May 25, 2011 at 7:58 pm (General, Pets, Technology)
Many things have happened since the last blog post so a quick recap is needed…
In the last post I mentioned that my guinea pig Vince needed to go to the vet for a lump behind his ear, well we took him and they said that it was a cyst but other than that he was fine and was booked in for an operation on the friday, but on the thursday he got very ill very quickly and died in my arms. It broke my heart and my other guinea pig Howard’s heart so the following day we decided that to cheer me up and also Howard we’d get him a girlfriend. We went out and got a beautiful female guinea pig and called her Padme. We was going to keep them apart for a bit and then put them together but they made their own minds up and they were together by that night… our divide we made failed us. So anyway last week we came home to three beautiful baby guinea pigs who we need to name but I am already madly in love with them and love my snuggles with them.
On a sadder note a couple of weeks ago I recieved news that my friend had passed away which destroyed me but I am feeling more positive now and it has made me rethink the way I live my life and how I need to spend more time with my loved ones and do more things I enjoy.
Ergh, i’m being disturbed to go and set up the internet for our new property… i’ll finish this at some point x
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March 9, 2011 at 1:17 pm (Pets, Travels)
Tags: dinasours, guinea pig, history, london, museum, pets, science, vet
Rooney and I booked ourselves a lovely week off of work and decided to go to London to see the museums so yesterday we made our way to London and headed to the Natural History Museum we left it a bit late so we rushed around all the bits we wanted to see… mainly the dinasours and then went off to the Science Museum which is where I thought the earthquake simulator was (I have no idea why I thought it was in that museum) and after we couldn’t find it we wandered for ages looking for food and settled for Little Wu’s chinese buffet which was really small but the food was nice especcially for £6.50 per person. I then realised that the simulator was actually in the Natural History Museum and unfortunatly at that time it had closed… dissapointing.
But we had a lovely time and I bought myself a stuffed toy of a Triceratops which I called Daphne and she is settling in well guarding our sofa. And next time we go to That London i’ll know where to go for the earthquake simulator… fool.
Today we have to take our little Vincent to the vet because he’s got a nasty looking lump behind his ear. I’m a bit nervous but hopefully he’ll just need some antibiotics and get better soon.
Ta ra for now x
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January 17, 2011 at 10:14 pm (Gaming, Geek, Technology)
Tags: Computers, Dragon, Gameboy, Games, Geek, Kinect, Master System, Mega Drive, Monkey Island, Nintendo, PC, Sega, technology, XBox
After Rooney got a lovely suprise tax rebate we have been waiting for the cheque to clear so that we could go out and buy ourselves Kinect and although we have played it before it’s still amazing how it works, no controller apart from you, your body and voice.
This has got me thinking about technology and how in my 24 years of life i’ve had many moments where technology has managed to suprise me so I decided to turn my ponderings into a blog.
My first experiance with a computer was an old Dragon computer, i’m not sure whether it was the 32 or 64 we had but I thought it was brilliant, being able to type and it appear on screen which is pretty much all we could do with it. This was followed up with using my Grandad’s PC where my brother and I played the Monkey Island games, Indiana Jones and a Sherlock Holmes game. Obviously compared to the Dragon this seemed magical. It seemed so modern being able to have a save function in games, having so much control over your character and also being able to play a game in colour.
When it came to games consoles my brother bought the Sega Mega Drive where we obsessively played Alex Kidd, Sonic and my all time favourite Sega game… Phantasy Star which again was impressive compared to the other games at the time because it had a save function which was a life saver for such a long game. When the Sega Mega Drive came about I remember my brother buying it from Lakeside and the excitement that came with it.
The release of the Gameboy gave me all sorts of possibilities, I loved being able to take it anywhere with me and being able to stay up all night playing it on silent with my magnifying glass light that I pestered my Mum to buy me which I think she ended up getting for me for my birthday or Christmas.
I remember when we got the internet at home and not being allowed on it and my brother being able to use it for about ten minutes a day, when my Mum finally let me use it I couldn’t get enough and developed a slight addiction to it. I used it mainly for chat rooms where I could be whoever I wanted to be and was allowed to be confident because nobody knew who I was although there was a more personal use to the internet which was Teenopendiary.com which I don’t think needs a description as the name sums it up, this was followed by Melodrama.com which gave us a new word to our vocabulary ‘Oh you are so melodramatic’ which obviously made us seem very grown up. I also got slightly addicted to Neopets, MSN and then more recently Myspace and then finally (for now) Facebook.
Between then and now my life includes the use of the Playstation, PS2, Tamagotchis and various other forms of tecnology but i’m finally going to get to the point. Rooney bought the XBox 360 which was never something that had interested me, I was happy with my PC games and PS2 and besides the XBox didn’t have many games that took my fancy… until I descovered Lego Star Wars and then I was much more interested. I then started playing Unreal Tournaments and Fable 2 and gave a few other games a go. I then decided to pay out for an Xbox Live subscription and I have never looked back. I love being able to see what my friends are playing, comparing achievements, having the ability to talk to someone with the headset and being able to try demos and keep up to date with new releases and obviously playing online. I thought all of this was pretty impressive and then they announced that they’d be releasing Kinect which I seriously didn’t think would work so smoothly, I also thought we’d have to wait a lot longer for it to be released but anyway and now we have it and I am very excited. I have ordered Dance Central and I can’t wait to get it! Hopefully me and the Roondog will finally manage to lose some of this extra weight we’ve been trying to shift and it also coincides with our New Years Resolutions of being more active. Anyway i’m intrigued to see what technology brings us next!
Love love xxx
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January 16, 2011 at 4:14 pm (General)
Tags: Birthday, christmas, Depression, friends, New Years Eve, The Square, Work
I know, I know… I said i’d blog more and I didn’t stick to my word so i’m sorry!
Anyway, so I work for a private healthcare company as a non-aseptic which basically means I santise everything that the fillers need to make TPN and drugs for our patients. It’s very repetative and can be boring but I work with some amazing people and they make the job enjoyable. Sometimes it gets to me and as a struggle with depression it’s a job where sometimes I spend hours on my own with only my thoughts to keep me company which can be dangerous and I did recently have a bit of a breakdown (possible blog for the future when i’m feeling more open to talk about it) but i’ve sorted my head out again so i’m good now.
So Christmas has been and gone, Rooney and I started getting prepared for Christmas in September when we bought our first Christmas present. We were very excited and spent so much money buying lovely presents for our dear friends and family but before we knew it it was over and back to normal. We took our Christmas tree down a couple of weeks ago and I found it quite sad but now i’m quite glad it’s over. Work was stressful over Christmas as I had to work through most of it and we had more work on due to a lot of patients wanting to be home over Christmas.
Next we had my birthday/New Years Eve which Rooney and I made the most of despite some of our best friends not being there (lame). But we went to The Square and there was loads of people there who we definatly don’t spend enough time with and all in all it was a good and rather messy night.
For my New Years Resolutions mine are as follows…
1) Lose weight/get fit, I know it’s one of the obvious ones but since my second year at university my weight has gone up and down between a size 6 and size 14. At the moment i’m a size 12 and I want to eventually get down to an 8/10, this will hopefully be achieved by healthier eating and exercising.
2) Be more sociable. I have a ton of people who I want to spend more time with and I don’t for different reasons so thats sometime I want to work on. I need more fun in my life and thats definatly the way forward.
3) Be more creative. I tend to be a bit lazy when it comes to my photography and art but it’s something I want to get back in to. I’ve been trying to get ideas but I have a bit of a creative block at the moment (any ideas would be appriciated).
4) Read more
And thats it for now.
Lots of love xxx
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April 16, 2010 at 11:45 pm (General)
Tags: band, chav, christmas, church, cold, cold christmas, friends, fun, ghost, gig, graveyard, haunting, hunting, music, porn, pub, rooney, summer
Yesterday we thought that our evening plans had been ruined but soon things started looking up. Rooney had managed to get himself a gig at one of the pubs alongside our friend Kelsey. It was strange, it was my old local but I never went there because it had a really bad reputation so I didn’t know what to expect walking in there but it had a really nice atmosphere. His gig went well despite some interruptions… which i’m not going to go in to on here.
Then we decided to go along with our original plans which were to go to an abandoned church about 20 minutes away from where we live, it’s Cold Christmas church and it’s meant to be haunted and a place of satanism and lovely things. The original plan was to go as a group of atleast six and be divided in teams and properly investigate but due to some people not being able to make it we almost completely called it off until Goon was like ‘Lets go anyway even if it’s just for a couple of hours’ so we agreed and went along. In the end it was Rooney, Larter, Goon and myself driving down at about 11pm really not knowing what to expect. When we got there we snuck down to the church listening out incase other people were there, we didn’t want to stroll into a group of agressive chavs or anything like that and also were starting to get more and more nervous the closer we got to the church. We had a few nervous moments were we heard something and all stopped and listened carefully until we heard ‘BAAAAAAAAAAAA’ (damn sheep) which made me jump out of my skin and then fall into almost hysterical laughter until I regained composure and stayed fairly calm until being inside the church. We climbed inside and looked around and saw that the stairwell had been covered with what appeared to be a giant birdsnest, it was so bizarre and really freaked me out so from that moment I was on edge. Rooney was going to climb up the stairs anyway and I was like ‘NO FUCKING WAY!’ and then moments after Larter started feeling a burning sensation on his finger so we looked and there was these blisters coming up, it looked like he’d touched nettles but we hadn’t been near anything like that and he hadn’t felt anything up until that point. We lasted about ten minutes later before Goon and I had decided we should leave. I felt really nervous that something bad was going to happen. So we left and wandered the graveyard for a bit before heading back home. Oh and we met some delightful chavs on the way back, they tried to scare us but we already heard them coming about five minutes before so we just laughed at them.
We came back to ours to discuss our ‘findings’ but soon started talking about porn and other random things for a little while before it was time for the guys to leave and to go to sleep. So yeah all in all it was a really fun night and really different to the usual things we get up to. We are heading back to Cold Christmas with a bigger team at some point over the summer to do it properly but until then i’m satisfied with it for now.
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April 11, 2010 at 11:52 pm (General)
Tags: crying, d&d, dragons, dungeons, dungeons and dragons, emotion, marley, marley and me, mind, pressure, routine, starting work, tears, thinking, Work
I can’t sleep so I figured i’d write since my heads full of…well everything, it feels like it’s full of cotton wool all pushing against my skull. Maybe writing will let some of the pressure out. I’m fine though, it’s not that anythings wrong it’s just a lot going on and yet at the same time not a lot.
I start work in a week, it’ll be three and a bit months since I lost my last job and times gone slow. It’ll definatly be hard getting back in to a routine but I suppose it’s what I need. A routine, something to get me up and out of bed in the morning and to tire me out so i’ll sleep well at night and to appriciate the weekends. I work out which day it is by when I last played Dungeons and Dragons, how many days Rooney has been at work and when I last had friends round as they seem to be the only routine I have these days. I’m very nervous about starting work, it’s always when I feel really settled that I leave a job or lose a job and then I have to start all over again. But hopefully it won’t take me long to relax into my new job. And it’ll be great to have money coming in from both Rooney and myself.
We’ve been sorting the flat out, clearing stuff out and packing what we are keeping for when we move, we haven’t found a place yet or know when we are moving but it should be a couple of months and then if all goes smoothly we’ll be moving in to a house with Larter. It’ll be strange going from just us two being together all the time to having Larter with us although it’s a good strange. It’ll be fun. Especcially if we get a garden, the main problem with being in our little flat is that we have no garden or balcony so we are always surrounded by walls.
I watched Marley and Me earlier, it was a beautiful film…made me cry like a little girl though but I think crying to films does everyone the world of good from time to time. It’s a way to release emotions without having something real set you off. Like if I cry from watching something I imagine that it’s letting go some of the sadness I might of felt a few days before or something like that.
Anyway i’m going to have a little read now and maybe be able to sleep better.
Love to you all, bye bye xxx
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January 26, 2010 at 1:30 pm (General)
Tags: apartment, boyfriend, couple, creativity, excuses, fashion, flat, illness, Libertines, losing job, model, Noel Fielding, photography, Post, unemployment, Yoda
I think we’ve all established the fact that I am useless of keeping a blog, each post seems to be me making excuses for why I haven’t updating so i’m going to ignore that part and just write about whats been going on.
Rooney and I have been living together for about eight months now and we still have a couple of boxes left to unpack although things are finally starting to find their places, like the television would seem naked without the lightsaber on top of it and the walls would look empty without Noel Fielding, The Libertines and Yoda occupying their spaces.
So in my last update I mentioned how i’d gotten a job, got fired and then gotten another job well guess what my little chickens…I got fired again. Five months on I got sick with the flu and bronchitis and got fired, apparently because business was suffering without me… so they fired me and brought in a newbie who needed training…makes sense? No I don’t think it does either. So now i’m back looking for work and it really does suck. My OCD is on overdrive, my depression demons are trying to get to me and worse of all is the boredom. If I had money I could use this time to socialize but I have literally ten pence to my name so i’m spending my time job hunting, doing housework and sleeping lots. Doing nothing is really tiring for some reason haha. I don’t know why but a lot of the time I actually can’t keep my eyes open.
On the plus side i’m finding my creativity again, i’m planning a photoshoot with a friend of mine and have another friend doing the make up. I need to plan what I want to do with it but she’s a great model and think it’ll all just fall into place as long as I know what look we are going for. I think rock chick and then super sleek would work. Oh yeah check out my website while your here http://www.wix.com/HibiscusPhotography/Hibiscus any feedback would be greatly appriciated. It’s not much at the moment but it’s a start.
Anyway I am going to go now, but might post another up soon… got a lot more to tell you 
xxx
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September 27, 2009 at 12:36 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: degree, exhibition, job, OCD, photography, Piercing, tongue piercing, Work
I haven’t even logged on to my account in so long, so heres a brief update for now.
So last time I had just had my tounge pierced, I no longer have my little piercing because a month later it got all nasty and infected and had to go to A&E. It was removed and healed but now I really miss it so i’ll probably have it redone at some point.
I finished my degree in photography, I got a third class honours and i’m glad it’s over. I took part in the degree exhibition which was fun, I exhibited my OCD project. I then moved in with my boyfriend, got a job, got fired and now I have another job.
Woop woop! Anyway i’ll try and update this more often but I thought a quick one is better than nothing at all haha x
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September 25, 2008 at 8:09 pm (General)
Tags: birds, bruised, cinema, faint, flying, hunger, hungry, Piercing, puke, sick, starving, The Exorcist, tongue, Work
Ok so i’ve been a bit lazy when it comes to writing on here so i’ll do a brief update.
On tuesday I decided to get my tongue pierced… i’m not the best when it comes to needles and stuff like that and although I did quite well about five minutes in to the guys aftercare speech I had to run off to puke in the sink. Not attractive and the guy looked pretty horrified. As I replay the moment in my mind I see me being played by the girl in The Exorcist, it wouldn’t even suprise me judging by the expression on his face if my head was spinning around. He explained that he can’t deal with other peoples sick where I was like ‘Oh, me niether!’ and then realised how i’d of felt if someone had puked in front of me. I was slightly embarrased and would of been more embarrased if I hadn’t of been concentrating quite so hard on not passing out. Anyway I have to go back in two weeks to get a smaller bar put in.. oh the shame of going back. I might have to find out when the other piercer is in and see them haha.
Yesterday my housemate Naomi decided while walking around Asda that she wanted to buy a bird so off we went in search of a shop that sells birds, we got to a shop we didn’t know existed about five minutes before they closed and bought two birds, a cage, food, etc . The birds are gorgous. She called them Samson and Delila and they are very much in love. When she was putting them in the cage Samson decided he wanted to fly around her room so we spent ages trying to catch him. They should be fine once we train them but… how can you tame two birds who keep flying off?
Oh yeah and for the starvation bit… i’m so so hungry but can’t eat for atleast three more days. Well I can eat icecream and jelly but thats about it. I tried sucking on some Pom Bear earlier but it was too difficult. My tounges too swollen for that. I woke up at 6am because I was so hungry I felt sick. I have work tomorow. That’ll be hard since i’ll have no energy and then work on saturday too. Hopefully by then I can manage to eat little bits of food.
Ah well fuck it, i’m handing my notice in tomorow. Can’t wait to leave. Yay!
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August 19, 2008 at 1:46 pm (General)
Tags: Boring, Dull, Housemate, Sexist, Wife Swap, Work
I decided to blog again, I had a nice morning waking up with Rooney but then I had to go to work. It was only a five hour shift but it was very boring. I finished at 5pm and then decided to watch Wild Child… it was ok. I think I would of loved it when I was about 14 so my inner child enjoyed parts of it but it wasn’t the greatest film. Don’t rush out to watch it.
My housemate Naomi has a friend staying for a few days, i’ve not met him yet. She went out before I got in. I had to put up with Caz telling me all about her day at work… each member of staff and all the details I couldn’t care less about. Those girls don’t take hints very well at all.
Work again tomorow… I think it’s a morning shift. I don’t mind that, i’d rather start early and finish early rather than start late and end late.
I don’t really have much to say. I’m a bit tired and can’t think haha.
I’m going to watch Wife Swap and get annoyed at one of the husbands… he’s a sexist bastard.
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