I didn't end up writing anything yesterday.
I guess you could (incorrectly) assume that I was revising for my tests in January that I'm stressing over so much, but no, I was absolutely not. I basically spent the entire day browsing tumblr and watching Youtube videos until about 3am, when my Close Friend logged on! I haven't talked to them since before Christmas so that was really great. We didn't talk about anything important really, just discussed fictional universes for a while and then we both took the Kinsey test.
After a while, we both got distracted by other things and the conversation died out and I was up until 4:45 because I couldn't sleep at all. I don't have insomnia, nothing like that, but sometimes I can't sleep and it pisses me off so much that last night I turned into a fiery ball of rage and tangled bedsheet.
Well, I think I did. That's what usually happens when I can't sleep, but I can't actually remember because I was just so tired. In reality I probably just went onto Facebook, saw that my friends J and L were online and bitched at them until I dozed off. I'm such a good friend.
But talking of good friends, that's actually one of the questions for the German test I'm not revising for: what makes a good friend?
Meine Brieffreundin heisst (name of Close Friend) und sie wohnt in Amerika. Sie hat kurze braune Haare und grune Augen. Ich schreibe ihr E-Mails und wir reden uber alles.
Sie ist sehr lustig, freundlich, und sie ist total lieb.
Ein guter Freund hat viel Geduld und wir reden uber alles, und ist nicht egoistisch oder eifersuchtig.
I apologise for the lack of umlauts and things, I've not got a German keyboard. But I've got to learn that entire paragraph, and about five others like it. By January 16th.
I'm going to go cry in a corner.
But hey, at least I'm trying! A little bit. There are kids in my class who after however many years of taking this class, still cannot use "weil" in a sentence correctly, or conjugate a verb. There are others who think they can go into the test without revising and just vomit out a perfect chunk of German.
I don't want to sound like that one kid everyone knows, the snobby smart kid who doesn't have to try and just says "Oh you should've tried harder", I understand that some people find languages hard, just like I find Physics and Trigonometry hard, and I'd be willing to try and help them. But if they don't even TRY to learn the subject, what's the point in taking it?
Rant over. I'm kind of impressed with myself though. I started this blog about two days ago just because I was procrastinating, and I actually got a tiny bit of revision done. While writing a post about procrastination. Well done, Bounce?
I'll see you soon - I'll probably write another post tomorrow, or in five minutes. I wonder how you get people to read this tripe?
Anyway. Goodbye for now!
Monday, 30 December 2013
Saturday, 28 December 2013
Christmas!
I think I broke blogspot. It keeps giving me a white screen of absolute nothing when I try to view my blog with it's ridiculous name. Er.
I did at least manage to get my layout to look somewhat-decent.
More to the point, I was going to post about Christmas, it being only 3 days ago and all.
I actually enjoyed this Christmas a lot! Usually, my family has to travel to the other side of the country to go and see my mum's family. I wouldn't have a problem with that, but it's a five-hour drive and as lovely as my Aunt is, her sons are the exact opposite. I call them The Harpies privately.
I think I'll tell the story behind that name another time though. This year we actually got to stay home for Christmas, and my dad's mother, my Granny came down to visit us. This does not happen often.
On Christmas morning, I actually woke up at about 6:30 because I'd forgotten to turn off my alarm clock from school. Father Christmas (dad) had left a plastic bag instead of a stocking at the end of my bed, but I did get a chocolate orange rather than a satsuma. And a bag of Sour Patch Kids, the best sweets in the world. I then messaged some of my friends in America, and fell asleep for another three hours.
My granny actually wasn't here yet, she arrived at around noon, and my mum and dad aren't quite cruel enough to make my sister and I wait for her to arrive to open our presents. I got a laptop as my main present, which I did know about. I don't remember expressing a strong want for a laptop this year, but I'm glad I got it. I'm using it to write this, but I still need to download drawing programs like FireAlpaca onto it.
The present I DIDN'T know about, though, was the sewing machine that my parents bought for both me and my sister. I'm excited to use it, because I really enjoy making dolls and things.I'm also really enjoying this chocolate orange god damn
Granny eventually arrived, and my dad realised he hadn't stuck the meat in the oven yet. Luckily for him, poussin doesn't take long to cook.
He'd done an entire one for each of us, but I'm not much of a "meat" person,and only ended up eating about half of it. Christmas dinner was really nice though. We remembered the crackers this year, and I got one of those mood fish, which caused a lot of laughter because my sister has very warm hands and it went crazy when we placed it on her palm. Later we discussed possible designs for the new Union Flag if Scotland leaves the Union, and made bad puns. I love puns.
After opening Granny's presents (she likes to travel and spends all year assembling collections of little items to go inside shoeboxes. They make the best presents ever.) we ended up going for a walk and then watching Doctor Who. I didn't like how Clara was pushed about in this episode, but it was a good episode and now we've got a new Doctor!
I'd like to give a medal to whoever wrote the script though. "Kidneys!" is definitely an original first line. I think the only way that Christmas Day could've been better was if I'd actually gotten to talk to my Close Friend, the one who calls me Crumpet and Boing. It's the 28th and I've still not managed to catch her.
I've been stressing a lot about school lately, despite it being Christmas break, so Christmas itself was certainly a nice break from worrying. I've started worrying again now, but on Boxing Day I was pretty content. We went for a long walk in a forest-river thing nearby and I finished the doll I had been making. I've started another one now. The last one was Kanaya Maryam from Homestuck, and this one is probably going to be Nepeta Leijon. I'm going to see how many Homestuck characters I can make before I run out of grey fleece.
Right now though, I'm going to go downstairs and see what I can bake. I've not really eaten anything all day except some of that chocolate orange, so I'm pretty hungry. My sister has a new baking book, so there's that too. Also my internet connection is going pretty steadily downhill, so I'm going to log off and stop rattling on about this. How was your Christmas? Leave a comment, I'm genuinely curious.
Goodbye for now!
I did at least manage to get my layout to look somewhat-decent.
More to the point, I was going to post about Christmas, it being only 3 days ago and all.
I actually enjoyed this Christmas a lot! Usually, my family has to travel to the other side of the country to go and see my mum's family. I wouldn't have a problem with that, but it's a five-hour drive and as lovely as my Aunt is, her sons are the exact opposite. I call them The Harpies privately.
I think I'll tell the story behind that name another time though. This year we actually got to stay home for Christmas, and my dad's mother, my Granny came down to visit us. This does not happen often.
On Christmas morning, I actually woke up at about 6:30 because I'd forgotten to turn off my alarm clock from school. Father Christmas (dad) had left a plastic bag instead of a stocking at the end of my bed, but I did get a chocolate orange rather than a satsuma. And a bag of Sour Patch Kids, the best sweets in the world. I then messaged some of my friends in America, and fell asleep for another three hours.
My granny actually wasn't here yet, she arrived at around noon, and my mum and dad aren't quite cruel enough to make my sister and I wait for her to arrive to open our presents. I got a laptop as my main present, which I did know about. I don't remember expressing a strong want for a laptop this year, but I'm glad I got it. I'm using it to write this, but I still need to download drawing programs like FireAlpaca onto it.
The present I DIDN'T know about, though, was the sewing machine that my parents bought for both me and my sister. I'm excited to use it, because I really enjoy making dolls and things.
Granny eventually arrived, and my dad realised he hadn't stuck the meat in the oven yet. Luckily for him, poussin doesn't take long to cook.
He'd done an entire one for each of us, but I'm not much of a "meat" person,and only ended up eating about half of it. Christmas dinner was really nice though. We remembered the crackers this year, and I got one of those mood fish, which caused a lot of laughter because my sister has very warm hands and it went crazy when we placed it on her palm. Later we discussed possible designs for the new Union Flag if Scotland leaves the Union, and made bad puns. I love puns.
After opening Granny's presents (she likes to travel and spends all year assembling collections of little items to go inside shoeboxes. They make the best presents ever.) we ended up going for a walk and then watching Doctor Who. I didn't like how Clara was pushed about in this episode, but it was a good episode and now we've got a new Doctor!
I'd like to give a medal to whoever wrote the script though. "Kidneys!" is definitely an original first line. I think the only way that Christmas Day could've been better was if I'd actually gotten to talk to my Close Friend, the one who calls me Crumpet and Boing. It's the 28th and I've still not managed to catch her.
I've been stressing a lot about school lately, despite it being Christmas break, so Christmas itself was certainly a nice break from worrying. I've started worrying again now, but on Boxing Day I was pretty content. We went for a long walk in a forest-river thing nearby and I finished the doll I had been making. I've started another one now. The last one was Kanaya Maryam from Homestuck, and this one is probably going to be Nepeta Leijon. I'm going to see how many Homestuck characters I can make before I run out of grey fleece.
Right now though, I'm going to go downstairs and see what I can bake. I've not really eaten anything all day except some of that chocolate orange, so I'm pretty hungry. My sister has a new baking book, so there's that too. Also my internet connection is going pretty steadily downhill, so I'm going to log off and stop rattling on about this. How was your Christmas? Leave a comment, I'm genuinely curious.
Goodbye for now!
Well, then
Hello!
Today is a very boring day, and I've got nothing better to do I've got homework to do so I'm procrastinating by starting this blog.
I'd like to keep my name to myself, so I'm going to call myself Bounce on here. It's a nickname given to me by one of my rather special friends. My blog shall be titled "Crumpets" because she also calls me that.
I was inspired to write a blog by finding Zoella's blog, actually, and it seems nice to have a place you can vent and write to your heart's content where (hopefully) nobody will judge you too much. I've also been feeling very philosophical lately and thought some people might like to hear my Socrates thoughts.
Another reason for writing it is that I'm a very private person and it'd do me good to come out of my shell a little.
I've not really read any blogs before now, so I don't know how to start. But everyone is nosy, so I'll say some things about myself:
Today is a very boring day, and
I'd like to keep my name to myself, so I'm going to call myself Bounce on here. It's a nickname given to me by one of my rather special friends. My blog shall be titled "Crumpets" because she also calls me that.
I was inspired to write a blog by finding Zoella's blog, actually, and it seems nice to have a place you can vent and write to your heart's content where (hopefully) nobody will judge you too much. I've also been feeling very philosophical lately and thought some people might like to hear my Socrates thoughts.
Another reason for writing it is that I'm a very private person and it'd do me good to come out of my shell a little.
I've not really read any blogs before now, so I don't know how to start. But everyone is nosy, so I'll say some things about myself:
- I'm Bounce. Pleased to meet you!
- I live in the UK, and while my hometown may be a bit of a dump, I do like the UK as a whole.
- I'm much younger than you'd assume. I won't say my age, because people will probably treat me differently.
- I get picked on at school, so I won't be posting any photos of me in case they find my blog and make fun of me.
- Not that they WOULD find my blog; they're about as literate as wooden doors, and have the same kind of interest in reading.
- I myself DO have an interest in reading. Some of my favourite books are the Gone series, Inkheart, Harry Potter, Swallows & Amazons, Perks Of Being A Wallflower, and I'm planning to read Sherlock Holmes and The Fault In Our Stars. Maybe I'll post some reviews of books I've read?
- I like to write stories as well as read them. I don't know how good they are, but I do enjoy it. I might be posting about that too.
- I also like baking, sewing, and drawing/painting. I'll definitely be posting about those.
That's about it for now. I'm going to go fiddle with the settings on this things, and then make a few more posts. Thank you for reading, and good bye for now!
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