The last post of 2010! (But will it be forever?)

No, I’ll still be blogging, if you call it that in the New Year and for the rest of the year. So usually at the end of the year you usually try to sum up how your year went. Some people dwell on the positives of the previous year and others dwell on the negatives but most people now dwell on the future what they could do better in the following year and what they’d like to change about themselves for the better or for worse.

Promotions are the best!

Here’s a few links to keep some boredom away. Found them in the past month or so and some of you might be interested in it.


http://isbw.murlafferty.com/ - “I Should Be Writing”, a blog dedicated to those who aspire to be fiction writers but don’t necessarily have that motivation or courage to go ahead with it.

 http://www.nanowrimo.org/ - An online organisation that holds a writing month whereby from the 1st to 30th of November get people to write 50,000 words (or more) of fiction. Designed to get people writing freely to a time limit if they keep putting off writing a story. It’s taken very seriously with some people and for others it’s just a bit of fun. There are hundreds of stories that are written with NaNoWriMO that have been published.

http://www.creepypasta.com/ - A place where anyone can write a short or long fictitious story designed to be creepy or scary. There are different categories to explore as well as some of the links on their site. Each story can be commented on and rated.

So yeah, that’s as far as I’ve gotten. Feel free to comment if you’ve got any ‘underground’ websites that are particularly interesting.

I Want to Lie, Shipwrecked and Comatose...!

Pencil in small Moleskine

C is for...

Well frankly I don’t know what 'C' is for. I suppose it can be ‘cede’ which means in general terms ‘to give up’ which is basically on my mind. That’s why it’s been so long since the last proper blog post. You always get that oomph to do something and you have pages upon pages to write and then as soon as it comes, it goes. Everything is in blocks and is never smooth with me and it’s something I hate. Every couple of months I want to do something and have such motivation to do them such as drawing or writing or reading and then after a month or so, it just disappears no matter how hard I try to keep it on a high. This then turns into, “I give up and can’t be bothered!” and then life becomes a little depressing because everything is ‘pointless’ and ‘won’t last’.

Da Vinci Noses

I did this little page a about two weeks ago. Inspired to develop my drawing skills in the style of Renaissance/Da Vinci. Still a bit to go.

Some noses are a bit freaky. Just random noses and no thought involved may be the cause.

Shame the next page came through a bit.

Used a blue medium nib biro pen in a small moleskine. Once the book is finished I'm off to find a better notebook for mixed media and watercolour.

B is for...(?)

This whole alphabet thing is actually quite hard. You’ll be lucky if we even get to ‘G’ but all we can do is try. I haven’t a clue what we could talk about for the letter ‘B’. I was going to talk about how next year will be the ‘beginning of the end’ and what we would change upon looking back, but there isn’t much substance to that even if I did write down everything I would change from this past school year.



Anyway, on with the show. Here I have a list I’ve composed which contains things beginning with ‘B’. You can click on the links to find out more information about these ‘things’.

Bennett, Alan
Balatron
Bantling
Battology
Biblioklept
Blewit
Lazar, Bob
Bailey, Bill
Beale, Ian
B
Tenenbaum, Brigid
Blorenge
Bonobo

Fight Against Palm Oil

Some time ago, just before David Cameron became Prime Minister, I sent away an already typed out ‘essay’ on the effects of bio fuels from a Lush paper. Even though this will help the planet in some ways such as reducing carbon dioxide built up in the atmosphere, it also contributes to the ongoing process of deforestation in Malaysia and in Africa. This deforestation affects all of the wild animal population that lives in these places. This deforestation is due to palm oil plantations and an ‘ingredient’ for bio fuels that will soon be used to fuel houses and cars. Orang-utans have approximately under five years left before they become extinct and that was said several years ago.

Irn Bru 4 U!

So right now I was mean't to be eating my dinner, but instead I decided to draw my glass which had Irn-Bru in it (See picture). I also spilt some of the irn-bru in my dinner but had no profound effect thankfully. It looked bare so I added my fork. The bird and sandwich is irrelevant.

Om nom nom nom, back to dinner :)

Drawing: Lamy Al-Star fountain pen + blue ink.

A is for...Annie Apple

This is the usual case when revision begins. You find yourself watching Jeremy Kyle. Personally, I don’t delve into those things. It used to be Ricki Lake back when I was younger. Anyway, when revision begins, you find yourself doing things which perhaps you wouldn’t find yourself doing if you had the normal school day. The fact is you have more time on your hands to surf the internet to its small little corners or you find yourself watching the QVC channel because the title, “Nyce legs spray on leggings” sounds more appealing to you than, “Political and Economic problems in Fascist Italy”. As a matter of fact, it’s the same thing isn’t it?

Sleepless, but Creative Nights

Last night I was unable to fall asleep. Why? Because some guy down the road decided to get his helicopter out and take it for a spin...a few times. This was at 2am roughly and if he thinks that he’d get away with a ‘quiet night time look’ I swear, I will go down there with a car, drive onto his lawn and hold my hand on the horn and see if he likes it. This isn’t just a one off time, he constantly does it! Ok, ok, so I don’t know whether it is him or the army messing about but really, they need to get their heads sorted out.

Philosophy of Philosophy

Couldn't be annoyed writing about philosophy because many people have tried and ended up going around in circles, this is why I have out witted them and drew some stuff instead. Anyway it's a nice change from excessive writing.

I thank 'Matthias Inks' for inspiring me :)

P.s I know I'm crap at drawing but I got an A at GCSE so I must have done something right. I'm more of a still life person than from the imagination.

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Meandering Thoughts

Would you look at that, it’s Easter again which means that exams are eminent. It also means I haven’t had a minute to think or contemplate which I regularly do. I was going to say ‘sit’ but then that would be a lie as I’m constantly sitting and growing fat. Let’s take the time of Easter not to celebrate about Jesus but to celebrate that I have completed one of my ICT assignments. I never would have thought it, but yes, I do need nearly two weeks to recover from the pain of doing it.

Got Bladder Problems?

Right, so I’m a bit stuck on what to write for this whole blog. It would be better to get a theme going with it and to allow it to have some purpose, maybe even a goal. There is hundreds of thousands of blogs on Blogger that consist of happy parents showing off their young children or newly born baby and it makes me wonder, is it safe? I know ‘back in the day’ you would be really proud to show off your kids, same as today you’d be proud, but something at the back of my mind thinks it’s not all that safe. It’s the internet they’re showing the pictures on and really, there is some horrific things on the internet, and I might go even further to say, there is more horrific things on the internet than beautiful things. ‘Back in the day’, you would show off your children to family and friends and your neighbours, now on the internet, it’s basically a supermarket of babies and children to ‘purchase’ and... well you get the idea. Can you please just keep it to yourself or just to your family and friends? I don’t really want to see your children, lovely as they are, but shouldn’t it be a rather ‘private’ affair? I know you’re showing ‘family and friends in Australia but you can use emails. Ok, so maybe I’m being a bit authoritarian and constricting but it just doesn’t seem right to me.

Diaries...Part 2

“A well kept diary is one of the most interesting productions of human industry. The procession of a faithful record of two or three years of our life, especially if it be a period of moral or intellectual struggle and development, or of both combined, is an ample and abiding reward for the steadiness of effort required. All well-written biography is delightful and profitable reading. Autobiography is by far the most so, and our own becomes to us in after-years peculiarly pleasing and useful. We change so much and we forget so much, while still remaining the same self, that only they have put themselves on paper can understand the charm of renewing our acquaintance with our long ago selves.” - Rev. William Sutton, February 1886

Start of the year...not so good

As usual, new year’s resolutions never quite work out and along the way you seem to change them bit by bit throughout the year in the hope that it might be achieved. However, by the end of the year, the resolution is completely distorted of its original intention, and thus you promise that you’ll do it the next year. The cycle follows for the rest of your life. Sometimes these resolutions do work for some people and for others it’s a chore that never gets done.

New Year, New Beginning.

Ok, so we’ve had Christmas and well, mine wasn’t the best but if you were poor, had no food, and live on the streets it would have been a fantastic Christmas if they had mine so I shouldn’t complain. You know what they say about the “...not a creature was stirring not even a mouse...”? Well they lied there, I wish it wasn’t stirring but inevitably it did. One single field mouse has found its way in to the house, but what do you expect when you live in the countryside. People say if you’ve got a mouse, your house must be dirty and you live like a tramp. All I can say is not true because it’s the damn mouse’s land and someone’s built a god damn house on top of it. I people who are ignorant of the fact. The only thing I have to complain about the mouse is that it wakes me up exactly 3am nearly every night. One great thing is, it’s not living in my bedroom so I can stuff something under my door to stop it coming in, even then it doesn’t. I woke up at 6am once to find it knocking on the door to get in and I’m not joking you, it knocked and it keep on knocking. If it didn’t make so much noise or came into my room at night, I’d be a happy bunny.

New year’s wasn’t the best either especially if you only got one glass of champagne, though Jools Holland was great and lifted spirits. Technically, I could have drank a whole bottles worth, but because I’m quite small and a ‘light-weight’ I doubt I could have managed it, though, it could have been worth a go. We still have six bottles of bucks fizz in the garage so that could make for an interesting evening.


I remember when I was a child going out to the garage to have a poke about and discovering several bottles of beer/wine in the outside fridge. I’d open the fridge up and we always had a spare bottle opener for reasons I cannot fathom other than for secret drinking. I’d usually go for the beer, other than that, once ‘sipped’ I could hammer the metal cap back on and look innocent. Sometimes I’d worry because some days that’s the only reason I’d go into the garage and worried if I got hooked. After going to the garage, sometimes on consecutive days, I’d find I had drunk a whole bottle and panicked thinking what I was going to do with this empty bottle. I remember leaving an empty beer bottle in there and my dad found it. He couldn’t work it out why there was an empty bottle in the fridge and luckily I got away with it. We always recycled our bottles and there’d be crates of them in the garage, and so I took to putting the empties there like a good child. Just like in Germany with the family there, they told stories of how they used to go down to the cellar where the wine and booze was kept, and at night they would sneak a few. It must run the blood because I was never told this previous to my garage drinking. I stopped doing this when I realised that I’d be found out soon and be punished, so I thought for the best, to save my liver and being hit with a wooden spoon, I’d stop and I did.


Now I’ve lost track on my post. Ah well, the blog is just like a confessional box in a church, no one is really going to listen to you and is soon forgotten.


Anyway, at this time of the year people usually have resolutions and I, for once, have made two resolutions that are achievable. Mine are to write and read a bit more and to use my time wisely rather than being on the computer constantly and I’ll refer to this later on in my post. My second resolution is to do something else which I have forgotten now, great start(!).

As I was saying, I’m going to spend less time on the computer and one of these ways is by shocking myself into getting off it. To shock myself on getting off the laptop, I will be counting up the hours, yes hours not minutes, I spend on the laptop. Once done for about a week, I will count them up and go “Oh, wow, I really must get of the laptop and do something meaningful instead.” And thus it should work...hopefully. Come back to find out the results of my experiment.


Snow has come this year and it’s been the coldest December in three decades, though I can’t really tell. This year has dumped a lot of snow throughout the country, yet for myself I have rarely been out in it. I haven’t played in it, made a snowman or an igloo and it makes me sad that I’ve seemed to have lost that childhood initiative of getting excited because of the snow and unable to wait till the morning to play in it. Usually having children brings back that excitement and I’m not contemplating that.


The stage of life that I seem to be in is rather quite dull. However, I’m 17 and I really can’t say. Most people would be telling me that what I’m saying is nonsense and that I should be out drinking with my mates and having fun. I’d go out to the garage, drink and have fun out there by myself instead. If you haven’t noticed, I’m a shy person; either that or I find myself to be socially unacceptable and won’t fit in, but never mind that’s a story for another day.


As I was saying, I find life rather dull at the moment. You’re neither an adult or a child. Lost the childhood spirit and yet having no intention or a goal of settling down and having a family; the ‘no man’s land’ of life so to speak. I’m not a partier and would rather spend the night in an old pub, chatting away, drinking, and getting to know the community. Where is the community these days? Back a few decades ago or even in the nineties, there used to be what was called a community spirit, everyone knew everyone else and stories used to be told or passed long; what was then gossip. Now gossip is what you find in a magazine and everyone can purchase it, thus less social interaction and then communication skills get lost.


Anyway I’ll shut up and post sooner hopefully.

Latest goings Of the young Catherine

Developing Rhinitis medicamentosa due to prolonged use of oxymetazoline hydrochloride. I.e using it for more than the recommended dosage with is apparently a week. I’ve used it for 3 weeks and thus I shall have to go cold turkey.

Got a Moleskin for Christmas and finished a decade’s worth of writing in one tiny book.

Developing a deep love for Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music and Glam rock. Help!


Huge amount of writing and reading.


Getting the best book ever for Christmas.


Throwing rocks onto a frozen reservoir and not breaking the ice. Fantastic sound.


Forgetting to set a date for 20 day challenge to write. Frankly can’t be bothered now. :D


Still want to be a writer. If I get my grades for university, I can get in, then end up hanging around the sketch writers despite having a completely different course. That’s the way to do it, that is.


Watching numerous episodes of Most Haunted and getting rather freaked. Big girls blouse.