Achooo!

Got up early to say goodbye to my grandad, who left on the train a few hours ago. And I seem to have caught my middle sister's head cold =( Of course, it being her, it has developed into a full-blown chest infection, so I really can't complain about my slight sniffle . . .but I will anyway. Lets hope its not swine flu :-s

So today? At least 1.5 pieces of work, finishing the jigsaw, finding a great poem to vlog, and tidying the bedroom a bit. I'll let you know how I get on.

Hmmm, yeah . . .

So it's been a while. Ooops. I love the fact that by 'a while' I now mean a couple of days instead of a few months =) A good sign I suppose. So what's been happening recently?

1. The discovery of 'The Twilight Zone'. Now balding actors with full heads of hair, ridiculously high-concept shows, unintentional humour. Fantastic stuff =)
2. The arrival of my missing Usbourne Superpuzzles book. Fiendlisly difficult.
3. Huge re-obession with DS9.
4. My grandpa is visiting.
5. Return of my rowdy younger siblings from camp.

Oh yeah, and a little bit of work.

I should write more

Decided that I need to write more. Not just blog posts and stuff for uni and work, but creative writing - stories, scripts. Or just fanfiction. Anything to get the imagination whirring again. I miss that all-consuming dreamworld that used to hit me at school, when I could write fourteen pages straight about any story topic given. These days a paragraph is difficult. I hate that my brain is slowly turning to lazy, tv-saturated mush during the holidays. I'm not even reading as much as I should. This needs to change.

Having said that, I'm more absorbed in Deep Space Nine than ever - forget the political and historical shows I always claim are my favourite, DS9 has always been where its at. And Twilight Zone arrived today. Havn't seen any of it yet but I am so darn hyped.

Just found out some news about someone I grew up with, and I won't go into it here, but sometimes life seems really unfair =( Or sometimes you realise just how precious good health is. Thoughts and prayers with him tonight.

My back hurts

Ouch ouch ouch. My back hurts. Not helped by my doing a jigsaw or a lengthy vlog today (think I'm beginning to get the hang of editing, woop). And I really need to catch up with the sleep I missed yesterday. So I'm off to bed.

Wii

I just spent 3 hours on the wii . . . .can't remember the last time I played a computer game for so long :-s It is called 'Disaster Day of Crisis' and has a crazy plot involving the hero running around shooting at an ex-navy armed gang, whilst trying to save his dead best friend's sister, rescue numerous citizens and perform firt aid, and escape a numer of natural disasters. He's only been a it from 8-9pm so far and has probably encountered more danger than the average SAS person does in a lifetime. And the dialogue is super cheesy, peppered with expletives. Fun times. I'm addicted already though.

Vlogging

I uploaded my first vlog today. Craziness, I know :) But I've been saying that I would for about a year now, and then I was the only person in the house this morning, so I thought I would try out the camera . . . .

It really has made me appreciate just how difficult and weird vlogging can be. Firstly, you neither sound or look anything like you think you do. My voice isn't quite as whiny as I'd been led to believe, but still . . . very strange seeing yourself on youtube!

Secondly, videos require a lot of retakes and editing. Like, a lot. Takes much longer than I thought it would.

Thirdly, you soon run out of things to say. I think unless you have a 'hook' of a particular style or theme you're aiming for it must be pretty difficult to be even vaguely interesting. I'm probably going to do a mixture of normal 'vlog' stuff, book and film reviews, and the occasional tame-ish rant. No idea how often I'm aiming to record at the mo.

In other news . . . we ordered a lot of the stuff for my dissertation today, so fingers crossed a large amount of JFK books and films will be arriving soon. I'm actually really excited :D 1960s nerds ftw! ooooh, and I ordered Twilight Zone and the last of the usbourne Superpuzzle books :) Double yey!

It is very late . . . .

Ouch, it is late. Again. And I failed to blog yesterday. Again.

Oh well. Today this is late because I was checking my emails, and then I checked youtube, and saw that Karen Kavett was doing a blogtv show. So i watched that instead of sleeping, ordered one of her amazing wallets and a rose, and now I'm very awake! Oh well. i did sleep in veeeeery late this morning . . .

The younger three siblings set off for Newday (a rocking Christian youth camp - fun and with some fantastic music), so its just me, Paul and the parents which is weird. Did mean that we could watch 'watchmen' in the middle of the day though (awesome film), and i can have my laptop turned up fairly loud even at 1.30am at night. Great stuff :) It'll be weird by the end of the week though.

Righty-ho, off to sleep now.

zzzzz