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Firstly, if you’re one of those odd people who’s scared of clowns, I apologise for any trauma caused by this blog.
My family have just returned from Spain, and I’m blogging, which means I survived the week alone! I’ve crossed a few things off my list of summer plans on the previous blog, and have pictures to prove it. The first, and perhaps most entertaining, occurred after a night of video games (Warioware is genius) when we got our faces painted in aid of Annabel’s freaky art project on clowns.
This is me - I think the eyebrows are a good look…
Tom is a creep without face paint anyway, and Lewis and Eilidh would look cute if he wasn’t the Joker.
We terrified each other with our permanent smiles…and exclamations of “OH MY GOD it won’t come off” a few hours later. But, on a lighter note, here are some lovely cakes that we baked on Saturday:
Okay, so it was a frankly futile attempt at cake decorating, but they tasted deee-lllicious! Plus, they were pink and orange! More pictures of such haphazard escapades are to come…
Posted by Vicky on July 31st, 2008.In Daily Life, Hilarity, Summer |
Summerttiimme and the livin’ is easy
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The schools have broken up and summer is here! So, inspired by the promise of six weeks of relaxation (hooray unemployment!), I’m about to attempt…a list. I’m not usually the type of person to write ‘list blogs’ - they tend to be bland and unimaginative, and this is no exception. But I believe that the making of this list will greatly improve my quality of life over the next few weeks, so it’s entirely necessary. I can’t promise it’ll be a detailed or extensive list, but I’ll add to it and update periodically. Anyway, without further ado, I present you with my list of plans for the summer.
- Go swimming OK, so we did this yesterday. Promising start!
- Spend a day at Xscape - cinema, bowling, crazy golf, arcades, shopping, etc
- Survive a week alone while family is away
- Have a barbecue
- Beat Tom at cooking
- Host (another) video games night
- Go to a theme park
- Collect AS level results
- Decide on university choices
- Be ready to run 10km for the race in September
- Go to the seaside
- Camp out
- Read - a lot!
Pretty typical, I know, but it’ll keep me busy. Does anyone have any more interesting plans?
Posted by Vicky on July 19th, 2008.In Daily Life, Summer |
Sex Facts!
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This morning, as I was reading the horoscopes in the Metro (free newspaper on public transport), I couldn’t help but notice an advert at the very bottom of the page. “Text SEX to 118118 for free sex facts! Today only.” I tend to consider myself somewhat of a sex expert (sexpert?) so was typically intrigued by this, and just had to try it out. I expected to receive a very dull fact about condoms or hepatitis, but was pleasantly surprised when my phone lit up and informed me that “A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes”. Wow!
And so followed a day of periodic lively outbursts such as:
The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.
It would take the average couple over four years to try all 529 positions in the Kama Sutra
I’ve received about 15 of these so far, and they’ve made interesting conversation. Who’d have thought that kissing could REDUCE tooth decay? Or that castrated men often live significantly longer? What an educational day it has been…
Posted by Vicky on July 10th, 2008.In Daily Life, Hilarity, Ramblings |
A blog about the weather?
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The British weather is notoriously unpredictable. The British people, on the other hand, are notoriously predictable, and will talk about the notorious unpredictability of the weather at every opportunity. Today was a prime example of this, as we encountered sun, wind, rain, thunder and lightning, and sun again, all in 40 minutes of dog walking.
After a morning of beaming sunshine, Mother Nature had obviously decided we were too close to getting a tan, and sent a large black cloud to loom over us threateningly. We managed to make it to a patch of trees before the rain really started, but after 20 minutes of patient huddling it became apparent the flimsy leaves didn’t provide the best shelter anyway. The dogs were barking wildly at every crack of thunder but, as quickly as it had begun, the rain cleared. Not until we were soaked to the skin, of course. Despite this, I was thoughtful enough to take photos (wise move in the pouring rain…) of the scene before and after.
2:45pm - B.R. (Before Rain)
2:50pm - After Rain
There were literally 5 minutes between the two extremes - insanely inconvenient yet faintly (faintly!) amusing.
Weather 1, Vicky 0.
How’s your weather lately?
Posted by Vicky on July 5th, 2008.In Daily Life |
Coincidences!
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I catch four buses everyday on my way to and from school. I often use this time (almost two hours in total) to disintegrate into my own little world by either reading or listening to my mp3 player. I’m not much of a ‘talker’ on the buses. There are some people however, who insist on striking up a tedious and inevitably short-lived conversation, usually about the weather. I try my best to salvage the discussing with small talk, but secretly I’d always rather be immersed in my book or day dream.
Today I ended up sat next to an old man who seemed to be one of these talkative inconveniences, so I decided to give up on my mp3 player and just talk to the guy.
Posted by Vicky on June 24th, 2008.In Daily Life, Ramblings |
Dictionary.com Word of the (yester)Day
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For the last couple of years I’ve been signed up to Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day email. Sometimes they’re useful, sometimes I don’t even read them. Sometimes I already know the word and become awashed with pride, like a virtual pat on the back for my otherwise faltering vocabulary. And sometimes they make me laugh:
defenestrate \dee-FEN-uh-strayt\, transitive verb:
To throw out of a window.
Now, I’m sure many people are already aware of this word and will scoff at my comparative ignorance, but it caught my attention as being a possible contender for the most pointless word in the English language. Not because its meaning isn’t valid, it just seems so overly specific. When would it ever be necessary to reduce the phrase “throw out of a window” to a single word? And a long, intimidating one at that. Despite this, I decided that I quite like the word and will attempt to incorporate it into conversations from now on.
The example of usage just topped it off:
I defenestrated a clock to see if time flies!
– Lane Smith, 1998
Oh Dictionary.com, you jokers.
Feel free to post the most bizarre word you know, so I can commit it to the ‘useless information’ section of my memory.
Posted by Vicky on June 20th, 2008.In Ramblings |
Hello world!
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Moved hosts, will be back to blogging soon.
:)
Edit // Alright, update blogs are boring but I’m keeping this up, partly because I enjoy the friendly comment from Mr Wordpress. But basically I haven’t uploaded any of my portfolio or the ‘etc’ section yet because, to be frank, they were always pretty pointless. So I’ll revamp them and then put them back up.
Posted by Vicky on June 18th, 2008.In Announcements |