This crazy life is getting to busy to handle!

This is my new house come September. Looks even better on the inside. I'm glad that its all be sorted now anyway, that's any other thing off my mind.

I've just become snowed under-ironic!-by all my uni work. No matter how much time I put a side to plow though it all more just keeps showing up! It's just becoming so bad that I've no time to write my own stuff and I'm now glad that I've not started the last book of my new trilogy, because I'd have no time to even think about it! I've also been trying to get stuff together to put on here and send off to publishers, but this hasn't happened really because time just keeps running away from me. I feel like I'm chasing after Time most of time now!!


I sort of had the day off on Saturday. Went to Liverpool with Abi and Sam. This pic is of Abi in her natural habitat-Waterstones! She just loves it and I'm becoming attacted to the places myself. Such a great place to buy books and then read them. We did some small shopping and then watch a movie; Ponyo, the new anime movie from the guy who did Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle. I was looking forward to it, but I was let down by the simple fact that it was aimed at young kids and so I didn't get the whisked off feeling I always get when I watch the others. Still the animation is really cool, but unless you're going to go with someone under ten, don't go watch it at the movies. I felt really strange leaving with my over 18 friends!

On Sunday, I baked a cake. The second time I've made something like this by myself in the student kitchen. It turned out really good! The thing is though, it looked a little bit plain when I put the white icying on top and having fussy eaters for friends, it was hard to decided to else to do with it. Luckily, the last students had left some ice writing pens in the cupboard, so I got them out and drew the first thing that came into my head....

It looks and tastes so good! I've been eating it for breakfast!

Moving on, last night went to the pub quiz, didn't win but had a good time though. Here's me and kirsty.....

Lastly then, I'm doing a research project on blogs by published (or unpublished!) writers and poets ect. So if you are one or know a blog that is, please can you let me know because it would be a great help towards my work.

Thanks!

When your head won't let you work...what do you do?

This is my housemate and best friend Abi, drinking from a long straw at our movie night. (this doesn't really anwer my question tho!)


There's many answers to that question, right now I know I should come away from my laptop, make my room dark and curl up in my bed, but I just can't. I've work to start, which I fear won't get done now because its the editing and re-drafting of my story. I've to do some more reading too. I'm not sure where this headache has come from.


I spent lunch time roaming around the historical Ormskirk and pondering before shop windows. Then Abi shows up out of the blue....strange thing this. She told me she was going to the LRC, so I ahead into town alone. Then just as I'm about to arrive, she comes around a corner and we almost bump into each other. Turns out she just wanted to check her emails on the student address and knowing I was going to Ormskirk had decided to walk the 'back way' from uni. Still it freaked me out though.


We had ice finger cakes in the park and then got surroned by ducks, who appeared to be more greedy then hungry. So after they helped us finish off the cakes, we headed for home. I also had a phone call about people coming to view the house-they want to buy it-next week. So I put up a notice telling everyone the dates and times.

But it seems I've triggered off an arugment between the boy and his girlfriend, who live under me. I've heard them talking about moving stuff around and other things. I'm wondering if the bad energy in the air is where my headache has coming from. Still, I'm not well at the minute and lacking in sleep again...maybe that is the true nature of the pain?


Don't think heavy metal is helping much, but I need to block out their voices and the silence that presses so painfully around here. I'm sleepy now too....this just won't do! Maybe eating something would help.....anyway here are some pics.


News artical, from last week. that I agree with. (click to enlarge)

The latest Gnome has finally been claimed.

Let sleeping dogs lay

This is my dog Sandy. She is a German Shep cross boarder collie, I've had her for 9 years now and I rescued her from Manchester dogs home in 1999. She was my 12th birthday present! I'd be lost with out her in my life now, she's just become such a huge part of who I am. She's my best friend and though I'm away at uni now-sometimes for 3 weeks without coming home-she is never far from my thoughts.






Being an old dog now, Sandy does a lot of sleeping! In fact most of the pics I now take of her are of her sleeping because she spends so much time napping. She likes to wear her bandanna when I come home and have her tummy tickled. Sunday is her favourite day because she gets a 2 hour walk in our local woods and then left over Sunday chicken bits for her tea.






Sandy enjoys most of the same things I enjoy too; like swimming! Its difficult to keep her away from any open water. She is fond of the seaside and spends hours in the sea, bugging people to play with her. She also has a skill of feeling with her paws for her toy and then putting her whole head under water to retrieve it. She likes digging holes on the beach too.






She also likes snow and with all the snowfall we've had recently its been very easy to get her to go on a walk. Here she is enjoying the snow....

So my title does relate to Sandy, but it also has to do with the things that have been going on in my life over the last 2 or so weeks. I've had to join the Edge Hill students crazy house hunting season once more and the struggle to find a place has been the bane of my life for the past week. The housemates are not the problem, I'll be living with two of the people I'm with now and another guy, who is doing my creative writing course and is a close friend of one of my best friends there.

The location of the house has been the issue! Like most students we decided to be lazy and pick an area closer to uni then we are now. Of course everyone else decided to do just that as well! So when we phoned to book views for the houses, they had already gone! We did see three in the area but 2 we just missed out on and the 3rd was available but you had to appeal online and compete with other students to get it.

A week, this Thursday just go we saw a really nice house which was most suitable to our needs but it was on the next street and only a few houses down to where we are now. Having no luck last Wednesday, we decided to see if it was still for rent and to take another look around. We've now gone for this house and shall be signing the papers and paying the summer holding money on Monday night. :) So me and friends are now out of that hunt!

I've no pics of house to put up, but I'll put this one of last weeks snowfall instead.

I'm at home this weekend, chilling out and de-stressing after that mad week! Also my brother is 18 and we are celebrating that. I'm also thinking about getting some of my short stories and poems prepared to send off to first editing publishing, which I've seen a poster of on my course notice board. Looks like a good place to start submitting things too.....

My new Target is also to write on here more! My problem is I'm just so buy reading, writing and of course I have to do my blog of edge every week now. but still, I'm sure I can start to find the time.

Back at uni with a loan laptop

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!

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!

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!