So I was forced to attend the Holy Child, Kiliney predebs two nights ago, by the school head girl, my good friend Anna. Needless to say it was a bit of a disaster of a night, but I suppose I had a bit of fun. I was refused entry so was stuck on my own in Bray, in the cold for about an hour, that was depressing to say the least.
And now I'm all sick and feeling sorry for myself, so I haven't gotten off the couch since I got home 7 hours ago, and have watched two movies: Like Crazy and Life as we Know it. Both were fantastic, and of course didn't help with the bad mood, but I loved them.
Over the past two weeks I've had Christmas tests in school, which really just aren't going well. I haven't failed anything yet so that's a plus! They're just really stressing me out and have me in a bad mood all the time because they're silly and annoying.
Also, where are all my TV shows gone? How dare they take a break for the "Holidays", it's rude, don't they know I'm at home bored with a laptop and ice cream?
I should really go study for some tests, but instead I'm gonna go bake cookies and then shower, good night.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
10 Things I Hate About Life
1. Noisy Shoes - That noise that converse and vans make when you wear them for too long. WHY is this so? It's so loud, and unecessary!
2. Project Maths - This year, the Irish education system introduced a new maths course, called Project Maths. It's absolutely ridiculous, and this one question sums it up nicely:
"If John has 2 apples weighing 50g and 70g, and Mary gives him 4 apples of heights 10cm, 9cm, 6cm and 11cm, he eats two along with a bowl of pasta, weighing 1 kg, what colour is his jumper?"
It's not fair, I'm usually good at maths, and now I'm just awful.
3. Concert tickets selling out quickly - Tickets for big concerts always go on sale on a Friday morning at nine, at which point I am in school, in Art class. Why is it that Ticketmaster hate me, and refuse to let me buy a ticket, because by the time I'm home from school, they're all gone! There should be some sort of pre-order system I reckon.
4. When singers/bands play gigs in small theatres - Leading on from my last point, I mean, clearly if you've sold out 3 nights in a small theatre, in 20 seconds flat, you could really just move the shows to a bigger venue, or at least set another date!
5. Those inbetween days where there's no shirts or socks - Usually a Thursday or a Friday, where all the good shirts and socks haven't been washed from the beginning of the week yet, so you don't have any and you look EVERYWHERE for them, but there's just none so you have to wear the shirts that your friends have written rude things on the back of your collar, or socks with no elastic in them, so you spend the day pulling them up. My God it's the worst.
6. When the internet router shuts off - You're in the middle of loading a movie, downloading a song, doing homework, writing a blog post, listening to a podcast, and BAM "Netopia Router" says that the connection was lost. It's just the most annoying thing to happen.
7. The ends of a Diet Coke in a bottle - It's gotten flat, warm and just doesn't quench the thirst you need it to. It's sad because it can be up to about 100ml out of the bottle, which is 20% of the drink, and you don't even enjoy it! No matter how tight you close the cap, nothing can prevent it.
8. Bad Dinners - You come home after a long day, hungry and tired, sit down to the table and what's put in front of you? A stew (something that was just inevitably going to be gross, just say it.. STEW), or a lamb chop.. Something along those depressing lines, and it just makes the day even worse than it already was.
9. When my contact falls out - Just the one. Perfect vision from one eye, and a nice painful blur from the other, and I'm left with no choice but to take the other one out to even the sight, and just walk around blind for the rest of the day/night, squinting at my phone, which is touching my nose cause I need to hold it so close, trying to see what a text says, or who is calling me.
10. Rihanna - She's a hussy and we all know it.
2. Project Maths - This year, the Irish education system introduced a new maths course, called Project Maths. It's absolutely ridiculous, and this one question sums it up nicely:
"If John has 2 apples weighing 50g and 70g, and Mary gives him 4 apples of heights 10cm, 9cm, 6cm and 11cm, he eats two along with a bowl of pasta, weighing 1 kg, what colour is his jumper?"
It's not fair, I'm usually good at maths, and now I'm just awful.
3. Concert tickets selling out quickly - Tickets for big concerts always go on sale on a Friday morning at nine, at which point I am in school, in Art class. Why is it that Ticketmaster hate me, and refuse to let me buy a ticket, because by the time I'm home from school, they're all gone! There should be some sort of pre-order system I reckon.
4. When singers/bands play gigs in small theatres - Leading on from my last point, I mean, clearly if you've sold out 3 nights in a small theatre, in 20 seconds flat, you could really just move the shows to a bigger venue, or at least set another date!
5. Those inbetween days where there's no shirts or socks - Usually a Thursday or a Friday, where all the good shirts and socks haven't been washed from the beginning of the week yet, so you don't have any and you look EVERYWHERE for them, but there's just none so you have to wear the shirts that your friends have written rude things on the back of your collar, or socks with no elastic in them, so you spend the day pulling them up. My God it's the worst.
6. When the internet router shuts off - You're in the middle of loading a movie, downloading a song, doing homework, writing a blog post, listening to a podcast, and BAM "Netopia Router" says that the connection was lost. It's just the most annoying thing to happen.
7. The ends of a Diet Coke in a bottle - It's gotten flat, warm and just doesn't quench the thirst you need it to. It's sad because it can be up to about 100ml out of the bottle, which is 20% of the drink, and you don't even enjoy it! No matter how tight you close the cap, nothing can prevent it.
8. Bad Dinners - You come home after a long day, hungry and tired, sit down to the table and what's put in front of you? A stew (something that was just inevitably going to be gross, just say it.. STEW), or a lamb chop.. Something along those depressing lines, and it just makes the day even worse than it already was.
9. When my contact falls out - Just the one. Perfect vision from one eye, and a nice painful blur from the other, and I'm left with no choice but to take the other one out to even the sight, and just walk around blind for the rest of the day/night, squinting at my phone, which is touching my nose cause I need to hold it so close, trying to see what a text says, or who is calling me.
10. Rihanna - She's a hussy and we all know it.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
10 Things I Don't Hate About Life
I'd like to point out that these are in order of what came into my mind, not what makes me most happy as number 1 etc.
1. Finishing an Art History essay - is it really sad that school has taken over my life so much that I put that as my number one? That was seriously the first thing to pop into my head, what's wrong with me? But the accomplishment of handing it up is just beyond satisfying.
2. Comedians - Yes I know - it's their job to make people laugh and be happy, but shut up I'm going to talk about it anyway. I know I've talked about my appreciation for Tina Fey before, but really I can't say enough to express my undying and unconditional love for her, so I'll leave it at that. Dara O'Briain, enough said amiright? You know I'm right. He's hilarious and there's simply no denying it. Michael McIntyre, it's my dream to meet anyone even remotely as funny as he is, and just marry them on the spot. It'll happen.
3. Rings - They go with everything, you can wear about 6 at a time, they're cheap, they're great and you all know it. Yes all of you 4 people who may or may not see this.
4.Christmas songs - I'm in the middle of rehearsing for a Christmas Concert (in Bakers Corner Pub, Deansgrange on the 7th December, GO!), and it just makes me so happy listening to the songs, even though I have to learn the most difficult harmonies in the world.
5. My mother - She's not in the continent, and my dinner is severely suffering for the cause. Frankly I think I'm more in need than the homeless Africans she's building houses for! (Mamma's in the back of that picture, I'm the angry looking infant, the adorable one is my sister Kate, and the one in the Man United jersey is my other sister Claire.)
6. My Father - Well hello Daddy, I'm guessing you'll see this. You can see my Dad's blog here. He's a bit of an internet sensation I must admit, with over ten times the amount of blog views that I have, really quite depressing. Anyway he's your token 'cool' Dad, with a Harley Davidson and all. He's also a YouTube hit, and no he doesn't sing or tell jokes, he does How To videos, and I've used one or two myself for projects and that. Anyway he provides me with food and pays my phone bills so for that I love him. I'm guessing the picture was taken roughly 14 years ago, and from the wind I'm gonna say we were in Achill (an island off the west coast of Ireland).
7. Christmas Jumpers - They're comfy, humorous, warm, festive, and with the help of Pimp My Jumper, a company my sister's friend is running, you can now make your OWN CHRISTMAS GEANSAÍ. That's right, it's super cheap, and I have the pack myself and cannot wait until I start. I sound like an awful radio add don't I? God help me.
8. Being an Irish prefect - In our school, there are prefects for almost every subject, most people applied for things like Science, Business and Art, but I'm one of the Ceannairí na nGaeilge and I'm proud. I love Irish, just can't get enough. Having said that, the ole Leaving Cert is gonna be a bitch to pass!
9. My History Teacher - Ah Mr Delahunty, you never fail to entertain me! Last week, we were studying the Social and Economic Change in Britain during the Inter-War years; for those of you who don't know what that is, it's boring and there's nothing fun about it. The case study in the chapter, is the Jarrow March for unemployment in 1936, so our History class (5C) went on the same march, only from the classroom, to the cafeteria for a "break in Nottingham", then to the concert hall to "storm Hyde Park" and "hand over the petition to the Parliament" (the stage covered in tables and chairs). I'm not gonna forget that now, I swear to you all. (By the way he posted the picture on the right on our school History Blog on the post about our homework, do you love him yet?)
10. HARLEY - The classic thing to do here is talk about how 'amazing and supportive' my friends or family are, or how music or fashion inspires my life, but instead I'd like to dedicate my final point to my cat. His name is Harley, he's still only a kitten, he's deaf, he sleeps under my bed and when all my friends are out with boyfriends or people who just generally like them, Harley sits with me and we watch movies together. No man will ever be good enough for me.
1. Finishing an Art History essay - is it really sad that school has taken over my life so much that I put that as my number one? That was seriously the first thing to pop into my head, what's wrong with me? But the accomplishment of handing it up is just beyond satisfying.
3. Rings - They go with everything, you can wear about 6 at a time, they're cheap, they're great and you all know it. Yes all of you 4 people who may or may not see this.
4.Christmas songs - I'm in the middle of rehearsing for a Christmas Concert (in Bakers Corner Pub, Deansgrange on the 7th December, GO!), and it just makes me so happy listening to the songs, even though I have to learn the most difficult harmonies in the world.5. My mother - She's not in the continent, and my dinner is severely suffering for the cause. Frankly I think I'm more in need than the homeless Africans she's building houses for! (Mamma's in the back of that picture, I'm the angry looking infant, the adorable one is my sister Kate, and the one in the Man United jersey is my other sister Claire.)7. Christmas Jumpers - They're comfy, humorous, warm, festive, and with the help of Pimp My Jumper, a company my sister's friend is running, you can now make your OWN CHRISTMAS GEANSAÍ. That's right, it's super cheap, and I have the pack myself and cannot wait until I start. I sound like an awful radio add don't I? God help me.
10. HARLEY - The classic thing to do here is talk about how 'amazing and supportive' my friends or family are, or how music or fashion inspires my life, but instead I'd like to dedicate my final point to my cat. His name is Harley, he's still only a kitten, he's deaf, he sleeps under my bed and when all my friends are out with boyfriends or people who just generally like them, Harley sits with me and we watch movies together. No man will ever be good enough for me.That is all.
Look how cultured I am.
I'm in a play competition in the Comhaltas centre in Monkstown, South Dublin. I'm in two plays, one is Popcorn by Ben Elton, a play about a Hill Billy couple who kill hundreds of people around America, in which I play Scout. The other play is Women and Wallace, by Jonathan Marc Sherman, in which I play Wendy, basically a drunken slut. They're both really great plays and I can't wait to do them 'cause we've all put in so much work!
In other news, my mother is in Africa at the moment, building houses with the Niall Mellon Township Trust. She went last year to a town called Wallacedene, and loved it. I'm not quite sure where it is that she's building this year, but no doubt I'll be hearing stories for the next couple of months.
After my last order off eBay, I was hesitant to go back, seen as I ordered my Halloween costume at the start of October and received it the Monday just gone by, but I've ordered a dress for €10, so hopefully it's not hideously ill-fitting, or I get it before the Apocalypse, but if it is, I can only blame myself to be honest.
I started singing lessons last week with a girl called Lisa Nolan (here band can be found here). She's lovely, and really helpful, but I'm struggling, because I never really had much structure to my singing before. I just finished learning Summertime, so it seems I'm going to be a Jazz singer, something I really didn't expect to suit my voice.
Truly can't get enough of The Smiths.
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