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Song: The Jeweller’s Hands – Arctic Monkeys

Things have been happening in my life. What’s this?!? Yeah! pmsl.

On Thursday I had to go to the optometrist, I need to get glasses. Bifocals, to be exact. They should be ready sometime next week, which will be good because I’ll finally be able to read the school board, pmsl. Afterwards, Mum stuck around with me so I could buy some ‘nice’ clothes, a dress for Friday night (read on), and another dress for a party tonight. One’s black & grey, the other is a red tube. I’ll post photos later, maybe.

But yeah, last night, my brothers football club had its annual fund-raising dinner. I had to go. It wasn’t fun. They served this really… strange meals and had the worst entertainer you could imagine. She was about 47 wearing short leather skirts and wigs and… it wasn’t good. But on that same note, the waiters (some of them) were attractive. They also had all these collectable items around the room up for bidding. They had a signed Harry Potter poster and wand from Prisoner of Azkaban (image to the right). The starting bid was $995, so I obviously didn’t place a bid (as if I have the money!), which was a shame. They also had an Ashes urn (anyone watch it last night? Christ, Australia are embarrassing) replica, which was about $105.

Also on Friday, my visual design took us to a fashion exhibition in the city. To be honest, it was a major let down. It was only one room and like, 5 pieces. The image to the left is the most… interesting and artistic and fashionable piece in the whole room. It was tiny. Got out of school, though, so that’s good.

I got the new Arctic Monkeys record yesterday (well, Mum got it for me). Its so. bloody. good, you have no idea. Or at least I think so. Its a lot different to their other stuff, but its still cool in a different way. It always annoys me when people stop being fans of bands because the music is different, and not necessarily bad. Alex needs a hair cut though, pmsl.

I really don’t like this layout. Mainly the coding. Columns are too thin. Might try and muster up some skill and make a new one. We’ll see.

Song: The Beginning of the End of the Night – Red Riders

I have a cup of tea and the steam coming from it is beautiful.

The past week has been a blur. Mixed with studying for an impossibly hard maths test I took on Wednesday (the last part, we didn’t have time for, so that’s on Tuesday next week, but that part is dead easy so whatever) and… not doing all that much, actually. Oh and doing my Science SRP (Student Research Project) which I have to give a presentation for on Monday. *sigh*

But what have I been doing all this week? Well, not much, as I’ve said. I’ve been ploughing through the pile-up of comic books I have (I don’t know why I buy them and then not read them for weeks and then read them all in once, I’m mental), and… Yeah, this week has been seriously boring. Wow. You never notice that until you’re told to write about it.
Well, I wasn’t told, but you get what I mean.

One thing I do know, though, is I finally got around to watching Starkid‘s A Very Potter Musical on youtube. I’ve had the link bookmarked forever, but never watched it because I was paranoid it would use up all my internet bandwidth. But now we’ve changed our plan, so I finally got to watch it. And yes, its just as brilliant as everybody says. Part 1 of Act 1 (two Acts total) is below, but in my opinion it only starts getting really got at around part 3-5. I love Voldemort and Draco.

Erm… what else? I made a new layout. Its not very complex… its, well, I don’t really know. But its got the Red Riders on it (even if the layout is blue) and I love them, so its there.

OHHHH! I have something to say now, pmsl! Remember that short story I mentioned I wrote for English? Well, it was due two weeks ago so I may as well post it online. You can read it here.

I have NOTHING to say, so I’ll go back to my tea now.

Song: None

Christ, what a week.

So basically, I’ll tell you what’s happened this very eventful week. On Tuesday, Shivani came in the morning and we spent the day up at my local shopping mall, buying candy and stuff. We bought these things which we used to make wands with because it was the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince midnight screening. Throughout the day, more friends came, and we all dressed up. There were 5 of us in the end.

To the left is me being Remus Lupin, my cousin Helen (who had come up from the country to stay with me for a week – she’s still here, actually, playing the Sims 3) was Minerva McGonagle, and my friends Naomi, Shivani and Christine were Tonks, Snape and Trelawney respectively. We all got to Imax at around 10pm, hung out in the park around there for a bit but realised it was stupid because it was cold, so we went in and there were already lines, so we stayed in there for a bit. Then, naturally, we were let in and got to watch the film with the first 10ish minutes in 3D. The 3D was amazing and realistic and incredible.

I won’t go into too much detail about the film itself, I wrote a long review on LJ but I don’t want to bore everyone, so I’ll just say I loved some parts (Quidditch, Felix Felicis, young Voldemort), didn’t love others (Cormac, Lavender, H/G Kiss), but long story short, its definitely one of the best films in the franchise.

Anyway, after the Imax screening, we all came back to mine and stayed over, and then the Wednesday, Helen & I went to see the film again (LOL) with some other people, but it was cool because the cinema we went to was awesome and so great.

The day after, Thursday, Helen and I went into the city. We bought some stuff, Helen got some clothes and the Red Riders CD (which I’ve stolen, haha), and I got an Iron Man comic book (Legacy of Doom, been wanting that one for AGES) and the Harry Potter 6 soundtrack and video game (I played it a little last night, so far I’ve done the three major things [potions, quidditch and dueling] and its definitely an amazing game (as far as HP games go, that is). They look a lot like their characters and a lot better than OOTP). We also went to Capitol and to the Japanese photobooths (image to the right). That was a lot of fun. Oh, and we found this amazing candy store in the city and bought a lot of stuff. I have this massive gob-stopper and if I eat it for too long, it cuts my tongue. Its been bleeding. I’m used to it, though, lmao.

And so, right now, Helen is playing the Sims 3 (she doesn’t have it yet) and she’ll be gone in 3 hours. I’ll miss her, we’ve had an epic time. Its been so exciting and amazing, this past week, its going to suck next week. I need to write a short story for English which’ll be bad because I can’t do SHORT stories, all my ideas are long and complicated and can’t fit within 1000 words. School sucks. Good thing its holidays, then.

Song: Stand Your Ground – Rancid

Finally! Holidays! Mind, in Australia its winter so we only get two weeks (not the summer most people are getting right now *shakes fist*) but its better than nothing.

So! My plans for holidays? Nothing too much. Next week is HBP week. Basically, on Tuesday my cousin is travelling up to see me, we’re going to a midnight screening on that Tuesday night/Wednesday morning (dressing up and everything), and then again on the wednesday with some different people, but still my cousin. That should be fantastic, but I’ll go through it all next time I blog (after its happened). Anyway, the day after that we’ll be going out into the city and rocking it up (Helen never gets the chance to go to Sydney, so this’ll be fun) and maybe meet up with some friends of hers, which will be a bit odd seeing as I don’t know them, but it’ll be alright. The day after that she’s leaving, which will suck, but next week will be a killer week and I’m dead excited.

Anyways, my last week of school has been… different, suppose. I got the flu a week or so ago, and nearly relapsed yesterday, actually, but its all good. There’s been this bug going around at my brothers school (like, a 6th of the school were absent at one point) and naturally I got sick from Jeremy, but I’m ok. I find it quite ironic that I had the flu when Rupert had swine flu. I… yeah, ignore me.

The end of term was also… interesting. We had this award ceremony thing, our school does it twice a year, where you get awards for effort and participation in class and that sort of thing (people who’ve been visiting me for a while may remember me mentioning this), and I got another one. I’ve gotten about… 6 ever since attending my school, so its quite tedious, actually, and they’re always surprises because I don’t do anything extra ordinary at school, I’m a relatively average student so, I don’t see what they do when they give me the awards, lmao.

In other and less exciting news, this image just came out, right after I posted this layout. That annoys me. A lot.
(I would have liked to use it in a layout, lmao)

But yeah, these holidays should be good and I’ll probably post a mega long review of HBP seeing as I’ll be one of the first in the world to see it (considering our time zone, Australia is generally ahead of the world, save New Zealand, and considering I’m seeing it the minute July 15 comes) but at the same time I don’t want to bore people. We’ll see how it goes.

Song: Just Enough To Love You – Bayside

Oh, what a few days! Firstly, though, thank-you everyone who’s complimented the layout and domain and whatnot, I never properly thanked everyone at SCI so I will now. Thank you!

The Wednesday before last was meant to be the seaside excursion, but it was meant to rain so we didn’t end up going. Its being rescheduled… not sure if that’s all too good or bad yet, lol. And then last Saturday I went out to a friends party, it was a Disney party and I went as the Mad Hatter (Alice In Wonderland – I don’t like to think it counts but I needed something). It was a pretty fun party, we watched films all the time and yeah, was cool.

However, the highlight of my week was most definitely Supanova! For most people who don’t know what it is, its pretty much a convention (Website). I went there in the hopes of meeting Stanislav Ianevski who plays Viktor Krum from Harry Potter, but he wasn’t there for whatever reason. We even made shirts (image to the right)! That was disappointing, but we got over it, suppose. As far as celebrities go, we walked past them a few times. Saw Jake Lloyd (Aniken Skywalker in Episode 1) a few times (Christine got a photo from afar) and Karl Urban. It was actually a little embarrasing, because as Christine was taking a photo of Jake, we were standing like, pretty much directly in front of Rachelle Lefevre (Victoria from Twilight), so she probably saw the whole thing. I.. don’t know why I’ve shared that piece of information, but there you go.

It was really cool! There was a big cosplay competition, MAN those people have dedication. Next year, we’re planning on going in EPIC cosplay. We just need to sort it out, lmao. There was also a wrestling ring, which we only briefly went to because one of the wrestlers was really hot. I also bought some badass stuff, got an Iron Man figurine (Mighty Mugs own my life) and a HBP pop-out book. Its dead awesome! You can see ‘em to the side there.

So yeah, thats pretty much what my past two or so weeks have been like. Fun, eh? I’ve also got HBP all sorted out, I’m going to a Midnight Release at IMAX on the first day! First ever session! Its going to be awesome. The other session that I’m going to, also on the first day, is in the middle of the day. That will be so fun…

Also, I’m thinking of putting PSD’s (cut out images) up here. I made loads when I try to make layouts, and save them all. Would anyone find them useful?