So need to start writing on here more, but once again I've been so busy, this time with getting ready to go back to my student house and getting back into uni life. Also the fact that my laptop has gone for repairs and I've been luck enough to get my hands on a loan laptop from the company has not helped much. I like it because I can still have a laptop to hand when I need to write or check up on the uni notice board, but its a pain because I keep trying to access my files which of course are not on here! Like my music and my photos which is such a big pain when I'm writing my uni blog- http://hi.edgehill.ac.uk/blogs/hayley/ which had to have 3 photos as well. I'm desperate to get mine back now and I'm sort of worried about its safety in the huge world! Hopefully they will call tomorrow about it.
So I've spent since Wednesday back at the Aubergine- my student house's nickname- and been unpacking, tidying my room and the house, as well as studying a little. Also I've become slightly cheesed off at my housemate and his girlfriend. I've been trying to patch up the communication break down we had before xmas and this morning I had hi to her and she give me a really dirty look. Last night she asked me to turn my tv down because they could hear it down stairs, which is fair enough, but I pay to live here and she doesn't! Then they were up till early in the morning talking and could just about here every word, but I didn't have the guts to texted her to be quiet.
That is the hardest part of all of this, I just don't have the guts to confront them over it all. But my fear is that I'm going to snap on day and its all coming to come out. It's not just about the talking, its their laziness. The fact they leave their washing up in the small kitchen and sink and just expect everyone else to be able to use it or move it for them. They hardly clean the kitchen tops after they have used them and they just seem to do no work at all whilst I struggle through mine. I know it wasn't going to be easy living with them....students are never the easiest kind of people to live with but I just want a solution and one that's going to stick to fix things up. I'm stuck for ideas and can't wait till the end of spring when I can leave.
Still I start uni again next week and I'm glad all the snow has at last gone! The rain has got rid of most of it and things are safer outside now. Unlike Thursday when everyone was sliding all over the place because of the ice. I'm looking forward to going back and learning more. Just have all the reading to do before hand! I'm off to update my other blog now: http://cactusbob9.wordpress.com/ and do some more reading!
Sunday, 17 January 2010
Friday, 8 January 2010
A snowy winter in Manchester!
OK, So I just wrote this post and an error page came up and now my post is lost in the cyberspace! Why does my week carry on getting worse? Anyway I'll try and remember what I'd wrote now!
So, I sorry I've not wrote in a few weeks but I've had writer's block properly because of the stresses of uni work, being ill and Xmas. I decided that there was no point in writing badly, so decided to have a break in writings of all forms. Just as I'm starting to get back into it though, my laptop dies! Well he's not really dead as in hard drive or anything PC related its more that the AC/DC power adapter has died or as the nice guy on the phone told me 'the power pin in the PC has binged' so its gone off for repairs and so typical of these things I've no idea when I'll be getting it back.
Now I'm stuck fighting for time on the home PC which is a lot fast and better (sometimes!) but it means I've to fight four other people off who want to be on facebook, do school work, the diving club, check emails, watch movies and up/down load music. So I'm typing fast and praying to the god of computers to give me five minutes more before my hour is up and its someone else's turn!
Moving on, the weather has been crazy, suddenly winter has decided to be snowy and not its normal rainy, cold and just a hint of sun. It's really snowed up and down the UK and no one is much prepared for it. You can't really get anywhere without falling into deep snow, falling on ice buried under the snow or being hit by a skidding car! Things are just so dangerous and nothing has been really gritted.
I went out yesterday and was thankful of my leather, lamb skin lined, Amercian fly jacket, (I was addicted to Memphis Belle and B-17s some summers back and bugged my mum for a jacket) it was so warm whilst it was so cold out there. I did get a little shopping with my mum done before I hurried home for a hot drink.
They say there is more snow coming! I'm due back at the student house on Monday night and even if it doesn't snow this weekend, I'll have to wait here for my laptop because there is no way I can be over there without it! Hopefully I'll have got rid of my third cold in a month and half too.
Next time I write-hopefully-it'll be from laptop!
So, I sorry I've not wrote in a few weeks but I've had writer's block properly because of the stresses of uni work, being ill and Xmas. I decided that there was no point in writing badly, so decided to have a break in writings of all forms. Just as I'm starting to get back into it though, my laptop dies! Well he's not really dead as in hard drive or anything PC related its more that the AC/DC power adapter has died or as the nice guy on the phone told me 'the power pin in the PC has binged' so its gone off for repairs and so typical of these things I've no idea when I'll be getting it back.
Now I'm stuck fighting for time on the home PC which is a lot fast and better (sometimes!) but it means I've to fight four other people off who want to be on facebook, do school work, the diving club, check emails, watch movies and up/down load music. So I'm typing fast and praying to the god of computers to give me five minutes more before my hour is up and its someone else's turn!
Moving on, the weather has been crazy, suddenly winter has decided to be snowy and not its normal rainy, cold and just a hint of sun. It's really snowed up and down the UK and no one is much prepared for it. You can't really get anywhere without falling into deep snow, falling on ice buried under the snow or being hit by a skidding car! Things are just so dangerous and nothing has been really gritted.
I went out yesterday and was thankful of my leather, lamb skin lined, Amercian fly jacket, (I was addicted to Memphis Belle and B-17s some summers back and bugged my mum for a jacket) it was so warm whilst it was so cold out there. I did get a little shopping with my mum done before I hurried home for a hot drink.
They say there is more snow coming! I'm due back at the student house on Monday night and even if it doesn't snow this weekend, I'll have to wait here for my laptop because there is no way I can be over there without it! Hopefully I'll have got rid of my third cold in a month and half too.
Next time I write-hopefully-it'll be from laptop!
Monday, 28 December 2009
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!
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!
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
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.......
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.......
Saturday, 12 December 2009
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!
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!
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