was still one of two ships in a sea of lava... and Adam brought a TENT!
Oh, and Pizza Hut on the last day was brilliant, with everyone having a drinking competition due to the free refills, lol! And then listening to K-Pop the whole way home... in John's car. Still not sure how that happened.
So yeah, in conclusion, the SU weekend was both great craic and really encouraging, such a brilliant experience!
Merlin!!!
Very few people understand my fascination with Merlin, but the fact remains that from September to December, I was completely captivated by it. (We won't mention that at this time Glee was also captivating me illegally, with one episode in particular making me go "!!!", because people might get angry if I wrote spoilers for it.) However, this year Kerri started watching it too! And I think she understands my motivations for watching it. And shares them. Have I ever mentioned that I love Irish accents? Oh, not to mention that I really liked the plot this season, the finale in particular was stunning! But this is obviously irrelevant when one considers GWAINE.
Snow Days
I don't remember ever having snow in November before - let alone enough to get us off school! However, this year we had a massive snowfall, which was also present through most of December, which basically screwed up everyone's lives =D
Let's see: it made me get into a car accident, it kept us off school for about a week in total, it threatened to demolish the musical, and it meant that the hill outside out house turned into the best place to go sledging EVER! Because it was basically just pure ice so we zoomed down at faster speeds than you can possibly imagine! It was such awesome fun that we even kidnapped Jordan one day to play at it some more (after doing lights on our DAY OFF), and she agreed that sledging is fun. Yay! We also went to Spelga. Which was good. And I wore snow boots into school one day, then we got cake because there were so few of us xD
More 2010 Memories
Wednesday, 29 December 2010
Okay, I have been slacking in my blogging lately... But I am going to try and have all my year's highlights up before Saturday! Here are some more, I think either one or two more posts should cover them all.
English Classes
Going to English classes was one of the best decisions I've ever made. I've made friends with people I never would have met otherwise, I've learned some Polish, throughout the month of March I had a martenitsa around my wrist, and I've been able to actually help people. To put it simply, helping out at English classes is probably the most worthwhile thing I've ever done.
Birthday Party
On first appearances, my birthday party this year wasn't as spectacular as, say, a trip to Belfast. However, it was BRILLIANT. First of all, we went to Newry and saw Alice In Wonderland - mehh. But then, we got back to my house! Claudia and Kerri had made some amazing decorations, consisting of posters which now live with Caspian in my wardrobe and a paper chain of all my favourite things which still hangs over my window! We played the Who Am I game - I remember I was Sue Sylvester and couldn't figure it out at all, lol - we played truth or dare with help from Claudia's iPhone and Kerri had to lick some soap, then we did prank phone calls!
Poor Jordan, she got the 'aeiou' Tempest chant, and some random water (with Kerri yelling she broke my toilet in the background). Someone relevant to Amy was also phoned with water, and there was one other golden phone call made when a thing laughed hysterically and we were having real difficulty keeping quiet!
Then we discovered Sarah's number hadn't been on private. And laughed at her.
April 18th AKA Nico Day
All I have to say is hahahaha him and his six big boys!
September 14th
That day was incredibly fun for two reasons! First of all, it was the Shakespeare workshop - we got to go see Genevieve!!! Even if she didn't see us... It was also the day when Amy decided to get a lift home with me, then when we were driving down Knockchree Avenue Josh's head popped out of my boot! LEGEND.
Shakespeare
Where do I even start?
Anyone who is well acquainted with me should know that the Shakespeare School's Festival was basically my favourite part of the past 3 years. I don't think anyone who's never been onstage can really imagine the sheer thrill of it all, that amazing sense of achievement when it's all over and you know you nailed it, or the amazing sight and sound of a standing ovation like the one we got at the Waterfront this year... it's just unbelievable, and so worth all the work we put into it.
Especially when the work is so enjoyable! The first time we saw the fairy scene done properly I think I got chills, the music for that scene is so gorgeous, too! On that note, I'm so glad Claudbag was there this year too, it just goes to show that we weren't lying when we said it was fun, because we converted her!! And she did so much amazing work for it, it just wouldn't have been the same without her!
Seeing all the scenes evolve was brilliant - for example, the time we decided to try the opening scene with the strobe, then Mr Cowan told us it looked like a scene from a seedy Berlin nightclub ("Why, do you go to them often?"), or the first time I pretended to hit Jason in a sensitive area and everyone thought I had REALLY DONE IT and were shocked at me, and then of course my skirt ripping... twice.
So many memories! Suffice to say that I loved doing it so so much, and I'm really going to miss it next year!
English Classes
Going to English classes was one of the best decisions I've ever made. I've made friends with people I never would have met otherwise, I've learned some Polish, throughout the month of March I had a martenitsa around my wrist, and I've been able to actually help people. To put it simply, helping out at English classes is probably the most worthwhile thing I've ever done.
Birthday Party
On first appearances, my birthday party this year wasn't as spectacular as, say, a trip to Belfast. However, it was BRILLIANT. First of all, we went to Newry and saw Alice In Wonderland - mehh. But then, we got back to my house! Claudia and Kerri had made some amazing decorations, consisting of posters which now live with Caspian in my wardrobe and a paper chain of all my favourite things which still hangs over my window! We played the Who Am I game - I remember I was Sue Sylvester and couldn't figure it out at all, lol - we played truth or dare with help from Claudia's iPhone and Kerri had to lick some soap, then we did prank phone calls!
Poor Jordan, she got the 'aeiou' Tempest chant, and some random water (with Kerri yelling she broke my toilet in the background). Someone relevant to Amy was also phoned with water, and there was one other golden phone call made when a thing laughed hysterically and we were having real difficulty keeping quiet!
Then we discovered Sarah's number hadn't been on private. And laughed at her.
April 18th AKA Nico Day
All I have to say is hahahaha him and his six big boys!
September 14th
That day was incredibly fun for two reasons! First of all, it was the Shakespeare workshop - we got to go see Genevieve!!! Even if she didn't see us... It was also the day when Amy decided to get a lift home with me, then when we were driving down Knockchree Avenue Josh's head popped out of my boot! LEGEND.
Shakespeare
Where do I even start?
Anyone who is well acquainted with me should know that the Shakespeare School's Festival was basically my favourite part of the past 3 years. I don't think anyone who's never been onstage can really imagine the sheer thrill of it all, that amazing sense of achievement when it's all over and you know you nailed it, or the amazing sight and sound of a standing ovation like the one we got at the Waterfront this year... it's just unbelievable, and so worth all the work we put into it.
Especially when the work is so enjoyable! The first time we saw the fairy scene done properly I think I got chills, the music for that scene is so gorgeous, too! On that note, I'm so glad Claudbag was there this year too, it just goes to show that we weren't lying when we said it was fun, because we converted her!! And she did so much amazing work for it, it just wouldn't have been the same without her!
Seeing all the scenes evolve was brilliant - for example, the time we decided to try the opening scene with the strobe, then Mr Cowan told us it looked like a scene from a seedy Berlin nightclub ("Why, do you go to them often?"), or the first time I pretended to hit Jason in a sensitive area and everyone thought I had REALLY DONE IT and were shocked at me, and then of course my skirt ripping... twice.
So many memories! Suffice to say that I loved doing it so so much, and I'm really going to miss it next year!
Letter 5
Tuesday, 21 December 2010
Dear you,
Ever since we got to know each other, for some inexplicable reason you have become one of my favourite people in the world!
Like all friends, we have things in common; in fact, it honestly freaks me OUT how similar we are, because it just should not be logically possible! I mean, we have the exact same taste in books, websites, music, tv shows and even men, we have the same sense of humour, both of us are stalkers, are creative, have obsessive personalities, don't bother much with how we look, are excellent procrastinators and have to force each other to be productive, get attached to people easily, and so the list goes on!
Zipping along now; another reason that our friendship is an odd one is that you know a different side to my personality from other people, almost - or at least, you know things about me that other people don't. At any rate, I feel that I can be totally real with you without you judging me, which is something I am so grateful for.
Just because we've had some serious conversations - including those about your man problems, lol - it doesn't mean that we're just each other's agony aunts, though; my favourite memories involving you are the times when we literally couldn't breathe from laughing, were talking about complete and utter nonsense, and basically just going insane together!
Also, you're one of the only people to whom I can bear to use endearments - probably because you use them so much yourself! Nevertheless, it actually feels more natural than weird when you call me "dear", and vice versa, which is another reason I don't mind it.
Eventually, our friendship is going to wear out - I'm not naive enough to think it'll last forever, even though we can stay in contact more easily now, but I wish it could, because you are without a doubt the rarest, randomest, and most inexplicably close friend I've ever had; even though for obvious reasons you could never ever be one of my best friends.
Love you dear!
-Emma
PS - The clue is in the beginning.
PPS - After I wrote this, I reread it and realised that apart from like one detail, it could conceivably apply to someone else PERFECTLY. Ah well, let's confuse people some more!
Ever since we got to know each other, for some inexplicable reason you have become one of my favourite people in the world!
Like all friends, we have things in common; in fact, it honestly freaks me OUT how similar we are, because it just should not be logically possible! I mean, we have the exact same taste in books, websites, music, tv shows and even men, we have the same sense of humour, both of us are stalkers, are creative, have obsessive personalities, don't bother much with how we look, are excellent procrastinators and have to force each other to be productive, get attached to people easily, and so the list goes on!
Zipping along now; another reason that our friendship is an odd one is that you know a different side to my personality from other people, almost - or at least, you know things about me that other people don't. At any rate, I feel that I can be totally real with you without you judging me, which is something I am so grateful for.
Just because we've had some serious conversations - including those about your man problems, lol - it doesn't mean that we're just each other's agony aunts, though; my favourite memories involving you are the times when we literally couldn't breathe from laughing, were talking about complete and utter nonsense, and basically just going insane together!
Also, you're one of the only people to whom I can bear to use endearments - probably because you use them so much yourself! Nevertheless, it actually feels more natural than weird when you call me "dear", and vice versa, which is another reason I don't mind it.
Eventually, our friendship is going to wear out - I'm not naive enough to think it'll last forever, even though we can stay in contact more easily now, but I wish it could, because you are without a doubt the rarest, randomest, and most inexplicably close friend I've ever had; even though for obvious reasons you could never ever be one of my best friends.
Love you dear!
-Emma
PS - The clue is in the beginning.
PPS - After I wrote this, I reread it and realised that apart from like one detail, it could conceivably apply to someone else PERFECTLY. Ah well, let's confuse people some more!
Letter 4
Dear you,
You are one of those people whose presence in my life is far from obvious, but I adore you! I honestly can't say that I know that much about you, I don't obsess over you or anything, but from what I have heard, you are such an awesome person! You fight for what you believe in, you somehow manage to be both over-the-top but genuine, and you are incredibly talented. In fact, you are an inspiration to so many people, which is something that I really admire.
I find myself able to relate to your music so much, even though the lyrics are sometimes a bit nonsensical - sometimes the upbeat ones entertain me, sometimes the slower ones calm me, but no matter what my mood, I could listen to your album the whole way through, because there isn't a single song on it that I dislike! In fact, even though I only truly got into your music around Halloween, you are one of my most listened-to artists, which is a pretty big accomplishment considering that I listen to a LOT of music!
However, I don't make it that obvious that I'm a big fan of yours - I know that some of my friends wouldn't approve of you, but whatever. To me, you're a star - keep shining!
From Emma
You are one of those people whose presence in my life is far from obvious, but I adore you! I honestly can't say that I know that much about you, I don't obsess over you or anything, but from what I have heard, you are such an awesome person! You fight for what you believe in, you somehow manage to be both over-the-top but genuine, and you are incredibly talented. In fact, you are an inspiration to so many people, which is something that I really admire.
I find myself able to relate to your music so much, even though the lyrics are sometimes a bit nonsensical - sometimes the upbeat ones entertain me, sometimes the slower ones calm me, but no matter what my mood, I could listen to your album the whole way through, because there isn't a single song on it that I dislike! In fact, even though I only truly got into your music around Halloween, you are one of my most listened-to artists, which is a pretty big accomplishment considering that I listen to a LOT of music!
However, I don't make it that obvious that I'm a big fan of yours - I know that some of my friends wouldn't approve of you, but whatever. To me, you're a star - keep shining!
From Emma
Letter 3
Dear you,
But now, I don't know what I'd do without you! I know I can be annoying a lot of the time, but it alleviates some of the boredom/tension. I love when we scheme together, and generally just have a giggle - you would definitely be a Slytherin, and now that I know you better I appreciate that part of your personality more, because quite often it amuses me!
You're such a little contradiction! You have a very sharp tongue but yet somehow still manage to be a genuinely nice person, you work so so hard but you slack off whenever you can - lol I actually think that's my corrupting influence - and even though you have a calm demeanour you have zero tolerance for idiots. And you're so smart! You amaze me with your organisational skills!
Basically, I'm so glad that after a rocky start we somehow managed to become good friends after all, because you are awesome! I don't even know if you even think of me as one of your close friends, and I don't think many others would think of us as close, but you have become one of my favourite people, just because you're you!
From Emma
2010 Highlights Continued
Sunday, 19 December 2010
One blogpost to sum up the year would have been of a ridiculous length, so the first one is not the last one. This one is also not the last one, it is only the second one. However, read on to discover more reasons why this year was awesome:
FunFriday
Unarguably the greatest type of Friday ever invented! Even though their original purpose was to watch the Harry Potter movies, because Kerri had never seen them (this is 2009, but it's too epic to leave out: Harry Potter and the Hand Fetish! And then assigning characters - Snape was obvious, but Oliver Wood, Moaning Myrtle and Dobby?!), they turned into Claudia and I going insane. Through them I was introduced to a great many things (a certain mini drama comes to mind *cough*), they were basically just great craic!
Some FunFriday memories:
February 12th was the Camp K-Pop/CD and DVD birthday swap, yay! Haha apparently we tried to learn SHINee that day and couldn't tell the difference between Key and Onew?
April 16th, when we watched Death Note! And then 2 weeks later we watched Death Note 2, and mum called us to dinner 5 minutes before the end and RUINED IT - Kangin faces were not enough to express our displeasure, lol. Apparently that one was actually PhoneFriday! And now I want to watch Death Note again.
For May 7th, I am going to directly quote a paragraph from my diary.
"Anyway, we then relocated downstairs so we wouldn't burn the pizza, then Claudia said "Smells like a pizza house in here!" in a "But you don't need them. You have me now. I am perfect." voice, which made me laugh so hard I literally couldn't stop until I pinched my elbow like in EHB. But then we forgot the exact way she said it! It was just like another "Let's go fishing!" "OKAY!", lol."
We also had a Super Saturday in March, which I am including just so I can mention the army man on the Chinese channel who leaned forwards every couple of words, lolololol! And then there was also the arrival of the Bonamana CD - HIGH NOTES! - when I went out of the room for a moment, and came back in to find Claudia looking incredibly suspicious, but I just shrugged it off. Then later that day she msned me saying "JAEJOONG!" and I had no idea what she was talking about, until mum came in, told me to go to bed, and when I closed all my windows to turn the computer off JAEJOONG WAS STARING AT ME FROM MY BACKGROUND. "Oh, so now you even have them on your computer..." *mum walks away in disgust as somewhere in her evil lair Claudia is cackling away to herself*
Sleepovers
Two sleepovers this year! The first one was at my house at the start of July - Claudia and I watched Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the guy in it looked like Gatsby ("Poor slob without a name!) - and this just made me think "haha Conrad in Death Note, now there's an illusion!", I think that's a random text I got a few days after, what?? - and Harry Potter 6 ("RON RON!"), then Claudia discovered Taemin was young ("No way. No way. NO WAY!"). And she woke me up at 5 to say that SuJu are having some sort of world tour, what?!
Then at the start of August, it was the annual sleepover chez le Claudebag! We watched Sexteplets, I forgot my PAJAMAS, I burnt toast at breakfast, a toastie at lunch and a pizza at dinner, then Jordan and James arrived with a brownie pie and we solved Mrs Manta Ray riddles!
FunFriday
Unarguably the greatest type of Friday ever invented! Even though their original purpose was to watch the Harry Potter movies, because Kerri had never seen them (this is 2009, but it's too epic to leave out: Harry Potter and the Hand Fetish! And then assigning characters - Snape was obvious, but Oliver Wood, Moaning Myrtle and Dobby?!), they turned into Claudia and I going insane. Through them I was introduced to a great many things (a certain mini drama comes to mind *cough*), they were basically just great craic!
Some FunFriday memories:
February 12th was the Camp K-Pop/CD and DVD birthday swap, yay! Haha apparently we tried to learn SHINee that day and couldn't tell the difference between Key and Onew?
April 16th, when we watched Death Note! And then 2 weeks later we watched Death Note 2, and mum called us to dinner 5 minutes before the end and RUINED IT - Kangin faces were not enough to express our displeasure, lol. Apparently that one was actually PhoneFriday! And now I want to watch Death Note again.
For May 7th, I am going to directly quote a paragraph from my diary.
"Anyway, we then relocated downstairs so we wouldn't burn the pizza, then Claudia said "Smells like a pizza house in here!" in a "But you don't need them. You have me now. I am perfect." voice, which made me laugh so hard I literally couldn't stop until I pinched my elbow like in EHB. But then we forgot the exact way she said it! It was just like another "Let's go fishing!" "OKAY!", lol."
We also had a Super Saturday in March, which I am including just so I can mention the army man on the Chinese channel who leaned forwards every couple of words, lolololol! And then there was also the arrival of the Bonamana CD - HIGH NOTES! - when I went out of the room for a moment, and came back in to find Claudia looking incredibly suspicious, but I just shrugged it off. Then later that day she msned me saying "JAEJOONG!" and I had no idea what she was talking about, until mum came in, told me to go to bed, and when I closed all my windows to turn the computer off JAEJOONG WAS STARING AT ME FROM MY BACKGROUND. "Oh, so now you even have them on your computer..." *mum walks away in disgust as somewhere in her evil lair Claudia is cackling away to herself*
Sleepovers
Two sleepovers this year! The first one was at my house at the start of July - Claudia and I watched Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the guy in it looked like Gatsby ("Poor slob without a name!) - and this just made me think "haha Conrad in Death Note, now there's an illusion!", I think that's a random text I got a few days after, what?? - and Harry Potter 6 ("RON RON!"), then Claudia discovered Taemin was young ("No way. No way. NO WAY!"). And she woke me up at 5 to say that SuJu are having some sort of world tour, what?!
Then at the start of August, it was the annual sleepover chez le Claudebag! We watched Sexteplets, I forgot my PAJAMAS, I burnt toast at breakfast, a toastie at lunch and a pizza at dinner, then Jordan and James arrived with a brownie pie and we solved Mrs Manta Ray riddles!
Ok, Claudbag commandeered this post - but there are more memories on the way!
Letter 2
One more for now!
Dear you,
I don't hate you. Just wanted to make that clear. I don't think I could forgive myself if I did dislike you, though.
That's not to say that you make it easy. You can be extremely irritating, and a lot of the time I think you do it on purpose. Oh, and the way you never work - or at least, you seem to waste a lot of your time - is infuriating!
However, you can be very funny sometimes, we actually have quite a similar sense of humour. In some ways I respect you, because you're naturally very gifted even if you don't always make the most of it.
I don't really know what else to say to you, because it's not like we're really good friends; far from it, I don't think that would ever be possible! In fact, you know what's weird? THIS.
From Emma
Dear you,
I don't hate you. Just wanted to make that clear. I don't think I could forgive myself if I did dislike you, though.
That's not to say that you make it easy. You can be extremely irritating, and a lot of the time I think you do it on purpose. Oh, and the way you never work - or at least, you seem to waste a lot of your time - is infuriating!
However, you can be very funny sometimes, we actually have quite a similar sense of humour. In some ways I respect you, because you're naturally very gifted even if you don't always make the most of it.
I don't really know what else to say to you, because it's not like we're really good friends; far from it, I don't think that would ever be possible! In fact, you know what's weird? THIS.
From Emma
Letter 1
Now that James has started slacking in his blog posts, I feel that the world needs some more scandal/controversy/chaos. So behold, this post is the first of what may or may not become many cryptic letters of my own! Enjoy... or not.
Dear you,
You are far from the first person who comes to mind when I think of everyone I know, which is why I'm writing to you first. Just to confuse everyone that little bit more. However, I have known you for quite a long time.
Someone once told me that they think you lie a lot. I looked at them in confusion, not having a clue what they were on about, but I'm starting to agree with them. It's in the little things, I don't even know how to describe it, but I definitely think that you at least exaggerate a lot. I don't know if it's pathological or a defense mechanism or if I'm just imagining it, but whatever it is, I really can't stand that about you.
It also really bugs me how when people are joking around, quite often you kind of put a stop to it. I don't know if you just have an underdeveloped sense of humour or you just enjoy sucking everyone else's joy out of the world, but either way you seriously need to lighten up a bit!
However, you are a great person to know. You can actually be really funny in your own way, and you are loyal to your friends, but I don't think I could ever be one of those friends because I don't know if I could ever fully trust you. I know, it's awful, isn't it? But it's the truth. I really don't think we'll stay in touch in the future, so I thought I'd better say this now - good luck! Because despite your faults - well, you wouldn't be human without them - I do still really like you as a person, and I honestly hope that everything works out for you!
From Emma
Dear you,
You are far from the first person who comes to mind when I think of everyone I know, which is why I'm writing to you first. Just to confuse everyone that little bit more. However, I have known you for quite a long time.
Someone once told me that they think you lie a lot. I looked at them in confusion, not having a clue what they were on about, but I'm starting to agree with them. It's in the little things, I don't even know how to describe it, but I definitely think that you at least exaggerate a lot. I don't know if it's pathological or a defense mechanism or if I'm just imagining it, but whatever it is, I really can't stand that about you.
It also really bugs me how when people are joking around, quite often you kind of put a stop to it. I don't know if you just have an underdeveloped sense of humour or you just enjoy sucking everyone else's joy out of the world, but either way you seriously need to lighten up a bit!
However, you are a great person to know. You can actually be really funny in your own way, and you are loyal to your friends, but I don't think I could ever be one of those friends because I don't know if I could ever fully trust you. I know, it's awful, isn't it? But it's the truth. I really don't think we'll stay in touch in the future, so I thought I'd better say this now - good luck! Because despite your faults - well, you wouldn't be human without them - I do still really like you as a person, and I honestly hope that everything works out for you!
From Emma
SCANDAL
So today I just so happened to stumble upon a letter Jordan wrote... I thought this is something that should be shared with my loyal readers. SCANDAL SCANDAL SCANDAL!!!
Hey honey,
Just wanted to say that I'm really glad we had that fling! For me, it was definitely the best part of the Scotland trip. I think you're perhaps my one true love, I certainly wouldn't want to cheat on Peter with anyone but you!
I could sit for hours listing the things I love about you... your eyes, your smile, the way the room lights up for me when you walk in, the loving way in which you tell me to "calm down", the fact that you're female just like me, HICKEYS, all our fishing trips together, and basically everything about you, from your eyebrow to your toenails!
However, I think that our budding romance has come to a temporary end. For now, we must become star-crossed lovers who simply gaze at each other from afar, at opposite sides of the library, not even meeting for secret trysts in the maths store. Some day, we shall be together again, but until then we will only be together in our hearts.
Eternally yours, my love.
Jordan xxx
SO EVERYONE, WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS OUTRAGEOUS SCANDAL?!?!
Hey honey,
Just wanted to say that I'm really glad we had that fling! For me, it was definitely the best part of the Scotland trip. I think you're perhaps my one true love, I certainly wouldn't want to cheat on Peter with anyone but you!
I could sit for hours listing the things I love about you... your eyes, your smile, the way the room lights up for me when you walk in, the loving way in which you tell me to "calm down", the fact that you're female just like me, HICKEYS, all our fishing trips together, and basically everything about you, from your eyebrow to your toenails!
However, I think that our budding romance has come to a temporary end. For now, we must become star-crossed lovers who simply gaze at each other from afar, at opposite sides of the library, not even meeting for secret trysts in the maths store. Some day, we shall be together again, but until then we will only be together in our hearts.
Eternally yours, my love.
Jordan xxx
SO EVERYONE, WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS OUTRAGEOUS SCANDAL?!?!
Adieu, 2010!
Friday, 17 December 2010
I have now been on blogger for almost a year, gasp! That year just so happened to be 2010, so it feels rather appropriate to dedicate a blog post to the year. Thanks to my diary (a Christmas present from Claudbag), I have a complete record of the year, so here are my highlights, handily categorised for your convenience:
Holidays
I know no one really wants to hear about these, but I had to include them! However, I'll make it short.
I wasn't the best year for holidays - mum snapping her cruciate ligament while skiing was technically 2009, but still. France and Switzerland in July were wonderful, though, I love the Alps! The Bournemouth Air Festival was also one of the coolest days ever, and Lanzarote at Halloween was so relaxing - I love how both a Dublin gangster and a minor footballer were staying at our hotel, lol. But holiday of the year HAS to go to London for sheer awesomeness: meeting up with Erica ("cotching!"), going to see Wicked, talking to the Asian magician - it was just incredible, one of the best experiences I've ever had!
Belfast
Yay, Belfast! It's one of the only places around here to which you can have a proper outing, and for me, there were 3 memorable Belfast trips this year.
First of all, there was the time in January, when Claudia, Kerri and I had one of our random days out. We saw Avatar, I left my gloves on the bus then almost left the Merlin calendar I had just bought in Cruise, and we danced Sorry Sorry at Claudia's Uncle Gordon's house! It was such a random fun day!
Then there was the time we went after the exams in June, and we saw Prince of Persia! And discovered that at some point, Jake Gyllenhaal got hot! That trip can be summarised in 3 quotes: "Look Emma, a cat! Meow." "It's pourin' outside... Eunhyuk would be happy." "I keep wanting to baps people in here - it's like my addiction to the grabby machines!"
The we-are-back-to-school-but-off-again-because-now-we're-U6-and-therefore-awesome Belfast trip in September was just brilliant! Going to the museum (when we were in the art section: "I feel like I'm in Death Note!" "Except it would be 'PAULINA PAULINA'! Or 'LAVALAMPO'!"), getting posters for the common room, discovering Café Arirang, walking past Conradstopher, and not being able to play Countdown in TGI Friday's because the waiter didn't bring us crayons, aww!
Newcastle
Such a random place, but so many good memories this year! Again, three main trips there stand out.
The first time, we went to Mauds, where Jordan made a strange concoction out of hot chocolate, milk/malk, tea, chocolate cake, sugar, cherries, salt, and a LOT of pepper. Which tasted predictably disgusting. Then we went to Claudia's house for tea and I got a curfew! FAIL.
At the end of August, there was one day when we were almost all in Newcastle, we were at the amusements for ages and Jordan found some 89p stickers on the ground! Ha when we stuck them on Claudia's Irregular Choice bag she almost had a seizure! Then we went to my house and played taboo for ages - this was the occasion when we discovered a penny-farthing can only ever be ridden by old men in top hats with handlebar mustaches, New York is in fact a place in New York, Claudia does not need a parachute and she likes to shake those dice! And then we hacked Jordan's facebook, oh gosh that was priceless - in a complicated relationship with her brother! Lololol.
Then halfway through September, we had another Newcastle experience - sitting on a bench trying to persuade Sarah to go to Winemark as an experiment, then the guy staring at us, meeting Adrian in KFC, getting brownies, doing laps, freaking out when the drunk guy who had been fighting across the street started walking across the road towards us and we couldn't figure out how to lock the doors, dancing all the way home and then running over a ghost... that was a pretty legendary evening!
Holidays
I know no one really wants to hear about these, but I had to include them! However, I'll make it short.
I wasn't the best year for holidays - mum snapping her cruciate ligament while skiing was technically 2009, but still. France and Switzerland in July were wonderful, though, I love the Alps! The Bournemouth Air Festival was also one of the coolest days ever, and Lanzarote at Halloween was so relaxing - I love how both a Dublin gangster and a minor footballer were staying at our hotel, lol. But holiday of the year HAS to go to London for sheer awesomeness: meeting up with Erica ("cotching!"), going to see Wicked, talking to the Asian magician - it was just incredible, one of the best experiences I've ever had!
Belfast
Yay, Belfast! It's one of the only places around here to which you can have a proper outing, and for me, there were 3 memorable Belfast trips this year.
First of all, there was the time in January, when Claudia, Kerri and I had one of our random days out. We saw Avatar, I left my gloves on the bus then almost left the Merlin calendar I had just bought in Cruise, and we danced Sorry Sorry at Claudia's Uncle Gordon's house! It was such a random fun day!
Then there was the time we went after the exams in June, and we saw Prince of Persia! And discovered that at some point, Jake Gyllenhaal got hot! That trip can be summarised in 3 quotes: "Look Emma, a cat! Meow." "It's pourin' outside... Eunhyuk would be happy." "I keep wanting to baps people in here - it's like my addiction to the grabby machines!"
The we-are-back-to-school-but-off-again-because-now-we're-U6-and-therefore-awesome Belfast trip in September was just brilliant! Going to the museum (when we were in the art section: "I feel like I'm in Death Note!" "Except it would be 'PAULINA PAULINA'! Or 'LAVALAMPO'!"), getting posters for the common room, discovering Café Arirang, walking past Conradstopher, and not being able to play Countdown in TGI Friday's because the waiter didn't bring us crayons, aww!
Newcastle
Such a random place, but so many good memories this year! Again, three main trips there stand out.
The first time, we went to Mauds, where Jordan made a strange concoction out of hot chocolate, milk/malk, tea, chocolate cake, sugar, cherries, salt, and a LOT of pepper. Which tasted predictably disgusting. Then we went to Claudia's house for tea and I got a curfew! FAIL.
At the end of August, there was one day when we were almost all in Newcastle, we were at the amusements for ages and Jordan found some 89p stickers on the ground! Ha when we stuck them on Claudia's Irregular Choice bag she almost had a seizure! Then we went to my house and played taboo for ages - this was the occasion when we discovered a penny-farthing can only ever be ridden by old men in top hats with handlebar mustaches, New York is in fact a place in New York, Claudia does not need a parachute and she likes to shake those dice! And then we hacked Jordan's facebook, oh gosh that was priceless - in a complicated relationship with her brother! Lololol.
Then halfway through September, we had another Newcastle experience - sitting on a bench trying to persuade Sarah to go to Winemark as an experiment, then the guy staring at us, meeting Adrian in KFC, getting brownies, doing laps, freaking out when the drunk guy who had been fighting across the street started walking across the road towards us and we couldn't figure out how to lock the doors, dancing all the way home and then running over a ghost... that was a pretty legendary evening!
To be continued...
Poor Blog Without An Update
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
If you were wondering, the title was a terrible attempt at rewriting a quote from Breakfast At Tiffany's.
So I have not written a blog post in a while. This is not a blog post, or at least not a real one. That's not to say it's an imaginary one, it just means that it's not very exciting.
However! By the end of the year I will have written an account of the year's highlights, all thanks to my diary! I don't know how I used to not write a diary, that must have been weird.
Oh, and James's letters are driving me insane with guessing - YES, ALREADY - and giving me the urge to write more letters because I did very much so enjoy the letter meme.
(If you're curious, I know who number 1 of James's letters was because it was OBVIOUS, I'm almost certain I know who number 2 is, I have a theory about number 3, I'm not sure about number 4 and I have NO IDEA about number 5!)
UPDATE: Apparently I was wrong about number 2, but right about 3 and 4? (Not that I've got any straight answers!) Life is complicated...
So I have not written a blog post in a while. This is not a blog post, or at least not a real one. That's not to say it's an imaginary one, it just means that it's not very exciting.
However! By the end of the year I will have written an account of the year's highlights, all thanks to my diary! I don't know how I used to not write a diary, that must have been weird.
Oh, and James's letters are driving me insane with guessing - YES, ALREADY - and giving me the urge to write more letters because I did very much so enjoy the letter meme.
(If you're curious, I know who number 1 of James's letters was because it was OBVIOUS, I'm almost certain I know who number 2 is, I have a theory about number 3, I'm not sure about number 4 and I have NO IDEA about number 5!)
UPDATE: Apparently I was wrong about number 2, but right about 3 and 4? (Not that I've got any straight answers!) Life is complicated...
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