I'm an idiot sometimes.

Since I started weightwatchers again back in the last week of Feburary I haven't had any big food binges like I used to but I went out with my parents to celebrate the fact that a) they met 28 years ago that night and b) I finished college last Friday.

And I binged; I had a large curry with starter and side and a vodka/diet coke and an archers/lemonade and I feel so, so, so, so, so, so queasy. Esspecially as I'm a weakling when it comes to having alcohol.

I'd quite like another Criminal Minds dream tonight, I had one a few nights ago where Spencer and Morgan came to my house to protect me and I was trying to flirt with Spencer but my mum kept scuppering my chances by trying to force him to eat chocolate biscuits and telling him he was too skinny. *rolls eyes*

Okay, I'm going to start trying to post here again; college has finished and so I have nothing but free time until September. I have a provisional grade of a Distinction and what I needed for university was a pass so... yea-ha!

Currently working on a Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds mood theme, I've never completed one before (I think I started one once and ended up two moods in) but I've got around half the pictures needed now. Just got to hope that I can work out how to upload it; never uploaded a mood theme before.

Led to an odd dream where he came over to this village and I was trying to flirt with him. It was an epic fail though, because my mum tried to fatten him up with chocolate biscuits. 0_0

If you like Smallville:


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My 101 list is going well - esspecially the weight loss ones as I've lost 1/2 a pound this week so that takes me to 8 off in the past three weeks *dances*.

I'm very bored. Half-term is boring when you don't have people to hang out with. The good news however is that I got a uni offer a few weeks ago for Kingston - Business Information Technology, though I'm holding out hope that I'll get the offer for the course there that I really want to do.

Man.... so bored.

I really want to get a uni offer now, I'm getting more and more nervous by the day. Luckily next week I'm starting second semester at college so I'll actually have some work to do - bored off my socks, not got  a clue what I did when I was job seeking.

I'm going out a week today to an "applicant afternoon" at Kingston, which the prospectus lists as.....


Once you've decided Kingston University is one of your five choices and we've made you an offer, then  what happens? We run applicant days early in the new year - usually between January and March. Once you're an applicant, things get a bit more serious. We want to really give you a proper taste of the Kingston University experience and make you feel like a Kingston Universty student.

How do I know if the course I've received an offer for is really what I want to do? Applicant days give you the chance to try out a 'mock lecture' for your chosen subject. You'll sit in the same labs or rooms as real students and have a go at real work. How better to find out what to expect?
How do I know if I'll fit in at Kingston University? Applicant days give you the chance to talk to our students and the students you might end up working  with next year. You'll get to see them giving presentations, chatting informally or just milling around the campus. How better to find out who Kingston University's students really are?
How am I going to know if it feels right? Only you know what you're looking for in a university, and you'll know if Kingston University feels right for you. Come along to an applicant day and see how it feels.


Also booked a place on the open day on 21st Feb because the a-afternoon is only from 2:00pm-4:00pm so I might not really get to see anything. With that and a pair of "sensible shoes" I was told I had to buy (New Look - 20% off with student card, whoop) my bank account was crying yesterday lol.

I took my final CISCO test this morning, as well as the practical one and... passed! I've got a distinction on the module and I've got the seperate CISCO qualification. That also means I've completed one module entirely. Whoop.

Years ago, probably when I was 13 or 14 I was on a bus going to my friend's house and the bus driver seemed like he'd just... snapped. He just started speeding really fast and wouldn't stop to let people off. My friend and I were on the top deck and we managed to walk down the stairs whilst he was still speeding and the other passengers were trying to get him to stop and he jerked to a halt. My friend managed to get off but by the time I got to the door he'd sped off again lol. Eventually he stopped again and after walking around for a fair while my friend managed to find me, apparently she'd been on the phone to her mum going "mum! I've lost Catherine!" lol, worrying at the time but quite a fun memory nowadays.

I decided to do that 101 things in 1001 days that's in the lj spotlight. The list isn't up there yet (modded community) but I'll put it up here as well. It's a bit varied, containing everything from buying wrapping paper (is Emma's birthday in Feb, brought her presents today) to learning to ride a bike to getting a job to writing 25 Dead like Me fanfics.

Gonna be fun!

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Had a wierd dream about Alton Towers earlier. It was a morphed version of the rapids ride but instead of just going in a circle safe and soaked on the ground it had changed so that you went hundreds of feet up above the ground and went down a track vertically, like that Oblivion(?) one. I was on the ground watching and instead of going down properly, it got to the end of the track and carried on horizontally, like in a roadrunner cartoon before turning upside down and promptly dropping to the concrete. It was rather grusome but for some reason they just kept people going on the ride and it was working properly. I then declared to someone from college that I was with (I can't remember who that was) that there was no way I was going to go on the ride, even though I really, really, really wanted to.

For the second night/afternoon (had a nap earlier, mmmmm holidays) I also dreamt I was lost in a really dense forest with thousands of trees all around and I just couldn't get my bearings or escape.

Is odd. I've heard of dreaming that you're falling but not about dreaming about complete strangers' doing it.


Looking forward to Monday, hopefully (emphasis on the hopefully) buying Criminal Minds season one on DVD. I've recently got into it (kept meaning to because of the whole Mandy Paintkin thing) and I've now seen probably half of season two and a third of season three (the channels keep airing different seasons for different nights - mind boggling) and about one or two episodes of season one. Morgan/Reid is slightly cute *ninja*

*is becomming addicted to The Wire*

The MSN movies person really needs to start doing some actual research before they write their articles:

Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging is reaching UK cinemas. Yes, you read that right. A teeny-popping exploration of being a 14-year-old and all that the age entails, it's not actually as bad a flick as the ridiculous title suggests.

Surely it was wrong for the new teen movie to keep the title of the book its based on.

 

No! No! That wasn't the name of the book for goodness sakes! It was Angus, Thongs and Full Throntal Snogging, I loved that book when I was a little kiddie, my English teacher even wrote a play based on it and I was in the play so I think I freakin' know what the name of the book was called!

Not worth getting upset about but still... grr!

Ugh. Six weeks? I really am a terrible lj-er, I haven't even been commenting on other people's entries *slaps own wrist.* I have felt so sick of computers revently, and generally rather miserable and not feeling like company but I'm all happy again now so I have returned... again. This time for real, Brownie's promise.

Nothing's really happened since the last entry, which really sucks. The Oxfam Online Shop, well, our shop within the shop has now made over £4000 and around three/four weeks ago we launched on amazon as well (right here) and we've sold over 100 things already! W00t! Although for some reason a large chunk seem to be Playstation1 games - I didn't even know people played them anymore!

In what may be more exciting news, or seems to be to me anyway I have an interview to get back into college! 19th August which is ages away, if I manage to get in then classes would start 1st or 3rd September. I really, really want to get back in though. I should have finished my A2 year, it was stupid to quit but hopefully Access to Buisness Computing will be the path to finally finding a job, even though technically you need the two-year Foundation Degree in Buisness Computing after the one-year Access course. The woman told me before I applied that I should go straight onto the Foundation one because I has AS levels and was apparently "overqualified" but it said in the syllabus that it contained programming and the Access has "introduction to programming" and as I know nothing about programming that seemed to be the safer option. Which I guess is what I'd tell them at the interview. Argh! I hate interviews and selling myself and all that rubbish.

If I do get accepted I can't claim jobseeker's anymore. The class-contact time is 16 hours and jobseeker limit is 15 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds which sucks. My mum's not that pleased that I'll be dipping into my savings. My nana put aside a bit of money each week from when me and my sister and my three cousins were born and gave it to us on our 18th birthdays in one of those NS&I things. Three or four thousand quid I think, I can't remember which but I'm 21 now and I've only spend £500 of it and that was three months or so ago and that was only slightly above the amount of intrest gained since I got it so that worked out well! Esspecially as the course fee is £600.

Brought Smallville Season 2 yesterday and I'm already on disc three (though I did miss two of the boring episodes out of disc two.) I forgot how good that show was and pretty soon I'll be into the episodes that I didn't see on tele. I also forgot how smexy Michael Rosenbaum (sp?) was  and how much I want Chloe's hair (but a brunette version because I'd never dye it blonde.)

Has anyone seen Dragon's Den on monday? Deborah is looking really rather thin now and the guy who narrates it looks so frail and older, like he might be ill :(

That's about it for my ramble today.

Woah I didn't realise it was so long since I'd been on here! I've been on a computer slump for a while and, with being on at the shop didn't feel like I wanted to be online much at all anymore.

But not that much has happened anyway; my dog is ill, takings at the (online) shop are at the lowest since we opened last week (damn economic slowdown lol) and I'm gonna try and apply to college because job hunting is a bust. And that's about it. Might try and get back into iconing and fanfic writing, haven't done either in ages.

Gladiators is really rocking :)

But does Spartan look to anyone else a little bit like Chad Faust?

 
(if you ignore the haircuts)


and also - yay for Oblivion; I wouldn't be able to stand it if he wasn't from Norwich but he is; so he rocks - the only other famous person I can think of from Norfolk is Stephen Fry!

I am really, really rather pissed off. In fact, really, really rather fucking pissed off at something that has ended up in my junk box of my e-mail account...

I tend to get phising ones all the time, from the e-bay power seller to the Nigerian banking ones to the fake job ones and in general they can be rather amusing, not if you think about people who fall for them obviously but at worst they're a very minor annoyance. But one I got today has made me so fucking angry - you'd think these people would have the slightest bit of morality inside them but apparently not:




Now surely y'all reading this can see what is completley and entirely wrong with that? What if that has ended up in the inbox of someone who knew someone who died on that day?



Seriously. Fucking. Pissed Off.


The wankers.

I know I've just posted but I wanted to pimp a really fun community - basically you fill in a short survey and then members tell you which prison break character you're most like* it's still sorta starting out so it needs more members!






*I got Haywire

My dreams this past week are doing my head in - they're those type that linger when you wake up, so for a couple of minutes everything that happened seems to have really happened:

- For the past three nights I've dreamt that I've got a job, apart from last night when I dreamt that I did get one but I couldn't reach the high shelf and so they fired me before I started
- Last night I dreamt that Seth (dog) died - I had to run down first thing this morning to check he was still here, the plus side was he enjoyed his 'super-duper-giant-hug' at half seven this morning lol
- Night before last I dreamt that Bob-Dog was alive again, really not fun when you wake up
- Just like last week I dreamt that my cat Sage was alive again as well
- Night before last I dreamt that someone opened the shop down the road again (it's been closed for a few years now) and if I wanted a break from being at home there was actually somewhere within walking distance which contained actual other people.

Stupid dreams. Pah to them!

Question: Is anybody going to go to London Film & Comic Con?

Eeep! I didn't realise it had been so long since I'd updated here, or... even been commenting on people's stuff really.

I'd like to say something exciting has happened but it... hasn't really. Made over the £1500 mark on the oxfam site and that was it.




I so need to work out how to get one of those social life things I've heard about.