Lil' Gem's Place

Oh yeh...

2007-05-23T16:14:00.000+01:00

... and incase you didn't know I met McFly the other day (you're all on facebook now but I'll stick a photo on anyway!)

Girls Aloud tonight - rock on lol

2007-05-23T16:04:00.000+01:00

I feel bad that I have neglected my blog, I was doing so well too it would be a shame to forget it completely : (

Only a couple of weeks now until I am home for the summer however, looks like I won't get much of one as I will probably be in John Lewis working as much as I can, never mind it's got to be done. Trying to make the most of the sun at moment though, just waiting for Callum so a few of us can go read Harry Potter outside. I decided to re-read it (the 5th one that is, and the 6th after that) because I really can't remember anything that happens and when I read it the first time I was more worried about finishing it rather than concentrating on the story! Film is out soon I believe and the last book, exciting! AND.... pirates of the caribbean out on friday, can't wait!!!!

I'm looking forward to the weekend because it music festival in Ponty and Nami, brother and Hannah are coming to see Lost Prophets wahoo! Not quite sure how I'm going to squeeze everybody into my room, might have to go downstairs in the lounge as it may get a bit cramped.

Anyway, sun is calling so see you all soon xxx

One more thing...

2007-03-01T14:00:00.000Z

.... did anyone notice that Danny (was that his name??) in 'Hot Fuzz' was wearing a Bristol Rovers shirt!!?

Innit Bruv...

2007-03-01T13:35:00.000Z

Yeh, I'm still in my chav mood from last night. My friend Cat decided to get loads of people to go down the student union dressed as chavs, was really fun and we took over the place lol (look at the pics on facebook)! We even started a dance off and had a big influence on chav music being played.

Went to see 'Hot Fuzz' yesterday too, it definately didn't disappoint, I thought it was reeeaally good and the accents were hilarious although I don't think the people I went with fully appreciated the West Country accent.

I've been putting off a lot of work this week which is wrong of me I know but it's nearly the weekend so not much I can do about it now!

Gonna watch the LAST EVER 2 EPISODES OF THE OC tonight with the girls!!!! The end has arrived, I wonder how it will end and if it will be a rubbish finale which if I'm honest wouldn't surprise me. At least One Tree Hill is still going strong which if you don't watch you should.

Also, this weekend looks like I'll have another sleepless night following the stay-a-wake from last weekend. Me and my 24 friend fan Luke are gonna watch season 5 (fiiiinally) of 24 in, wait for it... 24 hours wahoo!!!! I hope I'll be able to stay awake cos it'll be after work so I'll be pretty tired but if it's as good as everybody has said then I'm sure I'll have no problem.

Hannah's coming!

2007-02-12T22:58:00.000Z

My friend Hannah is coming to visit and I've just realised I'll have to cook for her, I'm not sure if I have enough food for two :-s

Also, I have so much work this week I hope I get it all done by tomorrow otherwise I'll be doing whilst she's here!

My house next year!

2007-02-08T23:47:00.000Z

So I don't blog for absolutely ages and then I decide to do 2 in one day hmmm....

Anyway, I just thought I'd tell you all about what I shall be doing next year. We've found a house in Cardiff (Cathys to be precise which is where all the students live) and it's about a 20min walk to the centre which is good. It has 6 bedrooms, including a loft bedroom, 2 bathrooms and an open style lounge and kitchen. And there's even a bit of a patio out back, all it needs is a bit of sweeping! Some of the houses we looked at... they were sooooo messy it was disgusting, I could never live like that although mum would probably choose to disagree with that.

Anyway, it's a nice house and it'll be so nice to have a proper lounge and TV where we can all chill (which is probably what we'll be doing most of the time as we won't have any money!)

So....

There's Polly, my best girl friend here apart from Danielle who isn't moving to Cardiff :'(

The Steve who will actually be in his final year so he'll bring some maturity to the house!

Dale, he's getting the big room but only because he DJ's so he has his decks (quite handy if we ever want a rave...)

Joey who can play guitar so we can sit around and sing Jack Johnson songs ;-)

And of course Alex, who is so Welsh I still find it hard to understand what he's saying sometimes

That's it folks, the people I'll be living with, let's hope we don't all fall out!

It's been way too long...

2007-02-08T14:37:00.000Z

Ok, so I haven't blog in aaaaaggges! Infact this is my first post in 2007, sorry bout that!

I just thought I would blog because I feel all inspired by the snow that we've had. I haven't seen snow like this since I lived in London so I must've been about 4 years old!!??

I went to bed last night and had been asleep for about an hour and someone knocked on my door at about 2am which woke me up. I ignored it at first but then I heard my friend Callum's voice and wondered what he was doing up in our corrider. So I got out of bed and everyone was looking out of the window and when I looked outside my fave looked like an excited kid. It was properly snowing and it looked magical lol! And everyone who had been out that night was outside playing in the snow! I would've gone outside but I was still half asleep and in my pjs but our boys were out there untill 4am- crazy!

So this morning when I woke up I looked outside and thought, 'yeh, I'm not going to my lecture today!' and I wasn't the only one. Instead me and Danielle went outside and took lots of photos and ended up in the middle of so many snowball fights it was so much fun!

I've put my photos on facebook but for those of you who aren't on that here's a few of my favourite....

This is the view outside of my room but the photo doesn't give it justice!

HAPPY SNOW DAY EVERYONE!!!

One day left

2006-12-14T15:39:00.000Z

Tomorrow is my last day so I will be coming back to Bristol for 3 weeks! Will be quite strange being at home properly again but nice to have those home comforts :-)

We are going out for a Christmas meal tonight except we'll probably end up having to buy chips or something because it's all a bit of a shambles! At first we were going to book somewhere in Cardiff but it just never happened, so now we're going to a pub except there's 20 of us so we might not even get a seat.

I've been really busy these past couple of weeks because all the deadlines are... now, so I've been trying to finish all my projects. All done now thought, have just handed in my last piece of work so pheww! It didn't stop me going out though, last night we all went to the union and wednesday nights are always busy but last night especially because it was the last one of the term. Was lots of fun and I took over 100 photos!!!

Oh yeh, and met Karl Kennedy from Neighbours as well! Was a very brief meeting, in - take photo - out. And when he was on stage he was really rude, trying to please the students I guess.

Oh yeh, looks like I'll be asking for a new phone for Christmas as mine decided to randomly erase all my numbers and photos :-( AND I try to add a number and it won't even save it, so if you text me you need to say who it is!

What else, ummm, oh got to start thinking about a house next year which is really stressful! My course will be in Cardiff so I'll be moving there but half my friends will be in Pontypridd. And it's so hard deciding who to live with, like should I live with boys or will they be too messy! Decisions, decisions...

BTW, on some of your blogs I have tried to comment but for some reason it won't let me!?

You know when you've been spending too much time on the computer when...

2006-11-22T15:06:00.000Z

... you laugh to yourself and then say 'laughing my ass off' (lmao)!!!

My Early Night

2006-11-22T14:47:00.000Z

So I decided for once that as I had to be up first thing this morning I would actually try and have a go at going to bed at the time I used to when I was back at home. Since I've been here I find it hard to get to sleep before midnight so I got into bed at about 10.30, I did put on Scrubs because I've got into the habit of watching something before I go to sleep!

Anyway, I really couldn't sleep, felt a bit sick which I think was because I hadn't really eaten any proper food because I'd planned to go shopping but the free bus didn't turn up (grrrr)!

At about 12.45am I was just drifting off and the fire alarm goes off! It scared the hell out of me and if anybody had seen me they would have laughed cos my glasses had fallen on the floor so I was panicking trying to find them blind! I grabbed my big, fluffy pink dressing gown and went outside with the others. I thought it was like 2.30am and when I got outside everyone was fully clothed. I was so embarrassed cos I was literally the only one in my pjs, all the guys made fun of me :( maybe if I had grabbed my hoody I wouldn't have looked so silly in my dressing gown!

Ooooo, Just as I was writing this I had a knock on the door from one of the security men, my printer has come through yay!

I have...

2006-11-13T21:37:00.000Z

... just watched the 3rd episode from season 4 of 'The OC'...

I'm so happy :-D

My Weekend

2006-11-06T15:34:00.000Z

I've had a really good weekend so I thought I'd tell you all about it :)

Friday I came back on the train and this time I had my friend Callum with me for part of the journey because he was going back home to Manchester, so that was nice to have some company! Then in the evening I met up with Loz for a drink which was really cool to catch up properly and tell her all about uni stuff. Also got a glimpse of Nami's new hair colour too cos she was with her mates in the same pub!

Saturday at work was actually a bit pants cos I wasn't feeling too good, it's weird cos I'm hardly ever ill but at the moment I keep getting annoying things like headaches and sore throats :( It didn't help that our office was aboslutely freezing cold, turns out the air conditioning was still on, come on, it's winter now!!! Then in the evening at first I didn't feel like going out but I got persuaded that it would make me feel better! So we went into Cardiff which we haven't done properly yet. Ended up going to the club that the uni takes us to on Mondays anyway! But it was a good night except I seem to never learn and I wore heals so my feet were hurting quite a bit! But in the club it was really good because they had fireworks on the platforms, very exciting! When we got back me, Polly and Danielle ended up chatting again untill about 4.30am and then we finally went to bed.

Sunday, managed to get myself up so I could try out this church that I've been meaning to go to! Was extremely tired but I made myself get up! They have a free bus that goes from the uni to the church which leaves at 9.45am, too early for me! was quite scary going to a church where you don't know anyone! Anyway, it's a very multi-cultural church and quite big, I'm not good with estimating numbers so I won't guess! It was usual thing, praise and worship and they was a lot of prophesying, then preaching, then a few more songs. I think it must be quite a wealthy church, the building is very nice, and they have a posh piano on stage! Also I noticed they have these little screens which I guessed had the words and chords for the worship team, very modern! Anyway, when the service ended I sat there thinking 'ok what now...' but I was so thankful because this young lady called Lydia who was sat quite far a way from me came straight over to introduce herself. She then introduced me to some other students, a couple who I recognised from my uni. met some really nice students and a couple of girls who are from Birstol too! They have once a month a free student lunch which was goooood! Moroccan chicken, with couscous and vegetables and then chocolate angel delight mmmmmm.

Then in the evening me, Danielle, Polly and some guys called Luke and Ben wnet to a fireworks display in the local town Pontypridd. It was actually really good, was a round table event. Polly made a little video if you wana have a look... POLLY'S VIDEO!!! grrr, was gona put a photo here too but it's being annoying!

I can't sleep so...

2006-10-27T01:22:00.000+01:00

Here's something I did to practice my photoshop skills! Don't be too critical cos, well I haven't quite mastered it yet :-P

Before:

After:
Lol, it's me and Stuart Parker everybody. Wow, he makes me look pasty... and my head looks very large!!!

And finally...
Definately my favourite!

Creation in Cardiff

2006-10-26T21:22:00.000+01:00

Last monday we went to a club called Creation which is in Cardiff. It's really good because for £6 the uni have a coach that takes you to and from the uni, you get your ticket and you don't have to que outside! Everyone kept saying how big it was which is true but I definately think Oceana in Bristol is way bigger!

So this time when we went Timmy Mallet was there! For those of you who don't know who he is, this is him....

I didn't actually get to meet him but my friends did....

It was a fun night even though we had to leave as the clubbin song of the year came on (you know the one... put your hands up for detroit!) To finish the night we ended up eating pasta at 4am, see Loz I can cook...

Butlins!!!

2006-10-25T21:54:00.000+01:00

Ok, so it was over a week ago now but I thought I would have a post for it so I could upload a few photos from the weekend! Won't go into too much detail but it was a really good weekend! Saturday night, Dave Pearce (radio one dj) wahoooo!!!! Was so gutted though because you know when you're just waiting for your favourite song to come on and it just doesn't, well I LOVE 'Don't let me go' by David Guetta and all weekend waiting to dance to it but I must have kept missing it, so gutted :-(

Anyway, here's some pics...

I now own 3 blogs

2006-10-19T20:31:00.000+01:00

Yep, I have 3 blogs now! This one, the Norm one and my media one which I dont actually know what I'm meant to put in it but I have one just incase I have a moment of inspiration!

I really want to blog about Butlins but I refuse to untill I get my photos developed which won't be till next week, sorry.

So, tonight is a beach party which I've not ended up going to. I actually wouldn't have minded going but Polly has gone home, and Danielle has loads of work to do so I would be the only girl which I don't mind too much but by the time Danielle had decided what to do I was too tired to get ready. It's a lot more hassle for girls and I can't be bothered with it at the mo! So the boys are out, Danielle is doing work and I'm here blogging :-)

Stuart Parker from 'Neighbours' is here on Saturday and I really want to go but loads of people are going home for the weekend and I don't think anyone I know really wants to go :-( I shall persuade someone though I'm sure.

This week something quite cool happened. There's this guy called Paul who hangs around in the same crowd and he's from Bristol which I knew when I met him. Anyway, this week he added me to myspace and obviously read the little bit about me and saw I was a Christian and it turns out he is too! I haven't found out which church he went to or anything cos haven't seen him for a couple of days, but yeh, thought that was quite cool.

Today I had a Radio Production lesson and so far I'm really enjoying radio. Last week we got into pairs and recorded interviews with eachother, then this week I was with the same girl called Daniella and we had a lesson on editing. I like all the editing stuff on the computer so I think I'll enjoy doing that in our mini project coming up. We have to do a voxpop in groups which is when you hear a general question and you ask lots of people on the street that question. Should be fun!

In New Media today we started looking on Photoshop which again I really enjoyed at school cos it's stuff on the computer. It was pretty basic today and because I've worked on it before it was a bit frustrating.

This Sunday I want to go to this church in Cardiff that I've found on the internet. There's meant to be a free minibus that picks up students from the uni but only porblem is I don't know what time! I emailed the CU people but they haven't got back to me so might try emailing the church instead.

What else... oh yeh, another spider story for, well Babz really cos she always seems to have spider stories! Me and the girls were in Danielle's room watching a film and out of nowhere this fat spider just drops down on the radiator. Danielle and Polly screamed and I dodn't have a clue why untill I saw it. I am not joking, it was the biggest spider I have ever seen in real life. I know you all think I'm exaggerating but I'm seriously not! I f you hold your hands out it was at least 4 inches!!! It was horrible and all the other girls heard us screaming and wondered what the hell was going on. Kate who comes from the country just picked it up in her hands, yuk! And Saffron who is a proper hard-nut and not scared of spiders even said herself that it was very big!

Yeh so, that's all I can think of right now, think I'm gonna watch some 'Friends' or 'Charmed'!

That post should keep you going Loz ;-)

Freshers Flu :-(

2006-10-09T19:49:00.000+01:00

Yes, I have it and it's horrible! And trust it to be on the weekend where I had a party to go to, grrrr! It started off with everyone coughing, wasn't too bad, just a bit annoying. Friday I came home and still had the cough. Then Friday night at around 3am I woke up with not just a cough but headache, earache, tummy ache... everything. Had to call in sick for work and couldn't go to Daza's birthday party (so sorry Daz, wish I could've been there, I do have your card and present but it will have to wait till next weekend!).

The worst of it is over but this cough won't budge. I bought some cough medicine today but I think I should get my money back because it is rubbish... still coughing! It some ways it worked out well that I had gone home even if I had stayed in bed the whole time cos at least I had my mum there and a sofa anf cable TV to keep me occupied!

The plan for tonight was to go into Cardiff because apparently Glynn from Big Brother is meant to be in Creation. But instead it's going to be another night in because we're all still ill which means not seeing Glynn althought I didn't watch Big Bro this year so I'm not too bothered.

Absailing

2006-10-01T22:36:00.000+01:00

Today I went absailing for the first time ever. My uni has done this try any sport activity like climbing, surfing, archery etc. for free. So me and a couple of friends signed up to do absailing. we had to travel to this activity centre which was in the middle of a forest. Anyway I'll skip the boring part... it got to my turn and I didn't want to look down so I slowly moved to the edge backwards. The guy hooked me onto the ropes and stuff and told me to lean back. Anyway, I'm scared of heights, terrified infact, so I really don't know why I signed up for it in the first place but I just froze! I felt so stupid because I started to have tears in my eyes and shouting I can't do it! Anyway, with a little... no wait, a LOT of persuasion and encouragment I overcame my fear and did it, I absailed down a 45 foot wall!!! yay!

Also today I did some laundry! Only problem is I'm not allowed to tumble dry any of my clothes so they're all on hangers and dry from the curtain rail!

Freshers week is over except we have the freshers ball tomorrow night. I'm sad in one way that it's over but relieved also because it was tiring me out! Last night though me and Danielle (a girl who is in my halls) decided to have a chilled night and we watched a chick flick in my room and some Friends which was really nice, just to lay around in jogging bottoms and a hoody!

Anyway, before I go here's a few photos I've found from freshers week...

(from left to right) Kate, Polly, Danielle and moi...

Us and some guys from our block...

The girls..

Me and Danielled on the skool disco night...
Bye bye xx

Uni!!!!

2006-09-24T20:30:00.000+01:00

Just thought I'd write a qick blog to let you know that I'm still alive even though I haven't quite accomplished cooking myself a proper meal :-/

On Saturday I felt so sick from nerves but today I'm feeling fine and starting to really settle in. I'm in a room which definately needs more shelves but I guess I'll get used to the lack of space. It's all girls on my floor which I'm quite thankful for because it means that the kitchen and showers are going to be clean. Majority of people are welsh but I like the accent so it's all good although there seems to be a slight divide happening in my halls already. Some of the girls who live in Wales have gone into Cardiff tonight but the English and a few others are going to stick to the SU. People are really friendly so I'm I'll get some help with cooking and other stuff.

Went into Cardiff today and it only cost £2.25 on the train- bargain! Bought some stuff for the school disco which is on thursday and a princess tiara for fancy dress parties! Cardiff has all my favourite shops which is good and the Primark is really big!

Anyway, got to go, will blog soon xx

P.s. thank you for everyone's pressies, they are coming in handy :-)

Too much free time on my hands

2006-09-17T22:30:00.000+01:00

Go watch THIS

One week left

2006-09-15T12:37:00.000+01:00

Well, nearly a week until i go to uni yay!!!

I'm feeling very unorganised at the moment cos I haven't bought all the things I need and in freshers week there's all these fancy dress themed nights so I have to get outfits for each one- oh yes, I loooove fancy dress NOT!

Talking of fancy dress, even though I had to wear a disgusting gold top to Nigel's 70's party last night I managed to forget about it and have a good time. I've never fully appreciated how amazin 70's music is, I love it!!! And when I was making the CD's my mum was getting well into the music cos it was stuff that she used to listen to.

Today I've decided to do a bit of tidying cos I've realised that most of the crap in the living room is... well mine :-/ I'm sacraficing watching 'Charmed' to do this too, aren't I good. Just had a thought, I won't be able to watch 'Charmed' at uni cos there's no cable... that makes me sound so spoilt, we've only had it a year but it's surprising how once you've got something it seems you can't live without it. I'm sure I'll live!

Right, that's my blog to get off a certain blogger off my back and btw, I now have myspace, still don't really understand the obsession but hey, why not get it anyway!? mine's www.myspace.com/gemmanorm

cya x

I got in!!!!

2006-08-17T13:27:00.000+01:00

Yep, results day and I got...

B in Media Studies
C in English
D in RS

They're not the best grades in history but they've got me in to where I wanna go :-)

SOUL SURVIVOR 2006

2006-08-14T15:38:00.000+01:00

WOW! This year was absolutely amazing. There is so much to say which last night I proved when me and Andrew got home and spent over an hour telling mum everything!

Like Loz had said just before we left we all needed this, a chance to get really close to God and she was right. On the first evening meeting or maybe the second I realised how for ages I hadn't been worshipping him with everything I had and throughout the time we were there I just knew that my relationship with God was not the best it could be. So in the praise and worship I was really entering in and getting prayed for and afterwards I had the desire to really get to know God properly, to actually pray to him and tell him all my problems, to read my bible, to make him the centre of my life which if I'm honest I haven't been doing.

I found the talks in the main meetings really inspirational, and not because I had a little crush on Andy (the guy hosting it, NOT my brother!!!) although maybe I payed slightly more attention when he spoke... joke. Seriously, I need to buy the CDs because my memory is rubbish but I know they were good! I went to the Soul Sister meets Soul Man seminar as well which was very entertaining! I wouldn't say that this seminar was the most indepth for getting closer to God or studying the bible, but I thought it was really good to have a time when there were boys and girls who talked about relationships but from the perspective of being a Christian.

Like Loz has said the camping part was pretty nasty! I mean I could cope with it but it was just the last few days I really was craving my own bed and shower. Plus, I was not impressed with the weather. It was FREEZING!!!! I had only brought 2 jumpers and one warm hoody so I had to be really trampy and wear the same hoody on top of about 3 layers to keep warm! And it felt so wrong having to wake up at 6.30am just to avoid ques for the shower, then again I was expecting that from previous experiences.

I had a great timne and I'm thinking next year I might go to 'Momentum' which is the same as 'Soul Survivor' but aimed more at students, and I expect it's just as good!

For Lozza

2006-08-08T20:17:00.000+01:00

What have I been up to???

Youth holiday where there was great weather...

... a walk to Baggy Point...

... BBQ on the beach...

... and some great tacos if I don't say so myself...

Working- I'm getting more training in the cash office to prepare for a whole week where I'll be by myself... I can see a disaster about to happen!
Going to the dentist which I had to pay for btw!!! Even my mum doesn't have to pay!!!!
Clubbin' with some school friends...

Watched some classic films like 'Trainspotting' and 'Shawshank Redemption' (now that Film 4 is free!)
Have watched many episodes of 'Charmed' cos it's sooooooo good!
Listened to a bit of jazz
Went for a day-trip with my mum and aunty to North Devon and topped up the tan, only very slightly though
And coming up... Soul Survivor, more nights out, results day, watch a few more films and maybe even a bit more of Devon

It makes me wanna scream!!!!

2006-07-19T22:35:00.000+01:00

I decided this evening that I actually HATE clothes shopping. I know as a girl that's quite weird but I just find it so stressful! Fashion is just... stupid! I go into a shop and can't see anything I like or walk straight to all the plain stuff on the wall! I went to The Mall tonight to get a few new things for the summer cos I haven't bought anything since.... well I can't remember. Even though I was stressed out at the beginning trying to find things, by the end of it I'd gotten quite a bit and was quite chuffed with myself. Isn't it funny though how we're never happy with what we've got or is that just me? I always think 'oh but I need this aswell and I could do with another one of those tops'. Ah well, all my money is gone so I can't go shopping even if I wanted to.

1 year old!

2006-07-08T23:11:00.000+01:00

I just realised that my blog has been going for exactly a year now!

Happy Birthday to my blog...

very sad to do that but hey, everyone else has done it :-P

Evidence!

2006-07-07T17:35:00.000+01:00

Thought I caught better ones than these but I'm pretty pleased with the Johnny Depp one...

1. just a photo of us not looking too bad considering the many hours of no sleep!

2. Me and Sam and if you look closely you can see The Odeon in the background

3. Kiera walking towards us

4. Orlando, aww he was such a gentleman thanking everyone for coming!

5. JOHNNY DEPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've got a new computer!!!

2006-07-06T11:06:00.000+01:00

Yes, I have bought my own computer and now I have no money... but it's worth it and I need it desperately. Seriously, if you had been on our old one the difference is sooooooooo amazing!

Anyway, for all you computer experts I have a question: When I rip music onto my library from a cd in media player why does all the music go crackly when I play it after and only goes back to normal when I restart the computer???? Is there a simple answer or is there something wrong?

I saw Johnny Depp!!!!!!!!!!

2006-07-05T09:30:00.000+01:00

I accomplished my mission on monday to go and meet Johnny, Orlando and Kiera for Pirates of the Caribbean sequel premiere. I got all their autographs and some photos which haven't been developed yet but hopefully they'll come out all right!

We arranged for a taxi to pick us (me, Sam & Nami) from my house at 3.15am and then got onto the coach at 3.50am. When we got on we saw 3 other girls who were obviously going because they had a pirates hat (why didn't we do that!?).

When we got there it took us a while to find the Odeon because silly us didn't bother getting a map! But we got there eventually around 7am and there were already people waiting who had been there the night before!!! So because of these people it meant we weren't right outside the cinema but further down which didn't matter too much because we were still at the front. It was really badly organised becasue they didn't even have any barriers up at the start so it was just guess work where to stand. It was quite funny at moments cos suddenly you'd see loads of people jump forward thinking they were putting the barriers up so everyone followed and it was manic. I stayed in the same and made Nami and Sam go forward and it was like we were on a mission, no messing, we will be at the front!

So we had to wait from 7am until 5.30pm!!!! It was extremely hot and I'm not really sure how we survived. We did have a couple of entertaining conversations earlier on in the day, both including very weird men. The first man made to out to be a photographer and that he was taking photos of the aftershow party! I was like, hmmm where's your camera etc trying to catch him out... he was just weird! Then the other man came over next to us chucked his bag by our feet and started mumbleling 'it's going to get busy' and then told us he was just going to look around to see if there was a better spot and just leaves his bag with us. I was just thinking, how can he do that, leave his bag with a bunch of strangers??? Then I thought it could be bomb!!!! So I took a peek and it was safe and a few minutes later he came back and sat somewhere else.

In a way it was quite handy not having the barriers up straight away cos it meant I could easily do food and water bottle runs to the shops down the road. Also the secuirity men were really cool cos they kept walking about and spraying us with water which was luuuuuuuussh!

When they put the barriers up everyone just went mad and we got crushed. Also there was this girl who just seemed to appear and she was taking up loads of room and we got sooooooo angry with her. I just thought GRRRR, we've been here since 7am so get lost!!! I think that's how we passed some time by trying to get her to move on her side like everyone else was! She didn't even care that we were getting seriously crushed, almost to the point where I was falling off the edge!

Then around 5.30pm a car drove down and everyone was trying to see who it was but the windows were blacked out. First came Kiera Knightly and she pretty much came to our section first. Then Orlando Bloom, ahhhh! He didn't come to us for ages and our little section were chanting 'ORLANDO ORLANDO'! Then he said he would come back for auographs and bless him he kept to his word. And then, the person everyone had been waiting for, the one and only Johnny Depp! Everyone went mental and we ended up losing our place a bit too cos there was so much pushing! The annoying selfish girl next to us went completely psycho. When he got out of the car she starting shaking and crying hysterically, we were just like you freak!!!!

When Johnny came round I was right by him and he looked right at me lol i won't shut up about that! It's Nami had said, they smile at everyone but when they do it you it's like wow, they smiled at ME! They look just like they do on TV, it was so strange cos we've seen them all in amazing films and there they were in the flesh!

Other celebs who were there were Natalie Imbruglia, People from 'Lost', Bill Nighy, Jonathon Ross, Charlotte Church, Misha Barton (plays Marissa in 'The OC' wahoo!) umm, some guy from the film 'Narnia' and loads of people who I didn't even know!

So we did it, we actually went to Pirates of the Caribbean premiere and I don't think we would ever do that again unless it was for that film!

Lozza's song game

2006-07-04T10:20:00.000+01:00

Just thought I'd copy Lozza's game where you put songs on at random and use them as answers cos it looked like fun...

1. How does the world see me? Must get out

2. Will I have a happy life? Homecoming

3. Do people secretly lust after me? Ain't no love (so does that mean people lust after me but don't love me?!)

4. How can I make myself happy? Waiting for the sirens (ok!)

5. What should I do with my life? Don't lie (good advice, that should have come for question 7!)

6. Will I ever have children? Spies

7. What is some good advice for me? Serious

8. How will I be remembered? Dance

9. What is my signature dancing? Long way to go

10. What do I think my current theme song is? Just a ride (cool)

11. What do other people think my current theme song is? Flawless :-P

12. What song will play at my funeral? Do you want to

13. What type of men/women do you like? Uncontained (haha)

14. When will/do you have sex? My heart is spoken for (lol!)

15. What is your day going to be like? Dragostea din tei (thats the mia hee ha ha song btw!)

16. What do you do in your spare time? Tangled

17. Where's your favourite place to be? Rain city

18. What are you doing right now? Wherever you will go

Haha, that was funny

Too excited to sleep

2006-07-03T01:17:00.000+01:00

Right now I'm at home and Nami and Sam seem to be alseep in their chairs. At 3.15am we're gonna get picked up by the taxi and then we will be off to London baby to see Johnny Depp wahoooo!!!!! Thing is, we'll arrive at about 6am but I don't think they're letting people go near until 1am so we will have a lot of time to kill!

Well I'm just blogging this because I have nothing else to do as I can't sleep now because it's only... 2 hours to go!!!!

Alton Towers!!!

2006-06-30T22:16:00.000+01:00

So just got back from Alton Towers, earlier than I thought which is good cos I have work tomorrow. Had to leave at 7am but when it's something like this I really don't mind getting up! I swear I've wanted to go to Alton Towers for over a year, since the last time I went.

Didn't actually get to go on as many rides as I've been on before cos it turned out more packed than we thought it would be, stupid kids who have finished their exams...

So in running order the rides I went on:

1. Ripsaw- bit of a silly one to start off with as you get absolutely drenched, not talking bout a little trickle of water but properly getting covered! That one was fun though and apparently Joe Lee's face was a picture.

2. Air- it said at the entrance a 10 minute wait... what... a... joke...! Turned out to be bout an hour I think, maybe more we were waiting and I don't even like the ride that much! We had some giggles in the que which made it more fun and the ride itself was ok but a but of breeze really.

3. Rita (queen of speed)- this one is quite new compared to the others and I'd never been on it before so I didn't mind having to wait again over an hour to get on. It was just me, Nam, and Char. It was pretty cool, it goes from 0 to 100mph in 2.5 seconds!!!!! Bought the photo and Nami's face is brilliant, just total shock! Got to say well done to Char for being brave cos she was terrified but she did it!

4. Oblivion- my favourite ride ever! I love it, even though it does last for only 10 seconds it is so worth it! I love the way it climbs up and you just think oh crap why am I doing this and then it hangs over the edge and you don't know when it's going to drop and then it just goes and there's a whole rush in your body when you go into the tunnel!!! AMAZIN'! Char got all the way to the end of the que and as we were getting into the seats suddenly walked away :-( never mind, there's always next time ;-)

5. Spinball Whizzer- we had a few minutes to spare so went on this cos we'd never been on it before. It was better than I thought it would be. Basically just spins round at the same time as going round the rollar coaster. It feels like you're going to fall off the edge which is quite scary.

Bring on next year.

A post from Gemma & Hannah!

2006-06-26T11:40:00.000+01:00

The day has come.... our last exam has just finished wahoooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! Summer is here, well when the rain goes it will be!

Hannah is going to Dublin soon in 12 days, 12 hours and 36 minutes to be precise! And she will be seeing Feeder, Orson, The Chillis, Hard-fi, Artic Monkeys to name a few!

Gemma is not, she sold her ticket... for a rubbish £50!

We're both going to Soul Survivor too but on different weeks, poo! lol

Well, we are going to enjoy our freedom now so bye bye!!!

Weston-super-mare let me hear you scream...

2006-06-19T19:54:00.000+01:00

AAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Yeh I did that a lot yesterday at T4 on the beach! I'm surprised I haven't lost my voice. It was a really good day so I'm going to tell you about it...

I got up at 6am on a Sunday morning, oh my goodness that was early. Then got on the first bus of the morning which got me into town way too early to meet my friend Steph so I tried to find every single newsagents I could think of that would be open to buy a disposable camera (they were either shut r didn't sell them!). Then me and Steph went to Temple Meads train station to meet a couple of her works mates Emma and Emily. It seemed like everyone from Bristol going had the same idea of catching the train. The station was just packed out full of teenagers! We managed to get on the train but it was so packed out we had to stand but Weston isn't that far anyway.

So when we got into Weston we just followed the crowd, there's always somebody who knows where the entrance is! It was set-up so that behind Tropicana was the satge facing the stretch of the beach and going up onto the grass was little stores selling merchandise and they had a couple of fairground rides too. All of that stuff pretty much blocked out anything that was happening on the beach so no one could really sneak a look in! The 'doors' didn't open until 11 so there was just a massive crowd of people just waiting on the sand. We were right at the back and I kept looking behind hoping to see loads of people arriving but it didn't happen so I was getting all depressed thinking we were gonna be at the back the whole time! Then the doors opened and once they'd checked our bags for glass and bombs and took our ticket we were in and there was soooo much more room than what I thought there would be from waiting to get in! We just ran for it, it was so exciting!

Vernon Kaye and the other presenters didn't come on stage until later which is when I guess they aired it on TV. But they had warm-up acts to keep us entertained. My favourite from that was The All American Rejects, they rock! The Automatic were part of the warm-up too and they just make me laugh cos they have that guy who sings really high/screachy! Inbetween the acts there was this guy who kept coming on stage and telling us to scream for the cameras, I suppose it was so they could get some good shots for the programme. You forget that you're there for television so when they say stuff like that it was like oh yeh, they want this to look really amazing to the people watching, bit fake really!

So then the presenters came on and Vernon Kaye kept taking pictures of us. And of course there were the main acts and I think the only one who didn't sing live was Orson because apparently he had a bad throat. I liked pretty much all them except for Ne-yo (I wasn't really listening to him to be fair cos we were trying to find somebody in the crowd at that point!), Busta Rhymes and The Petshop Boys, I hated that one, sat down, really wasn't my thing oh and Danni Minogue was a bit boring too!! The others however, even the poppy ones were really good: The Zutons, Hard-fi, Orson, Razorlight, Pussy cat dolls, Will Young, McFly, Simon Webbe, The Feeling, Basement Jaxx, The Ordinary Boys, Embrace, Shayne Ward (the X-Facotr winner lol!) and... the best of all... FEEDER!!! Wow, they were good, amazing infact. They were the only ones where everyone went crazy! They sang my favourite song too, Buck Rodgers, I loved it!!! Some of the bands after they finished just chucked their guitars on the stage- no respect for musical instruments! Although one band, can't remember who actually handed somebody right at the front their guitar!!!

Me and Steph ended up at different places throughout the day and at one point we were by this white tent. Then we realised it was the VIP tent and Steph suddenly shouted 'It's Jade Goody!!!' even though she's not a massive celeb it was still quite strange to see her quite close to us. Then we saw some other channel four actors and some guys from Hollyoaks too- OB awww how cute is he for anyone who watches Hollyaks!

At the end we could see Vernon & co. in the green room which was next to the stage and he started to strip at the window, that was quite funny! I've got to say though, it's quite bizarre actually being there cos when you look around you see lots of people just standing around not really doing much. I guess thats because there's so many different acts people have come to see different things. I think to really get into the atmosphere you have to be in the golden circle which is right at the front by the stage and I don't even know how they get tickets!

I was going to leave you with a picture of the crowd but I don't have one so you'll just have to look at the website instead on your good computer cos on mine it won't show up!

Pure artistic genious

2006-06-17T20:25:00.000+01:00

I have just made the best phone cover in the world, well I actually made it yesterday but yeh... it is so cool and I am very proud of it! It's got photos of all my buddies! :-D I was going to put a pic of Adam Brody on the back (I bought a magazine the other day just because he was on the front cover and it was an American one and every other word was 'dude'!) but friends are obviously more important!

Aaaanyway, I'm going to T4 on the Beach tomorrow and I cannot wait, it's going to be hot hot hot and amazing. I have to catch a 7.10am bus on a Sunday morning, noooo... I do have an exam on Monday though but I shouldn't be back too late... hopefully... last time I said this I got home after midnight :-s

Also, I have to mention me, Nami, Babz and maybe Sam although she is not confirmed, are on a mission to see Johnny Depp in the flesh. So my wonderful idea which was inspired by our total obesession of the first film... is to go to London at some crazy hour in the night/morning and wait outside the cinema in Leister Square to see the stars arrive for the sequel to 'Pirates of the Caribbean'!!!!! I am just really hoping that Johnny will actually turn up cos if he doesn't that will be quite a downer but at least if it doesn't go to plan it will be a little story to tell!

So I've been *trying* to revise loads cos I have this sinking feeling that I'm really not going to do very well in my exams and before it hasn't been that big a deal but now I need the grades to get into uni. To be fair I don't need to get A's or even B's however, I do need to pass! I can't wait until they're over and I can go out everyday and just chill or actually do something! As soon as my exams are over I'm going to go summer shopping. I don't really like shopping (from what I can remember) but I haven't been for months so I need reminding how I don't like it again if that makes sense... oh, I'm also going to get a hair cut cos these split-ends are driving me crazy!!!

Could you hear the storm!!?

2006-06-12T06:11:00.000+01:00

Well it's 6.10am and I have not had one single second of sleep and I have my first exam in just under 3hours... isn't that just great!!! I guess I couldn't sleep because maybe I'm really nervous about the exam, but it could also be because I was still hyped up about just seeing Hillsong United!!!

Last minute plans meant that me and Nami joined Nick, Dan and Tom to go to Hillsong London church where Hillsong United were leading the praise and worship and their youth pastor was preaching, just like soul survivor. The plan was to get there for the 4.30pm service and then get home bout 10pm, but we were too late because the place gets packed out very quick so we had to wait for the 6.45pm service instead which meant getting home at about midnight- not the best time to go to bed the night before an exam but it was worth it anyway!

So that was that, then this morning 'cos I couldn't sleep when I heard the rain tipping down and the thunder! How loud was that!? I got up and looked out of my window and my neighbour opposite was doin the same! I saw the lightening in the sky, it's so amazin'!

Right I'm gonna get some brekkie!

I am lovin'...

2006-06-02T17:09:00.000+01:00

The sun!!!! Bring on the summer :)
Strawberries in a meringue nest, mmmm!
X Factor with all the celebrities, it's sooo good
The sun!!!!!
Finally selling my ticket on Ebay (thanks for the tips Lisa!)
'Feeder The Singles' album
Lazy lie-ins
And... the sun!!!!

I am not liking revision so much but it will all be over soon :-D (untill next year)

I don't know her...

2006-05-24T21:45:00.000+01:00

Only jokin' Hannah (not that you read this anyway)! It's just that have you ever been to the cinema and on every tiny jumpy moment in the film somebody shouts out 'AAAGGGHHH' or 'OH MY GOSH' and grabs your hand when it really isn't that scary!? LoL, well that's what my friend was like today when we went to see The Da Vinchi Code. It was quite funny I suppose but at the same time a little embarrassing! The film was good, it probbly was a bit too confusing like Tom said for those who haven't read the book. For me I would usually much rather watch a film than read a book, except for The Da Vinchi Code however... and Harry Potter! It was just better reading it because it didn't have to rush through things like the film does so it feels more tense.

So that was that. It's my last day tomorrow at school and on Friday is our leavers service. Even though I've only been at SMRT 6th form for just under 2 years I'm actually going to really miss it! The people there are so cool and I'm gonna take so many photos on the last day! Everyone is getting eachother to sign their leavers books too, it's so sad to think we're never going to see eachother everyday again :-( it's funny aswell 'cos usually if you have frees you can't wait to go home but in this last week people are voluntarily hanging around!

Awww, I think I have a tear in my eye!

Wherefore art thou 'goodcounter'??

2006-05-18T21:49:00.000+01:00

Is it just my blog it seems to have gone missing on?

A moment of stupidity

2006-05-18T21:42:00.000+01:00

So this morning I stepped outside and it was quite warm. And you know when you've bought something new and you really want to wear it, well me and Nami bought some flip flops the other day so I thought, ahhh, go for it! Then of course what happened when I was on the bus!?... it tipped down with rain! I felt soooo silly in my flipflops in the pouring rain :-(

Big Fat Greek Wedding!

2006-05-15T13:44:00.000+01:00

Yesterday was my.... 3rd cousin (I think!?!) Melanie's wedding. She got married to a greek man called Yianni so the wedding was... Greek!

It was definately an experience, traditionally instead of waiting in the church for the bride we all had to wait outside and then the first ceremony (there's 2) is meant to be done outside as well except they had theirs in the church. Melanie was 40 minutes late!!!! It was getting a bit chilly. We were given these little bags with rice inside when we went in not having a clue why! Then there was the 2 ceremonies which were really just one long one. The priest was so funny! He was speaking out of the book but I'm not even sure if it was English or Greek cos his English wasn't very good so when when he spoke I couldn't understand a word of it. I say spoke, he actually sang! I got a little giggling fit inbetween cos me and my family kept exchanging looks of 'what the hell?!' lol. Then I saw other Greek people opening their bags of rice so I just copied and then Melanie and Yianni had to do the 'dance', which was just walking round in a circle around the alter thing, being led by the priest whilst he carried on singing Greek stuff from the Bible. So when they did this everyone randomly starting throwing the rice out of the bags, it was so funny cos obviously people at the back couldn't throw it far enough so you could just feel all this rice being thrown on your back! I tried to throw mine and it landed in Yianni's mum's hair! After the church bit we were given these flowers with sugar almonds in them as a present.

The reception was right next to the church and inside there was a band playing traditional Greek music which was really loud! The starter was prawns, I just took one look and was like 'noooo, I'm not eating that!' It still had it's eyes on and little swimming legs, ewwwww! Then everyone started dancing but have you ever tried to dance to Greek music??? Me, mum, Andrew and my aunty joined in, it was just a massive circle of people dancing round. But then... this is the best bit... came the smashing plates! It was so bizarre. There were just piles and piles of plates coming from nowhere and you just smash them on the floor, it's so much fun, but made such a mess and one of the Greek relatives cut her toe really badly! And at the same time people were throwing flowers everywhere.

The Greeks really know how to celebrate.

Gutted... absolutely gutted!

2006-05-09T20:49:00.000+01:00

So. Last night, somebody let something slip about the first episode in season 5 of 24.

Why why why??!!! I was assured that it actually isn't that big a deal compared to a lot of other stuff that happens. I just hope that person is right.

My leavers ball

2006-05-08T17:31:00.000+01:00

Last friday night I went to my leavers ball. It seemed to be much earlier than other schools and nobody was really prepared for it especially me! It was all very posh, it was at The Thistle Hotel in town. My friend Bethany did a really good job of organising it, she'd booked a string quartet to play whilst we had our 3 course meal and had decorated the tables really well. There was also awards like 'chav of the year', 'most likely to be a porn star', 'biggest flirt', 'most likely to go to prison' etc. -very funny!

The food was good, the dj was good, and nobody got too drunk so there weren't any stupid fights, just our whole year group having a great time together.

Heres a few photos I knicked from my friend:

Agggghhhh, the pasty-ness! Lol, I really regret not putting on the fake tan... ah well!

Drama in the neighbourhood

2006-05-04T22:02:00.000+01:00

Last night was a really weird one. Everyone was in bed and in the middle of my sleep I heard a really loud banging on the door. You know what it's like when you're asleep and it takes you a while to wake up. Anyway, the banging carried on and to be honest I was really scared cos I thought it was a certain someone from my family who had come to cause trouble! Eventually my mum ran downstairs and answered the door and it was our next-door neighbour and she'd come to tell us to get out cos her house was on fire! So I got Andrew out of bed and grabbed the dog and we went outside. It was actually the shed that had caught fire but you could see the tips of the flames and the smoke from the front. A few minutes later the fire engines arrived and it was so noisy cos they had to pump the water through. I didn't have a clue what time it was untill another neighbour told me it was 2am! We ended up being out there for a whole hour and half because the fire men had to check our house to be safe.

So since last night we've had to have literally every window in our house open because the smoke was really strong and had spread into our house. It's amazing how it all spreads, I walked into my room and you could actually see a sort of fog from the smoke and mum said that when she wiped her finger across the kitchen surface it was black.

Lets just say that we will be sure to get a smoke alarm very soon.

Thanx Gran :-)

2006-04-26T19:55:00.000+01:00

So I had bought a dress for my leavers ball but I started having second thoughts about it which is what I tend to do 99% of the time when I buy something like a dress! It was a really nice dress and Alicea and Babz helped me pick it out but you know what it's like when you're with friends and they boost your confidence but then when I got home and tried it on again I changed my mind. The dress was really revealing on the back and I just wouldn't have felt comfortable showing my back like that cos, well I don't like my back!

Anyway, I'm drifting from the point. I went to take the dress back and the woman in the shop actually makes the dresses herself (I think). When I got the dress she was really nice but this particular day she was really horrible. I was asking about a refund and she was just giving a blank look which just made me feel like a fool. Then eventually she managed to say, 'No.. I would give you an exchange' so I left it at that. Then my Grandma found out about it and said she would have a go. So today, I come home from school and my Grandma comes in and what happened... she got the refund! She said the lady was really nice to her. So a big thank you is in order to Grandma for getting my 70 squid back yay yay!

It's been one of those days where little things like that have sorted itself out. You might remember when I talked about this music festival in Ireland? Well I ended up paying for the ticket but then I changed my mind, lol no surprises there! I wanted to sell the ticket on ebay but my friend said that the ticket won't come through untill 2 days before the festival. Turns out she was wrong and they came through yesterday so today I finally put it on ebay and hopefully somebody will buy it :-s

Back to school = back to blogging?!

2006-04-21T22:26:00.000+01:00

I've been on Easter hols which isn't an excuse not to blog but ah well.

Tonight I stayed in and it's all been a bit bizarre...

Firstly there's no Friends on TV on a friday night!!! Can you believe it!? What is all that about eh!!!?

Also I was very confused as Hustle wasn't on which I didn't understand because it's always on a Friday night but I watch it on Sundays instead on Teleport replay. Then my mum turned over to her boring Hallmark channel and there was Hustle! Hmmm, all very strange, what's Hustle doing on Hallmark???

And then, I discovered that my Aunty once posed for a life drawing class- well I never knew that!

Another interesting fact, or rather not so interesting is that I started reading a book, that's right people! And I've finished it too :) it's the one that Loz read I think, 'The curious incident of the dog in the night'. Lots of people found it funny but I found it quite sad although some bits I did have to smile at.

I have work tomorrow and the lady who works in cash office won't be there so you all know what that means... I get to listen to the radio woohoo! I may even have to run cash office by myself because I did a couple of days in the holidays to cover so technically I should know what I'm doing. I quite enjoy running cash office actually, sometimes I know more than the manager which makes me feel quite good :-)

Oh yeah, Babz mentioned some funny comments that were made when we went to Weston. They probably don't sound as funny now but I think the funniest for me was when we passed a Miss Millie's and Sam, bless her, was like, 'There's a Miss Millie's here!' thinking that there was only one Miss Millie's that existed which was in Staple Hill :-P

For whoever this may concern: I don't like litter bugs ;-)

Yeh I've copied Loz too

2006-04-04T22:59:00.000+01:00

1. LOOK ABOVE YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN..WHAT DO YOU SEE?
A very boring wall and if I look up a bit more a very boring picture of a boat

2. PRESS A RANDOM LETTER ON YOUR KEYBOARD WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED?
g

3. ARE YOU ON MSN AT THE MOMENT?
Nope, I’m invisible mwuhaha..

4. STAND UP AND REACH UP...DO YOU TOUCH THE CEILING?
No

5. NOW REACH IN FRONT OF YOU (STILL STOOD UP) WHAT DO YOU TOUCH?
I could touch the wall if I stretched

6. WHATS THE LAST THING A PERSON SAID TO YOU ON MSN?
I can’t even remember, I havn’t chatted on it at all today, it was probably ‘night night’

7. WHAT CAN U HEAR RIGHT NOW?
The TV and my dog snoring

8. PICK UP THE NEAREST BOOK... TURN TO PAGE 27 LINE 18 WHAT IS IT?
I actually had to go onto page 28 to reach the 18th line but it says, ‘What would it be like to see each of the four horses and riders?’

9. WHAT IS YOUR PERSONAL MESSAGE ON MSN RIGHT NOW?
I am boring and don’t have one, just Gem

10. WHATS ON TV RIGHT NOW?
The OC- amazing, well not amazing I suppose but it’s easy watching, I’ve already watched it but now my mum is watching it on E4 +1

11. LOOK TO YOUR RIGHT..WHAT DO YOU SEE?
A curtain

12. GO ON THE INTERNET, TYPE IN ON GOOGLE YOUR FULL NAME
The first one is about some girl called Gemma Norman, surprisingly, at North Cumbria Technology College… but the second one down more interstingly is from my old school’s website and is about me being player of the hockey match :)

13.WHATS ON YOUR MOUSEMAT?
I don’t have one :(

14. WHAT COLOUR IS YOUR KEYBOARD?
some creamy colour

15. WHAT MAKE IS YOUR COMPUTER?
Compaq Presario MV500

16. IF YOU WALK 5 STEPS TO YOUR RIGHT..AND REACH TO THE LEFT..WHAT DO YOU TOUCH?
Well if I could walk through walls I would be outside and maybe touch a bush…

17. IS THERE SOMEONE IN YOUR BATHROOM RIGHT NOW?
No

18. IS THERE A GUEST IN YOUR HOUSE RIGHT NOW?
Nah

19. ARE YOU EATING?
No, I have just had a choclate bar though which I dipped in my tea whilst watching The OC, mmm

20. ARE YOU DRINKING?
No

21. TYPE YOUR PHONE NUMBER....
No thanks

22. WHAT TIME IS IT?
10.54pm

23. IS YOUR CHAIR COMFY?
Well, it’s ok, not amazing

warning incredibly long post

2006-04-04T22:18:00.000+01:00

Ok ok, so here is my 101st post!

Sooo… I’m just trying to remember what I’ve been up to…

Ummm, I really am struggling to remember what interesting things have happened! I’m on Easter hols now finally, Woohoo. I love having the first day where I just stay in bed till 1pm and just slob around basically cos I don’t get a chance to that normally.

So anyway, last Wednesday I went to visit Gloucestershire University with my mum. That was cool, not really much to report on that except the campus I'd be on is quite small but there are shuttle buses which go to the other main campuses so I guess it wouldn’t be that big a deal. We didn’t get any free food much to my mum’s disappointment, she keeps judging the uni’s on how much free food they give you! Tomorrow we’re going to Bath Spa and that will be the last uni, which I’ll need to visit so it better impress.

Thursday… dance was a good laugh, it was one of those nights where so many funny comments were made and I guess we were all in a giggly mood, Nami’s already told you one funny thing that was said. Another one was this:

Nami: (whilst spinning around with her arms out) look, look at my hands when I do this… you can see the blood rushing down!!!

Me & Babz: oh yeh, wow, my hands are all red

Nami: come on Alicea do it and look at your hands!

Alicea: I can’t I’m black; stop it with the racial games guys!

It was funny at the time trust me and it might sound racist but I suppose because we’ve known each other for years so we managed to laugh about it together.

Friday was last day at school and I met Alicea and Babz in town to do some shopping. I actually really hate shopping; well only when it’s the type of shopping where you wander round shops aimlessly. But this time I was looking for a dress for my prom/ball- whatever it’s called. And I found one too with the help of the others. They took me to a shop on Park Street and upstairs they have a big selection of dresses at really reasonable prices. The lady was really nice too and she said once I'd bought the shoes I could come back up and she’d adjust it for me! The dress is pink and it has a shimmer to it. I’m usually really cautious when shopping for something like this but I am easily persuaded. I was quite hesitant because the dress shows off the back and I'm a bit conscious about mine but they both insisted and Babz even bought me a shawl to match for my birthday pressie :)

On Saturday I was at work, nothing different there except about 45 minutes before I was meant to finish there was an evacuation! I’ve told most of you this anyway but I'll re-tell the story anyway… so I was in the office by myself and I hear the announcement and then the beeeeep beeeeep came on. I ‘m thinking oh dear… what the hell do I do!? Luckily as I came out of the office Emma who I work with was on her way back so we went out together although she didn’t really know what to do either. My nervous laughter started to kick in making me look really unprofessional and then to make things worse a woman asked me if it was just a test and I just half smiled with a nervous laugh!!! When me and Emma were outside it was literally just me and her and the customers, no other employees! It was so funny although not really cos it could have been really serious but it was actually ok in the end.

Sunday we all went to The Mix which was really good and even though the speak Phillip had told the story before it was still just as funny this time. I've been to The Mix a couple of times before but I think I enjoyed it much more this time because I was with my own crowd, people I felt comfortable with. Before I'd been with my friend and her church group and she basically ditched me through the whole thing so I felt a bit of a lemon!

Last night I went to the very classy Mangotsfield fair… first night = ½ price! I’m usually well up for rides but I had just had pizza and I started to feel really queasy. I still went on all the main rides but I felt sooooo ill after each one. Think it’s because at those types of fairs all the rides just take you round and round in circles- really not good for the stomach!

Also, for the past few days I’ve started watching the fourth series of 24. I have to say I have really enjoyed it. I am enjoying the whole terrorist action but I’m finding myself wanting to watch the next one because of the love affairs going on, guess that’s just a girly thing.

Well… this has been a veeeeeerrry long post, sorry bout that guys :)

Oooo, look at that!

2006-03-27T12:19:00.000+01:00

100! I've got to my 100th post yay!

Today I realised whilst talking about nothing amazingly interesting that I say 'like' a lot... and when you like notice something like that it's like really annoying! Fascinating huh!

Blogs are really good reads

2006-03-20T22:07:00.000Z

This evening I've sort of done nothing really! Well that's not completely true, I've been reading thorugh everyone's blogs but started reading them from way back when they all started! It's really funny reading posts from ages back and remembering silly things so vividly! Tristan- you wrote proper essays man, but they were so fun to read! And Loz, you started yours from trying to comment on Tristan's! It's so weird cos I've been reading about stuff which I was there for but I never knew blogs existed so it was strange to read about all the cheapy Tuesday nights I'd been to and seeing pictures on Tom's blog from the car crash! I can't wait for a whole year to pass by so I can read them all over again!

Here we go again...

2006-03-15T19:02:00.000Z

Jill Norman's 7 favourite songs......

I found this really difficult because there's loads of different types of music that I like.

1. Praise you by fat boy Slim- I don’t really know but every time I hear it I want to sing it and it makes me feel happy lol, I just love it!

2. ABC easy as 123 by the Jackson 5- because that one reminds me of when I was in my teens dancing in the school at lunch time

3. Samba Pa Ti by Santana- its just really good music

4. Summer breeze by Isley Brothers- It was in the charts one summer when I stayed at my friend’s in Kingsbridge in the summer holidays in my teens and I fell in love!!!!

5. Yesterday by Paul McCartney- because there’s been times in my life where the words have just summed up how I felt

6. Uncontained by Curious by Design- because I like the ending (in a good way!), the way it builds up. The words encourage me when I feel like I'm the only one believing in my work place and family (except for Gemma, Andrew and mum!)

7. Songbird by Eva Cassidy- she has an amazing voice

I think everyone's been tagged!

The song tagging thing

2006-03-13T17:49:00.000Z

Well, I have finally chosen my 7 songs but I will tell you it wasn't easy and I'm not even sure if these songs are my ultimate favourites because it is an impossible task really because I have soooooo many favourite songs but here goes...

1) 'Heaven' which is originally by Bryan Adams but I love the acoustic version by DJ Sammy- it's such a lush and romantic song and I'm trying to learn the piano bit at the moment. It also reminds me of my first youth holiday cos we played it in our caravan at full blast every night when we were getting ready!

2) 'All These things that I've done' by The Killers- such a good song, my favourite bit is the bridge where it goes 'Ive got soul but I'm not a soldier' and then these choir people come in on the background and it builds up and it's just amazing. I actually love every single song on their album but this is my favourite.

3) 'Paint the silence' by South- I don't actually know who this band is but I know I like this song. I found it on The OC soundtrack and I love The OC so maybe that influenced it.

4) 'Buck Rogers' by Feeder- such a cool rock out song! I love shouting out the words- love it!

5) 'Better than life' by Hillsongs United- I knew one of Hillsongs United songs would be on my list but I found it really hard to choose which one. I ended up with this one because it was one of the first I heard and it's on my baptism CD which Rach made for all of us so it reminds me of that time.

6) 'FNT' by Semisonic- again I don't actually know other stuff from this band but it's from my '10 Things I hate about you' soundtrack (a film from my top four) and it's so cool and everytime I hear it I think of the film.

7) 'More than fine' by Switchfoot- this is just one of the songs by them that I can never get enough of. I love listening to the whole album. Another youth holiday memory which was the one just gone and me and Nami wanted it on all the time but we were with the dancer girls who liked R'n'B so there was always a music battle going on!

This list could go on for sure, 7 is just not enough!

People I'm tagging...
anyone and everyone!

Ssssh please!

2006-03-08T14:39:00.001Z

I love music, don't get me wrong but when you're on a bus full of people who are all different it means that not everybody is going to like the same taste in music. So I find it really annoying when you get some people who think it's really cool to play their hip-hop music (sorry Sam!) so loud that it drowns out the music you're trying to listen to on your headphones! I mean c'mon, buy yourself some cheapy headphones so I don't have to listen to it too!

Oh my word...

2006-03-08T14:32:00.000Z

Can you actually believe it???! Kinga and Kemal are a couple... click here if you want proof (I have only just worked out how to do this link thing so am trying it out :-P!)

Now that is a surprise!

I'm a little confused...

2006-03-06T16:47:00.000Z

There isn't really a purpose to this post apart from seeing if it will get my blog back!

I've come home from school and Lozza says to me on MSN, where's your blog?? For some reason it doesn't seem to exist at the moment :'( and Loz seems to think maybe I haven't spoken to it nicely! So...... I'm just thinking maybe if I post something new it will reappear!

???????

2006-03-01T19:00:00.000Z

I've just realised that my last 3 posts are questions... sorry about that!

Should I stay or should I go?

2006-03-01T18:43:00.000Z

I've never known anyone who can change their mind so much as me. I'm sure I must be the most indecisive person in England! One minute I'll be dead set on staying in Bristol and the next I think, hmmm, maybe I should move away and really experience university life.

I've got to start deciding where I want to go to university and I visited Galmorgan today in Wales. I really liked it there and to make it even better I'd spend the last 2 years in Cardiff which would be very cool! I've still got other places to visit and none of them are very far away from Bristol anyway but still, it's so hard! There are advantages to both, it's cheaper, less hassle and I already have friends in Bristol but then it's exciting, very different and will meet loads of new people if I move away.

I hate making decisions :(

Should I, shouldn't I??

2006-02-28T17:49:00.000Z

So my friend wants a few of us to go to the Oxegen festival in Dublin. It sounds really good, there will be amazing bands playing like Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, Red Hot Chilli Peppers etc. BUT... it will cost us nearly £200 with staying there and the flight blah blah :( BUT... it would be amazing... agggh, I don't know what to do!

Sam, are you there???

2006-02-27T12:11:00.000Z

I know you just left a comment on my blog, are you in school too?

As you can tell everyone I am sooooooooooo bored, meant to be doing an RE essay, fun... not and there is no MSN. Oh, and I'm in a hot, stuffy computer room, stomach rumbling and massive headache AND the internet is sooooo slow... not that I'm a moaner or anything! :(

Sorry to drag this out, last one I promise!

2006-02-26T12:55:00.000Z

This is Rita's...

Four Jobs I have ever had in my life:

1. in a nursery
2. school cook
3. worked in a confectioners for a while
4. a nurse at the BRI

Four Movies I can watch over and over:

1. Dr Zhivago
2. Pride & prejudice
3. Sound of music
4. Room with a view

Four Places I have lived:

1. Birmingham
2. Goodrington
3. Paignton
4. Bristol

Four TV Shows I love to watch:

1. Holby City
2. Casualty
3. Doctors
4. Masterchef

Four places I have been on vacation:

1. Clevedon when I was little
2. Switzerland
3. Romania
4. Paignton

Four websites I visit daily:

1. ?
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?

Four of my favourite foods:

1. Cadbury’s milk chocolate
2. Roast
3. Gooey sweets
4. Ice cream

Four places I would rather be right now:

1. In the sun
2. Heaven
3. With the youth!
4. In front of a coal fire so it’s nice and warm… with some chocolates and a cup of tea… and watching Holby City

Four poeple I am tagging:

1. Nigel
2. Neil
3. Simon
4. Jane

The poor apple :(

2006-02-25T19:18:00.000Z

Have you seen the advert for the fruit blender?? It's soooo funny, me and my mum were in stitches. There's this apple skipping along and 'oh what a beautiful morning' is playing and everything is happy and then the apple holds onto a bunch of grapes which are like balloons. So the apple is going up in the air and then this pineapple pops the grapes and the apple falls into the blender and it's not such a beautiful morning. It is funny, well me and my mum think so anyway, well actually my mum found it quite upsetting seeing the apple fall in and die. I've only seen it twice though, look out for it!

Jill Norman's answers...

2006-02-21T14:15:00.000Z

(this tagging thing could go on forever!)

Four Jobs I have ever had in my life:

1. Receptionist at an Opticians
2. Hotel Receptionist
3. Waitress
4. Dishwasher in a fish & chip shop as a teenager

Four Movies I can watch over and over:

1. Room with a view (zzzzzzzzz)
2. Billy Elliot
3. When a Man loves a Woman
4. It’s a wonderful life

Four Places I have lived:

1. Paignton
2. Redland
3. Westbury-on-trym
4. Wimbledon

Four TV Shows I love to watch:

1. Parkinson
2. Friends
3. What not to wear
4. Masterchef

Four places I have been on vacation:

1. Austria
2. Cyprus
3. Venice
4. Torquay

Four websites I visit daily:

1. (let’s see…
2. she doesn’t have an email address…
3. and she doesn’t go on the internet…
4. and she doesn’t know how to use the computer)

Four of my favourite foods:
1. Baked Alaska
2. Salad
3. Cashew nuts
4. Kiwi fruit

Four places I would rather be right now:

1. Venice
2. Walking along the beach
3. Having a nice meal in a restaurant
4. Anywhere

Four poeple I am tagging:

1. Larry (via Sam’s blog)
2. Sue (via Sam’s blog)
3. Nessa (via someone’s blog)
4. My mum (Rita)

Andrew, "I don't get it"

2006-02-20T17:23:00.000Z

According to my brother this is sad and he doesn't get it. Yes he's in a mood, might be to do with me inturrupting 24...

Four Jobs I have ever had in my life:

1. football coaching
2. food critic (when my sis makes choc fudge)
3. paper round (lasted a day)
4. being a fool (yeh that was me (Gem) obviously)!

Four Movies I can watch over and over:

1. Spiderman 2
2. Mighty Ducks
3. King Kong (not really but oh well something to write)
4. umm, Waterboy

Four Places I have lived:

1. Bristol
2. London
3. England
4. Oldbury Court

Four TV Shows I love to watch:

1. The OC
2. 24 (what I could be watching right now if my sis hadn’t dragged me downstairs to do this)
3. Hollyoaks
4. Extreme Makeover home edition

Four places I have been on vacation:

1. Cyprus
2. Torquay
3. Paignton
4. Cornwall

Four websites I visit daily:

1. bbc
2. channel 4
3. MSN
4. hotmail

Four of my favourite foods:

1. pasta
2. chips
3. musaka (dunno how to spell it)
4. angel cake

Four places I would rather be right now:

1. in my room
2. out with friends
3. on the drums
4. on the toilet

Four people I am tagging:

1. Ryan
2. Sam
3. James
4. Josh

Well there you go, that was The Norm. It took him about 20 minutes to think of 4 films...

Norm: just leave it blank
Me: ok, that doesn't make you sound boring
Norm: well I am boring

I've been tagged

2006-02-18T19:27:00.000Z

Four Jobs I have ever had in my life:

1. ummm, I worked in a primary school for a week as work experience..
2. ummmmmm, a dance teacher! (does that count??)
3. I worked at Sainsbury’s in the café- it was horrible!
4. Now work for John Lewis in stock admin/cash office

Four Movies I can watch over and over:

1. 10 Things I hate about you
2. The Matrix
3. Aladin
4. Pirates of the Caribbean

Four Places I have lived:

1. Patchway
2. Wimbledon
3. Surrey
4. Westbury-on-trym

Four TV Shows I love to watch:

1. Friends
2. The OC
3. 24
4. Malcolm in the Middle

Four places I have been on vacation:

1. Paignton
2. Disney Land Paris
3. Pathos (Cyprus)
4. Newquay

Four websites I visit daily:

1. google.com
2. theplacewherelozzais.blogspot.com
3. other blogs!
4. seetickets.com (don’t look at this daily but can’t think of anything else)

Four of my favourite foods:

1. Chocolate
2. Pasta
3. Pizza
4. Chicken

Four places I would rather be right now:

1. Watching 24 with Dan
2. In bed (a nice new one which isn’t as old as I am!)
3. Back in Manchester with my mates
4. On a beach with Seth Cowen :-P

Four solids I am tagging:

1. Nami
2. Daza
3. Sam
4. Babz (please blog Babz!??)

Today...

2006-02-15T17:53:00.000Z

... I have tidied the house for my mum, aww! What a kind daughter I am!? Well actually, I must admit I never help around the house so really I don't deserve any praise. After tidying the living room, bathroom etc. I decided to tackle... my bedroom! uh-oh, not a good idea because it's got to the stage where to tidy I've just dumped everything in this big cupboard and so today when I chose to tidy my room properly it meant I had to sort all of it out. I'm not even half way through and I'm blogging because I need a break already!

Whilst looking through loads of stuff in the dreaded cupboard I found a magazine from school for Media Studies and it's so cool! It's got an article in there about blogging and how universities actually encourage their students to blog! The title is 'the future will be blogged', so thanks to Lozza who helped me onto the path of the future! The main reason the magazine caught my eye was because it was a picture of Jack Bauer on the front. Of course, I wasn't into 24 at the time so I didn't bother reading itbut when I saw Jack I was like wow, it's got 24 in here! It's this guy writing about how he got hooked and how he introduced it to his friends- sound like someone we know people...

I can't believe I haven't blogged about this yet

2006-02-14T14:38:00.000Z

So last weekend most of you know anyway the youth went up to Manchester to visit the Deans. It was soooo much fun, it was great to catch up with them and we must go up again! I won't say too much about it cos most of the people who read blogs were there and also Loz and Daz have said most it but I can say that Saturday night I laughed so hard it was great. You know when you just have the giggles and somebody just says something which probably isn't even that funny but you find it hilarious? Well that's what I was like.

Me and the girls didn't get to sleep till 5.30am, no surprises there apart from Sam *applause* who stayed up aswell which is a big shock because whenever we are sleeping in the same room Sam is always the first to go at like 2am so well done Sam, it was a great laugh to have you stay up with us!

On the Sunday we went to Trafford centre which is the biggest shopping mall I've ever been to in my life, it was so cool! And I managed to get some photos of Old Trafford and the Man City stadium which was very cool. Simon made us all spag bol which was lush (cheerz Si!) and then we all went to their church which was good just to see what 'The Sanctuary' is like in another city! We also got to meet their youth who are Luke and Naomi's friends and they'll hopefully be coming on the youth holiday- yay!

It was such a good weekend- a short one, but worth it!

Normism no. 2356

2006-02-10T18:12:00.000Z

Me: What happened?

Andrew: Don't know

Me: why are you laughing then??

Andrew: Because it's funny

Normism no. 2355

2006-02-10T18:00:00.000Z

So we're watching Friends and it's the one with Phoebe's wedding...

Joey: Oh hey, don't worry. I'm still ordained from your wedding.
Monica: Really?
Joey: Yeah, you'd think I'd give up being a minister and start paying to ride the subway? Huhuh...
Ross: Uhm, ministers don't ride the subway for free.
Joey: I had to read the Bible pretty carefully, but... yeah we do.

Andrew: Do they mum?

Keep smiling :-)

2006-02-10T14:27:00.000Z

I make myself smile sometimes and I must look really strange to other people, but sometimes it helps to cope with embarrassment...

Today was one of those days where I just kept looking like a complete fool (no comments saying those days are everyday please)!

Firstly, don't you love it when you're just thinking about anything that is in your head at the time and then a random memory pops in and you just want to laugh, well that happened to me and I love it when it happens even though I look like a freak just smiling to myself because I have no one to share it with!

So that smile wasn't to escape embarrassment, just because of a funny memory, but then later a couple of things happened which must have looked so funny. You know in town there's always a massive group of pigeons somewhere near you, well lately I think I've grown a fear of them because they all seem to just fly off right in my direction- it's really scary! So I'm happily walking along and about 50 pigeons decide to fly what seemed at me, so I almost duck out of the way and people must have thought I was so strange! Then, I did such a clumsy thing and I'm smiling now thinking about it. It was just the classic not-looking-where-you're-going moment and I completely missed a step and very nearly fell flat on my face! lol lol

Just had to get those things off my chest!

Da da dum...

2006-02-08T16:41:00.000Z

I have parents evening tonight and I actually have to go with my mum... not good :-s

P.s. I've been listening to my mp3 everyday for over a month and I've only just had to recharge the battery- impressive huh!

Just a tip...

2006-02-01T18:19:00.000Z

... for those who are still not on season 5 of 24- DO NOT WATCH SKY ONE... EVER!!!!!!!

Thanks to the adverts inbetween watching Malcolm in the Middle I now know something that happens in season 4 of 24 *sobs*

I am not a happy bunny >:(

Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate

2006-02-01T17:10:00.000Z

Chocolate is so mmmmmmmmm

Me: chocolate just has that...

Loz/chocolate buddy: it's ok, I understand

A very eventful weekend

2006-01-31T16:21:00.000Z

Why is it that whenever I have something different to do I decide to do these things all at once?? It only results in me being really tired, shattered, exhausted etc… but I still had a great weekend!

Friday I went to watch the rugby. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen a rugby match before but it was years ago so it was sort of a new thing. As I went to a school, which was mad about rugby, you'd think I would know lots about it but I actually don’t have a clue or so I thought… I surprised myself and it didn’t take long for me to understand what was going on.

Saturday I rushed home from work to have a shower and then go to my friend Hannah’s house where we ordered pizza (mmmm) and got ready for another friend’s 18th birthday party. It was fancy dress where the guys were dressed up as gangsters and the gals were meant to wear 1920’s stuff...

It was a memorable night and we didn’t leave until 2.30am!!!

So that left Hannah and me about 2 or 3 hours sleep because we then had to wake up at 6am to catch a coach to London!!! It was Chinese New Year so we decided to go and see what went on. It was packed; apparently 200,000 people were there! There was a parade to open the events but we couldn’t really see anything apart from a dragon’s head popping up! I did manage to catch a glimpse of these girls who seemed to be Chinese cheerleaders!?

We then had lunch by Leister Square in a noodle bar- the noodles were luuuush! Then we went into China town but it was so busy that you really couldn’t move so that gave me a bit of a headache, well the noise there and the lack of sleep. So we left all the Chinese stuff and looked around Harrods. I forgot how flippin’ big it is, it’s something else! Also saw the Odeon where all the film premieres are and I saw the imprints of Hugh Grant and Colin Firth’s hands on the floor, ahhhh, Mr Darcy! Also visited the good old London sites like Buckingham Palace and Big Ben but because of this we managed to miss the fireworks back in Trafalgar Square! Then we were so tired to bother looking for a place to eat so we just went to the nearest restaurant, which happened to be an Italian, more pizza (mmmmmm).

Why am I the boring one??

2006-01-26T22:48:00.000Z

Thanks to Lozza who found this quiz, although I wish I’d never taken it now… I’ve come out as Luke! How gay is that (not as gay as his dad)!?

You scored as Luke. You are physically healthy, socially popular, and intellectually bland. Start reading some books and pursuing some interests beyond instant physical gratification and what's popular. Start thinking more long term and less superficially and viscerally.

Luke

78%

Julie

78%

Kirsten

78%

Caleb

61%

Sandy

56%

Jimmy

56%

Marissa

39%

Anna

33%

Oliver

22%

Seth

17%

Ryan

11%

Summer

Hailey

What OC character are you?
created with QuizFarm.com

So I did it again and I was sandy, whats all that about! I want to be a cool character :(

You scored as Sandy. You are an easygoing idealist. You follow your own internal values and also know how to have a good time. Make sure that you are not so easygoing and fun seeking that you don't ever realize your ideals.

Sandy

61%

Luke

61%

Caleb

61%

Julie

61%

Kirsten

55%

Jimmy

50%

Oliver

22%

Marissa

22%

Seth

22%

Anna

22%

Ryan

11%

Summer

11%

Hailey

What OC character are you?
created with QuizFarm.com

The fox & the cat

2006-01-26T22:44:00.000Z

So usually you would expect to see a dog fighting with a cat in the middle of the night on a street... but tonight, I just saw a fox and a cat eying eachother up and ready for a scrap! Unfortunately I didn't get to see any full on fighting action, no blood or guts or anything, just the fox trying to escape from the cat! The question is, where did the fox come from??

Not what I expected

2006-01-25T15:03:00.000Z

So I saw Jarhead last night and it was... well, not what I expected, it was better, so funny but a bit rude at times (well most times really) tut tut, but still very funny.

I missed the first half of The OC though- noooooooooooooo! It's ok though, I think I'm up to speed on things because it's quite easy to pick it up. The only thing I was worried about was if I'd missed any classic Seth Cowen moments!

Oh, and I saw an advert on tv for season 5 of 24!!! Well, I wasn't really watching the tv and I looked and saw it was an ad for 24 so I quickly turned away and was like 'Mum! Is it giving anything away??!' cos I really wanted to watch it really but didn't because even the slightest thing can spoil it.

24 24 24 24..... 25 25 25 25!

2006-01-21T18:34:00.000Z

First the only number on my brain was 24- for obvious reasons.

Right now, the only number on my brain is 25 after counting every £25 John Lewis vouchers that ever existed and sorting them into groups of 25...... sound interesting? Nope didn't think so.

Wonder what will be next for number 26?

Apart from that, my day was actually quite good. Shall I bore you with it.... why not! I was getting trained properly in the cash office and it makes me feel so important! I'm surrounded by all this money and you have to count it out and swap bags of coins for 100 £20 notes and stuff like that and put all the money from the tills into sealed bags and give it to that man who walks around with that secure briefcase with that funny helmet on through a secure box... you with me so far?!

Please if possible....

2006-01-19T22:11:00.000Z

call me Gemma, Gem, Gems, or anything thing around the name 'Gemma' just not somebody else's name because, well I'm Gemma, not anybody else, just me... get what I mean?!

Nothing can beat Grandma's cooking!

2006-01-15T16:23:00.000Z

Mmmmmm, lunch at Grandma's today was good! The best bit was the pudding. I'm not usually a pudding person cos I never have it at home but when the youth go to Grandma's for lunch the pudding is what I'm waiting for! Lemon cheesecake is the best cheesecake I've ever had... it's so lush! I had 2 pieces of that AND a piece of choc cake- what a fatty! Seriously, if you haven't tried my Grandma's cheesecake then you haven't lived. Me and Lozza with our cheesecake just reminded me of the Friends episode where Rachel and Chandler eat the cheesecake! See, life is just like Friends.

A 'solid' trip to town

2006-01-14T18:40:00.000Z

So we went down town yesterday and I've been to town loads, but this time it was quite different...

I got bird poo on the back of my jeans!!! At the time I was keeping it a massive secret, trying to cover it up and now I'm telling everyone on a blog! All I've got to say is thank you for friends like Nami who tell you and then help you scrub it off with toilet tissue
I had one of those milkshakes from Shake King. Don't know if you've seen it before but it is sooooo cool! It has every weird flavour under the sun... muffin, jelly babies, twix, bakewell tart, poptarts, toffee popcorn, custard creams, ferrero rocher, love hearts, shortbread, jammie dodgers... the list really does go on and on! I had a jelly tots milkshake, Dan had dolly mixture flavour and Daza had haribo!
Everyone (apart from me cos I was trying on some jeans and Nami who was on a shopping mission) got spoken to by a TV crew and might be on BBC 2... so unfair :(
Sam sold some gold for 15 squid
Saw Lil' Tom and Bruce on the bus
We annoyed everyone on the bus by singing 'in the jungle' and saying 'HI BRUCE' about 50 times

Yeh, so that was pretty much it!

6.30am is too early and it shouldn't exist

2006-01-13T12:22:00.000Z

My timetable is quite cool because most mornings on one week I don't need to get up untill at least 9.15, this morning though I had to get up at 6.30 and it was soooo hard. I'm just not a morning person. If I had to get up at 2.30am to go on a plane to Australia then sure, I'll do it, but to get up early to go to school is just crap!

Just like to say though, that on Saturday mornings I've been getting ready in 20minutes, how good is that!?

Anyway, this must be really boring to read but I have nothing better to do. I'm meeting the solids in a bit because we all seem to have a free friday afternoon! The thing is they're not getting on the bus till 12 and I finished at 11.45 and everyone's in lessons :-(

So, what else can I talk about.... yesterday I was so dumb. For some reason I caught the bus an hour early than I needed to but thinking I was going to be late, duh! So all I was thinking was, I could've had an extra hours sleep grrrrr!

I should probably start treking to town now, have a good day :-)

Californiaaaaaaa... here we coooooomme!

2006-01-11T16:46:00.000Z

Ah, new season of The OC was on last Tuesday night and it was good! I love it and I have to say I'm probably in agreement with Tom as 24 and Friends are my favourite top 2 programmes, but I've decided that my 3rd favourite is The OC! The main attraction for me is probably Adam Brody aka Seth Cowen (who by the way is sooo much nicer than Ryan)...
Ahhh..... oh sorry, yeh The OC, it's just cool. Makes you feel a tiny bit jealous when you see where they live, like swimming pools in back garden and amazing view of the sea, also has cool music.... on E4, Tuesday nights - watch it!

Now I'm talking like my bro...

2006-01-09T22:43:00.000Z

A picture of 3 boys came up on the TV...

Me: they all look the same

Bro: they're triplets... (well he actually said twins but I know what he meant!)

TV disputes

2006-01-09T22:04:00.000Z

Arggh, so annoying when a family member wants to watch some crappy soap star singing thing when I need to watch the new series of 'Smallville'!!! If I miss the first episode of 'The OC' tomorrow night I will not be happy!

A break from 24... not gonna happen

2006-01-08T22:50:00.000Z

So the lil 24 crew who were on season 2 finshed it, yay! We said we were going to have a bit of break from 24 and then get stuck into season 3 soon. But did that happen... of course not! I think it was pretty much the next day which was yesterday infact that we gave in and borrowed the first disk of season 3 from Tristan. Shows how strong we are eh!?

A Prayer for the Stressed

2006-01-06T17:21:00.000Z

For those who work- I found this funny!

Grant me the serenity to accept things I cannot change,

the courage to change the things I cannot accept, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill today becase they p'd me off.

And also, help me be careful of the toes I step on today as they may be connected to the ass that I may have to kiss tomorrow.

Help me to always give 100% at work

12% on Monday

23% on Tuesday

40% on Wednesday

20% on Thursday

5% on Fridays

And help me to remember...

When I am having a really bad day, and it seems that people are trying to p me off, that it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to extend my arm and smack the idiot in the mouth.

Stuck

2006-01-04T14:04:00.000Z

So I have a wholepiece of coursework that has to be in tomorrow, I have a free day, nothing else to do and yet I just can't bring myself to do it! Why is that?? I know how important it is and nothing is standing in my way apart from my laziness!!! Grrrr, I can annoy myself so much sometimes. So instead of doing the coursework I try to find absolutely anything which will distract me from it. Sitting at a computer is the worse thing to do (even though I need the computer to do my work), there's MSN, blogs to read, my blog to write, other crap on the internet!

It's a new year, a fresh start... I will get it done!

Everybody's 24 crazy!

2006-01-03T00:26:00.000Z

So I spent most of my day watching 24 (yeh, we decided to scrap the whole watching it in 24 hours thing- maybe do it in the summer!). It really is just one of those things which you can't stop watching. You get to the last minute of it and some big twist happens which means that you HAVE to watch the next one.

We are now half way through the 2nd season- woohoo!!!

Ooo, by the way I got an mp3 player for Christmas, a Sony bean... it's so cute!

A bit of a late post!

2005-12-28T21:30:00.000Z

So Christmas is over and I have to say it was a good day. Usually I get really bored but this year was ok!

We went to my gran's for lunch which is always good cos as most of you know my gran is a good cook! We didn't eat till quite late cos we went to church in the morning and then whilst waiting for lunch I was doing a suduko from my new book (they are so addictive and I feel a bit like a geek doing them!).

Then in the evening me and my bro went to Nig and Esther's house which was loads of fun. The X factor game is sooooo cool, even if you're not the best singer you can just put it on easy and your confidence goes way up!!!

Hope everyone else had a good day!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

2005-12-25T01:03:00.000Z

Well, I know I haven't blogged for aaaagggeeesss, but at least I can say that I blogged on Christmas day!

Merry Christmas everyone, hope you all have a great day!

Love you all xxxxxxxxxxxx

:(

2005-12-19T18:33:00.000Z

I feel ill :(

Missed opportunity?

2005-12-05T13:42:00.000Z

I was on the bus today and there was a student sat opposite me. He kept writing really random stuff on the window like 'DEATH' and then when he saw me looking he write out this... 'Do we go to heaven/hell after death? No we are already there'

Freaky... maybe I was meant to reply to it by writing a message on my window? Who knows.

Night out with work

2005-12-04T00:42:00.000Z

Christmas is definitely coming as I’ve just got back from my work Christmas meal. Its weird because everybody works full time apart from me and I only see different people once a month so I don’t really know them that well.

It was at The Glass Boat, which was very nice except they completely overcharged us on the bill for service- if they do a good job, then you give them a tip! I felt a bit like a traitor because I ended up sitting next to all the managers of the department and cash office instead of the stock admin girls… :-s It was strange and funny watching my boss get slightly drunk, very entertaining!

Most of the night’s conversation was either work (boring cos I didn’t have a clue what they were chatting about!) or the X-Factor, which everyone is obsessed with, getting text alerts throughout the night (Chico is out yay!!!)

I wore the dreaded high heals again but luckily there wasn’t any walking involved so my feet are not killing :-)

Oh yeh, went to see Harry Potter, enjoyed it a lot, especially the really bad acting which always makes me laugh, next film I have to see is Narnia!!!!

For Friends fans

2005-11-30T22:44:00.000Z

Ross and Chandler are disputing over whether it was Rachel Ross had kissed or not...

Ross- that was the night I had my first kiss with Rachel, she was on my bed

Chandler- no I put her on my bed

Ross- no Rachel was on my bed

Monica - Oh no! That was me

Ross- no she was under the pile of coats

Monica- I was the pile of coats!

Ross- What?!

Monica- you were my mystery midnite kisser?!

Ross- you were my first kiss with Rachel?!

Monica- you were my first kiss ever?!

need... to... watch... HP...

2005-11-29T15:07:00.000Z

Harry Potter has been out for over a week and I still haven't seen it!!! I'm hoping I will watch it tonight and will be able to blog about how good it is :-)

I really don't have anything interesting to blog about, I'm just wasting time and avoiding all the work I should be doing. I've got 2 essays due in tomorrow for RE :-s agghhhhh, don't think I can take anymore of reading about stupid philosophers who spend their time thinking about evidence for why God does or doesn't exist! Example... some guy said:

men exist
Santa is a man
Santa exists

Why do people come up with this stuff?! I know, I know, because they want to prove that God exists but it means that RE students have to do stupid essays on it grrrrr!

Sore feet/Claim to fame

2005-11-10T21:27:00.000Z

Last night was a friend’s 18th birthday party. I decided to wear the same shoes I wore for my 18th, the only problem being that they are VERY high. I could cope in them wandering around and even dancing but had I known that I would have to walk from Gloucester Rd to the centre to get a taxi I would definitely have worn more suitable shoes… oh the pain! I have many blisters on my feet as evidence- lovely!

Anyway, that was the bad bit of the night but wait for this… I met the lead singer from Athlete!!!!

Here’s the story, one of my friends had been to see Athlete at the Colston Hall and then come to the party. Obviously walking to the centre we were by the Colston Hall and we saw a tour bus. I was being very pessimistic and not believing that Athlete were actually in there but my friend persisted and knocked on the door! The driver ends up winding his window down and reveals that the lead singer was just behind the curtains. So Hannah explains about seeing them that night and gives him her ticket for the lead singer to sign. Then the lead singer (yes I don’t know his name!) comes out from behind the curtains and starts having a conversation with us whilst signing the ticket!!!

Such a cool ending to the night!

The art of falling over

2005-11-08T22:01:00.000Z

I never knew there was actually a skill to falling over, but according to my bro there is...

Andy: I fell over the hoover earlier today mum

Mum: really

Andy: yea but its ok cos I know how to fall

Me: what do you mean?!

Andy: well I know how you're meant to fall so you don't hurt yourself like you fall over sideways

Mum: but what if it happens by surprise?

Andy: well..... blah blah blah blah blah (going into detail about the technique falling for about 5 whole minutes)

What a nutter!

Challenge for today

2005-11-04T12:59:00.000Z

Annoyingly this morning the bus driver pointed out that my student card had expired and being a meany charged me £2 just for a single!!!!

So after my morning lessons I thought I would challenge myself to walking home instead of paying another £2. My school is in town in case you didn't know so it was quite a trek, but I did it... kind of- sombody saw me when I was quite near home and gave me a lift which was good timing cos I was starting to feel a bit sick and would've ended up fainting!

It is true

2005-11-02T19:12:00.000Z

Yeh ok, so Tom is right, I didn't stay to my word as I commented on his blog and I watched 24- but I don't care cos its soooooo good! And now I've got Nami addicted to it- mwuhahaha!

You're all gonna think I'm really sad, but me and Nami have already planned this: we are going to watch season 2 for 24 hours i.e. start watching it at midnight and finsh it... at midnight! You are all welcome to join us except I think we're the only 24 fans who haven't seen season 2.

My old street

2005-11-02T16:07:00.000Z

When I lived in my old street I loved it. There was at least one kid in every house so you were guaranteed to have somebody out in the street playing (which is one of the reasons my mum hated it but the main reason I loved it!).

Today I went to visit the two people I used to play with the most, two out of a family of 7 sisters called Rajnie and Kori. I have so many good memories of the old days with them. I was a bit nervous about seeing them after 4/5 years, mainly because both of them are deaf and I couldn't remember a single bit of sign language! Luckily their lil sis Kalvinder (who I remember being tiny and now she's 10!) was there to help translate. But it was amazing how much I picked up in that short amount of time I was with them today. Even though I'm not fluent in sign language we still managed to communicate with each other and it was great catching up and remembering the fun we used to have. I remember playing handstands in the front garden, volleyball over the fence and tennis in the road! Awww, miss you guys but will see you again soon xxx