Lasso – Phoenix
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.
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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.
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).
Speaking of which, Dad’s come up with this idea that dying my hair is making me stupid. He reckons that the dye is seeping through my skull and into my brain. So I haven’t been allowed to dye my hair since September, and the regrowth was about 3 inches. Seeing as I looked stupid (3″ brown + the rest red?) he’s “let” me dye my hair brown (as opposed to stripping and breaking half my hair off). I look horrible most of the time. Sure, other people may say its nice, but I still want to put my head in a blender. I don’t even wear my fringe half the time it annoys me so much. Its not really different, but he’s cut like, 3″ off and its too bloody layered and annoying.
