It's back! Hooray!

Posted 09.05.2006 3 1730

Now Playing: Tetris!
Now Listening to: What do you think its still gonna be? :-)

As a few of you may know (from Mike saying) my laptop has been dead since Thursday. The LCD went for some reason (probably from overheating) and it just died This happened in year one as well, but it was even more devastating then because it was fairly early on in the year and I hadn't really established that many friendships so I couldn't hang out with people all the time (although, that doesn't really matter as I have no friends now :lol

The only real problem I've had with not having a computer is wanted to check my emails, especially since Dell kept having me on hold when I was trying to give them a day for the engineer to come round ~_~

Well anyway, he came round today, and he seemed like the kinda person that you had to explain stuff a million times to to understand what you were on about. I mean, I know I'm not great at explaining stuff but surely I'm not that bad! I was stood outside and it took me more than 5 minutes to explain to him where he could park his car (basically it was just around the corner, but he kept going on about whether it was near somewhere totally in the wrong direction ~_~).

But anyway, none of that matter as I have a new shiny LCD! Huzzah for me!

it doesn't have any muck/grime on now either, so I can see the screen clearly hooray! ok, yea, so I could clean it but then it gets dusty again, so whats the point?

Here's a picture of my wonderful cat Smokey, who I miss very very much:

Oh yea, and I bought Lost Magic on... Friday I think it was and it pissed me off so much that I took it back to GAME. Does anyone else have this game yet? The idea of it and the graphics are really cute, but the controls can be irritating at times (although I did get used to it) but the amount of enemies that come up in like, your fourth battle is just insane! You're just getting a feel for the game then, theres no need for them to bombard you with far too many enemies for you to handle! And I had to go through it again cuz I didnt know how to save. And then, when you've saved, you had to go through all the pissing dialogue again to get to where you were before. I like it in Trauma Centre where you can just press 'select' and the text whizzes through. But no, Lost Magic is too good for that feature obviously.... oh well, it was fun while it lasted... I'm currently trying to be super l33t at Tetris so that one day I can go online and kick John's ass

That's all for today I think...

xx

P.S If jb reads this, there should be a 'Currently Reading' slot along with the other ones that are down there. Me and Michael are into reading at the moment and so that would be a nice feature to have. Just an idea

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I just have insufficient RAM...

Posted 03.05.2006 10 1771

Now Playing: MORE AND MORE DARREN HAYES

Well, its finally been confirmed... I've just been told today that I'm dyslexic and dycalculic in nature...

A nice way of putting it I thought was this quote:

"Being dyslexic is like a computer with insufficient RAM - you can accomplish as much but it takes you longer to get there"

I thought this was a nice way of putting it because I always thought dyslexia was something to be ashamed of, but its not. In fact, maybe I should be proud of myself to have got this far in my acheivements (even though they aren't that great...)

I've always been quite slow and bad at mental arithmatic, so I thought that I'd go and get myself checked out, just in case. And because I hadn't heard much from them I thought 'oh well, thats it, I'm fine' but no, I go in and she tells me this. I felt like bursting into tears to tell you the truth because of two reasons ~ one because I thought that there was nothing wrong with me and I was fine, and two, because I finally had a name to put to all the years of frustration - putting in loads of work and not getting much out of it. I know that those are conflicting thoughts, but thats what I was thinking at the time and it was all so overwhelming... I knew that I had something wrong with my brain in that I cant do mental arithmetic all that well, but I never thought I'd be dyslexic really... I've always been so good at english... But it does take me a good few times of reading for the information to sink in... In terms of dyslexia I must be on the lower end of the scale as the only problems I have with language are that I can't get my thought out sometimes when I'm speaking, or I can't find the right word for something, or I use the wrong word for stuff. It tends to be when I'm speaking mostly, I can get my thoughts out when I'm typing, just like I'm doing now...

Well... at least I can try and get some free stuff out of it

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I have a job!

Posted 25.04.2006 4 1681

Now Playing: Tetris DS
Now Listening to: MORE DARREN HAYES =D

I've finally found myself a full time job - temping for an insurance company.

Basically, all I did all of today was make calls to customers, who have sent in insurance claims, telling then that their claim has been received but due to a huge backlog of claims theirs will be delayed by upto a few weeks. It was annoying though because I couldn't tell them how long it will take because I wasn't actually given that information, but by the end of the day I did find out that the backlog of claims goes back about 15 working days, and so it will take that long to clear out the backlog because the newer claims can be dealt with. It was really insane, I've never seen so many piles of paper in my life.

I must have called about a 1000 people today... ok, maybe I'm over-exaggerating but still... even though I was saying the same thing over and over, I still really enjoyed it. I like being on the phone and so I found it really exciting. I made a friend today as well which was fun, she's sat on the desk next to me and is from the same temping agency. She's giving me rides to and from work now, which is going to save me on bus fare! yay!

xx

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Darren Hayes!

Posted 24.04.2006 16 1788

Now Playing: Lost in Blue
Now Listening to: EVERYTHING DARREN HAYES!!!

I went to go and see Darren Hayes in Manchester last night with my wonderful boyfriend for his 'Big Night in With Darren Hayes' tour. And yes, good times were had by all

I can't remember who the support band were... some solo artist I think... but anyway, she was a big rubbish apart from one song and I wasn't really paying attention. The big shock came when Darren Hayes appeared FROM THE BACK OF THE ROOM!! He walked right through the audience to the stage and I was about half a metre from him. I ALMOST GOT TO TOUCH HIM!!! Some fat smelly guy next to me shoved me out the way and smeared his greasy mitt all over him... it would have made my day if I got to touch him, I have to say.

About... half an hour in, Mr Hayes asked for a single guy in the audience to come up and get dolled up as he was going to find him a date with some girl in the audience! It was pretty funny as only like, 3 guys put their hands up (as I'm guessing most of the guys there were attached to girlfriends who had dragged them there ). So then girls were to text a number that came up on screen to get a date with this poor guy who was being done up in the background. Four girls were called out, but only three of them went onto stage for whatever reason... And yay, he got to date the blonde one and good times were had by them

Anyway, even though it was a good night, it really wasn't as good as when I went to see him for the first time in 2004 during the 'Dark Light' tour. I enjoyed that immensely, but it was the first concert I've ever been to so...

What ruined it was that he kept doing 'electronic' remixes of songs that didn't need to be bloody remixed... it was... argh... I don't even wanna think about it, that song was so bad But he seemed much more confident on stage I think... When I went to see him the first time Manchester was the first stop of the tour so he was probably nervous about it, so yea...

AND AS A PRE-BIRTHDAY TREAT ~

I bought myself an MP3 player... I've been wanting one for a while and its pink and so... I bought it Its really cute and pretty, but the only irritating thing about it so far is that the touch screen is too sensitive... or maybe im just being too meavy-handed with it

A Vikki blog would never be complete without a picture now, would it?

Hmmm... that's it for now I think... I've probably ranted on about Darren Hayes for too long anyways!

xxx

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More Tattoos!

Posted 19.04.2006 12 1780

Right, its decided... as an added incentive into losing weight before my birthday, I have booked an appointment to get a tattoo! Huzzah for me!

Ok ok, I'm sure people will think this is a stupid idea, but for my 20th birthday I wanted to either get my belly button peirced or have a tattoo on my hip. As I'm too afraid to let anyone near my belly button, I've decided on the latter.

I went into the tattoo place today and saw the nicest tattoo of a butterfly ever. It's just like the one I posted before C3 crashed except its blue instead of yellowy and red.

.....in fact, I've just been on the interweb and found the one I wanted done in the first place and I really do like that one better so I'll ask them to do that one instead. Huzzah for me! Right, so it looks like i'll have to be losing weight fast from now then

This is the picture for those of you who didn't see it ~

And oh my God... I am absolutely OBSESSED with dried mango at the moment... I can't get enough of the stuff! I really like the very dried out mango, but the one I'm obsessed about is this stuff from the Phillipines ~ its so chewy and delicious and aaaah.... eating it now, its so good at least I'm obsessed with something relatively healthy at the moment rather than binging on say... chocolate.. mmmm, its good....

also, I keep saying I'm really bored with nothing to do, but I have TONS of DS games that I need to play... still haven't completed Trauma Centre, haven't been visited Cheeston (AC:WW) in weeks, Keith and Skye are still Lost in Blue and my Nintedogs are fat and smelly! Also, I haven't got anywhere in Mario Kart really... completed Mushroom cup (yay?) at around Christmas and its been on my shelf since... but then again, I've never really liked Mario Kart that much, I only bought it so that I could race others online and I can't even do that due to my internet connections!

Ooh, and I had an interview today for a job that I really really want, so fingers crossed that I get it... I'm hoping that I'm the strongest candidate for it seeing as my last admin job was very similar to this position, but still fingers crossed...

At the moment it just seems like my life is just one big pot luck where I'm always crossing my fingers...

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What to do...

Posted 13.04.2006 11 1719

Now Playing: The Sims 2

Well.. it's the middle of the Easter holidays and I feel like crap... I don't really celebrate Easter, never have as I'm not really that religious and instead of going home and staying with my family, I chose to come back up to Lancaster and 'work. I say it like that because I haven't found any work yet and I'm really desperate. I have no money at all at the moment, and I need to pay back money that I've borrowed... ugh, what a pain...

And even worse, I seem to be putting on weight by the day even though I'm hardly eating anything (well... I started my 'diet' two days ago and I feel even fatter than before). It's ridiculous... I mean, I finally have some kind of excuse, that my stupid anti-depressants have a side effect of 'increased appetite and weight gain' which explains my insatiable need for food... I know I should go and exercise and I do want to like go to a gym or something but I can't afford the membership fees... and I know it sounds stupid but whenever I do exercise I get upset cuz I realise how fat I am and I just think what the hell is the point???

One of the agencies has found me a job at fucking Reebok doing fuck knows what for I don't even know how much money... its part-time and doesn't start til the 24th... don't you people understand that I need something NOW dammit??? I might tell them that I don't want it and wait for something else because I've got an interview next week for a government run charity thing working with troubled kids and their parents (although I'll just be the receptionist), which I think I might get as the job I had last summer was in a similar kind of role but people always seem to have more and better experience than me... life is fucking shit... I really wish that money would grow on trees cuz then I could at least afford to live without scrounging off my dad (although I know that if that was the case I would somehow kill said plant by over/under watering....)

Sorry about the rant... I may or may not delete this blog like I did with my last one cuz I realised how stupid it sounded...

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Update of meeeee!

Posted 14.03.2006 3 1738

Now Playing: The Rub Rabbits
Now Listening to: B.C. CampLight - Hide, Run Away
Now Watching: er.... nothing... :-D

* Note ~ I apologise in advance for any stupid spelling mistakes... I'm very tired as I've just got in from work and haven't had my dinner yet *

well hello everyone! Just thought I'd do an update on my blog, seeing as nobody has put one up for a while and I havent updated mine... in fact... cuz of C3 going down I
only have one blog entry! oh noes! I'll have to bump it up! Not that much interesting is happening really...

I dont remember what I said in my last entry, but I'[ll just babble on anyways like I like to do

Anyways.. I've decided to quit uni where I am and start a new course next september. I'm gonna do biological sciences with biomedicine so I can work in hospital research and cure cancer etc So at the moment I'm doing any work I can, and at the moment I'm doing admin in a flower depot! (meaning they take orders for flowers from various places lkike Debanhams, Boots and WH Smith and I accept the orders so that they can be shipped out... very boring...) I've just done my first day today and so far all the people are really nice. They're really funny and keep talking about random stories that I just listen in to I managed to rip my little finger on some cardboard as they made me do packing which I hate. If they make me do that kinda thing again I'll refuse because I can't bend to pick stuff up a lot because it gives me pains in my back... if they make me I'll sick my doctor to them

What else has been going on... umm, ooh! Before I went to work, I played with mice in biology and it was fun! Yay! We weren't supposed to antropomorphanise them (i.e. talk to them 'awwwwww! you're so cute! are you hungry?' etc because it's... well... not scientific I guess :lol but I did anyway because they were the most adorable things ever!

yay! they have the huuuugest ears ever and they're adorable! Although, perhaps some people reading this might not think so as a lot of people don't like mice and various other small creatures... but I do! I love them!

wooo! right... I'm bored of typing now... I think I'll go and get something to eat...

Vikki xxx

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WOOOT

Posted 14.02.2006 17 1728

Now Playing: Animal Crossing: WW
Now Listening to: Savage Garden - Universe (love that song!!)

Hey guys, I'm back

Hope you've all been upto fun things during my absence... not too much though I hope... Anyways, just thought I'd update you all on stuff thats been going on while cubed3 was up the creep etc etc blah blah

Well, I finally got a tattoo done, and not even like the butterfly I showed you all months ago
Here it is ~

Closer pic ~

So yea, that was fun didn't really hurt all that much to be honest... ok, so I had numbing on it, but actually had the tattoo placed lower than the numbed part of my ankle, so... yea... that bit hurt a little... like a kind of sharp dragging pain... like someone has shoved a needle in you and is dragging it across your skin... oh yea, thats what was happening I love it though, I may get another done, but not yet...

I also may be quitting my uni course... well, to me it seems definite now, teaching really isn't for me.
Don't get me wrong, I love the little buggars to bits (even when they are being sods...) but i just can't cope with the workload... but I love the biology part of my course. So what I'm going to do is apply to lancaster uni for next year to do biological science with biomedicine and try my luck with that. I know it's gonna be a difficult course, but I'm sure I'll love it eeeee, so excited and I'm not even there yet!

For now, I'll just play with mice in my biology module at the moment - Animal Behaviour! Woot!

Vikki x

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