A bank holiday!

It's a bank holiday today because of where Xmas day has fallen this year, but people have still gone to work today as the sales are still on and people are trying to get back to normal life after Xmas. I had a good one this year, got my ipod and I've spent the last two days getting it up and running, its nearly there now.

I'm feeling tired because once again it was 1am when I went to bed. My dad took my family out to see Avatar in 3d at the imax in Manchester. It was really cool! I'm not one for science fiction movies, but I got into Avatar because of the 3d images and this whole new world and everything that had been created! But there was too much and too drawn out battle scenes in it for me and I'm growing tried with plots about big headed Amercians taking over the 'smaller people' to get what they want. I'd like to see a movie about people discovering new worlds and trying to understand them, without the whole 'I am an Amercian therefore I shall take you to war, kill you all, then rule your planet to get more money' plot. Anybody know one of those movies?

Saturday night-boxing day! we watched movies on our DIY home movies screen. Firstly was Monsters vs Aliens which was good, then Rush Hour 3 which grew boring because of the not so funny jokes and I found that the out-takes were much more funny then I movie itself. Lastly was Hell-boy 2, which I only got into because it had such a Pan's Labrthyin feel to it. It was done by the guy who did Pan so I guess that's why the tooth fairies ect looked oddly familiar. It was okay and the different take on Elves was interesting. So that was another 1am bed time!

The snow has almost all melted now, which is good, but we are expecting more. My cold has come back, which is a pain and I still have lots of reading to do! Hungry now tho, time to eat!

Today's pics!

My dog Sandy in the snow!

My brothers and I built this snowman which later turned into a bear and Sandy helped too!

It's Christmas!

Well in a few hours it'll be Xmas Eve and my Christmas will start officially. I'm looking forward to it and getting my I-pod touch! Though I wish I could do away with the Christmas stress and for me that has already begun with my brother. He really knows which buttons to press to wind me up and it seems he is really pushing it tonight. I've no idea how to cope with him and he seems to take get delight in making me feel upset. Maybe its just the middle-child-syndrome or its national pick on Hails day and nobody told me.

Moving on, I think! There has been a lot of snow in the last few day and its stuck. It's the deepest snow fall I've seen in a good few years before Xmas eve and its even snowing right now! It's large sticky snowflakes, more chaos for tomorrow now......that's the only thing I've been hearing on the news about all the travel problems and how things are might to get better, but I don't think so watching it fall from the sofa. Sandy has just got back in after nipping out, she's covered in snow but not wet. She likes the snow! I guess because it gives her more things to chase. I don't fancy going out now!

I braved it before in my skirt to help with the Christmas food shopping which went well but the shop shelves looked so empty as if someone had said there was going to be a food shorted or something! Guess most people have left their shopping to the last minutes because of the weather. The snow is fun but it gets boring so quickly.......

It's Christmas!

At last the Christmas decs have gone up in my house! I'm currently sitting in the living room with my parents, watching a film -sorry its not a Christmas one!-But the Christmas tree looks really good, the colour scheme is red, gold and sliver and I just love the glass ornaments and the teddy bears, plus the Jingle Bug is also in the tree! For those that don't know him, he comes from a book all about Christmas with bugs and its a kid's book. It's one of my favourites tho! Also the wooden beams are covered in white fairy lights and the ceiling boarder has been done too now.

The tinsel is on the door, the xmas cards are stringed up along the wall and we were listening to xmas music before! So now all that is need as the presents under the tree and for it to start snowing! :) Feels strange, feeling Christmasy but I just can't believe it is here again! Last year was my first Holiday from uni and I can still remember hurrying out of my room whilst the Amercians were getting their goodbyes and then being dragged into photographs by my SA. This year it'll be different, I'll be leaving my housemates and hoping that they remember to empty the fridge and bin before they leave! I'm looking forward to getting my i-pod touch and spending time with my family.

I'm almost finished with my second to last essay now. Still got a fast passed week ahead of me now, the last week = an essay due in every day, 3 nights out and trips to orm market once more. I shall try and make the most of it and not get too stressed! I give my presentation on monday, scary! Then I'm out to tea with my eng lit friends. Tuesday my play script is due in and I'm off to a friend's xmas party that night. Wednesday my poems are due in and then I'm off to Liverpool for a night of celebrations! Thrusday my last day and my change to get my last essay in. If not it'll be friday before I go home, because that is when it is due in, but I don't want to be worrying about handing it in. have to see, bit if a pain tho!

Then I'm going to take a break from work and just chill out! I so need to right now!

This is me, hunting for Penguins in Liverpool! Its a bit like the Superlambanana thing, but this time there are penguins covering the whole of Liverpool! It was fun finding them.

A new month and its nearly Christmas!

I'm not sure where I'm finding the time to write this, because I've so much work to do right now! It's all uni work and writing assessments and reading. I had a chill out last night, grabbed my friends and watched some movies! We did a lot of talking and they did alot of drinking. We also listened to some music at 1am. I had to get up today at 7 to make it to my lecture and it was like 3am when I went to bed. I'm tried, but I've had a good day, firstly read some of Anne Rice's Merrick and I've nearly finished it now and it was the good part where the ghost turns up! my lecture was boring and I suffered from not printing out the slides. Then descovered that for my essay I didn't have to answer the question but show the sources I'd use and way, which is pretty cool but I'm starting to think is going to be harder the answering the question!

After I went to the IT desk and went through the blogging system for my edgehill blog-link coming later!-they use wordpress in the old form so I need to go over there in a minute and write my first blog there! Then I hit the LRC and returned some books to take out some more. Shockingly I found a lot of books that I could use for the essay above, so I took them out and then some Shakespeare for my scriptwriting. I've written a play about fairies and I'm hoping A Midsummer's Night Dream is going to help me write my fairies speech better then I had it.

I'm going to spend the rest of the day writing about a poet and then I might look at my poems again and choose some to be read out tomrrow. Going home tomorrow but must take work with me! I'm just so busy!