Time to Get Fit for Summer!

Hey! I've decided to get more fitter and loss some weight. So I'm doing something of a diet with a lot of exercise thrown in. This has mostly been on the Wii fit because the mere thought of a gym scares me and then there is of course all the mega fit and toned people that might be there at the same time as me.....so for starters I'm doing an hour a day of a range of Wii fit plus activities and already I've lost a few pounds and am I feeling like I've more energy. Also I'm doing half an hour running with my dog Sandy.

She's old now and I often find her limping at my side or else she's a mile behind me eating grass....Today when I give her the choice of places we could go to, she choice to go to the woods. Within seconds of setting out it started raining heavily and the wind was really strong and cold. I so wanted to turn back but the chances of the weather not changing was not good-it snowed this morning! So I walked on and then sort of spent an hour in the woods within out really thinking about it.

Cute dog!

Now I'm drier and it seemed that I'm heading off to the cinema on Friday to see how to train your dragon with some friends. Hopefully we'll be watching it in 3d! I manged to see Alice in Wonderland on Monday with free tickets that I got for the time Harry Potter blew up when I went to see it....It was alright, bit slow, but more worth my free tickets that New Moon would have been-I'm still disappointed with that one.....

Lastly then I'm writing a novel about pirates.....It was inspired by the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and its going really well...shame none of my uni work is getting done though!

Exploring Bronte Country

Hey, on sunday my family and I went to Haworth villiage which was where the Bronte sisters lived and wrote their novels. This trip was suggested by my mum because I told her that I had to read Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre for my 3rd year eng lit. I'm not too keen on this kind of novel- period romance- because I normally read vampires and fantasy, so my mum thought that if I could see where the inspiration for the novels had come from that I might get into them.

I think that I might prove her true! I had a good time in Haworth wondering around and reading the guide book. I would read random facts out to my family and I took a lot of photos! I liked exploring the graveyard at the church where the Brontes went to. This is because one of my hobbies is studying headstones and looking at their design. There was a lot of intersting headstones to see!

We also walked through some of the countryside which inspired Wuthering Heights. There were some really nice views! I could see why such places would get people writing. There were lots of walks we could have taken but we took a small short cut root and headed off to Haworth cemtery.

There I found some more intersting headstones and my parents had to drag me out of there because I was just wondering and taking photos for far too long! We wondered back to the village then and I brought a book about ghosts in Haworth which was really great because it was about the graveyard as well, so I found some more graves that needed to be visited.

I didn't get any story or poem ideas through, but I did get a deeper understanding of how the Bronte sisters lived and I'm hoping that this is going to get me into the novels now. Speaking of which they came today with some of the others I've to read. I've got 3 chapters of Kell's Legend left to read...wonder how long I can draw them out for......

Is off for easter!!!!!!!!!!

Happy St Patrick' day too-sorry its late, but I was busy last night and to clear up any mistakes that might be made, the photo is in fact of a Yuletide Gnome pertaining to be a Leprechaun. He was knitted by my mum, of an Irish friend.

So I've finished university for three weeks now! But I still have a ton of work to do, like the bulk of my essays. But if I don't do them then there's just going to be no way I can get through. So I've to work over Easter. Should keep my mind active though!

I'm still reading Kell's Legend. I've been sucked in but work has been demending lately, so I've not got very far into it yet though. I'm enjoying reading it though. It reminds me of Warhammer novels a little bit, only this is a lot rougher! I heard also that there's a second book due out soon, so I must keep an eye out for that!

Also today I'm spreading the word about Pineapple Journals. It's a publishing website that me and two of my friends have set up. I'm hoping that people will be submitting their work to us soon!

http://www.pineapplejournals.co.uk/

The Busiest part of the year is nearly here!

This is my current reading book for pleasure. It's written by a guy who taught me in first year and I really liked his writing style back then. So this is Remic's new book and it just happens to be about vampires! I started reading it and so far, I'm mega enjoying it. Strange to think that it's such a 'manly' book and I'm a young woman who just so happens to be reading it right now!

Back to my title then:

The busiest last few weeks of uni are something that every student must dread. It then comes down to when students wish they'd not gone to the all-night parties and drunk so much at the clubs. Some wish they'd spent more time in class and others ponder why they didn't sit down to plan that final essay earlier!

Well, this is my last week, before I've three off for Easter. I only have one thing due in and that's a reading as a writer essay for Wednesday. I've done it, but now it needs some more work and quotes. So my plan was to go back through it tonight and I still shall, but my only problem is time. My big problem with Monday is the fact I don't finish till 6 and then I've 20 minutes walking home, a few more dumping my stuff and planing my tea. Often then its 20-40 minutes cooking tea, a few to dish up and wash things, then half an hour eating. Then its 7.30 and I don't want to start doing work really. Mostly this is because my brain is hurting after the intense English lit class and the thought of more work just drains me.

But I must, because I need it ready to print out tomorrow and I don't finish till 5pm. I know once its sorted it'll give me some breathing space. This will only be a few hours though, because then I must dive straight into another.

This is because I want to get the bulk of my essays and exam revision done over Easter, so that I'm free to do other things-such as enjoying the last of my second year classes and being with friends, who I know I won't see over summer because they live so far away etc.

I'm going to stick with my plans and I've been inspired today because my short story essay, got me 69 marks! I'm happy with that and also a little bit cheesed off because if I'd put on page numbers and indented my lines it would have hit 70 and 1.1! but still nothing can be perfect, I've learned a lesson and now I'm just so proud of myself. So its onwards and upwards now. With any luck!

Lastly comes Bioshock 2!

At last the weeks of watching my dad play this game have come to an end. at 1.30am on Sunday morning, he finished it and we both suddenly found ourselves with nothing to do and a lot of time on our hands. It's been shocking how much time Bio has taken up. I have to say though it was worth it. I really enjoyed this game, though Bio 1 is slightly better! I'm attracted to the story within the game, because this is very good and doing all the different missions as well.

Wow, I'm so turning into a boy......quick need to do something girly!!!!

This is one of my all time favorite movies! I watched Howl last night when I was home-alone and feeling down. No matter what mood I'm in when I watch Howl, it always picks me up and I feel better after watching it. I always seem to get sucked in the fantasy and of course having such a cute male character to stare at helps! Christian Bales' voice also makes Howl more attractive to me. It's hard to explain to my friends why I've such a big crush on an animated character but I just do!

If you've not seen Howl then go and see it! The animation is really good and so is the plot line!

"That can't be good for the table...."

My first favorite scene of Howl, is where he removes the scorch marks from the table....must be all that flying hair!

"You bugs better run!"

My second favorite scene is when Sophie decides to clean Howl's Castle! It's just so funny!

I guess if you like Spirited Away and want to watch more like it, then Howl is differently worth it. Also my other favorite Studio Ghibli is Princess Mononoke.....mostly because of the tree spirits! They are so cute!

Are we cute or scary?

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I've had a very productive day today; went to Ormskirk Market-its historical-got my mum a mother's day present for next Sunday, some heel grips for my new shoes-my heels are destroyed because of them, not good. :*( Then I got some hedge cutters and when I came back I attacked the trees, bushes and hedge in the front and back garden. They were growing wild and getting in the way-some of them anyway! so I cut them back a bit and then swept up and stored out the 'yard' area beside the shed and the gate.

Then I revised for my exam on Wednesday morning, I'm going to ace it because I'm writing about Wordsworth and Coleridge and I could talk about them forever, so hopefully I'll be able to write about them and their poems in my exam!

I tidied my room too. Landlord's got someone coming to poke around the house on Monday. He's giving us £10 to go out for tea. So that should be nice, shame the house has to be spotless before hand! Trying to get the boys to do stuff has been so hard, take D- for example today: "I'll clean the cooker. I'll do the bathroom, I'll vac the stairs if you want. I'll vac the mess I made with the paper shredder in the common room later"......and what has he done? Nothing! Typical male student!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not doing them, he said he would, so there.

Okay, so it won't let me add another image......strange. Anyway, that can wait for next time. I think I've said enough for now.....

The Mysterious Goat

Okay, so how does a mountain goat represent my university? Well, though my uni, is in the middle of nowhere and is surrounded by farming fields, there are no goats-special not mountain goats! Maybe its historical and symbolic to the uni? But so far I've no information to back this up. So I came to a decision, why not find out about this little guy and write about him on my uni blog page?

Easier said then done! I went to the Student help desk and the woman there had no idea about the goat and thought I was talking about ghosts!-which might be easier to look into because of the history of the uni, but still.....at last she phoned someone and directed me to email them. Shame she give me the wrong email address! so today I want to the Facility management help desk instead. They give me the right address and said they would look into it for me. So now I'm waiting and pondering.......

"Where have the mountains gone?????"

Next then is my essay for tomorrow! I have to study how a writer has written a poem/book/play, which isn't easy to do because I've to look at techinques and how things have been achieved. I decided to do Waiting For Godot by Sam Beckett because the play interested me and I had lots of notes about it. It was only 1000 words so I wrote it up fast. Wish I could do it for lit tho, there's just so much that can be said about the play and the fact that if Godot did so up everything would make sense!

I'm also going out tonight to see Jenn Ashworth at the Rose Theater. Hopefully it'll be good and then its off for drinks in Orkskirk!

http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/rosetheatre/2010/03/03/jenn-ashworth

Till then, I'm going to catch up with my short story reading......

A quick update!

I've been ill with a bad cold last week, so didn't get to write on here. Now I'm snowed under with uni work and so don't really have the time to be on here. I'm taking a break whilst I eat lunch and then rush off to lesson. Beside from being ill, that is what my life feels like now, always rushing off to some uni class or doing some uni work. Its not easy! Time has been playing tricks on my mind too, it seems that the student house is in a different country on a much slower timeline then I have at home. No matter what I'm doing really, time seems to drag here. Like now, I can't believe its only 4 minutes past 1pm, its sure doesn't seem to be that because to me I feel it should be much later. Worrying I have to be in class for 2pm.

It's Renaissance Eng lit today, I'm studying Milton. I found it difficult to read and got lost with the characters speaking and the narrative and then I found out that the version in my book wasn't the full thing. So I decided what was the point in trying to read it if it wasn't the real version? So I only read so many pages.

At least I got enough sleep last night....feeling refreshed but rushed. I've an essay due in on Thursday, just began writing it this morning. Its for writer's context and is looking at how a writer has written the piece. I'm doing Waiting For Godot, which though I found boring at first, has become interesting to me because of how Beckett plays around with time and nothingness. So its fascinating to see how the writer has constructed the play around these themes and how they come out for the audience.

I should be rounding off now. Need to find my shoes and pack my bag before I go. I'll try and write more in the week and put up some pics too. Until then!