Barmy Blue's Bland Blog

Well, I left it too late to do week 6 as I've finished week 7 so this'll be short.
Didn't really do much during week 6 it was pretty much the same as it was the week before until Sunday...or was it Saturday? No, it was Sunday. Mum's got a little list of films she wants to see so we saw one, WALL-E, it was sweet but rather predictable. She also wants to see Kung fu panda but that'll probably be over soon. There are one or two other things on her list, I only have 2, the forbidden kingdom and the mummy tomb of the dragon emperor. As we were going to the cinema, down the high road, I'm sure someone purposely hit me on the arm, although I didn't see them I know it happened. I spent most of the time afterwards being very annoyed. On the way back I popped into WHSmith and got the second of my manga series and then we got fish and chips on the way home and watched Top Gear. That evening I suddenly felt the urge to continue with the rug (a few years ago one of my aunts bought my mum a rug that you make yourself but mum showed little interest in it later on but told me that it was one of the family activities they'd do when she was younger. Having never made a rug before I took up the challenge and I've been doing it on and off since, it's a very slow process and doing it for too long hurts my hands, hence the huge gaps between doing it) I also continued a very old story, I gave up on it a few years ago because it was so terrible, it had potential but it was all wrong however, it'd be nice to propperly finish a story. I began writing it some time after the first Harry Potter film came out on video (because I never saw it in the cinema and I've never read the books and don't intend to) so it's kind of based on that a little, then I branched away and added my own various things. I'd been reading it a week previously to taking it up again.

Week 7
It finally dawned on me over this week and the last week, but mainly this week, how important it is that I finish this essay I've had a month to do and give it in quick, because if I don't I'll have failed part of one of my courses. I don't know if that means I fail the whole course or not but I can't afford to take that risk, but for some reason I've had no drive to do it and it's so stupid. I'm more annoyed with myself than you can possibly imagine because it really is all my fault. The thing is having read over it again I absolutely hated it so I'm basically redoing it and there is very little to salvage from the original essay, meaning I'm writing most of it from scratch and that means looking back over my old work and trying to remember how I wrote various things and what editing processes they went through but the problem is that most of them didn't really have much of an editing process save fro one and that was sooooo long it put me off so much that I'm in this boat now and I've no one to blame but myself. So my week's been shared out wirh watching anime, playing games and trying to do that essay with a little rug making before bed.
Main news of this week, we got a new TV. The old one kept going grey, not a real problem, but then it flickered blue almost continually with bits of red and a little green so we had to replace it, which we really didn't want to have to do, with the holiday 2 weeks away and this whole "credit crunch" I keep hearing about to make matters wors dad's short too because he hasn't had work for quite a lot of the time (he's a builder. The general belief is that it's the polish stealing the building jobs, but that's over now and it's someone else but I can't remember who he credited it to now) I'm the only one not feeling the pinch, as I don't have a job, though it would be better for everyone else if I did. Trouble is that earning your own money brings in a heap of problems and I'll list a few in order; You get a job, work 9-5 or more, come home with no energy to do anything but vegetate infront of a soap opera, earn money, use it to buy the things you need and want, save up for that holiday you're planning, at the same time as the holiday the bills come in and you spend over 100 or more on each (gas and electric) and other bills that pop up, you go on holiday (it's expensive) buy al the things you want and see the sights and all, come back overdrawn and then go back to work, work 9-5 or more, come home with no energy to do anything but vegetate infront of a soap opera, earn money, use it to buy the things you need and want, save up for Christmas (you have lots of friends and family to buy things for, and someone's had a baby, that's one more to the list), you buy the presents when the prices are jacked up, buy the turkey and all the trim, buy the tree, give and recieve, you can't return the crap things you don't want so you're stuck with them work, you're overdrawn, go back to work, work 9-5 or more, come home with no energy to do anything but vegetate infront of a soap opera, earn money, use it to buy the things you need and want, save up and the cycle continually repeats and there's the constant risk of unexpected expendetures that you can't really afford what with all the other stuf, things like; your TV breaks, washing machine breaks, you get married (expensive business I'm told), you have a baby, car accident, house floods.
The world of work it a terrible thing indeed. unless you're a millionaire with a good source of income, you will break the bank at some point in your life, probably numerous times and have to claw your way out of debt.

That's enough, if there was anything else to say I'll say it later.

Bluebiird out.