Monday, January 31, 2011

January

Well, I don't know about you but I can't believe that January is over.


Seriously, where did the first 31 days of 2011 go?!


Just a quick overview of the year so far:


So all in all, I'd say I've had a good start to the year!


Good nights out with good friends, some good pictures, good movies, good laughs, good tunes, you know, everything has been, for the most part, pretty damn good!


Does that mean that it was all good? 


No.


Last Tuesday morning (and Tuesday in general) was a hard day for me, felt very socially awkward, very emo and was wallowing in my own self hate and self-pity.


I can't even remember why... I think it was a jokey remark that I took to heart because I believe that it's true. I know that the person making the remark didn't mean it. This is why you have to be careful with what you say people. 


Just because you didn't mean it and the person you made the comment about knows that, don't assume that they didn't take it to heart. Anorexics believe that their fat, so If you make a joke about them being fat, it only adds to their disorder.

Just saying :)



All better now! Until next time at least.


This February is quite important to me in all honesty. Maybe, If I really trust you, I'll tell you why. Maybe not. I don't know. I'm a coward.


However, enough about all that!! Let's remember the good times!


Heather's party.
Domino's at Jennifer with her and Michelle.
Going to the cinema with Abie and Lewis.
Grease Photography.
Frankie and Benny's with Heather and Chloe.
Michelle's fitness DVD.
Rachel's random outbursts in Art
Watching Black Swan.
The fact that Helen is engaged. *mind explodes*
Realising that I can eat BBQ pizza from Pizza Hut without being sick.
Ms Shaw vs Megan


One more bad time dude:


One of my bestest buddies leaving school. That hurt. Can't believe she's gone!


I want her just to move in with me, I can't cope with not seeing her for long periods of time! *Cries*


OH! And here's my aims for January:

Go bowling

Watch Black Swan
Draw five things
Bake Something
Pass Psychology NAB
Clean
Phone Michelle


Haven't got results from Psychology NAB. But I sat it!


Drawing five things failed majourly. Didn't draw anything.


Aaaaah well!


Needing some aims for February. If you can suggest some, I'd really appreciate it!


Thank you!


Have a good February everyone!


Lauren xxx

I AM THE COOKIE MONSTER!

Oooooh deary me.


Before I get into what happened, let me tell you my new favourite phrase.
"Over the shoulder folder holder".
A.K.A. a man bag.


I love Ashleigh ^_^


Main convo of the day was prom. Prom, prom, prom, prom, prom.


I don't think I can be bothered with it.


Linzie really wants to go so she says if there's no prom, she's going to hold her own one, in her bedroom.


Good luck with that!


DOUBLE ENGLISH

Mrs Fulton wasn't in the best moods today... So it kind of sucked.



Had to do a Close Reading paper too, damn I hate Close Reading. 

Talked to Lee though, think that me, her and Kelly are going into see "Black Swan" and have a Jimmy Cheungs.



HAPPY DANCE!

I love how Lee was incredibly popular throughout English, so popular in fact, she had to take her battery out of her phone cause it was vibrating more than a....

It was vibrating a lot.

Favourite text she received?
KELLY: Tee-hee!
Bless. 


DOUBLE HUMAN BIOLOGY


Dr Robertson was being a sweetie pie again.
DR ROBERTSON: So if I was going to have a fight with Jason, my blood would start pumping and I would wet myself.
ABIE: ... Did he just say...
LINZIE: Yeah.
Abie was slagging off Linzie for her bedroom prom.


She told her that she'd end up wearing a duvet and eating Heinz tomato soup.


Linzie and Abie were crying with laughter... no seriously, CRYING.


Stayed for the first part of lunch, not too much happened. Just more talk of prom really.


Went home after that.


Watched the end of "Terminator 2".


Much better film than "Terminator". Thought the characterisation and plot were much more engaging.


Was going to watch "The Godfather 2".... but realised that it's 3 hours 20 minutes long!! Screw that!


Headed to the shops to get ingredients for baking cookies after that... failed miserably. Just bought eggs and chocolate chips... forgot sugar, vanilla essence, baking soda, baking powder and light brown sugar.


So had a stroll to my Grandma's house... so creepy now. A house that was once so full of life, now stripped of every living creature. Other than that? EVERYTHING is in it's place.... *shudders*

Realised that not even my Grandma's house had the ingredients I needed. So I went back to the shops... realised that they had packet cookies.



Bought that instead.


I laugh in the face of this sign. Hah.






Turned out well though!

Have a happy week!

Hope the first month of 2011 went well for you all!!

Lauren xxx

Sunday, January 30, 2011

100th post!

Daaaaaaaaaaamn!


Is it 100 blog posts already?


Creepy!


Hopefully, the past 99 posts have been as fun for you all to read as it was for me to write!


It's only been around about 4 months, feels like I've been doing this for years!


So thank you all for taking the time out of your day to day lives to read about what's been going on in my life <3 Love you all!


Went up to see my little cousin and my Auntie and Uncle.


He's four and a half (my cousin, not my Uncle) and I swear he's the cutest little thing ever.


Him in his little fireman hat 

He's so cute.

Cameron is just away to go up into the big school (i.e. Primary one) and he's so nervous about it. You wouldn't think that he would be, he's such a confident wee chap when you speak to him, but he is.

Speaking of confidence... he stripped for us.

And then did a little dance.

Seriously, he was starko and running around the living room, shaking his toosh in our faces.

Then he kind of sat/danced on my Dad. Whilst naked.

Oh my god, I was crying with laughter!!

Some of the things he comes out with too. Awwww man.

Makes me realise how lucky I am.

Sometimes I need that.

OH! And my Uncle is now a qualified driving Instructor!! So guess what I'm getting for my 17th?

Lauren xxx

The suffering artist.

"The concept of the suffering artist. The poetic, intelligent yet tragic persona. A Pre-Raphaelite. That is what we want to be. The starving, suffering artist. We would die for our art, our genius.
 It excuses our madness and our irrationalities as long as we have that essence, that grandiose quality that makes it all worthwhile. Almost miniscule in comparison to the greater art.
These romantic ideals of a genius living a life of imagination and dreams. To surpass all trivial, material needs. This is mine. My un-realistic image of perfection. Very far from perfection in fact but this is what I envisage it to be."
This blog is a very emotional one, written by what I can only describe to you as a "suffering artist". 


Her life is dominated by her struggles with anorexia, bulimia, depression, mania, self harm and suicidal thoughts. 

And so she blogs about it. Her blog posts are possibly the most heartbreaking things I have ever read, occasionally I empathise with her, but mostly the best (and worst) I can do for her I sympathise.



The excerpt that I copy and pasted off of her blog is one of the occasions that I can say that I can empathise with her. 


I find that depression helps with my writing, that poetic fantasy of life and death and how it seems more like a destination than a journey, the curiosity of what will happen next, the eagerness to find out if the next life could hurt any more than our own.


To those who have never felt depressed, consider yourself lucky. To those who have never had these obsessions with being a suffering artist, consider yourself sane. Anorexia, bulimia, depression, mania, self harm, suicide, death, these are not beautiful problems, these are very far from perfection and sanity and I would not wish for any of you to put yourself through these for your "art", whether that be writing, painting, photography, film-making, sculpture, drawing.... 


Please don't aim to be a suffering artist.

If you feel that you need to die for your art, it's not an art at all...


It's a tragedy.

I will never be able to look at running machines in the same way again.

Started off the day badly.


Got on the bus (not bad yet) and started speaking to Ashleigh (definitely not bad). Once we got off the bus, Ashleigh asked:
ASHLEIGH: Where's your bag?
First thoughts: Oh no! I've left it on the bus!


But I didn't leave it on the bus. I LEFT IT AT HOME.


I left it at home, my bag, with everything I could ever need for school at home and didn't even realise.




So, I stood at the pick-up place for the bus to take us to Torry, feeling completely naked without my bag, and waited.

PSYCHOLOGY


Turns out we needed books and pens. 

Sigh. It had to be today.

We were learning about attachment. It was such a cute lesson, because we were shown a bunch of pictures of baby animals!

Photos like these:


D'aaaaaw.

The weirdest thing? The puppy that was used in the slideshow (not the one shown sadly) was in my dream that night...

FREAKY.

ENGLIGH

Major fail, no bag equals no essay plan, no text and no pen!

A good ten minutes was spent asking EVERYONE I knew for a pen, none of them had one to borrow me.

What's up with that? Do people not carry more than one pen with them?!

Finally, I found Andrew, who lent me a pen, I gave him a hug, once again, a 6th year has saved my life! 

So he's been ranked to hero status. 

Did not help the essay writing though... I've failed, once again.

Ahhhh well... There's still two weeks to become an epic writer.

DOUBLE MATHS

Just doing work in all honesty, nothing epicly exciting!

Calum was off, so we've concluded that at least one of our table members must be off per week or we could easily take over the world.

Watch out Antarctica, we're gunning for you!

KING OF THE PENGUINS!

Almost got anally raped by a bass guitar at Lunch. Brandon mis-aimed though, so it's all good.

Ashleigh just missed the bus to go to town. It was adorable watching her as she attempted to bomb for it, but she can't run that fast. She always ends up doing a type of waddling run.

It's SO cute.

I had a lovely conversation with her at a bus stop that managed to turn into a conversation about tri-sexuals (people who like men, woman and jelly) and quad-sexuals (people who like men, woman, jelly and squirrels).

FREE

Friday club (the name that we have fondly adopted) was hilarious.

I had a mini heartattack though, Michelle was leaning against an open window  and I thought she was going to fall through it.

Then Michelle and Rachel began tossing a book back and forth, with Rachel sitting in front of the open window.

Surprise, surprise, the book ended up being chucked out of the window.

That book? That was Grant's new English book.

Queue the giant pole used to open windows to attempt hooking the book.

Haha, they tried to hook that damn book for 5 minutes before they told Michelle that it wasn't actually Grant's book.

Lengthy discussion about Mr Tullock and Ms Rankin went on too. 

Lucas said that even the teachers know about them, with Mr Shaw not making any attempt to deny the rumours and merely saying "I'm saying nothing" when asked about it.

It's really weird though, because they are actually really cute together... it's the fact that Ms Rankin is married that makes it a bit awkward.

So we've decided that we are going to hide in her office (even though it is really small and has no-where to hide) to try and catch them... emmm... doing something.

Then Laura strolls in with a "better" plan.
LAURA: Right, here's what we'll do, we're going to buy a cat.
SAM: What?
ME: Yeah, that's going to do a lot of good isn't it?!
LAURA: Wait for it! We're going to buy a cat, attach one of those collars with a camera on it and wait!
ME: Hear that Sam, we're going to give her a cat and she's going to keep the thing in her office (!)
We're going to get a domino's next Friday, or at least that's the plan, can't wait!


ART


Fail day continues. We had to write an essay.


That went well... 

Lies.


Kelly just made faces throughout and started winking obviously at me. What a kid.


Lee had her college interview, so was wondering how she got on quite a lot of the time.


She said it went well, so here's hoping!


EDIT: She got into college. That's my English bud, make us proud!


I went to Frankie and Benny's and bowling at night for Heather's birthday with Heather (obviously!), Chloe, Lauren and Paige.






Almost forgot Heather's birthday present. God knows where my head was on Friday.


It was hilarious! I had never met Lauren or Paige before but they were so sweet! Lauren's hilarious, she licked the bottle of extra virgin olive oil. Just for the hell of it. Take that hygiene. 


...


It's amazing how many times I spelt hygiene wrongly there.


You should have seen Heather's face anytime the lights went off and "Happy Birthday" was getting played, she thought it was for her everytime. It wasn't. But her face said it all.


Chloe kept staring at some poor waiter.


I had a Chicken Caesar pizza, it was so fine! Paige had the same. Heather and Chloe has a pepperoni pizza and Lauren had a sausage dinner.


After having talked at length about penises.


Lovely.

She shaped the mashed potatoes into balls. And then ate the sausage.



They gave her a yorkie pudding five minutes later, she shoved the mashed potatoes into that and then ate that too.


Oh yeah, I gave Lauren a high five and it was delivered with so much force, the drinks almost got pushed off the table.

RAWR!



I can't remember how we got onto this topic, but we were wondering if you could have sex on a running machine....


So, if you or someone you know has had sex on a running machine, please, write in.


Imagine the calories you lose!!

Same thing goes to rowing machines… 
that would make more sense.



40% of suicides are committed by those who have been bullied about their sexuality. Did you know that?


Lauren told us that yesterday.


Speaking of Lauren, her dress was a little pesky. It kept riding up. She slid out of the booth and I got a face-full of tights. So lady like!


Then Donna (Heather’s sister) came and paid for the meal. 


Let the bowling commence!


Now, I am in no way a consistent bowler. I’m either epic, or suck so badly you could swear that I was a dyson.


So the jury was out on what kind of night it would be, especially considering the fail of the day I had just had.


We headed to the front desk to get our “sexy” bowling shoes… and whilst putting them on, we finally figured out why they made them look so ugly.


So no-one would steal them!


Chloe was wearing a skirt, so it went perfectly with that...


Donna got us all drinks, most of us had IRN BRU’s, which tasted so nice! Very sweet. We think that they might have been drugged. I'm writing this post though, so you know that I'm perfectly fine, as are the rest of the gang.


Bowling was great fun, it took 2 hours though!


The guys next to us had the best names ever…


One was called “Hapi”. That was genuinely his name.


Hapi.

And the other was called “CockRash”.


Ehhhh…

I hope that's not his real name.


You might need to click on that to enlarge it
 but I assure you, that's evidence.


The other boy next to us was… strange?


He had major saggage. Sagging jeans that is.


When he rolled the ball, you could see his entire ass popping out of his jeans.


I'm not going to lie to you, that distracted me immensely.


That and his friend falling over. Oh sweetie.


Paige was on a roll! I managed to beat her by one point and came out top! 


I as so happy! Donna was a force to be reckoned with too! 


More practise is needed however, I came last in the second game.


Oh well! I managed to get the first strike, and isn't that the most important thing? 

Oh yeah, other than that whole 'taking part' thing.


They waited with me in the freezing cold for my Dad to come and collect me, 
what cuties.


We were talking about confidence, Lauren said
LAUREN: Heather has big balls!
Some drunk man joined in.
DRUNK MAN: Who has big baws? *points at Heather*
Lauren almost stabbed him with her heels!


Great day, best day in a while! If 2011 is filled with these sort of days then I will be immensely happy!


Lauren xxx

Alien Anthology



Well it's taken some doing but I've finally finished watching the Alien Anthology box set, the Alien series has always been a favorite of mine and as soon as I heard the movies were going to receive a Blu-ray release I just knew I'd be buying these movies yet again, as it turned out I wound up buying the Blu-rays twice.

As I have done before whenever there has been some sort of limited edition Alien release that has been the version I bought and that was what I did this time as well, I got the box set home and my wife actually said that it seemed like a shame to open it, Fiona never says things like that so I was straight online to see if I could get the regular box set cheap anywhere and it wasn't long before another Alien Anthology was winging it's way to my house.

The movies themselves all look and sound fantastic, thankfully 20th Century Fox did the right thing with these movies and didn't attempt to remove all the film grain with excessive noise reduction, there have been some well publicised failures at doing this that have left characters in various films looking like they were made of wax in some scenes, perhaps since the directors of the Alien movies ( well three of them anyway ) are pretty big names in Hollywood it was though best not to get on their bad side.

The sheer volume of special features that accompany the movies is impressive, in the past the Alien Legacy and later the Alien Quadrilogy box sets set the standard by which other DVD box sets were compared for some time to follow and that would seem to be the case again, it is worth noting that the special features are only presented in standard definition but there are a lot of them and also neither of the Alien vs Predator movies are included in this set.

If you are a fan of the Alien series then the Alien Anthology is thus far the definitive Alien collection and in my opinion well worth the upgrade from DVD to Blu-ray.


 

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Pussy CAT

People are so dirty minded these days!

STUDY


Actually studied for once! *gaaaaaasp*


MATHS


We did nothing. Seriously.... NOTHING. He talked for the entire period.


Was talking to Danielle on the way down the stairs though ^_^


Managed to catch the bus this week. Aweeeeesome!


DOUBLE PSYCHOLOGY


We had a lengthy discussion about Skittles


Taste the rainbow!
Or use it in your Psychology experiments.

Just some good banter.

Got abandoned at Lunch, so I sat with Abie, Kyle, Lucas, Sara, Sarah, Rachel and Bev. Gooooood times!

FREE

Wanted to steal LJ's sweet box cause it had a maoam perv on it!!
Oh tut tut.

We basically wrestled eachother. Come on man, I'm not evil, I wouldn't eat your psychology experiment.

Greg was making jokes about Mrs Ashleigh... who's a lesbian.

Do I care if she's a lesbian? No. Why bring it up then? So you can understand the jokes.
ZOE: She had her hands on this boy's shoulders and she said "If you don't do your work, I'll tighten these around your neck."
GREG: Oh I bet she likes to use her hands.
Ohhhh dear.
GREG: Do you think she likes rabbits?
I don't think he was asking about the fluffy kind.

ART

Ehhhhhhh... Oooh my Memory is going!!



Can't remember a thing!


Went to town with Chloe and Chloe after school.



Chloe = One of my best friends
Chloe = One of Chloe's friends.

...

Still confused?

Ahh well, moving on!

Told Chloe Ashleigh's "Pussy conversation".

Again, confused?

Meet Kodak.
Ashleigh and Liam's "pussy".

So I recited the conversation me, Ashleigh, Lauren and Kelly had previously.
ASHLEIGH: Lauren! I was just playing with my pussy!
LAUREN: WHAT?!?
ME: D'aaaw, it's so cute and fluffy!
LAUREN: What?!?!?!
KELLY: I just want to eat it!
LAUREN: *explodes*
Well... I made the mistake of telling Chloe this... at a bus stop.


Swear the woman avoided us!


Got on the bus, as did two ladies who smelt of fish. Fish and rotten crab sticks...


Ewwwww....


Chloe (the one I hadn't met before) was adorable, so sweet!


Had a great time with them!


Lauren xxx

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Get narrow with Garrow

Today's been the best Wednesday ever!


Thought I was going to miss today... nothing unusual about that, turns out that not only did I catch it, I got a seat, and free wi-fi!


Booo yah!


Was speaking about Oscar noms with Sara, I told her about "Winter's Bone" and "True Grit" getting best picture noms, she didn't even know what they were, so suggested that we mash them together and just call it "Winter's Grit"....


Got the promotional poster for 
"Winter's grit" right here.

Me and Linzie did a cover of "Under the sea" from the Little Mermaid.

As a themetune for Johnny and Kelbie's fight in the girls bathroom yesterday. You know, because apparantly they were fighting under the sink....
"Under de sink, under de sink, doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo, if you're a mink!"
Yeah. We don't really know the lyrics. 


P.E.


As usual not much was done, so perfect way to start off the day!


Michelle was getting a little frisky with Kelly, she was seriously creeped out, I was peeing myself laughing at Kelly's facial reactions as Michelle started inching ever closer to her face.


Michelle recorded a fitness DVD in P.E. though, most hilarious thing I've seen in ages! 


Kelly fondly named it "Get Narrow with Garrow"


Michelle now has a tagline!
MICHELLE: Now that's how you do it!
Oh LOL!


Me and Linzie were skipping to, almost fell over the skipping rope, proud moment, proud moment.


ART


Ahhhh Art! Kelly was back today, so I was much happier in art!


Spent the entire period searching for a pair of scissors that were not stuck together!


Just a good time, not much to comment on.


DOUBLE ENGLISH


Kind of a "skive" today. 


Did some planning, but was mostly talking to Lee about her upcoming college interview (Good luck!) and Inception/Black Swan.


Mrs Fulton opened up and told us that she was in a car crash, poor toot.


OH! And her and Mrs Gray discovered a train set, a HUGE trainset, in the English cupboard that belonged to Mr Rae and they were going to sell it on ebay!


Girls toilets were wrecked at lunch, bins were upturned and shoved in toilets, there was no soap, no toilet paper, and the sanitary bins were emptied onto the floor.... ewwwwwww.


Assembly alert: HIGH.


DOUBLE BIOLOGY

Some good but random banter and revision. We're almost done Unit 2, you know what that means??


Boo.

Lauren xxx

P.S. Might post the link to "Get Narrow with Garrow" if this thing ever uploads!

P.P.S. Thanks for putting up with my mindless typing! 723 blog views this month and counting! Again, big mwah to you all!

On the bench

Well, I thought I'd show off some of the stuff that I have been working on. Mainly to show that I have not been totally idle, and to give a heads up on what to (hopefully) expect completed in the near future. Now, this doesn't always hold true for me, as occasionally something new and shiny will catch my eye, and I start and finish that before anything else gets a second look. I'm trying to hold off that temptation right now with the Black clad Wayfarer I got for Christmas. Anyway here is my recent progress.

And everything I am currently trying to finish.....or start:)