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1. Computer Arts subscription restarted!
2. Coffee; my only love
3. Ram ring that I bought last week

This week has been pretty un-documented, so we get a webcam summary. Despite that, its actually been the busiest, most full-on week.

I don’t know where to begin. Valentines Day sucked, as you could expect. But Melanie bought me a candy thing & wrote a rather dirty poem, which I enjoyed, and Victoria made everyone cupcakes which was lovely. Spent the afternoon with a bunch of friends including an old friend, Adrian. Funny story with that kid, he seemed to think that for whatever reason, hanging out once after school meant we were together. He asked me at one point when we were “official”. Seeing as I had only been single for 9 days, I went off at him for it. I am not in the position for a relationship – I don’t even have any feelings what so ever for this kid – and yet… Actually it was very awkward. He got me invited to Callum’s 18th yesterday. I knew Callum & hung out with him once, but I went, and so it was a little awkward. Adrian probably expected something from that night, but instead Stella & I (I brought her along) hung out with these two other guys, Jack and Dan. So I’m not talking to Adrian anymore. Good riddance.

Other than that, the week was full of school & work for Dad. Oh and my Grandfather’s 80th today. Oh and making tumblr’s in Marcel Castenmiller’s honour. And A LOT of coffee. And falling even more in love with Matty (ala Skins). And watching re-runs of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch at midnight.

I regret nothing.

Violence – Blink 182

Its surprising how time goes during holidays. Each day feels like it drags on forever, but when you think of a week, it feels like a heartbeat.

On Sunday Mum took me to the store & I bought a new pair of shorts (I need to adjust them, though. Cos they were on sale they were a size too big so I need to hem the ends) and a lovely fake sheepskin vest. Its brilliant & I wore them to see Maddie on Monday for coffee. It was lovely to see her because I hadn’t in a while and we always seem to be able to talk for hours. Thursday I also got to catch up with Christine & Melanie – we didn’t do much, just caught up, but I did buy that birdcage & candle, and a few new posters. I redid my posters last night, I believe. Throughout the week I also kept up my magazine hoarding habits.

I’ve actually read a lot these holidays. Finished reading my English text, Romulus, My Father & am now reading Scar Tissue (also for English). Accomplishing a lot!

The days that I don’t do anything significant are usually laced with video games (The Sims 3 & Fallout New Vegas, namely), trips to the shops with my brother, and re-watching films. Oh and a lot of How I met Your Mother. Pretty standard, lazy stuff. Naturally I’ve been missing Dillan a lot, but this weekend I have heard from him a lot more than expected, so that’s been nice. He’s back in 4 weeks.

Just 3 weeks left. Daunting.

I’m getting better at this blogging thing, it is Monday. Just last night I actually did something so I didn’t get a chance, and I really couldn’t be arsed at 2am to blog.

Anyway, the past week. First week of holidays. Could possibly be the most active holidays so far, just in that week. Monday I went over to Dillan’s, watched The Hangover and Ace Ventura 2 – it was my first time seeing The Hangover; I can definitely feel more included in life & understand people’s jokes now, haha. Good film, though! Tuesday, back at Dillan’s, he surprised me to hell and decided to watch Harry Potter, so we managed to watch the first 3 films that day. Wednesday I saw Christine (something I rarely get to do anyway, because we don’t sit together at school any more) – we watched Cherrybomb (she had been dying to see it), some bits of my HP Collectors Editions and this TV show, Miranda. It was a good day – lovely to see her. Made KILLER nachos, seriously, they ought to have won a medal for how amazing they were. Anyway, Thursday was back to finishing off the Potter films with Dillan, which has actually turned bizarre because all of a sudden he’s incredibly interested in the series. I mean, he never hated it, but was never particularly into it – now its all Potter jokes and references and quotes… its actually kind of brilliant, lmao.

Friday I actually don’t remember – mainly cos it was a day home. I believe I did spring clean & throw out a heap of clothes (I ought to go replace that but kind of poor). Saturday, well, was Saturday, lmao. I’ve taken to accepting that every Saturday, Dillan and I will go into the city. Its just how things are. We didn’t do much this time around, I don’t think, obviously bought magazines & looked at DVD’s and things. I actually seriously do not remember what we did on Saturday, its kind of scary. No wait, no, we went to a book store and chilled in there for hours.

Sunday was bizarre. So I start the day normal, do some work for Dad’s home business, then I get a message from Stella to go out to the city. So meet up with Stella & Dillan, go into the city. Never been in the city to hang out on a Sunday afternoon/night, it was so weird. Anyway, met up with Adrian, Max, Arnesh and Stephen (from camp), as well as Adrian’s friend Callum and a friend of his who I never met. We spent some time in a coffee shop for a while, then Stella wanted to go bowling, so… we went bowling! Spontaneous and so weird – Stella won. Afterwards we went to McDonald’s, most of us ate there except for Max who was dying to go to this Chinese restaurant, so after we were done there we went to his restaurant – it was so overpriced, reaching the bill was insane. But it was all good fun, good company. Even if it did rain & make me look like a crazy lady, lmao.

Anyway today was Labour Day, a public holiday, so Dillan and I decided to actually go back into the city again for the 3rd day in a row. He recently got an iPhone, so we bought him a case and a screen protector for it, played around a bit, walked to God knows where, just didn’t do much & relaxed. We’re actually kind of pathetic and run out of things to do, so if anyone has any suggestions ? haha. But yeah, no, it was a nice day.

Its a bit crazy how we’ve already passed a whole week of holidays. One more left! I do hope to make the best of it and be out of the house as much as I can. Although I will have a day of like, website work. I think this coming Sunday… it’ll force me to blog at least lmao. On Friday I managed to get my PC up to date with all the files relating to this site (after they all got lost in the Great Virus ’10), and I have started working on some resources to upload. Naturally a lot I had to put up have been lost, so I’m not sure what I’ll do there, maybe re-create but it obviously won’t be the same. If you have any requests, let me know!

I need to list things. I need to list a to-do list, which will involve lists of other things. Jesus, this isn’t right. I shouldn’t start to get organised in the middle of the holidays. It doesn’t work like that, lmao.

Today is technically the last day of my holidays. Well, our school has tomorrow off for staff development or something, so we still have a day. But still.

The second week has been a lot better than the first. Well, some bits were. Of course some nights did get ridiculously depressing, sitting up watching girly films like Penelope or (believe it or not) Spice World, but I also did a whole bunch of other things, like website stuff or whatever. Actually come to think of it I can’t remember much, every day seemed to blur into one. Monday I don’t remember a thing of, like, period. Could have never even happened, according to my memory. Tuesday I went over to Dillan’s and we finished up Misfits and watched Wanted – I seriously don’t care, I love that film. Wednesday could have also not existed, I think I did school work that day (finished up my work on Auschwitz for History. Awwwessommee). Thursday went over to Dillan’s again, watched the IT Crowd (Season 1, always fun) & South Park, and then Friday was another day that’s blurred in my memory. Well, kind of, Mum went out to some dinner so I chilled with my brother eating pizza and napping… such a hip Friday night, huh?!

Saturday… do I even need to explain? We all know what I did. Dillan and I went into the city, saw a film & then faffed about in various KFC’s and candy stores. We saw Knight and Day – not usually my kind of film, but it was Dillan’s pick so. I wasn’t expecting anything of the film, other than a few laughs and some guns, so I was actually a bit surprised by the film. Spoilers – just sayin’. But yeah, it was actually a surprisingly manipulative film, the audience were lead to believe Roy, then the cops, then Roy, then the cops, and so on. This kept the audience engaged, and for a film which managed to engage the audience through manipulation and not something lame like sexual tension, it surprised me. All these “romaction” films are all about the same thing, and the fact that the battery plot was strong enough to distract the audience (or me, at least, and I’m the biggest romantic cynic alive) from the romantic chemistry or cheap humour means that the film wasn’t personally too big of a waste of time.

Oh look at me, getting all film-review on your arse. You enjoyed it, you dirty bastard.

Yeah, the rest of the day was our normal shenanigans. Managed to buy more chocolate from this store in the city, it sells international candy, meaning it sells UK and American candy (amongst others). So I naturally got some UK Cadbury (after Jess informed me that it was different to ours) which was divine – seriously. I think I should invest in more chocolate from there and have myself a secret stash! haha

Anyway, today is Sunday and for the first time in forever, I did something. Normally Sundays I do nothing (mainly cos Dillan works) but today I hung out with Chris & Smell (Melanie). We only went to the mall up the road, but I love it there so whatever. We sat outside the front of it under the trees where all the old men go, and I can understand why they all sit there, its actually really nice. We also did some other interesting things… I bought this AWESOME mug I’ll have to show you for only $2, and an Iron Man chest plate which I keep playing with. We also played ping pong in the sports section (they had the tables set out, we kind of had to) and bought a bunch of Mountain Dew, Dorritoes and salsa and nommed in a park. Seriously, today was so nice weather wise – I don’t care if I sound like a grandma, but it was nice and cool, sun came out to play so it was lovely in the shade, slight breeze, a really nice day to be outside. Although I do have a mosquito bite now which I didn’t even think was possible in winter, but whatever.

I don’t think I’m prepared for school to start again. I don’t like the real world. And its this whole dreading of school again which makes me hate holidays. But we’ll live through it, I guess.

According to my weather extension on Firefox, its 20°C/68°F out. That’s actually the warmest that its been in SO long. For the past week its been tops of say 15°C/59°F and wet. Not cool.

Anyway, its been the holidays. Which is cool (in both senses, I guess haha). Monday I went over to Dillan’s & we watched the first 4 episodes of Misfits – I’m making him watch it cos I love that show more than myself, but he did say it was cool so I don’t think he minds it too much haha. We were meant to finish it but he got pretty sick over the past few days, so we couldn’t. It was really shitty that a whole week of his was lost, but it was all good (for me at least) cos on Tuesday, my best friend Jess (who lives 2/3 hours away) had come up for a visit. We didn’t get long together, and we were only in the local shopping mall, but my god do I love her and it was brilliant catching up. We bought a bunch of magazines (as in I got 3 – Empire, i-D and NO) and sat in the park and chilled and ate (well she did, I ran out of money haha) and it was really great, only she had to leave early which wasn’t so great. But as it turned out, my other friends Shivani and Naomi were in the shopping complex too, so I saw them & ended up hanging out with them. They were looking for clothes for some goth-themed party, so I helped them all I could. We even randomly went into the city for a bit, which mixed things up a little haha. I don’t know, it was nice being with them, we had a lot of interesting discussions.

What else happened in the past week? Not much, Wednesday I spent relaxing, Thursday the same – although I did go to the hairdressers (very little change, just a few multicoloured (as in blonde, red and black) highlights/lowlights in my hair – very subtle though so you can hardly tell I’d been). Friday I did homework for a bit (1000 word report on the liberation of Auschwitz… depressing) and then more relaxing. And so you know, relaxing = IT Crowd, basically. I watched the new stuff the other day (as in, Season 4 EP 1 & 2) and I’m loving it so far. Shows like the IT Crowd are really good because you don’t have too dramatic plot changes that you’re going to dislike (although if Douglass goes, I’ll be upset), so its always a good laugh. And just cos I’m a girl and I have to say, Roy’s hair looked a lot better a bit longer, like in Season 2. Just sayin’.

Also, it’d be against my school-break tradition to not have seen a film, so yesterday Dillan & I (who else? pmsl) saw Predators. To be honest, I was never particularly interested in seeing that film, it never really stood out as a film I needed to see, but I went anyway and was pleasantly surprised. I mean, there were downfalls (SPOILERS! predictable storyline, very little plot resolve, a soundtrack which was over-dramatic and out of place /end spoilers), but besides that it was enjoyable enough to watch. Adrien Brody and Topher Grace were GREAT to watch, Topher particularly because he’s not only great in general, but because his character had the most going for him (doesn’t mean I necessarily liked the character personally, but theatrically he was the most interesting to watch).

Oh and we were in Cinema 3 again. Just like we were for The Losers and Robin Hood and The Hurt Locker. 4 times in that theatre that year…

Anyway, long blog is long. Also, I think I should say something about the name thing, so; firstly, thanks everyone for being so understanding and not bitching at me for it, really makes life easier, you’re all incredibly lovely. Secondly, everythings officially changed to “Jess” now, so I’ll be using that, however can still call me Cassie all you wish. Besides, in a few weeks we’ll all forget about it & be used to it. Life does that.

Oh & I changed my twitter username. Follow @1069798 if you’re not already!